Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-06
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Mc0ovcsn 20 10 Aviator.
Another football star enters the
service of Uncle SANS lighting ma
chine. Johnny Mc0overn. former Min
ncsota star. who IL now lawyer. spe-
cial agent OF the department of JUS
eleven. % the patriot. Johnny has
enlisted in the navy aerial squad.
III I Nm accepted. I will resign my
position with tho government" Nc
Govern said. ~ am anxious to get
into the aerial service and prefer en-
listing with the naval aviators."
McGovern, II ne passes the prelim-
mary examinations, will take the
ground school course at Dunwoody in
stitute. and later, when the govern
ment sanctions the establishment Of a
Aero club. will take his course in ac-
tual flying At Holdridge. Lake Min
netonka.
McGovern was some shark at the
aerial game rs played in football. and
we sincerely hope he will be again
as successful WREN doing his duty for
Uncle Sam.
Big Ton Teams.
Win OaS0OAAA 11ldh4IlS lS 0CpdA(s
ing bow for the season, football
Launched itself today as a candidate
for popular sporting favor. In the
middle west nearly all university and
college. teams have, their first 1917
games.
Chicago and Minnesota are the only
members of the Big Ten not playing
today. Chicago was scheduled to
meet Carleton college. but so many
1xyoro Lost 70 fhof tooro 1,,o IN thu N.Y. -
that the contest was cancelled.
Minnesota was to have played the
South Dakota state but the, game was
postponed until next Saturday because
of adverse conditions due to enlist
ments.
Wisconsin meets Beloit college to-
day. with a team that is minus many
of the stars Of last yea Coach Rich
ards also makes his first appearance
Ohio State, conference champion
last year, meets Ohio Wesleyan at Co
lumbus. Michigan meets Case at Ann
Arbor, Indiana university plays Wa
bash at Bloomington. Purdue is
matched with Franklin, Northwestern
university and Lake Forest college
play in Chicago.
Other games in the middle west in
clude Illinois and Kansas at Urbana;
Iowa and Cornell college at Iowa City;
Nebraska and Wesleyan at Lincoln;
Notre Dame and Kalamazoo at South
Bend; Missouri and William Jewell
at Columbia.
Many Initial Games Today.
With six Of the seven teams COM
posing the Missouri Valley conference
lowers will have an opportunity to
draw some conclusions as to the flu
lures of the various elevens. All
teams are light this ason and will
largely depend upon open field and
aerial passing for ground gaining.
The most Important contest will be
between the University g Illinois and
The TS. E %ansa. tyas sf1 r1s}s ssost c ,%sSfna;
and should give the, "BilE Ten" mem
The Kansas Aggiss JWih meet the
Oklahoma Aggies, NahtaskasWill play
Nebraska wesleyan; RaMissouri will
play the first gamefYf>the season with
Penn college. T. /. "
Soldiers Have Croes Country Run.
A two-mile cross country .,,,l race by
an entire BATTALION Of soldiers-the
First battalion. 165th infantry. for
merly the 69th, New. York-the
feature Of the war training today at
Camp Mills. The course led over the
toughest kind Of country, with barbed
wire entanglements. rail fences and
other obstacles. Virtually all the
Thousand men made the distance, but
they were badly strung out at the fin
ish.
Fordham outwelghed and outplayed
the All-American football team OF
United States army ambulance corps
at Allentown today, winning 10 to Z.
iFordham used forward passes to good
advantage.
Ohio vs.. Ohio Wesleyan at Columbus.
Ohio state university football cham
pions of the western conference last
year will meet Ohio Wesleyan univer-
sity tomorrow. Neither team has
been defeated this season. Harley,
Ohio States All-American halfback,
and pete" Stinchcous, lauded as an
other Harley, are expected to be in
Ohio's opening lineup.
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