The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-11-24
BEAT CREIGHTON
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STATE COLLEGE - .Es GREAT
FOOTBALL sES N WITH
GLORlOs Mn
ONLY TIME CATHOLICS HAVE YIELDED
Omaha Newspapers Say That Dakota
Game Down Like a Blizzard
and Dazzled Them.

State college closed it's 1921 football
season in a blaze Of glory by defeating
the hitherto undefeated Creighton uni
versity at Omaha last Saturday Z to 0,
making a fitting end to the greatest
football season in the history of the
school leaving a glorious record for
the greatest football machine which
Coaches West and Enke have ever de-
veloped.
The story of the great battle last
Saturday is graphically told by the
Omaha World-Herald in it's Sunday edi-
ton. "As a blizzard sweeps down from
the north numbing everything in its
path so South Dakota Staters froze
the hopes of Creighton university as
the chilling blasts from the snow col
ored jersey backs blew around the o
ners of the im~penetrable line and the
perfect arm Of Welch tossed pass after
pass into the arms of waiting Mer-
curies. From the first test of strength
until the last linesman had emerged
from the tangled mass, Creighton was
~outplayed. They were attacked in the
manner they had expected and all the
strength of the Blue and White was
insufficient to repulse the flank turning
tactics Of the invaders and the aerial
bombardment. While the tickle goddess
smiling in her most bewitching nan
ner on the Creightons in the first Skin
mish of the afternoon, they rolled back
the invasion for a moment and for the
only time during the battle the major
ity Of the observers were given oppor-
tunity to cheer. The ball had been
placed on Dakota's vineyard line as
the result Of a tumble, an end run
a buck. Condon's signal 'rasped out
and the big, fellow crossed the space
that separated defeat from victory
only to be called back because Of a
Blue lineman being offside. Never
again did Creighton have opportunity
to register.
State dazzled with the versatility
of attack. From identical formations
an end would be turned. a pass COM
pleted, a tackle pushed or the center
rammed and with 1t all no more per
feet Interference has ever been seen
in Omaha. As an entire army sur
rounds its standard, the visiting backs
protected their runner and not until
the last man had been clipped was
there any chance to bring down the
ball.
Everyone was expecting to see the
Blue open up a passing attack but it
failed to develop. Line attempts were
the only offering. Condor was called
to use his o frequently and his beau
tiful punting STAYED off the inevitable.
Now Dakota began to pass, over end,
later. I'VE center, anywhere. The ball
was kept continually in Creighton's
territory and the half ended with the
ball in Dakota's possession on Creigh-
tons 4Oyard line.
In the third period Bondage tackled
Schultz who had signaled for a fair
catch, and another of the heart-break-
ing penalties of fifteen yards was en-
forced. This was the beginning of
the end. The penalty placed the ball
on Creighton's 33-yard line and the
arm Of WEIGH shot the ball into the
hands of Coffey, twenty yards distant.
A sprint and he was over the victory
line. WEIGH added another point with
his toe. Everyone in the stands real
lied that Creighton was defeated, al
though the third period was only half
over. Creighton seemed to lose it's
punch when faced with an almost GER
tainty of defeat. and the last few min
utes Of play found Dakota tearing
around the ends for alarming distances.
The end came with Dakota on Creigh-
toms 9-yard line. For the first time in
1921 Creighton had met her master.
The Dakotans outplayed the Blue and
White in every branch of the game ex-
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