The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26
FOOTBALL ON DECK
UNIVERSITY TEAM OPENS ITS SEA-
SON IN A GAME WITH SOUTH
SIDE HIGH SCHOOL.
T0YED WITH YOUNGSTERS,
SHOWING THEIR METTLE BY RUN
MING UP SCORE OF
% TO o.
SECOND ELEVEN is WEAK.
They Barely Avert Disastrous
Rout in the Second
SECOND ELEVEN is WEAh

The university football team played
it's first game yesterday with an out
side team. South side high schooi
of Minneapolis was the victim,
being defeated by % to 0. 1t was
practice game, but. for all tnat' at
tracted about 5000 students ana thelr
friends to the athletic grounds south
of the Armory at the university. Inc
varsity team has been in practlce out
two weeks, and the first team mace
a showing yesterday that was eA-
tremely satisfactory to the frlendS anu
s1,nnorters of the team. The secoho
taam which went in in the second hair
was nearly put to rout by the high
school boys, who have been coacneo
for some weeks by j. Loomls, brothCf
of the varsity full back and torfn'r
member of the second team.
The showing made by the first team
was such that in time the university
will be represented by as fast ana hafd
playing a team as ever was turned
out at the university.
The game began at All, and TWO
halves of fifteen minutes were played-
Dumas kicked off for South side ana
Harrison took the ball for fifty yards
to the center again. They lost it again
and the university team took it down.
the field for a touchdown, after four
and a half minutes of play. Looms
kicked goal.
Dumas again kicked off to Harrison,
who returned the ball to Burns, Who
was downed nicely by Kotlaba. An
other procession ended in a touchdown
and Harrison kicked goal.
The next touchdown was made after
an exchange of kicks. LOOMS kckeo
for a touchback, and Dumas kicked
ont from the twenty-fve-yard line
The first crack at it Nelson went
around right end for run OF hfty.nVe
wards and touchdown. Harrison
kicked another goal.
South Side got the ball seVerai times
on fumbIes in the next trial and gained
ten wards on Minnesota's off-side play
A kick by Loomis took the ball to the
fve-yard line where Harrison tackled
DUMAS. A tumble on the first trial
resulted in Reynolds falling on the
ball over the line. Harrison missed
the goal. The half ended here with TIE
score 90 to 0.
SECOND HALF.
The second half saw an entirely new
team in for the university, and Bradley
in for Sandy on South Side. The kick
off was brought back several yards
bv South Side, and they began STEADY
march UP to Minnesota's thirty-tve-
ward line, where a tumble gave the
ball to the universities. Carpenter am
Gray each made five yards, and Har-
rison on the next play was tackled De
hind the line. Evans then kicked Tor
forty yards.
On the trial Parsons broke through
and tackled the runner for loss OF
ten wards. Fumbles, kicks and bad
pIays on the part of the Universities,
and short hard runs by the South side
then followed, Harrison enlivening the
play by run of forty yards. South
Side was forced back to their fifteen
yard-line. and Dumas, in attempting
to kick was blocked by Harrison. An
other trial sent the ball out, but the
Universities lost it on a tumble after
taking it to the ten-yard line. Burns
then ran around left for fifteen yards,
being neatly tackled by BernhaSen-
Dumas made a drive through the line
for six yards, and the half ended with
the score % to 0.
Dumas, Bradley and Leonard played
star games for South Side and did
much for the team by their work.
The lineup was as follows: