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Go 'Way, lowa!

The old football oligarchy of the East that ruled well nigh supreme some twenty years back has been crumbling for a long time, and still is crumbling. Here are these "Hawkeyes" from Iowa City coming into the classic football shades of New Haven and standing the "Pulldog" on his head. There have been others of these challengers from the out lands, and year by year they seem to grow a little stronger and more threatening. There was Centre and Chicago and Nebraska last year. This fall Kansas comes East, and the Army sends the "Jayhawk" back with defeat stenciled on his feathers. Then Drake University, cut in Iowa, rises up Saturday and takes the edge off the Army victory by thrashing the "Jayhawk" again. Of a certainly the football capital of these United States is a wandering one. It is no longer nailed down east of the Alleghenies, as it used to be in the comfortable olden time, 'when a half-dozen big Eastern teams held the spotlight year after year and ruled the Gridiron Empire unchallenged. However, it still is the ambition of every good team in the country to beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore, "I-o-way", is happy. It is something, after all, to have come out of Iowa City and rubbed the "Bulldog's" nose in the dust of his own field. Philadelphia Public Ledger.

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