Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-14
WEST AFTER RECOGNITION
EVERLASTING ARGUMENT is
ABOUT TO CROP OUT AGAIN
Western Colleges DcmRpd That Their
Stars Get Place on tlI-.tmerlcun
Team This Year,

CHICAGO. November l3.--i:ast is
E :as, as ZIP says and West Is Vest
and Western football is Western foot
ball. and never the twain shall meet
ment. They have met this Year. and
the argument is on. Cornell and SYRIA
cusc. which are too good TO be truly
wnlioped Michigan. which is too poor
to be truly representative OF the West.
And Notre Dame. which ia too good
properly 10 represent the West has
beaten the Army. which does not real
" eNemplify all that is good III East
crn football.
The writer being unable 10 accept
ball fan may find few observations
, on Western football refreshing. Ills
ference clcveus Seeing them IN action
during practice games only. he found
them playing football that compares
very favorabiy with The best lie has
seen in the East thus far
Almost without exception. tho big
nine teams are playing Il courageous
surprise. This is true OF Stages Ma
. rooms here. and Of Huppke's Illinois
eleven. Wisconsin and Ohio arc play
ing style of football that combines
the most conservative anu tut most
radical. Minnesota is playing the old
Minnesota shift and getting away with
six -footers each. with about 200 pounds
heft. Purdue is using old Pennsyl-
yania s,uff. as made over by Andy
smith Northwestern and Indiana are
relying on Yale football. taught By
Fred Murphy and Clarence Childs The
fact that Indiana Is doing better than
Northw estern may be attributed TO the
new football than Murphy
" may or may not be worthy of note
that the three trailing elerens in the
big nine under coaches who have
only recently come from the East.
smith, Childs and Murphy are ha-,ing
none too much success With Eastern
course. their schools are not as large
as the rest, and they have less ma
terial to draw OH.
talk does not listen very we'll out
here. Chicago University has probably
IN, m, smallest undersraduate body In
Maroone out near the front this year.
as usual. Saturday they will face
probably their hardest test of the. sea
son. meeting the Gophers at Mime
anolis. The Maroons viii play more
good football and offer better as
sortment of good plays. but the Goph-
! advantage In weight and strength.
The same day Wisconsin and Illinois
tangle at Urbana, and this. too, should
game In the conference this year has
been good one. Illinois. for instance.
champion last year, has this year been
nesota at ALL Chicago has defeated
by one touchdown. Ohio won from In
diana by one point More close contests
are expected.
| The writer found these Middle West
erners are preparing to make their
usual demand for recognition on the
Iall-American eleven. Chicago. for ex-
ample, has no less than three men to
Pvt In nomination; Peter Russell. the
Floor, at full back. is splendid all
round player Neither has as good
chance at national honors. however. as
has big Redmon. the maroon center.
more than $50 pounds II. is not fat
man, but, like Baker White. at SYRIA
cuse. is just enormous. lie plays II
good game in every way.
illinois has a dozen or more good
backs as usual. the best this year be-
ing Macomber. Posue and Clark. wis
sofa offers Hermann. Perdue wants
consideration for Mclaughlin at center.
but he does not measure up to Redmon.
Men who have seen him play tell me
! that Deprato. the star full back of the
Michigan Aygies, simply must not be
kept off the all-American. But then
I they have not seen Eddie Mahan give
an imitation of a whole eleven by him
self. The East will get another
glimpse of Maulhetsch Saturday at
Philadelphia. hut he is not playing tho
game that won him all-American
honors last year. because he has a weak
line In front of him and his style is no
longer battling because il is no longer
new.
| The Middle West In almost ashamed
TO point OUT the Michigan AEgies "a
one IF it's strongest teams since the
oregon Aegies walloped them so de-
cisively, hut they deserve 10 rank with
Nebraska. Metre Dame and the confer.
cnccc champion. Jumbo Stiehn has a
great bunch Of corn huskerS at Lincoln
They defeated Notre Dame. ~ to 10
The conference honors will be settled
q week from Saturday. when Illinois
meets Chicago and Minnesota and Wis
consin get together. Even with four
ranking elevens in the West the situa.
ton is no worse than that In the East
where Harvard is bound to - ranked
with Cornell. Syracuse aud Colgate il
She defeats Yale.