Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-07
Past Week Has Given Opportun-
ity to Measure Capabilities
of Foot Ball Squads
TWO BIG GAMES THIS WEEK
GrnnelI to Meet Nebraska and Ames
viii Take on Minnesota Grinnel'
Will Meet Defeat-Drake and NOR
ninaside of Equal Strength - Foot
Ball Notes.
20 T,mes-Republican.

Sptcial to Times RephpllcaH.
Iowa City. Oct THE coming week
will be an interesting one to IOWA
sportsmcn. on account OF the 1ac' 'ha'
two of the state college teams VIII
meet foreign squads in foot ball con-
toste ,;rinnell college will meet Ne
braska university at llhcoin aho
Arnes VIII meet Minnesota at M'nneap-
oils other games of interest 10 pc
pl;,yed next Saturday are the Drake
Simpson practice game at lndlahoia'
Carmel, vs. Des Moines college at MI
Vernon and S. U. I.-Alumni game at
Iowa CITY All of these contests Win
the exception of the last, VIII nav
some bearing on the Iowa chat'ipioh-
shin. In several instances they VIII
afford the first real test OF the teams,
and this fact makes the contests
doubly important.
The Drake Morningside game OF last
Saturday was by long odds the feature
of the weeks work in Iowa foot pan.
The final score of 6 to 5. close as IL
is does not show the nerve racklng
nature of the contest. Drake won by
a safety and field goal. while Nor
n.ngside scored its five points on long
run, half the length of the field, the
ball being recovered on tumble.
Neither OF the teams were able 10 ad-
vance the ball by straight foot ball,
both resortng to punting to keep their
goal out of danger. While Drake won,
the two teams can be fairly consid-
cred on a par at the present time, the
break in the luck helping the Des
Moines institution.
An interesting comparison of the
Drake and Morningside teams this
year with the teams representing the
same institutions on Bass field last
year. shows that Morningside had six
veterans of the 1905 lineup in the elev-
en- this fall while Drake had only five
men left out of the 1906 team. The
new men who are finding a place on
the two teams are as follows: Morn
ingside, Weatherbee, l.. G.; Briden-
baugl. +. G.; Westcott, R. E.. Ever,
Fl. H: Robbins, F. B.; Drake, Warren,
c.. Purdy r. G.; Scharnberg, r. T.;
Wilson, L. H.; Moss, r. H.; and
Woodrow, F. b. Woodrow played with
Drake last year, but not against Nor
rlingside.
The Coe College-Ames game, played
Friday, in which the agriculturalists
defeated Coach Bryants men by the
score of Is to 0, has little bearing on
the situation in the state at this time.
.Ames outWeighed the Coe team thirty
pounds to the man, and the Aggies
loafed thru the game. The only time
Williams really wanted to make a gain,
McElhenney walked thru the Coe team
for twenty-five yards without great
difficulty. Hubbard ran the team for
Ames the first half, and Jeanson the
second half. On the comparison Hub
bard had all of the advantage of the
showing and there now seems to be
some likelihood, of the Ida Grove man
beating out the ex-captain for his old
position. Coach Bryant has succeeded
in putting the fighting spirit in the
Coe team and a sensational game can
be expected in the Coe and Drake
meet on October 10th.
Grinnell has little hope of defeating
Nebraska, of course, and 1t is ex-
pected that Minnesota will not have
very hard time in downing Ames.
The makeup of the Cornell and Des
Moines college teams is entirely prob
lematical and it is therefore impos-
sible to estimate the outcome. BY the
end of the present week the situation
will have cleared up in Iowa. so that
clear prospective can be obtained of
the coming struggle for Hawkeye SUI
premacy