The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
IOWA MAY USE
RABBITS FOOT
Illinois Should Not Have
Beaten Hawkeyes
Quite So Bad
By HAROLD ANDREWS
(Leased Wire to The Age Herald. }

CHICAGO, Nov 3.-Burt Ingwer-
sen, who has returned to Iowa City
with his little flock of football players
unencumbered of any snap shots of the
Illinois team standing beneath the goal
posts, will prepare for his next game
by equipping each player with rab-
bits foot, and by teaching them how
to flip half dollars so that heads will
come up twice out of three flips.
After being boiled to the extent of
SO to 0 by the Illinois team in Sat-
urday's game, the Iowa coach has be-
come as superstitious as the gentlemen
from -. Stanley found making rain
in darkest Africa. 1t is likely that
football practice at Iowa from now on
will be largely a matter of driving
away evil spirits, and will be conducted
in the coach's office with a hoodoo
DOCTOR
Ineligible for Seven Years
No Iowa player who breaks look
ing glass will be allowed to play for
seven yc.rs, and if any member of
the team should accidentally look at
full moon over his left shoulder, or
walk under a ladder, his football ca
reer will be s tightly shut as a fresh
mans zoology textbook ON Friday night.
Spectators who came to cheer for
Illinois were known to have cried as
though their hearts would break be-
cause of the unparalleled bad luck
which fell on the Hawkeyes like a
blight. 1t started when the Hawkeyes
lost the toss of half dollar, which
meant that they had to fight terrific
wind as well as wonderful football team.
1t continued all through the game, and
inspired the experts to write solemn
ly although the Illini, coached to a
high degree of efficiency" won the
game easily, the score does not indicate
the relative strength of the teams"
Probaly Illinois has the better team,
but breaks" often win football games.
Perhaps Coach Ingwersen would have
been content to take a to o defeat,
but SO to O was too much. Hence
the rabbits foot
Red" Grange failed to NOV the
Hawkeyes down as easily as he did
Michigan, but he played marvellous
game and demonstrated again that he
is one of the very best players in the
country.
1t was one of the most important
games of the week end, as it elimi-
mated Iowa from the conference cham
pionship race. 1t was a most inter-
esting game, because the Iowa coach
learned his stuff from Bob Zuppke,
having been at one time, himself an
Illini star.
Chicago Looks to Illini
Chicago gave Perdue a 10 to 16
beating, and is now looking forward
expectantly to upsetting the great tank
of dope by smacking Illinois in the
face. Chicago has not yet been de-
feated.
Out in Evanston, Ill, thirty-five
thousand students and alumni of
Northwestern saw the Purple eleven
defeat Indiana, II to Z. 1t was the
first time Northwestern has beaten
another conference team for so long
that an alumnus in Pekin, China, to
whom the news was cabled, refused to
believe that it was true.
Michigan defeated Minnesota on their
own new stadium, 10 to 0, but as both
teams have been defeated, the result
doesn't mean very much. Georgia
Tech got away with 5 points against
Notre Dame, compelling Kunte Rockne
to send his first string men in the
game after the first quarter. The final
score was "a to 3.
Ohio State had a difficult time in
Wooster, the score being Z to l those
who remember Ohio State in the good
old days are behind billboards, crying
their eyes out.