The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-30
BY BILLY MAC.
iota or Michigan?

Minnesota or Michigan?
Tomorrow afternoon the question
will be decided.
Tomorrow afternoon either Henry L.
Williams or Fielding H Yost will, with
the setting of the sun, be hailed as
the greatest coach of the West
The thought of tie game does not
find place in the arguments and guess
es of the football followers. The 3en-
eral belief is that either Minnesota or
Michigan is to win the game - that
there will be no even break in this bat
tie.
Which team will win the game?
Opinions differ.
Minnesota men, without thought of
facts, weights or previous showings,
declare for Minnesota, for they hope
to see the Gophers win, and it is the
same with the men in Michigan. The
critics and wise ones who have follow
ed the teams through the seasons work
use former scores, weights of players,
absence of men from the line and the
new men who have yet to win the hon.
ors earned by the players who have
gone before them, but. like the plain
men Of Minnesota and Michigan, the
critics differ.
One thing, however. must be admit
ted by all. That one thing is that this
time Minnesota will try for the cham
pionship with the greatest team she
has ever had. Minnesota has had other
great teams, and the attempt to put
this team at the top of the list may be
considered bold one, but this Mime
sofa team has shown that 1t can play
the football game of today even better
than the teams of the past could play
the football game Of the past.
Williams Masterpiece.
Williams has developed his MASTER
piece. 1t will be no disgrace to lose
with this team, for if Michigan can
win tomorrow afternoon, Yost, too, has
developed his greatest team.
And this leaves the question-has
Yost succeeded in developing such a
team? On the face of the best facts
team than ever before, and Michigan
has team that is not as strong as
the team of last season.
This is the argument Of the football
critics, but is it so?
True, Weeks is gone from Michigan,
and Sweeley is no more in the line
ready to answer the call for the mint
or drop kick that helped the Michigan
team nightly. but. losing these men.
Yost may have changed his methods
and the work of the Wolverines NAV
no longer revolve around single indi-
Viduals.
The enthusiastic ones should not all
low themselves to become intoxicated
with the thought that Minnesota has
the greatest football team of wears and
is going to win. Minnesota can win.
and, If luck favors the maroon and
gold may win, but the following should
remember all the time that this game
tomorrow is to be a battle of two teams
that are almost evenly matched. end
neither Minnesota nor Michigan will
have one-sided game.
Minnesota can win and NAV win. and
the following should not forget that
every offered advantage must be used
TO land the game. Minnesota has the
first advantage of playing the game on
her nome grounds, where she should be
encouraged even when hope looks gone
by the shouts of her following.
1t is easy to cheer a winning team
on to greater victory, but it takes
courage to cheer this same team when
the game is going against the tired
players and all hope looks gone. This
is one thing that the Minnesota friends
can remember when they go to Greater
Northrop field tomorrow afternoon to
see Minnesota win.
Yost Is Serious Now.
Yost has promised that Michigan
Will give Minnesota all they have got
every minute of the game" and here
fortune can save the Gophers again,
Host is serious this time. He is no
longer the big, happy lucky looking
coach' for he realizes the seriousness
OF ms position. This means that Mich
lgah VIII give Minnesota all thew have
got every minute of the game ana Sc
Thorpe and Schacht and O'Brien or
Harris escape injury the chance to win
will continue bright. " wan
The next thing to be considered is
the entire Michigan team. Has Yost
succeeded in developing the new men
ON ms team? He has not tried to make
a Weeks out of Norcross and he bas
not attempted to find a successor for
Sweeley, but has he trained the new