The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-03
FOOTBALL.
POST.SEASON GAME
Michigan Is Reported to Be Willing
to Arrange Second Contest
With Gophers.
DR.. Williams Is Not Enthusiastic
Over the Project Michigan
Beaten Already.

There has been a sudden change of
front on the part of Michigan, judg-
ing from dispatches from Ann Arbor
last night, in which Captain Redden
Is credited with saying that the wolver-
ines would be willing to meet Min
nesota in post-season game to settle
the championship. AS Redden and
others of the Michigan team were
quoted yesterday to the effect that they
would refuse to play again against
a Minnesota team, the Redden inter-
view, if authentic, takes the edge off
the charges of slugging against Min
nesota. Redden Is quoted as saying:
Yes, we will be perfectly willing
to play Minnesota, providing that
neither team loses a game before
Thanksgiving Day. Personally am
eager to see the question of suprema-
cy settled this year, and just now l
cannot see how it will be unless a game
lis played after the close Of the season.
I do not see how it Is possible for
either Minnesota or Michigan to lose
any Of the games which are scheduled.
The gophers certainly will defeat Wis
consin, and we do not anticipate much
trouble in winning from Chicago
comes out as I have planned it, there
will be a great dispute over the first
honors II such a game is not played"
DR.. Williams, Minnesota's coach,
who returned this morning from Far
go, where the Minnesota second team
played the North Dakota Agricultural
college yesterday, while he would not
say positively that Minnesota would
refuse to arrange a post-season game,
intimated that he was not in favor of
such a contest. DR.. Williams said:
IT think that we have beaten Michi-
gan once already. The record Of the
game will show that we outplayed
Michigan at every point, and this will
be taken into account If both teams
are undefeated after Thanksgiving
Day and the championship is in dis
pute. 1t is very unusual for two teams,
after playing a tie game, to play a
second time; In fact I do not recall
single instance of this sort. Yale
and Harvard have frequently played
tie games, yet there never was a sec
ond contest in the same seacon. ]
would not say positively that Mime
sofa would decline a post-season game
with Michigan, but such contests are
very unusual"
DR.. Williams was inclined to dis
credit the dispatches which quote the
Michigan players as uttering charges
of smuggling and rough play against
Minnesota. He said: I'D
II do not believe the charges printed
in the newspaper reports came directly
from the Michigan players them
selves. I believe the Michigan men are
better sportsmen than to make any
such charges after a practical defeat
I The men on the Michigan team who
are said to have been the most bruised
are the ones who did the hardest work
in advancing the ball. Every on
knows that the Minnesota rush lin,
on defense is not feather bed.
1.-THE Minnesota players who did the
most aggressive work in advancing
the ball were also considerably
bruised and battered. particularly
Schacht, Davies and Irsfeld, but we
ascribe this. not to dirty work on the
part of Michigan but to the necessary
wear and grind of very hard, fierce
game. AS for there being any per
sonal rupture between Mr.. Yost ane
myself, it Is not true. Our relation:
before the game were entirely cordial
and l did not see him again either
during the game or after the game
I do not place any credit in the sensa
tional articles speaking of the rupture
in athletic relations between Michigan
and Minnesota
The Minnesota second team decis
H lively defeated the North Dakota Agri
cultural college team at Fargo yester
Il day, by a score of II to 0. The farm
ers played good game, but were out
weighed by the gopher subs, who's
fierce line bucks rarely failed to gail
ground. Minnesota was unable t.
gain around the ends. A touch dow
was scored in each half, Minnesot
making all her gains thru the guard
and tackles. t
The Minnesota men assumed tn
names Of the Michigan regulars, an
addressed each other as Redeem, Gre
ory or HestOn while on the field. Be