Iowa at Chicago

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, October 20, 1912, page 6

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  CHICAGO WINS IN LAST QUARTER Wonderful Battle Put up by the Maroon Eleven In the Final Quarter Wins From Iowa Saturday. SCORE WAS “a TO IA Pierce, Maroon Back has Charley Horse But Goes Through Iowa Line at Will for Three Touchdowns. AZ 3 sr limited Press Leased Wire Service. / CHICAGO, Oct. 19-By a wonder full fight in the final quarter, Chicago managed to down the plucky Iowa ag gregation here today. Throughout, the first three sessions OF the game the victory was problematical, frs, one side and the other forging ahead as the result of brilliant inside foot. ball and slashing line plays. The score was 81 to Ia Going into the game with bad at. tack of Charles horse,’ Pierce, the husky Maroon back, tore through 1owa’s line time and again carrying the ball down the field for touch downs. Norgren, Paine, Hanson and Vruwink starred for their respective teams.

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 21, 1912, page 1

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  Iowa Defeated by Chicago. game the University of Chicago foot ball players defeated the Iowa eleven “a to IA. The victory eliminates the Hawkeyes from the race for the big nine” championship. For three per- 1ods. the Iowans threw a scare into the maroons when they led with a score of IA to IS, but Chicago was strengthened with fresh players and as a result took the lead in the last quarter and never was headed. The maroon backs plowed through the line for big gains in the final period. scoring three touchdowns. The game was hard fought for three periods. Then in the final session the maroons play ed rings around their opponents. The Hawkeyes, however, put up fine foot ball.

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.

Chicago leads 9–⁠3–⁠2 in 14 meetings, counting the six since this game.