Chicago at Illinois

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  San Antonio light, San Antonio, Tex., November 8, 1925, page 54

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  CHICAGO HAS WORST Of LUCK Outplays Illinois Most Of Way But Fumbles Cost Game. URBANA, H., Nov. 7.-lllinoi’ beat Chicago today, Is TO 6. thus bearing out the dopesters’ lunches but it wasn’t because Illinois was the best team in the mud and rain. Illinois came out on the long end because the Maroons were unable 10 Keep their hands on the Dall. and fumbled so often that it was newt able that sooner or later It would prove costly. Even with all its butter-fingers, Chicago might have won if its star of the day. Five Yards” Mccarthy. had not been so completely knocked cut in the second quarter and that he was carried off the field TO re turn no more. ! Up TO that time. Mccarthy had been The chief villain in smashing through when his forwards tore the Illinois line TO tatters. With him on the sidelines, the rest of the backficld proceeded to show just how much fumbling four men can do in one game. q BRITTON Is STAR. If Illinois had any outstanding star, it was Britton, put in there because of his trusty toe. That toe. sending the ball on its way eurprisingly in view of its slippery hide, more than once ayerted disaster. As for the famed Red Grange, he didn’t figure. He wasn’t what the race track followers call a super ‘ior mudder. He didn’t have much H. al he eH going, and many times the Chicago forwards crashed through and nailed him in his tracks. His IL tries 10 gain annexed Is yards and his losses -totalled 26 yards. Right in the first quarter the Maroons got the ball deep into Illinois territory. lost 1t when Curley missed the ball entirely in an attempted field goal, regained it on Britton’s out OF bounds kick. rushed il TO Illinois seven-yard line. and lost it on a tumble. Driven back by Britton’s punt from behind his own goal-line, the Maroons again drove forward I’M Ill q forward pass. was intercepted. Grange, taking it upon himself to carry the ball at that stage, dropped it, and Mccarthy fell on it. Rested by the two minutes between quarters, the Maroons resumed their driving tactics in the second quarter and quickly pushed it over the line for their only touchdown. PUSH 1T ACROSS More fumbles entered into the play then. more failures 10 get hands on the bali. more miserable kicks out of bounds. and eventually Illinois got the ball on Chicago’s two-yard line. Even then it took two hard thrusts 10 push it over. A little more Of the same messing of things took place in the second half. and once more. thanks 10 fumbles. Illinois scored again and this time annexed the extra point afferward. Statistics are of little use for such n game, but they show that Illinois gained 63 yards and lost Il from scrimmage, a net gain Of % yards, while Chicago gained 147 yards and lost Al, a net gain Of JOG yards. Ill inois made five first downs and Chi cago eight. Illinois completed four out of ten forward pass attempts for a total of 30 yards while the MarOons completed one out Of eight for -.

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 8, 1925, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOT BALL RESULTS GEORGETOWN, 40; Lehigh, O. George Washington, 0; Temple, o. Yale, 43; Maryland, IA. Bucknell. So; Gallaudet, 0. Princeton, 36; Harvard, 0. Army, IA; Davis. s.Elkins. s. Navy, 81; Western Maryland, o. Dartmouth, 62; Cornell, 13. Penn State. 0: Notre Dame. 0. Syracuse. 3; Ohio Wesleyan, 3. Pittsburgh, s; Washington and Jefferson. 0. , Northwestern, 5: Michigan, 2. Wisconsin, 6: Iowa, 0. Illinois, 13; Chicago, 6. Ohio State, Z; Indiana. 0. Washington, IL; Stanford, 0. California, 81; Washington State, 0. Washington and Lee, II; Vir. gina. .. Georgia Tech, I; Vanderbilt, q

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Illinois leads 22–⁠18–⁠3 in 43 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.