Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
BELLEVUE WINS OVER PERU
Locals Press Up to One Step from
State Goal.
ONLY DoAEE NOW TO BE BEAT
Game Yesterday Was Well Contested
and ny No Means . Cinch for
victors From the
start.

Bellevue, 10; Peru, 10
Bellevue college took a long step toward
the state collegiate championship yesterday
afternoon by decisively beating Peru at
vinton street park. Only Doane, defeated
Friday by Hastings, remains In it's path.
While Bellevue won by a good margin
and deserved so to win, yet the game was
far from being one-sided and at the mid
de of the second half the score stood y
to 10. A drop kick by Pierson from the
thirty-five yard line and a safety added
the other six points and destroyed the
hopes Of the visiting Presbyterian boys.
One touchdown on either side was of
flukey nature, though more so in the case
of the Peru score. When the game was
but two minutes old Captain Marvel OF
Bellevue, who had started on a quarter
back run around the left end. dropped the
ban. Marter OF his own team picked It up
and went thirty yards for a touchdown.
The tumble really resolved the play into
2 delayed pass. The Peru score of the
kind referred to was It's second touchdown.
made early in the second half. Swenson,
the giant center, was down the field. as
usual among the first on a kick and when
the ball had been fumbled by three others
fell on It across Bellevue's goal.
Swenson was. in fact, the star OF the
game. He showed the instinct of a true
end for following the ball and played
across the field like a lambert flame. He
was nine times out OF ten the man who
brought down the B~ellevueite who was
carrying the ball and both on offense and
defense shone conspicuous above the
other twenty one players.
Peru scores Near HaIf's End.
Peru's first score came when the first
half had but thirty seconds to go. AS in
aha auor.a . nooaaaainu nF the halauraa
gained within striking distance on a FUN
BILE and two line bucks brought the pig
skin within one yard of the line. Then
the Peru backs dashed into the line, the
Bellevue ends suffered themselves to be
drawn mat the time OF all times when
they should not-and Quarterback Renfro
dashed round the right end over the line
unopposed.
ON exchange Of kicks Plerson had a
shade the better of Rcnfro and clearly put
clasBed him at kicking goals from touch
down. His successful effort at a drop
kick was a pretty piece of work, while
Renfro failed In two attempts.
A marked feature OF the game was the
absence Of the successful execution of the
forward pass. Both elevens tried It, but
never without the penalty for failure. The
quarterback kick was used by Bellevue.
but generally the ball went to Peru, the.
inevitable swenson being generally found
ON top OF It., A team with six or seven
other men like him would be simply in
yincible. He is reported intending to go
to the university next year and while he
will not be eligible in 1903 will be a great
man at Lincoln the following season.
Bellevue shows Form.
Bellevue showed Improvement in every
department OF the game except the for
ward pass, which their coach does not
much care for. The ends we're conspicu-
ously better on defense except at the ia
tai time when they were drawn in as told
above. The tackling OF all the eleven was
cleaner and this in spite of the fact that
the game yesterday was played on a snow
covered field, which made running ex-
tremeiy difficult and was one reason for
the frequent fumbiing on both sides.
Both on offense and defense Captain
Marvel was the most reliable man on his
team. although the rest Of the back field
did good work throughout. For Peru. next
to swenson, Renfro was in evidence.
The work OF the referee and umpire,
C~levinger and Lieutenant Riley, was above
reproach. The field Judge was a Peru
man. DR.. Vance. He furnished considerable
amusement because he frequently forgot
that he was an official and would run out
TO the referee or umpire and cry give
me ten yards for this and that Never
did he even say 'Penalize Bellevue and
the idea Of p%enahzing Peru did not enter
his head.
Locals Second Touchdown.
Bellevue's second touchdown came after
the following play. which gained thirty
yards: All the backs but the quarter
dashed up TO the right OF the line just
before the ball was put In play and then
the quarter shot after and behind them.
The play was executed SO quickly that
Peru did not have time to reinforce it's
defense at It's own left end and the Peru
half and end were bowled out of the way
by the three backs which constituted the
Bellevue interference. The play may be
an old one. but It was new to nearly all
the spectators OF yesterday and the scheme
IL said to be original with Coach Cronk.
Only one man was taken out OF the game
on either side. Phelps Of Bellevue was
slightly hurt and was taken DOT. Racely
going to his place and Johnson jumping
into the vacant end.