Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1916, Page 33

* Kansas Plays Woodward and Wins; Nebraska’s Defense Breaks Down; Valley Championship Muddled Up | FAST QUARTERBACK OF THE CREIGHTON TEAM. ) ( - Saee | | . o J Foot Ball Isn’t the Only Game in Which Kansas Went Wild This Fall SPORTS SECTION or - [iREIGHTON AND THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE Jayhawker Triumphs Over Husker for the First K. U, | Victory on the Foot | Ball Field Since | 1909. SAD TALE FROM LINCOLN Open Style of Kansas Proves Superior to Old Brand Displayed by Stewart's Warriors. COREY MAKES GOAL KICK Nebraska's Points Counted When Captain Makes Forty- Vard Place Kick. HUSKERS LACK THE PUNCH By FRED S. HUNTER. | Lincoln, Nov. 18.—(Special.)—For the first time since 1909, the year the | great Tommy Johnson galloped the length of the field for a touchdown | and a 06-t0-0 the gridiron | warriors of Kansas defecated the Corn- | huskers here today, 7 to 3. It was also | the first time since 1909 that Kansas | has scored a toughdown on Nebraska. All during the first half the Corn- huskers outfought, outgamed and out- | played the Jayhawkers. Captain Ton Corey booted a beautiful place kick over the crosshar from the forty-yard | line and earned a three-point margin for his mates. But in the second half | the Jayhawkers displayed an open at- | tack that completely baffled the Corn- husker defense, and in the middle of the third quarter pushed over a sin- gle touchdown, which was sufficient | to bring victory. Upset of All Dope. The defeat of Stewart’s men was a total upset of the well-known dope. Necbraska went into the conflict a | heavy odds-on favorite. The betting was 2 to !, with few takers and some ardent Husker supporters even of- fered even greater odds. Some plungers even wagered 2 to 1 Ne- braska would win by seven points. A ew of the Sunflower lads made small cleanings, but no big killings were made. As a result of the upset the cham- niopship of the Missouri Valley con- ference becomes a very much mud- dled up title. Kansas has been de- feated by Ames. Nebraska has been defeated by Kansas. Missouri has been defeated by the Kansas Aggies. There is no possible way to dope out a championship eleven. The first half was all Nebraska. An easy Cornhusker victory seemed im- minent. Stewart’s men had possession of the ball practically all of the first two periods. Not once did Kansas make first downs in these two periods and only twice did they even make an attempt to advance the ball. The Jayhawkers were content to let Lind- sey punt whenever they got hold of | the pigskin, and it must be admitted Mister Lindsey did some punting. -~ Almost, but Not Enough. But while the Cornhuskers carried the ball most of the time they failed to mark up any touchdowns. Ne- braska looked like a great team in the middle of the field, plowing up the Kansas line, skirting the Kansas ends and completely demoralizing the Jayhawk defense. But whenever Stew- art’s men got within twenty yards of their opponent’s geal, they stopped. The machinéry refused to work and they lost the ball every time. They were pitifully weak every time they had a chance to score. They had about as much punch as an eletric brougham would have in a scrap for the right- of-way with a five-ton truck. But while the Cornhuskers had their own way in the first half, Kan- sas had it all its way in the second half. At the start of the t}ird quarter the Jayhawkers opened fip an open style of play that dazzled the Corn- huskers. They started a series of long forward passes that easily eluded Stewart’s secondary line. They worked pass after pass. Nebraska seemed lopelessly unable to cope with them. Then they worked spread plays that | proved too smooth for the Huskers, and the fleet Kansas backs got away for many large gains. Kansans Lacked Punch. Kansas, however, had the same| fault Nebraska had in the first half. The Jayhawk, too, seemed to lack| the punch to put the ball over the goal line, but on one occasion Lind- sey squirmed through a few inches and made the one touchdown that sufficed to