The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-15
HUSKERS ROMPED
IL. Z. Made Weak Showing
Against Stiehm's Giants.
Chamberlain and Rutherford
Were Team in Themselves.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 15.-As re-
suit of the SO to defeat administered
to the K. U. .JayhawkerS here Satur-
day afternoon by the giant Nebraska
Cornhuskers, Kansas again must wait
patiently another year for a chance
to claim the highest gridiron honor
of the Missouri Valley, and the K
U. coaches and players now realize
that they must work doubly hard if
they are to avoid the humiliation of a
second defeat at the hands of the
Missouri Tigers when they meet them
at Columbia on Thanksgiving day.
Saturdays game was everything
that the Nebraska followers had
hoped it would be, and the Jayhawk-
erS proved a greater disappointment
than any one had expected. During
the first quarter of the battle, the
Kansans played creditable football and
their defense was strong enough to
hold the Stiehm steam roller But in
the early part of the second period,
the Nebraskans opened up with their
forward pass plays, and after one
pass had ena bled the phenomenal
Chamberlain to score the first touch
down, it was so easy for the Huskers
that they had to put on wrestling
matches between quarters to give an
outlet to their surplus energy. After
the first period, it was merely a ques-
ton of how big a score Captain Ruth
erford'S team wanted to make, and
how much they wanted to exert them
selves.
Like Ichabod Came
In many respects the game was a
replica of the K. U.-WaShburn game
of a week before. Like Washburn,
the Kansans went into the game ner-
vous and lacking confidence, and like
the Ichabods, individual players
showed real football ability, but the
team played ragged and inconsistent
football
Kansas was compelled to take to de-
feusive football on the first play when
Nielsen Iaking the kickout behind his
goal tried to run the ball out instead
of grounding it for a touchback. He
was downed inside of his 5-yard line
and Lindsey was forced to kick from
behind his goal line.
A forward pass of twenty yards
brought the first touchdown. Thirty
eight yards from the Crimson and
Blue line, Galley shot the oval to
Chamberlain, who picked the ball out
of the atmosphere and dashed across
the last chalk line. Corey added the
even point
Shortly after the next kickoff. Galley
was injured and Cook went to quarter
for the Lincoln team. Then the
Huskers started on their way. Cook
seemed to carry into the game the
pep that had been lacking and the
Cornhuskers produced their Wanted
punch and went to it.
Second Touchdown.
The Huskers started on their way
to a second score from the Kansas 81
yard line, Rutherford, Chamberlain,
Cook and Reese being potent factors
in the routing of the touchdown.
the score stood that way when the
first half was curtained.
Soon after the third quarter started
Chamberlain swung around the Kan
sas left end for a 44-yard sprint and
the third touchdown. The HuSkers
were romping right. Dick Rutherford,
whose greatest worth is the paving of
the way. the pioneering for his team
mate with the ball, was spiking his
man, sometimes two of them,
while the racing Chamberlain
sped on across the white lines Corey
wasn't there with the even point this
time and the count was 20 to 0.
The KansanS came back after this
counter and fought desperately for
five minutes, forcing Nebraska to
kick. Cook fumbled q punt shortly
afterwards, and Kansas retrieved on
Nebraska's 30-yard line. Lindsey
yards. A Jayhawk and a Cornhusker
leaped together for the ball, each
touched the oval. which hurtled on
ard into the arms of Holt, who was
possession of Kansas on the Nebraska
13-yard line, the nearest Captain
James men got in the Red and White
goal in all the afternoon.
Up rose the stands and pleaded for
a K. U. touchdown. Valiantly the
Jayhawkers tried, Sut Capt Richard
Rutherfords team was keeping
mighty close watch on its own goal
twice but the ball fell to the ground
on each attempt A plunge off tackle
gained little and then Lindsey flipped
the ball forward again. A Nebraskan
batted it out of bounds and it went
to Nebraska from the scrimmage point.
The X u punch had failed in the
pinch. The Nebraska defense had raIS