Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-27
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
is NOT DETERMINED
Comparative Scores Fail to Give Any
Team Advantage Sufficient to Claim
Title Hawkeye Schools Defeat
Elevens From Ne,ehoor,na Siai=s
Ames Second in Valley Conference

Also the record OF the Iowa teams
against teams from outside OF the state
is the best It ever has been. Thanks
giving day sames We're not an eNcep-
ton. The record for the day was;
/ Sioux City, 3; Englewood Chicaso o.
/ Mason City, 20; Hyde Park Chi
! cago. 0.
Clinton. So, Crane, Chicago. 0.
i Cresco. 81; Owatonna, Mimi, o
! Ida Grove, So; Omaha Commercial. 0.
s The Englewood team is the champion
, of the Chicago High School League.
Crane is the champion OF the northern
division of the Chicago schools but
was badly defeated by Englewood.
/ When il IS considered that two Iowa
teams have defeated Omaha and that
{ the river town teams have been vari-
ouSly successful in their games against
the Illinois teams the indications are
4 that Iowa teams this year are as
+ strong as any in this part OF the west.
! The Turkey day games did nothing
TO straighten the tangle OF the state
championship. 1t added. however. to
the list Of the teams who Played
! season without a defeat. According TO
incomplete and possibly incorrect
records the following teams have not
( been defea ted this year: Davenport.
/ Fort Dodge, Burlington. Ida Grove,
! Atlantic Spirit Lake Webster City
Strong Teams Are Numerous.
Close To these teams III playing
( strength and with only one or two de-
feats charged to them are Marshall
/ town, Ames, Grinnell, Shenandoah,
Council Bluffs, Clinton, West and East
/ Des Moines. Sibley, Storm Lake, Mason
/ City and Fairfield The spirit of Spirit
/ Lake is to be commended as their an
! nouncement states next year they VIII
attempt TO meet strong teams not on
! their schedule this year. While max
! ing high school schedules IS a diff
cult proposition because the teams
differ so much from year to year as
general proposition about three teams
, in each section are the leaders. If It
! IS possible the State High School As
| sociation should take an advisory in
| terest in the making of schedules in
an attempt TO lead the best teams of
each section into contests with the best
teams OF other sections. AS the
schedules were made this year the
basis FOR the state championship was
almost wholly on the showing made
against East and West Des Moines.
|
title holders and met on succeeding
Saturdays teams pointed for them but
even at that they did not have the
road TO travel which East Des Moines
attempted.
Ranking Of Teams Impossible.
Ranking of the teams of the state is
an impossibility. Defensively Daven
port probably is the peer of any team
| ~, - &c .,,I Of
Tense is the best Fort Dodge has the
hardest back field TO down of any team
in the center of the state and also
played the best locking game of any
team in the central part of the state.
especially from the offensive stand
point. Burlington also has a good de-
Tense. one, however, that Fairfield
shattered in the final game of the sea
son when it scored two touchdowns.
Ida Grove has a wonderful offense if
the scores il has piled up are criter-
ion but the quality Of the opposition it
encounte cred is not definite. The teams
which lost but single game also must
be considered. Clinton looks the best
of these teams but the fact it played
the major portion of its schedule out
of the state makes it difficult to con-
slider its season record a against Iowa
teams. The fact 1t defeated Engle-
, wood, Of Chicago in an early season
game should give it consideration
, Mason City made an exceptional record
after its defeat at the hands of Yves,
> Des Moines, and Grirnell in spite OF
two defeats by Des Moines teams
:, could make the best teams in the state
exert themselves. Just back of these
teams are the large middle class o.
teams teams which won about half o.
their games all of them mighty goot
teams.
Real 1ituiar Affair.
Foot ball for the Big Three of low:
schools had glorious finale. 1t jus
, happened that the best two teams TIL
state has had this year went down OF
the Drake stadium Turkey day after
noon. The ensuing battle was worth
of titular honors, the victor to b
= crowned as leader, the defeated as a
easy and close second. Few games il
| Iowa in years have been the battl
from whistle to whistle of the Drake
Ames game of 1915 Drake displaye
the best game ever presented in tn
! state, completing nineteen fOrwar
| passes in the course of the Afternoon
AS long as the Drake line was able t
L
wards Drake had the best of the battl
In the last ten minutes of the gam
Ames got the best Of the Drake foI
wards and sending five and six me
into the offensive back field. the
stopped the Drake fips With til
strong wind back of them, the Aggit
then completed two of their four sue
cessful forward passes, both Of thel
for touchdowns The game was
battle between two teams or edg
both blocking, tackling and chargir
. to perfection and using the best
- head work.
OK Second in Valley Conference.
w. By their victory Ames crowned itse
Ere the best team in Iowa and also won II
IN high honor of the second team in II
,ed Missouri Valley, their ascendancy ov
md Kansas being a fairly definite one
=" comparative scores. Drake made
place for itself ahead of the state un
mn. versity as far as comparative scores
the games against teams played
both schools. Drake also has the di
tinction of having scored more poin
Of in Missouri valley games than a
other team of the valley but again