Iowa at Drake

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 7, 1909, page 1

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  Kansas Beats Nebraska 6 too; Creighton Loses, But Bellevue Wins; Mi DRAKE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP Des Moines Foot Ball Team Wrests Flag from Iowa City Boys. BURCHAM’S BOOT DOES WORK wonderful Kicking Of brakes Half Responsible for VictOry-scOre stands Seventeen % Fourteen. iURCHAM’s BOOT DOES WORK DEs MONIES, Nov. e~.-(special> Telegram.)-In a hard fought game Drake easily won from Iowa today by a score of II to Il, In which Drake made all its scores In tho first half and Iowa made all its scores in the last half. -Four thou sand spectators witnessed the game and tonight the police have turned the town over to Drake students, who are parading the streets, celebrating the winning Of the state championship. Drake won from the state university for the first time. The field was dry and II was a fast and furious game. The heat being intense, five players we’re laid out by the heat. Line plunges formed brakes strongest play. The first score was made after eight minutes OK play by Burcham for Drake kicking a goal from the forty-yard line after the next kick off. BY using line plunges Purdy and Burcham put the ball on lowa’s five-yard line and Purdy then bucked through the line for a touch down. Burcham drop kicked another goal from the field, ending the half and making the score II to o. Iowa picked up wonderfully in the sec ond half, when Murphy carried the ball over the Drake goal for a touchdown after five minutes of play. He was as sisted by Hyland, who carried the ball down the field for a thirty-five-yard run on a forward pass, and by Gross, who smashed through the Drake line for twenty yards. On an open formation Murphy carried the ball over for another touchdown. Ty,a,,p.

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  The Salt Lake herald-Republican, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7, 1909, page 10

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  Taylorsville. DRAKE DEFEATS IOWA. Des Moines, Iowa, Nov 6:-Drake, PLAYING most magnificent football. defeated Iowa university this AFTERNOON ana wrested from it all claim to the state championship by a score of II to IA. The game was fast from start 10 finish.

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