Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1926-01-15 | Page 3 | 1,700,000 See Big Ten and Valley Grid Games

1,700,000 See Big Ten and Valley Grid Games Upward of 1,71X1,000 football fans witnessed conference and intersectlon-nl intersectlon-nl clashes of teams of the western conference. In Its conference and lntersectional clashes, the Hlg Ton drew 1.30:2,000. Ohio State led In receipts with about $300.01X1 and Ohio also drew the largest larg-est attendance for a single game, the contest with Illinois, when S4,'J!ir fans jammed the Columbus stadium to see "lied" Grange do his stuff. Minnesota Minne-sota was second in receipts with $21.000. In the Missouri valley conference the attendance was approximately :i."i0.000 for conference and interscc-lional interscc-lional contests. Missouri, the title winner, bad the largest total nttend- nee. reporting ISo.OOO. but Nebraska wit'i an attendance of only 143.IW roMiirted largest receipts, $122.7(H1. v,;i.. Missouri's receipts were about 2' i tvi'. The nvord rf nearly 1.7."iO.(XX fans :;trcn'l'iig middle west football games i.f tin- two prlnrii.::'. conferences Is the M remarkable because the weather -'v " vniv' In years for football rl-.--,u-