Drake at Iowa

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 15, 1908, page 1

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  IOWA IS oUTCLAssED BY DRAKE university Loses All Claim TO the state Championship. IOWA CITY, Ia, Nov. 1A-(SpeciaI Telesram.)-Iowa lost all chance for a claim on the state championship by losing to Drake, a team which clearly outplayed the Hawkeyes by a score of u to 6. Drake scored I’m the first five minutes of play on a Kick by Captain Kirk. which hit an Iowa back and bounded over the line, Kirk being downed for a safety. From that point on the game was brakes and Iowa only scored late in the second half. when Gross, catch ing a’thirty-yard forward pass from Can. tain Kirk, raced across the goal line in a twenty-yard sprint. Wilson, brakes left tackle. leaped In the air and caught one OF McCoy’s punts on the bounce, scoring the blu and white touchdown in the middle OF the second half after a fifteen-yard run. Captain Mccoy OF Drake booted the ball between the bars in the first half for the remainder of the winning twelve points. Drake played better ball than Iowa and deserved TO win. The back field was SUI perior and the line, though light, fought to the limit. Iowe’s forward passes repeatedly failed and Iowa lost heavily on penalties throughout the game. Evans. brakes left half. starred with his WEIGHING runs around Iowa’s left end. Mccoy carried the ball we’ll and Van Meter handled his men In clever style. Hyland shone brilhantly for Iowa, his recovery Of two punts being especially clever. Seidel and Gross played good foot bail. The teams unad m og fottou.

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  Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, November 16, 1908, page 1

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  tile a AZ per cent; sterling steady: 4.SS15 at sixty days, and 4.S6.90 on demand. THE SPORTS in BRIEF DRAKE DEFEATS IOWA. Wins From State University Team Second Time in Ten Years. Wins From State University loan Second Time in Ten Years. Iowa City, Nov. 16.-Drake triumphed over Iowa for the second time in ten years Saturday. The score OF the clean cut, we’ll earned victory was IL to 6. Just ten years ago, in 1898, old Drake whipped the Hawkeyes. Drake led in every department, IN playing, in scoring. in living up to It’s opportunities. Iowa was beaten to a FRAGILE” and admits that the better team won. A safety, drop kick, ana a touchdown secured from an onslde kick were the means used to get the twelve points. In the last ten minutes of play, Gross, who had played lions game for the Old Gold, got a forty yard forward pass, slung by Captain Kinks arm, and raced across for lowas only touchdown. Fffty-flve yards did the l.g tackle run in the despairing play. and little Bobby Evans, who had been the star for Drake all afternoon, ran at his heels after the ball was caught but just too far off to make the tackle.

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Iowa leads 10–⁠2 in 12 meetings, counting the four since this game.