Tennessee at Vanderbilt

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  The Birmingham age-herald, November 6, 1904, page 11 (results column)

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  CHICAGO GIVES TEXAS DRUBDING Southerners Play Well at First But Lose Out GREAT ADVANCE AT START Carried Ball to chIcasO’s FIve-Yard Llne Only to Tumble and Lose Ii, the Other Side Making a Touch pown-es to Q. ADVANCE AT START FOOTBALL RESULTS. Alabama, 16; Georgia, 5. Tulane, 1o Marion, Q, Techs, Il; Clemson, Il. Vanderbilt, 22; Tennessee, 0. Virginia, 5; V. P. l., 0. Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, O. Georgetown. 16; North Carolina, o. Princeton, 12; West Point, 6. Harvard, O; Dartmouth, 0. Yale, %; Brown, o. Pennsylvania, 22; Lafayette, O. Chicago 6s; Texas. 0. Washington University. il; Missouri, 0. Amherst, 40; Holy Cross, g. Purdue, 84; Indiana Medical, 5. Illinois. 46 Ohio State University. Q. Navy, 20; Pennsylvania State College. g. Wisconsin, 36; Beloit, 0. Nebraska, IT; Iowa, 6. Michigan, 36; Drake College, Chicago, November 5.-By a score of 6S to the University of Chicago defeat ed the University of Texas on Marshal Field today The Texans presented a team that was the pick of the south and in the early stages of the game show ed good football quality by steadily ad- vancing the ball from their own twenty ydTu allH6 lO NuiCabO AiNC-y dAA AAAloI where they lost sAeir only chance to score Scarborough of Texas was sent though the center but Eckersall picked 1t up and made sensational run of 100 yards for a touchdown for Chicago. He was closely chased by Jones of Texas Texas played hard after this, but the Chicago men had taken the lead and by quick and aggressive football tac- tics sent one man after another across the Texas goal line for eleven touch downs Nine goals were kicked from touch downs, and one from the field. The second half opened with fast playing an exchange of punts. Chicago advancing the ball to the forty yard line, where Eckersall made a beautiful drop kick, scoring the only goal from the field. Speik made a run of forty yards on a kick off, and Spidell and Lee Maxwell both made runs of twenty-five yards. DeTray who had been substituted in the second half made run of fifty yards and soon after carried the ball over the goal line. Long runs of twenty to forty yards also were made by Hendrickson and Robinson of the Texas team. Ten thousand people braved the cold weather to see the game

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Officially, Tennessee leads 79–⁠33–⁠5; as played, 81–⁠31–⁠4 in the 116 games on file; the official count covers all 120 meetings, counting the 113 since this game.