Notre Dame at Texas

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  South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., November 28, 1913, page 10

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  TEXAS j. FALLS BEFORE TERRIFIC N D. ONSLAUGHT LOnghornS Resist Every Foot of Advance But Notre Dame Displays Marked Superior ity as Game Progresses. Austin. Texas. Nov. 27.-Notre Danes football team defeated that OF the University Of Texas Thursday % 20 by using a combination OF old and new style play. The indicated Notre Dame eleven battered the Texas line until Il was almost exhausted. and then opened up a series OF forward passes and drop kicks which repeated Is turned into scores. Notre Danes backs plunged into the Texas line II times for “a total of ? IS yards The HOOsier players scored three touchdowns and three field goals. one OF the tOuchdOWns from fake forward pass and another in the last minute Of play. when Mills, tall substitute right end. caught a Texas forward pass high in the air almost directly aSOve the goal line. Quarter back Dorais Of NOtre Dame. himself scored l. OF his teams points. Texas tried six forward passes two Of them successful for a total OF GS yards. and NOtre Dame tried Il. ten OF them sue cessful for 200 yards. Backs Plunge Fine Funback Eichenlaub and Finnegan and Pliska. the halfbacks gained for NOtre Dame through the line. Texas punting superiority was nullified by the diminuitive. but fleet Dorais. though the southerners eXcelled in running the ends. the sun was shining when the game Texas kicked off and Notre Dame after two exchanges OF punts. rushed the ball from their own seven yard line across Texas goal for a touch down. In a series of end runs line plunges with one – yard forward pass. DOrais carried the ball over from Texas 3 yard line on a fake forward pass. He also kicked goal. Texas Holds In Pinches. The first quarter was fiercely contested, Notre Dame at times breaking through for long gains. only to have their interference smashed and be forced TO kick moment later. Texas made a first down and NOtre Dame four. Notre Dame forced the play in the second quarter into Texas territory and after two exchanges of punts. + Dorais dropkicked a goal standing on Texas 1 3 yard line \ few minutes later he had another chance at drop kick from Texas 20 yard line but failed. Putting the ball in play on their 20 ward line. Texas gave il TO Simmons Texas lost the ball on forward pass and the half ended, NOtre Dame. 10; Texas, Z. Play In Texas Territory. Opening the third quarter NOtre Dame forced the play into Texas ter ritcry. but Dorais failed at a drop kick from Texas % yard line. Notre Dame got the ball again and rushed il 40 yards 20 Texas yard line where DOrais dropkicked a goal. Notre Dame forced the play all through the third quarter though Texas braced whenever NOtre Dame neared their goal. Notre Dame showed marked super iority as the game neared an end. Eicheulaub after line rushes and a forward pass had put the ball on Texas two yard line, was sent over for a. touchdown. Dorais kicked goal. Later after Texas had been severely penalized for rough playing, Dorais, failed 10 kick goal from touchdown scores by Mills who received thir- ~ yard forward pass. Notre Dame (2s) Texas CD ROCkne .....--........ ..-.....-‘ i uIheI Left End. Jones --.-.-.---- Bass Left Tackle. keefe ....-...... -.......-... blISe Left Guard. Feeney ...-......-- Dittmar Center. Fitzgerald ..........--. .... jordan Right Guard. IathrOp CCapt) ........... Carleton GuSnurst ....... -..--: Edmohus Right End. DOr1ls lDdA CT Quarterback. Pliska .... Z. Simmons Left Halfback. EiuneEan bIOEi Right Halfback. E{~benlaub ... Daniel Fullback. Referee-VanRiper. Wisconsin. I’m pire-GIaze. Dartmouth. Head Lines

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  Bryan daily eagle and pilot, Bryan, Tex., November 28, 1913, page 2

