Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-21
The College Season In Iowa
Will Begin In Earnest On
Saturday of This Week
SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEAMS
Non Arrival of the East Des Moines
Team for the Game at Grinnel'
Saturday Was a Disappointment -
Ames Team Likely to Be Good One
Situation at S. U.
IBy r. A. cook.l
to Times Republican.

| SQeCldI to meS-RepuDllCan.
Iowa City. Sept. 21.-The football
season in Iowa, which was TO have
started Saturday with the Grinnell-
East High game, postponed on account
OF late trains on the Rock Island will
when every college team will start the
season with n good, fresh record. Drake
plays Still college, Grinnel plays Coe,
Ames plays Highland Park. Iowa plays
Cornell, and the State Normal plays
the Baptists of Des Moines. About the
only large school which does not get its
hand in this week is Simpson, which
reserves next week for her opening
game with Des Moines.
The nor-arrival of the East Des
Moines team was disappointment to
the Grinnell candidates, who expected
a good workout Saturday. short
lfne-up with the second team showed a
nice bunch of material for the Grinnell
team. Her men are heavier than last
year. while. from all evidences enabling
a judgement to be formed, her back
field viii be one of the fastest in the
state. With the new rules especially
favoring Il fast backfield, Grinnell may
be expected to press this advantage
hard upon her rivals, Drake and Ames,
who have defeated her in the past few
years.
DIR. Monilaw has an excellent bunch
of material for his moulding this year
and is taking hold of the work in a
manner that looks like success. With
both weight and swiftness to choose
the Drake team from. he is getting his
men in hand very nicely. 1t looks as if
the Drake authorities did an excellent
thing when they engaged Monilaw to
succeed Dietz One of the advantages
which Is already appearing is that it
consolidates the coach and trainer and
thus removes the chance for friction
which persists In cropping up when
these workers are separate.
From reports from careful observers
who have seen them in practice,
the Anaes team will look worse to her
rivals this year than ever before. Ris-
tine has the same big stock of men to
select from. the kind of human flesh
that resembles some of the prize stock
which also comes from Ames, in point
of size. He has practically the same
bunch OF candidates from which to Sc
lect his team Much may be looked for
from his second year at Ames.
Not much will be heard from Simp-
son college until after her game with
Des Moines a week from Saturday but
from the old men who are back and the
names Of the new material. all we'll
known preparatory school performers,
Reid Is engaged In getting ready to do
things this fall.
The Iowa squad is yet in formative
shape and will likely remain so for two
weeks at least. Not much Of the old
material is available for this years
team and Coach Chalmers is having
hard work with the new candidates.
He is very popular with all the cand1-
dates, but beyond this good omen, moth |
ing can be told of the probable strength
or weakness of the Iowa team.
The State Normal is more or less
of an unknown quantity on account OF
her many new men. DIR. Peil may be
able to get some giants out of the school
and he may be able to pull together
some fast ones.
Chicago opened the Lombard game
with the dash and force that has been
expected of her this year and Will very
probably end the last game of the sea-
son, that with Michigan on Turkey day,
nearer the western championship than
she was last year. Illinois did good
work with Englewood high school. 1t
is a bit early to say yet what success
Woodruff will have under the new rules
which appear to be directed right !
against his theories Of playing the
game, but he has two good, fast heavy
weights, Rothgeb and Fairweather, who
will work we'll in most any position.
Minnesota did only fair work against
Central.
Kansas City-Fire in the telephone
building occasioned a loss of $150,000 |