The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-13

City, with the expectation of cleaning
the state university off the map.
brakes line, from tackle to tackle
averaged well over 200 pounds, and
did we'll to score four touchdowns
against such a heavy team, while
brakes score was secured on a fluke.
Iowa has made low scores this
year, but that is principally due to the
fact that the Iowa gridiron has been
impossible to do any fast playing.
While I do not think Iowa will beat
Minnesota, the game will be much
closer than any one anticipates, and
Minnesota will be forced to exert her
self to the limit
The Inter-Ocean Estimate.
The Inter-Ocean places Minnesota in
the same class with Michigan and Chi
cago,, but thinks Michigan should win
from the gophers easily. After re-
marking that the Chicago team did
rather better than was expected, the
line especially showing marked i'm
provement, the Inter-Ocean says of
Michigan and Minnesota:
The work of Yost's men in overwhelming
the little badgers so completely in two
twenty-minute halves is all the more re-
markable. The game proved conclusively
what many have believed for some time:
Iost will have another wonderful team
this year., a team that looks fair to be a
contender for the championship honors in
the final game, a team that has, at the
least. an even chance to place the maize
and blue, for the third time, above them
all. -rE A. -. S- =
The wolverines this year have weight in
addition to wonderful speed. When Michi
gan's varsity enters the lists for the real
championship tests it will probably out
weigh every team it meets, except pos
sbly Minnesota. Add to all this weight
the speed, natural and acquired. of the
men, and the machine like perfection with
which Yost's teams always perform, and
you have combination that looks almost
unsolvable, unbreakable, and unbeatable.
1t is impossible to say whether Michi-
gan's team to-day is as good as last years
championship eleven was on the same
date. Certainly there seems to be little
to choose between the two eleVens. But
just remember this: Barring serious ac-
cidents TO the star men on other teams,
notably on Chicago, Michigan has got to
be better this year than last to win the
championship.
There is much speculation over the Min
nesota- Michigan game. There are many
who believe that Minnesota will win, and
thus create a situation in the champion
ship race which can only be settled by g.
post-season game. But don't get unduly
excited over this possible unfortunate
situation. Rest assured. Michigan will
win.
Minnesota Is Faster.
The Chicago Tribune prints an in
terview with Henry Clark, the old Chi
cago university pitcher and halfback,
who was one Of the officials in Sat-
urday's game on Northrop field. Clark
said:
Minnesota has the best team the uni
Versity has had in years. The men are
fast and they play fine football. Williams
saw that his big giants did not amount to
much before a strong, speedy team, and he
is getting together an eleven which has
some Of Michigan's speed in it. They are
all getting ready for Michigan on the 31st.
The game is to be played on Northrop
field, which is the finest athletic ground I
ever saw
The Tribune says Michigan looks
like favorite for the championship.
Stage is thought to have a well-bal-
anced eleven, whose team work is
daily becoming more powerful. The
line, which looked rather weak a few
days ago, now appears quite strong.
days ago, but is still weaker than Chi
cago. Of Minnesota the Tribune says
further:
Getting ready for Michigan"-that is
what Coach Williams has in mind all
the time these days. One Of his veterans,
Schacht is out of the game for while
with a broken rib and strained inter-
costal cartilage, but Germany will be
in the game when Michigan comes. Min
nesota's defense needs coaching, for, as
yet, 1t has received no severe test, and
Williams and his assistants do not know
what it Is good for in actual work.
Fnumbling seems to be the worst fault
OF Minnesota, as it is of Chicago and
Michigan. 1t is getting pretty far along
In the season for fumbling to be regarded
as excusable, and the attention of the
coaches will, without doubt, be largely
taken up with correcting this fault this
week.