Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-03 | Page 10 | Grange Beats Nevers in Clash of Professional Grid Teams

fRA GRANGE G B BEATS AT NE EVES ER I U CLASI LA H. H OF P OF AL G ID TEAMS TE M Leland Leau Stanford Wonder Woner Makes akes Teams Team's Only Score F Former ormer Georgia Tech Player Outshines Blonde and Redhead Redhead- Nevers' Nevers Fumble Costly d JACKSONVILLE Fla Jan 2 United Press Red Press Red Grange outclassed outclassed out out- classed Ernie Nevers on a professional football field here today and the Chicago Bears defeated the Jacksonville Stars All-Stars 19 t to 6 6 Though he made many costly fumbles Nevers redeemed himself in the last fast few minutes minutes min min- I utes of play On the fourth and final down and with five yards to go Ke Ire plunged over the theline theline line and saved his team from a shutout y It was Nevers' Nevers first game as a professional against the famous Grange Both showed e flashes of daring and speed that had the spectators gasping but neither quite equal equaled d the around all-around playing of Red Baron former American all-American star of Georgia Tech Grange made his best play la In the second period when he forward Passed passed for twenty-six twenty yards to Mullen who went over for the first touchdown of the tire game Later in the same sameS S period n ran twenty-nine twenty yards for fol fora fola touchdown the 13 3 0 a in v r Av y a making score to favor of Granges Grange's team Nevers made a costly fumble in the third period which netted the Chicago Bears their third score The Bears recovered t ho tho ball as asit G RANG E. E it slipped from the Pacific coast stars hands hands' and pushed it across Granges Grange's team was unable to score in the final perIod The The All All- Stars' Stars defense tightened and launched launched a desperate attack of its own on They Thov battered their way down the field and at the yard four line Nevers carried the ball to the Bears' Bears yard one-yard line Here the Stanford star again fumbled but the ball was recovered by one of his team team- mates Nevers lost four tour yards and this b brought ought the ball back to Granges Grange's yard five-yard line Then Nevers showed his class and with one supreme effort and and- aided by splendid interference r 1 plunged across with with- the score that saved him from a shutout at the hands of his famous rival l Score by quarters Bears 0 13 6 0 o-l o 19 All Stars All Stars 0 0 0 6 6 6 o The lineup Jacksonville Chicago Kendrick le le Goebel Texas Ml Michigan Fincher It It Healy Georgl Tech Dartmouth Ellinger lg Anderson Army Notre i t re Dame H. H Stein c V. V Vick Pitt Michigan Godwin rg Ic 1 McMillan Georgia Tech Illinois R. R Stein rt rt Murray Murray y V. W. and J. J Wisconsin Lawson re Halas Stanford Illinois Bowser J Pitt Illinois Barron Grange Georgia Tech Illinois Flanagan rh Pitt Illinois Nevers fb Britton Stanford S Illinois