Iowa at Illinois

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 10, 1908, page 1

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  IOWA Sow TO PLAY DRATE Illinois Quarterback Wins Game for Team at Champaign. Team ut Champaign IOWA CITY, Ia, Nov. 9-(Special)-With the team in as good condition as any time this season the Iowa squad today begins preparations for the Drake game here next Saturday on Iowa Field. I’m the first and only big state game played by the University of Iowa foot ball team this fall. Drake has a good foot ball machine, carefully coached by silent John” Griffith more than at the first of the season. The undergraduates are anxious for the Old Gold to defeat Drake by a decisive score, however, so as to better the teams stand Ing in state circles. The Hawkeye eleven arrived from Cham paign yesterday afternoon. Sinnock is the one word which explains the defeat &C cordinR to the members or the team. With out the wonderful little 130-pound quarter back the lllini would have been “pickin’s” for Iowa so the rooters say. Iowa students who went to the game state that the score does not represent the relative merits of the teams. Iowa made a harder fight than the score indicates, so 1t Is claimed. Particular praise is given Seidel and Gross for their star work In the Iowa line. Captain Van Hook left the game in the middle of the second half while Isl” stuck through to the very end and despite the hard battle with the I’LL nois captain. Gross dug around on the off tackle bucks with great force and he played an able game on the defense, How ever, Iowa could not stop the deadly passes of the midget Sinnock. Iowa’s line sifted through the Illinois forwards easily and would pounce down on the Illinois quarter. He could run almost as fast as they could forward When a man was loose he would hurl the ball for good gains, even though he ran back twelve or fiji teen yards. The score of the N~ebraska-Ames game was welcome news here, as the ratio was practically the same as the II to s score against the Old Gold. Alumni of both Ames and low are keenly regretting the fact that the teams cannot meet this season as the Interest In no other state contest approaches the enthusiasm manifest when these two rivals meet. The action was taken despite the earnest opposition OF the ways been prominent hackers of university athletic teams and now the wisdom of their stand is seen.

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Illinois leads 39–⁠38–⁠2 in 79 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.