The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-27
BUT FIVE men BACK
Minnesota Football Eleven Must Be
Built Up Largely of New :.s.
+. Men This Fall. I :.
DR.. Williams Discusses Prospects fol
= Season-Team Starts Practice
at Minnetonka Monday.

II shall be glad when the next two weeks are
over and we know q little more definitely just
what material we shall have this year." said
Dr. II. l.. Williams to-day in discussing Mime.
sofas football prospects for the season.
DR.. Williams spent yesterday and to-day in
perfecting plans for the season, in conference
with Manager NJ. J. LuDS and Professor +. S.
the university athletic association. 1t has been
finally decided to take the candidates to Mrs.
preliminary practice and the team headquar-
ters will be opened there Monday. n. -
Replies received by Dr. Williams and Manager
Luby to the notices sent out to the old play
ers and new candidates, indicate that Minnesota
will have several big holes in the line and
back field to I'LL this fall. at present it appears
for this season. They are Strathern, who will
play guard center: Flynn, left guard and
captain Rogers, left end; Schacht, right tackle.
and Thorpe. who played halfback last year, but
1t is a certainty that Fee will not re-
turn to fill his old place at left tackle. Page
and Aune are barred by the four-year rule, and
Hoyt, who alternated with Aune at right end
are out, and the return of Lafans is doubtful.
The loss OF Page Fee, Nnowlton, Dobie and
as great as that sustained by Wisconsin in ls the
loss of Cochems, Curtis, Larson and Skow.
MINNEsoTA's HEAVY LOSS.
II do not know of a team that has lost so
heavily as Minnesota said DR.. Williams. 1--WE
have only five old men back, and while we
will not have many places in the line to fll the
loss of Fee and Page especially will be, Sc
verely felt, while we shall probably have to de-
velop an entirely new back field. Wisconsin has
lost heavily in Cochems, Curtis and Larson, but
1 consider Fee, Page and Knowlton fully val
liable to those three to the
badgers. We cannot tell just how many Of our
second team men we shall have back, nor can we
size up the new material until it has been tried
out. Still we shall have big holes to fill.''
II see that Wisconsin expects to reinstate
Schreiber," remarked Manager Luby.
"How will they reinstate him p replied DR..
Williams ''Schreiber was barred because he had
received money for coaching. That Is enough to
bar him for all time. We have just much
right to reinstate Mueller as Wisconsin has to
reinstate Schreber, but last spring the A. A. U.
refused to put Mueller back. OF course, the
college conference is independent of the A. A.
ter body would have been a powerful argument
with the conference. But the A. A. U. refused
to take action. 1 do not think Wisconsin would
be SO foolish as to try to reinstate Schreiber
for. think such action would hurt them more
than the mans services would benefit the team
NEBRASKA A TOUGH PROPOSITION.
Nebraska will be one of the hardest teams we
have our schedule this year. They have
practically all of their old men back, at leas
they have all that are really valuable. 1 thinl
| they will be one of the factors in the fight thi
year, and 1 expect that game to be harde
proposition for us than Iowa, and fully as hare
| as Illinois. I do not see how Illinois can b,
much better than they We're last year. The!
| had wonderfully strong team, and their defea
| by Northwestern was largely auke. :
II see also that Chicago Is expected to put ou
| a strong team this fall. Chicago didn't wan
| any of Minnesota's game this year, however. w
| tried to arrange game with them last spring
stagg said he would agree to a contest if eacl
Of the other big four teams Counting Chicago II
| the big four with Michigan. Wisconsin and our
selves) would play each one of the others. Tha
plays Wisconsin, Minnesota and Chicago; Wiscon
sin plays Michigan, Minnesota and Chicago
Chicago and Minnesota each have games wit
Michigan and ox3G and if stagg had
chance for dispute III regard to the cham
! pionship this year,
DR.. Williams smiled sarcasticallt when tol
that Wisconsin expected Skow, the big center
! who was graduated last year, to return for
postgraduate course this fall.
"A course in bifds mes nesttng probaby he re
was coming back for last year.
Thomas shevlin. ,Jr, of this city, it is al
nounced in dispatch from New Haven, wi
positively enter Yale university this fall. HI
fathers bond for his tuition filed at Yal
yesterday. and at the deans office it state
that young Shevln had passed all his entranc
eXamna tons.
Shevlin has for several years been student a
Hills preparatory school in Pennsylvania, an
while there played tackle the football team
He captain of the eleven last year. I'll,
| reputation gained at Hills started some con
petition in regard to him among the eastern uh
| versities students Of the University OF Pennsy
| vania, it is understood, having worked hard
induce him to enter the Quaker institution.
hTe St. Paul high school football teams hay
already started preparatory work for the seaso
of 1908. Both the Mechanic Arts and Centr.
J teams will have a majority of their old Inc
beck and expected to turn out strong eleven
At the Mechanic Arts, Smith, center; Pennn,
ton and Prendergast. guards; Kenney, tackle
, Larkin. fullback, and Geraghty, end, are anon
the veterans who will return. William Brenna
will again coach the team.
! At Central high, Pringle, tackle: Shepard, full
back; Kennedy and RAIDER. halves; Cunningham
end Swenson and Frost expected to retur
| There was large number of good men la
? years second team, and with these and tt
5 returning veterans strong team should be a
; ranged
Edward Fales, son of w. Fales, of 10 W Del
: street, st. Paul. broke his collar bone in tv
! places while playing football Sunday. He WI