The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-27
Three Teams Left in Race for
Conference Title.
Kansas and Nebraska Will De-
eide Championship.
SATURDAY GAMES MAY DECIDE
Weather Caused Eastern Games
to Be Disappointment.
Results Furnished Little Dope
Toward Final Standing.

Chicago. Oct 27.-With the final 1913
month of football play initiated next
Saturday, Michigan Agricultural college
occupied the commanding position IN
the west, leadership decisions are YET
to be made in the big nine and MIS-
souri, valley conferences. Most of the
games scheduled last spring as cham
pionship battles are yet to be fought
Many of the larger teams of the west
are as yet undefeated but the wolverine
Aggies team practically is certain of
high final honorS- 1t may receive the
highest.
Unless an almost impossible slump in
the work of the team occurs, it VIII
finish it's final easy games without
defeat. 1t will have record OF VIC
tories over Michigan and Wisconsin
last years western champions. 1ts
final standing will depend largely upon
the showing of the Wisconsin team IN
the next month A Chlcago tedih' W. W.
8 declared weakness in the line, placeo
itself firmly in the race SATURDAY ny
its defeat of Purdue
Illinois proved its right for anotner
week at least in select company py oe-
feating the Indiana team. Inc limos
have a hard months play ahead OF
them, meeting four big nine teams IN
sI,ccassion It's battle with Chicago
this week is the decisive one on us
schedule
In the Missouri valley, Kansas again
demonstrated IFS magnificent defense oy
holding the Kansas Agricultural team
scoreless. The Kansans have been
scored upon but once this year, WASH
ington university having the honor to
cross the we'll defended goal line.
Nebraska, meeting a tartar in the
strong Haskell Indian team, specially
coached for the meeting, won one
point victory after the hardest kind OF
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the next two weeks, meeting Ames ana
Wesleyan and should be able to bring
its team up to the decisive Kansas
Nebraska battle in tiptop condition
Missouri kept itself in the running
Saturday by scoring its first victory
over the Ames Agricultural team. This
was also the first defeat for Ames by
a team from south of the Mason and
Dixon line in the last Is years. Mis-
souri's defense has been weak all year,
its last two games being won simply
by ability to make more points than its
high scoring opposition. Oklahoma
and Ames each scored three times
against them, either by touchdowns or
kicks. Both teams were outplayed
most of the time.
Saturdays games produced few up
sets and few features Iowa university
which team seems destined to make
the high score record for the year
made one of the highest big nine
scores in years in trampling over
Northwestern. Rose Polytechnic held
Wabash to a tie, while Grinnell, once
one of the leader of the west, suffered
its fourth defeat of the season before
the weak Iowa Normal team. In a
Friday game Morningside was humilia-
ted by st. Thomas.
Results Furnish No Information.
New York, Oct. 27.-Football
played under the weather conditions
that prevailed throughout the east
ern states Saturday is of compare
lively little value for purposes of
comparison when the leading univer-
sity elevenS are under consideration.
Almost without exception the games
were played on rain-drenched grid
irons which in some cases were little
short of quagmires.
1t was one of the worst days. from
a football standpoint, that has been
encountered by the teams of this
section in several years and upset the
carefully planned gridiron campaigns
of more than one coach. AS a test
of the ability of the leading teams
under normal conditions, the exhibit
tions were disappointing. Inversely
those elevens that showed class A
football under the handicap of rain
and mud demonstrated their right to
honors which cannot be questioned.
BY all the rules of football. it was
a day when weight should have
counted as the margin of victory but
there were glaring exceptions. Dart
mouths defeat of Princeton by a