The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-07
FOOTBALL
FEAR AMEs TEAM.
Varsity Coaches Expect Hard
Game With the Iowa Farm I
ers on Saturday.
Gophers Practice Signals in Armory
Chicago Paper Gives Min
nesota a Bouquet.

The heavy rain yesterday prevented
outdoor practice at Northrop neld,
and the work OF the varsity footpaHs
squad was confined to running SIG
nails in the armory. The practice was
secret. McDougal, the former An
dover academy player, was on hand
He will try for a position In the back
field. Rand, the heavyweight strong
man, also was on hand, and was given
some work with the team.
The Ames game Saturday Is giving
the varsity. coaches some anxiety.
the ordinary institution Of Its size, and
this year the farmers are said to be
stronger than usual. Ten OF last
years, fast eleven are back, and under
the coaching Of Ristine of Harvard,
the Iowans- should play a stiff game.
The team is said to be fully as heavy
as Minnesota. go.
The Chicago Daily News, like the
other windy city journals, picks Min
nesota Michigan and Chicago as the
leading championship contenders In
the west this season. Wisconsin,
Illinois and Northwestern are not
considered dangerous, tho the News
expresses some anxiety in regard to-
the outcome Of the Chicago-North
western game Oct. II. To an outsid-
er, however, it looks as If Michigan is
the only western team which has a
chance to beat the Maroons, since Chi
cago does not meet the gophers. If
Northwestern or Wisconsin can hold
down Stages men, 1T means that all
the critics have made sad mistake:
In sizing up the teams the News says:
Yost has a formidable array at Ann Ar
Dor and no one overlooks the ability of the
leader Of the wolverines to develop an al
| most natchless machine. He has been
nd roY> mad Nv 1a 80 f,,,o y,
veterans he expected, but that has not
dampened his ardor nor that Of his men,
as was demonstrated in Saturdays game
against Case. .-.v..' "a
!, Weight has been sacrificed for speed at
Minnesota and the gophers look like actual
contenders for the championship Of the
west this year. DR.. Williams team is not
light one, even now, tho much below
the weight of 1901 and 1902, but speed is
the essential he Is now developing with
the sole purpose of offsetting the .locome-
tive rushes of the wolverines that last
fall defeated the gophers on Ferry field at
Ann Arbor. -
Two things were very noticeable in the
Chicago Indiana contest Chicago has not
an exceedingly strong line, but a remark
ably fast back field. The Indiana linemen
held their own with the Chicago forwards
and number Of times outplayed their op-
ponents. It showed that Stage has not
by any means the great line he had last
year In. Farr,. Maxwell Ellsworth ALL
swede and >Koehler, which Yost openly ac-
knowledged he considered the best in the
west. Neither Captain Ellsworth nor ALL
swede were in the game Saturday only
one veteran-Maxwell-pl This
probably accounts to a certain extent, for
the mediocre showing. 'S- :,F. s2''5
sStagg has all kinds of work before him
to get his maroons in condition for a hard
game, and he has only two weeks In which
to do it. At that time Northwestern meets
the Midway eleven at :Marshall field ar1d
the Evanstonians would rather defeat
Chicago than win the championship To
ward that game Mccormack is bending al
his energies, letting minor teams get away
with small scores! against them, but with
a single purpose in Niew-rounding his
team into shape to show the maroons thu
- hardest kind Of a struggle. .....
Wisconsin and Illinois are still ,1nde
veloped and cannot be reckoned until an
other game or two shows whether the new
men are going to prove equal to the tasl
set before them. George Woodruff, hal
demonstrated his ability with big eleve,
and something may be expected from tn,
Him before the season closes, while Ar
thur Curtis Is making his first attempt q.
coach of one Of the big nine" and
remains to be seen what success he meet
In developing high-class team from
lot of raw recruits with nucleus o
. veterans, - 49, ="