Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
ARMY'S SHOWING
CITED BY ZUPPKE
High Ranking Cadets Given
Trouble by Illinois "Me-
diocre" Eleven.
BY BOB zUPPKE.

Nj do not believe that one
4 Y region is necessarily
stronger in foot ball than
another, but the Illinois-Army
game convinced me that this year
the leading Big Ten teams in the
West are much stronger than the
best in the East.
Comparative scores are often
fallacious, of course, but I believe
the foregoing statement is just,
since the Army is certainly one
of the best teams in the East,
while Illinois this year is one of
the weakest of the Big Ten elevens
and has been defeated by North
western and Purdue by big scores
in one-sided games.
Nevertheless, Illinois made quite a
game of 1t against the Army for while,
although I doubt If we had improved
since a week before, when Purdue ran
up IS points on US Our boys gave
everything they had and held the Ca
diets ScoreleSs the first half, even
threatening themselves, but through the
loss of Berry, our best runner and
passer, We were impotsnt the entire
second half.
Cadets Well Coached.
Nothing say is to be considered as
Understanding the worth of the Army
team, which is good defensively, we'll
coached and playing clean but hard
foot ball. Mai. Sasses line is strong
and may make the Notre Dame team
x,awtr q lnt harfay than the Trirh had IN
against Penn.
Illinois closes its present Army series
with regret, but looks forward to 1888
and 1894, when another series win be
played. Our agreement to this effect
antedated the Big Ten legislation
against competition with the Academy.
What a team this Notre Dame outfit
must be this yeerl Penn looked terrible
against Wisconsin. it is true: but even
: then a total Of so points by the fish
> juggernaut must mean a tremendous
power Rockne Is making the most Of
& his fine material.
have been talking lot about Harry
Newman, Michigan's sophomore passsr.
/. and the wolverines beat Harvard by
one Of his splendid losses. Newman
runs quickly back, turns and shoots I'M
erringly Sometimes star receivers make
ordinary passes look like wonders, but
Newman makes an average receiver
look like star. Michigan now has de-
feated Purdue. Illinois and Harvard oy
! his passes; but the Wolverines. strong
offensive team are not 50 good with the
running game II Michigan beats
Minnesota end Chicago, the worst that
can happen to it then is tie for the
Big Ten title.
Buckeyes Doing Well.
Illinois was,sthe only black sheep
among the Middle West invaders Of the
East Sakudayp dors,Ohio state showed
considerable improvement when It beat pea.
the Navy. As the Buckeyes previously
tied wisconsin, it indicates they are
coming along well.
Northwestern defeated Indiana de-
eisively, as I expected, and should be
in fine fettle next Saturday TO meet
wisconsin in q game in which victory
for Northwestern means tie at least
for the title. Indiana is about in the
same boat as Chicago and Illinois this
year-sparse material that has not the
sheer physical strength to stand the
Chicago did ven to hcld Purdue, 26-7.
fer this Fur6u7. team Is a toD-notch.r
md may be tbs best in the BIG Ten by
this tn,c. s,tf1frgl' a 1919 less 70
Michigan he's nrobablv put i, cut Of the
chamniorsf ship race. Too bad thst Fur-
due doesn't meet Notre Dame this year.
The Irish might van. but 1 believe II
would be q great exhibition.
Minnesota and Wisconsin ran up big
scores on South Dakota and South Da-
kota State, which didn't mean a great
deal.
Wins Seven Straight.
Coach Frank AEurray's Marquette
team Is going along nicely, for its VIC
4 tory over iowa vas IT'S seventh straight
win. This was d close one, as I ex-
pected, although thought Iowa would
manage to scratch it out. Coach Ing
wersen's Job Is tough this year, for with
depleted material his team is playing
non-conference schedule that cannot
That Fordham- Detroit encounter was
good one. as expected, but the East
ern team had to develop more scoring
punch than it had exhibited previously
TO win. Coach Czvanaugh of Fordham
will make things tough for any rival
II he has an even brs ak in material.
However, Detroit's previous loss to Iowa
win prevent us from rating Fordham
too high just because of this victory
The big surprise In the Missouri VAL
ley was the defeat OF Kansas by Ne
bf2ska which left Oklahoma the only
iinoefeated team In the Big Six Ne
h17zlsa. lighter than the big Kansans,
t-v~AayCu tiiCfl SAu deserved 70 Win
Coach Bibles NebraskanS did not lose
morale when they were defeated early
IN the season, and they repeated their
reward. Oklahoma did not play Sat-
urday.
Missouri proved stronger than ex-
pected by defeating Iowa State by two
touchdowns IL is hard Job TO bring
team back to habit Of victory after
taking number Of soakS on the chin,
put Gwinn Henry OF Missouri managed
10 do this.
DO McMillan's Kansas Aggies were
knocked over badly by West Virginia
in non-conferenee game.
(Copyright. 1890, By North American News
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