Creighton at Denver

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 1, 1908, page 1

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  GRIZZLIES SWAMP CREIGI Boys from the Mountains Too Fs Local Lads. GAME FAST AND SIN Brussels Good Right Foot Score First Points of the Game nj Teammates Keep Up the Scoring, Denver University, 30; Creighton, Creighton’s football team was III swept off its feet at Vinton street Saturday afternoon when the fast university aggregation outplayed Gre at every stage of the game and W the score of 30 to 0. Early In the game It was to be see DR.. Koehler’s squad was thoroughly in all branches Of the game, that tn ran low and hard, that they had a did kicker in Captain Brusse, that interference was about the best ths been seen in Omaha and that they tricky aggregation and were not afraid to use their trick plays. The teams were, of different build al thong the weight seemed to slightly favor Denver. The Mountaineers linemen were long and rangy and fast, while the Creighton line seemed much more stocky. But once was Creighton able to gain the required distance to make a first down and that was a sort Of a fluke on a delayed pass. Denver made two field goals 1 nthe first half, the first after fourteen minutes of play making the score s to o at the end of the first half. In the second half they played harder and faster and SItl6blOh at Ni1 oNiiiN NiAAO IN ~ lose the necessary nerve to keep the pace and Denver trotted up and down the field at will, making long runs and forward passes and when necessary kicking the ball for good punts, Creighton being unable to stop the cyclone. interference Strong. The style Of interference which the Den yer lads put up around the endsh seemed to puzzle Creighton and often % and 30 yard runs resulted. When Skidmore would start around the end he would have at least five men to interfere for him and the Creighton ends and tackles did not seem to be able to break up the play. They made the mistake of all trying to get the runner instead of breaking up the interference. Around the ends was not the only place Denver went. for gains for Schroeder as a plunging fullback is a corker and when several yards were needed on a pinch he was simply sent blowing through the line and invariably made good. aFflure to call upon him in the first half with the ball near the goal line cost Denver a touch down, but 1t was practically made up for a moment later. when Captain Brusse kicked a goal from placement for forty six yards. Creighton had kicked the ball fro mits three-yard line and Brusse made a lar NdNCh dnu hGtltu lht jail re lueH sent 1t soaring squarely between the goal posts for the second field goal Of the game. When Coach Kenney in the second half saw the game was irredeemably lost he called upon his pony backs and several ! other line men, but the new blood was not able to stop the rushes of the Grizzlies. DIR. Koehler did not call upon any of his SUBJ stitutes until there was but ten minutes still to play an dthe game was won beyond recall, when he relieved the members or his back field, who had been doing such heroic work. Things were getting a little rough and he desired to save his men for the big game with the Colorado Schol of Mines next Saturday. Creighton Was POwerIess. The stocky Creighton team, the same lineup which had won from the strong Grinnell team two weeks before, seemed 10 be toys 1 nthe hands of the Mountaineers 1t was the consensus of opinion among the foot ball ~roooters that Denver has a remarkable team with a backfield such as has seldom been seen on a western gridiron. This bunch OF backs, however, had great support from the line men. so that when a straight plunge was called for. there was almost invariably a hole and when the backs weer sent around the ends they had A0oNy ihAeSheu 10 interfere Tor them. Denver won the toss and chose to kick the ball. giving Creighton the north goal with the wind blowing almost from the east Schraeder kicked out Of bounds on the first attempt, but his second went better ant the game was on. Stevens made a return OF ten yards and then lost three on an at. tempt at the end. Creighton kicked forty yards and Skidmore was downed in hi: tracks. Crowley made seven and Skidmort failed and Denver kicked to Creighton’i twenty-yard line. Stevens made two anC Creighton kicked for thirty yards, Stevens downing Brusse in his tracks. Crowley made a courtyard gain and Skidmore ter and Schraeder plunged three into the center The ball was soon carried to Creighton’i twenty-five yard line, when Russ circleC the cad for a seventeen-yard gain. AfteI two vain attempts to gain a Harvard pass Melted a touchdown. but an offside play saved the score against Creighton. A tr, at goal failed. Plenty OF Kicking. Creighton kicked to the center and Their, was no return. Two trials with no gain anC Denver kicked to the twenty five yard line Continued on Second Pase.)

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Denver leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.