The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-09-10
MIDDLEWEST
TO HAVE BEST
GRID SEASON
Several Teams Have Practice
Games on Schedule For
Late in September

Chicago, Sept. 1O.-LN-When the
grid stars hit the ground in their
iirst fall training next week, the
middle west will begin what promises
to be the best football year in his
tory.
With several new stadia or addi-
tions in prospect tor the opening
games, some Of the greatest perform
ers of last year still in the game, and
with the Incompatible Army Navy
class at Soldiers Field, Chicago, in
prospect for November "a as the
smashing finale of the season, fans
are agreed that things are indeed
looking up.
The boys who have been driving
ice wagons, mixing concrete for their
new stadia at 50. much an hour, or
Juggling the golden sheavcs IN the
tOrrid expanses of the wheat belt,
have fOrsaken their summer training
jobs and are on call for the first
formal training September Is. The
Western Conference season officially
opens October 2, but several teams
have tuning-up games arranged for
the last Saturday Of September.
Some Early Games
Purdue will meet the navy eleven
at Annapolis October in the first
important intersectional clash i'm
vclving the Big Ten. Michigan will
take on the middies four weeks. later,
also in the Maryland Free State.
Chicago and Pennsylvania have u
return engagement on their books,
scheduled for Urbana. October 80.
The traditional Michigan Illinois
rivalry will be continued at Ann Ar
hor, October %, and the Chicago
Illinois feud will be flashed over at
the Maroon field November 6.
When the athletes swarm on the
field September Is to brush up on
the tricks Of their trade the coaches
will start drilling their charges to
fight !. through = schedule which,
gagements, also contains one feature
players wore their hair long, sported
shin guards, and protected their over
size nasal equipment with rubber
cups.
General double headers are to be
played in the Big Ten due to a new
ruling requiring that. each team take
on at least four conference games.
Double Headef1
When the coaches gathered In CHI
cago last fall to arrange the 1925
schedule, many Of them found them
selves tied up with international
dates and the traditional games, but
they worked through the new rule
with the homc-and-h0me idea with
the result that Michigan, Che 1925
champion. finds itself engaged to
play Minnesota both at Minneapolis
and at Ann Arbor. The other twin
bill is between Northwestern and In
diana.
The intersectional idea has hit the
conference with . b1Ag.
The Maroons, with heavy confer
ence schedule, will Journey. to Phil
adelphia October is to meet Pennsyl-
vania.. The StagsrAeh were turned
back last year BY ono touchdown,
and will try to reverse. the verdict.
Pennsylvania later comes west; to
fulfill q contract WITH Illinois, 1t
the mammoth stadium It Champaign,
Int there @ill be 40 md" Grandc
to run Wild on ttS eastefns this
Michigan. which overwhelmed the
NAVY at Ann Arbor last year, will
again meet the Middies. the game
this year to be played in the mu-
/, nicipal stadium at Baltimore. DR..
Wilce's spectacular Ohio State team,
led by Emil Marek, hia tar bacit.
will meet Columbia in New York.
This also IL . return nl6tcA;, a. thu
Bucks took the Columbia eleven to q
trimming last year at Columbus.
- Practice Limited
Most 81. the schedules start on in
the usual manner. the teams taking
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