The Topeka state journal., 1902-10-08
SPORTING NEWS.
Saturdays Football Games
Show Some Surprises.
Cases Score Against Michigan
Was Unexpected.
BIG TEAMS IMPROVE.
Badgers Game a TrifIe Weaker
Than Looked For.
Minnesota Appears Fully as
Strong as Last Year.
iIG TEAMS IMPROVE.

Chicago, Oct S.-The Record Herald
critic says:
Another week has passed without de-
veloping any real football surprise
among middle western colleges. Cases
score against Michigan was not expect
ed. Knox held Chicago closer than was
generally predicted Northwestern de-
VelOped a faster game than their play
q week earlier promised, and Wisconsin
looked weaker than usual against its
high school opponents from Hyde Park,
but none of these teams showed any
thing like a real form reversal, and all
the others did about what was expected
of them Altogether the work showed
q general advance for the big teams.
With the annual Northwestern-C Chi
cago game but two weeks saway-October
1S-local interest naturally centers in
the respective games of these two
teams.
MAROONs UNDEvELOPED.
Out on Marshall field Stages pupils
met in Knox a strong team of veterans,
and the contest brought out emphatical-
ly the "greenness'' Of the maroons.
Knox by its fast play got the jump
on the varsity at once and but for Chi
cagos blocking of punts the Galesbure
men would undoubtedly have scored
enough in the first few minutes of play
to have won their game. AS 1t was the
local eleven was outplayed throughout
the first half, and only during the lat
ter part of the second period did the
maroons begin to show their real possi-
bilities.
The lend and tackle over" formation
of Knox completely befuddled the ma
rooms defense, and poor generalship
made the varsity decidedly weak on Of
fense as well. The stand made by the
maroOns at their One-yard line in the
first half and their final brace in the
second however, show that the team
has possibilities. The game was a good
lesson. Great progress should be made
this week, and from Purdues score
against Depauw, 40 to 0, Stages men
wiIf need to develop before next Satur
day. Sheldon's fumbling and the poor
tackling of the maroon ends should be
corrected.
PURPLE STOCK HIGHER.
A week ago Northwestern looked to be
quite a bit weaker than Chicago, and
even now the majority of critics would
undoubtedly give the maroons the shade.
On Saturday, however, HOLSTERS men
showed considerable Improvement par
ticularly in the matter of speed. Slow
ness has heretofore been the great weak
ness oe the purple, but now that Hoi-
lister has given up the idea of making
his unwieldy tandem his only reliance,
the plays seem to be getting away
faster. With Sanford to help with the
line the Evanston team should come"
rapidly in the next two weeks.
Lake Forest was not a particularly
strong opponent. but the purple back
field. with Sherlock and Van Ryper as
the stars, worked well together. accord
ing to reports, and gives promise of fur
ther development. Baird's punting gave
the Evanstonians a big advantage in
this department While no one game
means a great deal, Saturdays showing
has aroused new confidence at Evan
stOn. and altogether the outlook for the
purple seems considerably improved
MICHIGAN RECORD BROKEN.
Cases score against Michigan is in
teresting principally because of the
wolverines $50 to record of last year.
While the score mars this record it has
little other significance. With the ex-
ception of last season Case has made it
a custom to come to Ann Arbor and get
a score. The Cleveland school always
has fast. husky team, and is danger
GUS in any company. While the score
emphasizes the absence of SnOW-the
runner went around Cole at right end
the play was in the nature of a ''fiuke"
and means little. The score is also like
ly to prove a good thing for the team,
as 1t will have a tendency to dispel any
overconfidence the men may have had.
Yost tried out his line men during the
sidered the score, As to 6, is about what
could be expected.
Wisconsin, like Michigan, had its goal
line crossed, and from all reports the
badgers put up a rather unsatisfactory
game against the Hyde Park high
school lads. While this score, too, was
somewhat "fuky," the Chicago lads
had previously come so near scoring 2
that the touchdown was practically
earned. Evidently Kings team is
rounding to- slowly, but the Madison
eleven will undoubtedly develop rapid
ly as the season advances. To hold Wis
consin to "a to score brings new hon
or to Captain Eckersolls fast little
team.
ILLINOIS AND GOPHERS STRONG.
Illinois and Minnesota both worked
consistently. and now with Purdue have