The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-22

A DEEP RICH CARDINAL. ENyEJ.
OPEs THE TOWN IN HONOR
OF THE VICTORY.
SOUTH SIDE HIGH oUTcLAssED.
Sturdy Badger Youngsters Prove
Their Title to the Interstate
Championship.
Special to the Globe.

repeated her victory of '94 and won to-
days game from Minnesota by the
same old hoodoo score of six to moth
ing. 1t was undoubtedly the greatest
game ever played on Randall field.
Just minute and a half before the
end of the last half Madison scored the
only touchdown made during the game.
For nearly two hours the two old grid
iron enemies fought like fiends, without
either being able to score a point.
Then the famous Minnesota stone wall
gave away just six inches too much
and Wisconsin had the ball for the first
down foot from Minnesota's goal line.
Richards covered himself with glory by
carrying the oval over the line for a
touchdown and then kicking a lifficult
goal. Had Minnesota held the Badg-
ers back six inches further they would
have secured the ball on downs and
the game would have ended without
either team scoring. The bracing
atmosphere made ideal football
weather and fully six thousand people
filled the grand stand, bleachers. boxes
and carriageways. 1t was a merry
throng. All swelldom was there and
looked very swagger in their gayly
decked tallyhoes and traps. When the
battle was won every wearer Of car
dinal streamers went as hilariousIy
wild over the conquest as if he had
taken the whole eleven Minnesota
shaggy scalps himself. The Gopher del
egation, three hundred strong, occu-
pied place in the grand stand, but
they were almost lost in the
SEA OF CARDINAL,
which tossed on every side. At no time
during the contest was Wisconsin's goal
seriously in danger. Only three times
did Minnesota reach her thirty-yard
line. Nevertheless it was an extremely
close contest and a long run might any
time have won the battle.
From the moment that Richards
kicked off until Madison scored it was
anybody's game. Twice during the
first half Wisconsin had the sphere
down past Minnesota's fifteen-yard
line. The second time they seemed GER
tain to score, when Karel fumbled the
ball and Bagely got it under his wing
on the eight-yard line Loomis then
took a scoot around right end for twen-
ty-f1ve yards. Wisconsin's quarter
wrenched his knee, had to be taken
hn al
Gregg's place. In the next scrimmage
the Badgers darling half-back, Mel
son, was laid up for repairs with bad
knee and Peel took his place. The first
half closed with the ball in Minnesota's
possession and on the Badgers thirty
five-yard line Score nothing to moth
ing.
IN THE SECOND HALF
Richards had the wind with him and
made several forty-yard punts, thus
keeping the ball on Ski-U- Nah ground
during most Of the half. Toward the
close Of the half Brewer practically
made the winning run for Wisconsin
by carrying the sphere twenty-five
yards around Minnesota's right He
was stopped by Harding twelve yards
from the Gopher's goal Atkinson and
Karel advanced the pigskin five yards
and then Minnesota put up some great
defensive work and got the oval on
downs on their three-yard line The
excitement was intense. Harding
went three yards, Smith a yard and
half and then Loomis failed to gain the
other foot and Wisconsin had the ball
again on Minnesota's seven-yard line
This time the Gophers could not hold
them and Atkinson, Karel and Rich
ards made the touchdown. Only a min
ute Of the time was left and a couple
of scrimmages in the center of the field
ended the misery. The teams had
these DOsitiOns.