The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-27
FOOTBALL.
Additional Football. on Page, 8.
DANGER IN VICTORY
Illinois Must Be Defeated Before
Minnesota Will Have Fully Re-
gained Her Place. t.
Victory Over Iowa-1t Was Splen-
didly Won, but Was Only
the First Step.

The Minnesota football team has won
the game from Iowa and won It hand
somely by the score of 81 to o. This
sweeping victory was due in no measure
to the poor playing of Iowa, but was due
to the good work OF the Minnesota team
The boys did splendidly and deserve full
credit for It.
Before the game the University of Iowa
was believed by DR.. Knipe and the Iowa
alumni who were in possession of inside
information, to have one or the strongest
teams in her history
Iowa fought pluckily to the bitter end
and showed no perceptible weakening at
any time in the game. Minnesota also
played the same steady. consistent game
throughout This feature OF steadiness
and reliability through the entire time OF
the play was one Of the especially crafty
ing features Of the game.
All this is extremely satisfactory to
Minnesota. The faint left by the Ne
brasl<a, defeat has been wiped out and the
team has discovered and demonstrated
that 1t can play football.
But there is al element Of danger In the
present situation. The team has now ar
rived at the turning Of the roads. The
one leads upward to higher honors and
successes; the other to stasls and decline.
If the boys at the Minnesota university re-
gard the game as they should, 1T VIII be
taken as the demonstration of the latest
powers in the team which Is beginning to
reach development, and be simply the
stimulus for the most faithful work and
strenuous effort in the future. II, how
ever. any spirit Of self satisfaction results,
the magnificent outcome Of the game may
prove a calamity rather than a blessing.
No Time for Rest.
The team must not rest for moment
The real work Of the season has but now
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work and concentrated attention and en-
deavor it is possible that both Illinois and
wisconsin may be successfully met and
defeated
Unauestionably Illinois has this year
one Of the best teams in her history in
spite OF the fact that she has just been
beaten by Chicago. The Minnesota team
itself has demonstrated that defeat may
be only the stimulus to better work. If
Illinois can be defeated the Minnesota
Wisconsin game will unquestionably take
rank among the first in the west, what
ever the result may be between Michigan
and Wisconsin on the first Of November.
The team can now go forward feeling
confident that they have the loyal support
of all Minneapolis who are really inter-
ested in the university and whose opinion
is worthy of consideration.
Need Of Education.
There is no doubt that the Minneapolis
public as we'll as the Minnesota football
team is in need of education in matters
relating to football.
A university football squad is neither a
professional baseball team, performing for
the interest and amusement of the sport
Ing public, nor is 1t q. race horse, with
a jockey on it's back. Of whom the betting
fraternity may demand that each heat
shall be won or both horse and rider held
up to public ridicule and censure.
To win is highly desirable; it is the goal
which is sought, and for which it is worthy
to strive. But the spirit which demands
victory at all times, Is the spirit which
breeds professionalism in college athletics
and introduces some of the worst elements
into the ma gniflcent game Of football.
Jason.