South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-03
CRUCIAL T|LTS
IN BIC 10 TODAY
Chicago Illinois and Ohio
Indiana Games to be Bit
ter, is Prediction.

CHICAGO, Nov. 3.@Crucial games
are to be decided in the big ten"
championship football race Saturday,
with Chicago meeting Illinois at
Stage field and Minnesota opposing
Wisconsin at Madison. other games
will bring Ohio State, the present
champions, and Indiana together at
Indianapolis. while Northwestern will
clash with Purdue at Lafayette.
Michigan will take on Kalamazoo
college at Ann Arbor.
Results of the Illinois-Chicago
game and the clash between Mime
sofa and Wisconsin may so a long
way towards clearing up the cham
piOnship. Defeat for either Chicago
or Illinois will eliminate them from
further consideration, and Mime
sofa and Ohio State also must tri-
umph TO hold their place in the race.
Critics are unwilling to hazard a
guess az to the outome of the
Chicago game. but favor
Minnesota and Ohio State TO come
through with cOlors flying.
The Madison contest will be made
the occasion for dedication of the
new modern concrete stadium which
has been in course of construction
for more than a year. Wisconsin
will also celebrate its annual home
coming and plans have been made
to make the event the biggest OF
the year in the Wisconsin capital.
Special trains will bring alumni
from cities near, Madison. The Min
nesota contingent, however, will be
only a fraction of its usual strength.
Wisconsin rOoters know their IA
vorites will go into the game with
odds against them, but are relying
on Big John" Richards. who in
stilled the fight into the team that
held the Gophers to a tie In 1911,
to spring another surprise. Mime
sofa has been drilling for two weeks
preparing for the game and word
from that camp is that the players
are confident Of victory. The Bad
gers came out of the Iowa contest
a week ago without serious injury
and Coach Richards Immediately
launched a drive TO bolster up weak
ness.
Expect Bitter Contest.
The annual clash between Chica-
go and Illinois at Stage field prom
Uses TO be bitterly contested. ILL
nois. after triumphs over Chicago
in 1914 and 1915. was downed last
year and the defeat still is burning
in the hearts of the Illini.
Fight Chicago 10 the last ditch, .
is the cry from the Illini camp. The
down state eleven Will invade Stagg
field without trimming over with
confidence but grimly determined to
make a fight out of it. Coach Zupp-
Ike Of the Illinois squad drilled his
players all week 10 build up a con-
certed attack and smooth out a de-
Tense for forward passes.
The teams are regarded as OF
fairly equal strength as both rolled
up identical scores, 27 TO O-over
! Purdue. That Coach Stagg OF Chi
cago Is satisfied with the makeup
of his team is evidenced by the fact
that not a substitution was made In
the game against Northwestern last
Saturday. Little news has come
from the chicago camp this week X,
which indicates that Stagg is franz
ing a surprise for the Illini.
Indications are that the Ohio
State-Indiana game at Indianapolis
will draw a huge crowd. Practically
every faculty member OF the entire
student body of the Hoosier insti-
tuition will make the short trip from
Bloomington in two special trains. In
addition. a delegation is coming
from Ohio and the request for 1000
tickets from the officers training
camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison
will swell the attendance.
Probably $500 Indiana students,
accompanied by the University band,
will be in the stands. They plan
, 70 stage a parade through the In
dianapolis business district before
the game The advance guard will
invade the capital Friday night.
Coach Jumbo" Stiehm OF the In
diana eleven plans 10 send much
stronger steam against the confer
ence champions than the HoosieT
squad that fell before Minnesota.