Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04
NO FAULT OF MINNESOTA De.
TERMINATION THAT THEY
LOST GAME.
MICHIGAN mas THE BETTER TEAM
SUPERIORITY OF WOLVERINES
OVER GoPHERs IS NOT
QUESTIONED.


defeated Minnesota on Ferry field and
earned the undisputed title to the
Western football championship. 1t
took seventy minutes of arduous play
to finish the game. The play by teams.
especially Michigan, was brilliant. At
times the play was ragged, but it new
er ceased to be desperate.
The superiority of the Wolverines
over the Gophers is not questioned.
In the first half they carried the ball
$50 yards compared with IS yards to
the credit Of Minnesota. In the Sec
onn half the Michiganders made 1870
yards against 165 for Minnesota. Min
nesota braced wonderfully after
Flynn's touchdown and played bet
ter game thereafter than they had
done previously. 1t was no fault of
their determination that they did not
score again, it was rather that eSey
were playing against a team wonder
fully well drilled in defense as we'll as
offense.
Michigan made her first score after
about ten minutes of play in the first
half. Weeks won the toss and chose
the west goal, which was favored by a
rather stiff wind. Heston, Hernstearn,
Gayer and Maddox, the last named
Hurdlfns Like Kangaroo,
smashed the Gopher line back to Min
nesota's one-yard line. The attacks
were directed mostly against left
tackle, which seemed incapable Of
coping with the diversified formation
Of the Michigan men that came at
them. With only one yard to gain for
a touchdown, Michigan hit the line
and was held. A cheer went up from
the Minnesota rooters. Another
grinding mass play, however, sent
Maddox over the line and the first
score in the Western championship
contest had been recorded. This was
the only touchdown of the game made
on straight line bucking. Sweeley
converted it into goal and the score
was Michigan 6, Minnesota 0.
The Michigan men having scored.
nearly every one cheered and waved
their flags, but it remained for Heston,
the star of the game, to electrify them.
Hard play had placed the ball in
Michigan's possession on Minnesota's
twenty-yard line. Maddox disjointed
the Minnesota line in his vicinity and
the quick-eyed Heston saw the hole
and went
Through 1t Like Streak.
Two men missed him as he went
through. With burst of speed which
brought every one to their feet, Hes.
ton charged the side lines and by
wide breach escaped Harris. He ran
behind the goal posts and moment
later the bulletin board bore the score:
Michigan IL, Minnesota 0. The half
closed with these figures unchanged
and the ball In Michigan's possession
on it's own fifty-yard line.
In the second half the first score
went to Minnesota on one Of the most
curious flukes ever seen On gridiron.
McGuigan broke through the Mime
sofa line as Knowlton was punting,
but succeeded in only checking the
fight of the ball. 1t hit the ground
before Weeks, who was playing back,
could reach it. On the bound the
Michigander touched the ball, but it
bounded away and Flynn caught it
without checking his speed and went
down the field with Redden chasing
him to no avail. Sweeley next came
into prominence by kicking goal
from the field at a rather awkward
angle from the twenty-five-yard line.
Heston made Michigan's last score,
breaking through Minnesota on the
thirty-yard line and running down the
field without being in imminent
danger of a Gopher tackler.