The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
COULD NOT HOLD
Kansas Lost to Nebraska in
Good Game, ID to 3.
COrnhusker Attack in Third
Quarter Too Much.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 19.-The Ne
braska Cornhuskers have won the
Missouri Valley championship title
but not without a struggle. Kansas
hackers are still trying to inquire out
today how the Nebraska attack IN the
third quarter was able to crumble the
opponent impregnable JayhaWker line
and settle a 10 to 3 score.
The reward of it's surprising uprising
in the first half, remarkable rally
in which the Cornhuskers were un-
questionably outplayed, netted the
Kansans only three points.
The huge, harsh. grinding drive OF
the Huskers was a more profitable
one. It netted two touchdowns and
the game in the third quarter.
It was hard to realize in the third
quarter that the team that was being
crushed and battered by the raids of
Husker backs was the same crew that
had checked rally after rally and sor-
tie after sortie of those same backs IN
the first two periods. A rugged wall
that held and held became flmsy
hedge that gave and gave.
First Quarter ScOreless.
The first quarter was a scoreless af-
fair. Kansas started punting early and
had all the better of the exchanges in
the booting line, managing to keep the
ball pretty well out of its danger lines.
Nebraska couldn't get well started
when in possession of the ball, for t
struck a barrier at the line.
The Hawkers began to outplay their
opponents to an even greater extent at
the start of the second period, few
punts were exchanged and then a
short march of the Huskers was halt
ed about in midfield, Kansas taking
the ball on downs. Nelson, Pringle
and Foster gained and penalty aided
in gaining a first down.
Then Ruble and Pringle kept up
the march, and a 7-yard charge by
Nelson was good for another first
down. Pringle lugged the ball six
yards farther and then was thrown
for a loss-but the play was around
left end and carried the ball to a
point of vantage for Arthur Longorg,
a Horton, Kan, boy, to drop back
ground by stem" Foster for the first
score of the game.
Kansas continued to shine both at
offense and defense and the half end
ed to 0, Jayhawkers.
The Second Half.
The second half started inauspi-
ciously enough. There were some
harmless exchanges of punts and some
seesaw bucking.
The first big drive was launched
from the Husker i0-yard line, Cook of
the scarlet jerseyed eleven placing the
ball there after receiving a punt.
Paul Dobson dropped back and
flung a forward pass to Schellenberg
for a 20yard gain. Cook, Schellen-
berg and Dobson romped to a first
down. And then Johnny Cook turned
the tide of the game. Receiving the
ball on a direct pass the Husker back
shot far around the Kansas right end,
his interference picking off the Hawk
ers as fast as they would appear. Fos-
ter made a final lunge, but failed, and
Cook completed his 35-yard trot be-
hind the Kansas goal. Captain Shaw
booted a seventh point.
But that was just start. Nettles
kick d off, and he kicked right into
another big drive. 1t was a case of
tramp-tramp tramp-the boy5-are-
marching from the time Rhodes was
downed on his 3O-yard line.
Smash-smash- smash at the Kansas
line. HUI ka was the center of the
battering ram. Cchellenberg and Dob
son thanked the Bohemian on either
side and did their share of the Juggling,
too. There was only one interruption
to tie march. After the Huskers had
completed four first downs in rapid
succession a 15-yGrd penalt gave
them fifth and put the ball Kan