The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-11
RESULTS SIZED UP
SATURDAYS FOOTBALL GAMES
AND WHAT THEY IN
DICATE
RUEoRs AS TO MINNESOTA
No Truth in Statement That Wiscon-
sin Game Will BE CanceIed-GO-
pliers Will Go in With Best
Chances of Victory.

The two notable things about Satur-
days football contests were the remark
| able game which Stages MaroonS put
/ up against the purple team on Marshall
! field and the surprising and overWnelm-
! ing defeat administered to Iowa by IL
| linois. The Iowa game was the surprise
of the season. The prevailing opinion
was that Iowa would easily win Knipe's
m1a have not received so hard a blow
| before in their entire football history.
| They were wholly confident of the out
come. Illinois started in and smashed
the Iowa line to pieces. and from the
| minute the whistle blew until the game
was over AID the wreckage cleared
away there was not the slightest show
for the Hawkeyes. Just when they hop
ed to re-establish themselves in the West
ern standing and to move down the line
with an unbroken record until the end of
the season, they Wee crushed, humlll-
ated, and completely disposed of as as
pirants for first-class honors. The game,
while it demonstrates a great advance IN
form by the Illinois, also proves that
Iowa has gone back. Knipe's team was
clearly out of form. No excuses based
on Williams absence can avail them
now. They were trounced to finish.
All football enthusiasts must admire the
spirit that Illinois has displayed this
year. After defeating Chicago decisively,
the team went down before Northwest
ern; but they went into the game again
with the same spirit of determination
and wiped Indiana off the football map,
and followed it up with the defeat OF
the Hawkeyes. illinois at the present
moment is undoubtedly superior to either
Chicago or Northwestern. Minnesota
will find no easy proposition when they
tackle the Champaign boys on the 8tn
inst. In Saturdays game Illinois team
work was par excellence. As soon as the
ball was snapped the entire team was on
and had Iowa covered up before she
could take cognizance of the play. Il
linois played always In close formation,
leaving no opening for the Iowa tackles
to break through. The support which
Illinois gave her man with the bail was
what made them so irresistible when
they smashed IoWa's line.
Iowa played open and slow. The snap
Ply play Of week ago was not discern
ible. The formation was loose and the
interference light Though trying time
and again, she could not pierce the line
of their opponents. When she was on
the offensive her backs were too slow in
getting into play. When she was on the
defensive her line was too open to stop
the rushes. The only place that Iowa
could make any gains against Illinois was
around the right end, but she could not
play this but few times before Illinois
would block it.
The heavy guards back was tried,
without the least effect on the line of IL
linois. They simply laid down and Iowa
fell over them. The tackles back and
backs over was also tried, but failed to
make any gains for Iowa.
The second surprise of Saturday was
the splendid battle which Chicago put
up against HOLSTERS aggregation. With
Sheldon and Horton out of the game
Stages men played brilliant game, and
actually eclipsed Northwestern in
straightforward offensive play. Any man
but Stage would have quit long ago,
after the long string of defeats which
the Maroons have scored, but the result
of Saturdays game proves that he has
succeeded in effecting an almost miracu-
lous transformation in his team, and Chi
cago may redeem it's ignominious begin
ming by a glorious ending of the season
None of the other Western games were
of any Importance. Wisconsin had an
easy time with the Ames, and the reports
do not indicate any especially notable
work On the part of the Badgers. Of
course, they had no incentive to exert
themselves, and it is more than likely
that King did not care to risk an exhi-.
bition of the best his team is capable
Of The one important feature of the
game was the star work of Haumerson,
the left tackle, concerning whose work
the Badgers have been so in doubt 1t
has been pointed out that this position
was the one which King was most afraid
OF IN the Minnesota game. Haumerson,
according to reports, was easily the star
OF saturdays performance. The Micfi-
gan team showed up very poorly and
the game indicates that the Wolverines
have passed their zenith, and are on the
down grade.
In the East, aside from the further
proof given by Harvard of her general
supremacy over all rival teams the
event of greatest consequence was the
tie game which the West Pointers put
up with Princeton. The soldiers must
hereafter be accounted as in the very
first rank of teams. They have tied
both Yale and Princeton, while Harvard
beat them by but five points.
The general results of all the games
played thus far this year seem to place
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and H.
linois In the front rank of the Western
teams Wisconsin has yet to play Min
neseta and Chicago; Michigan has 20
play Iowa and Chicago, while Illinois
must base its final claims upon its show
ing in the last game of the season
against the Gophers.
Minnesota Never Cults.
The La Crosse papers publish sense
tfonal reports of alleged interviews with
Prof. Jones, asserting that he made the
statement that things locked bad for
Dobie and Rogers, as well as for Mueller.
and that unless they We're clearly proven
innocent of the charges against them he
would insist that Minnesota withdraw
them. and then cancel the Wisconsin
a &c Tod 1,o--o
1t Is better to cancel the game than to
send down d team representing Min
| nesota which contains professional play
ers. He is further credited with saving
that with Dobie and Rogers barred. Min
| nesota is practically without a team.
and could not think of playing Wiscon
sin.
! In the first place it is very doubtful
if Prof. Jones ever gave out an interview
SAYING that Dobie and Rogers might have
to go. II he did it is a certainty that
he never did say that Minnesota would
cancel the Wisconsin game. Prof. Jones
would be the last man to talk that way.
Dobie and Rogers will play next Saturday:
there is not a question about that. ont
even if they did not Minnesota would go
down to Madison and go into the game
determined to win, and III the proper
form to do it. Those persons who saw
the second team play IOOtDaIl on Satur-
day are not worrying about DR. Will
liams' substitutes. Starthern, Tiff. Bid
lake and Harris can go in next Satur
days game and hold up their end in
manner that will surprise Mr. King and
| his little team Of ball players.
| But these sensational reports are with
| cut founda ton. DR.. Williams has said
| that the game will surely be played. and
it certainly will. There is some doubt as
TO Mueller's playing, but none whatever
| &C IN any of the OF her mar, Rut oo,,,,