The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-12-05

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score of 81 st0 IS Michigan yesterday
Fdefeated Minnesota ON Ferry. Aeld ana
earned the 4 ,lndist uted title 10 the
yKestern foot alt champ iOnship. il
took seventy minutes Of arduoHs pIay
ia finish the game. The play BY teams,
especially llichiga a, was brilliant. AT
times the play was ragged, hut It. ney..
er ceaaed to- be desperate. ,ss
The superiority OF q the wolverines
over the Gophers ig not questioned.
In the hrst half they carried the hail
$50 yards compared with S6 yards to
the credit Of Minnesota. in the sec.
onn half the Michig ders made 1870
yards against 1856 for Minnesota. Min.
nesota braced IA wonderfully after
Flynn's touch down and played bet
ter game " thereafter than they had
done previously. It was no fault Of
their determination that they did not
score again, 1t was rather that they
were playing against q team wonder
fully we'll drilled in defense as well as
offense. n.
Michigan made her first score after.
about ten minutes Of play in the first
half. Weeks won the toss and chose
the west goal, which was favored by q
rather stiff wind. Heston, Hernstearn,
Gayer and Maddox, the last named
Hurdilno Like Z Kangaroo, # 4 4
nesota's one-yard line. The attacks
were directed mostly against left
tackle, which seemed Incapable Of
coping with the diversified formation
of the Michigan men that came at
them. With only one yard to gain for
2 touchdown, Michigan hit the line
and was held. A cheer went up from
the Minnesota rooters. Another.
grinding mass play, however, sent
Maddox over the line and the first
score In the Western championship
contest had been recorded. This was
the only touchdown Of the game made
on straight line bucking. Sweeley
converted 1t into goal and the score
was Michigan 6, Minnesota O..
= The Michigan men having scored,
nearly every one cheered and waved
their, flags, but it remained for Heston,
the star Of the game, to electrify them.
Hard play had placed the ball in
Michigan's possession on Minnesota's
twenty-yard line. Maddox disjointed
the Minnesota line in his vicinity and
the qutck-eyed Heston saw the hole
and went ny
Through II Like Streak. (.
Two men missed him as he went
through. With a burst of speed which,
brought every one to their feet, Hes.
ton charged the side lines and by a
wide breach escaped Harris. Ho ran
behind the goal posts and moment
later the bulletin board bore the score:
Michigan ~, Minnesota 0. The half
closed with these figures unchanged
and the ball in Michigan's possession
on it's own ffty-yard line.
In the second half the first score
went to Minnesota on one Of the most
curious flukes ever seen on a gridiron.
Michigan broke through the Mime
sofa line as rKnowlton was punting,
but succeeded in only checking the
flight of the ball. 1t hit the ground
before Weeks, who was playing back,
could reach 1t. On the bound the
touched the ball, but 1t
bounded away and Flynn caught it
without checking his speed and went
down the field with Redden chasing
him to no avail. Sweeley next came
into prominence by kicking goal
from the field at rather awkward
angle from the twenty-five-yard line.
Heston made. Michigan's last score,
breaking through Minnesota on the
thirty-yard line and running down the
field without being in imminent
danger of a Gopher tackler.