Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-18
GOOD FOOTBALL
GAMES IN West
0NCARD TODAY
Dope May Be Upset In big
Ten" Conference Clashes -
Hopes Of Two Eastern COL.
Ieges In Danger.
ny - r. BLANCHARD.

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Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
Chicago. Oct. 1s.-General Mars
atepson- college football-begins to
WELD . wicked battle axe throughout
the west today with the alleged prac-
tice game generally tucked away in
history. the various conferences
stepped into tho games that blot or
polish the undergraduates escutcheon.
Two 'big ten conference games
played magnet for Chicago rooters to-
| day. Northwestern and Wisconsin
were to meet at Evanston; Chicago
and Purdue on the maroon gridiron.
Both Northwestern and Wisconsin
! disappointed their friends last Satur-
day, but Northwestern Is confident OF
/ getting by with her excellent back
field Of which Bob Koehler is the
keystone.
CHICAGO MEETS PURDUE.
Chicago is expected to drub Purdue.
The boilermakers stood up right man
fully against Illinois last week, but
the Illini were crippled somewhat Chi
, cago has lineup something like the
maroons OF old. Higgins, Graham. Ell
ton and a host of subs have made
Stages worry one of selection rather
than the polishing of nondescripts.
| The maroons' big score against Great
Lakes last Saturday is not to be ia
ken seriously as showing great
strength, but Chicago is good.
iowa has hopes against the 1llint to-
day, doping strength to herself on
the fact that she beat Nebraska badly
while Nebraska later tied Minnesota,
usually a conference leader.
The Notre Dame Nebraska conflict
at Lincoln will attract much attention.
From a distance the cornhuskers APP
pear to have been slow in starting
Notre Dame has been under blankets
heretofore. The Catholic institution
regards Nebraska as the pet antagon-
LIST and can be depended upon to de-
liver the best 1t has.
Minnesota looks the stronger on pa
per for the game with Indiana today
but the Hoosiers and their coach fight
better when something Is at stake.
Indiana has her hopes.
Missouri and Ames are scheduled
for the most important Missouri valley
conference game.
GAMES IN EAST.
Two more big eastern schools will
walk mournfully to the tune Of dirges
tonight and attend the burial of their
1919 hopes.
There will be many funerals after
the, third big Saturday Of the grid
iron year, but the deepest gloom will
fall around Ithaca and Syracuse, where
the two biggest games of the east
are to be played between Cornell and
Colgate and between Pittsburgh and
Syracuse.
Syracuse faces it's toughest job OF
the season against Glenn Wsrners
Pittsburgh Panthers. The New York
ers doomed up as powerful eleven
last week by trouncing the army. On
the surface the elevens look to be
evenly balanced.
In Hastings, DeHart, Morrow and
Davies Warner has a fleet, capable
backfield that will outweigh Syracuse
On dry field which was predicted,
the Indications favor Pittsburgh.
Harvard will send slightly crippled
team against Brown, but Cambridge
hopes do not seem to be in the bal
ance.
Vanderbilt and Georgia Techs bat
tie will hold the center OF the stage
in the south.
Princeton takes on Rochester as @
fill in for the cancelled game witt
Fordham.
West Point meets Maine on the
plains and the navy enjoys a holiday