Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-12-03

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! by Wisconsin.
Yale Wins on a Mccarthy Play.
New Haven, Conn.,, Nov. 25.-
Yale's bright blue banners waved
triumphantly, the signal of another
magnificent victory over Harvard, the
| final score being to o. The Grim
son went down to defeat in desper-
ate battle which in football strategy
and spectacular play has had few
equals since the two universities have
met. To Yale passed the almost I'M
disputed title of the college cham
pionship of the country, clouded only
by the drawn, no score contest at
Princeton a week ago. Yale's touch
down was brought about by sensa-
tional play Yale had the ball on Har-
wards 25-yard line. Jones called his
signals for kicking formation.
Vedder dropped back to the 34-yard
line with his hands outspread. A per-
! feet pass from Hockenberger sent
the ball into his hands and Veeder
! like a flash started at right angles
and hurled the ball over the heads
of the Harvard men for 30-yard
pass to where several Yale men had
| jumped into one little knot. Up
from their midst leaped Forbes, who
caught the ball and in one instant
placed it down on the four-yard line.
Roome was sent to smash the Grim
son line. His first try gave two
yards and the next time he was
showed over with the whole team
dragging and pushing him. The
kicking of the goal was IN easy
| thing for Veeder.
While Harvard never had posses
sion of the ball inside the 25-yard
line, twice Yale was lined up with
the ball in the shadow of her goal
posts and in each case to remove
the danger and to get distance Wee
der dropped behind the goal line and
punted In both instances Harvard,
| by means of an on-side kick, sent
the ball to Yale at about Yale's 20
yard line Early in the game also
Yole lost an opportunity to score a
| field goal when Veeder tried for one
on Harvards 45-yard line but it went
wide by few feet.
The Last of EckersaII.
| Chicago, Nov. 25.-Walter Ecker
t sail, quarterback and captain of the
University of Chicago eleven, closed
| his collegiate football career Satur-
/ day by making five field goals for his
| team against the University of Ne
| braska in the final game of the sea
son. Nine times during the two
halves Eckersall booted the ball in
attempted drop kicks over the Ne
braska goal. Three of these missed,
one was blocked, but the others
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, made
within a few minutes of each other,
were kicked from the 35 and 19-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, Eckersall led tri-
umphal procession to the gymnasium.
The final score of the game was Chi
cago SO, Nebraska 5.
Steffen and Iddings made touch
downs for Chicago in the first half
and Steffen made a third touch
| down in the second half after a run
! Of 70 yards. Nebraska's one touch
down came as a result of long for
ward pass by Eckersall, which the
backs failed to get, and one of the
Nebraska backs falling on tbs ball
on Chicagos 16-yard line, and il
three plays, on one of which Little
plunged through Chicago's left
tackle for IL yards, the ball went
over the goal line Several times
during the game Nebraska had the
ball well within Chicago's territory.
Close Call for Gophers.
Minneapolis, Nov. 25.-On a field
so slippery that the players could
not keep their feet, the Minnesota
team defeated Indiana, to 6; Indi-
ana scored touchdown on a fun
bled punt in the first half and the
gophers evened matters by a place
kick by Marshall and a safety.
Minnesota also scored safety in the
c.anord half