Wisconsin at Northwestern

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, October 30, 1911, page 1

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  WISCONSIN CRUSHES PURPLE Northwestern Loses to Badgers by Twenty-Eight to Three. WINNERS oUTCLAss OPPONENTS Home Teams solitary score IL Made In the Last Period of Contest In Course of n Desperate Rally. Rally. EVANSTON. ILL.,, oct 2g-wisconsin proved too strong for Northwestern yes terday winning the game, % to g. The Wisconsin team never was in danger. Northwestern’s one field goal being the result Of rally in the fourth period. The Purple attack. which for a moment forced the Badgers to the defensive. soon flickered out, however. and the game ended in the shadow of the Northwestern goal posts. Except for the brief shift in the last period almost all the play was in Northwestern territory. The Badger players were heavier than the Northwestern men and made fewer fumbles. Both Moll and Tanberg OK celled Gruhn in punting both in dis lance ana accuracy, Wisconsin having the better OF nearly every exchange. The northwestern players were fast on their feet and tackled hard and safely. The Purple line also held well. neither team seeming TO have a great deal OF advantage in straight foot ball. Pollock $ titty-yard run for a touchdown seemed to catch the Purple backs mapping on other trys the scarlet backs had been dropped in their tracks behind their own line by the swife Purple players. Pollock, Wisconsin’s sturdy right half pack was the star of the game, making three touchdowns. Mol showed up well IN the Kick department. making two HELD goals and punting hard and accurately whenever the Badgers failed to gain around the ends or through the line. In the first period Hoeffel scored touchdown against Northwestern in eight minutes of play. Van Ripper failed to kick the goal, as he did on Polock’s third touchdown. Northwestern’s solitary score was made in the last period. The Purple braced its line by throwing in fresh men and made a desperate attack TO break through the defense of the triumphant Badgers. For the first time in the game the bah was Kept in Wisconsin territory for play after play. The Purple attack was SO swift and for the moment so successful that 1t brought its supporters to their feet and kept them there while the Northwestern players in one line plunge after another fought their way to within striking dis lance of the Badgers goal. On the Wis., consin thirty-yard line the play halted for moment and then, while the Purple players held their opponents behind a stonewall defense, Linn, who relieved Burkhart at quarter, sent a perfect drop-kick over the Badger goal. This was the Puppies last effort. The Badgers came back fiercely and the rest OF the play was within twenty yards of the Purple goal.

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Wisconsin leads 62–⁠37–⁠4 in 103 meetings, counting the 91 since this game.