| Show RED lED GRA GRAE NG T LS 1 f FAS N W IL S SETT TT NG G w ID R CO RD i Im is Halfback Defeats Michigan lone Handed I ILLINOIS STADIUM Urbana III III Oct 18 This This is the record of Harold Red Bed Grange old year Illinois halfback I perhaps the outstanding gridiron star in America last season ir in today's Michigan Illinois game Scored five touchdowns touchdowns four four in less than twelve minutes of play Broke away for successive runs of 90 65 55 and 45 yards fo for fog touchdowns Scooped up the ball on the very first kickoff and raced 90 yard yards dodging through Michigan's tacklers for a touchdown Carried tho ball in twenty twenty one one plays and pained the astonishing distance of yards Threw most of Illinois forward passes passe and also held the ball fo for Britton on the points for goal coal after touchdowns Grange was unanimously chosen for 1923 American all-American honors I By Henry L. L Farrell U United Press Staff Corres Correspondent ILLINOIS MEMORIAL STADIUM Urbana Ill Oct Ort IS 18 I I ILLINOIS Upon the staunch columns that support a handsome 2000 pile of brick and concrete in the new Illinois a stadium are aie are engraved in tablets the names iiames of dead lead heroes who I brought fame to Illinois on the battlefields of France Upon the mental tablets of ot 70 I spectators there was engraved tonight the tho memory nemory equally perpetual perpetual per per- o ot a living hero who had brought great fame and great glory to Illinois In letters as brilliant as his r red red- d- d thatched youthful head as big a as his five feet ten of brawn Re Red Grange went down as one of the Immortals of Illinois when lone- lone handed he gave Illinois a magnificent cent victory over Michigan by a score of 39 to 14 U. Unless the figures of the experts are all wrong the victory of ot Illi Illinois nois this afternoon mea meant t that Illi Illi- Illinois Illinois nois is the Western Vestern conference champion of 1924 To a fevered mind that had id been sent into delirium by the greatest individual performance ever seen upon any gridiron in a championship champion champion- ship game it Is Impossible to find words to describe the billI bril bill brilliance I liance of Harold Red Grange of Wheaton Ill Iii Red Grange didn't- didn't giVe witnesses time to get settled before ne tie began to pile up facts for fu future future future fu- fu ture history a succession of deeds that will make male him hint an Immortal with the Thorpe of Carlisle the I Heston of Michigan the Poe and White of Princeton and all theother the theother theother other greats of all ail greats The plunk of a Michigan toe against the opening kickoff hardly had been heard when Grange had the ball on Illinois' Illinois yard seven-yard line linc With a a. a like fan formation in front of him that worked like snowplow Grange was oft off tearing down the field H He overran hI his Interference at the fitt Y vai d lin 01 or perhaps they had bf n bowled out of his way by the hU husky I y for foT wards wards' of Michigan Past the m mid mid- field le 1 mark he went along turning this way and that wa va sneaking lg to the left and to the Ute right Tight on a and andon andon d don on until he had dashed ninety yards ads for a touchdown Har Hardly ll had the applause died down from tie the Illinois stands and before the stupefied look had been d I from the faces of the Michigan root rooters rs than Grange was wa va off again asaI I Given the ball from m n ordinary ry formation the topped red-topped hero herov v vas off again for a sixty fae sixty yard vard rUIl run to a touchdown The TIle Michigan team wa sva was and the Michigan w wire wera rG when Grange again agam a pass pass pass' from his quarterback adran and ad ran sixty five yards to a third third- tou touchdown Making laking fact even een stranger er tho th n a I fiction Re R Red c l was again agam way wayn wayna a few minutes for a fourth ton down Rockwell the Michigan nn II I quarterback fumbled a a. punt fon on on his forty tive yard forty ald line an and e a ehU hU huge e Roh of Illinois wa was or orthe oi 01 the ball P Give It to tp Red Red the Illinois sail gang I must mus have said when the huddled hudd ed behind the line to catch signals signals' that couldn't have been heard a any y other w way Ml p I They gaye gaVe the ball to Red andoff andoff and off oft he went again like liKo a R zig zig-zagging down the field forty yards for a touchdown I They took tOol Red out In m the second second d period He had tone done nObly a adwell and ad d dI well and there was waa a limit I human endurance With Ped Red oa os onI ostIe I tIe sidelines Illinois didn't score score in the second period He came back bacle in the third and when Illinois Illinois' reached the t 1111 ivel yard yarl line and wanted a another noU er touchdown the they called callea on R Rd d. d he went again in anu around twelve e yards to a n. n Michigan was then massing th the attack against Grange while th thou u sands of Michigan l rooters v wi-re wi ore fOre on their knees praying praying Stop Stop th that t Grange Grange and and on their feet the n ct minute demand demanding Stop Stop ng Stop th that t damned red led In the fourth period i hen ho had made several little runs total totalIng total total- Ing forty yards and had helped tto t to advance the ball to Michigan Michigan's yard twelve-yard line he stepped out of f his role and tossed a forward pa pato pass to Kassell for several yards Thin he tossed another pass pas to T and another touchdown as a- over the line C CSome Some red I It is but a matter of routine 0 tell that Michigan l n scored downs Two touchdown tn t might have been given to n It valiant I enem enemy by a gracious vl victor tor fl flIn In the second period a after a a. bad baa punt b by Britton the Illinois Illinoi rUI fullback full full- back who has a bad toe Mich gan got got tho the ball fifteen yu yards the Illinois goal line and Steger Steer tIed It over with a with end lU lUIn run In the fourth a penal penalty r i ifor for tor clipping against Illinois gaye Michigan the ball on the Illinois yard thirteen-yard line Ste Steger er and ald Heath plunged through for fO first t downs on the Illinois three three- yard three ard ardline line and Rockwell carried It t over on on the the second buck |
