The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-08
SPORTS
ON NORTHROP FIELD
Minnesota Team Will Begin Regular
Practice To-morrow-Mo New
Men Are Heard From.
Jack Bidlake Will Be on Hand
Wednesday-McCarthy and Gray
Two Promising Men.

Regular football practice on Northrop field will
begin tomorrow afternoon. The varsity squau
which has been at work at WoOlnOughs, Lake
Mnnetonka, for week, will be augmented by
many veterans OF last year squad anu ny seF-
eral promising new men.
Among the latest Of the prodigals to be heard
from is Jack Bidlake substitute fullback last
year,. who is a promising candidate for the same
position Oh the regular team this season. Bid
lake, who has been recruiting his strength IN
California. will arrive in Minneapolis Wednes,
in this city. While Bidlake does not state
whether he will play football this year, he
says that he is in splendid physical condition
and it is hardly probable that he can resist the
fascination of the gridiron game.
Another promising man is Roger Gray, VINO
tackle for three years on the Contra! nigh
school team, and who Is regarded as a valuable
man. Gray has practically made up his mind
to enter the university this, year, and has a
god show of making place In the line. Nc,
Carthy. another old high school player, Will
try for center the varsity. Mccarthy has put
on considerable weight in the last year and now
weights about ITO stripped. He is one OF the
his activity and experience make him formid-
able candidate for a place in the center of the
line in spite of his lack Of beef
So far as can be judged at this time, the Min
nesota team in 1902 will be lighter, but faster
than last year. Anteseason elevens are usually
inaccurate. but as they do no particular harm'
the following prediction in regard to the make
up Of the minnesota team may not De "1thout
interest:
Center, Mccarthy or Strathern, SuaGuS, rlJuu
and Thorpe or Strathern; tackles, Gray,
Schacht, Thorpe or Nelson; ends, Rogers and
lrsaeld; quarter. Harris: halfbacks, O,Brien' pa
vies, Van valkenburg or Irsfeld fullback, Liz
gett or Bidlake
Undoubtedly this lineup will be materially
changed. but it contains the names OF the men
whose past records make them the most proml-
neut candidates for their respective positions at
the present time team made up of any OF
the men named would be by no means a weak
combination, although not so strong perhaps as
MichiaRD looms lust
Milwaukee football rooters said to be
much incensed over the refusal Of the Wiscon-
sin management to schedule more than one game
for Milwaukee this fall. The Milwaukee alumni
of Wisconsin assert that they are always ex-
pected to dig up for athletic needs, and think
they should be rewarded with some better con-
test than that with Beloit
A special from Milwaukee discussing this mat
ter naively remarks: "A canvass OF the s1tua-
ton at Madison has developed the fact that a
big majority of the students would prefer to
come to Milwaukee for big game as the rates
are low and there better attractions in every
way for the students to celebrate after the
game
Captain Westover Of the Nebraska football
eleven will lead squad Of fifteen men on tc
the field at Lincoln for preliminary practice to-
morrow. Coach Booth is expected to react
Lincoln early in the week from his summer
vacation in the east With the aid Of Palmer
end at Princeton, and team mate Of Booths
when old Nassau had champion teams, the Ne
braska squad will have the benefit Of exper
coaching inferior to no aggregation in the ives
tern football world.
Both Booth and Westover express confidence
that the cornhuskers will make their presence
felt for the season of 1903, depending upon thu
six seven veterans left from last year ant
a large field of material to build up strong
eleven.
Orlie Thorpe, quarterback for two years ant
captain at Nebraska in 81. will again be II
school. Thorpe has grown in weight and muscle
and with his ability as punter ant
place kicker, he promises to prove acquisition
of unusual strength. Westover IS in high gle
over Thorpes return to school, believing he will
establish Of the most effectiv
quarterbacks in the west.
Captain Westover announces that trainin
table will be installed within a week after prac
tice begins. When all of the first eleven sec
lions have been made. there will be upwards Q
twenty players at the table.
Cleon Knapp. 20 years DID, who lives at IA
Isabel street, St Paul, had his right collar bon
fractured while PLAYING football Yesterday
tackled and fell his shoulder under half
dozjh players.
A special from Chicago thus sizes up the SIT
Now that the melancholy days. have con,
again, the football warriors all over the couI
try have dug up their musty moleskins and al
beginning to assemble for the fray. Last wee
saw the commencement of preliminary practiC
at many of the colleges. This week will stat
many more, and by the middle of the month o
every field the teams will be hard at wor
getting into shape before the formal openin
of the college year.
Michigan, Iowa, Illinois and Purdue are a
ready at work. Wisconsin begins work O
Wednesday, and Chicago will get busy til
18th. The badgers are in high spirits and a
settle the whole unsolved problem Of last yes
and prove themselves the champions of the Yves
Eight of last seasons star players will
back at their old places, leaving only thre
pOSitiopS n wi n s1hSt
tutes to draw from. The return of Emil Sko
to fill his old place has gladdened the hear
of the badgers and insured for their line
great strength at the center BY Wednesday
this week it Is expected there will be thirt
men in the badger squad, and when college opel
this number, will be Increased to seventy-f'
or more.
Northwestern has fourteen old men back, eigl
regulars and six substitutes Prospects for Il
purple reported fair. Iowa starts wit
only three vacant positions on the varsity fl
Captain Hollenbeck to I'LL, with seven sturt
substitutes to draw from. The hawkeyes a
scheduled for game with Michigan No
s and every man in the squad will strain ever
muscle to wipe out the disgrace Of last year
walk-over..
with eight regular back and subst
tutes. Manager Fitzpatrick of the Visions
team said last year that the Nebraska tea
gave the badgers the hardest game of the Sc
son.
At Chicago hopes are high for n team that WI
do much toward effacing some of the records
the last two years. Eight of last years me
six regulars and two substitutes, will form a n
c1eus with which to start what it is fully e
pected will be strong eleven. In addition
these there several men In college VIII
though they did not make the team last yea
are promising candidates. The squad of foe
ball coming into enter the professional schoC
or the freshman class Is unusually large T.
Midway school during the last year has tax
considerably more interest in prep school athle
les and athletes and already a good effect
beginning to appear The for material amo
the various colleges is year by year becomi
intense.
Estimating from the number of men who
far have registered or have signifed their int
ton of enrolling at the University of Chcae
Director Stage expects to have nearly fifty M
In the football squad -Four elevens will be {
ganized and all four will be worked to t
limit
On Wednesday afternoon, Jerry Riordan, E.
sistant to Coach Phil King, will lead twenty fl
candidates out upon the campus at Madison
the first football practice of the season. The
will, in all probability, be winter game Chri
day in California, against Leland Stanfo
The schedule far arranged is as follow
Sept. q, open; Oct. A. Hyde Park, at Madisc
Oct. Ii, Milwaukee Medic at Madison; Oct.
Beloit at Milwaukee, Oct. IS, Kansas, at Ma
son; Nov 1, Michigan, at Chicago& Nov.
Northwestern, at Madison; Nov. To- Miull.so
at Minneapolis; Nov. g. no game; Thanksgivi1
Chicago, at Chicago.
Efforts are being made to induce the vern
lion and Mitchell football teams, Of South I
kota, to visit Sioux Falls during the county ia
the latter part of this month, for the purpt
of playing what would be the first game Of
season. These two teams, owing to displ