Show Football Title In Dispute This Year Major Elevens Un- Un Undefeated Un Undefeated defeated Coast Title Planned By fly Tho The Associated Press THE Tn THE climax ot of o a a record shat- shat hat 1 I terin toot football ball season o of thrills and spills has hns left a legacy or of greater dispute over mythical 1 national honors an army any corn com cort In year years Where hero Notre Noire Dames Dame's tour four horsemen men victoriously farand tar far ar and ind wide wido In 19 1024 and nd Darts Dart Dartmouth's mouths mouth's famous aerial artists dec decorated orated the heights without much on trove ray In 1925 the Ibe th close ot of the tho regular 1926 1026 season finds at ast four tour outstanding elevens In Inthe th the title The Th most conspicuous sea post sea ron son on prospect n II projected 2 Now V O Years rears at Pasadena between Alabama's southern Champions a and nd Pop Pol Warners Warner's Stanford out out- outfit outfit out outfit fit title holders holder on the tho th Pacific may do a lot to clear the theair theair theair air but It cant can't entirely settle the issue These two teams share with Lafayette Lafaette the th distinction of being neither tied led nor beaten VIctory at Pasadena for tor or one ono orthe or 01 the he other would establish as strong championship n a claim ns as any contender In lit spite o ot of ite It It spectacular tie with the tile Army in Chicago's tee tee- rec record ord breAking service tho Nay y still regards Itsel Itself as very much In the Iho running when hen title laurels arc are passed around Simul Simultaneously tho the Army's Army claims would seem to 10 be bc on the tho th same lame level but butth the Cadets Cadet tasted one ono defeat at atthe tho th hands hand ot of Notre Dame while tho navy y up to Its final tussle sank all opposition In nine suc- suc suc games came against some of ot the most powerful outfits of o the or middle BATTLE D 2 No o team anywhere put In as bristling x It series of ot battles as these hard fighting sailors who als covered themselves cs with glory lory tn in their closing fray tray No No- No Such sustained offensive o power as that exhibited by both tho the Army Or Navy but particularly o ot of the Ule Slid Mid Middies Mid Middles dies has been witnessed In any other game gamo this tall fall Brown Drown too enters some ionic claim for or recognition in spite of hay Ilav- haying nc hav-nc hI ing Its winning streak checked by byr byr r final tic with Colgate Notre Ja Dame III e after aCter eight straight vic vic- victories vic vic-lorle tories lories over rugged mugged toes foes toe and a record only ono one n had its It case nil alt ready for Cor argument until Carnegie Carnelo over the tho prostrate Hoos- Hoos HoosIers Hoo er in an astonishing to 19 tri tri- triumph tr- tr tri triumph elimination left IcU the middle west vest without a real national title contender tor for the first time in years year ears Michigan nod and t tern who finished bed tied for the tho Western tern conference cham cham- l lon bot both met dete defeat t by out out- out outsiders alders siders the Wolverines losing to Navy avY and nd Northe Northwestern tern to Nolle Dame for or a tie Ue U with Mi Ii Mis Missouri Bourl the Mustangs ot of o Southern tho university Southwest Southwest- pon en conference champions would he In the thc thi-k thi k of ot the tight fight They rhey won all alt ot of their remaining games ames Oklahoma Agles Missouri valley alley champions for tor the first time mot met several defeats outside the tho con con- con fold told i f While the argument of ot experts over the tho relative merits merit ot of these claims assessing a of ot the more table stable products product of ot the season re- re re reveals these salient MANI 1 FEATURES I 1 Establishment of ot new tee tee- records rec records for tor attendance and receipts receipt with estimates e placing the th total number of ot spectators spectator at and the tho rate gate at featured by bv figures figure ot of onlooker and In re tor for the Navy Army game breaking the thc previous 11 high I 11 mark of Spectators set at the Ohio rhio State-Michigan State contest at Columbus earlier In the thc season 2 The Th dethronement ot of nine out of fifteen 1825 IUS champions champion In various arious sectional con con- conference conferences con conferences ference featured by the fall tall ot of Dartmouth In the east rt and Wash Washington ash ington on the coast S 3 Elevation of o tho the field goal eoala goala as a a a decisive factor In an unusual number o of big games ames tam s correspond InK ing with a sharp de de- de line In tho the general effectiveness s of f forward orward attack except those ot of Brown and tho Navy N y 4 1 Emphasis on en the th develop develop- development ment of man eleven attacks attack a as opposed to the ethe one on 01 o 01 two tar of- of of offensives a trend which produced fewer feer Individual performers performer 0 of the conspicuous stamp o of Grange Nevers Never George Georgo Wilson er er or Flournoy S 5 Agitation An against the tho use titto nf ef the tho shift hit play pay culminating tn in the decision ot of o coaches coache of o the Western Vestern conference Big Ble Ten to enforce n It two-second two halt after aCler 1 shifting formations formation a n move moc In ln as a likely to mean na mm nationwide wide tion-wide abolishment o of the tb shift s e i Rupture o ot of the tb historic BI Big Three by Princeton break n relations relation with Harvard brought about by apparent bItterness of undergraduate students and result result- result result-Ine in inc In revival o ot of proposals for tor or an organized big ble ten |