The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-09

Princeton VS.. West Point.
Today the Minnesota football team will
make its last appearance on the home
grounds for the season of 1901, when it
meets the University fNorth Dakota
on Nerthrop gridiron. There will I'M
deubtedly be an immense crowd out to
give the Gophers the right kind of a
send-off, at least there should be. The
opposing team cannot be considered
star aggregation, and the result of the
game is a foregone conclusion, but never
theless the game will be interesting, and
as it is the last the team plays before
the championship contest with Wisconsin
1T will afford opportunity to size up their
condition.
The North Dakota team has several
fast men, and they will manage to keep
the Gophers busy and give them just the
kind of practice necessary at this stage
of the game. While large crowd will
undoubtedly go to Madison with the boys
there are thousands of enthusiasts who
viii not be able to do so, and this will
be their last opportunity to show their
appreciation ofthe great team which has
brought glory to the state and to the
institution.
The North Dakota team lineup will be
as follows:
AAe1l eIuooll, CSilISl, BeihcI anu 1eOOillSOii.
guards: Hancock and WARDROBE, tackles;
Frazier and Jewell. ends; Skulason, quar-
terback; Fitzmaurice and Jennings, half
backs; Flanagan, fullback; Hilyeri Nc
lean and Crewe, substitutes.
Dr. Williams is likely to give several
OF the substitutes an opportunity in the
game today to prepare them in case any
emergency requires their services in the
game at Madison The Minnesota line
ZIP will be the same as it was last Mon
day.
Mueller Will Play.
The best news at the university yes
terday was to the effect that Mueller
would undoubtedly play in the Wisconsin
game. This naturally caused great Ella
tion anon gthe students and rooters. The
announcement that Wisconsin Will not
protest any Minnesota players, to-
Eether with the statement that Mime
sofa had previously made of having no
antention of protesting Schneider, will be
welcomed by the public. The storie~ that
have been appearing in the papers for
the past ten days were beginning to be
nauSeating to the average citizen, who
was fast coming to believe that the foot
ball game was being manipulated by
crowd Of cackling grandmothers The dis
Gussion of Mueller's case especially has
been disgusting to the lay mind. Had
9ie board decided that Mueller's particl-
patton in a fat mans race at fair con-
ktituted him a professional, every man
who had ever won a prize at fair IN a
pie-eating contest would be a professions
q under the Interpretation.
Happily the big nine conference dis
played Judgment and horse sense in sizing
up the case of Mueller, and intimated
that to call MuelleTs entrance in the fat
mans race a violation of the rules would
be TO make the rules absurd and wholly
3arccal. 1t is highly probable that as
result of the discussion of the past week
ahe big nine board viii amend the rules
snd regulations of the sport so as to
square them with common sense, and
prevent any further possibility OF inter
preting them in a manner that will hold
them up to the ridicule of sensible peo-
pie. 1t is about time that an effort We're
made to discriminate between the man
who follows sport for a living and the
man who INDUCES in it as a pastime
All Protests OF.
Wisconsin's change of intention to pro-
Test Mueller, Dobie and others is very
comm, ,ldable. Minnesota, assumed that
attitude from the beginning, and Wiscon-
sin was told that the status of it's own
players would be left in It's own hahds
and the result accepted. This is at it
at its best on the day of the great inter
state battle, and the vanquished cannot
fall back on the excuse that it would
have been different if so and so had not
been ruled out. Let each institution pres
ent its strongest team and accept the
outcome in a spirit of good nature.
Neither Wisconsin or Minnesota can af-
ford to risk a rupture of their past
friendly relations by any childish per-
forr,1aprpc cnph ac have heoO thraa toned
but which now seem to be happily avert
ed.
''Pudge" on Michigan.
Fudge Heffelfnger the great Yale
guard, has just returned home from the
East and has this to say of Western
football:
I believe that both Minnesota and Wis
consin are stronger than Michigan be-
cause neither of them have yet reached
their highest point of efficiency, and 1
think Michigan has. The Michigan
coaches have pursued the old Harvard
tactics of forcing their men early in the
season. and I believe the team is as
strong today as it ever will be- l saw
Michigan play last year, and with the
material the coaches have in their line
this season, l do not believe il would
have been possible for them to turn out
team that could defeat either Mime
sofa or Wisconsin.
Minnesota has the best team in her his
tory. Strong both on offense and defense,
the eleven is also strong in It's kicking de-
partment and this should prove an adj
vantage at Madison. If the Wisconsin
game could be played here 1 think Mime
sofa would win, but trip always takes
something out of the men, and the boys
want to realize that they have hard
task before them. 1t will be a great
game, and / am going to see it if can
possibly get away.
At present none of the big Eastern
teams is at it's best, at least Harvard,
Yale or Princeton has yet reached it's
highest point of efficiency. Heretofore the
Harvard coaches have forced the men in
order to prepare for the Pennsylvania
game, but this year they felt they did
not have to do that, so the Harvard men
will be trained especially to meet Yale
and may be expected to be at their best
when the time for that game arrives.
Yale must improve in kicking in order
to win, but have great hopes that she
will DO so. With the Improvement that
think is coming Yale should win from
Both Harvard and Princeton, but as L
said before, just at present Harvard ap-
pears to have little the best of it.
ST. PAUL POOR MUD LARKs.
10th Tennis Played Good on Defense