The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-19
THE RED MEN SCIENTIFIC
But PURDUE's PALE FACES WE'RE
HEAVIER AND FOUGHT BETTER
A Football Victory In the Mud for
Lafayette by a to O.
Score.

When the team of the Haskell Indian
University (Kansas) and the Purdue eleven
faced each other at 2:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon at Newly Oval both knew that
the game would be hard struggle. The
field was deep with mud and when the
teams lined up they had the cheerful pros
pect of splashing through the seas which
surrounded them and wallowing on the
Shiny islands. The condition of the grid
iron put out of possibility brilliant runs or
speedy tricks and there was nothing for it
but grim fight. Throughout the game
there was little outplaying, the teams kept
well massed and those of the enthusiasts
who study the game and delight in seeing
plays made by skillful eentered work were
satisfied when the game was over that they
had never seen a better in Indianapolis
The game was clean, no bad feeling was
shown, the players were satisfied with the
officials and when it was all over and the
score stood to in favor of the pale faces,
the Indians took their defeat without a
trace of soreness. The Indians playing was
artistic, If that term may be applied to
football, but the field Of mush and water
was not for artistic playing-it was for
heavy fghtng-and that the Indians did
not seem to be able to do. The weight of
greater than that of the Indians. and this
was a great factor in the winning of the
victory for the former team. The team
playing Of the Purdue men was steady all
through, while the Indians seemed ratified
in the middle of the last half Several
fumbles were made and a good part of
their organization was lost. Just at the end
of the game, however, the red men got to-
gether made fierce onslaught, and had
forced the ball and the heavier Purdue team
back twenty yards when the end came. In
all, the playing was of that class which is
more appreciated by students of the game
than by the ordinary spectator who looks
only for effects and long runs.
Nearly all of the small crowd of specta-
tors, which numbered. perhaps, one thou
sand, were ingram cranks, who have the
football habit; the cutting rain and hard.
cold wind took the nerve out of lukewarm
lovers of the sport who had intended to see
the game, but who preferred the warm
fires indoors. Those who did go out to New
by Oval lost none OF their enthusiasm by
shivering it away, but spent it in cheering
and gossip The Indians, partly because
they were Indians and partly because they
were known to be good strong players,
were cordially received by the crowd. Their
long black hair and Enthusiastically In
dian features made them objects of Curl
osity. The spectators remarked that they
were light weights and predicted immedi-
ately that they were greatly handicapped
by the condition of the grounds. The Pur-
due fellows, big and stocky. looked like
they were able to push their opponents all
over the waste of mud and water which
stretched in front of the grand stand.
THE LINEUP.
''Oh aren't they fine loolSingr' exclaimed
a girl, clapping her gloved hands, as the
two teams lined up, hideous in their armor
plate of ear nose and head guards and
their bodies bullying with pads. The teams
lined up as follows: 81 ac2 t