Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-06
AN[S AND IOWA FOR N.
Two State Institutions Will
Fight Out the Contest For
Championship
OTHER SCHOOLS ELIMINATED
Grinnelps Defsat Saturday Put Her
Out Of the Race and Drake Is Not
Likely to Have Any Good Claim to
the First Plsoe - 9. Y. I. to Play at
Ames.
Special to Times Republican
[By K. D. Steere.l

Special to Times Republican.
[By X. D. Steerel
Iowa City, Nov. 6.--Last weeks
games demonstrated conclusively that
there are but two teams In the state
this year who will be the real con-
testants for the championship of Iowa.
And these two teams are the State
University and the State Agricultural
College. Grinnelps hopes Of figuring
In the final result were thoroughly
shattered after the Iowa game and
those who had been following the
work OF the Scarlet and Black team
during the entire season knew after
the Penn game that 1t was only a
question OF how big the Hawkeyes
would run up the score. AS predicted
two weeks ago Grinnell took q severe
slump following the. Drake game. The
men had been coached up to that
point and having won the game the re-
action was enough to disorganize the
play OF the squad.
brakes high score against Simpson
Is not particularly significant. The
halves were thirty-five minutes long
and the difference in the weight OF the
two teams which is reported to be
twenty pounds. began to tell after the
game had been running ten minutes.
From that time on 1t was slaughter.
While Drake has undoubtedly gained
in speed and team play since they
were defeated by Grinnell. Iowa Uni
versity is not worrying much over the
outcome Of the Drake-Iowa game,
November Is.
The rise and fall OF the Grinnell
team, which has furnished the needed
sensation to relieve the monotony Of
the midseason series, when the teams
were getting in shape for the cham
pionship games late IN. November, will
long be remembered as one Of the most
interesting phases Of an erratic seas
on. On a par with the reversion OF
form shown by the G'rinnell team has
been the development OF the Hawkeye
aggregation which started strong then
fell away till it reached the lowest
point on the day 1t played the Alumni.
october IA. since which time the
progress has been constantly upward.
The Ames Team.
The fact that. Nebraska did not de-
feat Ames by more than twenty one
points cannot be taken to mean that
the farmers ARE exceptionally strong
or that Nebraska has suffered serious
decline since the Michigan game. The
halves were shortened to twenty min
utes and the two teams met on a field
ankle. deep in mud. Nebraska can de-
feat Ames by about sixty points on a
fast field and playing the game that
1t did against Michigan eleven, but
Coach Booth knew better than to risk
his regulars on slippery field with the
Minnesota game only two weeks dis
tant. Interest in the state campaign
will now center in the development OF
the state university and state agricul-
stural college teams. The big game OF
the season will be played at Ames when
these two elevens meet and there is
little doubt but that that game will set
tie the state championship. Grinnell
is down and out for good. Drake is
showing little stronger but will hardly
be a factor in the state campaign. The
first place will rest with Iowa or Ames.
Tho Coming Games
The week will be a particularly in
teresting one in the state. Des Moines
college which has forged to the front In
a way entirely foreign to that institu-
tion's athletic teams, will meet the
state university at Iowa City and while
there is little doubt over the outcome
OF the game 1t is believed that Coach
Hamilton's squad will furnish almost
as good a game as Grinnell did. Ames
will meet Grinnell at Grinnell and the
resulting score should give some line
Of Iowa and Ames. 1t is entirely pro-
baible that the Agricultural college
will run up higher score than Iowa
did Grinnell's defeat by Iowa sent that
team still further down the list and the
coaches will hardly be able to get the
injured men.in shape to meet the heavy
cornhuskers Normal will meet Penn
at Cedar Falls In a. game that will be
fully as interesting as the Coe Normal
tie game this week. Both teams have
a bunch Of men that never quit, they
are fairly well matched and the
outcome is much In doubt though the
Quakers seem to have shade the adj
vantage brakes game with the Has
KEEL Indians will mean little In the state
campaign. Simpson Cornell and coe
will meet minor teams. All three have
gradually gravitated toward the bot
tom Of the list as the season has pro-
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