win. The Jayhawkers had half a dozen other opportunities to score, but failed every time. The Jayhawk victory can be ac- counted for by an explanation that is getting to be something of an old story this fall Tt was the superiority of the new style of foot ball over the old. Kansas played a forward- passing game, and won. The Corn- huskers devoted themselves more to the old-style of play, and lost. I'he attempts of the Cornhuskers to make gains via the aerial route were almost funny. Nebraska prob- ably attempted a score of forward passes. Two or three were success- ful and they did not gain over a scant few All of the passes were short and from comparatively regu- lar formations. The Jayhawk passes were of just the opposite character, long passes and from fancy forma- tions. Harold Mulligan's High school kids could show Nebraska a lot of tricks in working the forward pass. Start With Rush. Nebraska started off like a young whirlwind in the first quarter, Lind- sey kicked off to Gardner, who re- turned the ball to Nebraska's twenty- five yard line. Stewart's men sailed in like tigers and started a proces- sion down the field. Cook reeled off seven yvards and then four more for first down. Three line plunges netted first downs again. Cook broke through for four yards, followed by Gardiner for two and Rhodes, three, Otoupalik made the remaining yard | for first downs for the third time. Then the procession ceased abruptly ‘Gardiner was forced to punt victory, " (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) | I |game was very fast and rough| throughout. Ong lost to Ohiowa last | week on the Ohiowa floor. Each Hc"‘ | | | Clifford Loizg CRINSON IS BEATEN BY BROWN VISITORS Prowess of Negro Back Has Muce to Do With Bruno- nians’ flcfbry‘* "y FINAL SCORE IS 21 TO 0| Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 18.—Brown defeated Harvard today, 21 to 0, its first victory over a Crimson foot ball team: The ‘individual prowess of the Brunonian’s negro back, Pol- lard, was largely responsible for their victory, as he scored two touch- downs and made the third possible by brilliant running. Harvard made its. most effective; rushing attempt of the game in the final period and after forwarding the ball forty yards, Pollard intercepted a pass on his twenty-two yard line and ran seventeen yards through shart rushes. A long run by Pol- lard netted forty yards, carrying the ball to within two yards of the goal. Purdy made the touchdown and Devitalis the goal. Both teams tried forward passes unsuccessfully in the closing moments of play. Brown Forces Play. Brown forced the play. in the first period into Harvard territory and a; touchdown by Pollard resulted. De- Vitalis kicked a goal. Two attempts for touchdowns made after a series of long rushing gains by Pollard and Purdy failed when forward passes went wrong. One of these crossed the line, but the officials ruled that Purdy, who received, was standing outside the gridiron. Score end first period: Harvard 0; Brown 7. Harvard’s rushes were stopped in the second period. Afteg an exchange of punts, Brown advanced from their twenty-yard line to Harvard's twenty- eight-yard line, where a penalty for holding stopped their progress. Har- vard advanced considerably on long runs and had the ball on Brown's fourteen-yard line when time was called. Score end of second period: Harvard 0; Brown 7 Racing forty-six yards through a scattered field carly in the third period, Pollard scored another touch down and DeVitalis again kicked goal. Harvard gained somewhat, but was forced to kick and Brown once more rushed down the field. Pollard on slanting runs took the ball from the ten-yard line to the Harvard twenty- yard line, where the period ended, Harvard having been penalized for | unnecessary roughness. Score end third period: Harvard 0; Brown 14. The lineup: | | chances to score on drop kicks. | work | honors. TIGERS SHUT 0UT BY CREW OF YALE Princeton Defeated in Annual ~Battle With Elis by Ten to Nothing. POOR PLAY IN FIRST HALF Princeton, N. J., Nov. 18—Yale| showed what was in it today and de | feated Princeton in the annual game the Palmer stadium today by a score of 10 to 0. A field goal by Braden, touchdown by Legore, and in | : 3 goal from touchdown by Comerford represents Yale's ten points The | first two periods of the game was poorly played, each team missing In the last two periods Yale showed that it had the power. The largest crowd | that ever saw a game in Princeton witnessed the contest Throws Are Successful. With the score 10 to 0 against Princeton, the Tigers uncovered a | sensational forward passing gane, which, for a short time, threatened to make the Orange and Black factors in the final minutes of the contest Throw after throw was successfully made und caught and quick marches for more than half the length of the field resulted. But in every case Yale's | secondary defense knocked down or intercepted the thrown ball when a touchdown seemed imminent and kicked out of danger. This overhead attack was the best feature of Princeton’s play today, but came too late to offset defeat Decisive Punch Lacking. In rushing and first downs Prince- | ton made more ground than Yale, but could not carry theattack through | with the decisive punch that the Elis | showed when th copportunity pre- sented. Of the scventeen passes flung by the Tigers seven were com- vards, or the length of the ficld, and had they been consecutively manip- ulated might have changed the result. In individual play as well as team Princeton carned the greater The Tiger ends tackled and covered punts in splendid form, while | the backficld afforded excellent inter- ference for the wide swinging runs of Briggs. Nourse, and McLean fre- quently broke through and smashed plays in the Yale backficld, but the right side of Princeton’s line was weak and it was through this point that most of the rushing gains and the touchdown were made. Stars of Yale. For Yale, Cautain Black, Fox and Moseley played the strongest game on the line. Legore, with his forward a:sing, line bucking and end skirting, was the® only sndividual star of the contest, although Laroc¢he came in for much praise for the manner.in which he filled Smith’s place at quarterback at the cleventh hour. » The play was generally slow, how- ever, which was surprising in view of the -perfect weather and field condi- tions. The turf was dry and firm, permitting sprinting and zig-zag runs without the probability of slipping. An autumn sun took just enough chill out of the atmosphere to permit the players to do their best. A strong wind which eddied about the stadium : seriously interfered with the handling and kicking of punts. during the first two periods, but died to a gentle breeze as thesun sank toward the horizon. s Yale Wins Toss. First period: Yale won the toss and defended the north goal with the wind behind it. Legore brought the kickoff back to the thirty-seven-yard line. A penalty set Yale back and an exchange of punts gained twelve vards for Princeton. From their for- ty-four-yard mark the Tigers made a first down, gaining twelve yards on line plays. Then Laroche infercepted a forward pass. Four plays forced Princeton back to its forty-five-yard mark and a short forward pass added seven more yards. Here the Tigers held and Legore missed a field goal from the forty-three-yard mark. Princeton scrimmaged after the touch- back. Score end of first period: Yale, 0; Princeton, 0. During the first period Yale showed the greater offensive strength, but poor judgment in the selection of plays nullified the advantage. No Score in Second Period. Second period: Princeton was on Yale’s forty-four-yard line when the second period opened. On the second play Gennert passed the ball over his backs’ heads and Eddy recovered on Princeton’s forty-five-yard mark. Driggs made four and Yale lost five for off side. Then Driggs turned Yale’s right end and ran to the Blue forty-yard mark. Lddy hit Gates for twelve yards and took out time to recover. Brown made a yard and Eddy made it first down again. Moore replaced Ames. Legore intercepted a forward pass on his own sixteen-yard mark, and then exchanged punts with Driggs. Neville made nine yards. Laroche made it_first down on the Blue's thirty-yard line and two plays later Legore punted. A forward pass, Lo JARVARD. i BROwN, {Eddy to Wilton, brought thé bali Sweotser SLT LT, Devitalis | Pack to Yale's twenty-seven-yard Duncan ..L.G.