Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-08
CREIGHTON WINS
FAST GAME, 27-7
Inflicts Second Defeat on St. Thomas
Suffered by that School in
Six Years.
IMPROVEMENT BY LOCAL TEAM

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In the best game OF foot ball seen on
Creighton field in many a day, Coach
Mills gridiron machine Saturday hum
bled st. Thomas college by the score OF
q to Z. The victory is the second any
team has gained over st. Thomas in
six years. The other defeat was at the
hands of Manchester college last year.
20 to O. and ST. Thomas wiped that out
by coming back at Manchester. 40 to .,
this season.
Tho battle was hard fought and
spectacular to the finish. Creighton
showed immense Improvement over its
early season play. while st. Thomas also
produced something that sent repeated
thrills into the crowd.
To Paul Kamnnski, the lengthy Creigh-
ton center, belongs the honor of scoring
the first touchdown. Creighton had
kicked off and recovered the ball on a
tumble during the first scrimmage. A
forward pass to Nigrc sent the leather
over the goal line, but It was here
knocked out of the little quarters hands
and a general scrambiN for its possession
resulted. Kamansh recovered the pig
skin about six inches from the line, with
Nigro and Captain Shannon sprawling
on top of him. MICRO Kissed "Shove her
over" which Isl" lost no time In doing.
Takes Hall on tumble.
Creighton again kicked off and on
another tumble by st. Thomas Lutes
recovered with a clear field before him.
but lost the pikslkin. another Creighton
man falling on 1t. Then commenced
display of terrific foot ball by both
teams. Line smashes, end runs. hard
and desperate tackles. and forward
passes followed each other rapidly.
Flanagan finally tore through the entire
opposition on trick play for forty
yards, following which a neat pass from
MICRO to Hale scored Creightons next
| tally. Platz kicked goal. Score: Creigh-
ton. 10; st. Thomas. 0.
The second quarter was scoreless. Far
rell, Sullivan and Ward negotiated a
number of nice gains for the visitors
but as a rule the Creighton defense was
invincible. Lutes, Flanagan. Shannon,
/ Stapleton, and Wise time and again
smashed to pieces the attack of the
visiting backs. and on only few oc-
casions was first down made. In this
period clever trick forward pass. Platz
to Brennan. netted Creighton about
thirty yards, and was followed immedi-
ately by another peg by the same parties
for ten more. Platz then tried a field
goal, but was standing too near his own
line, and the kick fell short.
| when saints Score.
The Saints made their only points in
| the third period, but the score was
earned. st. Thomas kicked off. Creigh-
/ 49,. a.. MI.
forward pass, Farrell to Ward, advanced
the leather. and a penalty TO Creighton
for holding added fifteen yards. Sullivan
broke away for twelve yards more, and
the following play, pass from Har-
rington to Conmy, brought the ball
across the chalk from the thlrty-yard
line. Several Creighton men tried TO
block the play. but without avail.
The remainder OF this quarter was spec
tacular. Conway. st. Thomas wizard left
end. snapped up the ball when Nigro
dropped it after receiving a forward pass
from Platz and raced thirty yards be-
fore being downed. A few seconds later
PlatE repeated the performance for
Creighton. tearing down the field sixty
yards on an intercepted pass. He was
brought to a halt on the twenty-yard line,
| but his run gave Creighton its third
touchdown. A risky forward pass. which
one of the visitors stabbed at and
touched, landed in Captain Shannon's
arms on the one-yard line, and Nigro
| plunged over for the score.
Darkness settles Down.
Perhaps the most spectacular playing
was witnessed in the final period, though
darkness rendered It difficult TO follow
the amazing attack. This quarter was
almost entirely one OF forward passes.
Creighton carried the ball down the field
/ by the air route. and Flanagan, the
doughty half, battered his way from the
thirty-yard line through the whole st.
Thomas team for the last score. Piatz
kicking goal.
Then came the Saints with a vengeance
Three different times they carried the
leather to the local goal entirely By for
ward passes with gruesome success, q
| touchdown failing in the first instance
When Conmy muffed an easy forward
pass next time by creighton's brilliant
defense on its five-yard line. and finally
by the timers whistle the bali restins
one yard from goal This heroic series
OF passes was little short Of marvellous
although ultimate success each time
failed.
Figuring ON Next Game.
With a week in which to put on some
finishing touches, Coach Mills machine
ought to be a worthy foe for Notre Dame.
Lutes. Platz, Shannon. Wise, stapleton.
Flanagan and Brennan all showed real
class yesterday, and Nigro at quarter ran