The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-01
PHILADELPHIA.
WISCONSIN is ANXIOUS.
Saturdays Game a FatefuI One for
the Badgers.

MADISON, Oct. 31.-Fifteen brawny
Nebraskans, accompanied by Coach
Booth, leave Lincoln tonight for Milwau-
kee, where they expect to take the meas
ure of the Wisconsin football eleven and
by the same token there is fear in this
quarter that they will do just that thing.
The cornhuSkers come with a very re-
spectacle record and they are supposed
to be strong where the Badgers are least
competent to cope with them. Three
weeks ago, Nebraska eld the giant Go
piers to three toqchdowns, and since
that time unuer the instruction of the
best coaches in the country, they have
come forward in form, strength and pre-
cision of play to such an extent that
their admirers will send them along wi n
a lot of money which says the Badgers
will be retired from the championship
race in the game to be played here Sat
urday.
To be placed beside and measured with
the rosy reports from Nebraska come
most discourag ing stories from Randall
field. The Badgers certainly are weak
on the defense, and the strong boys fl ON
the West, if they are anywhere near as.
through. Yesterday at Madison the
scrubs were given the ball or the five
yard line and told to take it across. This
close formation and mass plays. How
ever, the first teams work showed some
Improvement and the scrubs were finally
thrown back. After the regulars had
been given the ball and a chance at Of
fensive work, they quickly took the bail
the length of the field on line bucks.
From financial standpoint, the antic-
ipated closeness of the struggle is a good
thing, for the fact that desperate bat
tie may be expected will in all probat II
ity break all local records for football
attendance, but at the same time the
stories OF the relative strength of the
elevens is causing great uneasiness in
the camp of the cardinal rooters. If the
Badgers fall Saturday. thew, pass. out of
700 For. hn aCfe ntoov, mir oh .,
but if they win, their position will be
at the head of the procession.
Secret practice was Installed by the
Nebraska football squad this week by
way of preparation for the game here
Saturday. The Improvement shown by
the Cornhuskers during the last week
or ten days lends uragement to
Nebraska rooters that their favorites will
render a good account of themselves,
even if defeated.
The Nebraska eleven, so Coach Booth
afflrms, is stronger in every department
of the game at present than they were
less against the varsity, either to adj
vance the ball or to hold their heavier
opponents for downs.
That heavy mass plays are something
of a bugaboo to Coach King is evident
from the work given the squad For
half an hour last evening he kept the
scrubs pounding away at the varsity line
with this style of play. At first the sec
ond eleven was successful in advancing
the ball, carrying it down nearly to the
varsity goal before being stopped, but
towards the close of the game the regu-
lars began breaking UP the plays IN good
style. In the Nebraska game and in the
Minnesota game this style of game is OK
pected to play a prominent part and the
Badger coach does not propose to have
his men caught unprepared for 1T, as III
the Kansas game. The work w;as hard
er if anything than that of Monday. Be-
sides lively scrimmage, the regulars
were put through half an hour of signal
practice Abbott lined up for this fornaa-
ton work. but gave way to Daum when
the practice game begSn. Driver, Coch-
ems, and Fogg did not play, their places
being taken respectively by Moffat. Aber-
crombie and Marshall.