The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-24
AT'.IRRIN,
vthe DOPE
THE WINNERS?
BY VEDDER GARD

A0n tyAIS4NNGAASS
- 1aERE are q number OF In.
teresting football games
scheduled for Thanksgiy,
ing Day The East seems to have
more or less OF a monopoly on the
contests, which have a national
Kick" The Missouri Valley and
Pacific Coast also are busy, but
this section Is Quist with the Big
Ten through for the season.
Brown vs. Colgate and Cornell
VS. Pennsylvania, perhaps are the
outstanding Struggles. It Is
rather difficult to dope the win
ners-
Local fans are making Brown
10 to ] favorite over Colgate.
and giving the same odds on
Penna against Cornell. In both
instances the dopsters believe
that the choices viii win by
seven points.
We are inclined to agree that
PENNSYLVANIA will win but
are not SO sure about Brown, al
though It has not been defeated
this season.
Colgate probably Is moderated
and Brown rated too highly. Just
because Brown beat Dartmouth,
Harvard and Yale Is no reason the
club is any wonder team. Those
defeated schools names sound i'm
press1ve, but the teams this season
did not live up to the regulations
Of their predecessors.
1t would not surprise Us in the
least if COLGATE gave Brown
Its first defeat of the year. Col
gate, with seven points, looks
pretty good.
PITTSBURGH Is the 10 to 8
choice over Penn State in their
annual struggle. Pittsburgh to
win by seven points Is the dope.
SYRACUSE should defeat Col
u1nbia- If some of the injured
Syracuse players get back, es-
pecially Carr, there should not be
a great deal of doubt. Otherwise,
1t looks a tough scrap. There
have been offered odds of 10 to 8
that Syracuse will win.
WASHINGTON AND JET
FERSON is top-beavy favOrite
over West Virginia u, with odds
of 10 to prevailing, and no
takers.
In the South the undefeated
ALABAMA eleven should con-
tinue on its victory march at the
expense Of Georgia. The odds are
something like to / IL you think
Georgia can stop EN-.
There are q number of other
Southern, Missouri Valley and
Pacific Coast games, but they do
not seem to hold much interest for
fans hereabouts.
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The best laugh of the football
year comes from Michigan. A
story out of Ann ArbOr says that
the Wolverines were not lucky
-Oosterbaan practiced scoopfng
mp fumbles all week-antI they
are very serious about 1t.
Dick Hanley, Haskell Indian
football coach, must like to travel.
He was offered the post at Boston
College, but declined. The Indians
hunting grounds ARE from coast to
coast, while Boston confines itself
to the eastern seabord. Haskell
plays st. Xavier at Cincinnati on
Turkey day.
E~3HAT strange pranks Fate
IWj plays. 1t is said that
~ Northwestern and Mich
igan had signed to meet at Ann
Arbor in the last game of the
1925 season before the last years
schedule meeting
When the coaches got together
it was found, under the new ruling
that each Big Ten team play four
games with conference opponents,
that Minnesota was unable to card
the required contests. Coach
Yost requested Northwestern to re-
lease the Wolverines from their
contract so that Michigan could fill
out the Gopher's card by playing
them twice.
Iowa agreed to play the Purple
in the last contest. Coach
Thistlethwaite of the Evanston
school acceded to Michigan's re-
quest.
How we wish he had not. North
western VS.. Michigan would have
been thrilling climax to the
Western Conference season-and
there would have been no tie at
the top Of the heap!
Two persons who should be
popular" on the Northwestern
University campus - Professor
Dickinson and RED Grange.
The prof." according to his elab-
crate system of grid rankings,
puts Michigan ahead OF the Pur-
pie. Red" in one of his news
paper articles, says that the
Wolverines could beat the
Evanston eleven. .....
Coach Stagg of Chicago and his
former assistant. Pat Page, now
football coach at Indiana, should
be able to console each other at the
Chicago Big Ten meeting this
weekend. Neither could win a
grid game In the Conference this
season.