The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-24
SPORTS.
one BIG HOME GAME.
Minnesota's Football Schedule for
1893 Is Approved by the
Board of Control.
Michigan and Wisconsin Games:
Must Furnish the Profits !,
u for the Season. IN

Minnesota's next football season will be!
less successful from afSfinancial point of
View than those of recent years, accord
ing to the schedule approved yesterday
by the board of control. But one big
game is scheduled for Minneapolis, that
with Michigan Oct. 81, and the only con-
tests away from home are those with Hi
nois at Champaign Nov. IA, and with Wis
consin at Madison Nov: 26 Thanksgiving
Day.; ~
The Michigan game Northrop field
will draw a big crowd, and the Wisconsin
game at Madison also should swell the
contents of the athletic associations
treasury. The Illinois game, however,
will hardly prove a big money maker, for
the receipts will be smaller at Champaign
than at Minneapolis, and the expenses of
the trip will be heavy. $3.50
The rest of the schedule includes games
at home with Grinnell, Ames, Beloit and
Iowa. Preliminary games with Carleton
and the twin city high schools doubtless
will he arranged as usual: Ames, Grinnell
and Beloit are games of minor Importance,
and Iowa, during the last two years, has
ceased to be good, drawing, card The
Michigan and Wisconsin games, therefore.
must be expected to pay the greater part
of the seasons expenses and furnish what
profits are secured from the year.
From playing standpoint, also, the
schedule has it's disadvantages. The team
must round into shape by Oct. 81 for the
Michigan game. Yost apparently has the
material in sight for a team only slightly
inferior to last season s splendid aggrega
tion and the hurry-up coach has in previ
Gus years shown the ability to get his men
into form early in the season. -
Minnesota. on the other hand. must try
out a big lot Of new material, and Dr.
Williams task in getting his men on edge
promises to be much harder than that Of
1ost. Van Valkenburg, Knowlton, La
70 SS4l,1
of the veterans who probably will be lost
to Minnesota this year. With Harris, Da-
vies. 1rsfield and Thorpe as a nucleus for
the back field. that department should be
strong, but the task of developing a
strong line is likely to be a hard one
The game with Michigan is followed by
an open date Nov. 7. This probably will
be filled by game with one of the smaller
Iowa or Wisconsin colleges, or possibly
with one Of the North Dakota teams That
Will give Minnesota, chance to slack up
IN the work, and get back OF edge in time
for. the contest with Illinois Nov. H.
Twelve days intervene between the Illi=
nois and Wisconsin contests, so that it
will not be impossible. though perhaps
difficult to have the gophers in shape for
every one of the hard games Of the sea-
SON. The schedule as approved follows:
Oct. 1o.-Ames at Minneapoliss
Get. 1 = eS;a,t at alinneapolis;
ttt. At.-BelOlC at minneapolis.
: Oct. 31.-Michigan at Minneapolis !
Nov. 7.-Open date. .
Nov 14.-Illinois at Champaign. =.
Nov. I.-Open date.
THANKSGIVING Nov. 26.-Wisconsin at Madison.
The board OF, controI decided mot TO- ae-
cept the invitation to send team to take
part. i'll the indoor relay race: meet at
Philadelphia, Minnesota has never taken
part in these relay meets, and in view Of
the heavy expenses connected with the
construction of the new field. this year
was deemed a bad time to branch out in
this manner.
Chicago football enthusiasts will have a
chance to see an eastern eleven play next
Thanksgiving Day unless plans which
Athletic Director Butterworth of North
western university is now promoting fall
through On that date the purple team
will meet either Brown or Dartmouth on
a>feld to be selected later but which will
In all probability be the West Side base
ball park in Chicago. il" '..% ~
A game with one of these two eastern
eeyens Is being arranged to take the place
of the University of California contest
which was scheduled to be played in Chi
cago On Thanksgiving. The latter game
has been Cancelled by the University of
california, principally because the date
{ would conflict with the examina ton pe-
Rod, which is on at the western school at
that time. :-.-