The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-01
Over Five Thousand People Attended
the Game and Society Was on the
Ground I'm Full Force.
DEPAUW MADE A FINE START
Twelve Points Scored Before the
Champions Could Draw Breath.
However, When the Farmers Struck
Their Gait They Kept Up a VIM
ming Fight to the Bitter End.
for old Purduei"

Bully l0T Oiu IuIbdt.
The championship is still unwrested from
the college where they graduate farmers.
as the men from other colleges are too ofteu
wont to say. The lads from the Greencas-
tie college were walioped and waliowed yes
terday, the score standing AZ TO Is in favor
of Purdue when the referee called time
shortly before 40 o'clock. 1t was a vic
tory in mud. but not a victory for mud
larks, because the Purdue boys play foot
ball in all kinds of weather and under all
kinds of circumstances. a feature of the
game to make glad the hearts Of the local
enthusiasts was the brilliant playing of
Bushman and Pattison. both Indianapolis
boys. A crowd ranging from 1900 10 5000
saw the yellow OF DePauw buried flgura-
lively and literally in the mud. There was
no wind to whisk the chrysanthemum hair
of the players nor to put Yale noses on
them, but no one could doubt the dem'd.
moist, uncomfortable feeling Of the day
Mr.. Mantaiini would have spoken the truth
Of the day, forsooth. The race track for
got its Wanted solidity, and exuded all the
mud it could gather from its surface and
from below the surface. Half the gr1diron
was embraced in a stretch of the black
track, with the goals towards the sunrise
and sunset ends. There was no apparent
adN AANe~r,S III 80 49,
vancing from the east gave a team the har-
der turf for right end work, but after the
game was over and well reviewed. il was
seen that much Of the brilliant dashing OF
Purdue's men was through the mud on the
south side of the field. DePauw erred in
supposing that the almost impossible black
mud acted as a natural barrier TO any ad-
vances of the farmers" Had the field
been hard the scoring would have been
lower, and perhaps closer. Kuykendall and
Albright, the two small men OF DePauw,
saw much of their good work go for naught,
for they could not leap through the mud on
a dash like the taller and longer limbed
men of the other side.
DE PAUW WON THE TOSS.
When time was called and DePauw got
the ball, the Purdue men stood like a nest
Of hornets, with their black and yellow
stripes, waiting for business. The flying
wedge was the thing. Both teams relied
almost entirely on it. DePauw started or
with it and in scarce five minutes Captain
Whitcomb was painting on the other side
of Purdue's goal. which had been carried
by steady play and team work that BODIED
much for that team. 1t all came like a
whirlWind, and the spectators began to be-
lieve the reports of DePauw's rapid strides
this season. The trainload of people from
Greencastle started a roar, and the Purdue
men in the stand did not have the courage
to retort with the college yell. But the
big men on the field were not dismayed.
They were only the more on their mettie.
"Baby Ruth Turner, the 2~70-pounder on
the Purdue team. only revolved in his or
bit and fastened his lips tight with a You
will-see'' expression. DePauw was fun or
! enthusiasm, and set about on some circus
$1,000 Dr~IeRcfs
left end for eighty yards and droTSing into
the mud. Whitcomb did the rest showing
| the little man through the enemy's tackle.
This play took but ten minutes. What was
the matter with the boosted prowess OF the
farmers? All, Bushman, the Indianapolis
boy, had not had a good chance 10 play.
After the team had come within a dozen
yaris Of the DePauw goal, Busnman, with
a little head play, completely fooled the
boys in the black stockings, and before
they saw just where they were az Bush
mann was behind the goal. Criss-cross
work did it. Purdue was given several adj
vantages on claims OF foul tackling, the
claims being allowed There was much ma
noeuvering and see-sawinS before another
score was made, until Bushman got the
bail, when he made a touchdown, FulNer-
son kicking the goal. Bushman has u
knack OF swinging down the field at break
neck speed, lodging and slipping away from
the tackles like an eel. Now the score was
tied. and Baby Ruth" put on his "I-toid-
you-so-smile." DePauw L, Purdue II.
The whiskers of Messrs. Kuykendail and
Albright made some startling plunSes into
the mud, ana ii would not seem a bad idea
TO grow whiskers along with chrysanthe-
mum hair for this hard playing. But whis-
kers and hard playing were Of no avail
against Bushman when he got a fair start
with the ball. like he had when he made
the score stand Is 10 l. in favor OF his
team. He ran all the way from the center
of the field, brushing men aside like they
were waters. Fulkerson kicked the goal.
During this play there was some bruising
crashes. and more than once Kuykendalls
whiskers were turned TO the gray vault OF
heaven. But he Rugged the ball like a
hero. The score was unchanged when the
first half ended.
ROW OVER FINNEY.
Dearborn said ne was out Of joint when
the second half. marked by very rough
PLAYING. was called An attempt was made
TO substitute Captain Finney, but DePauw
howied. Then the farmers, also called the
boiler makers by the irreverent. showed
a bit OF strategy. 1t was not more than
five minutes before Dearborn turned very
pale, and two very sympathetic Purdue
men. hardly able 10 hide grins, lifted him
about the field. lie had been at the bot
tom OF a pyramid, and one must naturally
suppose that the weight OF a half ton
would make any man i'll. So Captain Fin
ney had a place In the team as IL played.
During the play there was one picture for
the gods. Turner had the ball, and his
opponents jumped at him like "A pack OF
hungry wolves. Turner wanted 70 fall, but
all the force OF gravity could not aid him,
propped up as ne was by the strong De
Pauw men, who had a material object in
seeing that he did not make a down There
the Weighty man stood, hugging the bali In
grim despair. He stood as solid az a monu-
ment. II was enough TO crush any man's
spirit Bushman again DISTINGUISHED him
self, carrying the ball through the enemys
line aud 10 score vas made - 90 -