The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21
Football on Pre- War Basis
in the West and South

on the field however. and whether he
wins the championship or not midway
adherents know that they will see a
fighting team.
Wisconsin seems to have become
rather unduly optimistic over the
chances of its eleven. It is true that
the Badgers have a wealth of pre-war
material returning, but they seem to for
get that this same material made little
or no impression upon the really strong
teams of the Conference in other years.
In addition. Coach John Richards is
entering upon his first year as a coach
a Wisconsin. and it is incomprehensible
that a new coaching system can be in
stalled with any hope of much success
during its first year
Bob Zuppke is working a squad OF
seventy men down at Illinois The
Illinois S. A. T. C. team last year went
through it's schedule unbeaten, and
Zuppke entertains hope of further sue
cess this year, The nlini will face a
much sitter schedule this season, how
ever, and must show considerably more
than In 1918 il they expect to be a
factor in the race
The Illinois team is the only one that
will play an all-Conference schedule.
That Zuppke will be busy man is
evidenced by the fact that beginning
Oct. IL the fllini will meet Pur-
due, Iowa. Wisconsin. Chicago, Mime
sofa, Michigan and Ohio on successive
Saturdays. Five straight games with
the strongest teams in the Conference
Is enough TO tax the ability OF any team.
Harley back at Ohio.
With the famous Harley, captain-elect
Tor 1917, returning to the team, Wilce
has high hopes at Ohio. He has a
squad OF fifty men at work, including
seventeen letter men. The Ohio eleven
will meet four Conference teams
Michigan, Purdue, Wisconsin and ILL
nois
Outside of the Conference are two
! teams that usually are in a position 10
dispute the Western championship with
the Big Ten leader. They are Nebraska
the kngpin OF the Missouri Valley sec
I ton, and Notre Dame.
Nebraska will meet Minnesota October
IL in Minneapolis, and will play Notre
Dame a week later in Lincoln. Notre
Dame has no important western game
besides the clash with Nebraska. Nothing
much is expected of the Michigan Ag-
gies They play Michigan. Purdue,
South Dakota and Notre Dame in their
most important games.
Three sections I'm south.
The South for football purposes 1.
divided into three sections. The South
Atlantic seaboard. where Virginia and
Washington and Lee stand supreme, the
central South, regulated by the South
ern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
and dominated by Vanderbilt Georgia
Tech and Centre College, and the South
west, comprising the States OF Texas
Oklahoma and Arkansas, where variou,
teams have taken a hand in running
things.
In the two most easterly southern sec
lions the old order seems about to b,
restored. DR.. Lambeth has welcomed
many war veterans back TO Virginia
While Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt ant
Meyers at Centre have nothing TO worn!
about in the way of material
Vanderbilt has a squad OF fifty mel
on Dudley Field. including Josh Cody
tackle. captain-elect for 1917, and Bun
Beasley. Top Richardson and Tom Shea
backheld men. All OF these players ar
ALL Southern men, and Vanderbilt ha
eighteen other "N" men on the squad
In the Southwest almost any team ha
chance TO come through so unsette
are the conditions. Texas, Texas A, ant
NJ, Rice, Baylor, Southwestern, Okla
homa, Oklahoma A. and NJ. and Arkan
sas all have big squads at work.