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Show 00 CRITICS PRAISE COAST AGGIES Say Northwestern Football Has Reached Advanced btagts Abraham a Star. Chicago, Oct. 31. The rout of the famous Michigan Aggie3 by the Oregon Ore-gon Aggies and Chicago's victory over Wisconsin were the most notable contributions con-tributions to football history in the middle west Saturday. At the same time at least one new name was written largo into the annals an-nals of the gridiron, that of Abraham of tho Oregon' eleven. This, hero of the gamo at Lansing, Mich., was compared com-pared to his line-plunging and general gen-eral all-around work to Heston, tho famous Michigan man, and one report re-port of tho game said that Abraham never was given the ball without gaining. Ho was ably seconded by a backfield that outdid the performance of the Lansing team against Yost's men, the week before, aud tho Oregon Ore-gon forwards did their share in stopping stop-ping the rushes of the home team Handicapped by their 2000-mile journey and by clashing with a team of tho Michigan Aggies prestige on its home grounds, the Oregon men-de-served the greatest credit. The fact that the Oregon Aggies were defeated previously by Washington state convinces con-vinces critics that the gridiron pas-tjme pas-tjme In tho northwest has reached an' advanced stage, for it was generally admitted that the Michigan Aggies constituted one of the best teams in this section. Coach- Stagg Features. To Coach Stagg must be niven Mir leading honors for the spill of Wisconsin's Wis-consin's machine. A week ago he expressed ex-pressed the respect he felt for Juneau's Ju-neau's squad, but he instilled a spirit into the Maroons that with his generalship gen-eralship gave them the power to hold the Badgers even. Outweighed and outclassed, on paper,, almost man for man, Chicago won by putting its last ounce of strength into the game. Tho Illinois-Minnesota tie was a disappointment dis-appointment to followers of the sport. Neither team played the game, It is said, of which it was capable and apparently ap-parently the Importance of the contest affected the nerves of the players. Lacking the speed expected from their showing against Harvard last year, Michigan's players surprised some of their friends by holding Syracuse Syra-cuse as well as they did. Tho Wolverine Wol-verine defense again showed itself weak against an aggressive attack, however, and the prospects of Cornell and Pennsylvania on the horizon is calculated to cast gloom abbut Ann Arbor. |
