The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-24
REDSKINS SAvvY
FOOTBALL GAM.
Pale Face No Match for Sas
age in Leading Sport of
Higher Civilization.
CARLISLE, 10; CHICAGO,
Stages CHAMPIONS oUTPLAYe
AT EVERY STAGE OF GAME.

Stiiool football team defeated the Ir
versity of Chicago eleven here tod
in a fast. desperately-f fought game II
score was IS to 4. Three field god
from placement and a touchdown al
goal accounted for the Indians poin
Walter Steffen. quarterback on ta
home team. scored for Chicago by E
drop-kick from the thirty-yard line. .
Mount Pleasant Not in Game.
The Carlisle team was without ID
services of Mount Pleasant. the spe'
tacular quarterback. whose work ~
bothered Harvard. Pennsylvania an
Princeton. broken thumb receive
in the Minnesota game kept him
the side lines. But at that he W,
scarcely missed. Balenti and Islal
ran the play without a hitch, and d
accurate kicking Of Houser, coupls
with his slashing runs and line plum
ing. made up for the ground-gainii'
and scoring abilities Of the regul,
quarterback.
Houser. i'm fact was a whole team
himself Backed up by impregnable II
reference. he carried the ball tw
thirds of the time in the Indian attac
and seldom failed to gain ground Al
en- and Little Boy opened up great ga
for him between Jones and Anderso.
and on dashes around the M Het
bricks and Exendine put the OproaF
Chicago men out of the play with &
ease that was startling to the adhe
ents of the local eleven.
HouseT's best work. however. wa
with his toe. Three times he negf
tiated goals from placement. with b
lenu holding the ball. AS many mot
cause DOseff managed To wriggf
through in time to hurry the kick.
Big Crowd Present.
Perfect weather conditions brougt
out $1,000 football enthusiasts to watc
the game. The great stands on Ma
shall Field. augmented by standiI
room platforms at either end Of II
field, were packed and thousands I
others fTinged the side lines. peerir
through the wire netting which sepa
rated the players from the spectator
Naturally three-fOurths Of the crow
displayed the Chicago maroon. bt
scattered through the thrOng wet
thousands of Carlisle partisans
Chicago won the toss and sent n.
Indians TO the south goal. with a sligl
wind in their faces. Houser's kicko.
went for a tOuchback. and the resuI
ing return from the twenty-f1ve-yar|
line gave the visitors an early chand
to display their attack. The first tw
plays were stopped to the accompan.
ment of deafening cheers from the stu.
dent sections. Also the Indians sui
fered the first OF half a dozen pena
ties for holding, and a forward pas.
which Gardner threw wild. hit a.
ground, forcing the ball back TO al
Indians forty-yard line. Gardner va
badly hurt at this juncture. but refuse
TO quit, and hobbled back into the lin,
Indian Tackles Good.
A punt gave Chicago a chance to dis
play its attack. but the Indian end
and tackles gave an example Of th
stuff that was in them by forcing a nj
turn point. Steffen kicked fifty ward
to HOuser. who eluded Hewitt and b.
hind fine interference. came back foI
ty-five yards A tumble in the forxsr
pass gave Chicago the ball and whe
Detray slipped past Lube for twent
yards, the stands turned into hashin
masses of maroon. Four punts wer
exchanged. Steffen's final effort befu
short. and Balenti started to hals=1e
the Chicago line.
HOuser was the man called upon. an
he broke through TO the Chicago TWEEN
ty-tiVe-yard line. Steffen downing him
Two plays gave a bare three Yards. blI
again it was Houser, and a first dow,
resulted. The Chicago line stfffene
here. but the big fullback dropped bac.
and, with Gardner holding the bal
kicked an easy goal from placement
Score; Carlisle. I; Chicago, 0.
After the score the home team play
90
session of the ball on a forward mas
to Detray. gained 10 yards, but an at
tempt to duplicate the plav wen
wrong, and the ground was lost. Car
Isle could not pierce the Chicago de
Tense, but HOuser kicked another fell
goal, the count being then to 0.
Carlisle Makes 4 Stand.
After the next Kickoff Chicago. aid
ed by penalty of l. yards. manage
to keep the ball within Carlisle's terri
tory. A quarterback run from a for
ward pass formation gave the local
twenty yards more. but with their goa
line threatened the red mems defens
became adamant. Both teams Ia,
tried repeatedly TO break I'D the for
ward pass formation, the Indians ms
ing a long pass from a kicking forma
ton. while most OF Chicago's atten7nf
we're short losses over the ends
Quarterback runs, double passes an,
plays in which a tackle was nUIIa
back or sent across to the opposfte sid
had been used by both teams VIII
varying success, but in individual MIA
the Carlisle men had outclassed thei
opponents.
Lubo Gets in Game.
Soon after the kickoff forward pas
20 Detray gained twenty-five yards
but Lubo stopped the next play an,
Aiken blocked the punt. giving tn
ball to the Indians in the center o
the field Four plays took it 10 tn
fifteen-yard line, where Houser agail
missed goal. HOuser kicked an cas-
goal and the count was IA to O.
Substitutes were becoming freqJf7-t
and with fresh players the Indian
kept Chicago on the run. They QuickI
worked the ball again TO the six-yar
line and this time Houser kicked hi
third field goal. making the count
to 0.
After the kickoff Houser puntet
sixty-five yards over Steffen. but tn
return kick was fumbled by BalentI
Page worked a forward pass to De
tray for twenty yards more and thei
as the Indians stopped the advance
Steffen drop-kieked a goal from tn'
sixty-yard line, making the fina
count is to i.