Wisconsin at Iowa

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 15, 1950, page 45

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  Defense Ace Withers Takes 10 0ffense As Badgers Win, IA 10 0. IOWA CITY, Oct. 14.-Alert Ed Withers. a defensive star. was Wisconsin’s best offense today as the Badgers defeated Iowa for a 1910 Big Ten football victory. The 24-year-old war veteran, only Negro on the Badger squad, ruined Iowa hopes with his pass interceptions. He played only on defense but his tours Of duty were more than enough to confound the Hawks. A record opening crowd Of 1888 saw the game. Withers, defensive left halfback, intercepted a Glenn Drain pass on the Iowa 81 in the first quarter and out.raced Iowans across the goal. In the third quarter he broke up one of the five Iowa spurts beyond midfield with another interception. He went “a yards to the Iowa At. Sets Up Final Touchdown. His next feat against Iowa came in the. fourth quarter Withers grabbed Fred Ruck’s toss on the Wisconsin % and ran to the Iowa 80. That squirt was good for 80 yards and brought his run-back total to 104 yards. Withers set up the final Wis consin touchdown. Directed by Bob Petruska. Wisconsin edged to the Iowa 2 and Bill Hutchinson lunged across the goal-line. John Coatta’s second conversion made the score 14–⁠0. There were 10 minutes left when Iowa supporters got their one big thrill. That came when Mike Riley snagged a two-yard screen pass and smashed so yards along the sidelines His trip ultimately was halted on the Wisconsin Is and the Badgers stalled the threat on their 16. Iowa Offense Disappoints. Iowa’s offense, in fact. was dis appointing all afternoon. The rugged Badgers confined most OF Iowa’s gains to within Iowa terri tory. The statistics show Iowa had a nee rushing yardage Of 176 to lis for Wisconsin. But the Iowa spurts were at the wrong end and the Hawks were badly handicap ped at times by penalties. They were penalized nine times for a loss of IS yards. Each team completed four passes. Iowa showed a net gain OF 30 on 13 attempts and Wisconsin got 40 on Is. Iowa’s first three passes were intercepted. | 1t was Wisconsin’s second straight conference victory and | its third of the season. The Bad gers whipped Illinois last Saturday. 7–⁠6, while Iowa was losing to Indiana. 20–⁠7. | Wisconsin -7 q O r-l4

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Wisconsin leads 49–⁠48–⁠2 in 99 meetings, counting the 71 since this game.