THE KANSAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 14, 1908
NUMBER 25
JAYHAWKERS 20; CORNHUSKERS 5
The Jayhawkers Make a Long Reach for the Coveted Title of Champions of the Missouri Valley by Defeating the Well Trained Warriors of "King" Cole on Their Own Field at Lincoln.
DAHLENE MAKES RECORD BY SCORING SIXTEEN IN THE FIRST HALF
Two Field Goals Kicked by Dahlene and Johnson and Two Touchdowns Made by Dahlene Made up the Kansas Score. Two Line Bucks and a Lucky Forward Pass Kept the Cornhuskers From Suffering a Shut-out. Dahlene Only Played the First Half. Forward Passes, Onside Kicks, Peek-a-boo Plays all Useless in Hands of Nebraskans.
In a game where there seems never to have been any doubt as to the merits of the contending teams Kennedy and Mosse's huskey warriors fulfilled the prophetic words of "Uncle Jimmy" Green today on the field of battle at Lincoln and securely tucked the much disputed football championship of Missouri Valley safely away under their belts. The score when all was over was 20 to 5.
There is sorrow tonight in the town of Lincoln. Victory for Nebraska was all too sure, and there was plenty of money on King Cole's crowd of gridiron heroes who this season have played Minnesota a 0 to 0 game, and have dangling at their belts the scalps of Ames and Iowa.
One of the great features of the game was the brilliant playing of Dahlene at fullback, who did all the scoring for Kansas in the first half. The battle was fought almost entirely in the territory of the Nebraskans, and only three times was there any apparent danger of the ball going over the Kansas goal line. The much heralded line plunging of the Cornhuskers availed nothing against the stone wall of the Kansas defense. Cook, the heady and fleet-footed quarter of the Northmen, was unable to work any of his slippery tricks and before the end of the game he was taken out. All the much talked of forward passes, onside kicks and peek-a-boo stunts that according to the dope Nebraska was scheduled to pull off did not materialize
The play had only been in progress twelve minutes when Kansas made the first score by Dahlene kicking a field goal. From that time on the game was in favor of Kansas except a brief space when the Cornhushuskers, fighting with the energy of despair, rushed over one touchdown.
Between halves while the score was 16 to 5 in favor of K. U. the Nebraska students showed brilliant enthusiasm by a
march around the field but their hard fighting team had given its all. In the last section of the battle as well as in the first Kansas was the agressor. Tommy Johnson made a field goal from Nebraskas thirty yard line and the scoring ended in the fiercest game seen in the Missouri Valley for many a day.
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska attended the contest and saw the contest and saw the manly Cornhuskers lose in a fair contest to the mightier men of the terrible Crowell.
Each man was a star and played the hardest game he was capable of.
Dahlene, Myers, Fiske, Caldwell, Crowell, Carlson, Reed, Wood, Johnson, Steele, Rice, Pleasant and Hennessey were the star warriors who won for Kansas the enviable position as champions of the Missouri valley.
FIRST HALF.
Dahlene for Kansas kicked off. Nebraska tried an onside kick and failed and the ball went to Kansas but lost on a fumble. Nebraska carried the ball within signaling distance of the Kansas goal but missed on a kick. Kansas with the ball plowed great holes in the much heralded impregnable line of the Cornhuskers, until the ball was on the 7 yd. line. Nebraska here took a brace and held for downs, with the oval only 1 yd. from the coveted stakes. Nebraska punted and the Jayhawkers crowded the Cornhuskers to the 30 yd. line, Dahlene kicked first goal.
On Nebraska's kickoff Caldwell got the ball and returned 10 yards. Kansas then punted, but Nebraska did not keep the ball. Kennedy's huskies with the ball worked the tandem on King Cole's men for big gains. After marching several yards down the field Kansas punted and Nebraska was forced to return the punt owing to the ball being to close to the Cornhuskers' goal line. Fiske caught
the punt and returned the ball 25 yards, and placed the pigskin on the Nebraska 30 yard line. Pleasant then tried for goal but missed.
With the ball then on Nebraska's 15 yard line, the Cornhuskers tried a forward pass but were penalized, and the ball again stood within 5 yards of the place Nebraska was defending. Nebraska tried a punt, Johnson caught the ball but fumbled. Nebraska gave the ball to the heavy fullback Kroeger and he succeeded in getting around the end for a long run but was downed by Fiske. The ball then went to Kansas in the middle of the field. When Nebraska captured the ball again they tried a forward pass but Kennedy's men broke through the line and caught the Nebraskan before he had time to deliver the ball.
The ball then stayed in the middle of the field for several minutes, both sides fumbling. At this point Minor took Beltzer's place on the Cornhusker squad. Johnson punted the ball but again Nebraska fumbled. Dahlene got the ball and carried the ball over, and then kicked his own goal. Score: 10 to 0.
Nebraska kicked off and Kansas returned the ball 20 yards. Kansas tried a punt but the Kansas line leaked and the punt was blocked, giving the ball to Nebraska in the center of the field. It was then that the Nebraska braves took a spurt and went through Kansas line for two big gains, and coupled with the fact that Kansas was penalized 5 yard for off side playing brought the ball near the Kansas goal. Nebraska carried the ball over for a touchdown but failed on the kick.
Dahlene kicked off and Nebraska returned 25 yards. Nebraska punted and Johnson carried the ball through a broken field to Nebraska's 1-yard line. Dahlene again carried the ball over for the
second touchdown and again kicked goal. The score: 16 to 5.
Nebraska kicked off and Dahlene returned ball 25 yards to Nebraska's 25 yard line. Rice made a 10 yard gain and kept finding weak points in the Nebraska defense. At this juncture Steele went in for Fiske. Kansas failed to make their first downs and the ball went to Nebraska. With the ball in the center of the field in possession of Kansas the half ended.
Score, Kansas 16; Nebraska 5.
SECOND HALE
Kansas kicked off to Nebraska's 15-yard line. Nebraska then carried the ball for two gains of 1 and 5 yards. Nebraska carried the ball around the end for 30 yards, but was penalized 15 yards for rough playing. Nebraska then punted and Johnson returned the ball. Cook, the swift Nebraska quarter-back, was hurt but stayed in the game. Kansas worked a pretty onside kick and got the ball on the Nebraska ten-yard line. Kansas then tried to kick a goal from the 13-yard line but failed, and on the kick back Johnson carried the pigskin 15 yards. Kansas was penalized for 15 yards. Nebraska then carried the ball 15 yards and left the ball on their 15 yard line. Then for the first time they tried their much talked of peek a boo play and made 15 yards and then repeated the dose. Nebraska then had the ball on Kansas thirty-five yard line. Nebraska failed to gain and Kansas got the ball on 31 yard line. Johnson punted the ball 39 yards out of danger.
Nebraska then tried some heavy line bucking but only gained six yards in two trials, and lost on the third down. After several pretty punts and returns the ball was left in the center of the field. Battling like giants the two teams surged back and forward in the middle of the field until the big
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