Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-16
BIG nine TEAMS
IN ACTION SOON
Preliminary Practice Among eric
Squads Will Start Sept. 20 and
Initial Games On Sept. 30.

| Chicago, Sept. 16.-FormaI opening
of fall football practice among the
! Big Nine conference teams takes place
next Wednesday, Sept. 90 but already
/ preliminary work has been begun
( throughout this section of the country
wherever coaches have been able to
; get enough men together Rudimen-
I tary drill is on the program for the
! first week at most institutions in the
I central states. and a few of the more
/ prominent cleven5 will have early
opening games. Among contests
scheduled for Sept SO. are.
Bloomington -Depauw VS. Indiana.
NOtre Dame Case VS.. Notre Dame.
| East Lansing -Olivet VS.. Michigan
! Aggies
Manhattan Baker vs.. Kansas Ag-
gies.
ttevillc-Arkansas Normal VS..
Arkansas
The season in the central states will
be remarkable for the tendency of the
leading elevens to break away for
games against teams outside of their
usual list of rivals. Indiana takes on
two games of iuter-seCtional interest.
-
and Florida at Bloomington. Nov. is.
Wisconsin meets South Dakota. Oct.
IA and the Haskell Indians Oct. 81
and Notre Dame takes on Case and
western Reserve for early season
games in addition to contests with
South Dakota, West Point Michigan
Aggies and Nebraska. Northwestern
plays Drake this year and Michigan
takes on Washington university of
st. Louis. while Illinois meets Kansas
in its opening game and Colgate in it's
second.
Advance notices on conference foot
pail squads indicate a tendency to
bear stories from Wisconsin and ILL
nols with a strong undertone of hone
fulness at the University of Chicago.
Loss of a half dozen stars is a severe
one TO the IIlini and with Macomber
practically the only one left, Coach
Zuppke apparently will have a hard
job TO build up a team like those to
which Urbana rooters have been &C
customed in the last few years.
set of feet backs, most of them
with at least years experience, and
line heavier than last seasons are
compensations to Coach Stage for the
loss by graduation of Russell and
team the rOOters are none too san
guine for a good showing this year,
though hopeful of good results from
the Harvard style of coaching, to be
drilled into the Badgers by Paul
Wilmington.
Preseason information from Mime
sofa say prospects for a first class
team are better than they have been
Tor years? Basing their arguments
on the fact that the Gophers tied the
Illinois for leading honOrs IN the Big
Nine last year, fans in the north be
iieYe their favorites are due to Clear
to title TO the championship this fall
There is a chance that Ohio State
with a squad of veterans will prove a
dark horse. especially when one re
calls the surprise the Buckeyes sprang
on Illinois last year Indiana also is
to have a better team than |
represents the Bloomington /
school and reports from Purdue and |
Northwestern are more optimistic than |
usual. Iowa's chances are considered |
only fair.
Michigan's strength is probIemati |
cal. Captain Maulbetsch. all-America |
half Of two years ago, Will be back. /
Dut Is said 10 be somewhat below the |
form which, in 1914. opened eastern
eyes at Harvard large staff OF as
5istants will strive with Coach Yost
10 develop a fair team from material /
Snort OF his expectations
Notre Dame has lost some OF the I
'est men that ever carried it's gold and
clue in the face of one of the most
lif1cult schedules ever undertaken by
my eleyent-east or west. The team