The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-14
Iowa Manager Still SanguIne.
special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Iowa City, Iowa. Oct. 14.-''Iowa will
certainly win the state championship, and
we will bend all our energies the next
two weeks trying to make certain a still
greater victory--the defeating of Mime
sOta.'
The above is the dictum of Manager
Donald Mccain of the haWkeye eleven
and he based the first clause Of his state
ment upon the showing made by the Iowa
men against the Drake team Saturday.
After the Drake game, Manager McClair
was asked what effect the contest had
had upon his sanguine views recently
quoted herein. He replied: j.,
II have no reason to change those
views. The Iowa eleven. as a matter of
fact scored considerably less than ex-
pected, but the fact is due not to tho
weakness Of our men. but, oddly enough
to that of the Drake players. The Des
Moines players were so slow that they
delayed the game, and prevented Iowa
from getting up her proper speed
LAS fast as the local team got down to
business and started to make gains with
a rush, brakes men would drop in their
tracks, have time taken out, make sub
situations, and generally render futile
1owa's efforts to get up steam. and score
with speed and certainty Our men played
an almost f1awless game. True, they
fumbled badly at times, but aside from
that there was no feature Of the contest
in which they fell down. The line buck
ir.g was fine, the end runs right and the
tackling and kicking good. Their defense
was strong, and at critical points, Drake
was helpless
'Inasmuch as Ames and Drake. adj
mittedy the strongest elevens in the
state Iowa excepted, are practically on a
par, it is safe to say that the local team
f,:l t1,o TO- <1
Ames plays a faster game than Drake
and I believe she will. with her men in
better condition. we will win from the
'Aggies' by a larger score than that Of
the Drake game.
"As for Minnesota. i think that there
will be a battle royal at Iowa City,
Oct. 20. when the gophers and hawkeyes
team will be drilled and prepared from
now on for that one particular game
Dobie Praises the Hawkeyes.
An interested watcher from the side
lines, during the DrakeIowa game was
Assistant Coach Dobie of the Minnesota
eleven. After the battle. he said: IT will
frankly admit that Iowa has very strong
eleven. I believe your men can play a
far better and faster game, when their
opponents are speedy. Drake certainly
delayed the game so much that Iowa s
speed had little chance to show itself.
believe that the hawkeyes would have
played the game rs per cent stronger than
they did Saturday, had Minnesota been
their opponents. Comparing the Iowa
Drake game with the Minnesota Ames
contest, 1 am led to believe that the
coming battle between Minnesota and
Iowa will be a very close one. indeed.
Iowa is much better than she was last
year, and Minnesota, I can honestly ad-
nit is not as strong. 1t will be a tossup,
Oct 25, if the two elevens are the same
as they are to-day, or if they improve
relatively the same.
I'VE have given Iowa credit with hay
ing a fine team this year, and my observa-
ton of the game Saturday simply justifes
! my faith in the hawkeyes' strength. You
have a high class, even-balanced team;
| and there is none other in the state like
| it. The offensive is good, the defensive
| better. and in all departments of the
game Iowa's men are playing in a way
| that leaves little to criticize. individually
| the players are doing remarkably. Also to
teamwork there is chance for improve
ment, but as I intimated, I believe a
| better team against Iowa would mean
better playing on the part OF the Iowa
| City aggregation