Colorado at Washburn

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 22, 1906, page 1

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  ENDED INA DRAW No Score, Result Of Washburn- Colorado Football Game. Contest Vas Hard and Bril- liant One. NEAR THE GOAL LINE. Sons of Ichabod We’re on the Three Yard Line. MountaiReers Failed to Kick Field Goals. EAR THE GOAL LINE. Twelve hundred people on Wash burn athletic field Saturday afternoon witnessed one Of the most thrilling and desperate football games even seen in Topeka, and say the light. aggressive eleven of Washburn college play TO standstin the heavy. well balanced team representing the University Of Colorado When the time keepers rushed onto the field at 4:40 o’clock, and announced that the game WsS over, the ball was in Washburn’s pos session on the Colorado 40-yard line and the score, after 55 minutes e1 fierce and fast play, was 70 g. Coach Castlenan says that had the game been played under the old rules, his team would have won, and Castle man is probably right. Coach Weede believe that had Ilsnn Millice the star punter Of Washburn been able to play, Washburn would have won, and Weede is also right. But under the existing conditions each side has cause to congratulate itself that the other team didn’t win Colorado escaped defeat by a halr breadth in the first half, when Wash burn had the ball on the Colorado three yard line. In the second half, ColoIaoo threw three separate and distinct cntlla into WaShburn by its three trials 1or field goals, each one of which was comparatively easy, and looked a. though It COui0nL De 4liSSGU- Anu a Colorado had had {. kicker ike CalSyI / there would be a different story 70 tell. Reduced to actual figures. the game Is as much Of a standon as the score of to would indicate Coioraoo gained ~ yards more than Wasnburn by straight football from the line oI 1 scrimmage, but Washburn gained A yards more than Colorado in returning T punts, kickoffs and place kicks. WASH burns punts aggregated III yarus’ i and averaged 27 yards each Colo + radios punts aggregated All yards ana averaged 20 yards each Each sloe was. .penalized 30 yards in the course OF Washburn had expected to get 4 around the Colorado ends with its swift backheId. but It was disappointed a. this The Washburn line was unable ! to stop the leaks. and the man with tiis ! hall was repeatedly thrown back Tor a loss. White was the best gamer on end runs. At the same time. the expectations Of / Colorado that 1t would batter the Washburn line to pieces on ofense. and gain big distances by line bucking’ were also shattered The Washourn / line stopped the Colorado backs Win | considerable regularity, and the Colo rado end runs we’re an utter failure. I FJauzhey and johnson on the WASH 1 burn ends, did magnificent work The forward pass, as a weapon OF / In the face OF swift, aggressive foothail such. as was played by both teams ! on Saturday, the forward pass IS SIN / ply a polite method OF presenting lile oDposirlR team with the ball. Colorado / plaved the pass five times, and lost the / bali each time, though the play always gained about 10 yards. Wasnourh ( tried the pass four times ana lost Sne / hall twice One other efLort gained yards. and another lost 5 yards. The forward pass is at best a gamble against odds Washburn had the Colorado team going IN spite Of the fact that the 4 Mountafneers had put IN q new set OF backs to finish the game The big men IN the Colorado line were PLAINLY SNOW ing signs of exhaustion, and had the game continued 10 minutes longer the / chances would have been favorable % a score for Washburn- Trudgian’s punts lacked steam toward the ena OF the game, and Williams. who was punting for Washburn, was gaining on every exchange. Just before the halt closed, the Washburn linesmen ripped open the Colorado line ana Diockea Trudeian’s punt on the Colorado 80 ward line. Another punt by Washburn, and the Colorado goal would have been in danger Tor the second time during the game But time was called with the ball still on the Colo rado 40 yard line. The failure of Washburn to score Z | touchdown in the first half was due to somebody s DAD 4uOeLent. “ o11ADulH tried to smash through the Colorado ! line. and the undertaking was too much An end run or q long pass would prob / sbly have brought home q score. Dur / ing most of the first half Colorado was / on the defensive, but Trudgian was out puntinz Williams by many yards By / the exchange OF punts, Colorado worked / the ball into Washburn territory toward / the end Of the half. one of the most brilliant plays Of the / game was when Williams caught the ! Colorado yickoH in the second Ralf, and carried the ball 40 yards right down / the center of the field. He WIS tackled hard. and dropped the ball Colorado / then played its best game Of the day, / and battered q trail down the field for a distance of 81 yards without losing the ball Then came the three tries for field goals, before Washburn could get the [ ball back to comfortable distance 1 from its goal line Shortly before the | close of the half Moore caught a quar- | terback a.ick from a quick line up, be- fore the Washburn team knew what was going on. and carried It IS yards. The tacklfng Of the Washburn team was on the whole not as good as that Of ! Colorado. Washburn was faster IN get | ting into the play, but not so sure on tackles after 1t got there If there is one thing which was con- | spicuous in the Colorado team this year, / It is the absence Of Galley, last seasons / ful1back- There is no one In the team / who can C lpare with that wonderful / PLAYER either in 4ackling or kicking | and the effective work Of the team is diminished % per cent by his absence Aside from Galley the team is as strong / as the one which represented Colorado I last year, and beat Washburn 30 10 | at Boulder, Colo The weather was responsible for a shortage in the attendance It was

• The Salt Lake tribune. (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, Utah, October 21, 1906

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  PLAY TIE GAME. Washburn Nor Colorado Able to Score at Topeka, Kansas. TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 20.-Neither the University Of Colorado nor Washburn college could score in the football game played here today. The quarterback kick and the forward pass, under the new rules. were used effectively by both teams and but few gains were made on straight football. Colorado used an entire new back field In the second half.

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Colorado leads 1–⁠0–⁠1 in two meetings.