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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then the Boilermakers - despite their famed runnings backs, Lou Brock and Jack Brown (rated second to Michigan's Harmon and Kromer)- have been defeated by Santa Clara and tied by Minnesota. They still have a chance for the Big Ten championship should Michigan or Ohio State fumble- provided they beat Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Indiana in the next four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Evashevski or no Evashevski, most football fans agreed last week that Tom Harmon will probably be named on every All-America this year and that Michigan not only should win its 15th Conference championship but might lay claim to the mythical championship of the U. S. Scanning the Midwestern Front, football experts saw no grave obstacle* in its march to the Big Ten title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...followed it by beating Minnesota. In downtown Columbus' Broad & High quarterbacks stopped heckling Coach Francis Schmidt even after the Bucks were defeated 23-to-14 by Ivy Leaguer Cornell last week, began to count the days until November 25 when Ohio State is scheduled to meet Michigan - with an outside chance of winning the Big Ten title, if, in the meantime, it hurdles Indiana, Chicago, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Northwestern, pre-season favorite (along with Michigan), has been a dis appointment, not only to alumni but to its coach, jovial 250-lb. Lynn Waldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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