The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-11-03
SQUAD LEAVES
TO DO BATTLE
! WITH M|LLIkIN
Hopes To Upset Dope and Secure
Revenge for Last Seasons
Licking.

Six hundred students OF Angus
tana college, led by the college
band, accompanied their squad to
the depot this afternoon and gave
their representatives one OF the
greatest sendoffs~ever accorded an
athletic team at Augustana. The
cause Of all the hilarity is simply
this: Augustana meets Millikin
university in the annual gridiron
contest between the two schools to-
morrow afternoon at the Decatur
field.
BEAT Millikin!" Wreck Mill
kin's Homecoming" "AugieI
Fights" Give 'em a receipt
signs can be seen all over the Au-
gustana campus, painted in letters
two and three feet high.
The student body. as well as
members OF this years squad, is
pulling for a victory over the an
cient rivals tomorrow. Augie fol-
lowers would rather beat Coach
Wann's aggregation than any other
team in the conference. The rivalry
between the two schools is almost
I as keen as that between the tri-
city high schools. Swedberg's
/ boosters say that If tomorrow's.
game is won, regardless of the FIVE
contests already lost, and regard
less OF the showing made during
the remainder Of the rseason, the
season will be a success.
Seek Revenge.
Augustana has not forgotten the
% to 0 drubbing which the Blue
and Gold aggregation was forced
to accept at the hands of the Mill
KIN crew last year. Swedberg's
men were Inundated before one of
the largest homecoming crowds
which ever witnessed an Angus
tana athletic contest. To revenge
this defeat. pay the principal with
little interest, that is the ambi-
ton OF Augie players and follow
ers.
Howard Willard, football critic
and authority in the l. l. A C. con-
ference, predicts an easy win for
the Decatur team. In comparing
the record made SO far this season
by the two teams in question, it
must be admitted that Millikin has
the edge. Wanns men have put
two games on the right side of the
ledger, and the other three con-
\ tests were lost to teams of the
higher caliber; namely, DePauw
Wabash and Purdue. Weight is
also in favor of the Blue and
White, Millikin players averaging
five pounds more to the man. Then
too. Wann's representatives will be
playing on their own field and be-
fore a homecoming crowd.
Augie Is Underdog.
Augustana, no doubt, is the I'M
derdog. But it is just that fact upon
which Augustana followers base
their prediction that thei., team is
going to win. Swedberg's men are
at a white heat, aching for the
time for that first whsle to blow
One thing is certain. If the Mil
ligin crew does succeed in down
likin crew does succeed in down.
Wann's men, will know that they
have been in a battle and will have
earned the victory. Augustana sup
porters will be disappointed lot
in that event, but even so, they are
behind their team, win or lose
That's the kind of school spiri,
which makes it pleasure for the
representatives to fight, and which
will gradually develop a winning
eleven.
Coach Swedberg states that it is
probable that he will make decid.
ed change in his lineup tomorrow
Just what this change is, the Augie
mentor declines to say, but he be.
lieves that he has found a comb.
nation which will greatly add to
the chances Of winning. The fol.
lowing men, however, are almost
certain of starting at the positions
indicated: Erickson, quarter
Bendle. right half; Johnson. cen.
ter; Cornell, tackle; Beausang, left
guard; and Sherman left end.