The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-12
READY FOR BATTLE
MINNESOTA AND NEBRASKA WILL
LINE Up THIS AFTER
NOON
GAME A CONTEST OF GIANTS
Nebraska Is Confident and Enthusi-
astie-Fifteen Hundred Lincoln
RIOTERS Will Cheer Corn
huskers On.

Rioters Will Cheer Corn
huskers On.
rms is the greatest day of the year
II the annals of the Minnesota football
team. On Northrop field this afternoon
the Gophers will line up against the stall
Wart cornhuSkers from Lincoln in a bat
tie OF giants for a supremacy that will
probably mean final supremacy in, West
ern football for 1891. That it will be in
deed battle Of the giants cannot be
gainsaid The stancrest supporter of
the maroon and gold does not look for
anything else 1t is felt that the game
Will be tiercely contested, and that the
Nlctors will have but a small margin
Nebraska has been looking ahead to this
game for a year and the Nebraska root
e. has been in training as earnestly as
the players have. Indeed, today's contest
VIII not only be a battle between the
giant teams, but as we'll a battle between
rooterS. A visitor at the university yes
terday would have looked twice to be
sure that 1t was really the Minnesota In
stltutlon- The scarlet and cream colors
OF Nebraska were TO be seen everywhere
on the campus. Early yesterday morning
tne advance guard from Lincoln arrived
IN Minneapolis. 500 strong. The sturdy
1ootbau players We're hustled off TO break
1aSt and afterwards walked over to the
which the great game viii be played 1t
WASH long before all the Nebraska con-
ti1Sent We're on the campus They put
IN the day visiting the buildings and get
ting acquainted with their friendly foes.
1hey were an enthusiastic crowd eager
Tor the fray. and confident that victory
would perch on the banners of their grid
iron warriors This morning a second de-
tachment will arrive. The city of Lin
coin IS almost deserted, business houses
VIII be closed today, and the people who
could not come to Minneapolis with the
boys VIII yell about the bulletin boards
CT the Lincoln newspaper Offices.
over thousand students attended
chapel exercises at the university yester-
Gay morning and took a brief course in
roofing DR.. Burton and others spoke to
the students, urging the necessity of en-
tnusIasm on the part of the supporters
OF the home team. The boys showed that
they could root when they wanted to-
IN toGay@s game L500 lusty-lunged Ne
braSkans from William J. Bryan's city
VIII cheer Capt. Westover's brawny men
OF with this edifying yell:
HoO-rah' Hoo-rah; Hoo-rahi
ao0fa. Hoora; Rah-rahr2hii
Nebraska
Osli-wOw-wow!
Skinny -Wow-WOWi
Shiny
> wow.
NEBRASAA Is CONFIDENT.
Nebraska is confident of the result.
II We We're playing on our own grounds
think we would VIM said one man.
As it is, I should say we had Just about
an even chance The difficulty is that our
men nave never played a big game away
from nome before, and they may go into
The air. Still, We gained ground easily
through alinnesota's big line last year
Wlth our light backs, and this year we
nave set of backs avera ging about
~ pounds. We ought to do something
with them.
Coach Booth was retieent when asked
IL regard TO the game
Z haven't seen it yet" he said. "and
until do l cannot say much Our team
Is IN Erst-class physical condition, with
one or two exceptions. 1t is ready
60 play the best it knows how. 1t
IS impossible to make predictions on a
football game where the teams are at all
evenly matched. 1t is going to be a hard
game and whoever wins it will have to
fight hard
About Minnesota's team little can be
said Since last Saturdays contest with
the Physicians and Surgeons the squad
has been working in secret, and any esti-
mate of the Gophers form would be
bur guesswork.
The team will arrive In Minneapolis
from Lake MinnetOnka this morning and
VIII be seen for the first time by the
great mass of the enthusiasts when it
trots on the field this afternoon.
When the men started for their camp
ing quarters Thursday evening all were
reported in good condition, and it is not
likely that DR.. Williams has given them
hard enough work to run any chances of
injury.
Minnesota rooters feel sure that the
Gophers will win and are willing to bet
that way, although they expect a small
score.
Today's game will be called at 2:3O.