The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-06
BIC GAMES TODAY
Missouri and Kansas Confer
ence Teams Get Into Action.
JayhaWkers Meet the Illini
Eleven at Urbana.

Football elevens of the Kansas and
Missouri valley conferences are plung-
ing into the football season in earnest
this week, six games being played Fri
day in the Kansas conference while
eight games in which teams of the two
conferences are engaging, four of
them in the state, were scheduled for
this afternoon.
The week closing today has been
ideal for football and reports from the
various camps indicate that no time
was lost in rounding the various elev-
ems into shape for the clashes of the
weekend. stiff scrimmages were in
vogue at nearly all the colleges and
universities
A line was secured on the strength
OF Kansas conference elevens from re-
suits Of the six games played Friday.
Within another week or two, ii is ex-
pected that the leading teams of the
conference will have made their ap-
pearance. Midland college took on
the Haskell Indians at Lawrence Fri
day. The -Quakers of Friends univer
sity. Wichita, journeyed out of the
state to Enid, Okla, to clash with
Philips. At st. Marys, the Kansas
Wesleyans of Salina met the st. Marys
eleven. Bethany and ottawa fought it
out Friday afternoon on the ottawa
gridiron. The College of EmpOria met
Baker university at Baldwin while the
Moundbuilders of Winfield clashed on
their home grounds with the Hays
Normal eleven.
TOday's Games.
Two Kansas conference games were
scheduled for THIS afternoon. Wash
burn to open its home season by meet
ing Cooper college at Topeka. The
State Manual Training Normal eleven
left Pittsburg today for Emporia
to mest the Emporia Normal team
this afternoon. This game is expected
TO give fans some idea of the strength
of the eleven Bill Hargiss is turning
out at Emporia this fall.
AlthO no Missouri valley conference
games are being played today the
first being scheduled for October 10,
SIX OF the teams in the conference
were in action this afternoon, these
being the Kansas Jayhawkers, Kansas
AggiesS Nebraska CoFnhuskers, Mis-
souri, Tigers, Iowa Aggies and the
Drake Bulldogs. Considerable inter-
est center around the game between
Kansas university and the Illiui at Ur-
bana. This game will give an indi-
cation of where the Jayhawker eleven
can be placed in the early estimates.
The Illinois team is reported to be
light and green so the Olcott eleven
may be able to make a big showing
against the Big Ten" eleven
Tough Aggie Game.
The Kansas Aggies are meeting a
strong team this afternoon at Man
haitian in the eleven from the Okla
homa A. & NJ. at Saltwater. eleven
ger and Schultz are as laconic as ever
in respect to reports about their Wild
cats The Aggie eleven, however, is
expected to clean up on the Oklahoma
crew.
The Missouri Tigers and William
Jewell were expected to stage a hard
fought battle on the Columbia grid
iron this afternoon. Drake is meeting
Penn college of Iowa at Des Moines
while the Iowa Aggies are cIashing
with Coe college at Ames. The Ne
braska COrnhuskers are taking on Ne
braska Wesleyan at Lincoln The
game will give some idea of the
strength of the Cornhusker team.
which is of the characteristic Ne
braska type again this year, accord
ing to reports from Lincoln. A husky.
fast and full-of-fight eleven seems tc
be the Nebraska 1917 output