Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-12 | Page 12 | ''Flu'' is Responsible for Postponement of Nearly Twenty Football Games

"Flxr ' Is Responsible for Postponement of Nearly Twenty Football Games Six of the Ten Teams in Western Conference Will Go Into Action; Illinois Faces Great Lakes Naval Training Station Eleven in Most Important Contest, of .Day. HICAGO, Oct. 11. Staggering under C military reflations, middle-western football was dealt another blow tonight when a score of colleges and universities canceled gridiron contests scheduled for tomorrow because of the epidemic of Spanish influenza. Nearly twenty of the thirty odd games scheduled were called off. Reports received in Chicago indicated that some" of the games had been canceled can-celed because members of teams were slightly i-pdtsposed with colds, others because be-cause of probable poor attendance due to the epidemics and still others for the Plain reason that it is feared crowds cause a spread of the disease, despite lb.3' fresh air. Six of the ten teams in the western conference, however, will go into action. Illinois will face the Great Lakes naval t '-ninlr.gr station eleven In the most important im-portant contest of the day, while Chicago, Minnesota',' Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin Wis-consin will engage minor teams In games to put the-elevens on-edge for the "big ten" championship session. Chicago will play a team from the Chicago Chi-cago School of -Ensigns, while Wisconsin will face Ripon College as its opponent. Ohio Stale, will play Dennison at Columbus, Co-lumbus, Purdue and Depauw will clash at La Ftv;tte and Minnesota will hook up with an all-star aggregation. The Michigan-Camp Custer game as well as the Nebraska-Camp Funston contest con-test was called off because of Influenza, Among other contests canceled for the same reason were: Tndiana-Wabash, lowa-Coe, Case-Ohio Wesleyan; Missouri-Kansas Aggies, Western West-ern Reserve-Akron, Butler-Fort Benjamin Benja-min Harrison, Pennsylvania-Drake, and Cornell-Ames. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 11. After a conference con-ference here today with Secretary Hurty of the Indiana state board of health, the presidents of the two schools called off the football game which was scheduled for tomorrow between Purdue and Depauw De-pauw at La Fayette. Dr. Hurty regarded football games ns coming under the meaning of "public gatherings." placed under the ban of the board of health during the influenza epidemic.