The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-31
BADGERS TO BID
FOR BIGl0' TITLE
Real Strength Shown by Wis.
consin in $50 Win Over
Minnesota.
By WALTER EcKERsALL.

CHICAGO, Oct. s0.-The victory
of Wisconsin over Minnesota, IS to
o which stamps the Badgers as the
best Cardinal eleven since the
championship team of 1912 fea-
tured Saturdays football games in
the Western Conference.
The Badgers demonstrated su-
periority in every department of
football over the Gophers and can
be rightfully considered strong
Western Conference championship
possibility. Minnesota was no
match for Coach Richards men
who were on edge for the battle
and played the sort of football ex-
pected from Wisconsin teams.
The Cardinals will now coast for
a week after which serious pre-
paration will be started for the
Michigan and Chicago battles. The
Badgers will not go into action
on Saturday but will clash with
the Wolverines at Madison on No
vember IL and Chicago on Stage
Field, November 19. 1t Is ex-
tremely likely Coach Richards will
take matters rather easy this week
to allow the men to lob of in
training and then bring them back
for the Michigan and Chicago
games So.
Since the opening OF the season
Wisconsin has given every indica-
ton of being a team with great
potential power. An analysis OF
the team will show the weight and
speed is equally distributed while
the backheld is composed of men
who can hit the line, drive on the
tackles, run the ends or forward
pass. The ball carriers are given
the necessary support from the for
wards while the ends take care of
their offensive and defensive play
in a pleasing manner.
Michigan and Illinois engaged in
a great battle which the former
won, to o. Neither eleven can
be said to be as strong as teams
of previous years and neither
showed the slashing offense which
has characterized former teams.
Team play at times was poor but
the tackling was hard and sure
and the men took off tacklers Tor
the desired results
The ring around the rosy of1ense
employed by both. elevens did not
impress the close followers OIL
football. While no effort Is being
made to criticise this style Of play,
it looks amateurish in the extreme
as compared with a smooth work.
ing offense of the shift variety.
Coast Yost, of Michigan, ana
Zuppke of Illinois, may have their
reasons for using the style, but
neither eleven secured the drive
characteristic of the shifting Of
Tense.
1t is the third straight confer
ence game Illinois has lost, and in
dfcations point to two moro defeats
at the hands of Chicago and ONO
State unless the team takes ire
mndous brace. While the eleven
is severely Handicapped through IN
iuries to Carney, Crangle and Pc
den, there does not seem to be the
old Illinois dash in the work Oh
this years team.
Iowa, another strong contender
for big ten honors, waddlea
through the mud to win from Pur-
due, 10 to 6. The Boilermakers
gave the Hawkeyes a harder hght
than was generally expected out
the poor field conditions made good
football impossible Coach Jones was
satisfied to win the game by any
sort of score and will start pre-
paration for the game with Mime
sofa at Minneapolis next Saturday.
Chicago experienced little diff
entity to run over and around the
University of Colorado eleven to
the tune of IS to o. The Rocky
Mountain conference team was no
match for the Maroons and the
game gave Coach Stagg ample OPP
portunities to test the caliber of
number of players 1t also was
lust the sort of contest needed to
keep the men on edge for the all
important game with Ohio State
paxt SATURDAY.