Missouri at Haskell

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 17, 1904, page 1

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  SPORTING NEWS. Haskell Indians Easily Defeated Missouri. The Tigers We’re Outclassed in Every Respect. THE GAME WAS A FARCE Opposition to the Redmen Was or Little Moment. Good Crowd Out to See the Contest at Kansas City. THE WAS AFARCE Kansas City, Oct. 1.-THE University of Missouri football team was given a trimming Saturday afternoon at Associtation park by the Haskell Indians. To call the farcical exhibition a game of football is dignifying it far beyond its merits. 1t was little short OF a parody on the great American game. The score, SO to o, gives only a meager, hazy idea of the superiority displayed by the aborigines over their lamentably inefficient rivals. In every detail, in every department of the game, the Indians were the masters OF the situation. 1t began in the beginning-the dis play of inequality-for within three minutes of the referees signal for the beginning of hostilfties the Indians had scored their first touchdown The second came about three minutes later. and after that there wasn’t a person among the 1000 spectators who couldn I see a most decisive defeat staring the AIissourians glaringly in the face. TouchdownS came with startling regu- 1arity the monotony being broken Tor only an instant in the first half when T. Houser succeeded in making a crop kick from Missouri’S II yard line. Missouri has beef but Missouri has not skill. The players are very, very green to the game and their lneXpefience was pitiably apparent.They are SO each others way and so slow that II an omnibus had been driven down the field il is doubtful whether or not any of them could have climbed on They did not show a hint of well developed team work The ends might have Just as well not been in the game for all the good that they did. Every play that was directed around either of the line extremes resulted in a gain The line was cratic At times it held Well, but at other times crumbled like sand hill hit by a cannon ball In the matter of tacklfng the MISsourians are especially weak. The In Sifans wriggled through their grasp easily and many a long run would have been stopped at its inception had the Tigers been able to hold on TO The most gIaring fault of the Missouri, team is that it lacks experience II ii hopes to beat Kansas on Thanks giving day it will have to practice strenuously and conScientiouSly. 1t has plenty of weight and the men seem willing but in its present condition the team is simply srtclassed by any OF The Indian team is a remarkably fast we’ll balanced aggregation. 1t could give any eleven in America a in November formhanT. has team work developed to a science. 1t is not an unusually heavy; team, but what 1t lacks in weight it makes up twofold IN Speed “A NOikS ILG 1AlCA4 rapidly, calling the signals before they are lined up, and every play gets away with the speed of chained lightning. But the teams efficiency ISN’T limited to team work. There ara individuals On the eleven who have reached the acme of foot ball ability. Archfquette, the big right half, is a wonder. He directs the plays. In running back punts Archiquotes playing yesterday was especially spectacular. Again and again he lodged through the sluggish Missourians. for yards and yards of gain When occasion ally ArchiQuette was given the ball for an end run he never failed to make a gain and frequently galloped down the field 20 yards or more The two Housers also distinguished themselves z. Houser does the kicking for the team and does it extremely we’ll His punts were long and well placed and he showed great accuracy in kicking goals after touchdowns. LaMott, VINO played the quarter back position during the last half was also a bright particular star. He made frequent dashes for many yards of gain The game began with Pete Houser kicking off for the Indians. On ITS sec ond play Missouri lost the ball on a FUN BILE. Almost Immediately Houser took the ball and skirted the Missouri left end for % yards and a touchdown. The next touchdown was made by Archiquette, who. after catching a punt near the CEN ter. lodged down the field for a touch down \ little later Houser added four

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  The St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Mo., October 16, 1904, page 1

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  INDIANS CRUSH|NGLY DEFEAT THE TIGERS Missouri University Unable to Hold Haskell at Any Point of the Game. SCORE IS SO TO o. Columbia Youths Suffer From Stage Fright” and Show Almost No Team Work. REPU SPECIAL REPUBLIC SPECIAL. Kansas City. Mo. Oct. 1.-THE Haskell Indian football team outpl.yed the Missouri, eleven in every department In the game at Association Park his. afternoon. The fnal score was SO to 0. In the first SIX minutes OF play the In dams pushed the ball across Missour’s goal twice. Before the end Of the half P. Houser succeeded in making a place kick for Missouri’s thirty-yard line. The Missouri team az times showed IN very well, but IT was always quite apparent that they lacked experience. The men appeared very nervous and fun OF stage fright” during the earlier stages Of the game. The Indians. as usual, are playing a remarkably fast game. tor Missouri. Alderman was easily tho pest sround-Eainer. He was especially successful on straight bucks through the IN dian line, frequently gaining five yards a. & time. In the second half the Indians showed greater speed even han in the first half. and the G~fssourians wers wholly unable to Withstand their attacks. Two t~ouchdowns were mad. nv Iano.. after long runs. Dubois was pushed through the line for another, and Oliver made a fourth after a forty-yard run. Missouri got possession of the ball occasional p, ou’ on these occasions either lost 1t on

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Haskell leads 4–⁠1 in five meetings, counting the one since this game.