The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-24


the best team, OF the west must
be selected from tho undefeated
teams of the University of Chicago,
University of Nebraska, the Michigan
Agricultural college and Notre Dame,
with the University of Michigan thrown
in for good measure. g
Chicago is undisputed champion OF
the ''Big Nine and the record, Of the
Maroons for the season is probably the
most impressive recorded II the nine
years of the present conference organl-
zation.
Nebraska has had the honor of de-
feating the Big Nine teams, three Mis-
souri, valley conference aggregatlons
and the Haskell Indians.
The Michigan Aggies stand high be-
cause of the defeats administered to
Wisconsin and Michigan. Notre Dame
has standing because Of the humllia"
ton of two strong teams Of the east,
and Michigan, once defeated, Is entitled
to a place among the leaders because Of
its final games in which three of the
strong teams of the east were defeated,
Chicago Victories Clean-cut.
Whether some one of these five teams
has the right to claim the title OF Amer
lean champion is capable of much dis
cussiou.
Each of the teams Of the Big Nine
conference met defeat by Chicago, ex-
cept Ohio State, with which no game
was scheduled. Each game was de,
cisiye and clear-cut demonstration CT
Chicago s superiority with the possible
exception of the Purdue match. The
Purdue Chicago game left some doubt
in the minds Of the critics az TO whether
the maroons were inherently the
stronger, but other Purdue games dis
PEELED this doubt
Last place in the Big Nine race un-
ouestionably is Northwestern 8, with
Ohio State and Indiana short dis
uesota and Purdue both have filed a
claim to second place, while Wisconsin
protests vchemently against being rele-
gated to fourth.
In the Missouri valley. Nebraska g
honors are shared by Missouri, unde-
fcated in the games of the conference
The teams have an almost equal stand
ing against the two teams met IN com
mon, Kansas and Amcs.
Missouri Team Strong.
Missouri did not play we'll up TO the
defeat by Illinois. After that the stu
dent body rushed TO the support of the
eleven and the coaches were able to
turn out one OF the best of Missouri
eleNens- The defeat or Kansas In the
final game, the one objective point in
Missouri football, makes the Missouri
season a success, even without equal
ranking with Nebraska in valley games.
Missouri 8 valley victories were over
Ames, Drake, Washington and Kansas.
In the last three games the team was
not scored against. Nebraska defeated
Kansas Agricultural college, Kansas
university and Ames,
Minnesota Shift Dies.
The season of 1913 seems TO have
marked the passing of the Minnesota
shift. ~ Opposing teams have solved
the famous evolution of Coach Williams
and 'Tom - Shelvin and not n team
using the play or its adaptations at
tanned the highest ranking. Minnesota
lost IN the Big Nine, Kansas in the Mis-
souri, valley and the play was not a
winner IN the Rocky mountain confer
ence. Yale, with the Shevlin version
Of the shift, did not prove successful
scoring machine against the major
teams OF the east
Middle western football in general
was of higher class this year than ever
before. Teams of this section made the
best possible showing against represen-
tatives of other sections, the only de-
feats suffered being Western Reserve
by Syracuse and Oklahoma over Kan
sas-
One Game Thursday.