The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08

up this point once or twice ever year.
Cases where one team has scored q
touchdown and missed the goal, only to
have the score tied by drop kick can
easily be recalled. In 1899 Chicago kicked
a field goal and Iowa made a touchdown.
the final score standing to S. The next
year Northwestern tied the score with
Iowa in similar fashion. Grinne1 once
escaped q defeat by Minnesota in the
same manner.
Hence the cry for reducing the number
of points scored by field goal to three
or four Most of the advocates Of
change hold that two field goals should
count as much as one touchdown and goal
from touchdown, that is six points, or
three for each goal. A team that can
outkick another and is it's equal in other
respects would still win by a field goal II
only three points were counted IN thls
manner, and there would be scarcely less
inducenent for the development OF goal
kickers while on the other hand, drop
kicking, that is to say, Individual ability,
would not continue on par with rush.
ing power. which means team work.
Yale Team Can Stand Driving.
Dudley Dean, the old Harvard player,
says that Yale eleven is dangerous be-
cause it can stand driving better than the
other eastern elevens. While there are
those who think the Yale teams POSSIBLE
tiles have been rated higher than the ma
terial warrants, there are others VINO
think that the possibilities believed to ex-
list can be realized if all the men are ging-
cred up to the point where they are on
their toes all the time; that is, hard driv-
ing will bring them up to the required
speed and quickness. This being the case,
one thing needed is vigorous coaching and
plenty Of 1t. TO drive the men so as to
get them fully awake and fast and yet
keep them fit is one Of the problems Of
the next three weeks. yale can stand it, -
says Mr.. Dean. speaking of the driving
process, and 1t is her strongest stock in
trade, and that Yale needs it is evidenced
by the West Point contest where the driV-
ing was not continuous but to the surprise
Of Yale herself spasmodic." There have
been times when severe driving has made
champions; also other times when severe
driving has taken the snap out Of teams
and undone what otherwise would have
been champions. 1t is a ticklish situa-
ton.
Call Stage Slave Driver.
Coach Stage has been criticized some
what by some of his old players for the
way he works the teams. 1t is said that
every football team he works until their
limit Of endurance is almost passed, and
| that In baseball it is his greatest fault
and one of the reasons why he seldom has
f1rst-class team, as the men are never
able to rest up sufficiently to get into con-
dition after being injured.
Eldredge, who played behind the line
In '99 and 1900 until he was injured and
had to retire from the game, says:
1T Is too much to expect of any man
to work him hard for three hours during
| the afternoon In scrimmages and the1
give him two h ours more of it inme dia to-
| ly after dinner for signal practice anC
secret formations Stage has always helc
that If the man was worked to death he'c
be ready to work himself to death in q
game, but know it was so when I played
and l doubt whether the men have
changed any since then, that we fellows
! We're so overworked we could hardly drae
one foot after the other, and when WI
got into the game it was the same way
The excitement Of the thing would hold u!
| up for a time, but we hadn't the endur.
ance we'd have had if we'd been trained
with better Judgment. Stage can stand al
| enormous amount of work himself, and h,
! believes every one else can stand as mucl
as he can
One Of the maroon baseball team of 19o
mas the same criticism of the practice H,
says:
''Stagg worked all the boys so hard the,
hadn't any ambition left to play baseball
and many a time we sat down in the dia
mond during practice and refused to e
another step. If a man sprang a charlie
horse he wasn't allowed to rest, and tn
consequence was some Of us were so lam
we couldn't play even if we wanted tc
That was one of the greatest reasons TO
our defeats on our trip through the cas-
that spring.