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Colorado 0 10
Grinnell, 0 17
Minnesota 0 6
Missouri, 0 12
Haskell, 0 28
Kansas, 0 16
Knox, 0 7
North Dakota, 0 12
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Grand Island, 0 64
South Dakota, 0 23
Denver, 0 10
Haskell Indians 0 16
Colorado, 0 31
Iowa, 6 17
Knox, 5 33
Kansas, 0 6
Bellevue, 0 52
Illinois, 0 16
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One of the most difficult things to
deal with In western football Is the
distances to bo covered before games
can be played. Many of the Univer
sities are so far apart that three or
four or five hundred miles must be
covered before the teams can meet.
This is a serious handicap to the
visiting team, both In physical conai-tlon-and
usually in finances.
Everyone Is looking forward to a
meeting between eastern and western
teams, and the occasional games so
played make a foundation for the pre
diction that the west would not go
down in an inglorious defeat by any
means. Chicago played West Point
. a close game this season, almost de
feating them. West Point had ht.
HarvarLand Yale to close scores, while
Chicago is rated as one of the lesser
lights in the west this year. Of course,
luis Is comparing scores, a process
which Dften brings one very wide of
the mark, but at present it Is our only
basis of comparison. Certainly a game
between the two leaders of the east
ern and western football world is a
thing much to be desired and which
few of us would wish to miss.
The growth of the great college game
of football In the western statesdur
lng the last five years is remarkable.
The .game has gained in Interest as the
teams have advanced in proficiency,
and' now a Thanksgiving Day game be
tween any of the leading Universities
is an assured success. Some thirty
thousand people saw the Michigan
Minnesota game this year. Certainly
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this bespeaks an Interest in the game
never before equalled.
The standard of football has also
risen rapidly and the west Is traveling
the same grond as the east In faster
time. There Is no reason why It Bhould
not do so. The material Is aB good
and the quality of the coaching equal'
to that in the east. The only differ
ence is that eastern Universities havo
more coaches. The lack of good foot
ball in the high schools is the most
serious handicap to western teams.
The men have not enough experience
when they enter and become discour
aged at the prospect of learning foot
ball on the second- team.
"Consistency Is a Jewell because of
its rarity," remarked an old-time Lin
coln business man at one of tho-games
on Nebraska field. "Over thoro in the
grandstand sits a man who doesn't
believe that football should be played.
But I notice he never misses an oppor
tunity to attend a game. I don't think,
either, that he comes merely to discern
repulsive features In order to have
material for future arguments, al
though he may use It as such. I'm pret
ty sure he comes simply because he
can't stay away. He has Just enough
blanjed curiosity to make him act nat
ural and show his true color. I don't
blame him for It either. Hurannlty Is
weak, and; there" are some things that
it can't resist.."
It Is strikingly peculiar and yet In
keeping wlthyhis character that the
nendi!fl,no rkes In the grandstand
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