Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-15

NeprasKa Kicked as follows: 80, 10, 20 and
Yards total Of 20 yards In kicks an
average OF li.5 yards per kick. Kansas
kicked as follows 25. 49, 30. SO. Is and 20,
to'al OF l6S yards in kicks an average OF
2Il yards per kick. These kicks do not in
clude the kickofrs Nebraska was stopped
without gan six times and Kansas wes
stopped without gain seven times,
GAMES IN THE EAST.
In the east on Saturday the great battle
between Yale and Harvard who got at each
other after three years of separation, was
the greatest game played, or likely to be
played, this year. That neither side scored
shows how closely the teams were matched
Harvard had a chance to score, when 1t had
the ball on the fve-yard line, but the quar-
terback used bad judgment In calling on
Captain Cabot the most used-up man on the
Harvard team, to so into the line. Twice
he failed and the ball was soon Iales on
downs. Yale had the ball on Harvard $
hfteen-ydrd liue, but Il missed signal and
tumble lost the ball to Harvard. Never
after that was either goal threatened, Hdr-
ward played more in the Yale territory than
vice versa but the Yale defense was sur
prisingly strong, On the other hand the
weakness of Harvards offensive play wds
most unexpected Next Saturday Harvard
plays Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and
stands to lose, as does also Yale when 1t
meets Princeton at New Haven on the same
day.
Cornell made gallant showing against
Williams, showing under the team which had
earlier made such good showing against the
big leaders, by score OF AZ to o. The man
ner in which Cornell is fast getting into
form inclines toward the belief that Penn
sylvania will have no walk-away when the
two teams meet at Philadelphia in their an
nual Thanksgiving day game.
That Wisconsin should defeat Chicago %
to was something of a surprise. Phil King
had coached the Wisconsin team in great
shape and brought to Chicago on Saturday
tho best team he ever coached outside of
Princeton In O'Dea. the fullback of Wis
Consin. there Is a great player. His punts
were marvellous and his dropping a goal
from the field from the forty-yard line was
a thing of beauty and joy forever to the
Wisconsins. With Hirschburger out of the
game Chicago was greatly weakened. Cor
don Clarke of this city acted as field cap
tain, and has written the following opinion
of the game
"O'Dee's punting won the game for Wis
conSin. When 1t came to line bucking |
think we gained as much ground through
the line as did Wisconsin. In my opinion,
we gained more ground outside of O'Dea's
kicking than did the team that backed him
up. Gardner is a good punter, but l am
willing to admit that we blocked the Wis
consn men poorly when Gardner was given
the bali for punts. Wisconsin massed their
men at their left end and swooped down on
Gardner before he got ready to get the ball
in poise. Their blocking was as good as
one could expect to see. On the other hand
when O'Dea was getting ready to punt or
try drop from the field he was protected.
We seemed to be unable to break through
as effectively as did their men. The game,
l think, was clean and free from offensive
features. There might be criticism offered
on our general style of playing. Many
thought that we should have kicked more
than we did, but this may be doubted"
Next Saturday Nebraska will play Ne
braska Wesleyan at Lincoln, though Manager
Ouray of the former team is trying to change
the game to Friday, and may yet do So On
Saturday there is good game promised for
Omaha, VIXEN the teams representing the
High schools of Omaha and Lincoln will
meet at University Club park.