Show speaking of sports big ten loses I 1 IH kiwar war against outside foes by ROBERT W 7 HEN the big ten football conference closed its books this year ending the most jumbled season in recent history the ledger showed the loss of 12 out of confer ence games as balanced against 11 wins and three tie games four os of those 11 non conference victories were made at the expense of oberlin wabash arizona and south dakota which means that in major non conference games the big ten was especially disappointing ohio state holds the western conference championship for which aich the school is largely t indebted to michigan and northwestern iowa had it defeated instead of tying northwestern would have shared the championship with ohio state michigan alone was able to defeat iowa during a generally unhappy season iowa was the only one of the 13 major midwestern teams including including the big ten michigan state marquette and notre dame which X v b A alb tn EDDIE ANDERSON did not lose two games or more the table gives final big ten standings together with points for and against W L T PF PA ohio state 5 1 0 41 iowa 4 1 1 82 85 purdue 2 1 2 30 30 michigan 3 2 0 57 northwestern western 3 2 1 47 37 illinois 3 3 0 75 48 minnesota 2 3 1 92 76 indiana 2 3 0 53 69 wisconsin 0 5 1 33 83 chicago 0 3 0 0 tie games do not count in the standings the ile jumbled conference race is symbolized by this strange outcome illinois and minnesota were the two teams which whipped the wolver ines and kept michigan from an unbeaten year ohio state then proceeded to defeat both illinois and the gophers but lost in the closing game to michigan northwest erns eras I 1 tie with iowa allowed the buckeyes Buc keyes to claim the big ten title season of upsets upset altogether it was a season of upsets and surprises one ot of the outstanding developments was the phenomenal rise ot of iowa under coach eddie anderson who is serving his first year with iowa in each of their seven major games the hawk eyes had to 0 o be figured as the short shor t enders they were the underdogs under dogs because of manpower shortage another surprise was the col collapse lause of michi gans wonder team B both oth illinois and minnesota took charge of affairs and whipped the wolver ines without a great deal of trouble northwestern failed to live up to its preseason pre season rating coach lynn waldorf too enthusiastic about the great amount of publicity given his potential all america candidates di remarking that were not as good on grass as we are on newsprint other events which upset early tall fall predictions were the consistent disappointments of wisconsin and purdue the lie creatively reat ively poor showing made by minnesota for or the arst time in six years and the university of Chi cagos dismal record against Zon conference ference competition spotlight 0 turns the upset upsel games in which heavily Y favored teams 10 lost st included illinois 16 michigan 7 iowa 7 notre noire dame 6 iowa 13 minnesota 9 iowa 4 purdue 0 michigan 21 ohio state 14 purdue 3 northwestern 0 failure of the big ten teams lea s to maintain their usual pace turned the spotlight in ill other directions cornell did much to reestablish establish re the clam to gridiron greatness Fennes rennes sees great record though made against mediocre talent brought cheers from the nations football oot ball addicts another great team was texas A M authorities were loud in their praise of southern california unquestionably one of the greatest tj of grid machines though big ten teams lost in the war against outsiders interest in conference struggles was greater than ever nothing could be taken for for granted the race was close enough to thrill every downtown quarterback and the final result MSS mas in doubt until the last whistle nad blown |