Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1905 — CHICAGO IS CHAMPION. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO IS CHAMPION.

University Football Team Wins Over Michigan Eleven. Chicago University’s football team is champion of the West. By the narrowest margin possible, “by a hair,” Stagg’s great team wrested the laurel from the Michigan team, which has worn it for .four years, defeating the Wolverines at Marshall field in Chicago by the score of 2 to 0. The battle between the gridiron warriors representing the Maize and Blue and the Maroon was one of the fiercest, most spectacular and most elQsely contested ever seen iii the Middle West. The two teams were evenly matched and the struggle surged up and down the field, almost all the fight being made between the thirty-five-yard lines. Victory came to the Maroons unexpectedly and dramatically. Neither side had’gained any appreciable advantage over its opponent up to the middle of the second half. Then Eckersall dropped back to punt, the Maroon offense being held. The kick was made from .tills center of the field and the ball sailed high and far away,, close to the Wolverine goal posts. Denny Clark, playing back with Barlow, caught the pigskin just behind Michigan's goal line, and attempted to run it out. At this* point caine the turn in the tide of affairs that robbed Michigan o? the championship and gave it to Chicago—a quick appreciation of the possibilities in tlie play,, seen by Captain Catlin of the Maroons. Nobody interfered for Clark, who was attempting to find an opening.in the on-rush-ing line of the Maroons. He stepped inside the field —a fatal mistake —and' in an instant Badenoek was upon him, stopping his progress only momentarily, for lie inissed the tackle, but Captain Catlin pounced on the Wolverine in an instant and threw him back behind his own goal line for a safety, giving Chicago its two points, This was the great active incident of a game which crowned Chicago with the laurels sos which it has fought for four years. ,