The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-26
Grange's Run Is. Winner For His Illinois EIeuen
By JAMES MCLEAN (Leased Wire to The Age-Herald)

(Leased Wire to The Age-HeraId)
 CHICAGO, Nov. 25.---For three periods the hopes of Illinois rooters sank steadily on eurday-visions of an undefeated season and big ten honors were nearly wiped away by the stone wall presented by the Ohio State line. Then Red" Grange came through again. In the last minutes of play the fleet-footed back skim med across the field for a touch- down Britton added field goal shortly afterward
 Hopes fell at Ann Arbor, for at the last minute it looked as if the popular dope that Micigian's season would be wrecked on the last shoal- the Minnesota defense-was to prove true Then Rockwell, the little sub stitute quarter whose touchdown beat Wisconsin a week before, flashed over the goal line. Later, also, Captain Kipke added a field goal.
 This strange similarity in victory landed the Illini and the Wolverines in a tie for the big ten championship The better team will remain mat ter of speculation as long as post mortems on the 1923 football season are held by the fireside. Illinois a plugging team with one bright star 1 Grange, who scored a dozen touch- downs for his first years work might seem to he the greater, how r., ing spot. Comparative scores reveal nothing. Illinois won five games, de- feating the same four that Michigan beat, and also Northwestern. Victory over the Evanston Purple is no great l feat, for Northwestern rests at the 1 roots of the seaweed with six con- ference defeats and not single vic tory. Iowa completed this destruc- i ton of hopes by winning 17 to IA from the Purple Saturday.
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 Pass Beats Wisconsin.
 A triple pass defeated wisconsin l 13 to G. and landed Chicago in third position for the season, with four victories and one defeat. The Maroons were better than the Badgers, but not seven points better. Luck helped good football.
 Michigan gave the Gophers a record of three wins, one defeat and a tie for fourth position, Iowa won three and lost two; Indiana split two and two. Wisconsin, Ohio State and Pur- due each won one and lost three, ty- ing for the honor of finishing Just above Northwestern.
 Tn the east-west tilts the day was evenly divided. The fighting Irish | did more than the expected when Carnegie Tech was added to Notre Dame's string of scalps by the lopp- 1 sided score or 70 to U, put INSDIdSFA q did not fare so well while host to Syracuse. Although they couldn't score, the Cornhuskers had every thing their own way up to the very close of the game. Then Syracuse got within the shadow of the goal by taking to the air, and scored a touchdown which gave the conquer ors of Notre Dame their first beat ing of the year. It was quite a feather for the Syracuse cap.
 California Unbeaten.
 Again California finished the sea son undefeated champion of the western coast. It is the fourth sue cessive year But the Golden Bears required a few lucky breaks Satur- day to wallop Stanford to 0, in a game that the coast will thrill over for the remainder of the generation
 Washington won state honors from Washington State, and the Oregor Aggies took the championship oi their domain from Oregon university by a margin of a touchdown
 Centre took Washington and Lee tc a trimming by three touchdowns tc nothing, while Alabama rolled up 3t points during the time that Georgis was unable to threaten the Gulf state goal line. Tennessee beat Mississippi 10 to 0, and Georgetown won iron Tulsa, 26 to 0. Tulane's advantage over Louisiana State amounted to 2( points against nothing, Florida anC Mississippi played a 13 to 13 tie.