The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-22

to get closer to scoring than the twenty
yard line.
While the individual playing Of the
Minnesota team was all that could rea-
sonably be expected, their team work was
very disappointing. This was largely due
to the fact that the team has been play
ing in its present form only three days.
The right side Of the line has not played
together long enough to even get ac-
quainted with each other.
On defensive work the team tackled
too high and thus allowed the opposing
team to make unearned yards. The
men did not follow the ball and lined
up just the same whether the play came
on the right side or on the left. In this
the Gophers might learn some excellent
lessons from the Ames players, who con-
stantly followed the ball and were al
ways ready to meet every play. The
offensive work Of the eleven was too
slow, and the men ran too high with the
ball. AS a result the Ames backs would
break up their interference with ease
and down the runners without gain.
Ames played a good game, and but for
the weight against them might have
won. Their team work was almost per-
feet and when a play was started every
man was in it. So well did the backs
support their line that the Minnesota
line failed altogether to open up holes
in it. Griffith and Maine proved the
best ground gamers for the HaWkeyes.
The former would skirt the Minnesota
ends for gains, while the latter had q
fashion of buclzing the line, which was
altogether novel anG which was unusually
good for short gains He would buck
straight at the right guard or tackle and
then be showed up over by the other
backs. The Iowa team was very weak
in punting and in exchange Of punts al
ways lost ground.
The Minnesota backs did good work on
the defense at times, Evans especially
showing up strong in stopping Ames
rushes Freeman did good work after he
was put in, and Cole made some clever
tackles. In advancing the ball Freeman,
Evans and Dobie were the only men to
make gains and they were usually small.
Aune, at guard, and Otte, at tackle,
played the best game in the Minnesota
line. The work of Glover at fulback
was the feature of the game. His punts
averaged about forty yards, and were
always we'll placed. 1t was his punting
that saved the game for his team, and
kept the ball down in the Hawkeyes' ter
ritory.
The day promised to be poor one for
a football game but about o'clock the
rain stopped and it cleared off enough
to allow a large crowd to get to the
game The audience was the largest that
has attended one Of the opening games
in years, and as 1t was largely uni
versity crowd, enthusiasm ran high. Aft
er the game the students, headed by the
band, paraded up and down Nicollet and
Hennepin, and entertained the crowds
with zig-zag dance and the college YELL
GAME IN DETAIL.
Ames kicked offsand Evans returned the
ball twenty yards Scandrett had the
wind in his favor and called on Glover
to punt, and Ames got the ball in the
middle Of the field. Minnesota held for
three downs. On the fourth Ames fun
bled and Page picked up the ball and
ran fifty yards for touchdown. Glover
kicked goal, and the score was to O..
Time, one minute.
Dobie returned the kick off fifteen yards,
and Glover punted forty. On the lineup
Aune broke through and got the ball on
tumble Otte failed to gain. Hoyt
made three yards, Evans four and Kien-