Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1914 — Comparative Scores Worked Without Hitch in the West. [ARTICLE]

Comparative Scores Worked Without Hitch in the West.

Football “dope” worked without a hitch in the west this year and all of the improtant games worked out aibout as expected. Illinois by defeating Wisconsin 24 to 9 won the big nine conference championship. Minnesota defeated crippled Chi- ' cago IS to 7. Purdue defeated Indiana 23 to 13, winning the state championship. Butler, clinched 1 the secondary championship' by defeating Franklin 6 to 0. In the east the big game between Harvard and Yale the former won by the decisive score of 36 to 0. The college season closed with Saturday, but the high schools will hold their important games on Thanksgiving. Next Saturday will occur the annual clash between West Point and Annapolis, the army and navy teams. Lafayette has particular interest in this game, because the captain off the navy team is the son of Henry Overesh, of that city, while Oliphant, former Purdue star, plays half back for the army. Walter ECkersalT’s all-conference eleven is as follows: Left end, Cherry, Ohio State. Left tackle, Buck, Wisconsin. Left guard, Chapman, Illinois. Center, Des Jardien, Chicago. Right guard, Routh, Purdue. Right tackle, Shull, Chicago. Right end, Squirer, Illinois. Quarterback, Clark, Illinois. Left half, Pogue, Illinois., Right half, Hightower, Northwestern. -Full back, Solon, (Minnesota.