Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-02
COLLEGES
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LAP OF RACE
Several Important Games
Scheduled in Race For
Football Honors.

Two titular battles are staged for
Saturday in the Big Ten. with a third
as a possibility. In Chicago. the Ma
and Ohio State meet in a game
that will have a very vital bearing Ion
the place one of the teams will haEe
in the later games of the race, wFile
al Lafayette. Northwestern n fur
due will meet for the unquestioned
cellar cham pionship, the losing team
being accorded that honor without
dispute. The third game that may
reach the heights of a titular battle
: is that between Minnesota and Iowa.
1t is the Minnesota opportunity to
Iowa's victory over Notre Dame
stamps that team as good. but it is
not an unbeatable team, that sort OF
an aggregation not being engaged in
the game Of football. h Hawkeyets
have a very marked advantage of a
weeks rest. within which period the
Gophers met Indiana.
Two International games crowd
other battles for interest of this
weekend. Notre Dame is meeting the
Army in the annual pilgrimage of the
Notre Dame team to the banks of the
Hudson. pilgrimages in which the
western team has taught the east con-
siderable football. Nebraska is maxi
ing its second journey eastward, this
time meeting the team of the Uni
veraty Of Pittsburgh on its home
field. The Army team. If French is
able to play. probably is a little
stronger than it was a year ago when
George Gipp galloped over and aroun
and through them for a 81 to II VIC
tory. Gipp is dead, so Notre Dame Is
weaker. Gippless Notre Dame teams
have defeated the Army however. and
the decision of the outcome of the
---- - ~a4S> ,,Dt{1 Tho fr01
whistle blows. Nebraska also ts strong,
but is not likely to he as strong as
Pittsburgh after travelling 1000 miles
and attempting to play in the differ-
ent atmosphere of orbes Field. the
other in~tersectional games are Of mild
interest, Virginia meeting Georgia
and little Marietta of Ohio appearing
on the field Of Boston college.
Missouri Conference.
Two battles for state leadership be-
tween Missouri Valley teams are about
the only features in that circuit this
week. University Of Missouri and
Washington university Of st. Louis
meet at the Missouri metropolis In the
annual title test OF that state. Drake
university and Iowa State college OF
Ames meet in the Drake stadium In
game between Iowa teams this year
The game is played as a part Of the
attraction for the Iowa state teach.
ers' convention. held in Des Moines
the last three days this week.
- The far west this week a a list o.
games that equal the offering OF any
section Of the country. Flung over thu
far borders Of tho Rockies and thu
Pacific coast and northwest, the fol-
lowing games are scheduled:
Washington State vs.. Oregon a
> Pullman. ,
Washington VS.. Stanford at Seattle
California VS.. So. California a
Berkeley.
Idaho vs. Montana at Moscow.
Nevada KS. Utah at Reno. ,
In the East.
The east has but one battle of i'm
portance. but to the east the Harvard
Princeton game in the rough grad
form of Palmer stadium at Old Mas
sau will be attraction enough. At thu
beginning of the season, lit was con
sidered that Princeton, in material
In coaching ability. and in football
instinct outclassed the other teams o,
the big three. The shock of defeat a
; the hands of the Navy and Chicago
may have changed conditions, ant
Harvard, which has been playing {
rea schedule this year. may have
improved under actual competition tt
a point where the critics will ACCORD
them even chances at the beginning