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and Cream came up from behind and won, 7 to 20.

     A week later, which makes it Saturday, November 7, according to western time, Morningside college sent down a team with instructions to crush Nebraska, if possible. It was found to be impossible. To lend interest to the game, however, Jumbo put in the scrubs in the second half, and a lucky foward (sic) pass just before the whistle blew accounts for the peculiar looking figure on the tiny end of the score. Morningside 7; Nebraska, 34. On November 14, Kansas, who has been thirsting for revenge so long that it is doubtful if she ever will quench it, came up and started the Jayhawk crowing the moment she got it off the train. Before the game was five minutes old, however, it became painfully evident that Kansas had made some sort of a mistake. Some think that Kansas did not hear the starter's whistle until it was too late. Others claim that she did not expect the crowd that greeted her and merely put on her side show, sending

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Between the Halves

the main performance with the elephants on ahead. However, as it was, Kansas sustained a serious loss. The final score, after all the returns were

 

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Snake-Dance on Nebraska Field

in, was Kansas, 0; Nebraska, 35. Kansas acknowledged defeat.

      The Hawkeyes furnished the final sacrifice for Nebraska, the ceremony occuring (sic) at Iowa City. Iowa announced before the game that she was out to win, but it soon became evident that she had made a mental reservation which included the word "bets". So, while Nebraska won the game, 16 to 7, Iowa won the money, 2 to 1. However, it served the fellows right for betting on the score. We are glad to have the opportunity to lift our voice in protest against the vicious practice. If Halligan could have only kicked goals with both feet at once it wouldn't have been so bad, but he couldn't. The sports should remember that in the future.

      I have written the required fifteen hundred words, and everything I write from now on is a

  

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