The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
BLOW FOR MAROONs
Michigan 0utclasses Chicago Team
81 at All Points and Wins
81 20 to 0.
Hammond Kicks Two Field Goals,
and Heston the Great Makes
Two Touchdowns.

Chicago, Nov. 27.-while Coach.
Stage lay bundled UP in blankets in
| a closed carriage at Marshall field
yesterday, Coach Yost's Michigan
football players overwhelmed the
Chicago team in the annual Thanks
giving Day. contest by the score of %
to 0. ia.
All records for attendance were
broken, fully 10000 enthusiastic spec
tators Drawing heavy snowfall to see
the game. Considerable delay was ex-
perienced in starting the game. due to
| the labor of sweeping the snow off the
| gridiron. ..xy
/ The Chicago eleven had a decided
handicap in the illness of Coach Stage.
A fever that gave his physician con-
siderable alarm put Stage under or
ders to remain indoors. But Chicago
has always fought hardest against
| Michigan, and Stage desired to be near
/ to cheer on his men.
The usual ginger of the Chicago
eleven was missing. Michigan scored
her first touchdown in twelve minutes
| of play by smashing Heston and Long
man against the yielding Chicago line
and using big Joe Maddox, the sturdy
right tackle, for first downs when a
! few yards were needed:
| The left side Of Chicago was particu-
| y
Wightman we're swept aside by the
rushes Of Heston and Graver. Five
times did Eckersall only stand be-
| tween Heston and the goal after
Michigan's wonderful ground gamer
had circled left end.
/ So desperate was EckersalPs
tackling that he had to give way to.
Lee Maxwell in the second half. Eek
| ersaH did not do we'll in kicking,< as
was predicted by those who had
watched his work when his goals from
the field alone won the game from
| Wisconsin. y#E~ a-f r. IS t
Ion Chicagos right side, where
|Schnur, Catlin and Maxwell proved
strong in defense, Michigan did not
net SO many gains.
| Holding Michigan only once for
downs in the first half, and having the
ball in her own possession only three
times, Chicago displayed football
/ strength no higher than that of teams
| the maroons have beaten in practice.
| This removed Chicago from the
front row of western claimants for the
championship. 1t was Chicago's first
defeat by a western team.
slight shifting of Chicago's play
ers in the second half brought out a
flash of the old offense, but it was due
greatly. to the individual efforts of
i Bezdek and Nordenholt, and, proved
I barren of substantial results, and all
In vain did Stagg direct the movement
| of new forces from his carriage.
! First Score Comes Quickly.
I Michigan, after winning the toss,
chose%thes north goal. Heston, Graver
and Maddox with Longman occa-
lsionally bucking, the. center hard,
I made first downs with rapidity. Chi
/ her offense was. repulsed, and Michi-
gan getting the ball, Maddox sooa
broke over the goal line for the first
lscore.
4 ,ss.Eagerness by the Michigan men re-
T suited in several penalties for offside
play, but on the whole the game was
clean. Michigan'S physical condition
was little short of marvellous. Chi
cagp's. eleven, a fnake-shift .atsits best,
to-day was below .Michigan's S. in con
dition.
h.. Heston made some sensational
gains around left end. Once afterr rum
4 ninf thirty yards and having clear
field for the goal, he was tackled
from behind by Eckersall. Hammond
failed on his first trial for a goal from
placement on the tWenty-yard line,
1 but; a moment later, ,Heston, by .ln
!. end run, scored a second touchdown,
and Hammond kicked goal. Michigan
II. Chicago 0.
i With Il points to the good, Michi-
gan began to make it an overwhelm-
ing defeat Heston again made a
sensational burst, and was kept from
scoring only by EckersalFs. terrific
tackling. When Michigan had worked
down to the twenty-yard line, Ham
mond dropped back for a place kick
from the twenty-fve-yard mark ana
. negotiated the trick. Michigan II,
Chicago O.
Ivison was taken out Of the maroon
1 lineup and "Catapult" Hezdek was
substituted. Michigan paused for q
moment, being penalized for holding
twenty. yards, Michigan relinquished
the ball on another attempt by Ham
turn kick Redden .heeled Eckersall's
punt, and Hammond kicked a goa
, from a difficult angle. Michigan %
Chicago 0.
Time was called for the first half
with the ball in Michigan's possession
on Michigan's >twenty-yard line
Left Guard Hill was taken out il
the second half, and Wightman went
!. in, Nordenholt going to fullback and
Kennedy replacing Catlin at right end
Longman made first down thru Ellis.
: worth. and Graver and Heston be.
gan to get around Speik end again.
!. Lee Maxwell replaced Eckersall, and
with the ball on her five-yard line, Chi
cage stubbornly resisted until Hestor
got around the end for another touch
down. Hammond kicked goal. Michi.
gan %, Chicago 0. Burrows replaced
4 Maxwell, the right tackle, who was
pounded hard, and, upon being penal
lied, Michigan punted. Ellsworth, or
the 3S-yard line. tried for a place Kick
but the pass was wretched. It was
EMichigan's ball, and the time was
i called. with, the ball on the 35-yar6
line. Final score: Michigan 2s, Chi,
i cagps:0.