The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28
MOBS IN ST. PETER
DisgracefuI Scenes Follow the
Football Game onsSaturday.
One Man Handed. a Fine Bunch OF
Elves BY the Madelia Marshal
Rioting Students.

st. Peter was in the hands of mop
Saturday afternoon. A surging mass
af rioting students of both sexes TO-
gether with crowd Of hoodlums ais
graces the city and from now on It's
name will be by-word among decent
peeple. There we're fights and brawls
innunerable and one man was handed
"bunch of 6ves" that marred the
beauty of his cOuntenance.
St, Peter cannot stand to lose foot
nall game. Instead of it's players act
ing like gentlemen and taking defeat
in manly manner they seek to ter
rorize the victors. Saturday the Ma
della team met St Peter on the grid
irsn and the visitors won by score or
TO 0. The game was daisy, clean
and we'll played and aside from rev
1.-the things that are liable to happen
during any game, there. was notning
out of order. st. Peters football man
sgement attempted to coach his men
from the line, which was a direct vlo-
lstion of the rules of the game, but
Immediately upon Referee Harding
discovering these unfair tactics ne put
a stop TO them, threatening to throw
the person, who was bowling like
Commanche Indian through mega
phone, over the fence. The spectators
witnessed fast game and during its
nrosress there were few small scraps
on the side, but the players attended
to their work in good shape. When
the game was at an end and the st.
Peterites found themselves up against
q defeat they were wild with rage.
One outsider went onto the gridlron
and displayed his bully-ragging me-
thods, but he was 30 quickly squelched
BY Referee Harding that he could not
tell his name for few moments. lt
was at this stage Of the proceedings
that free for-all fighting commenced
and e did not cease until after the
Nadelia boys were inside the Nicollet
house. Girls as we'll as the boys be-
came mixed up in the disgraceful
scenes. Anyone who sympathized with
Msdeha was grossly insulted. A young
LADY teacher from a town north of st.
Peter was friendly to the visiting
team. Her cane was forcibly taken
from her and she was knocked down
and rolled in the gutter.
But the climax was reached when ar
assault was made upon the marsha
from Madelia who went to st. Peter tt
witness the game. When the st. Peter
team played at MadelIa recently there
was among the number who went from
the former town fellow who was in
toxicated, SO it is alleged. and becom
ing incensed at young lady slapped
, her. He was arrested and fined. Sat
urdsy this fellow saw the officer in st
Peter and he thought it would be
good opportunity to "get back" a
him. Some enc knocked the marshal
y hat off his head and this inciden
spened the ball 1t is said that tn
J Nsdelia nam didn't do a thing t
about half a dozen of the St. Pete
lads and one of these-the man VIII
! had it in for him-was so badl
beaten up that his friends were force'
! 10 carryfhim away for repairs.
While the Madelia football player
were in the NicoHet hotel preparing
20 to the train the St. Peterites wer
! punched in the street like pack
hounds waiting for their prey. The Ms
della contingent, however, were nc
molested again.
One of the bones of contention we
the ball used in the game. 1t is one
the ethics Of the game that the viii
ming team shall have the ball. st. PETE
did not wish the Madelia team
carry it away, but the visitors wei
successful in gathering it in.
/ Several Mankato spectators dro'
from st. Peter to Mankato rather thu
take chances of an assault by the 5
\ Peter crowd at the depot.
1t is the general opinion OF tho
who saw all the disgraceful acts tn
ST. Peter should be cut out of the fot
ball towns.