Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
BADGERS BEATEN BY YALE
One Of the Greatest Contests Ever Waged on
New Haven Grdiron.
FINAL RESULT IS SIX TO NOTHING
Kickers Wearing Blue Were Unable
10 Cross the Coveted Goal Line
Until within Last Five
Minutes of Play.

Minutes of Play.
| NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct I.-The Uni
| versity OF Wisconsin foot ball eleven had its
coors lowered by Yale here this afternoon
in contest, the final score of which was
/ Yale 6, Wisconsin 0, but the Yale men re-
quired nearly all of the fifty minutes OF
| play TO secure the single touchdown and
goal which constituted their victory over
the young men who came from the west TO
wage the battle.
! The game in many respects was the finest
! ever witnessed on the Yale gridiron, for
it was not until within the last five minutes
OF play that the Yale men were able to cross
the coveted goal line. At that the play was
| of an extraordinary character for the scor-
! ing came only after thrilling run of sixty
| five yards by Richards, the Yale halfback,
| who was carried by magnificent interference
past the Wisconsin rush line and then, be-
! ing left to his own resources, wiggled his
way through the entire Wisconsin back field
! eluding the four crack backs of the Badgers
and ultimately planting the ball squarely
! behind the goal posts.
Two twenty-five minute halves were played
| and throughout the two periods the Wis
consin men carried CONSERVATION to the
| hearts vi Ine ldlenSldnS Dy samples Oh lOOL
| ball which seemed to be invincible.
Richards Wins the Game.
When nearly every spectator had concluded
! that the game would end in tie at to o.
Richards, a Yale halfback who replaced
Chadwick in the second half was given the
| pigskin. He received 1t on Yale's 45-yard
| line and in a trice pocketed himself in a
bunch of clever interference, which protected
! him 10 rush line Herp m q
exciting and he broke away from his inter
! ference and darted out into the open with
| the four Wisconsin backs Converging upon
him. The first man he lodged a second
he eluded with a clever foot movement, the
third he bowled over with bis free arm and
then proceeded to run around and away
| from his last opponent, who went tearing
after him as the feet runner sped toward
the line. The touchdown which followed
! brought an easily kicked goal, netting a
score OF 6.
The most striking feature OF Wisconsin's
play was found in the sole dependence of
the westerrers upon Captain ODea's kick
ing ability. Not more than half a dozen
times during the game did the westerners
undertake to advance the ball by rushes. it
being almost invariably their rule to send it
| back to O'Dea for booting. This marvel
| GUS man displayed kicking prowess which
! has never been equaled the Yale field
and the honors were all his way in this
/ department Of the game. He was placed at
a disadvantage in the matter of drop kick
! ing, for his team seemed unable to get
within striking distance. However, he made
| four sttempts at goals from the field and
all were failures. Two of them were out
and out misses and twice his kicks were
nicely blocked by Yale men,
~ame Given in Detail.
The game started at 3:A. Captain Nc
Bride chose the north goal with the wind in
favor of Yale. Captain ODea kicked off
from the center of the field to Fincke on
| the twenty -fve-yard line. Fincke dropped
it. Peele tried for gain through Cunha
He stopped short. O'Dea then dropped back
for try at goal, but Hale, the Yale tackle
was almost upon him and O'Dea sent the oval
outside the lines. Sharpe tried out the right
tackle to Curtis for ten-yard gain and Nc
! Bride dropped back for a mighty effort and
| sent the ball high to the forty fve-yard
line. where ODea neatly gathered it in and
started to rush it back. Yale got the ball
and a moment later O'Dea secured the pig
skin and punted, but was blocked The Yale
| captain dropped back later for a try and sent
the ball to the big Badger on the thirty
yard line. O'Dea failed to get any advantage,
| the ball bounding on the ground and rolling
back to Wisconsin's forty -fve-y yard line
Sharpe, and Mcbride after him, tried the
Wisconsin line for short gains but on the
lineup Yale lost the ball for interference.
For six or seven trials Yale bucked the
Badger line for slight gains. Then the ball
seesawed back and forth for several rushes
| until Yale gained possession of 1t and Nc
Bride made as good kick as any of his
| lifters during the game. Wimarth on Wis
consin's forty -1ve-yard line, tried to gather
1t in, but muffed it, and Thomas was upon
him, taking the ball on the bound. and net
ting Yale handsome gain. O'Dea fumbled
McBrdes kick on Wisconsins twenty-hye-
yard line and Schweppe repeated Thomas
performance. ODea tried the rush line by
sending them down to the middle Of the field
after punt, where Yale had hard work
rushing the ball back. On an exchange
O'Dea let the ball roll across his goal lines,
where while picking it up both Yale ends
grabbed him. Failing to wriggle away from
them ODea made a fierce pass at Thomas.
On the kick out Yale got the ball, but the
half was over
O'Dea Makes Brilliant Punt.
The second half opened with Brown kick
ing the ball to Chamberlain on the ten-yard
line. 1t was carried back by brilliant run
field. Wisconsin's try at Yale's center failed,
for Cunha, Olcott and Brown were impreg-
nable. The Badger backs tried the ends for
short gains and then between left guard
and tackle. O'Dea dropped back for a kick
but Gordon Brown was through his oppo-
nent and blocked II. Mcbride made a splen-
did punt to O'Dea on his ten-yard line and
it looked like magnificent opportunity to
return the oval, but Thomas again was
upon the Badger and threw him so hard that
the big fullback lay winded for few mo-
ments O'Dea recovered possession OF his
wind and lifted the pigskin just as the wind
caught it and 1t went toaring high in the
air for ifty-hve yards, the Yale spectators
appauding the brilliant punt.
Richards was put into the game In the
second half and at once began to make him
self felt, His short, sharp rushes netted
Yale many yards. But when the ball finally
went to Wisconsin, O'Dea astonished the
crowd again by a sixtyyard punt which
Sharpe msjudged This was the critical
point Of the game, for the ball was on Yale IS
ten yard line. But the Yale team got to-