|L. Farnum | mark. Taylor q Sprague [ ) ; p o . Layi0 pptasue| Moore went ten yards én two . 'Williams Lovell Phinn, ...RE[RE.. Weeks | Murra QB(QRB Purdy | Burnham L.H.B.|L.H Poliard Bond Conroy | Flower Hillhouse Ong Defeats Ohiowa | In Basket Ball Game Ong, Neb.. Nov. 18.—(Special.)— The Ong High school basket ball tcam defeated the Ohiowa team last night on the local foor, 30 to 23. The team has lost one game this season. The line | ONC OHIOWA Rosenquist Priug (C.) | Hughes Baummann | Mosley (C.) C » Rudy McLaughlin ... R.G.[R/G Hurley | Nelson L.G/|L.G Claussen | I1d goals: Rosenquist (5) McLaughlin Baummann (4). Baumma Mosley, (6), | Pflug (1), Rosenquist a slightly injure . ¢ | double passes and then Tibbott was called in and tried a field goal from the twenty-five-yard mark. Moseley blocked it and on the next liucui) Tibbott again tried to dropkick from the forty-yard line, but again Yale blocked the play. In the scramble Le- gore recovered the ball. Tibbott re- tired in favor of Funk. The Blue backs messed a latteral pass and Le- gore punted, Eddy fumbling to Mose- ley. “Sure Shot” l‘}rudcn went in for Jacques and tried for a field goal, but his attempt, like Tibbott's, was blocked. Princeton recovered and Driggs punted for a touch back. Yale scrimmaged and was on its twenty- four-yard line when the period ended. Score: Princeton 0; Yale 0. The play during the first two periods was loose and, erratic. Yale showed the stronger attacking power, while the defensive team,work of Princeton was better than that of the Elis. Both the teams lost what was apparently good opportunities for field goals, due to bad judgment in the se- lection of plays which would bring the ball directly in front of the goal posts Third period: The wind had died (Continued on Fage Two, Col lumn Three.) OMAHA, SUN OMAHA SMOTHERS SI0UX FALLS HIGH South Dakota Lads No Match for Locals, Who Register Touch'owns at Will. MOREARTY STARS AS USUAL Omaha High trounced Sioux Falls High vesterday by a score of 53 to f‘ The Omaha goal was in danger only once. Sioux Falls took the ball to Omaha's four-yard line and then | | missed an attempted dron-kick on its | | fourth down, The muddy field made | the play somewhat slow at times and | kept the score down : The first score was registered after only two minutes of play in the first | | quarter. Peterson kicked off and got | possession of the ball on downs short- |1y afterward. Morearty skirted right | | end and ran sixty-five yards for the | first touchdown. Maxweil kicked goal i pleted for a gain of more than 100 The first scores were secured in such | an casy fashion that the crowd settled | down to sec how high a score could I 'be piled up. A long forward pass, | Maxwell to Pearson, netted the sec- | ond touchdown. Maxwell kicked goal. The quarter ended with the ball in Omaha'’s possession on its own thirty- | yard line. Forward Passes Effective. Omaha started out the second quar- tear by keeping up its fast clip, with | Maxwell and Smith making first | downs. A forward pass, Morearty to; Smith, was good for thirty-five yards. Another pass, Maxwell to Pearson, scored the third touchdown. Maxwell kicked goal. Sioux Falls took a brace and held Omaha in the center of the field. Omaha then proceeded to put up a poor brand of foot ball for the h the score 21 to 0. he lecture handed the Omaha play- ers between halves by Coach Mulli- gan seemed to bring them back to : life and they started the third quarter iwith the same slashing attack that charaeterized the first quarter. Smith received-the kickoff and returned to Sioux Fa%n' forty-yard line. More- arty made filtaen yards, Maxwell ten yards and Smith, five yards, placing the ball on the t&n-yard line, from where Morearty tool\it over on a de- layed play through th&weéegter of the line. Maxwell missed the trinfor