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Show place at Tanslng, Mich., where South Dakota will meet the Michigan Aggies. Although both teams have been defeated this year, the game is an important one to the combating teams and their followers. I HIS HOT HI II TIM ckeye Coach Admits His earn Has Hardest Games Yet to Meet. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. (Chicago Tribune Copyright.) HICAGO, Nov. 7. Although Ohio te rules a strong favorite for west-conference west-conference football honors because its early season development and de-ve de-ve victory over Michigan, Captain ck Harley of the Buckeye eleven s much improvement must be shown general team play before the eleven be declared a sure winner over Wis-sin Wis-sin and Illinois in the two strug- ; remaining on the schedule after due is played tomorrow, pur team has not been put to tho :," Captain Harley said. "Tho Michl-game Michl-game cannot be taken too seriously. ) Wolverines were not a strong team 1 wo could have beaten them by a ter scoro If we had turned loose our ipleto attack. We had instructions vt the coach to win and not to try run up a big score. al Battles to Come. Of course, our team looked good hose ho-se the opposition was weak. Wfscon- and Illinois are much stronger teams n Michigan, in my estimation, and we 1 have to play football all the time beat them. We have won all our nes. Just what we will do when we et a team which has just as strong :ne and an evenly balanced backfield, lains to be seen. It is my opinion that Illinois hit its de In the Chicago game. The eleven ; a lot of power and the backs drive d and low. It they beat Minnesota, y will give us a hard battle. According to reports we have re-i-ed from Wisconsin, the Badgers are ine for us. Of course, they want to t us because Coach Wilce played at sconsln, and the rooters do not want see a former player develop a team ich will beat his alma mater." t Overconfident. aptain Harley's opinion of his team iws that the players have not been to believe that the Michigan victory 1 land the conference title and as re is every reason to believe Wiscon- and Illinois will improve as the sea-i sea-i grows older, Ohio will have to be at best when these teams are encoun- .VMsconsm and Illinois have been iten and it Is certain tho coach of sh team will drive his men to the tit to have them in shape for the Ohio me. Tho Badgers have no game leduled tomorrow and this week s tctice, together with that of next, will devoted to perfecting a defense for ptaln Harley's attack, while the of-ise of-ise will come In for Its share of at-ltlon. at-ltlon. f Illinois defeats Minnesota tomorrow, a Buckeyes will have something to irry them. The Orange and Blue :ven came with a rush in the Chicago mo and many believe it will win the iphcr game If the players dlsplny the me dasll and drive they have shown. vVith eight Western conference football ims in big ten battles, followers of the Idiron game will enjoy a rare treat to-rrow, to-rrow, . Local followers of football must choose tween two contests, which bid fair to tract capacity crowds. Chicago and Ichigan will clash on Stagg Held, while jrthwestern, represented by a stronger am than at any time this season, will oot Iowa, one of the powerful big ten avens, at Evanston. xpect Hot Battle. Although the Maroons and Wolverines lvc been put out of the running for tho nfevenco title, the struggle should be st as bitterly fought as though a cham-onshlp cham-onshlp were at stake. Neither insti-tlon insti-tlon can be said to be represented by e sterling elevens of the old days, but iey can be depended upon to fight from art to finish. Chicago has a better balanced team ian Michigan, but whether the Maroons 111 play the brand of football taught by oarh Stagg is another story. Michigan, i the other hand, will play all the foot-ill foot-ill it knows, and the players will not imit defeat until the final whistle blows. The Furplo played great football last iturday against Michigan. The players Ot Into the game with a better spirit, mght for every Inch of ground and sel-m sel-m failed to have eleven men In every lay. Coach Viachman intends to vise the Ltnfl eleven against Iowa that faced Hehlgan. If the men perform as they Id against the Wolverines, Iowu will ave to play its best brand of football emerge from the conflict on the long rtd of the score. Howard .lones, the crafty mentor of ie H.iwkeye eleven, has been identified 1th football too long to permit an easy efeat. The Iowa coach knows that the urple will be much stronger than they ere a week ago. and for this reason he '111 be compelled to send his full strength ii the field for the initial klckoft. hio Meets Purdue. Ohio State, strong favorite for confer-uee confer-uee honors, will meet Purdue at Columns Colum-ns in a game which the Buckeyes should "In. Captain Harley's team is a bett er alanced aggregation, and there are too lany good players on the team to war-mi war-mi anything but an Ohio victory. Pur-ue Pur-ue will flght its opponent all the wav. ut. taking ull departments of the game-Uo game-Uo consideration, docs not rank with lie Columbus team. A great battle should take place at llnneapolis. where Illinois nd Minnesota '111 elash In the most important game n their schedules. These teams turned he dope upside down Inst week by win-lug win-lug from Wisconsin and Chicago, rospee-ively, rospee-ively, and they can he depended upon o put up a great battle. Illinois must win this game still to have a chance either to win the conference confer-ence title or tie for second place. The downstaters play Michigan next Saturday Satur-day and Ohio State on the following week-end. Ohio meets Wisconsin next Saturday and Ohio State on the following week-end. Ohio meets Wisconsin next Saturday, and the Badgers have a chance to win. If Illinois can win from Ohio ' after heating M innesota and Mi.-higan. it will have a claim to the title, providing the other conference teams are beaten more than once. Nebraska and Missouri will clash in a game of interest west of the Mississippi river. Iowa, by virtue of its decisive victory vic-tory over the Coinhuskers. is without doubt the strongest aggregation in that section, but the clash al Columbia tomorrow to-morrow will be of Intense Interest to football foot-ball fans In that section. An Interesting struggle should take |