The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-04

Championship Of the Missouri Valley
conference hung IN the balance today In
~" football game between University OF
Nebraska ana Iowa state college tAmes
AZ linrUlD bat even %this contest wHs
forced TO share public Interest with other
interstate games. th et rmonE thos"
were the meetings between Missouri and
Texas ut Columbia tor the first time these
trnms huvc met since 1907 Kansas ana
Oklahoma at Lawrence. Drake and Grin
neil a. bcs Nulurs, Louisiana Stat" and
Arkansas nt Shreveport and Washing
ton venture into Ann hrhor t. meet
Neither Nebraska nor Amcs has met
defeat this year
Columbia Game May De Cancelled.
Difficulty over the four ycnr rule which
i7 observed by Missouri valley confer
cncc teams hut not 10y Texas. seemed
likely early today to stop the Columbia
game Players IN their fourth year OF
college athletics were nld to be the
cHuse OF complaint
Kansas expected to aycnrr five years
of defeat hy Oklahoma boo tuday's game.
Drake Was confident that Gr nurlrs 5S
TO % victory Of last year would not be
other games today In the sou,hwes,
include:
Henry Kendall VI Oklahoma Aeglcs a,
Tulsa
Rice vs Texas Ard,s at Houston
Rnvlor vs.. Southwestern at waco.
Arizona vs. Texas Miners a. Tucson
Vale Has Bad Opponent
, Close scores orc expected TODAY In at
loast two Of the eastern COLLEGE football
games Vale vs. Colgate 1t New Haven
and the Army against NotTe Dame al
Wcgr Point Last year the New York
state team defeated Yale IL 10 0 Neither
team has met defeat this scasou
.Nutre Dame has to her credit score
OF lS3 points In four games without
aaF I'm Hf hoe 4 t. .g.l an 90.
strong AZ last year The Army how
ever. has proved Itself n fOrnadablc az
gregation this season.
One of the best clashes OF tho day
should he furnished by Dartmouth and
syracuse
The Navy win face Washington and
Lee at Annapolis; the University n Nir.
einia VIII furnish opposition to the Har-
ward players; Princeton will meet Buck-
nell and Cornell which is In "A process OF
reconstruction, VIII tackle Carnegic
Technical az Ithaca
Among other games In the east today
are
Pennsylvania vs Lafayette at Phue
delphis.
Brown vs. Vermont nj Province
Wash ngton and Jefferson VS.. Muskin-
gum nj Washington
Pennsylvania state W.. Geneva at
State college.
Southern tonors at stake.
with the starting today OF the No
vomber drive for the football cham
pionship Of the south two contests ex-
pected To result In cutting down the list
of contenders for the 1919 title were
down for decision. Georgia was TO meet
Auburn at Columbus. Ga. while Ala
haml and Sewanee clnshed nj Birm ng-
ham All four elevens up TO date have
not met defeat
GcfTla Tech. Vanderbilt and Tennes-
see. the three other leading teams met
opponents which usually are considered
among the weaker sCtion In IN sc<th or
which have no bearing on the southern
title, Tech wHs to meet Tulane nj At
lnnta: Vanderbilt and Rose Polytechnic
play at Nashville and Chattanooga come
together nj Chattanooga.
Virginia and Washington and Leo con-
tlnuc the southern invasion Of the east
the former PLAYING Harvard at Cam
bridge and the latter tachng the Navy
at Annapolis
Th" bows Of the football team Of the
histow high school consider them
selves IN luck this year. In the Ierson-
mel cf the team is the seventh son of
seventh son william Henshaw ~ his