goal. Another forward pass in tWg first art of the fourth quarter, Maxwel{ to Shepherd, brought the score up to Smith missed the kickout. took the ball across for the sixth touchdown after his teammates had advanced it to the one-yard line. Max- well kicked out to Smith and then kicked goal. Score: 40 to 0. Morearty in Limelight. ly after kickoff. The try for goal was Morcarty, Smith, Pearson and Max- well, although grabbing off a large shart of the honors by their touch- downs, were not far ahead of the other members of the team, who made the large gains possible by the large holes they made and the interference given. For Sioux Falls, Stride, right tackle, was continually getting in and muss- ing up end runs. Swift, left half for the visitors, showed that he did not have the wrong name tacked to him by dashing away several times for substantial gains. Omaha High will play Sioux City High next Saturday at Sioux City. This is expected to be the hardest game on the schedule. Coach Mulli- gan and Athletic ‘Manager C. A. Cairns are making efforts to bring the Lincoln High here for a post-season game to decide the state champion- ship. The lineup: OMAHA—53. | Pearson . L.E. SIOUX FALLS—0. | . Wheeler | Paynter . McCoy | Iversen ht-nnln[ | Krogh Alonzo | Haller | Phillips Harper | Morearty Swift Smith . Igan Peterso ton (C.) Maxwell Olson Substitutes: Omaha—Shepherd for Har- per, Comp for Pearson, Lowe for Haller; Sloux Falls—Spencer for Whecler, Granger for Dennis, Jones for Henton, J. Schmukey for Swift, Kerslake for Olson. Touchdowns: Pearson (3), Morearty (2), Shepherd, Smit Maxwell. Goal after touchdown: Maxwe Referee: “Bud” Kearns. Umplre: L. W. Charlesworth, Nebraska. Head lines- man: “Bob” Hager, Nebraska. Time of quarters: 121 minutes Kinney Hurt in Second | Fall of Bout With Warner | Lindsay, Neb., Nov. 18.—(Special.) | —Georgey Kinney of Spalding and | Rudy Warner of Howells staged a wrestling match here last night. | Kinney got the first fall in thirteen | 3 that Warner had on him. The scc- ond fall Warner got in six minutes | with a double arm lock, which Kin- ney claimed hurt his arm so much that he would forfeit the match or go | on knowing full well that he would lose, saying he did not want to take a fall and that is what it would have | amounted to otherwise. They decided to pull off another match three weeks from last night, forfeiting or putting | up a side bet of $100, Kinney conced- | ing weight to Warner, Kinney weigh- | ing 165 pounds last night and Warner | 178 pounds. Kinney challenges any | man at 158 ringside and Warner any | | light-middleweight. Jack Brophy was referee. The Halfonstein brothers of | Newman Grove put on the prelimina- ries and were well received. Druep- | ple and Halfonstein wrestle Saturday, \ November 25. remainder of the quarter, which ended | Maxwell\ Smith brought the total to 46 short- i minutes, breaking the body sci:.sors‘" HIGHLAND PARK | BATTLE TOATIE Omaha College and Des Moines Aggregation Both Register Touchdowns, But Offi- cials 8ay Invalid, GAME IS SPECTACULAR Pigskin Advanced From One End of Field to Other by Aecrial Route. DAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1916. LEGORE IS YALE'S BIG STAR—Harry Legore is the real shining light of the Eli foot ball team. Legore played base VISITORS RESORT TO KIOK ball and was barred from foot ball as a “professional.” And Creighton college battled to a score- tie with the strong Highland Park ttam of Des Moines, la,, yester- day afternoon on Creighton field. As the score indicates, it was some bat- tle, and the {act that neither eleven was able to put over atouchdown does not in theleast detract from the stren- uousmannecer in which the contest was waged. Neither side can lay it against the other for not crossing one another's citadel. In fact, they both did, but the cagle eyes of the officials declared | both touchdowns invalid. The High- | landers were the first to slip over the | blue and white line, when MecCauley | heaved a perfect pass into the arms | of Farrell in the third quarter of play, | but the touchdown was not