Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-09
CONDITION or IOWA TEAMS
Early Games Make the State Foot Ball
Situation Clearer
LIGHT, FAST PLAYERS ARE STRONGER

Drake Expected ca Be Beaten mt
Lincoln. hut Now Has some
Hope for success Against
Cornhuskers.
IOWA CITY. Ia. Oct. -Cspecial.)-The
past week has been one OF peculiar sig
nihcance in the race for the Iowa chain
pionship which was started last week.
Ristine has shown by defeating Coe col
lege on Friday and Dcs NToines college
on saturday that his victory over Cornell
the preceding week was due 20 something
more than the weakness Of Cornell: that
IN fact he has a squad ~ men who hgve
never been ecuaIed IN amy iowa college
since Enipc gathered the championship
eleven on the Iawkeye gridiron in 1900.
MCrnngsidc by defeating Creighton by a
substantial score demonstrated that its
claims TO recognition for foot ball honors
were not founded in Az idle dream The
western conference, in order to facilitate
an Ames victory later H. the season,
obligingly interpreted the one year residence
rule in such way that moor old Iowa
received another jolt, losing Sidel. Conner
and Crow.
Coe college and Des Moincs college
dropped into their old position in the
bunch OF also rams" and by obliginglv
permitting Ames to- score total of ninety
one points against the two Of them greatly
simplified the situation. Incidentally Il
might be noticed that Ames has scored III
points in 100 playing minutes up TO date
Morningside has scored 70 points in So
playing minutes. Grlnnel has totaled 10
points in 20 minutes Drake university ct
Des Moines and the state university here
have been pegging along in an attempt
to build up playing machine out Of the
broken remnants OF last years freshmen
teams. Drake has failed To show any par
ticuiar strength and Pcll is suffering from
lack OF material Iowa university has
big hospital squad for this season OF the
year; few of the men are still laboring
under conditions: three regulars as al
ready noted have been disqualified alto
gether, and the situation is far from
cheerful one.
Casey Out of Game.
incidentally it is interesting to nnte that
Casey, eX-captain elect of the State Normal
team, who deserted to Michigan when the
normal trustees abolished foot ball. has
been out of the game this year on the
III.
ner and Grow. Ex-Captain Andy Chalmers
of Iowa and the nomadic Mr. Loverein of
Des Moines are two other Iowa athletes
who have stepped into the limeIight
Rumor has it that Chalmers has been
drafted by an eastern college team. while
Loverein's periodic removal from Drake to
Des Names college and from Des Moines
college to Drake has every flavor of an
auction.
In this connection it can be authorita-
lively stated that Iowa university will not
protest Loverein of Drake. Iowa adopted
the policy several years ago of permitting
each school to look after its own morals,
and IL Drake is satisfied that I.overein is
eligible TO play against the Hawkeyes on
November II there will be no objection Of
fered. With reference to Andy Chalmers.
| II is understood now that he is a member
! of the foot ball team at Lafayette college
4 at .Esston, Pa. Whether he wifi make the
team or not Is another matter.
| Aside from handing Iowa heavy blow,
! the Interpretation placed on the new rules
! by, the western conference is decidedly in
teresting to the followers of the same in
this state. One of the most important ruI-
ings is the one permitting a forward pass
| to be made ahead of the line of scrimmage,
providing the pass is made To some man
back of the line of scrinlmage or to one
Of the two ends. This permits a man run
ming with the ball to pass it forward when
tackled, provided he passes It to the back
field or end men, and provided the ball
does not touch the ground before it is
caught. Roome. fullback of the Yale team.
executed that play against Syracuse satur-
day and Forbes. who received the forward
/ E,y
Light Teams stronger.
: The Yale-Syracuse game is believed to
show better than any OF the rest what ef-
feet the new rules will have Il thoroughly
followed out. Syracuse outweghed Yale
and yet the latter team. by the use OF the
forward pass and trick formations ran VI
a total of 50 points. 1t cannot be denied
that a heavy team, playing the old style oi
game, can be defeated by light team us
ing the formations permitted under the
new rules. What effect that will have r
Iowa, remains to be seen. Thus far Ames
has not gone up against any coach who
has attempted to develop anything of d
sensational nature DuBridge of Cornell
Bryant of Coe and Boyle of Des Moinei
college have not shown any particular abi
ity in bringing out new plays, They have
Deen handicapped Oh COURSE ny Hie"''N-'
material. But il is also interesting to not'
that Ames has also failed to develop any
thing materially new this year. Ristinei
capabilities in that direction viii probably
mean the success or failure of the Amei
team.
The coming week will be an interesting
one on account of the meeting of Morning
side and Ames on the Anes gridiron OF
SATURDAY, October IL. This game will mari
the first invasion of the eastern part o
the state by the Sioux City aggregation
and will also be the first game in which
the agriculturalists will be given a tryou
by team capable OF doing the work o
course, II is three TO one or better tina
AIo-ningside never gets inside the breast