Indiana at Harvard

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  The New York herald, October 9, 1921, page 47

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  HARVARD’S KICKING MAJOR FACTOR IN DEFEATING INDIANA Crimson Scores Two Touch downs and a Pair of Field Goals. WESTERN PUNTER WEAK Capt. Kyle’s Failure Handicaps H0Osiers-Buell’s Boot Is Busy. WESTERN PUNTER WEAK Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YoRT rRALp. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. s. ing up another Western football scalp for Harvard The Crimson’s gridiron eff ficiency and the weather man to-day combined to send Indiana’s eleven back to Bloomington with a 10 to reverse. 1t was the twelfth time that Harvard had opposed a team from Western fields and rounded out an even dozen victories for the Crimson. Two touchdowns and two field goals separated the teams at the finish. A pair of discoura ging breaks” counted heavlily against the Hoosier band. Kicking wGs the fundamental weakness of the Western team. and If Capt John Kyle had been at all consistent the encounter might have been very close. Charley Buell.. Harvard quarter, drop kicked a field goal from the 50 yard line in the first quarter. He had tried another a bit earlier and had a third shot at the bars in the second quarter, but both failed. Blocked kicks and an adverse wind put the Indians out fit back on it’s goal line in the second period, and Erwin Gehrke grabbed a partly blocked kicn on the Indiana 10 yard line and skidded over for a touch down. Buell. added the l3th point that competed the scoring for the first half. owen In Injured. Roscoe Fits was shot into the breach when George Owen twisted an ankle in the opening period and the star left footed kicker got off some wonderful spirals. They had height and distance and figured in keeping the Westerners on the defensive. Fits also contributed the last score. rs yard run for a touchdown. Three plays before Harvard’s final tally John Leonard. star Indiana tackle. broke right in and blocked kick from Roscoe’s left toe. The half-back was not on the job and the ball was mighty ! slippery so Fits was not wholly to blame. He took Il so to heart. however. that he intercepted an Indiana forward pass on Harvards u yard line and | quickly romped away for an additional | six points No goal was registered after | this score. ! Indiana was a disappointment The | cerise ierseyed Westerners played conservative football at the outset. kick / lns at every tic | first quarter when they had the wind at their backs. But Kyle’s kicks did / not measure up with Owens’s. and against the visitors. IT seemed certain / slowly but surely the tide turned when the first half ended that the | visitors were saving their power for the closing quarters. Now Comes the Rain. But the unkind weather man broks open some lowering clouds as the play ers rested. and upon returning to the stadium they were greeted with blind ing sheets of rain. This dampened tho matches and spoiled promised fire. works The visitors attempted only three forward passes, one of which was of the boomerang order. To the credit OF the Westerners II must be said that they made such good defensive stand in the opening quarters that the 5000 spectators waited through the driving rain in nope ward threw in the reserves. who were better mud horses than the Hoosiers. Frank Hanny. right end for In diana, crashed into Buell. with such force in the opening period that the back fumblcd the bali. Captain Kane recovered it. however but Hanny’s right shoulder was dislocated He re- NAMED IN for nearly the whole game and punted once. but practically was useless. Kyie’s plunging late in the game. when the issue had been decided. was noteworthy. The lineup:

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  The Washington herald, October 9, 1921, page 13

