Kansas at Iowa

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 23, 1908, page 2

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  KANSAS HARD GAME. Iowa Played Desperately But Could Not Stop Jayhawkers. Iowa City, Ia, Nov. 23.-In the hard est fought battle of the season for the Kansans. Nebraska not excepted. Coach Catlin’s football team for the fifth time this year fell before a ‘worthier foe and the Jayhawker squad mounted next to the top step on the ladder of the Missouri valley championship by win ming 10 to 5. It was a game in which the humility of a string of defeats, and time and again it looked as though the oyerconfidence of Coach Kennedy’s proud bunch would necessitate the As Kennedy announced before the game, he tried to win by sending in his substitutes and saving the regulars for the Thanksgiving game. How ever. before the first half had closed, with the two teams struggling in the center of the field and neither appar emily having the advantage, the Kan sas coach foresaw the finish and began to relieve his less experienced men for the old and tried players. The feature of the game was the phenomenal end runs of Fisk and Meyer, the punting of Captain Kirk of the Hawkeyes and the stone wall defense of Kansas at critical times. FISK made repeated gains of from to % yards, humping a Hawkeye here and lodging another. Kirk for the Iowa team was not only a star punter. but twice in open formation he rushed the ball to 35 and 40 yards and then his teammates We’re held for downs. Many penalties were charged during both halves in which Kansas was the greater loser. The loss to the, Jay hawkers on holding five times, hurdling once and one forward pass failure net ted LAB yards. Iowa lost 135 yards In nine failures of the forward. pass The Jayhawkers succeeded in making the on-side kick Is times during the two halves. Kinks punts averaged seven yards more than Johnson’s. The game was started at o’clock. Bond kicked off for Kansas, 80 yards against the wind. The Iowans were forced to punt on downs. During this half the goal line of neither team was in danger The Iowa team kept their goal out of danger through Kinks long punts. The Jayhawkers made their downs more often than the home team. The half closed with the ball in Iowa’s possession on her own 40-yard line. In the second half Kansas started with her strongest team. Kirk kicked so yards to Fisk. The Kansans started to march down the field with six and eight yard gains by Fisk, Meyers and Rice, but were stopped by a penalty for holding. Johnson puhted and Iowa Iowa’s 45-yard line the Jayhawkers started with a whirlwind speed and Meyers succeeded in carrying the ball across the enemy’s goal line for the 1rSL touchdown dII6E III VI play. Following this touchdown Iowa braced and by the open formation play sent Kirk to the Kansas 6-yard line in a beautiful 35-yard sprint through cen ter Kansas held the HawkeyeS for downs and punted the ball to their own 40-yard line. Again Iowa executed the same play. This time by two bucks and a forward from Kirk to Perrine, the Iowans tied the score. Goal was miss ed. Kansas made her second touchdown by an S-yard end run by Fisk, a 10 yard skirt by Meyers, 20 yards on an on-side kick, Is by Rice and more by Pleasant The final score was 10

