Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-23

quantity in Iowa foot ball has disap-
University met disastrous defeat
Saturday at the hands of a team which
thus far in the season has shown little
hopes of developing into anything
really strong. Aside from the disap-
pointment felt turnout the entire state
over the unsatisfactory showing made
by the former Michigan halfback, the
Grinnell- Drake game was significant
contest in many ways. The strength
ening of the Grinnell team during thu,
past two weeks Is the most interest
ing event of the season. Grinnell bare
ly defeated Coe College week ago by
the same score that they defeated
Drake. On the same day Drake won
from Coe twenty weight to fifteen.
Grinnelfss victory over Drake places
that team in direct line for the cham
pionship of the state. With that ques-
ton in mind Iowa sports are wonder.
ing If the Congregationalists will be
able to keep the pace they have sci
themselves. Penn will meet them next
Saturday and on the following week
they will play the State University If
Coach Bergen has had his men at the
top of their form for the Drake game
1t is going to be hard for him to get
them back there for the important
game with Iowa. Penn can be depend
ed upon to put up game fight tho
Grinnell should win the game without
very great difficulty. But the mino.
teams in the state have shown so
many reversals of form this season
that it is hard to predict the outcome
OF any contest
One thing is certain Grinnell will
need every pound of strength and de-
velopment that brilliant coaching and
training can give it when it meets
Iowa. The Hawkeyes have long since
passed the, bottom Of their down hill
trip and the Gophers found Saturday
that they had come long way back
UP hill since the decentralization follow
ing the contest with the Maroons and
the Alumni. Instead of starting them
down hill the game with Minnesota will
act as a spur to their rapid advance
meflt. The playing of the Hawkeyes
was at times positively brilliant.
Iowa Improving.
Iowa has at last found the spirit
that it has lacked during the entire
season. The game with Normal next
Saturday vii, be nothing more than
a practice contest and with the two
weeks rest following Saturdays drub-
bing Coach Chalmers, braves will be
In great shape to meet Grinnell. Arnes
rx,Sn v1,A N,,tv All ~, c11J
ing the game with Iowa. In view Of
this series Of contests every eye in the
state will be centered on the Congre-
gational school. The game with Penn
next week should tell whether Grim
nell has suffered any decline since the
Drake game and in round about way
the dopesters will expect to reach some
conclusions as to- the possible outcome
Of the Hawkeye contest which now as
sumes championship proportions.
Drake Still in It.
In spite of Heston's defeat Drake
must not be considered out of the rum
ming for the state championship. Grim
nell met Drake at a, time when they had
had no scrilnmage practice for the pre-
ceeding two weeks. They were surpris-
ed by the quickness of the attack and
before they could fairly realize what
had happened the, inning touchdown
had been made. From that time on the
game was largely fought out in Grin
nelTs territory. No one wishes to de-
tract from Grinnelrs glory. When
the season is all over that game will
probably stand as one of it's most re-
smarkable contests. But the fact re-
mains that Drake has not Caught it's
step vet and If Heston is capable of
doing 1t he can make Drake a formid-
able opponent for any team in the
stale.
Ristine's Eleven.
While the state agricultural college
met one of the weakest teams in the
state the high score of sixty three
points would indicate that Ristine's
men have not suffered any ill effects
from their game with the Gophers last
week. The coming week is as yet an
open date for them and as they will
meet the strong University OF Nebras-
ka team two weeks later the men may
be given q rest. Arnes viii have the
advantage in meeting GrinneN,s Mo-
vember IL, the week following the lat
ter's game with the state university.
Turn which way it will the latter con-
test is bound to be one of the best
games in the state this year. From
that game Grinnell will emerge in q
more or less battered condition and
unless her championship aspirations
have already been disposed of Berg
man will have considerable trouble IN
getting his men in shape to whip
Arnes.
Instead Of being rather tame af-
fair this week and next the football
campaign in Iowa is bound to prove
exciting. Can 0rinnen continue to Inn
prove and IL 50 can it defeat the State
University? VIII Drake take an awful
slump following its defeat at the hands
of a supposedly weaker team Or will
that defeat spur the men on to great
err exertions? Is Ames really as
strong as the Simpson score would in
dictate? And lastly is state University
as weak as it appears? All of these
questions must find their answer in the
work of the teams during the coming
weeks.
One hesitates to predict the outcome
of any state game since the great re-
versal in form shown by Grinnen, but
next Saturday iowa will probably de-
feat Normal Grinnen is supposedly
strong enough to smother Penn. Corr
nell ought to put the hooks into Simp-
son and the coe-Ies Moines College
contest Is toss-up; pick the team you
like best. / choose Coe.