Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-24
Cornell's Defeat of Coe Gives
Her Good Claim to the
Championship
coz LEADS THE SECOND GROUP
Ames' Victory Over Penn Was Easy
and Her Defeat of Simpson Thursday
Is predicted-Defeat of the Univers-
ity by Missouri Raises Important
Question.
TBy r. A. Cook.l

year she has ever had at Cedar Rapids
Saturday Her game with Coe was the
most important state college game
! played Saturday and wound up the
] Cornell schedule in excellent shape
The record made by Cornell this year
is one of which the students and alum
nj who raised the fund to bring Coach
1 Lindgren to Mt Vernon may well be
proud. Victor over Ames, Drake, Coe
and Morningside, and having held Chi
cago to 81 points, Captain Miller's
eleven this season ranks with the
strongest state college elevens and can
! put up a good argument with any
claimant for the college championship
| of the state. Were it not for the Nor
NAL and Grinnell games, Cornell would
rank without doubt next to the uni
vers:ty in strength. These defeats were
peculiar, coming from teams which had
met overwhelming refeat from teams
which Cornell defeated. They are
doubtless the reversals of form which
often come to all but veteran teams
despite the best efforts of the coach
and the old players on the team.
The Cornell-Coe game was a beauti-
full exhibition OF foot ball. Cornell
relied on straight foot BALI for her
touchdowns until near the close of the
game, when the long END runs that
evoke loud cheers from the spectators
We're called upon to increase the score
The game was at no time too one
sided. Coe frequently held Cornell for
downs and once or twice penetrated
Cornelrs territory far enough to cause
her enthusiastic rooter's to shout
touchdown, touchdown" All of Cor
nelFs gains We're made with variations
of the tackle back formation. Her most
successful play was made by calling
left tackle Mills back to in front of
left half-back Latimer. Mills dashed
straight into the line and Metimer ran
thru the hole he made for five and
ten yard gains. Goes defensive forma-
ton, made by calling the center out
of the line to behind the left guard and
putting the quarter back behind the
right guard, was one which weakened
the center of her line, her inexperienced
players beirg unable to cover the
ground demanded of the second line
of defense with the necessary quick
ness and sureness. Goes two line tan
dem made the mistake Of playing too
wide and dashing plump into the wait
ing arms of the Cornell tackles 1t
frequently gained ground, however,
particularly when the ball was given
to Currens.
Coe played a game entirely creditable
to her college and one that well de-
served the enthusiastic march around
the gridiron given in honor of the elev-
en- after the victorious Comedians had
left the field. Goes defeat of the STATE
Normal team gives the Cedar Rapids
college premier honors in the secon,
group of state colleges, composed OF
Coe, the State Normal, Penn, Des
MONIES, Western, Upper Iowa. Morn
ingside, Amity and Parsons. But one
more game remains to be PLAYED in
this group, the Penn Western game
on Thanksgiving day. The Normal
closed her season in bad shape by can
ceIing game scheduled with High
land Park, so the Des Moines business
college manager asserts, because. for
sooth, the Normal was afraid of losing
the game. The Normal is entitled to
SECOND honors in this group of col
ieges because of her defeat of Cornell
and her touchdowns on Iowa and Simn-
son. Penn ranks third by her tie game
with the Normal and fourth place vii,
rest between Western and Des Moines
until after the Penn Western game
Thanksgiving day
Ames showed by her large victory
over rem that she is still in the best of
shape, despite her tie with Drake. and
may De expected to play her best game
with Simpson on turkey day. The re-
suit of this game and of the Drake
Grlnneii game will be awaited with
great interest as affording some solu-
iton to the perplexing college cham
rionship question. Drake looks now to
be slated for hard struggle with Grin
nell and II Anles can roll up score of
twenty points or more on Simpson the
claims of the Ristine' men will indeed
look strong.
brakes game against Des Moines on
Friday was ragged piece of work from
the standpoint of team play, tho indi-
vidually Stewards line plunges were
very brilliant. Des Moines played a
strong game and held the Drake eleven
many times for downs. Simpson won
from the Normal Tuesday by good de-
fensive work, but the men from Indian
ola played very poorly on the defensive.
Sioux Jones, the Normal captain, added
to the number of his brilliant touch
downs by one off Simpson on tandem
plunges.
Iowa met her first defeat by a non
conference team on Thursday. Mis-
souri, was the team that turned the
trick and they did it by team work,
referee stood on it and declared it dead.
True, the Missourians' touchdown was
earned, because of things which the
watchful officials failed to see, but this
is an accident of football which must
be accounted to fall on the side of the
strongest battalion. Iowa's defense was
not disappointing, but the offense ran
with a tender regard for hitting the
Missouri line that caused deep de-
spondency among the Hawkeye rooters.
1t is probable that this defeat will make
the Iowa players lose the heart that
they will have to have to defeat the fast
Illinois team on Thanksgiving day. Mis-
souri, has been one of the strongest advo-
Gates of the conference rules in the
state of Missouri and her victory will
materially help amateur sport in the
south and west.
In connection with Iowa's defeats this
year, rumors have been started to the
effect that Nebraska is to take Iowa's
place in the big nine in consequence of