The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-11

RESULTS FRIDAYS GAME.
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KANSAS GAMES TODAY.
Washburn C. of e. in Topeka
Kansas wesleyan vs.. 81. Mary's, in salina
Pittsburg Normal vs.. Kansas state NOR
ma RL ,s n rs Fafrmount in wichita
T3ethanv vs.. Mcpherson, in Mcpherson.
/ Friends T. vs.. Southwestern. in Winfield.
i MISSOURI VALLEY GAMES.
Kansas ~. Nebraska. in Lawrence.
Missouri vs.. Oklahoma. in Norman
i Iowa state Kansas Aggies. IN Man.
haitian. 60. -, n1...s
/ Washington L. Tennessee T., in 81
Louis =,
| WESTERN CONFERENCE GAMES
! TODAY.
| Minnesota ~ Iowa. in Iowa City
ThioaEo We We Wiseonsin, in NFsdison
! Purdue Northwestern. In Evanston;
Indiana ". West Virginia. in Indianapolis
OTHER GAMES TODAY.
Haskell Indians vs.. Detroit U, in Detroit.
Sterling college again has proved
that it is coming to the front as a
] Droducer of football teams 1t won
/ IFS second game of the year, and in
| cidentalIy the second in two years
when it won from the Ottawa uni
/ versity eleven. at Ottawa, Friday. me
final count was IL to o.
A short time, after the ink on this
page is dry, six football games in the
| kansas conference. SIX in the missouri
| valley, and numerous others over the
! entire United States viii be hlstory-
! Many schools will be humbled while
/ others will come out of the weekend
fray with colors flying ana announcer s
! SCALP added to their collection. 1t is
10 be a great football day.
Probably no other contest in the
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/ larger number of followers of the pig
/ skin art than the game at Lawrence,
Kan, this afternoon. when the Ne
/ braska COrnhuskers buck up against
/ the Kansas JayhawkerS.
| II is to be a contest of large pro-
portions Nebraska is of course the
/ favorite by quite lot, but Kansas mas
! shown a lot of strength. NEBRASKA
/ has been rated the best team in the
/ United states, and one writer said it
was such a good team it could play
/ Yale. Harvard and Princeton on sue
! cessive days and win each day. ct
| despite ali this. Nebraska was huns
| bled at Syracuse last week, when IT
met the Syracuse university eleven.
The final score was to g.
Whether it was psychology that lost
| the game for the HUskers in their
eastern conflict, or whether 1t was
overconfidence, or something else, mas
not been determined. but the fact re
mains LldL IOI SOAAAC O0ASO-A 49,
braSkan5 fell
The fall lost a point for football in
the west. and that IS that the West
can turn out as good football teams
as the east. The east triunphed in
this case. 1t also may have an effecr
on Nebraska, too 1t may wake up
the Huskers to the fact that they are
going to play football if they win
from their ancient rival at Lawrence
this afternoon.
When the Huskers and the Hawk
ers meet on the ribboned field this
afternoon Nebraska will be trying 10
uphold the perfect standing II mas IN
the valley. while Kansas VIII be play
ing to win. 1t will be a feather IN
the cap of the Kansans, if they are
able to take this game from the corn
fed Dawson men,
The Kansas Hawk went to be early
Friday night, but got up early thlS
morning., and started things, ana When men
the final whistle blows tonight the
jay Hawk may be able to do some
growing. And if perchance, the tloe
of victory may turn in favor or the
hawk, then the hawk will not sleep
tonight. but will pierce the stiffness or
the night with its cries of victory
Il doesn't seem likely that Kansas
will be able to win, but who can tel
A football game is never decided on
paper. anu Gel Nd1AAAN NV 0AASAA
whistle. There are too many preaks
that may happen which would turn
victory into defeat or vice versa
So followers of the Cornhusker
crew in Lincoln are not so sure today
that their warriors are going TO bring
homo the bacon. They remember the
tie score in 1870 when the followers
OF the crimson and blue came back
with 20 points against them and held,
and scored. This might be repeated
again today
other games in the valley deal with
! Missouri against Oklahoma in Nor
man. Iowa state VS. Kansas AgSleS IN
Manhattan. Drake VS.. COLORADO STATE
in Des Moines. Washington vs. Ten
nessee in st. Louis, Cornell vs.. Grin
nell, in Grinnen.
Two of these contests promise to be
close Missouri is going TO snow Ok
lahoma a hard game at Norman The
Missouri eleven was not defeated by
a large score by the Kansas AggieS,
and the Aggies tied with the Sooners-
OF course "Old Mizzoo" Is out of the
running for valley honors. having lost
two of its games. but il may be able
to humble some OF thu other SCHOOLS
in the conference oeEore the nnai
whistle blows Thanksgiving day. If
it can win from oklahoma and kan
sas it will have done well in the con-
ference when it started the season
with little material around which to
build formidable eleven
Oklahoma. on the other hand. has
/ lost to Kansas and tied with the kan
sas Aggies.
The Kansas Aggies. one of the most
! formidable passing crews in the valley,
I Is to tangle with the Iowa. State eleven
on the Manhattan field. Iowa state
this year. and the game will be inter-
estinS. and possibly quite close The