The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-14
'TWOHAVEMADEGOOD
Three Of the Six Leading Football
Teams Try New Coaches
This Season.
Curtis and Mccormack Give Salts
faction, While Woodruff Is
an Apparent Failure.

Three of the six leading football
teams of the middle west are expert
menting with new coaches this season.
These are Wisconsin,, with Gurus,
Northwestern with McCornack aiiu
Illinois with Woodruff. i
OF the three, Mccormack ana Cur
it's appear to have won thelr spurs
while woodruff apparently is q TAI
ure. The old Pennsylvania coach Is
generally believed to back NUMBER,
and II is difficult to understand just
whv illinois engaged him. 1t Is still
harder to tell why Holt who always
turned out creditable teams. was re-
leased Illinois, in the four seasons
in which she has met Minnesota, mas
usually played about as good iool-
ball as was possible for team OF nel
weight. Assistant Coach Dop ,';s u ~ i,e
minnesota team says that. In ms opln,
Ion. illinois has played as good foo.pa1l
90 anv team which has ever met Min
nesota. +ru
# is probable that Illinois may try
the graduate system. LoeWeilellai'
center of the great 1900 team Is mel
tioned prominently as a successor 10
woodruff If the latter Is leie'seu' go
Curtis has certainly developed a
.ood team at Wisconsin. 1t Is gener-
alIy believed to be consloe e. q,
stronger than last years, altho IL lose
TO Chicago, and is picked 70 lose ~
Michigan and Mlnnesota; will
aoubtedly will be retained as WI
NTcCornack of Northwestern. Chai-
,,,ars of Iowa is another new codch
who has made q good record ~ spi ~,
Of his teams overwhelming cereal Wy
Minnesota.
Last Saturday must be! ranked as as
~ The great football days OF the
season. not only in the Importance "
+ha- battles fought on two nelos, pul
also because many stirring iheAioA
were focused in the impressive u9
feats Of Columbia and corner ny ON
and Princeton, respectively. ~; Ixo aa nag as;,
years ago there were no DIG sanes
E1,ntil we'll into November, ana DeIole
the two or three championship con
tests the leaders Of football pro ,1sa
toyed with the rest of the collese
world, and amassed touchuo"A' "
their own sweet Will.
But all this belong to another era.
snd when Columbia met Yale as many
frantic partizans crowded the ply
grounds as in the old days nockeu "
see the blue struggle with the oranss
iaas kean. Yet Columbia football mas
onIy five years of history, which IN
Guides a victory over Yale, one over
Princeton and two over PennsylVanla'
tt has been a brief and erraUc nlslolS'
spangled with some meteorlc Pelloll.i-
a,cas and filed with lively uncer-
tainty whether Columbia Will nave an
aIeven able to challenge all corners or
whether she will land in the bottom or
the heap. 81,
Yet these five years have been I'm,
noensely creditable to the men VINO nad
~ make not only the teams but tne
spirit and support behind them ana
who threw down the gauntlet for their
"ready-made eleven with no trad1-
ton or prestige behind It. me nrse
season was sensational almost oeyono
nrecedent It was a revival or 1oot-
ball at Columbia, strictly speaking;
but there was nothing left or the Ola
regime to build upon.-Ralph D. Paine
in The Illustrated Sporting News.
perhaps the most interesting figure
In western football to-day Is Waiter ..
McCornack. His wonderful work IN
bringing the Northwestern UNIVERSE
Ity football team from an OBSCURE po-
sition in the second class to q place
among the leaders is considered mar
vicious, and it is possible that his ad-
vent in the west may yet cause a tie
IN the annual race for the champion
ship. Surprising as his work OF this
year has been, however, his previous
successes on the gridiron show con-
clusively that his triumph at North
western is no "fuke.
Mccormack was g. member Of the
Enelewood high school team from
1889 to 1899, inclusive. The first two
wears he was end rush, the second TWO
years he was halfbaok. The last two
years he was also captain Of the team.
In 1892 Englewood and Stages uni
yersity Of Chicago team played game
which was won by Chicago by the
close score Of II to 6. Stage was
then a member Of the team. and In
IL +, thra h I'm On
hard that Mccormack was knocked In
sensible. In 1891 Eng1ewood won the
Cook county championship and the
next year was second In the cham
pionship race.
The Chicago Record Herald, in the
following extracts from Chicago news
papers shows up the custom of issuing
bear stories on the eve Of important
Ann Arbor, Mich, Oct 2s-Gregory has
from bad knee.
Minneapolis Oct. 31.--The battle be
tween Gregory and strathern was fierce
and splendid and was an even thing. Hes
ton was Michigan's star, and it Is hardly
too much to say that Miohigan's score wa:
due to him.
Minneapolis, Oct 27--with Curran
sick Thorpe and Davies nursing bad Leg
and Schacht and Harris still unable t
play, Inc prospect VI pSStIiliS IilSflA5e1lA l.
not bright The cripp1es were on the sid
lines to-day.
minneapolis Oct 31.--Currant played {
great game. His work on defense was thu
equal Of any ever seen here. Sunny
Thorpe and Davies We're in the plays ant
battled like fiends. Schacht was thu
bright star for the gophers, tearing grea'
holes In the wolverine line. In Harris Min
nesota had a wonder at running bacl
punts 1t was his magnificent squirt tina
gave the goplers heart for their touch
down.
JJrbana, Ill, Oct. 27.-The nlini rooters
looking ahead to the Northwestern game
fear Captain Rothgeb will not be able II
NAV The captain is in bad shape with
sprained ankle
Urbana ILL., Oct. characterization wa!
spread in the Him camp to-day when i
was learned that Fairw ca ther, the gtan
guard had gone to the hospital.
Urbana, Oct. 31.-Captain Rothgel
played the game of his life. His defens
was superb and when he had the ball h,
ripped up the purple for great gains. Fair
weather too, was a tower, of strength t.
Illinois When given the ball for thu
touchdown he shot into the mass OF mel
and wriggled over the line.
Madison, Wis, Oct 30.--William Balm
wisconsins halfback, will not be In TIL
Chicago game Saturday as a result Of 81
unexpected injury to his leg, which ha
caused a fluid to gather on his knee. Ever
\ If he could go into the game he would no
last long
Madison. Wis, Oct. 31-Bain returne,