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Show MANY FOOTBALL TEAMS ClEATE ! ! MEET WITHOUT '81 THREE' 1, NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. Excepty, for !. Hhe absence of the Big ThreeYale, Harvard and Princeton from the scores, there was 'littlo in football games .played both east and west yesterday yes-terday to suggest that the country engaged en-gaged in war. The contests were just as numerous, the play as strenuous and the Interest as keen as In- a normal nor-mal season. Two exceptional games were played. ' Pittsburg's defeat of Penn showed that tho Pittsburg players were not as strong a combination as last year, while Bob Felwoll's aggregation displayed dis-played grit and power that Indicates Ml It is considerably above tho standard t, of recent Penn teams. E The spectacular work of George Me rc I Laren, the big Pittsburg fullback, alone enabled his followers to score a J narrow victory. It was of a charac-( ter to stamp him as a mighty force in ' ' j gridiron annals and to make him for Ir his school what Coy was to Yale, what !l ' -Jim Thorpe was to Carlisle, and what J i Ollphant Is to the army. From yes-; yes-; ' ! terday's exhibition nothing can keep : him from a place of honor on the all-l-t star team to be selected at the sca- S I Bon's end. j In contrast to the work of McLaren, ; that of Berry, the much touted star of . I Pennsylvania, hardly reached tho I 1 .lieights of stardom. Berry led In the efficiency of his team, but in no par- ;; ' tlcular did ho equal tho all-around bril- ' llaney of the Pittsburg fullback. - However, there is to bo said in be- half of tho Pennsylvania man that ho i -might have shown as well as McLaren ti i had he been backed as well by his "I teammates as was the man who led ' the Pitt attack. Colgate's Defeat Is Surprise. The other game worthy of special consideration was that in which Brown squeezed through a narrow seven to six victory over Colgate. These two elevens are generally looked to this fall to carry tho strongest punch in the easL The result was something of a surprise. Colgte lowered Brown'3 colors last Thanksgiving. This year Brown faced its old opponents oppo-nents with a crippled team. Yet It i wont to its work yesterday with a savage sav-age attack that held the powerful New York state eleven. Tho tatter's back-field back-field Glllo, Hubbell and Spencer displayed dis-played extraordinary power both on offense of-fense and defense, and bids fair to rank as high as any in tho land this year. Only the failure of Hubbell to kick a goal provented the score from ending in a tie. U. S. Battlers Show Speed. Both the army and the navy games showed that the military and naval ends of the great fall game are up to their usual high and powerful standards. stand-ards. The middles smothered Haver-ford Haver-ford beneath the momumental score of 89 to 0, while the cadets crushed Villa Novoc beneath 21 to 1. Ollphant, as usual, saved tho day for the army, whllo the Annapolis backfleld showed a power that bodes no good to future ones. The Middies are out to make a season's high score record. In three games they have rolled up a total of 212 points. Cornell displayed much improvement over its work of a week ago. Columbia's Colum-bia's hopes were quenchod by a beating beat-ing from Williams. Syracuse showed it had the makings of a good average team. Dartmouth played a mediocre gamo until its last period, when it uncovered some of Its old-time punch. .Michigan May Regain Glory. In the west. Michigan indicated by its decislvo beating of Nebraska that it ha3 this season an eleven that may win back some of its former gridiron glory. , Chicago, by its inability to score more than once on the light Northwestern North-western team, showed that It is not yet fully developed. Illinois defeated. Purduo bo decidedly that it may have to be considered later, while Notre Dame, always threatening, gave promise prom-ise by its overwhelming victory over South Dakota of being likely to blossom blos-som into a western championship contender. con-tender. With tie end of tho season a month away, there ia every promise of exciting ex-citing high-class football in splto of the fact that the names of the big three will bo absent from the scores. Four Now Remain In "Big Ten" for Final Drlvo CHICAGO,, Oct. 28. With tlio, cloao of the "big ten" football race loss than a month away, coaches of tho four leading elevens Ohio Stale, Illinois, Minnesota and Chicago tomorrow will begin to