The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
ReverSaIS Wer} the Order and
Coaches Are Worried.
KANSAS A DISAPPOINTMENT
Nebraska Looks Like a winner
in Valley Conference.
Conditions in Middle West Are
Badly Muddled.

in the play of leading football teams
fulfilled the prediction of the games CT
the week preceding, that all was no
going we'll in the camps of former lead
ers. From the defeat of Michigan py
the Aggies down to minor games, re-
yersals were the order of the day ana
seldom does one Saturday offer so
many defeats for supposedly stronger
teams as did the last Weekend Whlle
this condition was not confined TO the
middle west alone, the decisions IN the
west were more important ana III soAhe
cases more humiliating.
a partial list of both university and
college reversals follow:
Michigan Agricultural oeIeateu
Michigan.
Nebraska defeated Minnesota.
Purdue tied Wisconsin.
Illinois Inundated Northwestern.
Notre Dame defeated South Dakota.
Rolla overwhelmed ST. Louis.
Creighton defeated Marquette.
Colorado Aggies defeated Denver
university.
Morningside swamped Nebraska
Wesleyan.
COe defeated Simpson.
Highland Park defeated Grinneu
While some of these scores fulhlIed
the dope of this years games, prac-
tically all of them are the reversal
either of last years results or or the
decisions OF a long SERIES VI S1iAASo
tween the schools.
Western Teams Upset Dope.
The Nebraska and Michigan Aggle
victories the tie between Purdue ana
Wisconsin, the showing of Illinois
against Northwestern and of Kansas
against Drake are most important IN
their bearing upon sectional western
leadership. 1t has been many years
since Minnesota and Michigan have
loft re
at this stage of the season. 1t mas
been still longer since Purdue was
within possible striking distance OF the
western championship at this time. 1t
has also been years since two teams
from west of the Mississippi have
shown the strength Nebraska ana
Kansas have thus far this year, Gull
minating for the first half of the sea-
son in the defeat of strong teams Sat
urday Kansas completes its schedule
west of the river. Nebraska later
meets Iowa but its major schedule is
with teams of the Missouri Valley.
Saturdays results did little but mud
die the race for the big nine" title.
The eliminat ton of Iowa by Chicago
was expected. The weeks play mar
rows the conference field to Wisconsin:
Purdue, Minnesota, Illinois and Chi
cago.
Missouri Valley Conference.
In the Missouri valley conference,
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Ames
remain undefeated, but the first
named are picked by critics of the val
ley as the only contenders for the
championship when they meet in the
next to the last game of the schedule.
Kansas is credited with having the
strongest team ever developed at the
school Leonard Frank, former Min
nesota tackle, has drilled the team to
excel in the Minnesota shift, a play
which Nebraska solved Saturday.
The Kansans average close to the 2OO
mark. Ames and Missouri play this
week in a continuation of the series
between the north and south half of
the conference. Ames will later meet
Nebraska, while Kansas meets Mis-
souri,. This schedule, without the al
ways to be looked for reversal, pro-
vides a definite championship.
None of the minor colleges have
shoN a form in the first half of the
season to make them possible con-
ternderS with the members of the two
conferences for honors. The Haskell
Indian institute team, with number
of former Carlisle stars in its lineup,
and the Notre Dame university team
appear the best non-member of the
big organization.
Kansas Coaches Worry.
Lawrence, Kan. Oct. 2O.-Despite
the fact that the University of Kansas
football team humbled the Drake
squad in Saturdays game by an II to
first days of practice has been been
overbubbling with optimism over Kan
sas' prospects this year, has declared
he was greatly disappointed in the
teams showing against Drake.
Mosse predicted a victory of at
least two or three touchdowns and
Kansas was able to cross brakes goal
line but once.
Mosse said the squad would be put
through strenuous workouts this
week in order to improve offensive
work and get in shape for the game
with the Kansas Agricultural college
at Manhattan next Saturday. This is
the Agriculturists' first year in the
Missouri valley conference and the
game will be for the university team
the first of the season on a foreign
field.
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