The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-10
SPORTING NEWS.
Nebraska Clinches Claim to
Football Championship.
X. U. Is Defeated by Score of
Is to o.
PLAYED A GOOD GAME.
Goal of COrnhuskers Was Never
in Danger.
The Haskell Indians Also Win
from Texas.
PLAYED A GOOD GAME.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1O.-Nebraska cinch-
ed her claim to the football championship
of the Missouri Valley Saturday by de-
feating Kansas in a game fairly full of
interesting features. Several hundred
rooters accompanied the Jayhawkers on
special train and gave encouragement to
the players by their enthusiastic yelling.
The score was Is to 0, two touchdowns
were made by Nebraska and a goal from
field. Her goal was never in any serious
danger although the Kansans played a
stiff game and once in the last half car
ried the ball forty yards, losing it on
tumble on Nebraskas thirty-five yard
line. The first touchdown was made after
ten minutes of play. Kansas fought hard
but the COrnhuskers marched steadily
down. When near their opponents goal,
one of the Kansans stole the ball and ran
the full length of the field but the touch
down waA not allowed, the referee ruling
that the ball had been called down and
was not in play. The two teams fought
up and down the field for the remainder
of a half Nebraska losing chance to score
by fumbing on the twenty-yard line The
half ended with Nebraska in possession of
the ball in Kansas territory. The Jay
hawkers started off strong in the second
half and had their opponents going for
awhile. Shedd, Nebraska's 6ft end, was
laid up in bed and Felmer. the substitute
end was on the sidelines with a sprained
ankle.
Thorpe. substitute quarterback. went
in to play the position, but he could not
effectuany stop the rushes. Most of Kan
sas' gains were made around this end.
After several interchanges, Nebraska
started a heavy march down the field.
When the Kansas thirty-yard line was
reached the Cornhuskers turned neat
trick that Melted a touchdown, although
the goal was missed. The signal was ap-
parently given for a punt and the Corn
huskers spread out for the play. Kan
sas took the cue and several of her line
dropped back. The ball was passed to Ben
der who broke through the line, evaded
several tacklers and raced thirty yards for
a touchdown. Kansas kicked off again
and Nebraska started down the field.
When within twenty yards of the Kansas
goal the Jayhawkers braced and held for
two downs Benedict dropped back and
kicked a clean goal from the field Only
a few minutes were left, and neither team
succeeded in scoring
A summary of the gains scored by the
two teams discloses that Nebraska adj
vanced the oval 800 yards and Kansas
rs Kansas captured the ball twice on
downs, and Nebraska took it from their
opponents three times by the same
means. Several times Benedict preferred
to punt. while the Cornhuskers were
making substantial gains, the plan being
to exhaust the Jayhawkers by putting
them on the offensive, or in the hope that
Kansas might tumble and lose the ball
within hailing distance of their goal.
Before Loves enforced retirement from
an injury he punted in fine form and
had a bit the advantage of Benedict in
the kicking argument. One of Benedict's
spirals however, was for a full sixty
yards, while his place kick for goal
from the field went true to the mark.
The time of the halves was cut to twenty
minutes both coaches evidently wishing to
save their players for coming games.
Kansas expected defeat. but it must have
been the rooters who anticipated such a
result for the DlaVerS Waged as valiant a
fisht against the odds as has been wit
messed in years on a Nebraska gridiron.
Whatever was achieved by the Cornhus-
kers, came from fierce effort. for the Jay
hawkers resisted every minute of the play.
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