The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-22
FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
BRIGHT IN WEST
Conference Elevens Should
Prove Winners-Resume
of Universities

chicago, Sept. 22.-What should be
the most successful football season
since the rules were changed SO rad
ically in the winter of 1905-O6, will
open officially in the central west
when the conference squads begin
practice tomorrow. The number of
important contests scheduled the few
alterations made by the rules COM
mittee last winter. and the wealth of
promising material which the major
college coaches will have at their dis
posal should make this year a banner
season for the popular sport.
The. rule which was passed last
season by the conference faculty rep
resentatives making 1t imperative for
each conference eleven to meet at
least four other teams in the organi-
cation is M of the best measures
passed by this body in a long time.
The ruling is certain to result in de-
citing the strongest team, and will do
away with the diversified opinion as
to their strength. BY this ruling the
comparative score method will not be
used.
Nebraska to Play Both Teams.
Although Michigan is out Of the
fc,d--a fact to be regretted by every
true lover of college athletics-there
is one game which will furnish a
lire on the comparative strength Of
Michigan and other members of the
conference. Nebraska will meet both
Minnesota and Michigan, and the re-
suits Of these contests should go a
long way in determining the relative
strength of the Wolverines and CO.
piers.
In all justice of Minnesota. it might
be said that the Goplers meet Nebras-
ka carly in the season, when the big
team of the northwest will not have
reached its height Of football perfec-
ton. Michigan will play the Corn
hnskers on the last Saturday in Mo-
venber, at q time when the Yost ma
chine should have every cog working
in unison. The Wolverines will have
had the experience Of hard games and
Yost will have plenty of opportunities
to bolster uD any weakness displayed
in the earlier games.
Intersectional contests of great i'm
portaIce also will be played. Two big
eastern eleyens will come west in an
endeavor to demonstrate the superior
ity of eastern football. Pennsylvania,
n Of the strongest teams in the east
last year, will play Michigan at Ann
Arj,or on Nov. IS, while Cornell will
cone to play Chicago on Marshall
field on the same day.
Yost Predicts Strong Team.
Last year the Maroons were beaten
by Cornell, while Michigan held Penn
to a o to 0 score and %outplayed the
Quakers for three-quarters of n of
tile most bitterly fought contests ever
seen on historic Franklin field. Penn
sylvania will have a strong aggrega-
ton this season, while Yost has been
credited with saying he will have one
of the most powerful teams in the his
tory of his career at Michigan.
Cornell will again be represented by
q strong eleven, while, the exact
strength Of the Maroons cannot be de-
termlined at this time owing to the
uncertainty of several reliable men
returning to college. At any rate,
Chicago's prospects cannot be figured
as any too bright and Coach Stage
seems to be in for q strenuous season
In developing an eleven which will
make a successful gridiron season.
Illinois, Cornell, Wisconsin, North
western, Indiana and Purdue will
Journey to Chicago to meet the Ma
rooms on Marshall field. The Midway
ties only contest away from home is
with Minnesota at Minneapolis on
Nov. 4. This is one of the best sched-
n!es Coach Stage has framed in years
hnd If he can muster any kind Of a
team the Maroons will have a lot in
their favor by playing on their home
Geld.
Minnesota and Illinois, the teams
which played through the conference
season last fall without a defeat, will
have a chance to settle their question
Of superiority this fall at Urbana on
Nov. %. At the close of last years
season each aggregation claimed the
conference championship, and, al
though the Gophers defeated teams
which Illinois met by larger scores,
the DOWNSTAIRS were entitled to a lot
pf credit.
This year Illinois will be without
the services of Butter and Twist, all