The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-13
MINNESOTA 10
NEBRASKA o


After the battle of the giants the flag
of Ski-u-Mah I1oats triumphantly over
the breastworks Of the enemy. Before
the largest crowd tAat yer assembled
On Northrop field % witness a er.GirCn
contest, the sturdy defenders of the
maroon and gold administered a crusnlrg
defeat to thu yaunte:l champions from
the home of William Jennings Bryan.
-Four thousand leather-lunged rooters
from the Nebraska prairies, who swooped
down upon Minneapolis yesterday, riotous
With their prophecies of victory. last
night packed up their boxes of red fire,
tucked away their corn-fed enthusiasm.
tore their songs and yells to shreds. and
like the Arabs, folded their tents ana
silently stole away" Grape was mingled
with the cream and scarlet last night. and
Doc Bixby telegraphed for his obituary
code For once there was no word in all
his festive vocabulary to rhyme with the
surging grief of his soul q
1t was a. glorious victory for Mime
sofa; humiliating defeat for Nebraska.
Mnnesota's joy was wild and uncontined,
and Ski -U-Mah' yells tore the silence
to shreds until long after midnight. 1t
was more than they had dared hope for.
What the defeat meant to Nebraska only
the Nebraskans understand. Ever since
the cornhuskers scored twice on Mime
been swelled with ideas of conquest
From that day until yesterday they have
been preparing for the struggle with the
Gophers, and "delenda est Carthage has
been their watchword I'VE must beat
Minnesota" has been the daily yell at
Nebraska for months and months. Never
before has such a. spirit of football agi-
tation been seen in the West. The entire
state of Nebraska was caught up in a
nf fn h
Roofing became a regular course in the
college curriculum. And that enchant-
ment which distance lends usurped the
imagination, until to think of Mime
sofa was to see visions of glorious VIC
tory, with the banner of Nebraska high
above the ruins Of Minnesota's vanquish-
ed host.
And at last the great day came, and
with it hordes of yelling, raving rooters,
fairly overpowered by an appetite for
gore. They tore down upon The Mime
sofa plains swayed with wild dreams of
an army of "9O0-pound Norwegians"
trampled in the dust beneath the heel of
the invader. Nothing less than complete
surrender, and ultimate annexation OF
the State University of Minnesota to the
state of Nebraska would be accepted.
Bands came to cheer the warriors with
the martial airs of victory, and the mega
phone brigade came tearing through the
states on fiat car that they might make
the hills and valleys of the route resound
their clarion cries of triumph 1t was a
very poor Nebraska town that didn't
send a delegate with the crowd.
The Nebraskans came and saw-and
got slugged. The megaphones can be re-
turned to the dealers as good as new.
When the bulletin boards in Lincoln told
out the final score there were none to
read-the populace had taken to the cy-
clone cellar to pray and fast-they felt
the need of being faster. The game is
over-Mr. Bryan's lawn is uninjured-the
map of Minnesota has not been changed
the Scandinavian population of the state
is not decreased, and Doc Bixby Is held
as hostage. Surely it was glorious VIC
toryi
A ROYAL BATTLE.
Tt was indeed a battle royal, despite
the fact that Minnesota won so handily
Nebraska played plucky uphill game
they were simply outclassed by the
husky varsity team Minnesota did not
play the game as 1t Is capable of, but
they played we'll enough to Win decisive
ly. They played well enough to give
Phil King. of Wisconsin, shivers down
the back as he watched them plow
through the stone wall line of Nebraska
as if it were paper. They played well
enough to dispel any illusions which DR..
Knipe, of Iowa, may have had as to his
Hawkeye aggregation doing anything to
Minnesota on the 26th. They played well
enough ito give every Minnesota rooter
unbounded confidence that when the
smoke of the last gridiron battle of 1901
has cleared away the undisputed cham