Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-22
CONTEST PLAYED IN THE MUD
Players Unable to Keep Their Feet
on soggy Field.
CADETS USE RosIN ON HANDS
Contestants Forced to Stop to Wash
Mud from Faces.
ZIG DEMONSTRATION AT CLOSE
west Point Students Highly Pleased
ut Securing Only Touchdown
Made Against NnIc So Far
This season.

rms ScnSpns
WEST POINT, oct. 2l-Yale colors
were lowered today by the Army In a
thrilling contest. 6 to 0.
Tho game was played on a soggy field,
the contonders coated with mud, but in
spite OF the every cffcri OF the Blue,
West Point triumphed.
In the first quarter the Army blocked
a kick on Yales S0-yard line and got the
ball, and In the first rush of the game
Dean went through for % yards to Yala's
5-yard line. After one rush without gain
Dean went through the Yale line like an
eel FOR the first touchdown against Yale.
this season
The second period began with the ball
IN the Army's possession on their So
yard line. Dean Immediately kicked TO
Howe, who ran II back ten yards to
Yale's LO-yRrd line. Phllbin smashed
through centor for seven yards. Howe
Kicked to tho Army's 5-yard line, and
although there was tumble the cadets
regained the ball.
II was wretched foot ball, for scarcely
man could keep his feet. Dean kicked
| out OF bounds on the Arms's forty-yard
line, Spalding went through for five
yards Spaldng tried the left end for
no gain, Then came another stop while
tho players had their faces scrubbed.
Spalding punted to Dean on the Arnys
five-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 Il. lie kicked to
his thirty-five-yard line, where Howe
was thrown without gain. 1t was soon
discovered that the Army was putting
rosin on their hands and holding the ball
better than Yale.
Philbin struggled through tho right side
for five yards and then spaldlng punted.
The ball WIS punted and Gillespie re-
covered II IN the center OF the field.
lie slipped and stumbled along TO Yale's
one-yard line before he was tackled.
on the first rush army was holding and
sent back Fifteen yards Dean failed TO
gain. He fell back 20 the thlrty-yard
line for a try at "a placement Yale
blocked the kick and captured the bali
on her twenty-seven-ynrd line. Freeman
took spaldlug's place and Anderson went
in for Riley. Yale kicked on the first
down 20 her flve-ynrd line. The army
at once returned the kick but there was
holding by Yale and II was the armys
bail on the Blues forty-yard line, Free
man punted far into tho cadets territory.
The ball went TO the cadets in the center
OF the field. Merritt took Howe's place
J as Yales quarterback.
There was an exchange of kicks and
when the second period ended the bali
was in the army's possession in the CEN
ter OF the field.
The army had dry suits with rosin we'll
spread down the trousers while Yale
was still in wet suits at the beginning
OF the third quarter,
Freeman ran the kick off from his
lO-yard line to tho Army's 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 Yale's CO.
yard line.
Freeman muffed a catch punt under
his own goal post but recovered the ball.
On the first rush Philbin squirrmed his
way through for five yards and then
kicked TO Hyatt In the center of the
field and the quarterback ran II back TO
Yale's 35-yard line. Dean made five
yards around the left end. Brown got
six yards more and 1t 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 a field goal from
placement The kick was blocked.
On the first rush there was holding by
the Army and the bali went back nearly
to the middle Of the field Dean kicked
to Philbln on Yales 25-yard line. Free
man Immediately returned it TO the
Army's 42-yard line.
Army kicked again and then Phllbln
made eight yards for Yale's longest rush
so far In the game. Yale kicked to the
aTmys 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 Armys So
yard line. on the first rush Yale lost
yqds 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 army's
! possession.
After Merritt had caught the army
kick In the center OF the field, Andersen,
who had come into the Yale back field,
J 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, the players could
scarcely be distinguished because OF tho
mud. The Army kicked 20 Yale's thirty
/ yard line and again 20 Yale's fifteen-yard
: line. Yale kicked on the first down to
the Army on the Blues hfty-yard line
The Army backs seemed never To mlsa
a the ball. while Yale muffed continually.
! Army kicked to Merritt on YEIe's nfteen-
yard line and the quarterback ran IL back
! fifteen yards. The Army line was too