Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-22
CONTEST PLAYED IN THE MUD
Players Unable to Keep Their Feet
on Soggy Field.
,ADETs USE ROsIN ON HANDS
Contestants Forced to Stop to Wash
Mud from Faces.
BIG DEMONSTRATION AT CLOSE
west Point students Highly Pleased
at Securing Only Touchdown
Made Against Yale So Far
This season.


WEST POINT. oct. a.-Yale colors
were lowered today by the Army in a
thrilling contest, 6 to 0.
Tho game was played ON a soggy field,
the contenders coated with mud. but in
spite OF the every cffcrt Of the Blue.
West Point triumphcd.
In the first quarter the Army blocked
kick on Yale's S0-yard line and got the
bail, and in the first rush of the game
Dean went through for % yards to Yalas
5-yard line. After one rush without gain
Dean went through the Yale line like an
eel Tor the first touchdown against Yale,
this season
The second period began with the bali
In tho Army's possession on their So
yard line. Dean Immediately kicked TO
Howe, who ran It back ten yards to
Yale's JO-yard line, Phnbln smashed
through center for seven yards. Howe
Kicked TO the Army's 5-yard line, and
although there was tumble the cadets
regained the ball.
IL was wretched foot ball, for scarcely
n nun could keep his feet. Dean kicked
out of bounds on the Arms's forty-yard
line. Spaldlng went through for five
! yards. Spalding tried the left end for
no gain, Then came another stop while
| tho players had their faces scrubbed
spalding punted TO Dean on the Army's
flve-yard line and the ball was rushed
back seven yards. In attempting to kick
Dean dropped the ball on his own two
yard line but recovered it, lie kicked TO
his thirty-five-yard line, where Howe
was thrown without gain. II was soon
discovered that tho Army was putting
rosin on their hands and holding the ball
better than Yale
Philbln struggled through tho right side
for five yards and then spaldlng punted.
The ball was punted and Gillespie re-
covered II in the center OF the field.
He slipped and stumbled along TO Yale's
one-yaId line before he was tackled.
On the first rush army was holding and
sent back Fifteen yards. Dean failed TO
gain Ho fell back 20 the thrty-yard
line for a try at placement Yale
blocked the kick and captured the ball
on her twenty -seven-yard line. Freeman
took Spalding's place and Anderson went
in for Riley, Yale kicked on the first
down 10 her flve-ynrd line The army
at once returned the kick but there was
holding by Yale and It was the armys
ball on the Blues forty-yard line. Free
man punted far into the cadets territory.
The ball went TO the cadets In the center
of the field. Merritt took Howe's place
as Yale's quarterback.
There was an exchange of kicks and
when the second period ended the bali
was I'm the army's possession in the cen-
ter OF the field.
The army had dry suits with rosin well
spread down the trousers while Yale
was still in wet suits at the beginning
OF tho third quarter,
Freeman ran the kick off from his
l0-yard line 20 tho Armys 45-yard line
but Yale was put back fifteen yards for
holding Yale Immediately kicked and
Hyatt caught the ball on the run and
dashed back thirty yards to Yales 60
| yard line.
Freeman muffed a catch punt under
! his own goal post but recovered the ball.
| On the first rush Philbin squlrrmed his
way through for five yards and then
/ kicked TO Hyatt in the center of the
! field and the quarterback ran Il back to
| Yale'H 35-yard line. Dean made five
yards around the left end. Brown got
| six yards more and II was the first
down on Yale's 25-yard line.
| Dean tried the center for three yards
and Brown got four yards more Then
Dean dropped back for field goal from
placement. The kick was blocked.
On the first rush there was holding by
the Army and the ball went back nearly
to the middle OF the field. Dean kicked
to Philbin on Yales 25-yard line. Free
man Immediately returned Il to the
Army's 42-yard line.
Army kicked again and then Philbin
made eight yards for Yale's longest rush
| so far In the game. Yale kicked TO tho
arny's 40 yard line. Dean kicked TO
Merritt in the center OF the field ana
the Yale quarterback ran the ball weel
into the army territory and was not
thrown until he reached the Army's So
yard line. on the first rush Yale lost
/ yads for off side. Then Yale kicked to
the Armys 2O-yard line.
Just as the teams were lining up on
the 2o-yard line time was called for the
third period with the ball in the armys
| possession,
After Merritt had caught the army's
kick in the center OF the field, Andersen.
who had come into the Yale back field,
dropped the ball on the first rush In an
exchange OF kicks Yale got the ball on
their forty-five-yard line.
Fourth Quarter,
There came a pause for two minutes. OF
face washing, as the players could
scarcely be distinguished because OF the
mud. The Army kicked TO Yale's thirty
yard line and again 10 Yale's fIfteen-yard
line. Yale kicked on the first down TO
the Army on the Blues fifty-yard line.
The Army backs seemed never to miss
the bail. while Yale muffed continually.
Army kicked to Merritt on Yale's nfteen-
yard line and the quarterback ran II hack
/ fifteen yards. The Army line Waa too