Syracuse at Illinois

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, November 20, 1910, page 1

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  KEOKUK DOWNED ]. BY HEAVY COUNT Fell by Wayside in Football Game Saturday Afternoon With Bur- Iinston, the Score Being % to o. MICHIGAN IS WINNER Illinois Defeated Syracuse, to o, and Yale and Harvard Tie Iowa is Winner by Big Score. Especial ito The Gate City.l L – BURLINGTON, Iowa, Nov. 49, Outweighing and outplaying their OPP ponents in straight football, the Bur lington high school team defeated the snappy aggregation from. Keokuk this afternoon by the score of % to O, counting in every period of play, which was brought to an early term ination because of darkness. When darkness settled to such an extent that the game had to be call ed the Keokuk tackles could not have continued any longer, for lack of physical strength. Pease had already been taken out of the game and a substitute had been hurried from the side line to supplant Elder. 1t was on tackle plays alone that Burlington won. Throwing the heavy | backfield into the opposing tackles time after time, Burlington shot Isstraight bucks and cross bucks with | such effectiveness that it WIS impos- | sible to resist them. Nor could the Keokuk line repulse the Burlington attack when straight football was used in any OF the per iods of play. A touchdown was made In each period except the third, when Burlington counted twice. In modern football Keokuk display ed a greater knowledge of play than did Burlington, and the secondary de, | tense of the visitors was practically | invincible. Repeatedly did Keokuk In |. tercept forward passes and change the complexion of the game, only to | lose the ball later on downs, or be J! forced to kick into safe territory / Punts were exchanged with little fire. quency. Keokuk losing ground on every exchange. Meinhardt was one of the best ground gamers for KeokuS. TGate CITY Leased Wire Service ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 49, | Clinching it’s claim to the western ] championship by display of as bril- / liant football as was ever seen in the / west, Michigan defeated Minnesota here this afternoon, to 0. in one OF the most desperately contested bat ties in its history. outweighed by the giant Gopher line and driven back re peatedly by their terrific charges / the wolverines rallied time and again In gallant style but it was largely the work of their huge captain, whose bnlk of Drawn and muscle, time and again checked the Gopher PUSHES which saved the Michigan colors from being torn. For three desperate quarters the battle ragged up and down the field, Minnesota’s line crash ing through the Wolverine defense time and again and the Michigan men regaining the lost ground as often with heady clever open plays. Hall of the fourth quarter passed in the

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  Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., November 21, 1910, page 3

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  Clean Record for Illinois. Champaign, Nov. 19.-In the hardest fought game of the season. Illinois won over Syracuse Saturday afternoon by a score of 3 to 0. Sci ler’s toe again made possible an IL lini victory and he is the hero of the university. This game rounded out the season for Illinois, with a wonderful record. Not a game has been lost and not a score has been made on it. Syracuse never had a chance to score. except when Waite tried his place kicks, none of which came anywhere near the goal posts. Surprise for Chicago. Madison, Wis, Nov. 21.-The Wisconsin football team astonished even its most enthusiastic support ers Saturday afternoon by defeating the University of Chicago, 10 to 0, in a game replete with spectacular features. The Badgers won strictly by old football methods while the maroon warriors tried everything in the calendar, failing signally to gain on plays of trick nature.

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  The Cairo bulletin, Cairo, Ill., November 20, 1910, page 1 (results column)

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  BEAT pURDUE. FOOTBALL SCORES. At Ann Arbor, Michigan 6; Mime sofa 0. AT New Haven, Yale 0, Harvard O. At Bloomington Wesleyan “a; Lin coin 0. AT Madison, Wisconsin 10; Chicago O. At Lafayette, Indiana IS; Purdue 0. At Champaign, Illinois 3; Syracuse 0. AT Milwaukee, Marquette AZ; Car roIton 0. At Richmond, Ind, Depauw 1s; Earlnam IL. AT Annapolis. Navy 0. New York 0 AT Baltimore, Carlisle ~; Johns Hopkins University 0. I At Washington. Georgetown IA; v NJ. |, 6. At Boston, Holy Cross IA; Tufts O. At Canton, Case IL; Union 0. At Cleveland, Western Reserve g.: Dennison 9. AT st. Louis, Iowa State 38; Wash ington University 0.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Officially, Illinois leads 10–⁠1; as played, 10–⁠2 in 12 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.