The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-08
WINS;
WABASH HAPPY
Touchdown in First
of the Fastest Games of
Recent Years.
PURDUE ROOTS FOR WABASH
Scarlet Line Is A Stone Wall and
Players Resort To Punting
and Open Play.

The state intercollegiate football sea-
son opened Saturday when Indiana Uni
versity defeated Wabash college by the
score of IL to 5. 1t was a victory for
the state university it is true but it is
the Little Giants who are wearing the
smile that wont come off. The heap
big men" from Bloomington boosted
that they would put Wabash back in
it's class among the secondary colleges
but Chief Cayou of the Wabash team
realized that, Deeds are greater things
than words are" and is satisfied with
the result.
The winning touchdown was made
by Bunny" Hare 3when he cleverly
lodged past the whole Wabash team
and ran 40 yards to the goal The
game which was conceded to be the
first real test in the West of the new
rules, was decided victory for the ad-
vocates of open play. The change
has made the old formations practically
worthless and has accomplished just
what was intended and opened up the
game.
There was an animated scene on the
field around which was gathered over
1000 spectators. There were 500 root
ers from Indiana University present
while 400 Purdue students yelled like
Indians for the Little Giants from the
very start to the finish Even DePauw
had a delegation of several hundred
students who came down from Green
castle to get a line on the two teams
that are most likely to figure in the
/ light for the championship.
| During the first half Indiana failed
to make first down and Wabash made
! the distance only once. Five minutes
! play demonstrated the fact that the
| Wabash line was stone wall and thon
kicking game began in which the
honors were evenly divided between
Hare and Frurip.
The first touchdown for Indiana was
made on a fiuke when Frurip punting
from his own ten yard line booted the
ba. into one of his team mates and as
it bounded back Heckaman grabbed il
and rushed over the wabash goal line.
Tighe kicked goal.
! During the remainder of the half the
teams surged back and forth across
the field but neither was able to get
an advantage over the other.
Early in the second half Frurip
punted the ball to the 40 yard line
Hare received it and by lodging
! through the whole team. made one OF
the most marvellous runs seen on an
Indiana gridiron in years and scored g
touchdown.
Shortly after that Wabash got the
ball within kicking distance Of the In
diana goal and a forward pass which
netted ten yards, gave George Miller
the Wabash quarterback. a chance tc
punt Myers grabbed the ball far out
Of reach of the Indiana defence and
with no one in front of him shot over
the line.
Pandemonium reigned among the
/ Scarlet rooters and il was this play
that made the hearts of the Wabash
boys glad and sent the rooters from
Bloomington back home, a disappointed
lot.
The city of Charlottesville was &
blaze of color from early morning Il
late at night. Everywhere scarlet bunt-
ing. pennants and ribbons flashed and
with the incoming trains there came
the crimson and cream of Indiana and
/ the old gold and black of Purdue.
The demonstration began before moor
and continued until o'clock when tn,
/ thousands that composed the gala
crowd of enthusiasts started on thu
winding path through the campus L
the athletic field.
That night there were two groups O.
heroes in as many Indiana towns ant
nothing is too good for the boys who il
the one case brought home a hare
earned victory and who in the othe
upheld the reputation of its gridiroI
warriors of being the gamest little mel
in the state.