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Show !IS!8 IE SCHEDULE r MEM COACH Purple Pilot Complains That Big Schools Monopolize Monop-olize Cream of Games. XEW YORK, Dee. 16. Coaefc Tt?& Murphy of the Northwestern football team is somewhat peeved. In fact, he is so displeased with the apportionment oi lootbail da'.es offered him by Bi Xin teams for the 1917 sea-son that he is ancling for games with some of the eastern schools and hopes to round out a pood schedule for the Purple aggregation aggre-gation in i his way. Tho faot that rhioapo, Minnesota. Illinois Il-linois and Wisconsin. Tho big quartette of the western conference, schedule each, other everv year, takes something away from the smaller schools of tho Big Nine in tho way of attractions. Iowa, Indiana, In-diana, Ohio State, Purdue and Northwestern North-western have been considered the weaker sister of t be conference for a number of years. This year it was different dif-ferent in the cases of Northwestern and Ohio State, for tho Purple team was a cent on tier up to the very end of tho Hip Nino schedule and Ohio State turned the tables by winning a championship. cham-pionship. In the way of scheduling teams which will prove the biggest drawing cards, the teams mentioned above as the ''big four ' ' can scarcely be blamed for arranging ar-ranging games among themselves from vear to year, principally because they "have been the biggest toads in the conference con-ference puddle for some moons, and games between any two of the four have generally drawn great crowds. Conditions Are Changing. The system followed .bv these Bchools is not unlike that which has been in. vogue in the east for a good many years. Vale, Harvard and Princeton, with Pennsylvania figuring as a fourth "major "ma-jor leaguer'' at various times, have scheduled each other from year to year, and tho long standing rivalry between these teams, coupled with the fact that (hey are the biggest schools in the east, has boon tho ginning influence. But the smaller schools are coming into (heir own, and we believe that the time will arrive when the so-called major ma-jor leaguers of football will find the elevens of smaller schools capable of drawing as well as some of their ancient an-cient rivals, providing the games a to played on the home grounds of the elevens representing the larger schools. Take Brown's crack eleven of lOlii as an example. Brown proved fl great drawing card at Cambridge, and, with the new stylo of football paving the way for winners among smaller institutions, insti-tutions, the years that are to como will sen teams such as Brown, ( 'olgate, Pittsburg and Syracuse capable of claiming a place in the front rank as attractions. Suppose the closing game of tho western west-ern conference seasou this year had been between Ohio State nnd Chicago, and the game could have been played in tho Windy City. It is a cinch that the Buckeye team would have proved just as good nn attraction as Illinois or Minnesota Min-nesota in tho years when theso tenuis were fighting for the championship. Schedule Should Be Fair. ! A game that would have been tho last word in western football this vear would have been a contest between Minnesota Min-nesota and Ohio State. But tho schedule sched-ule makers could not be expected lo see so far ahead. For this reason it seems only fair that as long as tho western conference in going to continue as a football cir-1 cir-1 euit, the fonr teamn representing the larger schools should include t lie five smaller schools in their schedules, dividing di-viding up the games so that every school would be fairly satisfied. The practise of plaving small schools from outside of the conference in the early days of the season robs some of the 1 earns of conference dates to which they are entitled. en-titled. lnter-sectinnal football has not grown popular enough to bo a satisfactory business busi-ness proposition as yet. 1 ntr-seel innal football is really in" it h infancy and tho football public ' of tho east and, west, while it may enjoy seeing teams of the opposite sections do battle, will always lean toward tho time-honored struggles strug-gles between teams that have been rivals for years. |