Indiana at Chicago

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1911, page 1

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  CHICAGO IS COMING Beats Team That Beat It Last Year, % to 6. INDIANA Is THE LOSER Few Attempts on Part of Either Team to Use the Forward Pass. CHICAGO, October 7.-Universty OF Chicago foot ball players were revenged on the University of Indiana for it’s defeat of last year and triumphed over the Hoosiers on Marshall Field, % to 6, today. Two place kicks by Scruby in the first two periods of the game, touchdown by Norgren in the third period and two touchdowns by Sauer in the final session completed Chicago’s scoring. Indianas only score was the result of a blocked kick, which Fleming intercepted and then sprinted forty-five yards for a touchdown. Few attempts were made by either team to gain ground by use of the forward pass. Chicago executing the only two sue cessful plays of this variety. Wide end runs and fake plunges through the lines were the plays used mostly by the Chi while Indiana relied upon straight foot ball for it’s gains. Sauer’s 1O5-yard run for a touchdown was easily the feature of Chicago’s play, while Gill. King and Fleming starred for the visitors

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, October 8, 1911, page 1 (results column)

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  Stages Men Romp Home With First Big Victory on Marshall Field Winning by Score Of 23 to 6. HowE’s BOOT HELPS Captain Of Ellis Kicks TWO Goals From As Yard Line-Harward Held Well by HoIyeross. GGate City Leased Wire Service.] CHICAGO, Oct. THE unexpected happened on Marshall field this after noon, when Coach Stages University OF Chicago eleven defeated the Uni versity of Indiana, % to 6. Indiana’s only score was made on touchdown and kicked goal by Gill, when a punt by Scruby. of Chicago, was blocked. Two place kicks, 35 yards in the first period, and thirty yards in the second, by scruby, were features of the game. Howe’s Boot Beats Syracuse. NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. Al though forced to go the limit to beat Syracuse today, IL to o, Yale salts fed the Ellis. Again and again the fast Syracuse ends tumbled the Eli runner carrying the pigskin from behind. Fumbles were frequent on both sides. Captain Howe drop-kicked two goals each from the As yard line MichI9an’s Weight Counts. ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct Out weighing the Case eleven and able at nearly all times to gain through the Ohioans, the University of Michigan football team defeated the for mer “a to 0, this afternoon. Harvard, 1s; Holy Cross. o. CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Oct. Holy Cross held Harvard’s football war riors to an Is to 0 score here today in game of spectacular runs, featured by open play. Wendell was pushed over for the only touchdown. In punting, Mcnahan of Holy Cross held his own with Eel. ton and Campbell. In the second period, by end runs and forward passes Harvard worked her way to the 35 yard line Here Potter booted the oval squarely be tween the uprights. In the period Holy Cross carried the ball to within less than five yards OF a goal but there the crimson line held,

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Chicago leads 20–⁠4–⁠1 in 25 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.