The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
GOPHERs DO WELL
Minnesota Plays Up to Form and
Has an Easy Time Defeat-
ing Illinois.
Teams Work Is Slightly More Fin
ished Than in the Game With
Michigan.
Lead Illini- MINI FOOTBALL
WEST.


WEST.
Northwestern O. Notre Dame 0.
Michigan TO- Wisconsin 0.
Minnesota 81. Illinois Q.
Iowa 16. Missouri O..
Nebraska s, Kansas 0.
Chicago Freshmen II, Illinois Fresh
men o.
Rush 80. st. Louis University 0.
Drake 80. Grinnell 0.
Lawrence 80. Belot 0.
Earlham II, Wabash 0.
Lake Forest a. Dentals II.
Stanford 6, California g.
Ohio State o. Oberlin S. 4
Case %, Ohio Wesleyan 6.
Indiana 70, Depauw o.
Dakota University 6. Morningside 5.
Marietta 45. Western University 6.
Ames H. Simpson 2.
EAST.
West Point 10, Chicago 6.
Princeton IL. Yale 6.
Dartmouth II. Harvard 0.
Carlisle 16, Pennsylvania g. s
Harvard Freshmen II. Yale Freshmen 6.
Lafayette 10, Bloomsbury 0.
Georgetown So. Columbian O.
Columbia II. Cornell II.
Amherst II. .Aggies" 6.
Bucknell %. Annapolis 5.
Brown r. Syracuse 5.
Luther 20, Delafeld Academy D.
West Virginia II, Bethany 8. -
University Of South II, University of
Tennessee 0.
Vanderbilt Al, Washington 0.
Wesleyan 5, Williams 8.
Phillips Andover %, Lawrenceyille 0.
Bowdoin IL, Bates 5. ...t
Holy Cross 5, Maine 0. ,s
Amherst II, Massachusetts State Col
lege s.
Marietta University As. Western Uni
yersity g.
x Ks sa.. y University So Williamsburg
Georgetown IS, Columbia University 0.
From Staff Correspondent.
Champaign, ILL.,, Nov. .16.-Mlnne-
sofa played up to form Saturday when
she defeated the Illinois team 80 to 0.
The Illini proved weaker than was ex-
pected on defense with the exception
of Hardwood, Moynihan, Diener and
Dillinger. The tackling of the losers
was very weak, and altogether too
high to be effective.
was powerful. Three times the
gophers took the ball on the kickoff
and marched straight down the field
for touchdowns. Altogether they
made about 500 yards, in one stretch
interrupted only by the touchdowns
Current did magnificent work in
bucking the line, and Burdick and
Thorpe were not far behind them,
while the p]unges OF Davies and 1rs-
field off tackle were very effective.
Warren also did good work in ad-
vancing the ball.
On defense Minnesota held adj
mirably. Illinois did not make her
first down half a dozen times during
the whole game, altho the Illini were,
considered by their adherents to be
strong in attack. Diener was the
l,Io I, co.,
line. and he only made his distance
few times. The gopher forwards in
variably got the charge on their op-
ponents, and the tackling Of Current,
Irsfield and Davies was above criti-
cism. On a dry field Minnesota would
easily have made so points. AS it was,
the score would have been larger but
for the fact that Minnesota elected to
play a kicking game in the second half
and did not appear to try hard to in
crease the score.
Minnesota's big score against the
Illini and the defeat of Wisconsin by
Michigan and Chicago appears to place
the gophers in a class by themselves.
Illinois was defeated by Chicago 8 to
and by Northwestern only II to III.
These scores indicate that the gophers
are considerably stronger than the
naroons or the purple. Good judges
who saw the Illini play against Chicago
and Northwestern, however, do not
think Woodrufys men put up as good
J game Saturday as in the other two
contests. Most of the fight was taken
out of them by their three successive
defeats. and with the exception of
few men, they did not fight as Mime
sotans are accustomed to see Illinois
teams fight. This is said without
wishing to detract from the credit due
Minnesota. Her men were in good
condition, and played a remarkably
y otr oh
wisconsin handily il they hold their
form and continue to improve.
Too much credit cannot be given the
Illinois rooters for their sportsman
like and chivalrous conduct toward the
Minnesota team. When the sGophers
ed with tiger, and several Of the
individual players were cheered at
various times in the course of the
game. The Minnesota team recipro-
Gated by cheering for Illinois when
they reached the hotel after the game.
Minnesota seldom tried end runs.
Davies and Harris made few sprints
round the extremities of the line, but
usually it was Current or one Of the
forwards thru the center, then Davies
or Irsf1eld off tackle. The gophers
good work in keeping with the runner
and helping him along.
No long runs were made. Irsfield' s
sprint of 20 yards for a touchdown
and a few gains of from 15 to go yards
by Davies were the biggest spurts of
the game. Davies work in whirling
and slipping away from tacklers was
sensational at times
Sig Harris again played star game
at quarter. He ran the team with
good Judgment, and made several good
gains round the end. He excelled in