Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-03
GREAT FOOT Ball Day
Weather Fine For the Punters in
Today's Contests Great Game
For the West.
$. .. ]. Will Probably Defeat Chi.
cage on Marshall Field Other
Western Games
Pennsylvania Plays Harvard at
Cambridge -Grinnell Likely to
Win From Ames.

Cambridgs-Grinnell Likely to
Win From Ames.
The football season, altho just fairly
opened, Is rapidly drawing to close,
and but three more Saturdays folloW
for the great games of the colleges and
svarsities before the dawn of Thanks
giving day, which virtually marks the
drawing of the curtain on the final
games of the season.
Today is another eventful epoch In
the series Of football struggles, and to
the westerner especially there are con-
tests galore that will occupy his atten-
ton. To the 1owan there is at least one.
wrestling match that is intensely inter
esting. being the game on Marshall
field. where the University of Iowa
meets Stagg' men of the University of
Chicago. 1t ia really ths first big game
of the season for the Hawkeye varsity
eleven. and to her admirers the outcome
of the struggle means much. The game
today is simply the paving of the way
for the entrance of the Iowa team into
the western championship contests. The
Iowa team has met none of the larger
teams of the west. and altho its success
With those it has met during the season
has been phenomenal yet the friends Of
Coach knipe's men can not expect their
heroes TO have an easy victory, il VIC
tory ii proves to be-
Every one in Iowa. and at least every
one in Iowa City, expects S. e. |. to- de-
feat the Chicago wearers, Of the maroon
in this afternoons struggle, and the
Iowa City men are going TO Chicago
with that idea in view. To one uncon-
cerned, and Judging only from the past
merits OF the two teams, it looks as II
S. u. I.'s chances were very fair for
Victory. The Iowa team Will present
identically the same back field as it did
last sea son. when those speedy backs.
with the aid of dying interference,
icleverly worked, scored against Chicago
and held the maroons to tie Even
then it was more Of victory for 8. u.
1. than 1t Was for Chicago, as Stagg' 9
men barely earned their five points by
a field goal.
The Iowa line this year is heavy and
the ends are fast. The backs are all
fast, too, and Chicago admitted Iast year
that the back field of the Iowa Univer-
sity Was the fastest 1t ran up against
during the entire season. Each of the
opposing teams has INDUCED in secret
practice thia week on the formation
plays OF the other. or as much az each
could secure. The scrub teams have
been used to exemplify the plays and
the 'vars!ties have tried their powers at
breaking them up. The guards back,
borrowed from Pennsylvania. IL used
1 largely by s. Y. l.. and with Coach
4 knlpe's original end plays has proved
defective. The Chicago team. however.
Ets prepared for all emergencies and.
4 realizing knipe's reputation for origi-
Fnality. is prepared for almost anything
lin the way OF trick tactics. One thing
team be consclentiously vouchsafed. and
that isithat those who witness the Iowa
lchicago game this afternoon Will see
one Of the finest exhibitions of football
playing that has ever been seen in the
west
The Chicago-Iowa game is not the
lonly one that is commanding the atten-
t.tion of western footballists There are
1 other contests of equal Importance In
4 their respective localities, and on the re
suits of which depend just as much
4 Michigan. whom S. u /. will probabl,
have to meet if she defeats Chicago. Is
hooked for a struggle with Indiana, ant
i to Assist in coaching the Michigan team
Palmer, one of last years Princeton
4 ends and former prominent Grinnel
4 player, hap been secured. Wisconsin ant
4 Minnesota will meet at Minneapolis
Northwestern Will play Knox al Evan
ston, and Illinois battles with Purdue a
4 champaign. Notre Dame and Beloit al
so meet.
In the Iowa championship contes
there is one game today. Grinnel
and Amee meet on the formers field
r In this game the outcon1
is problematical and is claimed by bot
sides Grinnell has not allowed Amep t
peat her inSrecent years, and this sea
con, a!tho not having the team Of for
nler years, stands fair show of main
tanning her formerly esta biished reputa
ton. Ames started out the season wit
: an exceptionally strong team. but sick
j ness mas oNertaken a great many or he
e BEST players and the result is that 70
g the past few games Ames has had bu
! TOUR or i've regular players out 70
o Work ard has had to resort to secon
team men. If Ames We're In her condi
+ ton of the earlier part of the season II
doubtful if Grnnell would win ,his al
S tternoon's struggle, but as the condition
I are. Grinneil has trifle better chanc
: Iof winning.
In the east there are several impor
n tant contests on for today. Yale NEE,
= the cadets of West Point at West Poin,
: Cornell plays the Princeon tigers q
!. Princeton, and Harvard plays Penn.y,
o Yania The latter game is by far III
9 most important one booked for the eas
4 Other important games of today a,
I. as follows:
a Butler VS.. Wabash, at Indianapolis
!. Rose Polytechnic VS.. DePauw,
: Terre Haute
i Dartmouth VS.. Wesleyan, at Hanoye
Brown VS.. Boston, at Providence.
q An Iowa game yesterday that prove
an excellent article Of foot ball was II
= contest between the Campbellites
I Drake University and the Methodists
d Simpson College, Indianola. Drake VIC
! by score Of to 5. Aside from the Gril
! nell-Ames game today Iowa games al
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