Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-05
IOWA GIVEN
| SIXTH PLACE
loHIo LEADS BIG NINE CONFER
ENcE; HAWkEYEs OUT.
RANK WISCONSIN,.
Final Football Conference Standing

Chicago. Dec. 4.-With the smoke OF
battle cleared away, the figures on the
Big Nine conference football race
show some astonishing things. Fig
ures. as applied to football, are the
most proficient prevaricatOrs in the
world, and this applies to the percent
age table at the end of the year about
as we'll q it does to the dope" which
was so badly shattered this season.
For instance. 1t ranks Chicago in a tie
for fourth place with Illinois. the Ma.
rooms having the preference on &C.
count Of a more interconference SEIZED.
ule.
Ohio, of course. is the first team in
the table with four games won and
none lost, Northwestern, Illinois, In
Llama and Wisconsin being the victims
Of the Harleyized Buckeyes. The Buck.
eyes won most of their games by
good margins, but the blacklist spots
in the record for the year are the one
point victories over Illinois and Wis
consin. teams which later in the year
fell by the wayside and finished the
year as rank outsiders The most bril-
liant spot in the record was the big
victory over Northwestern In the
championship struggle.
Purple in Second Place.
Northwestern ranks above Mime.
sofa in the percentage table and gets
second place for the season. The Pur-
pie trimmed Chicago. Indiana, Purdue
and Iowa two Of the four being big
teams" up to this year. while the only
defeat is the ones registered by Ohio.
Next to Chicago. the Purple had the
best interconference schedule OF the
year and to this they owe their pre-
dominance over Minnesota. which won
|only three games. The Gophers
trimmed Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago.
and their only defeat was in the never
|to-be explained affair wherein Illinois
scored the seasons biggest surprise.
Despite the fact that Chicago had
the worst season in several years. the
Maroons are in fourth place, tied with
Illinois in the percentage column, but
having preference for the place be-
cause of more complete schedule.
The Maroone won three and lost three.
the victims being Purdue, Indiana and
Illinois. while Northwestern Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota were the eleyens to
whom they lost. Illinois played Ave
interconference games this year. beat
ing Minnesota and Purdue and being
beaten by Chicago and Ohio. A fur.
Their black mark against the 1llini was
the tie game with Wisconsin.
Wisconsin 10 Seventh.
University of Iowa tops Wisconsin
for sixth place because of lighter
schedule. The Hawkeyes had only
three games scheduled with Big Nine
teams and won one Of them, beating
Purdue decisively. Minnesota and
Northwestern scored the Iowa defeats.
giving Jones' men percentage OF 1888
Off the year. Coach Wilmington
Badgers must be content with seventh
position says the percentage table, for
while Wisconsin beat Chicago. she IN
turn was trimmed by Ohio, and Mime
sofa besides playing tie with Illinois.
Purdue and Indiana have>the distinc'
ton of fighting bitterly fdk the bot.
tommost rung Of the Big Mine ladder,
but after due consideration the honors
must 60 to Purdue. Indiana is char.
acterized by its coach as fightless
team but the Hoosiers lost only three
games this season. succumbing to Chi
cago. Ohio and Northwestern. whereas
Purdue lost to Chicago, Iowa. Illinois
and Northwestern. To complicate the
race for the BOBBY prize. Purdue and
Indiana played a scoreless tie in their
meeting