The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-10
ION THE GRIDIR0N
K. @. Played Straight Game
and Withheld Secret Plays.
Contest in Missouri Valley May
End This Week.

University of Kansas football squad
came out OF the Washburn game with
out injuries and today the coaches re-
ported a number of the regulars who
have been on the hospital List as
showing rapid Improvement
All Kansas now looks forward to
next Saturdays game with the Uni
versity of Nebraska, which will go a
great way toward deciding the cham
pionship of the Missouri valley.
In the game with Washburn Satur-
day, except for the last five minutes
OF play when two touchdowns were
made on forward passes, Kansas ad-
hered to the old style football 1t
has been learned that the coaches Or
dered the team not to display any
of the clever plays held in reserve be-
cause of the presence in the grand
stands of Coach E. W. Stiehm and
Captain Purdy of the Nebraska eleven,
who were doing some quiet scouting.
The Kansans used only plays that
they disclosed in the early games of
the season and any effort ON the part
OF the Nebraska scouts to obtain .
line on the Kansas plays was in vain
Championship Contenders.
Chicago, Nov. 10.-Saturday's mid
die west football IuI, preparatory to
the championship games of the sea-
son, established the strength of Mich
igan. proved Nebraska still Is a for
midable fighting machine and added
to the list of peculiar incidents of the
season. thirteen games in which the
winning team scored two touch
downs Michigan's honors came in a
bruising battle with the big red team
of Cornell Nebraska gains its
spurs anew by smothering the Ne
braska Wesleyan team. making this
showing with its star back field on
the side lines The two touchdown
victories were injected into most Of
the big games Of the west. the larger
teams being content with winning
margins only.
Upsets were almost absent from the
results Iowa defeated Indiana by q
top-heavy score instead of the ex-
pected close margin. Purdue opened
up its defense against Rose Poly and
displayed its scoring power against
the best team the Tech has had re-
Gently. These were the two unusual
scores.
Iowa's victory was its final one Of
the year against a big nine'' team.
it's remaining games being west Of
the Mississippi river. 1t has won two
games and lost one in its conference
battles, scored IA points and had 20
scored against It.
Three for Missouri Valley Title.
In the M1SSOUI1 valley, Ofake ana
Missouri staged one of the bitter bat
tIes-usual in the meeting of the two
teams Missourf's ten-point margin
esta bliShes 1t with Kansas and Ne
braska as the three leading teams of
the younger organization. Kansas and
Nebraska meet this week and Kansas
and Missouri the week following Mis-
souri, has the strategic position of
playing weak team Saturday, while
Kansas is hurting all its strength
against Nebraska, the latter at the
same time being compelled to re-
member the game with Iowa a week
later. Valley dopesters believe the
final decision between these three
teams will result in a more satfsfac-
tory championship than have the
games Of the last two seasons.
The weeks showing Of the middle
west against the east was not as de-
cisive as for the week preceding.
With the weeks mental rest for
both players and supporters out of the
way, championship battles galore are
carded for next Saturday. The big
nine" title will be decided The Mis-
souri, valley struggle may be ended
by the result of the Kansas Nebraska
game, while a host of state, minor
college and preparatory school titles
are up for decision in different bat
ties over the territory of the middle
west.