The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
tumble by Wrabetz Gives the Pur-
pie an Opportunity to Score
Touchdown.
BIG NINE RECORD,

l.
and determined to the end, held the
cardinal of Wisconsin to to draw
at the American league ball park Sat
urday 1t was one Of the hardest
fought contests of a season in which
brilliant ties have been more frequent
than ever before.
The purple rooters. who composed
the majority of the 5000 spectators,
treated the result as virtual vic
tory and marched off the field in trl-
umph. 1t was the second time in ten
years that Northwestern has been
able to hold Wisconsin as good as even
and the game leaves the Evanston
ians undefeated by any western team
in the entire season. While the Cir
cumstances gave the purple adherents
reason for rejoicing, McCornack's men
were lucky to get the draw.
Wisconsin was the aggressor thru
out and earned it's one touchdown by
a long march Of straight football,
while a bad tumble gave Northwest
ern it's only good chance to score.
Plumbing was the badgers greatest
fault thruout the contest and can be
given as the principal thing which cost
them victory.
Early in the first half, when North
western kicked off, poor handling Of
the kick left the ball in badger ter
ritory, where it remained for the first
fifteen minutes of play. Wisconsin did
most of the ground gaining, but found
the Northwestern defense hard, and
the ball alternated between the bad
gers twenty fve-yard line and the
center Of the field. Once Cotton tried
for a goal from placement, but it went
wide and low, and except for the time
that they got their touchdown the pur-
pie players did not again threaten to
score.
March to Goal Line.
Finally, however, with the period
about half over, the cardinal team
got the ball near midf1eld, and. with
smashing plays off tackle and thru the
purple center, fought their way by
three and courtyard gains to North
Westerns ten-yard mark.
Il The purple tried to brace, but
Wisconsin in turn fought more desper-
ately. First down was made on the
Vineyard line, two more plays put the
, ball but four yards from the purple
goal line, and WrabetZ, on a play off
tackle, was pushed over for the touch
down.
Washer kicked goal and with the
score s to in favor of Wisconsin the
cardinal banners began to wave and
it seemed that the badgers must win.
Then the tide turned. Almost i'm
mediately after the next kickoff
Northwestern was held and forced to
! punt. The ball went high and it
| looked like an easy catch. Wrabetz,
| however, muffed and was SO confused
that he failed to recover. The ball
bounded back toward the cardinal goal
and Allen fell OH it at Wisconsin's flf-
teen-yard line.
Heretofore Wisconsin's defense had
been superb, but for moment it
weakened. Phillips, the former Car
Isle Indian guard, was called back re-
peatedly, and on fierce line smashes
Northwestern fought it's way to Wis
consin's tWo-yard mark, and Captain
Flaeger on hurdle play was sent
over the line. Cotton kicked goal ana
! the game was tied
When Flaeger scored there was but
little time left of the first period, and
neither side had gained any particu-
lar advantage when the time was
called
Between halves the Wisconsin
rooters never lost heart While the
purple students were asking, Can we
hold them?" rhe badgers were count
ing on a cardinal squirt ard victory in
the second period.
The cardinal brace came, but 1t
found the purple defense more deter
mined than ever. Soon after the first
kickoff Wisconsin forced it's way INTO
| purple territory and stayed there al
most continuously thru the half. Ii
| Wisconsin had possessed an Eckersall
victory would have been easy, but
Eckersall was in the grand stand with
the rest Of the Chicago team.
Puppies Great Fight.
| Wisconsin was continually marching
from the center of the field to the
lNorthwestern's twenty-five, twenty and
fifteen-yard marks, but fumbles and
penalties, coupled with Northwestern
brilliant defense, always stopped the
advance. This stubborn fighting of the
purple was really the feature of the
game, and by virtue Of it Northwest
ern earned it's right to be cIassed
among the undefeated teams Of the
west.
Once, disheartened at the many un.
Bush tried a goal from placement
but the pass was poor and the kick
went wide.
While the first half ended in a tie
Wisconsin did the most ground gain.
ing, the badgers making first dow1
on straight football thirteen times tc
five for the purple. Northwestern ex-
Wrabetz's tumble on Wisconsins fif.
teen-yard line that gave the purple it,
chance to score.
In the second half Wisconsin laG
a wider margin than in the first, althe
this period was again a draw as fal
as the score showed.
Wisconsin made twenty-five frs
downs to five by Northwestern, and
while this was due largely to the fac
that the purple was playing a SAFE
punting game on the defensive, i
shows how thoroly the badgers KEEP
forging nsas the e fighting. The lineup:
pe seuInWestern-. e. Bush Mlseonsn R. ;
Phillips ........ (. 6. Chamberlain n. 6
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