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Show BUCKEYES WIN GRIDIRON TITLE: f Ohio Stale Has Clean Slate for H Entire Season: Stinch- WL comb Star CHICAGO. Nov superior!-!y superior!-!y of Ohio State's foothill eleven.) H Western conference '.tampions this' B vear. over the othi r teams comprising B '.ho "big ten" is borne out In an an-; N gjysls of the offensive and defensive fl records of the N The Buckeyes finished second In the J number of point:; scored in games be- tween conference elevens and were; N first in holding opponents away front! N their own goal linn Only three teams' HP Wisconsin. Mi higan and Chlcagi HH crossed the Ohio goal line and no HH team crossed it more than once. The HH team scored .S points in conference HH contests against twenty for Its-oppo- HH ncnts. HH An uhusual feature shown in the HH analysis of the season's results la thai HH Iowa wltich finished fifth In th- per- HH eentage table, was first In scoring HH with 65 points. While Michigan. In HH sixth place, and Chicago In eighth, HHJ Were close to Ohio's record defensive- HH The tightness of many of the u;ii!nfi HHJ and the closeness of thi- race is re- HH fleeted In the fact that the ten elev-i HHJ ens altogether scored only 420 points HHJ Of an average of only about 7 for each HH team In each game. HHJ Ohio State proved itself the great- HHJ est finisher developed in the W-est- HH ern conference in many years. Four HH of Its five victories were won In the HHj final minutes, th victory over 1111- HHJ nois coming on a play whl-'.t was not HH completed until after the final whis-J HH Wisconsin produced a powerful HH eleven but it lacked consistency. 1111- HHJ nois, which nearly won the title was HHj Wept In the race largely bv Ralph HHJ Kletchey. for his seven field "goals HHJ accounted for 21 of the Indians' 56 HHJ points and his goals from touchdowns HHJ brought additional strikers. The In- Hl dlans mad'- few touchdown and ih--i: HHJ defensive record was not so good as HHJ that of oth r teams. HHJ Michigan and Chicago while iiak- HHJ imt great defensive records, lacked HH offensive power. Indiana made a good Wk showing but had weak w-hedule HHT while with the other teams there ap- HHJ patently wa- ability neither to carry HHJ the ball nor to stop it. |