Ohio Wesleyan at Ohio State

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  The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, October 20, 1924, page 1 (results column)

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  FINE FOOTBALL IS PLAYED IN BIG CONTESTS Performance of “Red” Grange Stands Out as One OF Greatest of All Times OTHER BIG GAMES Chicago, Oct. 2O-The big games of the 1924 football season got fair ly under way Saturday. Thrilling contests with Il few surprises result ed. Huge crowds attended games, probably the largest crowd in the country being the 10000 that jam med the new University OF Illinois Sl,7O000O stadium The outstanding performance in football east or west, was the vic tory Of Illinois over Michigan by a 80 to Ia score. The two teams fin ished the Big Ten season last year unbeaten. Harold Red” Grange, the versatile Illinois halfback, gave one of the greatest individual perform ances in the history of football. The fleet half back took the first k-oif and ran 80 wards for Il touchdown. In the first quarter he made three more touchdowns, running 65, 80 and 10 yards respectively for the scores. Coach Zuppke then took him out. He returned to the game later to heave several successful passes and scores a fifth touchdown in the last half. He ran with the ball 81 times and ncttcd 5G2 yards. Michigan scored coucn downs in the second and final periods. An innovation in football was the wearing of socks by Illinois players, exposing bare shins. In other Big Ten games Minneso- IN m hat laI n 7 tie, with Minnesota having the adj vantage but unable to push the bali over for the winning marker from the vineyard line Graham, Minnesoia quarterback, nursing an injury, was not at his best. Chicago had an easy time beating Indiana, % to o. Iowa beat Law renee College, ID to 5. Purdue up set the dope buck by defeating Northwestern, to 3. Ohio State beat Ohio Wesleyan 10 to 0. In the east, the Yale-D Dartmouth Army otre Dame, Colgate Nebraska and Princeton-N Navy games furnish ed the big interest. Yale fought Dartmouth to IA to Ia tie, Shaving off defeat by stubbornly defending her goal from Dartmouth’S attacks toward the last Notre Dame played Il flashy brand Of football to beat the heavier Army team, l3 to z. The aerial offense of Notre Dame dazzleC the Cadets. Nebraska proved hel claim to a fine team by beating Col gate, 33 to 7, at Lincoln. A young Princeton substitute, Sammy Ewing booted field goal that gave the I’ll . gers q sensational II to IA victory over the Navy.

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Ohio State leads 15–⁠0 in 15 meetings, counting the three since this game.