Chicago at Northwestern

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 12, 1911, page 42

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  MAROON TEAM VICTORIOUS Northwestern Beaten by Chicago, Nine TO Three. sCRUBYs TOE Is BIG ASSET winners Get Touchdown I’m First Fsur Minutes of Play, After which Northwestern plays stiff Game. EVANSTON. ILL.,, Nov. 1i.--Chicago defeated Northwestern today. 70 3. Chicago scored the first ftouchdwon In four minutes OF play against Northwest ern on Northwestern field today. Nor gren took the bail over after a punting duel that ended on Northwestern’s five yard line. Scruby kicked goal. Northwestern after the first reverse held Chicago safely. Aided by the wind, Linn and oruhn were able 20 keep the bali in Chicago territory. four times in succession sending u over the Maroons’ goal line. The teams met on equal terms In the second period. Norgren Was replaced by Fonger Chicago began TO gain toward the end OF the period. but Northwestern held for two downs on her own five-yard line and Linn punted out OF danger Purple Gets Touchdown. As tbs third period opened an exchange OF punts ended with the Maroons having the ball on their own five-yard line, Pierce having badly rnishandled Linnn punt, which bounded sixty yards. The Purple IN three firee line plunges by Gruhn ana Reese made fifteen yards Linn then kicked a field goal. Chicago s. Northwestern, 3, Northwestern had all the best OF the straight foot bali that followed. A series Of line bucks by tho Purple ended In a thlrty-yard run by LAnn around the left end. After a struggle. In which neither sid, could make a gain and hold it. Chicago 10 the last five minutes OF play drove the ball yard BY yard 70 the purple goal Northwestern held on the one-yard line but the Maroons scored again on fiels goal by soruby. Score: Chicago . Mort a...nA.... q I-..nl.n..

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 12, 1911, page 1

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  CHICAGO PUNTS STRONGLY Northwestern University Team Beaten for City Title. Evanston, Ill, Nov. 1l.-Chicago Univ~rsity won the city championship from Northwestern University on Northwestern Field to-day, winning the annual struggle by 9 to g. Chicago scored first by a fierce attack In the first four minutes of play. Norgren plunging through the line when an exchange of punts had left the ball on the Purple 5-yard line Scrubby kicked the goal. Northwestern then seemed 10 awaken ana held the Maroons on even terms for the rest of the game. each side making field goal, Linn and Scrubby sharing the honors. The forward pass was little used, the play being nearly straight football and punting. AS the third period opened an exchange of punts ended with the Maroons having the ball on their own 5-yard line, Pierce badly mishandlng Inns punt. which bounded 60 yards. The Purple In three fierce line plunges by Gruhn and Reese made Is yards. Linn then kicked a field goal. Chicago in the last five minutes OF play drove the ball yard by yard to the Purple goal Northwestern held on the l-yard line, but the Maroons scored again on n field goal by Scrubby.

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, November 12, 1911, page 7

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  Stages MEN GET A VICTORY Northwestern’s Purple coIors Lowered by Score of 8 to 3 in Civil War. [Gate City Leased Wire Service.l CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Despite game fight, Northwestern’s purple colors we’re lowered by the Maroons this afternoon, 9 to 3. Stages team made their first touchdown two minutes after the kickoff, blocked kick affording the opportunity. Then the Northwestern eleven took a brace, and until the last quarter fought success fully to ward off further scoring, meanwhile annexing field goal through Linn’s trusty toe. In the fourth quarter, despite desperate fight. ing, Chicago got within kicking dis lance of the purple goal and Scruby dropped the oval over for the only other score.

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 13, 1911, page 5

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  CHICAGO WINS 9 TO 3. Takes the City Football Championship From Northwestern. Evanston, Nov. 11.-Chicago UNI versity won the city championship from Northwestern university on Northwestern field today. winning the annual struggle TO 3. Chicago scored first by fierce attack in the first four minutes Of play Norgren plunging through the line when an exchange OF punts had left the ball on the purple five-yard line. Scruby kicked goal

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Chicago leads 26–⁠8–⁠3 in 37 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.