drive their charges through five days of tho stlffost kind of training train-ing In preparation for crucial games of the season next Saturday. With a slnglo exception, favorites came through yesterday's gamos on the winning end and in overy instance the victors hold their opponents scoreless. score-less. Perhaps the biggest upset was tho 20 to 0 defeat of Nebraska at the hands of Michigan. Tho Cornhuskcrs had been heralded as having one of the strongest teams devoloped at tho Nebraska Ne-braska institution in years, but after the first period tho Nebraska defense crumbled and tho Wolverines plowed through tho lino for consistent gains. The victory stamps Michigan as ono of tho most poworful teams In tho wost, although it Is not considered in "big ton" affairs this season as it has only one conference game Northwcst-om Northwcst-om on Its schedule. The Wolverines played a better defensive de-fensive and offonslvo gamo than did Nebraska and fought doggedly when tho Comhuskers attompled to score. ' Chicago established itself in the conference con-ference raco by defeating Northwest-! Northwest-! ctn, its traditional rival, 7 to 0, In the ' I bitterest game played on Stagg field I 1 In years. The victory indicates that I the Chicago team will make a far more crcditablo showing in the race than the ono of a year ago. ! The 27 to 0 triumph Illinois scored lover Purdue indicates that Illinois and Chicago, which clash next Saturday. I are practically of equal strength. After being held scoreless In the first half, the Illini played brilliant football in the final periods and kept the ball in Purdue's territory. Wisconsin had no trouble in taking Iowa Into camp, to tho tune of 20 to 0. The Badgers outweighed their foo and i made four successive marches down ; the field, but lost ono opportunity to score through penalties. Wisconsin probably would have rolled up a biggor .count, but kept Its new formations under un-der cover In preparation for Minnesota next Saturday. The" powerful Ohiq State eleven made a track meet out of tho game against Denison and rolled up a G7 to 0 score. Notre Dame was much too strong for tho heavy South Dakota stato eleven, which fell before a 10 to 0 count. South Dakota was unable to pierce the Notre Dame line and succeeded only once in making first down, a forward pass netting net-ting twenty-five yards. The Michigan Aggies continued their losing streak Saturday, dropping the fourth gamo of thoir schedule to the University of Detroit, 44 to 0. i u. of Kansas Leads In ! Missouri Valley Conference KANSAS CITY, Oct 28. The University Uni-versity of Kansas occupies tho center of attention In the Missouri Valloy conferonce by roason of her 7 to 0 defeat de-feat of the Ames olevon yesterday In tho first conference gamo of the season sea-son for the Jayhawkers. Tho position of the Kansans Is made even more prominent by the defeat of the Nebraska Ne-braska cornhuskors, 20 to 0, at the hands of the Michigan "big ten" representatives, rep-resentatives, stopping what was beginning be-ginning to take on the aspect of an all-victorious season for the Lincoln aggregation. No predictions had been made as to the outcome of tho Ames-Kansas mooting, moot-ing, except that it would be a hard battle. The two elevens see-sawed back and forth across tho field for three scorcoless periods, when, in the fourth period, a forward pass brought the Kansans the lone score of the gamo. Tho Kansas victory places the Lawrence Law-rence eleven in the position of the fa-vprite fa-vprite in their game next Saturday with tho Kansas Agglos. Poor generalship brought the fast moving Nebraska eleven to an abrupt stop with the small end of a 20 to 0 tally against Michigan. The Ann Arbor Ar-bor team hit up a fast paco. Tho game, being out of the conferonco, will have no effect upon the Nebraskans' standing and will only sorve to stiffen their play and givo them an opportunity opportu-nity to uso the methods which proved successful against them. Missouri, with four men crippled, smothered the weak team of tho conference, con-ference, Drake, 49 to 0, on their homo field. Edwards, the new half, did most of tho scoring for tho Missouri machine. ma-chine. Washington retrieved a 7 to 0 victory vic-tory against the Rose Poly team after their defeat, 61 to 0, by tho Kansas Aggies last Saturday. Arkansas, to the south of the conference, con-ference, handled the Henry Kendall collego team easily and closed the battle bat-tle with tho heavier end of a 19 to 7 score. |