The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-03


Ames college will meet the Minnesota foot
ball eleven NOrthrop field tomorrow after
noon at $50 and the varsity rooters will heave
q deep sigh of relief when the game Is finished.
The Minnesota management has not attempted
TO conceal the fact that it looks forward to this
game with considerable anxiety. The gopher
team tomorrow will be weak; of this fact there
Is doubt. Indi idually the back field will be
as strong could be wished. but unless amost
decided improvement in team work has been
made in the last three days the gophers will
have great difficulty in making progress against
the heavy Alnes line.
The Minnesota line is decidedly frail. If
Hamline could rip up the line as 1t did last
Tuesday, say the rooters, what will Ames do
with heavy line, fast backs and crack Har-
ward player for coach?
Williams follows: Left end Rogers; left
tackle, Waist; left guard, Flynn; center, Web
ster: right guard, Strathern: right tackle, La
Fans: right end. Boeckmann; quarter, Harris;
left half Davies; right half, Bidlake; fullback,
Knowlton.
With perhaps one exception this team is as
strong any that could be selected from the
nifty odd candidates TINT have tecn out North
roD field this year. Boeckmann at right end
is doubtful quantity. His defensive work is
not a par with that Of Gray, IN general
play has he shown particular brillance. Gray
has bad knee, however. and is hardly expected
to be able to get into the game.
Up to date the eleven has made good scores
IN the practice games. but this has been due
to the weakness Of the opposing teams rather
than to any particular strength OF Minnesota.
Weight and individual ability have enabled the
gophers to pillow their way through the elevens
which have opposed them up to date. Against
Ames. however, something more will be neces-
sary. With Harris back in the game the speed
Of the play will undoubtedly be better than 1t
has been in the games against Carleton and
Hamine. and the aggressive play of the back
field and tackles who will represent Minnesota
tomorrow may enable her to advance the ball
consistently against Ames, although high score
Is hardly expected.
On 1ofc
tried as yet. and 1t has had no trouble in holding
Its opponents. 1t will have real try out to-
morrow however: and it is quite possible that
the result will not he satisfying to the coaches.
RECORD OF FORMER GAMES.
Tomorrow's contest will be the seventh in
which the two teams have engaged. The games
In 1893 and 1896 were easily won by Minnesota
TIE former hv score % to q and the latter
IS TO 6. IN 1907. however. MINNESOTA after
scorn" two touchdowns in the first half put in
number Of substitutes. and Ames. by q series
or trick plays. succeeded in scoring twice and
winning the gam" by Of 10 to TO- The
following year the gophers won n to o. tho
best score ever made against Ames In 1901
Ames was drorped from the schedule
Ames having won two games out Of six and
Ios5 ;" 1h'"d only by f1nke Minnesota Is tristf-
ned IN feeling Of nneasiness especially in view
or fhe Sowness Of the team In developing this
year ~
DR. Williams rnnornced his intention TO give
thc team ONLY light practice this evening nos
sfhlv cutting ont scrinmage work altogether
Last evening practice behind closed doors
reports or sni"s from Wisconsin being responsible
Tor this extr" Drecaution on the part of the
varsity coaches.
OTHER GAMES TOMORROW.
The other games in west and east tomorrow
httrnct little attention, although they will give
better idea of the strength of the large
teams than did last weeks contests Wisconsin,
meets Hyde Park high school of Chicago but II
all probability the two teams will not be event,
,natched enough to give much of line on thu
badger team. especially since the latter clever
has not begun to reach it's true FORM
Michigan will play Case school at Ann Arbor
and the wolverines are expected to roll up a biz
score. The contest probably will only confirm
the fact that Michigan has a fast scoring team
Knox will probably be strong enough to demon
strate whether Chicago's new material is all tha
~ claimed for 1T. and Northwestern's showinf
against Lake Forest may help to tell whetbe
the puppies poor game last week was due +,
lack OF. practice or to Inherent weakness. TIL,
games between Iowa state normal and Iowa uni
versity, and between Nebraska and Colorado arr
not likely to shed much light so far as regards
those teams. In the east none Of the games il
OF Importance. That between Princeton and LIE
high probably will be the closest