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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 10, 1902, page 2

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  SPORTING NEWS. Nebraska Clinches Claim to Football Championship. X. U. Is Defeated by Score of Is to o. PLAYED A GOOD GAME. Goal of COrnhuskers Was Never in Danger. The Haskell Indians Also Win from Texas. PLAYED A GOOD GAME. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1O.-Nebraska cinched her claim to the football championship of the Missouri Valley Saturday by defeating Kansas in a game fairly full of interesting features. Several hundred rooters accompanied the Jayhawkers on special train and gave encouragement to the players by their enthusiastic yelling. The score was Is to 0, two touchdowns were made by Nebraska and a goal from field. Her goal was never in any serious danger although the Kansans played a stiff game and once in the last half car ried the ball forty yards, losing it on tumble on Nebraskas thirty-five yard line. The first touchdown was made after ten minutes of play. Kansas fought hard but the COrnhuskers marched steadily down. When near their opponents goal, one of the Kansans stole the ball and ran the full length of the field but the touch down waA not allowed, the referee ruling that the ball had been called down and was not in play. The two teams fought up and down the field for the remainder of a half Nebraska losing chance to score by fumbing on the twenty-yard line The half ended with Nebraska in possession of the ball in Kansas territory. The Jay hawkers started off strong in the second half and had their opponents going for awhile. Shedd, Nebraska’s 6ft end, was laid up in bed and Felmer. the substitute end was on the sidelines with a sprained ankle. Thorpe. substitute quarterback. went in to play the position, but he could not effectuany stop the rushes. Most of Kan sas’ gains were made around this end. After several interchanges, Nebraska started a heavy march down the field. When the Kansas thirty-yard line was reached the Cornhuskers turned neat trick that Melted a touchdown, although the goal was missed. The signal was apparently given for a punt and the Corn huskers spread out for the play. Kan sas took the cue and several of her line dropped back. The ball was passed to Ben der who broke through the line, evaded several tacklers and raced thirty yards for a touchdown. Kansas kicked off again and Nebraska started down the field. When within twenty yards of the Kansas goal the Jayhawkers braced and held for two downs Benedict dropped back and kicked a clean goal from the field Only a few minutes were left, and neither team succeeded in scoring A summary of the gains scored by the two teams discloses that Nebraska adj vanced the oval 800 yards and Kansas rs Kansas captured the ball twice on downs, and Nebraska took it from their opponents three times by the same means. Several times Benedict preferred to punt. while the Cornhuskers were making substantial gains, the plan being to exhaust the Jayhawkers by putting them on the offensive, or in the hope that Kansas might tumble and lose the ball within hailing distance of their goal. Before Loves enforced retirement from an injury he punted in fine form and had a bit the advantage of Benedict in the kicking argument. One of Benedict’s spirals however, was for a full sixty yards, while his place kick for goal from the field went true to the mark. The time of the halves was cut to twenty minutes both coaches evidently wishing to save their players for coming games. Kansas expected defeat. but it must have been the rooters who anticipated such a result for the DlaVerS Waged as valiant a fisht against the odds as has been wit messed in years on a Nebraska gridiron. Whatever was achieved by the Cornhuskers, came from fierce effort. for the Jay hawkers resisted every minute of the play. The lineup:

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Texas leads 6–⁠5 in 11 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.