Carlisle at Vanderbilt

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  The Columbia herald, Columbia, Tenn., November 30, 1906, page 3

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  NASHVILLE, Ienn., NOV. zz.-Mlnresota and Michigan having lost the nrestige of Western football teams N Carlisle and Pennsylvania in the great intersectional battles last Sat urdav. enthusiasts of the great ma tional sport had given up and conceded the East superior to the West. Little did they realize that there was one other squad this side of the Allie ghenies that remained to be considcred. This was Vanderbilt, Southerners in every sense of the word, but team coached by Western methods And II was this eleven that won back the lost laurels, for, this afternoon, on Dudley field, in one of the fiercest gridiron struggles ever waged between men, the Commodores, champions of the South, downed the Indian. The score was 4 to 0. Bob Blake, the great punter, whom many consider the best end in the country, today dropped a goal from the seventeen yard line just as time was up in the first half of this wonderful contest. Mount Pleasant made four attempts to drop a goal from field, but failed in each. The only other time that Carlisle threatened to score was in the first two minutes of play, when, by rushing the ball over the tackles, they carried it to Vanderbilt’s three-yard line. Then the Redskins made three attempts to go over, and, despite the pile-driving charges on the line, the Indians could not bulge the Gold and Black wall. It was the supreme test, and the Southerners refused to give an inch. Vanderbilt then took the ball and punted to center field, and Mount Pleasant returned it on the next play to the locals ten-yard line. From here Vanderbilt, by beautiful end plays and by Manners wonderful line plunging, steadily carried the oval to the In dams five-yard line, where the Red skins held Vanderbilt for downs From this time on the play was all in Carlisle’s territory and more than once the locals threatened to go over for a touchdown. The Indians made first touch down on Vanderbilt only six times, while the locals carried it the required distance many times on beau tiful plays on the line and around the end. The Vanderbilt runner was at all times afforded beautiful interference and their work was reeled off with such a dash and vim that the Indians were carried off their feet. They were startled, and during most of the struggle were playing on the defensive. Carlisle’s best work was done in the second half. At the outset they charged hard and low, and were able to carry the oval into Vanderbilt’s ter ritor several times. They worked a double forward pass which gained for ty five yards for them. Capt. Exendine caught the ball, but was downed before he could advance it five yards. Van derbilt tried two forward passes, max ing fifty yards on one. Although not nearly as heavy, Van derbilt proved to be a superior eleven

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Vanderbilt leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.