Hawkeye . ege and the University of Nebraska, the respective scores being 35-24;S6-0; 36-14; and 20-18. The only morsel of comfort was the defeat of the University ofMissouri on the home grounds by the score of 34-12. The disastrous trip to Denver and its attendant game with an ath-letic club was both the beginning and end of the University of Iowasexperience in football with athletic clubs. As marks of the development of football spirit, the local papers ofNovember 18, calls attention to the posting of a bulletin in Max Mayersstore window within three hours after the Kansas-Nebraska game, giv
Hawkeye . ege and the University of Nebraska, the respective scores being 35-24;S6-0; 36-14; and 20-18. The only morsel of comfort was the defeat of the University ofMissouri on the home grounds by the score of 34-12. The disastrous trip to Denver and its attendant game with an ath-letic club was both the beginning and end of the University of Iowasexperience in football with athletic clubs. As marks of the development of football spirit, the local papers ofNovember 18, calls attention to the posting of a bulletin in Max Mayersstore window within three hours after the Kansas-Nebraska game, giv-ing results. In the evening following the Missouri game an informalreception was given the teams at the St. James Hotel. A terse localat the end of the season remarks that we only lost $50 on the season. The season of 94 began with a coach, Roger Sherman, of the Uni-versity of Michigan, on the field September 20. Football in the middlewest may be said to have really begun to take on university form in the. years of 1894-95. Iowa in 1894 for the first time as should have been done years beforelooked East for games. After losing to Ames and defeating Augustana College and Cor-nell, Iowa for the first time met Chicago University and played a tie game 18-18. TheChicago game vs^as followed hy a game with University of Wisconsin atMadison /wo days later, Wisconsin wining 40-0, this was the first and lastgame between Iowa and Wisconsin. Kansas lost to Iowa 14-12, whileMissouri won by a score of 32-6. The annual Grinnell-Iowa game wasplayed at Iowa City, the game ending in a row, and the Grinnell teamleft the field. The annual Thanksgiving day game at Omaha terminated with anoverwhelming victory for Nebraska, the score 36-0. If the season of 1894 marked the introduction of university footballinto the West, it also was the beginning of real university football were so huge and startling that the faculty may be said to haveopened the season of 95 by recommending a discontinu
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