The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-21
Zuppke's Men Win Five Big
Ten Games - Gcphers Vic
tori0us in Three Conference
Games and Play Indiana TO
a Tie Michigan Victory
First Since 1919

a Tie Michigan Victory
First Since 1919
Chicago, Nov. 21.-tP-lllinois
has overthrow the Michigan dy.
nasty ruling the Western Confer.
ence football world. and the flight.
ing 1llini" today lead the Big Ter
with five scalps drying on the
lodge pole.
Coach Zuppke seasoned his team
with three preliminary games and
then swept through the conference
schedule without defeat or tic.
Iowa State tied the new champions
in the last pre-conference game,
1912.
Minnesota also finished it's con-
ference season without defeat, but
won only three games to five for H.
linois and the Minnesotans were held
to a 14-14 tie by Indiana in their
Big Ten debut. Minnesota fought
Notre Dame to a TT tie in snow
STORM, and wound up it's season
riotously happy over the first VIC
tory over Michigan since 1919.
Four Teams Lose Best Men
Minnesota, Michigan, Northwest
crn and Chicago are among the
hardest hit by the thrce-year rule
which sweeps away q great part Of
their 1927 teams. The first three
teams will lose both their great
stars. Joesting and Almquist are
through at Minncsot Oosterbaan
and Gilbert have played their last
game at Michigan; Lewis and Gus
tafson both are ready to graduate
at Northwestern.
Illinois, Indiana. Purdue and Iowa
arc among the teams fortunate IN
sophomore material this year, the
first two aying nearly enough
good youngsters to make a varsity
eleven.
Harold "Shorty" Almquist of
Minnesota was easily the leading
scorer of the conference this year,
going over for II touchdowns, with
Louis Gilbert of Michigan II points
behind. Ralph Welch of Purdue,
one of the most brilliant sophomore
prospects of the Big Ten this year,
climbed to third place in the closing
game.
May BE Picked Again
The Big Te.l's two all-American
stars, Captain Bonnie Oosterbaan of
Michigan and Captain Herb Joesting
Of Minnesota, again showed ability
which made them leading candidates
of the conference for national recog-
milton again this year.
Three Big Ten teams had new
coaches this year and all met with
more or less disaster. Dick Han
ley. the conference newcomer at
Northwestern, won his first Big Ten
game, but dropped the next three
when his backfield wen. smash, re-
covering only in time to capture the
finale. Glenn Thistlethwaite, who
transferred from Northwestern to
Wisconsin, won only one of his five
conference games, beating Purdue.
Tad Weiman, of Michigan, taking
over the burden from Hurry Up"
Yost, seemed headed for a title UNI
til he bumped into the all-conquer-
ing Illini. Then in the last game the
victory-mad Minnesotans swept over
Michigan in the last half to a 1877
victory.
Future Chances Bright
Indiana, Purdue and Iowa, after
two or more depressing seasons,
gave indications of turning over a
new leaf, with better material COM
ing to hand. Indiana finished the
season with nine sophomores on the
squad. and Purdue discovered a
sophomore who was a whole back
field in himself, "Pest' WEIGH.
Iowa, too, shook together very fair
sophomore backfield by the end of
the year. though the line was weak.
One of the greatest explosions in
recent Big Ten history shattered
the morale Of the Ohio State team.
picked early in the year as one of
the four strongest. Alumni de-
manded a change in coaches, and
hints of dissension on the squad
spread. Coach Wilce laid off some
Of his ball carriers, made fullback
out of an end, and pulled two VIC
tories out of the five times up, los
ing to Northwestern, Michigan and
Illinois, and winning from Chicago
and Iowa.
One new stadium-the $2,.OO,OOO
oval at Mienigan-boosted the Big
Ten season attendance to a half
million more than any previous
mark. Michigan three times filled
its massive bowl with $4,000 per-
sons. The estimated total attendance
for the conference for 1927 were
1.;15. 900.