The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
FOOTBALL
TEAM IS HOPEFUL
Gopher Players Expect to Win From
Iowa, but Anticipate a
Hard Contest.
Squad Leaves for Iowa City Tonight
-Rooters' Excursion Goes
Tomorrow Evening.

The Gopher football team. coaches
trainer and manager. leave this evening
at 1885 for Iowa City, where they will
meet the Hawkeye eleven Saturday after
noon. The Gophers, barring the small
list Of permanently injured. are In condi-
ton for hard contest. They have been
worked hard all week. and appear ready
for anything.
While there Is no shadow Of overcon
fdence among the players, they think they
will win the game with Iowa. and If the
Hawkeyes are victorious. it will be only
after the hardest kind of a struggle. The
Iowans are not expected to play harder
game than Nebraska did last Saturday,
while the Gophers should show some i'm
provement.
Last Saturday an old player criticized
the Gopher backs and ends because they
did not use their heads in running with
the ball. He pointed out that Westover
several times broke through the line, and
sprawled his length the field. reach
ing up his arms to grasp the Minnesota
runner. A discriminating back would have
hurdled the Nebraska captain, but the
Gophers usually ran right into his arms
This and several other defects in the play,
the coaches have been trying to eliminate
during the last week.
About 100 tickets for the rooters' ex-
cursion to Iowa City have been sold, and
there is little doubt that the 200 necessary
to secure a IS rate will be purchased. The
excursion will start tomorrow evening.
GRINNELL TEAM IS cHEsTY.
Des Moines Iowa Oct. 23.-The Grinnell foot
ball team will attend the Iowa Minnesota game
next Saturday in a body. Manager Turrll, of
the Des Moines college team, has received word
from the Grinnell management that the Sutur-
day game between the teams is off unless
the DeS MOines team come to Grinneu Fri
dry. AS the scarlet and black players meet
the gophers Nov 1. they have decided that they
can play a better game against them after
watching them tussle on the gridiron with the
hawkeyes than they could by having the benefit
Of game with the Des AIoines college team.
The Grinnellites figure that, since holding Ne
braska down to three tOuchdowns. and Nebraskas
victory Minnesota, they will be able to give
the gophers run for their life, if the ground
is dry enough to allow the light team to get up
its speed.
Drake students are praying that Iowa will
go down in defeat before the gophers Saturday,
and some even money the game has been
wagered. Iowa university has many loyal
friends IN the capital city and a large delega-
ton will be the side lines at Iowa City Satur-
day to do honor to their alma mater.
Drake university is proud of her Iowa game.
In which she held Coach Knipes men down to
twelve points. and Is centering her energy on de-
feating the State Normal and Ames by larger
scores than the hawkeyes make.
NORTHWESTERN COACHES DESPERATE.
Chicago, Oct. 23.-Desperat1on Is staring the
Northwestern team in the face result of
the poor work In the practices this week, and
fears growing daily that the slump which
began with the Chicago defeat last Saturday
will end In a secand defeat next Saturday at
the hards Of the hrox team. Coach Hollster
and his assistant, Johnson, worked yesterday
In vain effort to arouse the purple eleven from
the slough Of l1stlessness into which it has
fallen. In spite Of their endeavors and threats
to drop some Of the worst Offenders in the team
FROM the varsity squad, the practice was, If
anything. less satisfactory than that Of Tuesday,
Whether the Northwestern men have lost in
tere5t In the contest for the championship battle
now that they have fallen a notch in the ladder
or whether the players are overturned and have
gone stale. is a puzzle to the coaches, but 1t is
certain IL at yesterdays practice was one Of the
most dtscoulnging in point of slow and ragged
playing cen on Sheppard field this fall. At the
beginning Of the scr1mmage between the regu-
lars and the SCRUBS the latter nearly rushed
the varsity off It's feet with gains of ten and If
teen yards through the line. Not until the Sec
ond team, had led the ball to the ffteen-yard
line did the substitutes finally lose the ball on a
tumble and the varsity from touch
down.