Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-11
Who, WHAT AND
WHERE IS GRID
CHAMPIONSHIP?
Hard To Prove Big Ten
Does Not Contain Best
Team In u. S.

Bismarck, Nov. 1O.-Football crit
les living outside of Big Ten territory
are going to have Il hare time prov
ing a football team outside that ter
ritory Is the best team in the country
this year. unless this happens~t to be a
critic living farther west. Farther
west must always be added after the
results of the Ohio State-California
football game of last New Years day.
The paper battle royal to prove the
best team in the Big Ten is going mer-
rily on. The best team might be Ohio
State University, but then Oberlin.
who defeated the Buckeyes in the
opening game Of the must be
considered. It might be Wisconsin.
II the latter team passes the barrier
Of Michigan and Chicago. It might
be Iowa. but, with the exception OF
Notre Dame. the teams Iowa has de-
fcated have not shown strength.
May BE Nebraska
Starting toward tho coast, it might
be Nebraska, but that team failed to
defeat Notre Dame and lost a. single
touchdown battle. Vest OF Nebraska
there are some great teams. but Colo-
RADIO is the only one the middle west
has seen, and it does not look i'm
pressive. On the far coast, the teams
Ac 1lASIl6 h tISILJ ulte Id@c Will
California showing the most class to
date. Other teams must still be con-
sidered, however.
Removing all possibilities Of figur-
ing a. title for the East is compare
lively simple. The process brings the
title somewhere to Big Ten territory.
Chicago defeated Princeton and the
Tigers defeated Harvard. Notre
Dame defeated the Army and Eebras-
ka defeated Pittsburgh. Taking it for
granted that comparative scores are
worthless but that football fanatics
will wrestle with them, the following
series Of games are of interest to the
middle west.
What They Did.
Iowa defeated Notre Dame. Notre
Dame defeated the Army, rs to O.
The Army defeated Middlebury. 10
to 0. Middlebury defeated Williams,
Z to 3. Williams defeated Columbia,
University. 20 to 0: Columbia defeat
ed New York University. 10 to 0. New
York University defeated Wesleyan
University, Z to 0. and tied Colgate
University.
Another little journey into compare
tive scores starts with Oberlin. Ober-
lin defeated Ohio State. z to 0. Ohio
defeated Chicago, 7 to 0; Chicago de-
feated Princeton, 3 to O.; Princeton
defeated Harvard, 10 to 3; Harvard
defeated GEORGIA 10 to Z; Georgia
defeated Virginia, II to .. and An
burn, Z to 0.
Detroit University Strong.
Or take Detroit University, which is
in Big Ten territory. but which has
played few Of the teams in the terri
tory. Detroit University defeated Bos-
o College, 2S to o; Boston trecked
way down into Texas and defeated
Baylor, 20 to 0. hen Boston took on
about all of the teams it could find
in the East n except for a tie with
Fighting Fordham," it won all its
games Detroit also took in some
other southern territory when it de-
feated Tulane, and Tulane had to its
credit a victory oyc Rice Institute.
Thus the t~entacles of comparative
score victories reach cut to the East,
the South Atlantic iseaboard, the South
and the far Southwest in a rather
commanding way. Cornell University