The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-12-06
Big Ten Football Games Scheduled for
1921 Show Number Of Changes
from This
Year.
CHICAGO GOES EAST
Maroons ard Princeton Will Play
Inter-SeetionaI Came While n
diana Goes to HNr-
ward.

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CHICAGO. Ill. Dec. 6.-Western
conference football coaches SATURDAY
arranged their 1921 schedules at
meeting which brought forth two
breaks between traditional rivals for
Big Ten gridiron supremacy. Ohio
State. conference champion this year
will not meet Wisconsin. 1920 run
ner ND. next year, the two schools
seyering football relations after an
argument over where the game
should be played. Chicago failed TO
schedule a game with Michigan, al
though it was said that there had
been no ill feeling over the inability
of the representatives OF these two
schools to arrange = contest. Mean
while it was announced at first by
the coaches that all athletic rela-
lions between Ohio State and wis.
consin had been severed. it developed
later that the two schools would
carry out contracts already made for
athletic contests, thus eliminating
any chance for cancellation of bas-
ket ball or baseball games between
them.
Wisconsin played Ohio State at
Columbus this year. losing Is to Z.
and Coach John Richards insisted
that il a contest was played in 1891,
it should beat Madison. Coach Wifce
of Ohio state. however, had bseen
able to arrange only three western
conference games at Columbus and
maintained that Wisconsin should
meet the Buckeyes on their home
grounds two years in succession. He
pointed to the fact that several other
schools followed this plan in order
To give each team fair number or
championship games at home. the
coaches, however. were unable &c
agree and football relations were
severed.
! Minnesota was left OF the Illinois
/ schedule, 1t being found impossible
to arrange a suitable date.
Coaches Stage OF Chicago. and fost
of Michigan, both expressed disap-
| pointment over the fact that their
F, teams would not meet next year
| 81 thought we had arranged a two
game contract a year ago." said MT.
| Yost, "but it seems we didn't, so
well lust have to let the game go.
| Numbering the Players
| The western conference faculty
committee voted to make the num-
tsring OF players in football games
+; compulsory, ruling that the numbers
must be eight inches high. easily dis
E, ttnguishable and that each coach
.ulst announce the numbers of his
players a week before the game.
| 1t also ruled that football officials
who ofnciate in professional games
may not act in conference games.
1t made the following awards OF
athletic events:
| Indoor track Observation-Disclosures
March II and 18.
! Swimming Observation-Disclosures
March II and IS.
! Tennis meet-Chicago May 2o-28.
! Outdoor track meet0Cnica9o'
/ June 4.
! Cross country run-Indiana, Nov.
/ 10.
| Gymnastic meet-Indiana, March
! II and IL.
! Five places will count in track
meets, instead of four, az heretofore
/ the committee decided, and no team
Of less than FIVE men will be allowed
{ TO enter any athletic meet.
Football VS.. Studies.
The possibility Of football interfer
; ing with studies was discussed al
| length By the committee members
| A committee composed of Professors
II. F. A. Pyre Of Wisconsin. r. w
| Angler of Michigan, and Thomas r.
French Of Ohio State, we're appointed
7 to conduct an investigation as to
whether too much time was being
taken I'D in practice and whether it
would be advisable to limit practice
hours to q set period
| The football schedules arranged
I include intersectional games between
I Princeton and Chicago and Harvard
and Indiana, both To be played early
! in the season and in the east. Notre
Dame, generally one OF the strongest
of middle-western elevens. but not IN
I the conference, was given three
( games by conference teams, playing
Purdue, Indiana and Iowa
I The faculty athletic committee OF
( the western conference notlhed the
c.,aches that It had voted against
ilengthening the scheduie 10 nine
games so each coach arranged four
or FIVE games with other Big Ten
schools. The schedules follow:
! The Schedules.
| Ohio state: Oct. Is, Minnesota at
| Columbus; Oct. O.. Michigan at Ann
4rbor: Nov. 5. Chicago at Chicago;
Nov. IL, Purdue at Columbus; Nov
10 Illinois at Columbus.
| Michigan: Oct %, Ohio State at
/ Ann Arbor; Oct %, Illinois at Ur'
bana: Nov. IL, Wisconsin at Madi,
son: Nov. 10, Minnesota at Ann Ar
Dor
1 wisconsin: Oct 10. Northwestern