Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-26
KICKED five GOALS
Walter Eckersall Wound Up Coll
Iege Football Career in
Brilliant Style.
IS GIVEN A GREAT OVATION
Yale Superior to Harvard in Every De-
partment - Other Contests
of Saturday.

Chicago, Nov. 2G.-Walter Eckersall,
quarterback and captain of the Univer-
sity of Chicago eleven, closed his col
legiate football career Saturday by
making five field goals for his team
against the University of Nebraska in
the final game of the season Nine
times during the two halves EckersaIl
| booted the ball in an attempted drop
kick over the Nebraska goal and missed
three. One was blocked, but the 9TH
ers, some at rather difficult angles,
sailed true to the mark. Three field
goals were made in the first half from
the %, 81 and 20 yard lines. The two
in the second half were made within a
few minutes of each other, and were
kicked from the So and 10 yard lines
When the game was over thousands
of madly cheering Chicago students
swarmed on the gridiron and borne ON
the shoulders of two big athletes, Eek
ersall led a triumphant procession to
the gymnasium. The final score of the
game was Chicago So, Nebraska D.
Yale Proved Superior.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 20 Yale
won the annual football game with
Harvard in the Yale field Saturday af-
ternoon in one of the greatest games
ever seen here by a score of 6 to o..
The victory carries with it the title to|
the college championship. From every
goal. In the second half the game re-
game. Yale outplayed at every point
her crimson rivals, except possibly in
punting
Yale was the more versatile and in
her running of plays she drove them
home with greater speed and fierce
ness when they were sent against the
line, while her men demonstrated the
beauties of double and triple passes,
forward pass and the end run through
broken field. She took the offensive
and made Harvard fight even to de-
feat on her own territory. most of the
time within striking distance of the
goal. | nthe second half the game rel
solved itself into a punting contest I'M !
til the last five minutes, when Yale. |
getting the ball on the crimson ground, |
simply ripped up her opponents in |
grand style.
Ames Iowa Champion.
Iowa City, Iowa, Nov. 26.-Iowa uni |
versity lost to Ames in one of the |
hardest fought battles in the history of
Iowa football by a score of 2 to 0. The !
only score registered by the Aggies |
came early in the first half when a |
quarterback kick and an end run by |
Jeanson and Biller and a gain on an
exchange of punts gave Ames the ball |
on Iowa's 10 yard line. Jeanson sent |
three plays against the Iowa line and |
the Hawkeye's held, taking the ball on
their own 5-yard line. Kent attempted |
to punt out of danger, standing behind |
the goal line. Mills broke through,
the punt, and the ball rolled |
back of the Iowa goal and back of a
fence, where Brugger fell on it. Ref
cree Hoagland gave Ames a safety on
the play, scoring the only two points
made by either side during the game
Illinois Defeats Purdue.
Lafayette Ind, Nov. 26.-Purdue w1s
by Illinois in the football game
here on Stuart field, by a score of )
to 0. Miles kicked off for Purdue.
Pickney, the Illinois fullback, receiv-
He was down before he had advanced
5 yards. Neither side scored in the
first half The second half was opened
by Stewart kicking off to Miles. who
the ball to Purdue's 30-yard |
line. Reed tried an onside kick and /
Long fell on the ball on Purdues As
yard line. Long and Merrill made short
gains and Reeds onside kick was cap
tured by Pettigrew, who ran 20 yards
for a touchdown. Gardner failed to
kick goal and the score stood, Illinois
), Purdue 0.
Indiana Hard Proposition.
Minneapolis, Nov. 26.-On a field so
slippery that the players could not keep
heir feet, the Minnesota team defeated |,
Indiana, to 6. Indiana scored touch
Town on fumbled punt in the first
half and the Gophers evened matters
Dy a place kick by Marshall, and
safety. Minnesota scored a safety in
he second half. Larkin had the better
If the punting deal with Hare.