Ohio State’s first-ever out-of-state football game in 1895 ended with a mob chasing the Buckeyes out of Lexington, and the Buckeyes haven’t played in Kentucky since that weekend.
Ohio State’s varsity football team played nearly all of their games in Columbus during their first five seasons. Most of their games away from home were short train trips to Gambier, Granville or Westerville. They’d traveled as far as Cleveland and Cincinnati, but they hadn’t competed on foreign soil until November 1895 when they ventured across the Ohio River to play two games on consecutive days in the Bluegrass State.
The “Scarlet and Gray clad boys” arrived on Thursday afternoon to a city decorated with banners that served the dual purpose of promoting the game to the locals while cautioning their visitors.“Watch Our Backs Run Over Their Ends.” A tense second half was played with possession of the ball exchanged back and forth tantalizingly close to the OSU goal line. Averse to punting from inside their own 10-yard line, Ohio State repeatedly lost possession of the ball after exhausting its downs, only to heroically deny Kentucky from scoring. Only five yards was needed to gain a first down at the time, so the tactics more or less resembled two Bighorn rams repeatedly battering one another.
As the game wore on, Howard became so distressed that coach Ryder felt compelled to remove the Columbus native from the game. Ryder tied a handkerchief around his “aching head” and walked the wary quarterback to an awaiting streetcar. As Howard was stretched out recovering on one of the streetcar’s bench seats, a commotion caused him to sit up and look out the window.
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