Kansas at Nebraska

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  The Norfolk weekly news-journal, Nebraska, November 12, 1909, page 1

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  KANSAS 6, NEBRASKA o. Quarterback johnson Wins Game In Last Two Minutes Of Play. Lincoln, Nov. S.-By sensational return of a punt in a run of seventy yards in the last two minutes OF play, Quarterback Johnson won victory for Kansas in game in which the Jayhawkers were beaten in nearly every department of play by Nebraska. The Jayhawkers’ thrilling feat lodged the ball squarely behind the goal posts and Pleasant kicked an easy goal that made the score of the struggle 6 to 0. The game was one of the most fercely fought exhibitions of the new foot ball” ever seen in Nebraska and but for the wiggling and lodging of Quarterback Johnson, in the waning seconds of the contest, it must have been to 0 score Johnson’s run was similar to one he made in the game with Nebraska last fall, when he raced sixty yards from a punt placing the oval so near the Corn hu~k goal that iC was easily pushed over for the five points. In the battle Better booted the ball from Nebraska’s forty yard line. It fell into the hands of the Jay hawker quarter at the Kansas forty tive-yard line. Johnson was in the middle of the field, and, receiving the ball, he darted straight across the grounds for the north side, hurling off tacklers and side stepping others. Within five yards of the side lines he turned west toward the Corn huNker goal and wriggled away from more Cornhusker tacklers. Here the | interference for the Jayhawker was grand, four men being with him. He raced along the fringe of the field behind perfect protection and dropped behind the Nebraska goal for the roints that won the game. Nebraska, the team that before the yame was touted to lose by mar ,in, bewildered the Jayhawkers with is startling variety of attacks. In 10Th halves it outplayed Kennedy’s uen bu. in two departments of the game, punting and returning the ball rom punts. The Cornhuskers never wavered be ore the attack of their opponents and presented stone wall from tackle tC tackle. In the early minutes of the strug yle Quarterback Johnson chose tC end some plays at both sides OF he line, but they were so effectively hecked that he had to rely on { bunting game. In the use Of the for ward pass and on-side kick the Corn huskers completely outclassed the Kansas players. The Jayhawker: .ried several short kicks, but not one If them was a success so strong wa he Nebraska defensive play. Every short kick made wa matched up readily by an alert Corn husker. Coach Kennedy’s much talked o Onward passes failed to materaliz and not one was attempted. johnson vas ready three or four times to pas he ball to one of the ends, but II every instance the Jayhawkers wer closely guarded that it woul ave been folly to have attempte he pass. The Cornhuskers, however lsed both forward pass and on-sid lick with telling effect, and especia in the second half, when the bal vas advanced many yards by thes plays. Nebraska never lost a var IN a forward pass and recovered or ,ide kicks three tines in the secon ,ession. Three forward passes nette eautiful gains. The Kansas lin failed to hold up against the Corr luskers’ onslaught, but in the secon ,ession the Nebraska players charge lown the ball field for many long gain w smashing through big holes in tn

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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 Daily Missoulian, Missoula, Mont., November 7, 1909, page 1

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  Kansas City 6, Nebraska 0. Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 6.-One minute of brilliant play. consumed by Tommy Johnson. Kansas quarterback. in 65-yard dash for touchdown, won the game for Kansas in the contest with Nebraska university today. Pleasant kicked goal and the scoring was over, Kansas, 6: Nebraska. 0.

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Officially, Nebraska leads 91–⁠23–⁠3; as played, 88–⁠18–⁠3 in the 109 games on file; the official count covers all 117 meetings, counting the 101 since this game.