Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-30
Tigers ard Be0rcots
in Snappy GriGir0n
Fray Before Forfeit
UPStGterS Pushed Back and
They Stop Play Over a
Protested Decision.

GREENCASTLE. Ind, Oct. 30.-The
Tigers yesterday met the Beareats and
the Tigers won. De Paw, 1; Valpa-
rdiso, d. was the score of a forfeited
game captured by Coach Buss eleven.
To win by the forfeit route was as
unsatisfactory to the De PAW players
as it was to the hundreds of football
rooters who gathered to see one of the
most bitterly fought football battles ever
played In Indiana
puted play which came late In the third
period. The score was 0 to o. and there
had been little TO choose between the
two teams. 1t was the fourth down,
with eight yards to go. when the Tigers
lined up IN shift formation. 1t looked
as If De PAW would try a forward pass,
but instead Galloway made low, driv-
ing punt TO his left
Boo Gipssn was playing wide and he
spi tnted for the bail, grabbing it in his
outstretched hands, .ust as 4 ValpO man
was about to tackle him, hut two De
PAW players dove into the YElpo player
and GipSon Faced down the field thirty
nye yards, being downed on the one-yard
line near the side Of the field.
Ihe Valparaiso captain protested that
Elpson was not on side at the time the
pan was Kicked, that is, that GIBSON
VS. not back of the ball when II was
klcked, but Jim Durfee, referee. was in
the position back OF the Line OF scrim-
mage from which he could see IL Clip
son was back Of the ball at the time
GipsOn was on-side. 1t was De Pauw's
bail, first down on the one-yard line.
with the chance to score in sight
oCach BusS sent in Red Adams, the
star back field man of the Tiger team,
who had been watching the battle from
the side lines; but Adams never got his
chance to carry the bali, for Valparaiso
refused to play. Even after the captain
or the Valpo team had refused TO permit
his team to lineup. Referee Durfee ap-
pealed to Coach Keogan Of the Valparaiso
team, and he refused to abide by the
decision Of the officials. There was moth
Ing else that the refree could do, but
to give the game to De PAW on q
forfeit
Not In many years OF football have
two teams been more evenly matched. For
one TO win there had to be a break"
and that break came Twelve minutes
after the third period started VAL
paraiso, the team that held the giant
Harvard eleven TO a O-tO-0 tie in the
frst half, and Ted Notre Dame by 3-to-0
score at the end of tha first two pc
RODS, appeared confident Of a victory
started. But the Tiger defense was OF
Il type that no De Pauw team ever pre-
scented before.
Valparaiso was just as strong on the
defense. The Bearcats from northern
Indiana stopped all of DePauw's over
head passes and it was seldom that
either team could make more than one
first down.
Jim Durfee of Williams, one of the
veteran referees Of the gridiron. known
In all parts OF the country for his fair
ness and knowledge OF the game. ex-
pressed regret that 1t was necessary to
declare the game forfeited as be would
much preferred to have had the game go
its full time. Dufree had the full sup
port of the other two officials Of the
game. Heze, CLARK OF Indiana and Young
of Illinois Wesleyan in his decision.