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 22, 1908, page 1

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  KANSAS BEEF WINS CANE Iowa Worn Down by Constant Use Of Straight Old Fashioned Game. STAR PLAYERS FORCED TO QUIT Substitutes Unable 20 stop the strong Kansas RackAeId I’m the Closing Few Minutes of the Contest. IOWA CITY. Ia, Nov. 21.-(Specisl Telegram. )-Weakening in the final min utes Of play under the grueling straight foot ball method of attack, Iowa lost to Kansas here today, 10 to 8, in a hard fought game, marked by the new style play on Iowa’s part and a straight, old fashioned game by the beefy Kansans. The first half ended 0 to 0, after one of the greatest exhibitions of punting seen on Iowa’s field. Captain Kirk, playing the last game Of his career, kept the Iowa goal line safe at all stages by long spira’s and the splendid work Of the Iowa ends gave the Hawkeyes the advantage in this half, though only two of the nine attempted forward passes worked. In the second half, after eight minutes Of hard play, in which Coach Kennedy’s regular backfield, substituted late in the first half, begun to run the ends, filled by Iowa substitutes, Hanlon and Perrine, and a touchdown came after eleven minutes. Then Iowa, using a bewildering shift play, rushed the ball twice within the five-yard line, only to lose 1t on downs. Captain Kirk made two thirty yard runs in this period of play, the feature of the game. The second time Johnson kicked from behind his goal line Fee caught the punt and raced twenty-five yards to the Kansas eight yard line. A quick forward pass, Kirk to Perrine, petted a touchdown. The accidental touching Of the ball to the ground prevented a trial for goal. Kan sas In the closing minutes of play gained the ball on a caught forward pass from Kirk and the backs plowed through the weakened line. Pleasant, the heavy nd, carrying the ball over. Kinks Last Game. Captain Kirk closed his career as a foot ball player by carrying the ball farther than any one man on either eleven. by great punting in the first half and by playing a great defensive end when Kansas had the ball. Hyland did some of the prettiest tackling ever seen on Iowa field, recovered a punt in brill liant fashion, but played himself out early in the second half. Carberry did likewise and had to leave the game when needed the most. The Kansas backfield was able to circle the substitutes with Hanlon and Perrine on the extremities, this bringing the first touchdown. Myers, Johnson and Fiske starred for Kansas, while Captain Crowell and Reed did good work in the line for the Jayhawkers. Iowa was penalized 1870 yards, while Kansas received lac yards of pena--1es. Iowa succeeded in getting off five sue cessful forward passes out Of eleven at tempts. Kansas tried one forward pass, but it failed. The teams lined up as follows:

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., November 23, 1908, page 3 (results column)

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  SUMMARY OF SATURDAY SPORT Harvard defeated Yale by to 0. Chicago won western collegiate foot ball championship from Wisconsin by IS to Il. Minnesota defeated Carlisle Indians, IL to 6. Illinois swamped Northwestern by Ga to g. Syracuse crushed Michigan. % to A. Cornell defeated Trinity, 10 to g. West Point won from Villanova, Is to 0. Amherst beat Williams, to 0. Shattuck Military Academy won the championship of the Northwestern preparatory schools from Lake Forest Academy By 20 to 6. Pat Page was elected captain of the University of Chicago eleven for 1909 Kansas won from Iowa by 10 to 5. James Sheldon resigned as coach of the Indiana football team. DePaul won the championship of the minor colleges of Illinois from Illinois Normal by 6 to O. CYCLING. Lawson and Anderson won the six day bicycle race at Boston. going 1920 miles and one lap. AUTOMOBILES. Deroze, a mechanician, was killed in an accident while practicing his auto mobile at Savannah for the light car race to be held next Wednesday and Thursday. TURF. Dorante won the Burke handicap at Oakland Royal Tourist established a new rec ord for the Pacific coast record at Oakland. running six fsrlongs in Ill 20. ROLLER SKATING. William Robinson of Chicago set a new worlds record for a mile with pace on a fiat track in 1853. ! Over 100 entries reported for the Thanksgiving day Marathon skate in Chicago. BOXING | Malachy Hogan says ring contests or coast will be boxing features of the week. | Hugo Kelly started for Los Angeles TO meet Papke in bout on Dec. Is. TENNIS. | Australias team defeated American Iplayers OF Melbourne.

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  The Fairmont West Virginian, Fairmont, W. Va., November 23, 1908, page 6 (results column)

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  SCORES MADE SATURDAY POOR OLD MICHIGAN GETS AN. OTHER DRuRBlNG-sEvERAL OTHER SURPRISES SPRUNG. The football results OF Saturday con. tain many surprises on griIirons east and west as they we’re received satur. day night, Michigan got another aw. full trouncing. Navy took tumble Harvard beat Yale. The following are the scores; Pittsburg c; Gettysburg 0. w. & j. Al; waynesburg 0. Harvard 4; Yale 0. Cornell IS; Trinity G. Syracuse rs; Michigan A. Indians 6 Minnesota G. Case 30; Teen 0. Va. Poly. is; Navy 4. Lehigh II; Lafayette 5. Ohio State s; oberlin 6. Army As; villanova 0. Chicago 10; Wisconsin 10. Kansas 10; Iowa 5.

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Kansas leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.