Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-01
CRUCIAL GAMES
THIS AFTERNOON
Gridiron Sport Goes into Semi
finals-Determine Real
Contenders.
MAROONS TO THE FRONT
Stages Eleven Has Chance to Get
Edge on Title by Beating
Illinois.

Football, from the standpoint OF
championships, horrors and iaurels IN
the big nine collegiate conference.
should go into the semi-finals today.
With two inter-conference games bill
ed and the four teams entered still
with clean states as far as the western
collegiate body is concerned, the two
real contenders should be determined
by the simple process of elimination.
When Chicago meet Illinois at Mar
shall field and Minnesota invades
Camp Randall for its annual argument
with Wisconsin, the quartet of Big
Nine" elevens still in the running will
get into action. Should Chicago de-
cisively defeat Illinois, as all advance
predictions of coaches and critics have
prognosticated, then the Maroons will
stand out preeminent in the western
conference, almost in a position where
they can dispute any claim to Big
Nine" titles. Should either Wisconsin
or Minnesota be trimmed the defeated
team will be out of the running for
this yer at least.
MAROONs IN FRONT RANK.
Chicago seems to be the only con-
ference team with an outside chance
of grasping the central western grid
iron laurels as well as the conference
crown. The defeat of Minnesota by
Nebraska and Wisconsins subsequent
loss to the Michigan Aggies has elm
mated those two teams and has placed
the Lansing farmers away out N front.
[ IN NIT 10
eleven will have to defeat both Wis
consin and Minnesota. Nebraska also
is deserving of some recognition as
they are yet undefeated, but the corn
huskers have no strong teams to meet
excepting Iowa.
There are host of interesting bat!
ties on the cards for today. Besides.
the two important conference clashes,
Notre Dame will try to uphold the
standing of the west against West
Point and Michigan will lock horns
with Syracuse in its annual start after
the eastern schools. All of the big
eastern universities will get into. &C
| ton with Harvard and Cornell fea-
turing the days program.
Follower of Notre Dame are enthus-
iastic over the chances of their team
against the Army. Many optimistic
statements have been made about the
exceptional ability of Dorais. Eicken-
laub, Pliska and Captain Rockne.
Coach Harper says that no team in
the country can stop his combination,
and he is open in his assertions that
Notre Dame will defeat the Army by
decisive score. The game will be-
watched with unusual interest locally.
as both Dorais and Eichenlaub have
stamped themselves as two of the best
back field men in the game.
YOsT MEN BACK IN STRIDE.
Michigan is back in the game again
with eleven fighters of the Yost type,
and from now on the wolverines will
be a hard team to keep down. Jimmy
Craig, the speed marvel of the back
field, will improve the scoring chances
of the Ann Arbor aggregation 90 per
cent and also viii bring confidence
to the other players that will help.
Wisconsin and Minnesota are due
for battle royal. with honor even
as to ability and the only advantage
lying with the badgers playing ON their
home lot. Both teams have been
shaken by early season slumps and re-
versals of form, but each should be
ready for desperate encounter now
Chicago has rounded into real foot
ball team. a machine we'll oiled and
carefully constructed by a great build
er of such ed.fices. The loss of Vru-
wink will be felt, as most of Stages
trick plays evolved around this ster-
ling. player, but Huntington will prove
almost as good on the defense The
veteran back field with Captain Nor
gren, Pierce and Gray is heady trio,
worthy of any kind of opposition
There IS not close student of foot
ball in the west but expects Chicago
TO defeat Illinois by at least one touch
down.