Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-01
OHIO STATE LEADS
Buckeyes Won All Games Played, By
 Wide Margins.

With the smoke of battle cleared away, the figures on the Big Nine con- feernce football race show soma as-i tonishing things. Figures, as applied to football are the most proficient pre- yaricators in the world and this ap- plies to the percentage table at the end of the year about as well as it does to the dope which was so bad ly sattered this season. For instance. it ranks Chicago in a tie for fourth place with Illinois. the Maroons having the preference on account of more complete interconference schedule. Ohio, of course. is the first team in the table with four games won and none lost. Northwestern. Illinois, h. diana and Wisconsin being the victims l of the Harleyized Buckeyes. The Buckeyes won most of their games by good margins, but the .blackest spots | iE the record for the year arc the enc point victories over Illinois and Wisconsin, teams which later in the year fell by the wayside and finished the year as rank outsiders. The most | brilliant spot in the record was the big | victory over Northwestern in the championship struggle.
 | Northwestern ranks above Minnesota in the percentage table and gets sGcond rlace for the season. The Purple trim med Chicago, Indiana, Purdue and Iowa, two of the four being "big l teams" up to this year, while the only defeat is the one registered by Ohio. Next to Chicago, the Purple had the best intermonference schedule Or the | year and to this they owe their pre- dominance over Minnesota which won only three games. The Gophers trim
 med Iiwa, Wisconsin and Chicago and their only defeat was in the never to be explained affair wherein Illinois scored the seasons biggest surpr-ae. Despite the fact that Chicago had the worst season in several years, the Ma
 rG ons are in fourth place. tied with Ill., inois in the percentage column but having preference for the place be- cause of a more complete schedule. The Maroons won three and lost three, the victims being Purdue, Indiana and Illinois while Northwestern, Tiscon- sin and Minnesota were the elevs1s to
 whom they lost Illinois played five interconference games this year, beat ing Minnesota and Purdue and being
 beaten by Chicago and Ohio. X furth- CT black mark against the Illinois was
 the tie game with Wisconsin.
 | University of Iowa tops Wisconsin fer sixth place because of lighter lschedule. 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 de1eats
 giving Jones' men a percentage of ,33s
 for the year. Coach Writhington's
 Badgers must be content with seventh lposition, says the percentage table, fol
 while Wisconsin beat Chicago, ste ir
 turn was trimmed by Ohio, and Min
 nesota besides playing tie w:tl Illi-
 noiS.
 Purdue and Indiana have the distinc-
 ticn of fighting bitterly for the bot
 tom most rurg on the big nine lad der but after due consideration the honors must go to Purdue. Indiana i:
 characterized by its coach as a fight less team, but the Hoosiers lost only three games this season. succunbine
 to Chicago Ohio and Northwestern
 whereas Purdue lost to Chicago Iowa Illinois and Northwestern. To com
 Llicate the race for the booby prize
 Purdue and Indiana played a score Hess tie in their meeting.
 Leaders to Lose Few Stars
 Apparently there is little Likelihood
 of the 1917 race making as many s:art-
 ling changes in the percentage table as were made this year. Ohio ant Northwestern, the leading teams, lost
 few of their stars by graduation ol
 the three year rule, while Minnerota suffering more heavily than the frs
 two named, has an abundant crop O l freshmen stars with whom to plug tht