The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-21
VARSITY COACHES
Old Gopher Players Will Train
High School Teams.
RACE BETWEEN THREE TEAMS
South Side and the Two Central
Highs Have Best Prospects
for Season.

81 The high school football season will !
open in about fortnight and those con- 4
yersant with conditions In the different 1
schools predict that the championship will \
lie between the central highs of Minne-
apolis and ST. Paul, and the South Side
high of this city. ..-.,
Four old university players will coach
the four teams of this city during the
coming season. Jay Loomis, who brought
out two championship teams at Central,
will direct that team again this season.
George Mueller, the great right guard, of
Of the South Side team La Fans, right
halfback on the university eleven for the
last two years. will train the East Side to
and Bernhagen, former halfback on the
varsity, who coached the North Side to
the championship, will try to duplicate
the performance this season. s.. -
North Sides great team has practically
been swept away. Bergen, Nye, Dexter.
Dutton, Heffner, and practically every one
of the strong men of last years team are"
gone, and there is comparatively little
material in sight upon which to build
new eleven. Coach Bernhagen feels that
the prospect is discourag1ng, although he
will not admit it in so many words. The
enrolment at North Side is so scanty that
it is very difficult task to build team
out Of green material.
The East Side, after winning the cham
pionship four years ago, has been repre-
sented by a very weak team during the
last two years. The material in sight at
that school Is not of the best caliber, and
La Fans is likely to have hard task this
fall. ."' : '->@
South Side has nearly all Of last years
team back. and so far as can be Judged
at this date, her men will be Of just about
the right physical build to play the Will
/ liams formations, which, it is understood,
Mueller will employ this fall. Last year
the team made good showing, getting
two men upon the all-staf eleven, and
| with large squad Of experienced men
! from which to draw his team, Mueller Is
| expected to get good results.
| Central high school, as we'll as Central
| high Of st. Paul, can always count upon
| Large number of candidates for the
team, and both Of these schools have al
! ways been represented by strong teams
for the last six or eight years. At Min
neapolis Central, Keye and Burlington.
ends, Morse and Blackwell, guards, Harry
Mccarthy, center, and Yerxa quarter, re-
main from last years team but the sub
stitute material is exceptionally good, and
gives promise Of a strong team '-.:t.
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Assistant Coach Dobie of the varsity
the result of the Michigan Minnesota
game. Besides the disadvantage of the
long trip just before the game,' he said,
the men will suffer from bad weather dur
ing the two weeks preceding the con-
test, If this season turns out anything like
\ the, last two. Our experience during 1900
and 1901 shows that a Thanksgiving Day
game Is a very risky thing at BEST and
invariably the men have gone back during
the last two weeks of November. They
have been unable to practice, and have
had nothing to do but lie around and wait
for the day of the game. The result was
not disastrous when we were pitted
against Nebraska and Illinois, but to 60
against Michigan, which will undoubtedly
have one Of the strongest teams in the
west, may prove our Waterloo"