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Show defeat of ghigigo me pill Predictions About Stagg's Team Upset; Minnesota and Illinois Feared. CHICAGO, Oct. S. Carleton's defeat of Chicago, practically the only upset in middle mid-dle "western football Saturday, was a feature fea-ture that discouraged many fans who expected ex-pected to see Coach Stagg' deliver a championship cham-pionship team. The Chicago game seemed to belie predictions that the Maroon line would be stronger than last year's, and the fast backlleld failed to live up to advance ad-vance notices. In the face of the Maroon defeat, the one-sided victory scored by Minnesota, over South Dakota Stale, and lllinois's unexpectedly unex-pectedly easy win over Kansas, fnd to make the gjoom here thicker. Reports from Minneapolis are that while Coach YVjliams's team sbowpd lack of eo-ordina-tion. Lhf1 individual play bordered on the briliant Minnesota's line did all that was expected of it. For Illinois. Macomber tried out successfully suc-cessfully his forward pass, and it was a leading factor in the Illinois scoring. Kan-fas Kan-fas made a hard right, but reports from L'rbana are that I he Jay hawkers were hopelessly outclassed. Wisconsin's failure to pile up a big score against Lawrence will not raise false copes among the Badgers' rivals, since it Is realized that a week or two of training will corr-t faults in the team, and thai the Appleton eleven was a strong acgrepation. Iowa had an easy time with Cornell college, as was expected, developing a new star in Mendenhall. Northwestern, 'mainlv through the work of Kohler and Driscoll triumphed over Lake Forest. Purdue Pur-due won from DePauw by a slender margin, mar-gin, due to fumbling, according to critics. Ohio State v as given a stiff battle by YVeslevnii, hut managed to win. Case proved a Tartar for Michigan, but the assurance thai Johnny Maulbetsch is to be a factor as a field goal kicker offset somewhat the Wolverines' disappointment because the score was not larger. Notre Dame again came Into prominenne as a scoring machine, running up forty-eight points against Reserve. The Michigan Aggies found -Carroll a harder opponent than expected. Class of far western football was again shown in Montana's 11 to 0 defeat of South Dakota, long recognized as a dangerous learn. |