The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-21
Western Go1Hss Today Better
Than Eastern and Southern
SyraCuSe-PittSburgh and the
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
State Only Equal Struggles
in Atlantic States.

Western grldirons viii sec nearly all
OF the interesting football games today
only two real football battles IN which
Tho opposing clcvcns are believed to be
fairly evenly matched are scheduled on
eastern grdirons. AS most of the leading
teams are pittcd against clrvtns not
expected to test their strength.
Two of the hest exhibitions of tho day
arc anticipated nt the syracuse fllts-
burgh game at Syracuse aud IN the an
nual combat Of Pennsylvania and Penn
sylvania state at Philadelphia.
The battle Mt Syracuse VIII nc con
flict of giants as the home eleven has
the heaviest team OF all the eastern col
lcges this year whilc Pittsburgh IL u
close rival In that respect
Pennsylvania state defeated FennsNl
vania last year and her supporters l"oh
for repetition today
Georgetown Is regarded ms worthy
contender IN the game with Dartmouth
at Iiavcrhil Other important games
throughout the cast are.
Princeton Vs. Lafayette nj Princeton.
Harvard vs. Massachusetts, Nbrlcul'
tural nj Cambridge.
Cornell vs.. BuCknell nj ithaca
Army vs. Trinity at West Point
Navy w. West Virginia nt Annapolis
Columbia Vs. Union at New Notk.
Brown Ns Williams AZ NillanstoWh
missouri Nalcy.
Missouri and Iowa state Amcsl oc.
ctpy the center of the missouri NalIrN
conference football stage IN the only
clash I'm the conference which VIII have
n bearing on the Championship. fn'I
team 80 far this season has been undr
featcd ana today's contest VIII marx In'
retirement Of one of them nS con
Gender Iowa State ~ said TO be hhhdl
capped through injuries.
Missouri was said to he IN thceicu
condition for II hard contest.
For lovers of inter sectional games
Che clash at Portland, Ore, between th'
Oregnn AGgics and Nebraska should sat
isfy all desires fhc ilhsNcn inI,an,
also are making n long Jump To Mndlso'
~ play Wisconsin hut the gam" Is no
expected to worry the nofthcrnera ..
Drake and Washington play at -
louis. ,..,.
normal team .,
Oklahoma and Texas mingle at Dallas
and Arkansas and the Rolla Miners chs'
OF Fayetteville, Ark
Henry Kendall will line up against th'
hlvn normal at Tulsa and the Ohlhhom'
Agrics clash with the Southwestern
normal at saltwater.
South.
Football games In the south, with hu
f,w executions. will have "A direct bear
In M least seven games there H. pos
fihility that some team may ho cllmlhhl
ed
In three rnmcs teams viii meet whicl
have not met defeat this year by an
southern tenn. -,
Georgia and Virginia meet Il: Char
lottesvillc. l,-,,.
Atlanta -,,
Vanderbilt and Mississippi univcrsit
at Nashville.
The vanderbilt Mississippi contest /
the only one OF three having n dircc
bearing on the Southern intercollegiate
Athletic association title.
Only one intcrscctlonal contest wa
scheduled for today, that hetweci
Georgetown and Dartmouth at Hanover
n. Ii.
Central West.
CHICAGO. oct 7l.-nlInois opened n
big-ninc season today determined 4
humble Ohio state aud thus place itscl
IN the race for the western conference
football championship.
In other games involving mig nine
fonors. Chicago collidcd with Northwest
ern eleven, Purdue took ON Iowa, WIS
Consin faced the Haskell Indians I'm
game that promised to be of much ale
In developing the Badgers for later an,
more important contcsts and Minncsou
was opposed hy South Dakota university
Indiana WAS the only other western con
ference eleven not In action,
Chicago had It's work cut out I'm meet
Ing Northwestern which is regarded a
one Of the strongest teams developed a
Evanston In years.
The annual clash between MiChignI
and the Michigan AEgics attracted muc
casual interest