The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-25
GOPHER FOOTBALL PLANS
WILL HAVE TWO HARD GAMES TO
PLAY ON THE 10TH AND
18TH PRoX.
PRAISE FOR CHICAGO MEN
Capt. Speed Thinks Minnesota Puts
Up Stronger Game Than the
Eleven From Brown
University.

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The Brown university men were not the
only one to get glory from The defeat
OF Chicago. Comparisons are as frequent
after football game as are bruised and
sore limbs, and the Chicago men, Of
course, thought of their game of the
saturday before with Minnesota. After
they had thought the whole thing over
they voted that if Minnesota should go
against Brown, Brown would get the
worst of it. Speed, Chicago's captain,
sums the whole thing up thus:
I'VE held them for downs repea tedly,
but some way or other we did not hold
at the critical times. The backs We're
cripples, but the line should have done
better. In my opinion, the Brown team
is not as strong as Minnesota, and that
is what the other fellows on the team
say, too
There is in this an admission that Min :.
nesota is better than Chicago which Il
is good to see, at least, from the Mime
sofa standpoint. Coach Woodruff of the
Pennsylvania "U'' from a distance OBJ
serves that Minnesota will have her
hands full taking care of western teams
this year. Next year will be time enough
to talk Of meeting eastern teams, if con-
ditions are then Favorable.
There has ceased to be any doubt but
that Minnesota has her hands full in the
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game ought to be a comparatively easy
one, but a big score should be the aim
of the ~" At least so say friends of
the team. The varsity boys should show
the public just what they are able 20
do in the way of big scores 1t is under
stood that the North Dakota boys have
been putting up pretty high class foot
ball. A big score for the ''U, therefore
would add all the more glory to It's rec
ord.
Nov. 10 and II Minnesota plays Illinois
and Northwestern respectively These
teams are worthy foes for Minnesota
They are distinctly good football teams.
They are both made up of big men. One
of the reports Of last Saturdays game
says: both sides lined up with teams
Of giants and they played fast and furi-
Gus football. The most conspicu-
Gus feature of the play was the tandem
OF Northwestern, composed of Flacger,
Breeder and Davidson. With heads down
they charged at the enemy with the force
of a battering ram, sometimes making
a break in the Illinois lines. but no tai
ways"
Here is another interesting extract from
the same account of the game which
shows how the men of the two Illinois
teams throw themselves into the game:
Ward and Elliot did splendid execution
lOf NORTHWESTERN IN their ruSheS, and
Lowenthal, the Illinois center, played like
the demon he looked. He was the only
visitor not wearing black hood This
left his shock of curly hair free to the
zephyrs. He had plowed his nose and
face through the black soil of the field
again and again u1ider the catdpuft blows
of the weaters of the purple, and he look
ed like a fierce Zulu, but, on, how he did
play footbalI:''
Other reports show that the game was
a beautiful one from the spectators
point of view at least. Certainly men
who play with the spirit the Illinois men
are shown by these extracts to have put
into their game are no mean antagonists
for anyone. - -i-
Summed up the strength of both teams
seemed to be in their defense rather than
in their attack, condition which seems
TO prevail among most Of the middle
west teams this year. Nebraska, too. IS
playing good football. Consequently Min
nesota's last four games for the season
Will be hard ones, coming III this order
Wisconsin, Nov. 8; Illinois, Nov TO-:
Northwestern, Nov. II; Nebraska, Nov.
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