| Show Big g Games ams Ho llod d Interest of Nations football Following Big Ten Title at Stake in Michigan T Tussle u CHICAGO Oct 18 Champion Champlon Champion Championship ship aspirations of eight Western estern conference football teams furnished th the gauge of battle batUe today as the struggle for the Big Ten title as assumed assumed assumed as- as major proportions The acid test teat of the season wa was faced by Illinois and Michigan n at Urbana in the new stadium The tie of ot the teams for forthe forthe forthe the title last year ear furnished another another an- an other incentive for vigorous efforts and aM the result was expected to tJ settie settle set set- tie tle tle in the minds of or fans at least last the tIle question of superiority for tor two yea years ra Illness affect affected d Illinois to some extent before the game and the consequent slowing up of the team te was wa expected to to balance it mere re equally with the Wolverines shorn rn of ol and Blott last seasons season's all American n stars Captain Herb Steger of ot the Wolverines stellar half halt was ex expected expected ex- ex to be the center of Coach Yo rots Yost's ts t's newest formations formation hoarded for the game since practice praceiro e began n. n Three other conference games ames of championship h caliber filled out to today's to- to days day's Big Ten bill Chicago had hadan hadan an advantage over Indiana in preseason pre- pre season performances but the Hoosiers came to S St 1 1 ld determined de dc- to reverse last Y years year's lS 24 to 0 Maroon victor vietor victory Northwestern which toyed with its two preseason foes and plied piled up tiP 70 points with its own slate unsullied l lied Bed met Purdue which last lust year ruined th the Purples Purple's list lat chance to totally totally totany tally tany a single conference victory Purdue presented virtually the same battlefront which Ohio State was able to pierce out nut once two weeks reeks ago go Wisconsin was an unknown quantity in it its HR engagement with Minnesota at Madison The fhe Badgers ers era made an unenviable record record in preseason games games while the Invaders els el's had a number of ot outstanding out players play ers against the Indians last week Ohio State and Iowa which i Ire lre re- re appeared this season in conference con can ference games took a vacation find and Entertained the squads respectively of Ohio Wesleyan t es le lean leyan an at Columbus and Lawrence Lawrenc college at Iowa CIt City Intersectional Games in Spotlight Army Meets Notre Dame NEW EW YORK yom Oct IS 18 By A. 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For For lovers of football tile big show begins today after arte a a. seasons season's I 1 prelude of tI- tI tin in polo track tennis golf nn and racing and the final appetizer of ot a sensational world series Wherever his e eye o may roam on the Eastern stage today she grid gril enthusiast will hear the thA booming of the ball ban see the startling flash dash of or orI an open field run the c ving picture pic plc- I ture of ot a polished team and sense the gripping tension of indecision II At New Haven Haen people will measure the threat of t Dartmouth to Yale prestige an unusual situa- situa j I at such an earl early date At I Princeton another will pack the stadium as Navy Navr and the TIers Timers I struggle back to a place In the gridIron gridIron gridiron grid grid- iron picture which both bath lo lost loot t ast week weel In this city the classic Ih- Ih between Notre Dame and Army will enter its el eleventh chapter Cornell Corne who lost to William last week will take on the polished veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran eran Ru Rutgers team At Cambridge Harvard will meet its near nemesis Holy Cross annually almost defeats the Crim Crim- son Boston college will travel to Syracuse to challenge the Orange in one of the toughest engagements of or the day Columbia moves to Pennsylvania W. 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J will meet Carnegie Tech at Pittsburg I Dartmouth and Yale meet for the first time since 1900 Columbia may i defeat Pennsylvania for the first time tune since 1903 I Army which has hu not scored upon Knute Rockne's fliers filers since 1920 and which has not reversed the course of the Blue Comet since 1916 1910 I ma may overcome the speedo speed d' d of or the fast backfield Miller backfield Miller Loyden Crowley and I Holy Cross ma may materialize its threat and sh shelter Harvard's dream of or returning gridiron supremacy c after a n. period of or lean years I The number of undefeated teams I will dwindle and the path to the i mythical championship will n narrow I I CALDWELL Ida Oct 18 Mon Ion Mon Montana tana Mines proved easy for for- forthe the I College Collese of or Idaho yesterday aft afternoon afternoon after after- r- r noon and the local school came opt opton opton opton on the long end of ah alt overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing 49 to 7 1 game The Idahoans Idahoan outclassed the visitors In ever every department department de de- de- de of or the game ame |
