Iowa at Chicago

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, October 18, 1914, page 1

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  This the Age of Miracles Any College Having Ball MAROONS WIN FROM IOWA Touchdown in First Quarter ALI that Saves 0utplayed ChicagOans FINAL SCORE SEVEN 10 NOTHING Families ana Failure OF Their ret Trick Play DOoms Hawkeye Eleven 20 Remain scoreIess. CHICAGO. Oct. 1T.--Snatching an Iowa punt on his own forty-ffve-yard line. Pete Russell. Chicago quarter. snsked his way through hostile mob for the only touchdown on Stasg field today. That touchdown was made IN the first quarter, and for the rest Of the game, the toughest on the Maroon Fairgrounds for years, Iowa played Chicago to a standstill, The final score was to o Fumbles and the failure OF their pet trick play doomed the Iowans to remain scoreless. Spell Forward PASSES. On the other hand, the Iowans spoiled the few forward passes Chicago tried. and more than once tumbied Dolly Gray though he managed to tear off some of his famous runs. Tho defense on both sides far outshone the offense. but for all that the game was full of pretty runs and long punts, only in the last quarter when rain softened the ground and wet the bail. Gross Plays BriIIiantIy. For the Iowans, Gross, whose prowess nearly upset the Maroons last year, played brilliant game. DonnelIy also was aggressive aid. Substitutes were few. the teams keep ing practically all through the game their original strength. First Quarter. Iowa’s courageous defense stopped the Maroons within a yard of the goal in the first quarter Two runs by Gray and a punt took the bah near the Iowa posts but here the Hawkeyes held. on a punt Russell caught the bali on his own forty five-yard line and ran through a crowded field fifty-five yards for touchdown. second Quarter. In the second quarter fumbling was | costly to both sides and twice wrecked / Iowa’s favorite spread out” formation. which was operated too slowly to be ef. fective. The game up to this point. was | a gruelbns contest and honors were ever In the second quarter. Third Quarter The teams battled to a standstill in IN, third quarter. Chicago failed in its at. tempts at forw ard passes and Iowa wa, unable TO gain on its spread” tn, Hawkeyes only once made first down n the period and Chicago only twice mad, its distance Fourth Quarter. Iowa did the leading in the final period and at the start kept. the ball In Marco, territory. Fumbles spoiled the Hawkevae chance. however. and long punt sho the pail to Iowa territory, where IL wa when the game ended. | Lineup and sumnnarx,.

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  Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, October 19, 1914, page 1

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  CELEBRATE AT IOWA CITY. Showing Of University at Chicago Celebrated as Victory. Special to Times Republican. So’Sp’ deSo a. VlCtoFy. ! Special to es-Republican. Iowa City, Oct. 19.--As enthusiast tically proud as if it were victory. not defeat that was writ large” in Iowa university football history, Sat urday. the adherents of the Hawkeye eleven met the team on its return from Chicago at midnight and celebrated the Z to game in the spirit Of vic tors. The university of Iowa band and 1000 of the rooters marched to the Rock Island station and escorted the players home. drawing coaches and men in a decorated andwagon. The Iowa rooters with the conclusion Of the battle with the .Maroons began to boost” for victory over Minnesota, at Iowa City, Oct. “a. and it is the be- lief OF even the conservative followers Of the game here that the Gophers are scheduled TO receive the first Ticking ever administered by an Iowa team, in the history of the two institutions The Hawkeye score at Chicago is the best Iowa has made against the Maroons since Iowa won fourteen years ago.

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