The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-12
KANSAS 6, NEBRASKA o.
Quarterback johnson Wins Game In
Last Two Minutes Of Play.


Lincoln, Nov. S.-By sensational
return of a punt in a run of seventy
yards in the last two minutes OF play,
Quarterback Johnson won victory
for Kansas in game in which the
Jayhawkers were beaten in nearly
every department of play by Nebras-
ka. The Jayhawkers' thrilling feat
lodged the ball squarely behind the
goal posts and Pleasant kicked an
easy goal that made the score of the
struggle 6 to 0.
The game was one of the most
fercely fought exhibitions of the new
foot ball" ever seen in Nebraska and
but for the wiggling and lodging of
Quarterback Johnson, in the waning
seconds of the contest, it must have
been to 0 score Johnson's run
was similar to one he made in the
game with Nebraska last fall, when
he raced sixty yards from a punt
placing the oval so near the Corn
hu~k goal that iC was easily pushed
over for the five points.
In the battle Better booted the
ball from Nebraska's forty yard line.
It fell into the hands of the Jay
hawker quarter at the Kansas forty
tive-yard line. Johnson was in the
middle of the field, and, receiving
the ball, he darted straight across
the grounds for the north side, hurl-
ing off tacklers and side stepping
others. Within five yards of the side
lines he turned west toward the Corn
huNker goal and wriggled away from
more Cornhusker tacklers. Here the
| interference for the Jayhawker was
grand, four men being with him. He
raced along the fringe of the field
behind perfect protection and dropped
behind the Nebraska goal for the
roints that won the game.
Nebraska, the team that before the
yame was touted to lose by mar
,in, bewildered the Jayhawkers with
is startling variety of attacks. In
10Th halves it outplayed Kennedy's
uen bu. in two departments of the
game, punting and returning the ball
rom punts.
The Cornhuskers never wavered be
ore the attack of their opponents and
presented stone wall from tackle tC
tackle.
In the early minutes of the strug
yle Quarterback Johnson chose tC
end some plays at both sides OF
he line, but they were so effectively
hecked that he had to rely on {
bunting game. In the use Of the for
ward pass and on-side kick the Corn
huskers completely outclassed the
Kansas players. The Jayhawker:
.ried several short kicks, but not one
If them was a success so strong wa
he Nebraska defensive play.
Every short kick made wa
matched up readily by an alert Corn
husker.
Coach Kennedy's much talked o
Onward passes failed to materaliz
and not one was attempted. johnson
vas ready three or four times to pas
he ball to one of the ends, but II
every instance the Jayhawkers wer
closely guarded that it woul
ave been folly to have attempte
he pass. The Cornhuskers, however
lsed both forward pass and on-sid
lick with telling effect, and especia
in the second half, when the bal
vas advanced many yards by thes
plays. Nebraska never lost a var
IN a forward pass and recovered or
,ide kicks three tines in the secon
,ession. Three forward passes nette
eautiful gains. The Kansas lin
failed to hold up against the Corr
luskers' onslaught, but in the secon
,ession the Nebraska players charge
lown the ball field for many long gain
w smashing through big holes in tn