Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-18
ARE EVENLY MATCHED
Saturdays Games Show How
Difficult It Is to Pick
Football Winners.
PRAISE FOR eRINNELL
Her Fight Against What Seemed to be
Hopeless Opposition Shows the Grin
nell Spirit to Good Advantage - A
Delight to GrinneIl Supporters-CoI-
Iese Championship is Perplexins.
IBy r. A. Cook.l

Iowa City, Nov. 1S.-The footbai
dope" received a hard blow Saturday
Those who believe that they can picl
the winning football teams from TIL
past performances of the elevens Were
grievously disappointed in the Cornell
Grinnell, Drake Ames, Normal-Penr
and Wisconsin, Minnesota games. t
say nothing of Pennsylvania game
with the Carlisle Indians and Illinois
contest with the Ohio State. Nothing
could be pluckier and more deserving
of the highest praise than Grinnelr:
| victory Saturday over team which
every one believed to be superior to her
Football games are in a large measure
| matter of nerve. The team that keeps
its nerve the longest gets the jump or
the other and the game is over, SO fal
as the result goes, nine times out OF
ten. So. for an eleven which enters q
game knowing that it's opponents are
better than they are to hold Its nerve as
long as its opponents hold theirs and
! then a bit longer is an achievement
which requires the highest quality oil
| football ability. This is just what
| might be expected, however, of the
| Grinnell spirit. The scarlet and black
eleven had won but one game before
! the Cornell contest that with Des
Moines College. The rest of the scores
| had ranged all the way from IL to 6
| against it to 102 against it, but Coach
Traits plucky eleven held onto its fa-
nous Grinnell spirit and won on that
more than anything else.
| The high order of play by both the
! Cornell and Grinnell teams shows how
! closely the college elevens of the state
are matched and how difficult it is to
| pick winner in any of their contests.
| The Ames- Cornell, Drake Cornell
| Ames- Drake, Grinnell- Cornell, Simp-
SON Drake and Cornell-Grinnell games
/ lave all been very close and in doubt
until the close of the play. Cornell
fought desperately to save her goal
| from the feet of the scarlet and black
warriors and several times held Grin
nell for downs within striking distance
Of the Cornell goal. Grinnell's supe-
riority to Cornell In almost every de-
aal'tment of the game was a surprise
us well as delight to the Grinnell sup
porters as much as to the Cornell SYM
Liathizers. The Cornell Grinnell game
was incidentally an interesting contest
tenn of play, somewhat diluted. Coach
Lindgren, of Illinois, was drilled in the
Princeton system of play by Holt, of
Princeton. while Coach Trait, of Grin
reil, received his instruction in foot
ball matters from Phil King, of Wiscon-
sin. formerly a Princeton player.
The result of Saturdays game is
quite perplexing TO the man who wants
a.. Al.
state, Iowa is the champion of the
state without doubt. but that has been
taken for granted for so long that the
principal interest in college football in
the state has been to pick team which
is entitled to premier honors, exclusive
CT the university. Ames, Cornell,
Drake, Simpson and Grinnell are now
closely punched and it will require the
Thanksgiving day game to decide the
matter of championship. Even then the
honors may not clearly belong to any
one college. Grinnell has a chance to
claim as much strength as any college
by defeating Drake by good score on
Thanksgiving day. Ames or Simpson
could make the honor by defeating the
other by a good total. Cornell closes
her season with the Coe game next
Saturday. Should she win by good
margin, it will make her case quite
strong.
At the present time. however, Ames
looks bit the strongest of the college
eleyens. She did not suffer defeat
Saturday at the hands of Drake. how
ever near she came to one. and the
muddy field may have made a consid-
cradle difference In the result. The
State Colleges strong games against
the conference colleges, Iowa and Min
nesota, help her standing materially
and she has but one defeat to explain,
that by Cornell. and this happened in a
test in goal-kicking, not in making
touchdowns.
Another Illinois coach, Martin of
Penn College. came to the front Satur-
Gay by PENIS feat in tieing the Nor
NAL team by the score of 6 to 6. Mar
tin had less material with which to
work than Pell, of the Normal, and is
entitled to praise for the excellent
showing of his team. Goes score of to
0 over Western shows considerable i'm
proyement in the Western team since
the early season game, which resulted
in total of SO for Coe. Coe College now
looks the strongest of the colleges who
rank in the list next below the strong
est college elevens. Her defeat of the
Normal and the close game with Cor
nell combine to give her a very credita-
HE record Des Mcines College had a
hard tussle with the Still doctors, but
succeeded in pounding out victory.
Iowa piled up a good total against
Washington University, of st. Louis.
Nothing to be chesty about, but enough
Ia give the Hawkeye students feeling
OF confidence again. Washington was
defeated by Missouri last week by "a to
0 and early in the season by Illinois by
Al to o. Iowa's score of 81 against her
on a very muddy field gives Iowa an
excellent chance against Missouri next
Thursday and an even show against
Illinois on Thanksgiving day. Incl
dentally. Iowa succeeded in making her
total scores in games exceed the total
Of other colleges against her, despite
the awful score of Michigan against
her. Iowa's scores are now 1876 to 1872,
Cornell has scored 119 tallies to 65.
Grinnell 169 to AZ, Simpson 70 to AZ.
and Drake 62 to 20. Coach Ristine's
eleven shows up in excellent form in
total scores. Ames has scored 201
points to her opponents 45.
The Wisconsin, Minnesota game re-
suited in a victory for Minnesota con-
trary to the expectations of many.