Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — BIG FOOTBALL GAMES. [ARTICLE]

BIG FOOTBALL GAMES.

Western Championship Is Decided 1 by Score of 12 to 11. Michigan by defeating Chicago on Thanksgiving day by a score of 12 to H won the football championship of the West. Tae Wolverines outplayed the Maroons in the first half, but in the second half the Chicagoans rallied to an appreciable extent in their team work. Widman of the Ann Arbor eleven made a remarkable run of sixty-four yards that resulted in one of the two touchdowns made by his team. Herschberger drop-kicked a goal from a point forty-six yards from the line that netted five of Chicago’s score, the other six being secured after a sensational series of dashes and plunges just before the end of the game. Chicago Athletic Association’s football team defeated Dartmouth University eleven by a score of 18 to 5. It was the first meeting of the two crack organizations since 1894, when the local stars vanquished the visitors, 4 to 0. Northwestern University’s football team was defeated by the eleven representing the University of Wisconsin by a score of 47 to 0. Far and above all the other features of the game was the great drop kick of Patrick O’Dea from Northwestern’s sixty-yard line. This feat of the Wisconsin kicker came early in the contest and was the probable cause of the Northwestern team going so completely to pieces. It breaks the American record for long-distance drop kicking. Following are results of big games: Milligan 12, University of Chicago 11; Wisconsin 47. Northwestern 0; Chicago A. A. 18, Dartmouth 5; Ulinoiu 11, Minnesota 10; Pennsylvania 12, Cornell 6; Oberlin 10, Purdue 0; lowa University 6, Nebraska 5.