The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
NO TITLE GAMES
All M. V. Teams Play NOn-Con-
ference Opponents Today.
Pitt-W. and J. Game the Big
Eastern Clash.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 6.-No Mis-
souri, Valley conference games were
on the football schedule for today
and with Missouri playing Northwest
ern the remaining big elevens of the
valley engaged in minor contests to
keep in trim for more important bat
ties next Saturday.
Kansas met Washburn at Lawrence
with many substitutes in the Jay
hawker lineup. Coach STEMS near
champion Nebraska eleven had Ne
braska Wesleyan for an opponent to
keep the Cornhuskers from getting
out of form for next weeks important
clash with Kansas. Oklahoma with
injuries, went to Tulsa to play Henry
Kendall college while the University
of Texas and the University of the
south met at Houston
Eastern Games.
New York, Nov. 6.-In normal
years there would be only one big
eastern game scheduled for today
the annual affair between Harvard
and Princeton. But that was before
the decline of Harvard, the demise of
Yale and the general grand upsetting
that has made 1915 the most weird
season ever.
Today, for almost the first time in
history, Harvard and Princeton must
share spotlight honors with smaller
and heretofore despised rivals. For
the Pittsburg-W Washington and Jeffer-
son game. at Pittsburg today is every
bit as important as the Harvard
Princeton muSS, and in some respects
more so.
Four games loom up as the cream
of eastern football endeavor this year
Princeton, Cornell, Pittsburg and
Washington and Jefferson. Only
three of these will be left in the hunt
after today, so in reality the Pennsyl-
vania battle assumes a championship
aspect. Pittsburg has been declared
h Vol o1- (N,r1 70 ox 10 has for
ball team in the country this year;
w and j. proved that it also has a
semblance of a football team by lick
ing Yale, which even in the Blues
demoralized condition, is no easy task.
The Princeton Scrap.
The scrap at Princeton, However,
will be every bit hard fought as
the other. Harvard is lettering on the
brink of a football rout, and if her
football team doesn't put up a grand
little fight to escape that fate it will
be the first time in history that a Har-
ward team didn't. On the Tiger side.
Princeton is almost on the top of the
championship pole; a defeat by Har-
ward would send her down again a lot
faster than she came up, as in that
event the championship of the east
would be shared by Cornell and the
winner of the Pitt-W. J. game. The
incentive for fighting certainly is
there.
Today's tussle also should bring out
a comparison of the two best kickers
in the east this year-Eddie Mahan
and Davy Tibbott, whose educated
hoofs have alone brought victory to
their respective institutions this year.
Tibbott's toe has beaten Dartmouth
and Syracuse this year, and Mahan
booted Harvard to a victory over Viz
ginia, one of the conquerors of Yale. ,
In Middle West.
Chicago, Ill, Nov. 6.-Interest in
western football today conferred in the
Northumberland game at Ann Arbor,
as leaders in the big Nine cham
pionship race, in so far as the cham
pionship was concerned, had an off
day.
Chicago was the only one of the
three undefeated Big Nine" elevens
to go into action, Minnesota and Illi-
western conference title. being idle.
Chicago faced the Haskell Indians and
was confident of victory, although
Coach Stagg planned to send his
speediest players into the game until
a safe score was rolled up. The In
dams are fast and tricky. but have
been decisively beaten by Illinois and
Notre Dame in early season games
Cornell, which holds a ten to moth
ing victory over Harvard, was the
favorite to humble Michigan, but the
Wolverines were determined to fight
Very inch of ground in order to re-
hin some of the prestige lost because
of the crushing defeats at the hands
of the Michigan Aggies and Syracuse. !
The Michigan eleven is, according to
experts, the weakest developed under
Coach Yost in years and has shown