The Bismarck tribune., 1921-12-19
FOOTBALL ON
STAGE AFTER
USUAL SEASON
Interest Shown in Game I'm.
equalled BY That in Past
Seasons

The football season is long past but
football news is keeping it's place ir
the sporting page with greater tena-
city than in past years. Attempts tC
find an opponent for the Center Col
lege team in its game at SanDiego
Jan. End and the widespread search
for a team to meet California on the
same date are in part responsible for
football assuming ".stove league" pro-
pens4tles. Arpthcr factor is the wild
er acquaintance with the gam c
through its extension to every town
and hamlet by the high school play.
ers, in fact the high SCHOOLS may be
wholly responsible for Continuing foot
ball dope on the sporting page almost
to the end Of the year.
Recent making Of schedules, usually
not completed until well into spring,
has given the, intersectional games of
the coming year unusilal prominence.
Chicago and Princeton play a week
later than last year. Michigan, an
opponent of Vanderbilt in past years
on Ferry Field at Ann Arbor, goes to
the COmmCdore's liald at Nashville
where BrotherinLaws Yost and Nc
Gugin will watch the respective teams
and their charges battle Yale and
Iowa engage in the other intersec-
tional game, and Howard Jones Of
Iowa will pilot a starless Hawkeye
team to meet the Bulldog of brother
Tad, both players being former play
ers on the same Bulldog aggregation
An Unequal Contest
This latter game is the occasion OF
mournful thoughts to most followers
of western football. Given equal cOh>
ditions and the football men of the
west would not worry Champions
this year, it goes east as the. repre-
sentative of the best the west has, to
meet what was this year mediocre,
but young and promising team of the
east. Differences Of training condi.
tions make the meeting an unequal
contest. Brother Howard can meet
his charges officially September 18th,
Brother TAD can meet his any old
time he decides is proper and the Yale
custom is some time during the final
days of August Some of Howard's
players usually fail to report until the
University opens, about the first OF
October. The Yale squad. is usually
complete within day or two of the
time the first man reports.
Iowa may play game before il
leaves Iowa City on its treck to New
Haven. Yale has three games, schedl
uled before it tackles the Hawkeyea,
it's first game being with Bates, Sep
tember % and Carnegie Tech and
North Carolina following. Iowa has
no game scheduled and it is the hard
est sort of proposition to- find a suit
able early season game. Knox occu-
pied the place on the 1920 Iowa sched.
ule and probably will not care to re
peat the experiment, even if invited TO-
the slaughter by Coach Jones.
Physically, western followers of
football believe Iowa has little to fear
from the easterncrs They point out
that Yale will not know what to do
with Gordon Locke if he is going right
when he takes his plunges into the
blue line. Iowa will have speed in the
back field that eastern teams seldom
see, speed that Yale does not consider.
a part of the game although Aldrich
Hdu SOlhc VI us properties. bcAcu-
sively, it is pointed out that the Yale
attack will look like Princeton's did to
Chicago, because the Hawkeyes have
been used to more varied and de-
ceptive. offense Physically the west
has nothing to fear but Yales addi-
tional weeks of training and games
should give it an elge that only abso-
lutte superiority on the part Of Iowa
can overcome