Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-26

winning or losing she has the hearty
support of every Iowan, and 1t is this
assurance that will spur the men on to
the hardest fight against odds that
Iowa has ever made.
1t is the great game of the year and
n large number of rooters will accom-
pany the team from not only Iowa City
hut from points all over the state.
There is nothing in the United States
today, in the line of sports. that is
commanding as much attention rs foot
ball. From the east to the west and
from north to south, this afternoon
sees seething masses of humanity pill
ing, one over another, in mad struggle
to win. Foot ball may be called a
brutal game by some, (and generally
| it only is by people who neither have
seen a game, or, perchance, have seen
one or two and do not understand iO
yet there is nothing that will take
its place at this season OF the year.
Base ball comes the nearest to 1t in the
summer months, and Is styled the
American game, but foot ball creates
more enthusiasm and. being more of
q college game, is almost absolutely
devoid of professionalism. The one
great argument brought against 1t by
people who oppose it is the number
! of accidents, yet they are comparative
ly few, when 1t is considered the num-
ber of people engaged in playing foot
ball in a season. II the truth We're
known. and a careful comparison made
with a base ball season, it is doubtful
;if foot ball showed more serious ac-
cidcnts than base ball.
There is one game in particular in
which Iowa people are interested today
and that is the Iowa Minnesota game
at Minneapolis. Altho there is not
that individual interest that every one
in the state felt last year, because of
the superior excxellence of the eleven.
and It's continued victories, yet all
Iowans are hoping that in some man
squeezed out. The outlook is not at all
hopeful, however, and, some are fear
full that the Hawkeyes will not even
score against the Gophers. The Min
nesota team gives promise, by great
odds just now. of showing all teams
of the west how the game should be
played. and in the end winning the
western championship. The practice
OF the Iowa team has been of q very
satisfactory nature for the past week,
was extremely snappy and the coaches
announced themselves with being bet
ter pleased than they had over any
previous Work This IS the first big.
game of the university this season and
with the men who have been laid out
by injuries the team is somewhat weak
err than its friends would wish. Will
liams. the star quarter. will be in to-
days game despite the abcess on his
foot.
Another game in which Iowa is also
particularly interested is that of Ames
and Nebraska, at Lincoln. 1t is only
another case, however. of seeming GER
tain defeat, for the Nebraska fellows,
Ialtho badly beaten in the Minnesota
game, are thought to be more than
match for the farmers. Ames will go
into the game, however, with the best
team she has had on the field this
season. A great deal of interest is also
centered on the Missouri Drake game,
at Des Moines.
The big game for the west in general.
today, is that between Pennsylvania
and Chicago, at Chicago. 1t is the
annual east versus west contest and
as consequence the west alone is
not interested. None other than big
victory for Pennsylvania is expected,
especially in view of the bad defeat of
Chicago last Saturday by the Univers-
to not even as much as score.
Games of the west and east, sched-
uled for today, are as follows:
Chicago Pennsylvania at Chicago.
Northwestern Illinois, at Champaign.
Minnesota Iowa, at Minneapolis.
wisconsin, Kansas, at Madison.
Michigan Buffalo, at Ann Arbor.
Purdue Indiana, at Bloomington.
Notre Dame-Beloit. at Beloit.
Missouri Drake. at Des Moines.
Nebraska-Ames, at Lincoln.
Knox-Cornell, at Galesburg.
Yale Columbia. at New Haven.
Dartmouth Bowdoin, at Portland.
Harvard-Carlisle Indians. at Cam
bridge.
Princeton at Princeton.
Oberlin- Cornell. at Ithaca.
Three Iowa Games played yesterday,
resulted as follows:
Simpson College, Indianola, VS.. Iowa
State Normal School. at Cedar Falls.
tie game, to 6; Iowa College vs.. Des
Moines College, at Grinnell, Iowa, "A;
Des Moines, O; Still Osteopaths VS..
papp C,oIlara at CeS MofneS Still 10.
Penn ii. The biggest surprise in the
three games is that the Normals should
have been able to hold the big Metho-
dists from Indianola down to tie
score.