The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-28
SCHEDULES OF
NEXT YEAR TO
Be CONSIDERED
yariOus Conference Teams Are
Planning IntersectiOnal Foot
ball Clashes.

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the business of drafting football
schedules for the 1922 season.
Coaches Of the western confer
ence will meet here a week from
today to map out the gridiron pro-
grams for next year and because OF
the spectacular windup Of the 1921
race. gridiron followers are indulg-
ing a lot of speculation regarding
the schedules OF Ohio State and
Iowa, who fought out this year s
championship.
The eastern invasion of Chicago,
which resulted in 9 to triumph
over Princeton, has started move
ment for east versus west games
next season. Chicago already has
arranged TO play Princeton in a
return game here early in October,
and Iowa. 1921 champions, accord
ing to advance indications. proba-
blv will arrange a game with Yale
to be played in the east. Illinois IS
negotiating for a game with a rep
resentative southern eleven to be
played in Memphis, while Michigan
is considering a game with Wander
bilt for the second week in Octo-
Der.
What the Iowa schedule will be
next fall there Is no way OF deter
mining. Howard Jones, coach of
the triumphant Hawkeyes, and
Jack Wilce, coach of the Ohio
eleven. may decide to arrange a
game for next year in view OF the
fact that these teams did not meet
this year.
Followers of the championship
Hawkeyes are planning a wonder
full schedule for Iowa, but Coach
Jones is laughing up his sleeve al
the proposals.
tude that Iowa must at once as
sumo a position of dictator in the
Big Ten" Coach Jones said. Per
haps everyone does not carry it
quite that far, but on every hand
there seems to be a great misun-
derstanding of conditions in the
Big Ten and of the methods en-
ployed in working out schedules.
1t would be most unfortunate if
some of the old conference rival
ries would be interfered with. Such
riyal-ies as those between Ohio
and Illinois, Minnesota and Wis
consin, and Indiana and Purdue
cannot be broken just because
Iowa had a successful team. Just
now Iowa takes particular interest
in the games with Minnesota and
Illinois and we are anxious to con
tiuua pIavjup those teams
We probably will have a game
with Yale next year. largely be-
cause Chicago substituted Prince
ton for Iowa on its schedule for
1921. However. there is no quar-
rel between Chicago and Iowa.
Iowa would prefer to play these
teams in the Big Ten rather than
go east, but it is not always pos
sible to agree all around"
Although Ohio States schedule is
still very much in an embryo state.
it is almost certain TO include
Oberlin. Ohio Wesleyan, Minnesota.
Michigan, Illinois, Michigan and
Chicago Ohio Wesleyan and ODER
lin are the two oldest foes in Ohio
States football history and it is
doubtful if they will disappear from
the Buckeye schedule. Coach Wilce
is anxious to play Oberlin next fall
because of the upset given the
Buckeyes at the start of the sea-
son.
Ohio has made Overtures for a
game with California the latter part
Of October to be played in Ohio's
new Sl,300,000 stadium. which will
seat $4,000 persons. but the nego-
tiations have not reached the stage
of certainty. The Ohio eleven is
booked to appear at Illinois and
Minnesota next fall, while the
Michigan and Chicago games prob
ably will be scheduled for the Ohio
State stadium.
l.. W. St John, director of ath-
letics at Ohio. believes il is better
for Ohio State to confine itself with
competition within the western
conference, aside from the usual
preliminary games. rather than tC
play a team in the east.
We are playing our natural op-
ponents now said Director St
John.
Coach Zuppke at Illinois is ex-
schedule of but five conference
games The Illini mentor former
" played a hard six-game sched-
ule. but this year broke the long
grind by a game with DePauw be-
tween the Michigan. and Chicago
contests. There is still talk in Ur-
hana of a game with Harvard, but
George HUFF. director of athletics.
has steadfastly refused to play a
team in the east unless that team
would agree to a return game on
Illinois field the following year.
Illinois will play Chicago here next
season and will also play several
other regulars on their home grid
irons. including Wisconsin at Mad
ison and Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Iowa and Ohio State will probably
play at Urbana to round out the
quintet Of the games.
The schedules of all conference
teams will be limited to seven
games. as in the past. This pro-
gram usually includes two prac-
tice games with smaller colleges.
HANSON, WOENIG