The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
TOO MUCH 'HORSING'
Chicago Critics Score Big Western
Elevens for the Poor Exhibi-
tions Saturday.
Stages Men the Exception They
Work Hard, but Still Play
Bad Football.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Nov. Accommodating on
the football situation, the Tribune this
morning says:
the big football teams the country over
have rounded the three-quarter post and
turned into the home stretch for the final
sprint. The letdown, which often occurs
in race just before the last turn, was
painfully evident in all the contests on
Saturday. The games for Saturday con-
stituted about as embarrassing set Of
gridiron contests as could we'll be put to-
gether on one day. Most of them were
practice games in every sense Of the word.
none had bearing on the championship
question, east or west, except possibly the
rvard-Pennsylvania game. Both these
teams which had been counted out Of
the championship race in the east, Penn
sylvania on account of its disastrous de-
feat at the hands of Columbia and Har-
ward because Of its defeat by Amherst and
it's poor showing against Carlisle.
In the west by far the most interesting
game on Saturday was the Chicago Has
kell fight, which proved such surprise
for the maroons. Michigan. Minnesota
and Wisconsin all played listless games
against comparatively easy opponents. IL
linois and Indiana had their surprise party
on Friday. Northwestern and Iowa did
not play. Purdue's football season has
been terminated by the sad accident of
Oct. 81.
FumbIno the Chief Feature.
OF the four 'big nine" games played
the chief feature in each case seemed to
be fumbling. Chicago and Michigan RI
vailed each other in the atrocious fumbling
that marked their play. Such work at this
| late date Is inexcusable, especially when 1t
! is considered that, during part Of the game
at least, both Chicago and Michigan had
in their best men.
The Record Herald says:
| Football results Of Saturday gave but
little line on championship prospects, al
| tho the games put up by Chicago and
Michigan showed their followers that both
| still have room for improvement for their
big games which come this week. I'LL
nois' defeat by Indiana Friday makes Min
| nesota's contest at Champaign seem al
most "walk-over," despite the fact that
the gophers like the wolverines and the
maroons. failed to show their usuel form
Wisconsin's work against the Oshkosh
normal brought but little criticism, but the
calibre of the opposing team did not make
the badgers showing impressive.
The upset of the day was furnished
by Chicago and the Haskell Indians The
maroons played poor football-footbal
which certainly would not win for then
against the kind of a game Michigan
showed at Minneapolis and which oil bu
lost to the red men.
Only once in the gane-their march O
fifty yards for their touchdown in the sec
ond half-did the maroon team gain con
tsistently for any great distance on the lin,
playing straight" football Their tw,
scores in the first half were, Their result o
good work. which played the Indians OF
their feet but came on long runs by Beg
dek and Eckersall, which would not be s,
likely to succeed against a team Of tn
first rank.
Except the brace which resulted in tn
two scores in the last part of the frs
period, and their own march for touch
down in the second, the maroons were TO
the most part kept OH the defensive ant
really outplayed.
Maroon Players Need a Brace.
! Stage may have something 'up hi
sleeve" for West Point, but any new
plays which the maroon coach has, ant
Eckersall's kicking. are likely to be needed
when Chicago meets the soldiers Saturday
Most Of ALL however, it seems that tn,
players themselves need a brace Tn
: team has been a disappointment all sea
: son. save in the Wisconsin game, an,
J it Is likely the men have yet to shov
J their possibilities. The only question is