Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-07
SATURDAYS NEBRASKA GAME
Outcome Makes Clear That tho State
University of Iowa Needs Physical
Director or Trainer Iowa over-
como in Second Half After Playing
Nebraska Men OFF Their Feet.
1By K. d, Steere.1

have followed the fortunes Of the low
squad during the present season hat
a faint suspicion OF 1t after the Ames
game, when In the last half the super
Tor physical condition of the Aggie:
told again and again in their attacks
on the Iowa forwards. Only the pluck.
lest of playing saved the Iowa goal line
in the last half from second and wha,
would have been winning score. Ir
the first half Iowa clearly played then
off their feet.
Similarly was the champion eleven
of the state defeated by Nebraska
Saturday. Turnout the entire first hall
they outplayed the Cornhuskers, scor-
| ing one touchdown and closing the half
entirely in their favor. And all this
| was done with Captain Jones and
Quarterback Griffith out Of the game,
and Schwinn, Stoltenburg, Moore and
White suffering from injuries that they
had received a week ago in the cham
pionship contest with Ames. / be-
lieve 1t to be q fact, that the team that
defeated Ames would have defeated
Nebraska. But what might have been
done by the team at any other period
of It's history is not what was done.
and after all that Is what counts in the
score books.
In the second half the vital strength
of the team had been largely spent,
and the attack of the Cornhuskers
having lost nothing OF it's force, was
able to advance Bender and Benedict
at will. For all that they were defeat
ed the boys played game and gritty
contest and In defeat were regarded
body, who had confidently predicted an
adverse score OF more than thiryt
points.
The significance of the game lies In
the line it gives up on the probable
outcome of the Iowa Minnesota
Thanksgiving contest. In Nebraska's
game with the Gophers, they were
virtual winners, despite the final score,
but they went against a team that
greatly moderated them and that con-
dition gave them an advantage that
contributed greatly to the result. Had
Minnesota appreciated Nebraska's real
strength 1t is reasonable to suppose
that the game would have hardly been
as close. Minnesota will be preparing
for Iowa, and her greatest strength
will go onto the field at the beginning
Of that contest.
Iowa has three weeks to prepare for
the game. Griffith will be in the line
UP, and IL Jones is kept out until that
time 1t is probable that he will also
appear. The men should be in much
better physical condition despite the
fact that they will have to meet Illi-
nois but the week before. be-
lieve, however, that at the present
time that Minnesota has much the adj
vantage of the Hawkeyes.
Much honor Is due to Drake for the
article OF football that she put up
against the coming champions Of the
west. Especially should the work of
Burchrun be mentioned, but it should
have been able to get away for the runs
that marked his playing had it not been
for the fact that Monilaw had perfect
ed formation that successfully swept
aside the defense of Wolverines. To
score on the Mighty Michigan eleven
Is indeed an honor for any Of the Wes-
tern conference teams, and for Drake
to do so is more or less surprising. 1t
was a substitute team, of course, that
opposed the Des Moines players, but
their work was very good just the
same.
Normaps big score proves that they
are going to be hard proposition for
Drake in the annual contest at Des
Moines. On comparative scores of
course, Normal can claim that 1t has
much the better Of Drake, since it de-
feated Coe Is, while the Des Moines
schoa! only rolled up 81. Normal has
some very STRONG nen in their aggrega-
ton, notably, Jones, vic early demon
strated the weakness Of aowa's right
end. The way he got around the de-
fensive formation on that side of the
line in Iowa-Normal game was ex-
ceptional. The Normal Drake game
should be very good game to witness.
1t will "a deciding factor as to which
team shall carry away the second hon
ors in the state this year.
AS predicted, the play of the Aggies
showed a slump this week, though not
as great one as I had expected And
then too Grinneil has improved rapidly
during the past week and probably
played better ball than they have be-
fore this season.
Ames tried out several men during
the game and at tiraes their work was
listless. To defeat .Anes is brakes
entire object in living at the present
time. I shall not venture a prediction
vet, but consider that the game will
be a great deal more one sided than
the experts in the state would have us
believe. One team is going to roll up
three or four touchdowns in that con-
test. but there Is time to discuss that
in a later letter.
Penn College played with some I'M
known teams downstate and succeed
ed in rolling up about fifty points.
Perhaps the most humiliating defeat
was suffered by Cornell i'll a game
with Paul Coldren's Augustanas. The
game thoroughly demonstrated the
fact before pointed out. that Cornell
would take a decided slump after the
Grinnell game. understand that the
men are making little pretence OF
keeping In training.
The most remarkable reversal of
form in the entire state occurred in the
secondary school game between West
High and Marshalltown high school.
Williams has evidently been successful
in grinding into the Marshalltown boys
some of the Iowa spirit that after all is
such a potent factor in final results.