The Washington times., 1931-11-03
PURPLE IS BEST
IN BIC TEN,
ZUPPKE
By BOB ZUPPKE
Illinois University Coach

Whew! What a great personnel
Northwestern has-a big and fast
linemen-a bushel Of hard-run'
ming backs with leg power, that
gives them a drive like a pile
driver-and this fellow Rentner
to top it all.
Northwestern has one of the
best personnels I have seen in
years. They carried me back to
some of those fine-looking and
performing squads that Harry
Williams had at Minnesota. Rent.
ner is to Northwestern what
Schwartz is to Notre Dame and
what Grange was at Illinois.
Rentner is as good a man as
Schwartz, in my opinion.
haven't seen Minnesota but
my belief is that Northwestern
is the class of the Big Ten.
am sure our Illinois team against
Northwestern was considerably
improved since we were showed
under by Michigan. Our boys
were always a step too slow and
that ruins you when you are up
against a team such as North
western.
In Mum, Minnesota has one
of the best linemen in the
country. Our scout at Mime
apOlis, who has seen the North.
western tackles, thinks Mum
Is even superior to them.
Mum, a 217-pOund athlete, did
everything well. He punted
well and was brought five
yards back of the line to carry
the ball.
Indiana surprised me py the
game the Hoosiers put up against
Ohio State. Indiana ,ad a
scrappy, fighting team, and is
coming along far better than
any one imagined wss possible.
Schwartz Is Big Threat
Carnegie Tech, already de-
feated by Washington and Jeffer-
son and Purdue, did we'll, think,
to hold Notre Dame to thee
touchdownS. Schwartz delivered
again-hiS ability to score from
a distance is the greatest single
asset of the Irish offensive, I
believe.
Syracuse was stronger against
Michigan State than 1 expected.
Monnett. Michigan States back,
apparently is a good man--he
showed we'll against Army and
was a star against Syracuse.
A courageous fight by Mis-
souri, nearly upset the dope Vim
the Missouri Valley but Ne.
braska held when inches
counted. Iowa State was stronger
against Oklahoma than I ex-
pected-GeOrge Veenker, the
new coach at Ames, is instiIling
. victory mOrale-yOur players
must think they can win or they
never will.
Kansas. which had held Ne
braSka fairly well the week before,
could not come back against Okla
homa Aggies but the Kansas Ag-
gies maintained their winning clip
against West Virginia. Bo McMil-
Inns Aggies seem to be on their
way this year.
Give Doc Spears lot of credit
for rallying his Oregon team to
beat New York U. I thought the
Violets would take this one but
I suggested it was not safe to dis
count Coach Spears. Here was a
team which had lost $40 to
Southern California and had been
tied by North Dakota, taking
long trip East to come back
strongly.
When two teams tie, 1888, as.
Yale and Dartmouth did, it
looks as If both defenses were
very poor.
There's another coach who
should be mentioned-Gil Dobie,
OF Cornell-people have been for.
getting about him because Cor.
nell has net had abundant ma.
ter1al. Cornell beat what looked
like a good Columbia tcanI. All
other things being equal, I'd
rather meet any other team ex.
cept one coached by this Dobie.
When you're talking about rec.
ords don't forget he had a 10
year. undefeated record at Wash.
ington.