The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-25
FOOTBALL LEAD WENT
WEST IN 1921 RECORDS

nv HenryL Farrell,

I,f@ 1890 by aenEy LIZ dTTcu, AZ,
tinted Press STAFF Correspondent) Ef
Naw Y Oh, Nov IS. Eastern foot
ball :dd jpst a little better than hold
Fits own against intersectional compe.
tition whithsreached it's highest point
during thef1921 season. j !, :, ss /: n
Results Of the season IN baseball
language would be: ~. - 20,
Teams Il; .51; vs.. Pct,
East vs. West g.,
East vs.. West 3 South..14 .666
F, After theSyears and years in which
the east. raise dts lofty head and
boasted Of the only football, 1t seems
strange to refer to any season as one
in which The east held itssown. Facts
make this obvious, however, and at
the same etime present y striking EVIL
dence. Of the growth of the great grid
iron, game in the middIewest. si
-. The, cold figures show that the east
broke even with the. west, but in real
ity the east was all to the bad in east
west compet ition. Three big vest
ern teams d efeated three, Of the very
best elevens : in the east, while no
eastern team won over a realqrfrst-
class western team of high rating, y
Balanced in the scales, the weight
of these vvictories-Chicago 8, Prince
ton o; Nebraska 10, Pittsburgh @;
Notre Dam %, Army 0--far out-bal-
ance the conquests of the east repre-
scented in-Navy So, Western Re-
serve TO-; Pittsburgh Fl, Cincinnati u.
O.; Harvard 10, Indiana o.; Syracuse
SO, Ohio University o.; Army !21,'
Wabash o. While they were. not
played against representatives teams
Of the east, the west scored also when
Notre Dame beat Rutgers :+48 to- Q,
and Detroit won from Boston College
% TOGO s;ss:.,*A s ts3jis55:= EEt !. @'.
Against the south, the east looked
all to the good. Football in Dixie OF,
the strength Of seasons scores must
come third behind the west and the
east. The only thing impressive the
south was able to show was in Gen.
tres 6 to o defeat Of Harvard, and,
the Crimson was, shown sup in later
games Ito be far less capable than it
was rated earlyain the, season. Geor.
Ola Tech defeated Rutgers AZ to O.,
but Notre Dame took the brilliance
out OF that victory by doing the same
thing easily. By no means, though,
should this be taken as meaning that.
Georgia Tech is as good as Notre
Dame. s Ia r. = 3: sa.E ~:
MI Out Of eleven games against east
,ern teams; Centre and Georgia Tech
furnished the only two victories, and
Tech was later trou1ced by; Penn
State which gave them only a fifty.
fifty break. '1tgs u l4ss. s:.S 1 "a
.sss The nine victories Of the east over
the south were as follows: Penn 81,
Virginia Military Institute q; Penn
State 81, North I Carolina State O.;
Penn State 90, Georgia Tech z; Navy
40, North Carolina State O; Boston
College 20, Baylor z. Yale "a, North
Carolina o; Harvard 10, Georgia q;
Dartmouth II, Tennessee 81. Prince
ton 80, Virginia 0. = - -. Z 2
= TIE seems that, after all, the west
must be, recognized as the leader. For
years westerners have, been stoutly
maintaining a. claim to supremacy
only.te meet with ridicule or silent in
difference from the east, but this
year the fgures bring out the legiti.
macy Of the claim with bang. r.. -
Perhaps. Penn State, Navy, Lale,
Lafayette or any team picked as the
best in the east might be returned a
winner in a game with Iowa, Ohio
State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame or any
team selected as the best in the west.
but that would prove j nothing more
than better individual. IN
In the broad sense, football, mean.
ing football as itFis played section.
ally, was the best in the west this
year by comfortable margin as is
represented in the. seasons results.