Show Hock Flock of Big Ten Grid Stars to Return Next Year Illinois Suffered Big Loss When Red Grange Graduated Into Professional Ranks CHICAGO Jan 2 United Press Presa Before another summer fades Into autumn and the brisk winds of ot October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober sweep the college campus there probably will be many changes In the prospects but If they are not too severe there is going to be some mighty good football play d in the he heBig Big Ten confer conference nce this year College athletes tes have a l habit of leaving school at the most unexpected unexpected unexpected and inopportune mon moment ent and they have an uncanny lack of falling failing rn tn their studies and thus becoming ineligible for their teams Man fan Mans Mans' a football coach has been teen given added gray hairs b by having an athlete around whom he hopes to build a winning team leave lea school chool to sell Insurance or else flunk out by his failure to master Greek or the intricacies of business business busi busi- ness administration But unless these two reapers take too large a toll most of the Big Ten coaches are going to have plenty of seasoned veterans In their lineups next year Fewer ewer gridiron athletes graduate from college this year ear than at any time In recent v years Minnesota Is a striking example When Then Doc Doe Spears took up his job of coaching the Gopher team he found difficulty difficult In teaching the Minnesota veterans nis Rt style le of pia play And so as the season wore on OIl with Indifferent results Spears sent most of the seniors to the bench and put a team of oti sophomores sophomores sophomores mores In the game They played eJ the way Spears taught them and brought better results Next year jear e r and the year Fear after Spears Spear Is going to have hav a a. squad of that knows how to play playas as 1 he lit wants them to pIa play and Minnesota is lon Jon el 1 upon by Il- th tic ta schools In t as one that is quite likely to have something to say about the cham cham- Northwestern In a atie atie atie tie for second place this season Is another that is likely to cause trouble trou ble in the he conference in 1926 Coach T loses Tim Lowry the brilliant center and two t regular ends Seidel and Matthews but the rest of ot his line and all of or his backfield backfield backfield back- back field except a substitute quarterback quarterback quarterback quarter quarter- back will be back backon on the squad next September unless September unless reapers work overtime The Wildcats Wildcat should make a great showing next y year ar with Lewis Baker White Gustafson Gustason and in the backfield Michigan will have Its ace Benny Ben Ben- ny fly Friedman back next y year r as captain and will have Molenda Gilbert and several others others others oth oth- ers who played conspicuous parts in inthis inthis inthis this years year's successful season ar around und which to build another great tc team m. m It will be a tough job to dethrone the team that is reigning champion champion champion cham cham- pion of the conference Iowa will have Its ick Kutsch Kutach for tOr two more years Ohio State will have its Marek for the same length i of time and Wisconsin Indiana and Purdue all will have large numbers of regulars back In the lineups lineup next year Illinois doesn't lose much in num num- bers er but it los loses lose s so much in quality duality that Coach will have a mighty big job on his hands next year Red Grange and Earl Britton the man who opened most of the holes through which Red sprinted to touchdowns both played play their last collegiate games at Columbus Columbu and it will take an entire backfield of better than average players to tc tomake tomake make up for this loss Coach Stagg Chicago's grand old man was the unluckiest of ot all however He lost an entire line and andall andall andall all but three of his ba backfIeld men He had two complete sets of backs and lost f five ve of ot them them them-Kernwein McCarthy Curie Curle Curley and Francis He has left only Marks Drain and Rouse And so with the exception of Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois ansi and Chicago all of the teams team In the Big Ten should be stronger sti nger next year It is is' isa a tough trick 0 ol 01 fate tate for the prestige of middle western western west west- em ern football that these two teams team will represent the Big Ten in tn n most of ot the big intersectional games next year Chicago meeting Penn and Dartmouth and land Illinois engaging Penn |