The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-24
SPORTS.
HAVE A HARD SCHEDULE
Badger Football Team Has It's Work
Cut Out for It This
Season.

Special to The Journal.
Madison, Wis, Aug 24.-The corrected
football schedule for Wisconsin this year
has just been announced by Manager Kill
patrick, and is as follows:
:, Oct 3.,Northwestern College Of Naperville,
&C Oct 1onLawrense University, at Madison.
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Nov. Michigan, at Ann Arbor.
Nov. 21-Northwestern University, at Evans
Nov. 2e Thanksgiving day)-M Minnesota at
Milwaukee,
AS will be noticed, all but the three
last games will be played at home. The
first big" game will be with Chicago
Oct. 81, at Madison. The Minnesota game
will be played at Milwaukee, Thanksgiv-
Ing day, the Michigan game at Ann Arbor,
NOV. IA, and the Northwestern game,
which is expected to be a good contest
this year, at Evanston, Nov. 81.
1t has been decided to begin practice a
week earlier than was first intended, and
the call for the opening is now for Mon
day, Sept. Z. Manager Fitzpatrick has
been putting in some good efforts in Sc
curing new material, and Is greatly en-
couraged over the outlook. Head Coach
Curtis and Captain Abbott have also been
out after men, with good results It is
! expected that at least twenty new men
who have made good records on their high
school or academy teams will come to
| Wisconsin this year.
| OF last years team those who will be
back are Captain Abbott and Bush, ends;
| Fogg, quarterback; Berthke and Brindley,
! guards; Vanderboom, half back, and Find
lay who win probably try for tackle this
year. Remp, who was injured early last
season, Will also be out for tackle, and
Marsh substitute half back, will be here.
The best of last years second team who
will be back include Churchill, guard;
Wrabetz, half back; Cecil Schneider, quar-
| terback, and Bartlett, end and halfback.
Balm, the Indian halfback, who has played
on the Haskell team, has been here since
early last winter, and with Findlay and
Bartlett has been getting a little pre1tn-
mary practice at punting from Assistant
| Coach Mccarthy. Balm is big and strong,
weighing 1874 stripped, reasonably fast on
| his feet, and is a likely man for the back
| field, where good men are so badly needed.
/ Assistant Coach Mccarthy is much en-
couraged over the outlook. In discussing
| the situation he says: Because Wiscon-
sin had an off season last year is just the
reason we will try all the harder for a
strong team this year, and the outlook
is good. Wisconsin has made a better
showing since she began playing football
her defeats have been by narrow mar
gins. We're going to do our best to at
least keep up the average this year. --s
Some improvements are being made at
Camp Randall, chiefly by way of sodding
the gridiron, which will put it in fine
shape. A second gridiron is being pre-
pared, where practice can be had without
mutilating the field just before the games.
University Of Chicago "rooters" are be-
coming more and more convinced that
Chicago is to have q championship foot
ball team this year. Professor F.. w.
Shepardson, secretary to President Har-
per- said: IF we don't turn out a team
this fall that will make Mr.. Yost and his
pupils run to cover, I am no prophet and
don't know much about the game"
| Altho he refused to give any names,
Professor Shepardson said that he knew of
some star men who were coming in, who,
with the nucleus Of old players from last
year, would make up the best team In the
historyao of the university. -'.~