The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-22
STILL WITH WILLIAMS
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DECLARE
FOR FOOTBALL COACH
President of Athletic Board of Control
Believes "knockers" Should Be Sent
to the Back Seats-PIayers Tell of
Their Faith in the instructor.

One of the most enthusiastic mass
meetings ever held at the university
was that which took place in the chapel
yesterday at which the students turned
out en- masse to show DR.. Williams and
| the football team that they were still
with them and would stay with them
| through the season.
| The meeting was called to order by
| Jay Kennicott, president of the ath-
| letic board of control, and in opening
| he said that the object of the meet
| ing was to express to the public and
alumni that the university students are
unanimous in the support Of their
| eleven and coach. He knew that there
were knockers about the campus,
| but he believed that they were in the
vast minority and wherever found
should be relegated.
| Jones Admires Williams.
| Prof. Nicholson followed Mr.. Kenni-
colt and spoke feelingly of his admira-
! ton for DR.. Williams and the football
team. He didn't believe in jumping on
| the team when they were down and
| expressed his opinion of those who did.
| MI Grannis and Prof. Jones were the
next speakers and both expressed their
| opinions that the student body was
| still with the team and DR.. Williams
and that the latter should make good
before the season was over.
| The football team is somewhat in
| censed over the extensive criticism OF
| DR.. Williams and they are unanimous
in UNFOLDING him and his system of
coaching. w. S. LaFans, member of
| the football squad for the past four
years, expressed his opinion which he
| believed was the general opinion OF
| the entire team. He said:
| I'm all my experience as football
| player under three different coaches in
| Minnesota, / have never seen more
| perfect system of coaching than the one
| given by DR.. Williams I don't think
there could be a better system. Every
point of the game of which the public
| does not understand is guarded. The
| one thing he could not guard against
| was injuries. We have had hard luck
| this year in having so many men Grip
| pied and this coupled with the i'm
| possibility of getting a team into
| championship form at this time OF the
| year. gave Nebraska the game Sun
! day."
| other members of the team have
! expressed similar views. Warren
| KnoWlton, captain of last years team,
| said:
All Fault of Schedule.
cdr. Williams is all right. The mis-
| take was in the schedule. The team
was not together Saturday for two
reasons. First, we have so many hard
| games later in the season that we
| could not get in championship form as
I early and keep up for the later games.
Second, there were so many injuries
in the squad that the same men could
not be played in places enough to get
| them to working together"
Johnny Flynn, captain of this years
team, said: There is not a foxier
coach in the business than DR.. Will
! liams."
, Rogers, who was formerly captain of
| the Carlisle Indian team and a MEM
Der of the Minnesota team last year,
expressed himself as follows: 'Dr.
Williams is as good a coach as there
is in the business; we love him and we
| will stand by him to the last"