Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-11-21
STORIES OF FRAY
SIDE LIGHTS on SATURDAYS BIG
GAME
OVER CONFIDENT VISITORS
Predicted Wisconsin Would be Para
iyzed at Score Set Against BADGERS
King Makes Personal Appeal
Guesses Of Gophers and Explsnz-
tions of Press.
Madison. Nov. -.

Madison, Nov I9
With the big game over it il nov
time for stories of little incidents tina
took place before and at the game
Among the football squad Eddie Coch
ems is regarded as a sage prophet
Time after time this season he ha,
! guessed the scores of the games So
/ closely as to seem of the spOoky ordel
/ Of events. Some two weeks before
the Minnesota game he announced
/ graVely at the training table that tn
score would be II to in favor of Wis
cOnsin. Strangest of ali, this prOphec~
gave the badger players confidence as
no reasoning or speeches of other PEG
pie did. They went into the game
with the idea that the gophers wouI..
be defeated close TO il to 0.
Coach King broke all records h.
roofing at a game in which Wisconsin
played. Never before in the history
of football has this happened. But
when the safety was made, he hoped
about and shouted in high gleo
When the first half was ended he
grasped Larson by the arm and per,
formed something closely akin to q
cakewalk
Before the game started King
grouped the men in the tent back OF
the west bleachers and gave them q
little talk Boys" he said, Il want
each one Of you to go into that game
and play the hardest you ever played
l ask it as a personal favor that each
one of you play 50 that if we are beau
en- you can never feel that it was due
to your individual carelessness. If we
win I will leave football with a good
record. If we lose l go back to public
life with failure after my name. AS
a personal matter | ask you to win"
And it is said the big men gritted
their teeth and filed out of the tent
with tears in their eyes,
Some Wild Guesses.
Last Friday afternoon the Mimi
apolis Journal published guesses on
the game from residents in that city
who were for one side or the other.
The Wisconsin men, all old badger
students, made these prophesies;
Judge d. F. Simpson, Wis. IL;
Mimi 0.
Judge T. G. BrOOks-Wis. 5, MINI. 0.
] A. Peterson-Wis 6; Mimi Q,
A. II. Bright-Wis. 5; MINI. 0.
John Jones-Wis. Il; Mimi. 6.
Minnesota partisans guessed thus
r. P. Harding-Minn. IL; Wis. 0.
G. K. Belden-Minn. to II; Wis. 0.
w. c. Leary-Minn. 6 to II; Wis. O.
Al J Smith-Minn. II; Wis. 0.
T. Kaufmann-Minn. Il; Wis. 0.
r. w Munzer-Minn. 1G; Wis. 6.
Prof F. s. Jones-Minn. II; Wis g.
Some Press Comments.
Pioneer Press-To the spectators it
seemed that Minnesota might we'll put
Overconf1dence among the potent rea-
sons for her defeat. That the gophers
were not entirely outclassed was
shown by their steady stand after the
severe eye-Opener administered in the
first half. They realized when too late
that they had met worthy fOemen.
Milwaukee SentineI-The season
seems now practically certain to end
in an undecided championship, as al
ready predicted, owing to Michigan's
refusal to consider post-seasCn game
Why there should be this faculty OBJ
lection to a pOst-season game is NOT
exactly apparent. It is quite true that
it would mean another week of train,
ing and consequent distraction from
class work, but if a weeks additional
work is so very serious, then the whole
thing is wrong.
Prof. Richard Burton Of the Univer.
sity of Minnesota-Ou tplayed-that's
the whole story.
Chicago American-Powerful but
| slow to score possibly might be 2
characterization of the Minnesota
team. With the plays it used Satur
| day against Wisconsin the gopher:
would need a long time to move ia,
| enough to count. They were slow AM
! failed utterly in any concentrated at
! tack. While Wisconsin cleverly side
stepped and directed nearly ali play
| outside tackle and around - ends
Minnesota seemed TO have no concen
trated attack on any point and sent it