Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-30
[By K. D. steere.l
Special to Times-Republican.

Iowa City, Nov. 30.-The work of
ranking the college foot ball teams of
Iowa is harder this season than any
previous one in several years past.
There is not college team in Iowa
with the possible exception of the Iowa
State College at Ames, but that has
shown erratic work. One week the
men have played particularly strong
game of foot ball, and another week
found them with their form all shot to
pieces unable to make a oreditable
showing. One Of the principal reasons
for the seemingly erratic work Of the
teams Is the fact that Grinnell. Des
Moines college, and Drake have had
new coaches. 1t is true that Boyle of
Des Moines college was the only man
who was entirely new to college foot
ball In Iowa, but Doc Pell at Drake and
Hamilton Of Grinnell, found themselves
in strange places and with strange
squads and for that reason there have
been constant shifts in all three
squads.
Ames, Coe and the State University
played thru the entire season with
but few changes, and Ristine Of the
agricultural college could have just as
well told you how the Aggies were to
lineup against the state university,
when he first returned last fall as he
could on the afternoon that the game
was played There seems little doubt
but that some of the coaches in Iowa
We're unable this season to get all out
of them that the men were capable of.
The work of the Grinnell team during
the season is a notable example. Drake
university was another offender in
this particular. 1t has been hard to
arrange the teams so that the claims
of each for rank shall receive full rec
ognition. In working over this prob
lem I have always considered that
! while comparative scores are Elusive
things to base just estimate on, still
they must receive the major consid-
Grafton in the ranking of a team. In
! that way the logged determination to
win a certain contest exhibited by d
team counts for a very great deal, and
a game played largely on the nerve of
the one team, gets due consideration.
The championship Of the state goes
undtsputedly to Iowa State College
at Ames The game which settled that
sfact was played with the State Univer-
s1ty on November "a, when the Az
gles won from the Hawkeyes on
blocked punt by the score Of to O.
But the fact had already been settled
to the satisfaction of the state by the
record made by the Ames team during
the entire season, and while Ristine's
men won the state championship thew
lost In prestige by that game. Their
own coaches and the representatives of
nj Sif tvs
work of the Aggies estimated the
dlHerence between the two elevens at
about three touchdowns in favor OF
Ames. But not only was Ames com
PEELED to receive title to the state
championship by a fuke play, but
they were clearly outplayed by the
state university during the greater part
of the game. The defense interposed
by the Iowa team against the heavier
Ames attack, can be considered the
most notable exhibition of football in
Iowa this year. And while this will
always remain a nooted question.
every sporting expert who has wit
messed the play, believes that if Ref
cree Hoagland had permitted the
Hawkeyes to continue the use Of the
"skiddoo" formation, they would have
eventually won from Ames. No other
college in Iowa has the right to dis
pute the choice of the state university
for second place. This first season
after the adoption by the conference
of the new eligibility rules hit the
Hawkeye squad hard blow. With
but few men of ability from which to
build up a team. Coach Chalmers
most marvellous work was in holding
Ames to the low score.
The principal way in which the new
playing rules have worked out among
the Iowa college teams has been to
develop the kicking game. The for
ward pass has been used only in rare
instances and the opinion of the
coaches Of the state seems to be that
the play cannot be worked against any
team that is playing wide awake
game. For that reason it has been a
very dangerous play to use, as the pen
atty that attaches to the failure to per-
form it successfully is too great. 1t
would seem from the way in which the
play has worked this year, that in Iowa
at least i would be more just it, in
stead of making the team using the
iforward pass lose the ball in case it
touches the ground, ETC.; the side using
the forward pass retain possession of
the ball, but lose ten yards for in
stance.
Foot Ball Results.
At st. Louis-St. Louis University
80, Iowa University O.
At Sioux City-Morningside College