Michigan at Ohio State

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  The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 19, 1926, page 1

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  thing Points to Thrill ing Close of Season in Western Conference. Chtted Press Stnff CORRESPONDENT CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-Football’ S most successful season in the Middle West will wind up Saturday, with the championship of the Western Conference at stake in two games. The outstanding game of these two contests is the Minnesota Michigan contest at Minneapolis, where the Wolverines, who have beaten some of the best teams in the Big Ten, meet Minnesota which lost to the Wolverines in the first game Of the Conference schedule, 20 to 0. Scoring Machine Developed Since then the Gophers have scared like meteors. They have beaten reputedly strong teams by overwhelming scores and last week ran up 81 points against Butler. The Gopher hurdle will be hard for the wolverines because they ran into one of the toughest games in their schedule-save for the game they lost to the NaVy-in Ohio last week. The wolverines came out on the long end of a 17–⁠16 score after one of the epic games of the season. At Iowa City, Northwestern, one of the great teams of the year, will mel iowa, which has yet to win a Big Ten game this season. Iowa has always been a hard team for Northwestern to beat, but all the data points to Northwestern victory. Runner-up HOnOrs At Champaign, Ohio State will fight it out with Illinois for the runner-up honors. Ohio’s great backs --Karow, Eby, Grimm and Marekwill test out their strength against the solid iron line of the Him. which Resisted the assaults Of Pennsylva MAS powerful attack last month. The battle for the Hoosier cham pionship between Purdue and In diana should go to the Boilermaker team, if Purdue’s chief ground gamer, Cotton” Wilcox, gets up the steam he showed in earlier games. At South Bend, Coach Knute Rooknes potential national cham pions will work out against Drake, a. Missouri Valley Conference team. The forty horsemen” from Notre Dame are the favorites, but the Irish probably will get some heavy pounding from the team from Iowa.

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 14, 1926, page 102

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  10000 WATCH DOWNFALL OF OHIO STATE, IL TO 10 Failure to Aid Extra Point After Touchdown Keeps Buckeyes From Tie-Friedman Kicks 43. Yard Goal for Wolverines Early in the first period Clarke, Ohio quarterback. booted a field goal after Gilbert had recovered a Mich tgan tumble. Then Grim. Bell and harrow cut loose and soon karow added a touchdown. Michigan Opens up. In the second period Michigan opened up. Friedman. Gilbert and Oossterbaan got going. and eventually Friedman heaVed Is yards for a touchdown. Just before the half ended Friedman tied the count with his wonderful boot for a field goal. Late in the third period Friedman threw a pass over the line to Hoff man and the Wolverines were out In front. The Buckeyes started their big parade in the final session, Bell, Karow and Eby driving ahead until Eby went around an end for a touch down. Clark was overanXious and his try for the point failed by inches. Lineup and summary:

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Officially, Michigan leads 62–⁠52–⁠6; as played, 62–⁠53–⁠6 in 121 meetings, counting the 98 since this game.