The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-11
'COPHERS' HIGH HOPE
SIASTIC LETTER TO WIS
CONSIN STUDENT
OLD VICTORIES ARE RECALLED
Wisconsin Is Confident, However.
and King Has Many New
Plays to Spring
Minnesota.

MADISON. Wis, Oct 10.-The eyes of
football followers in the Middle West are
g now centered on Madison, where the an
nual game between Wisconsin and Mime
sofa will be played Nov. 16, and present
prospects indicate that thousands of Wis
consin's gridiron enthusiasts will attend
the great contest, which will determine
the Championship of the Western univer-
sites.
Wisconsin men are confident of winning
the game. BLinnesota's adherents are
equally sure that their eleven will be
victorious, and every atom of information
coming from Minneapolis and st. Paul is
as full of confidence in the ability of the
Gophers TO smother the Badgers nut
is full of meat.
The following letter, received here from
one of the students who is attending Min
nesota university, and who has, in the
past, been actively connected with the
athletic teams of that institution, indi-
Gates the general feeling of he students
regarding the Wisconsin game:
Il note with keen delight the degree Of
confidence you display IN regard to Wis
consin's ability to defeat US, and l will
now proceed to badger you little on
the outcome and incidentally show you
where you are wrong, and show you
taking all things into consideration, if
both teams play the best football they
are capable of, that your chances for
winning are very small.
Old Gopher Victories Recalled.
ALREADY the students up here are be-
ginning to recall the time when Minneso-
ia used to beat you people 60 to 0. That
was in the early stages of the game,
and is still fond remembrance with Us,
and while we do not think that the
score this year will be that big, still
We are feeling certain of a decided vic
tory. The critics are predicting that
something will be doing at Madison on
the 18th. On that night the Badger
crowd will be more than convinced that
something has been done, and those that
are broke will know it beyond doubt.
u Rah! Rah! Wisconsin will be
displaced by old Ski -Mah,' and the
Minnesota rooters will be doing the
stunts on the Badger campus.
Taking the matter seriously, it is al
most absurd for you to think so seriously
of winning. I can see how you might
possibly hope to tie the score, but how
you can do anything more than that is
more than 1 can figure out. A compari-
son of the two teams will show that. AS
they line up on paper, we are far supe-
rior, and should win by a good margin,
and what is more our men are more ex-
perienced, and understand every part of
the game. Nearly every one of them has
played the game several years. either
at Minnesota or elsewhere. The loss OF
Mueller will act as a slight handicap,
but the gap will be one that can be
easily filed, as we have a team of subs
UP here who are in nearly all respects as
good as the regulars, and that will be a
great advantage for us in the Wisconsin
game Some of the men on both sides
will have to be taken out, if only from
exhaustion. Wisconsin, according to the
reports that come from there, has few
available substitutes of value
How the Teams Compare.
Tn the line I feel that we have a
great advantage, and I fail to see how
your boosted back field can prove any
stronger than ours, for I think that we
have almost an even thing with you
there. In the line and end work your
strong right side will be against our
strong left side, with things about even.
although L think that Rogers will out
play Juneau without much effort He is
quicker, has had more experience, and
has been captain of q team that Wis
consin has never yet classed with Fee
will be able to hold Capt. Curtis nearly
even and is superior In weight, which is
to be a big factor in this contest. At
guard Schneider and Flynn will be about
an even lI-IIiS, With the center men ABOUT
the same. Skow is a good man. but will
be against our last years captain and
end and the simple fact that Paige has
played at end indicates that he is fast
and should be able to get the. bulge on
Show. Our right side will have an ad-
vantage over your left side, and the
games that have been played this season
show that. Your left side has been the
one that has always been punctured,
the Nebraska game, for instance, while
our right side has always been able to
hold. Aune or Hoyt at end are either
of them equal to Daum or Abbott
I'm the back field both teams are good,
but what I fail to see is where you
claim your immense superiority. Your
backs are fast, yet they are no faster
than ours. Knowlton is a whole lot
faster than Driver and is better all
around player Both of our backs are
as fast as either Larson or Cochems.
Your men may get away together better
than ours, but individually they are no
better. Bockman is one of the best half
milers in the West, which certainly
means that he has some speed. La Fans
will also class with Larson as line
smasher. Although he may not be as
good, he is not outclassed
$50 far this season I have noticed
that Wisconsin depended almost entirely
on end runs. That is a good game to
play if the object is to run up a big
score. Nevertheless, in a close. hard
game, that style of play would not count
for much. In big game between first
class teams end runs are exceptions, and
as a rule are seldom resorted to, as IN
such a game they usually result in a
loss No doubt, you will try that game
with us, and you will meet with the
usual success of that style of play in a
hard game, and if you then resort to line
work you viii strike a hard proposition.
AS far as end running is concerned, the
man that succeeds in getting around our
original American will deserve all
the credit there is. II that should hap
pen we have a man backing up the line
whom Heffelfnger says can make good
on any team in the country At quarter
Dobie is a more experienced man than
either of your candidates.
I'VE are coming down to that game
with no hard luck stories, and if we
are beaten viii take it and say nothing.
However, we feel that the merry whistle
of the Gopher will be heard on Camp