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  Crimson Romps to IS to 0, Victory over indiana ssU” Harvard Scores Two Touchdowns and Two Field Goals on Hoosiers- Blocked Punts Figure Largely in Scoring. CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Oct. S.-Harward romped around the veteran University of Indiana team here today in their first gridiron battle, defeating the Hoosiers by a score Of IS TO 0. The last half Of the battle was staged In a terrific rain and windstorm. during which the temperature dropped more than = degrees in as many minutes. The Crimson took the lead with the FIRST kickoff and maintained the Westerners never seriously threatening. Indiana depended upon straight line plugging tactics for the most part, but her thrusts were not strong enough to penetrate the Crimson line. Harvard won the toss and kicked on TO Maynard. who was dropped In his tracks by Jenkins Then ensued a period OF unimportant rushes by both teams and an exchange Of punts between owen. Of Haryard. and Capt. Kyle. - BseII’s Toe at Work. I Harvard first threatened in the middle OF the period, and after psntlng to the Hoosiers’ 2O-yard line, Jenkins made 10 yards around Indiana’s right end. owen then went through his own center for more Gerhke and Owen each made / yard. Jenkins fourth down tried TO score around right end again for a drop kick formation. but was stopped by Burke. Indiana failed TO gain and punted. Harvard again advancing through line plays and a 7-yard pass. Buell. TO owen. Here Indiana braced and held, SO Buell., Crimson quarter. to kick the goal. dropped back and opened the scoring by a drop kick from the 3s-yard line against a stiff wind. In the second quarter. Fits. sub stituting for Owen. punted so yards. Harvard blocked and recovered Kyle’s punt on Indisna’s 2S-yard line. Buell. failed at goal. attempted from the sB yard line. Indiana took me ball on her 25-yard line. but Kyle’s punt again. tackling the lafter on his 4-yard line. Harvard then scored her first touchdown when Gerhke received Kyle’s short punt on his own 2o-yard line, and raced across for a touchdown. Buell. kicked the goal. storm Sweeps Field A heavy storm swept the neld between halves. but despite the slippery conditions the Crimson scored another touchdown In the last half. Fits ran back the next kick of 20 yards to the center OF the field. Later a 2O-yard pas. johnson to Macomber. put Harvaron Indiana’s 2S-yard line. Indiana held. and PfafTman. replacing Jenkins. kicked the Crimson’s second field goal. Harvard made her last touchdowH on an Intercepted pass after reocvery of Fits punt which had been blocked by Mccall. Capt. Kyle headed a long pass to Hanny, but Fits picked IL out Of the air and raced down the side lines 60 yards for the final score. Hobson failed / he linz

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  The Bismarck tribune, October 11, 1921, page 6

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  FAST FOOTBALL TEAMS TO CLASH WHEN BISMARCK MEETS JAMESTOWN ped to pieces at times and is causing considerable worry to those who predicted the Wisconsin eleven would lead the others this season. Western Team Does Well lndiana’s showing in it’s 19 to 0 defeat by Harvard in the ints’‘sectional clash was colorleSs, but somewhat of a surprise. In the middle west it was believed that the Hoosier5 Wolid be smCthered under top heavy score fer they are looked on as a weak eleven not likely to cause much trouble in. the conference. Next Sat urday will find the conference season getting into full swing with Wisconsin at Northwestern, Illinois at Iowa, at Ohio State, Michigan Aggies at Michigan, Notre Dame at Purdue, and Chicago and Indiana idle.

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  The Alaska daily empire, October 10, 1921, page 5 (results column)

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  HARVARD WINS OVER INDIANA NINETEEN TO | First Important lnter-Sec- tional Game Played in East -U. of w. Wins. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 10.-The first inter-sectional football game of importance in the East this season was played last Saturday afternoon when Harvard met the Indiana elev- en. The Harvard eleven blanked the Indiana bunch by score of 19 to 0. The success of the inter-sectional struggle between Harvard and Centre College (Ky) last season prompted the Crimson committee to place In diana on it’s 1921 schedule. Harvard will meet the University of Georgia team Saturday, October 15, and two weeks later will be pitted against Centre. Spurred by the realization that the Hoosier team had it’s first chance to break into the limelight of Eastern football, Coach Ewald Steihm bent to the task of whipping his gridmen into shape And so out at Bloom ington, Indiana, the home of the In- diana eleven, he daily sent his charges through the hardest sort of a training program. Stiehm was handicapped by the Western Conference rule prohibiting coach from taking charge of his team until September 15, and was not able to give his men the sort of work needed to perfect machine to give Harvard an even battle. He hoped to overcome this handicap, however. and his men gave him the best of cooperation. The Indiana coach has nearly all of last years varsity players and the work of the new men was good. The Harvard eleven proved too hard for the, Indiana University play CTS, however, and had the better of the game from the first, Other Football Scores University of Pennsylvania 2, Get tysburg O. Princeton 19, Colgate o. Michigan GA, Case o. Chicago 9, Purdue O. 1 University of Washington 2, Whit man College 0. University of California 51, Ne vada 6. l University Of Montana 25, Idaho Tech. 0. Iowa 10, Notre Dame ‘. Army 19. Middleburg O. Yale 34, North Carolina o. Minnesota 28. Northwestern o.

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Harvard leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.