allowed, | because one of the Highlanders was offside. Try as they might, the visitors were unable to penetrate the five vards that prevented them from a | touchdown, and on two more attempts | lost the ball on downs, Creighton I shoved the oval over the chalk marks 'in the last quarter, when Lutes rammed his way through the High- landers’ defense for six vards. As with the Towans, some Creighton war- | rior was offside and the counts were 'not allowed. In the remaining downs Creighton failed to gain its coveted |'distance. &y [ C ontest Thrills Sceptators. | From the spectator's viewpoint the | game was full of thrills. Long 1 passes, beautifully executed, an, most perfect end runs Képt the large | crowd on its toes gontinually and re- sulted in the ball advancing from one | end of the field to the other. In all, Creighton attempted twénty- six forward passes, of which ten were successful, The (‘atholics gained a total of 171 yards by the aerial route, while the Towans could negotiaté but thirty-five yards, which they made in two pas: They tried six flips, The visitors were forced to resoft to resort to the kicking game more often than the locals. Out of six hoots, Cap- tain Cundiff of the Highlanders sent the oval flying for a total of 265 yards. | Several of his kicks were of the low, rangy sort and made their way for fifty and sixty yards. On the other hand, Captain Platz of Creighton re- sorted to the kicking game but four times, averaging about thirty-five ards for each of his trys, One of his oots was blocked in tf\le fitst quarter and almost resulted in a touchdown for the lIowans. Both Play Clean Game. Both teams played a clean, consist- ent game, Creighton was penalized in all for a total of forty yards, while Highland Park was put back only fourteen. Highland Park came near scoring a touchdown in the first few minutes of play. Lutes kicked off to diff with his restoration to eligibility as an amateur athlete came the job of fullback on the Yale eleven. less missed. Morcar?' returned a punt!™ thirty-five yards for the final touch- | own. METHODIST COYOTES / kota Battle in Fo of Mud. GAME HOTLY 0©( Sioux City, Ta., Nov. inches of mud, Mornin and the University of foot ball teams played 3 this afternoon at Mizz end of the contest fouy South Dakota’s possessil ter of the field, wherd scrimmaging took placq Morningside had a g score in the second peri four forward passes ir took™ Th e ball from thg field to th¢ thirteen-y mer went through ce made by Johnson to line. A double pass los Behmer. Johnson mad but on the fourth d plete pass across the the ball to South Dako ten-yard line. South D. peared dangerously ne goal line. The game was fier with honors in all dep evenly divided. Mo celled in the carlier pa on the passes. Both consistent gains we! through them. The lin Norton Welneg Northrup hemer Gantt Johnson (C.) Hinkley Wood River Smothers Kearney by Fast Play "' Wood River, Neb., Nov. 18—(Spe- i next Friday in . cial)—Wood River High school fnr.ccd to walk, is the announcment ’,r'«:ll::n ceven put the finishing touches to which the college cheer l'ca.dcrs_ Gar- | Long Kearney High school second here this [ wood Richardson and Weir Dobbin, [l"lnlx (C.) ¢ ! have made. And it ooks as if they | Fosiasan afternoon, the final score being 27 to | might have to hoof it, unless more ....QB|Q . L.H.B. RH.B, F.B.|F . Noll undift (C.) McCauley Lutes Lawrence Score 0. The first touchdown came on the | satisfactory arrangements can be ,‘;?'htlh't:r‘_ o 00 o—: first play and was made fifty seconds | made with railway officials. Three | ™ Subatitutes: " Hale ‘for Tons o'm:” e after play was called. Wood River's | hundred and cighty dollars are what | Flanagan, Morgan for Tobin, Telbin for formation entirely baffled the visitors. | railway officials demand for a special ;‘("‘“‘;';;"’“- 5 ;"'\‘"““‘"’ Molralse M‘&";" tor b : . . Mulbolland for Plats. Referee: Wood River wants a game from home | train. Two hundred dollars is all that | Brennan Amen. Umpire: van idew. Grine for November 25, the boys can raise. nel. Head [incsman: Carberry, Iowa. \