Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-26
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Holds HINES DOWN
Result OF Saturdays Champion
ship Games Divides Hon
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GREATEST GAME IN STATE
GREATEST GAME IN STATE
Most Notable Gridiron Contest Ever
Waaed in lowa-New Rules Affect
the Seore-Iowa at st. Louis and
Ames at Drake on Thanksgiving
Day-other News.
rBy x. D. steere1
Special to Times-Repuplican.

University and this year the victory
carries with it the championship OF
Iowa In one of the most remarkable
football battles ever waged in Iowa,
the Hawkeyes went down to defeat by
the score Of 2 to 0. The game was a
wonderful exhibition Of nerve on the
part of the Iowa players, a wonderful
exhibition Of football perfection on
the part Of Ristine's team. 1t formed
a fitting ending for q football season
that has been filed with surprises for
the followers Of the team. Both Ames
and Iowa have one more game on their
schedule. On Thanksgiving day the
Hawkeyes will journey over to ST.
Louis for their annual game with st.
Louis University and on the same date
Anes and Drake will clash in the
Stadium at Des Moines. The game
that settled the championship Of Iowa
was not without great significance to
the football world Of Iowa.
In the first place it showed that
where two evenly matched teams play,
the new rules give abundant opportun-
ity for the development Of plays that
will gain. The Ames team found that
despite their superior weight and con-
dition, they were unable to make the
necessary ten yards often enough to
help them score. Thereafter Jeanson
had recourse to two new plays that
Ristine had developed this year, and
both proved to be fairly effectual. The
first Of these was the regulation for
ward pass, which worked just once out
of the three times it was tried, but
that one time it gained thirty yards.
The other play can be termed a half
back kick The way the Ames team
worked the play Sioux Jones, who was
playing left half, stood outside of the
An1es left end, and about fifteen yards
back of the line of scrimmage. The
ball was passed to- Jeanson, who inn
mediately threw it to Jones. The en-
tire Ames back field, headed by Nc
Elhenney, the right end, then lunged
off around the right end of the Ames
line and Jones kicked into the flock Of
Ames men, quarteringly, across the
field. This play worked once out of
the three times it was tried. McElhen-
ney getting the ball forty yards nearer
the Iowa goal.
The Hawkeyes had only one play
which, after several failures, began to
work and allowed Kirk to get thru the
An1es line for a run of thirty yards.
The play called the "skiddoo" forma-
ton, was thereafter ruled out by Ref
cree Hoagland and headlinesman Ham
mill on the ground that 1t violated the
rule which forbids an opposing team
to do things calculated to draw the
members of the other team offside. The
play was a peculiar one, bordering on
the freak variety. AT a. given signal
every member of the team moved back
five yards with the exception of the
center. Kent then gave the signal and
every member of the line advanced to
one side of center or the other. The ball
was then snapped and the play, with
the entire line in front Of it, moved
against one side of the Ames line.
Whether the ruling out of the play by
the officials made any great difference
in the outcome Of the contest, will al
ways remain matter Of controversy.
The first three times it failed to gain
against the strong Ames line, but the
fourth time. when Kirk ran for thirty
yards, the men began working smooth
Nv In their positions and Iowa partis-
ans at least will believe that the for
ma ton would have permitted Iowa to
score.
Not more than ten plays all told,
were used by the two teams combined,
which savored anything of the new
game. Where the new rules effectually
changed the style Of game was in the
r,,los ruhinh
made the contest a kicking dual be-
tween Kent of Iowa, and Sioux Jones
Of Ames. In this kicking Iowa clearly
had. the advantage of Ames. Kent
kicked the ball twenty-three times for
total of $50 yards. Jones of Ames
kicked the ball twenty-five times for
a total of 454 yards. Under the Old
style Of play where only five yards
were required in three downs there IS
little doubt but that the heavier Ames
team would have piled UP a heavy
score against Iowa. The ten yard rule,
Kent,s great kicking, the failure Of
Jeanson to handle punts in the back
field. and the indomitable determine
ton of the Iowa team, tells the story
of the 2 to score.
This game definitely established fo-
the followers of football in Iowa. the
fact that the new rules, have so mate
rally modified the game that 1t is an
acceptable sport for the colleges of
Iowa. It has not been proven yet that
It is a game to be played by the high
school students of the state. That is
a matter for the scholastic men to set
tie. But the new rules have so mate
rally modified the game that the OBJ
iectionable features have been in a
great measure eliminated A far diff
ferent spirit moved the crowd which
witnessed the Ames-Iowa contest. The
old feeling of bitter rivalry, liable at
all times tc break out in a fight, had
gone. The Ames rooters cheered the
nerve of an injured Iowa man; the
Iowa rooters returned the cheer when
an Ames player asked for time. Iowa
rooters do not begrudge the Aggies
their victory The fact cannot be de-
MED that, man for man, the Ames team
was superior to the state college team
but that indescribable something
known as nerve" anod school spirit
made up the difference in weight and
condition and won for Iowa . virtual