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  LONdHORNS WENT DOWN BEFORE NOTRE DAME Greatest Team Texas unlversIty Ever Had Met Defeat From Northern Catholics. Austin, Texas, November 2S.-The Texas Longhorns, fighting superbly till the end, received a terrible and crushing defeate melted out by the Notre Dame Catholics yesterday after noon. The seasoned Northerners won by a score of 20 to z. Texas scored on forward pass and broken field run in the second quarter. Notre Dame scored in the first quarter on a 30 yard pass. Dorais, the star Catholic quarter, broke the tie with field goal He kicked field again in the third after the Texas line held solid. In the fourth Notre Dame carried the ball over and within the last few minutes of play, after Dorais had kicked his third goal, placed pass over the line bringing the score to 30. The veterans from the North were fairly well held down through the first quarter, but after this period the Long horns were obliged to play on the de fensive always. The Texas line held well, considering the fact that Eichen laub hit It so hard and so frequently The Catholics had a lighting change formation just as the ball went into play that bewildered the Longhorns And the Catholics had Eichenlaub to hammer the line with cruel persist ence. and Dorais, Notre Danes great est football man, to general the team Dorais passed the ball with deadly Ger. tainty, and he punted slow high ones that enabled his men to get down un’ der them. And-he added six points to the score with field goals. Only in two departments OF the game did the Texas outclass the Northerners. The sensational end runs of Paul Simmons; the 17-year- old Texas star, gave the Longhorns SUI perior gains by end runs up to nearly twice the gains made by Notre Dame Texas gained 166 yards on % end runs Notre Dame gained only &c yards on total of II runs. The punting of Bar rel surpassed that of Dorais and Eich’ enlaub who punted for Notre Dame Darrell was assisted by Brown in one or two instances. The Texas kicking was better than in any game this year In the past Darrell has been averag ing less than rs yards on his punts He brought his average up 10 yards yesterday and made no flukes. The brilliant returns OF Dorais and his teammates almost offset any ad vantage Texas punting gave the Long horns. The plunglng OF the famous fullback, Eichenlaub, and the terrible cruelty with which he hit the same spot time after time-always for few yards gain, made Notre Dame pass Texas in this department OF the game. Dorais. running, lodging. with sure footed certainty, and the way his men managed time after time to make a

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 28, 1913, page 5

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  TEXAS LOSES TO NOTRE DAME Lone Star Eleven Defeated by Team Team from East. SCORE TwENTY-NINE TO SEVEN Line OF Austin Aggregation Unable Co Withstand Assault Made ny the Undefeated Enemy, AUSTIN. Tex. Nov. g7.-Notre Dame defeated the University OF Texas eleven here today by the score OF 2s to Z The Texan line was unable 70 withstand the assaults OF the undefeated team from the east. Texas kicked off and Notre Dame, after two exchanges OF punts, rushed the ball from their own seven-yard line across Texas goal for a touchdown. In a series OF end runs, line plunges and with one twelve-yard forward pass, Dorais carried the ball over Texas fifteen-yard line on a fake forward pass. He also kicked goal The first quarter was fiercely contested. Notre Dame at times breaking through for long gains. only to have their Interference smashed and be forced to kick moment later. Texas made first touchdown and Notre Dame four. Texas scored a touchdown in one min ute OF play after the second quarter opened. taking the ball from their own thirty-one-yard line and crossing Notre DANES goal in two plays Brown kicked goal. Texas kicked off and Notre Dame. after rushing the ball 10 midfieid. lost Il on a long forward pass on fourth down. Sim mons ran through the entire Notre Dame team for thirty-five yards to centerfield. Then Texas lost the ball on downs. Notre Dame forced the play into Texas territory and after two exchanges OF punts Dorais dropkicked a goal, standing on Texas fifteen-yard line. A few min utes later he had another chance at a dropkick from Texas twentyryard line. but failed. Putting the ball in play on the thirty yard line Texas gave It to Simmons for another thirty-five-yard run 10 mldfleld. Texas lost the bali on a forward pass, and the half euded-Notre Dame 10, Texas I. Opening the third quarter. Notre Dame forced the play into Texas territory, but Dorals failed at a drop kick from Texas twenty-yard line. Notre Dame got the ball again and rushed II forty-five yards to Texas fifteen-yard line, where Dorais drop-kicked goal Notre Dame showed marked superior ity as the game neared an end. Elchenlaub. after line rushes and forward passes had put the ball on Texas two-yard line was sent over for a touchdown. Dorail kicked the goal. Later. after Texas had been severely penalized for rough play ing. Dorals kicked field goal from the | twenty-yard line. Dorais missed goal from a touchdown scored by Mills. who received a thirty-yard forward pass. | Key TO the situation-Bee Advertising.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, December 3, 1913, page 7

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  ERROR FOUND IN NOTRE DAME SCORE: Indiana Team Made One More Point Than 1t Was Credited With Austin, Tex, December 2.-The score Of the Notre Dame and Texas university football game here Thanksgiving day was 30 to 7 in Notre DANES favor instead of 20 to I, as officially announced at the close of the game. Director of Athletics Theodore Belmont of the University of Texas said today Error came about through a misunderstanding of the decision of the goal from Notre Danes last touchdown. Dorais, Notre Danes quarterback, kicked this goal.

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Notre Dame leads 9–⁠3 in 12 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.