The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-04
Aggies Doped to Win.

Columbia, Mo-, Nov. 4-The Uni
versity of Missouri and Kansas State
Agricultural college football teams
are meeting on Rollins field here this
afternoon in their seventh annual
football game. with the Aggies favored
to win as a result of the tie score
which they have already turned in
against Oklahoma and Kansas, two of
the strongest teams in the Missouri
Valley conference, as compared with
Missouri's overwhelming defeat at the
hands of Nebraska two weeks ago, and
the poor showing in other conference
games.
Both teams are in good physical
condition except that the Tigers are
without the services of either Red
KerShaw, quarterback, or Tony Bund-
for the season with injuries. The day
is fair and warm. and the field is in
good condition for the game, having
dried out following rains earlier in the
week.
Big Games in East.
New York, Nov. 4.-Three inter-
sectional contests heighten interest in
this afternoons football schedule in
the east.
Harvard, with an eye toward the
day, will call on its second string men
to check Florida's invasion, unless
the southerners display unexpected
strength. Pennsylvania, revived by a
brilliant victory over the navy last
week, will be host to another eleven
from Dixie, Ala, while the third and
most keen1y awaited intersectionaI
struggle will pit the strong Nebraska
team against Syracuse.
Sharing interest with the intersec-
tlonal contests will be the battle at
the Polo grounds between Lafayette
and Washington and jefferson, two
elevens undefeated since late in the
fall of 1920.
schedule will bring together Yale and
Brown at New Haven; Columbia and
Cornell at Ithaca; Princeton and
Swarthmore at Princeton; Holy Cross
and Georgetown at Georgetown; Bos-
ton University and Dartmouth at Han
over, N. H; Union and Hobart at Ge-
neva, N Y. and Lehigh and Colgate
at Binghamton, n. Y.
Nebraska at Syracuse.
Syracuse, n. Y, Nov. 4.-The uni
versity of Nebraska football team, un-
beaten this year, and rated as one of
the most powerful in the Missouri VAL
ley conference, faced Syracuse today
in Archibald stadium. Because of
their record of last year when the corn
huskers won the conference cham
pionship and their advantage in
weight, the westerners went to the
field the popular favorites to win.
Every man in Coach Dawson's
squad was in fine physical condition.
1ney showed no erect whatever OF
their long ride from Lincoln, which
was broken for practice at Chicago
The playing field today was soft
from rains of last night and the
weather today was cloudy and mild.
The intersectional battle has attra cted
keen interest in central New York
and indications were that the concrete
bowl would be filled when play was
called at 2 o'clock
The cOrnhusker machine, one of
the heaviest that ever came out of
the land of corn. has a line averaging
1877 pounds. while it's backs averaged
174. the Syracuse line averages 1873
pounds and the back field, 169
Feature of s'Big Ten"
Minneapolis, Nov. 4.-Traditional
rivalry barking back to 1890,
blended with the clash of the unbeaten
Minnesota and Wisconsin gridiron
machines, puts Northrup field in the
center of the big Ten" football lime
light oday. The battle is important
for both universities, as the loser will
be eliminated from the conference
championship hunt
Illinois VS.. Northwestern.
Urtana. Ill. Nov 4-Handicapped
by the cripples and the loss of Bill
Augar, star tackle, in the wrangIe
with Wisconsin, Bob Zuppke's Uni
versity of Illinois football team ap-
preached the Northwestern game here
today with a certain amount of appre-
hension, mixed with the well known
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