The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-20
NOV By IH MTH(NISIS
IEAMLINE KICKERS TAKE CIoSE
GAME FROM MACALEsTER
COLLEGE
ONLY ONE TOUCHDOWN MADE
Macalester Was Several Times on
the Point of Scoring, but
Luck Was Against
Them.

In stubbornly contested game the
Hamline university football team beat
Manchester college by to on the Ma
calester campus yesterday afternoon.
The Presbyterians, Handicapped by nav
ing played only one game this season,
We're beaten fairly by their much heavier
opponents. In the second half they pulled
themselves together and were twice with
In few yards of pushing the bail over
Hamltne's line.
Had Macalester's interference not been
very weak the game would have ended
differently On end plays they Invariably
failed to gain, and sometimes the bail
was downed with a loss.
Hamline's weak spots We're the right
guard and tackle, and through them Capt
Brush, Erickson and Brown repeatedly
made large gains. Had Brush kept ham
mering continually at this weak spot, his
team would have done better.
Nacalester's gains were nearly all made
on plunges between right tackle and
guard, while Hannline was most success
fUl in end plays. Tucker and thinner
man both made several runs Of twenty
yards, and generally at opportune times,
when the ball was dangerously close to
the goal line.
In G-aking, these runs they were aided
b. splendid Interference, the contrast
between the teams in this respect being
marked.
a considerable amount of bad feeling
was displayed by members of both teams
and several times q friendly exchange of
heavy kicks was brought off without the
referee interfering.
Both teams had rooters galore, the eco
eds being prominently in evidence at
every stage until the whistle blew.
When time was called, with Manchester
Showing the ball alarmingIy close to the
Hamline goal line, the noise was deafen-
ing, fully 800 men and women being en-
gagged in encouraging their respective IA
vorites at the full strength of their vocal
organs, The Calvanists were playing des-
perately, and had the game lasted three
minutes longer a touchdown might have
eYened the score.
GAME IN DETAIL.
Capt. Brush kicked off and Walker
caught it, but was doWned before he had
gone five yards. Hamline held on downs
and then worked an end play, thinner
man gaining twenty yards before being
thrown heavily by Brown, who hurt him.
self in the tackle. Hamline lost pos
session on tumble and Brown gained
ten yards for Manchester, going between
right tackle and guard. Macales root
ers made things lively for a while. but
their enthusiasm was tempered some
what when Tucker and Drill, in two runs,
carried the bali to within twenty yards of
their goal \ series of downs took the
pigsllin to the seyen-yard line and then
Drill plunged through for the first and
only touchdown of the day. Clare failed
to convert and Brush kicked off for Ma
calester. Score to 0.
The baH> Immediately came back, and
when at center field, G.. Shellman who
happened TO have the ball. dropped it and
two Manchester men had good chances to
fall on it. but they We're too slow and
Hamline had it again. The half ended
with the ball on Hamline's thirty-fye-
yard line.
After the usual interval, G. Shellman
kicked off for the Method'sts, and Cor
bett fumbled it badly, with the result
that the teams lined up at Manchester
fiye-yard line. BY a series of remarkable
pIunges through the center and right
guard Manchester worked the bah to- cen
ter field, where Erickson had 1t snatche6
from his hands This fragrant breach OF
the rules was not observed by the referee
but HamIine did not profit much as