Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-01
Coyotes Are Beaten by the
Score of Twenty to Thirteen
in Annual Turkey Day
53" Contest on Creigh-
ton Field.
PLAT PLAYS LAST GAME
Star of Many Battles Comes
From Sick Bed to Help Win
the Long Coveted Grid
iron Contest.
LOCALS PLAY AERIAL GAME
South Dakota Starts Out Like
Winners, Boys From North
Scoring First.
SIX THOUSAND AT GAME

dluIflHl anu iIltHuS diC toudy ohiSuis
the praises OF Tommy Mills, their foot
ball coach, and to the Creighton
team. For they have been avenged.
Avenged of foot ball defeats Of nine
successive games.
Many years ago Creighton started
into wallop South Dakota Nine times
they tasted the bitter sting Of defeat,
That is, if you count the contest last
season, when the Catholics held the
truculent Coyotes to scoreless tie.
Even then Creighton adherents took
the matter as defeat for they
thought that the blue and white war
riors should have trampled over the
South Dakotans.
But yesterday it was different.
Creighton won and won in manner
that left no doubt as to the superior
ity Of the two elevens. The score
was 20 to IS.
Six Thousand at Game.
The six thousand fans who wit
messed the contest are positive that
J no better game was played in the
middle west and they are equally
sure that Tommy Mills has one of
the best foot ball machines ever seen
in action in this city. And this is how
the team proved it to the throng Of
foot ball enthusiasts.
They ran the ball up and down the
field for three touchdowns. They
pulled off six perfect forward passes
out OF fifteen attempts, while their
opponents tried nine and were able
10 negotiate but one for distance of
fifteen yards. They made first down
twelve times. The Coyotes did the
same thing but twice. In fact, Creigh-
ton accomplished everything in the
way of foot ball that team can ac-
complish. If there was anything
lacking, it certainly was not evident
to the crowd.
But Few Penalties.
And incidentally the contest was
as clean as two teams fighting for
supremacy could play. Creighton was
penalized only five, yards, while their
opponents were set back distance OF
forty-hvc yards.
The Coyotes started out as il they
were positive Of annexing another VIC
tory. They kicked off to Creighton
and on the second down secured the
oval on recovered tumble. Then big
Fullback McKinnon showed how an
educated toe can be made to annex
counters. He drop kicked the ball
from the thirty-five-yard line, which
barely Topped over the goal posts. 1t
gave the South Dakotans three point
lead, which, however, was soon over
come when Tommy Mills proteges
uhiimbered their aerial attack. 1t was
the aerial attack that proved so baff-
ling to the Coyotes. That and lit
tie Of old fashioned line plunging,
though it cannot be said that the
Catholics were as successful i'll buck
ing the line as they were with the fly
ing ovals.
Creighton Scores.
Creighton made its first score when
Marty Flanagan grabbed forward
pass and passed eight chalk marks
before South Dakota second defense
man could bring him down. Flana-
gan finally finished up the job by car
rying the ball over the goal after
Creighton had worked it within FIVE
yards OF the goal by straight foot ball.
Captain Platz, who was sent in to take
Mullholland's place at left half,
kicked goal. The period ended 7 to
3, Creighton's favor.
Csa.xLt-. H. a.
near the close of the half, when Platz
heaved perfect throw to Lutes, who
tore off thirty yards. With the ball on
South Dakota three-yard line, Quar-
terback Long went through cented
for the second touchdown. Brennan
who again had replaced Platz in this
period, kicked goal.
On the next kickoff, South Dako-
ia back field man recovered the kick
on Creightons forty-yard line. Full
back McKinnon again brought his
educated toe to the front and made a
perfect drop kick from the forty-yard
line. It was one of the best boots
witnessed ON the Creighton field this
season. The half ended with the ball
in the center OF the field.
No Score in Third.
There was nothing doing in the
third period That is nothing in the
scoring line. Creighton pulled off sew
eral well executed forward passes, but
the willy Coyotes were too watchful
to allow any OF the Creightontes to
scamper over the goal line.
Old Biz Business, who replaced
Carl Lutes at center, proved to be
the hero Of the last chapter of the
exciting game. He intercepted a
South Dakota pass and hot-footed it
thirty yards over the line. Brennan
failed to kick goal.
South Dakotas only touchdown
came in the last five minutes OF play
when Newboy, who hahd taken the
place of Sprague, annexed forward
pass for sixty yards in one of the
most sensational runs OF the game.
After working the ball down the field
for the twenty OF the twenty-five re-
naming yards, Reigel was finally
showed over for the touchdown. Nc
Kinnon kicked the goal.
Stars Of the Game.
The Creighton team abounded with
stars. There was Captain Roy (Kai-
ser) Platz, who, although under the
4 doctors care, went into the contest,
and by his perfect passes, was al
most individually responsible for the
win. Platz played his last game with
* tlic blue and white as he MitI or.d,,