Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-01
Few Elevens In Iowa Played
Consistent Football In the
1908 Games
THE EXPERTS WERE ALL AT SEA
Those Who Attempted to Guess OFF the
Outcome of the Games Were eener-
ally Greatly surprised-erinneIl
Played Most Consistent Game of Any
iowa College.
[By R. A. cook.l
to Times Republican.


Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City. Dec. 1.-The season of
1903 saw some very erratic playing by
state football teams, some good play
ing, but no general advance in the
science of the game.
Take Iowa, for instance. Her game
against Illinois. which wound up her
season on Iowa field. showed her
playing excellent football, pronounced
not onl by comparative scores but by
experts who had seen all the confer
ence teams play, to be as good as that
played by any OF the conference uni
versities, save the two leaders, Mich
lgan and Minnesota
Again, Iowa had times, such as tho
Missouri game, when she played poor
football, and could possibly have been
defeated by Ames. the strongest of the
state teams outside of the university,
had Ames been playing Iowa instead OF
Missouri and Iowa played the game she
played against Missouri.
Ames had bad shedding in the Simp-
son game. Simpson had her bad spell
in the Drake and Grinnell games. Cor
nell had several slumps. The State
Normal was one week so strong, that
Or. Pell. her coach. announced that his
team could defeat anything in the
state. The next week Coe defeated
the Normal Coe College was defeated
early in the season by Cornell, but later
turned about and defeated Cornell.
Grinnell seems to have been the only
team that has played consistent game
terferred with by the absence Of four
Of her regulars from such important
games as the Ames game. Generally
defeated. Grinnell played thruout the
season with the steady pluck that Is the
dearest tradition Of the college.
New rules have had a perceptible
effect in keeping down the scores this
year. The rule requiring seven men
In the line has made the attack weaker
during the greater part of the games,
while the quarterback run has been Of
assistance to no team except Iowa,
where Griffith has occasionally done
brilliant work with 1t. The increased
power of attack within striking dis
tance of the goal, as compared to the
larger portion of the field, has gener-
ally meant touchdowns after the at
tacking team has gotten we'll started
within the 25-yard lines.
Coach Chalmers, of Iowa, Monilaw, of
Drake, Erickson of Grinnel, Williams
of Highland Park, and Sweeley of
Morningside have been new faces
among the state coaches. All have
succeeded very well at their positions.
Coach Chalmers at Iowa, has fulfill
ed the expectations which were form
ed at his arrival. With green ma
terial and a new system of play to
teach, he brought the Hawkeyes out
of their season finely. AS only two
OF the squad will not be back for next
years team. Coach Chalmers will be
able to take up next years work prac-
tically where he left off this year.
Dr. Monilaw developed very good
team at Drake, with the assistance OF
Julius Bacon. An excellent trainer, he
has shown himself also an excellent
coach. both practically and theoretical
ly. Coach Erickson at Grinnell has
pected from the material given him.
Williams at Highland Park, turned sew
eral surprises, the defeat of Cornell
College being one of his best efforts.
Sweeley at Morningside did well with
the material at hand.
The old coaches, Ristine at Ames,
Bryant at Coe, Lindgren at Cornell,
Reid at Simpson. and Pell at the Nor
NAL, all did we'll with their teams. Pro-
fe.sor Bryant at Coe has announced his
retirement as coach with the close of
this season, and Illinois will probably
call Lindgren to assist in coaching at
Champaign next year.
The relative ranking of the teams
in the state will be a theme for dis
cussion at f1resides in college rooms for
several months to come. All will agree
that Ames was the strongest team out