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Show . 'Zltah 14, Q)rake 33 No one expected the Utes to pull the wool over the eyes of the Missouri Valley conference champions, especially in our first game of the season. No one was disappointed. On Oct. 4 the powerful Drake eleven did defeat us, although the 33 to 14 score gives a rather distorted comparison of the relative merits of the two teams. By this we do not mean to detract from the wonderful machine that the Easterners presented us on Cummings Field. However, when we remember that those brilliant long end runs, accredited to the Iowa captain were missed by inches, we cannot help but think that with just a few more of the breaks at least two of the visitor's scores might have been prevented. At any rate they had it on us and there is no gainsaying the fact. It was not an inglorious defeat. Later our worthy opponents soundly trounced Oklahoma 28 to 0 and just the week before, the latter team downed Nebraska, one of the leading elevens in the country. Our hearts went out to those Red Devils when in the last quarter with five touchdowns piled up against them they fought with a dominating vigor and simply outplayed the Bulldogs and sent over our second score on straight football, the hardest earned variety of gridiron counters. This game marked the first time in our history that the "U" has met an Eastern team in a football contest and in its success, we hope that an era of inter-sectional games has begun. Page Two Hundred Eleven |