The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-06

Columbia VS.. Hamilton, at New Y ork
Dartmouth VS.. Vermont, at Bennington.
Carlisle VS.. Bloomsbury at Carlisle.
The Minnesota football team will
line up tomorrow afternoon at APO
o'clock on Northrop field against the
Hamline University eleven. Hamline
has been coached by Alex Sloan, and
is said to have a strong team. 1t is
exp sted, however, that Minnesota
w. tn up big score. The gophers
az good shape for the contest.
Their probable lineup follows: 49,.
Rogers, captain, left end; Webster,
left tackle; Warren, left guard;
Strathern, center; Thorpe, right
guard: Schacht, right tackle; Burdick,
right end; O'Brien, quarter; Davies,
Bergen, left half; Irsfield, Neussle,
right half; Boeckman, Current, full
back. ....-. ..s.
The only other western universities
which have games scheduled are Chi
cago and Illinois. Chicago meets Cor
nell college of Iowa, the speedy ma
room backs will undoubtedly run up
a big score, as Cornell is one Of the
weakest of the many Iowa teams.
Illinois may be held to a comparative
ly low score by the college of Physi-
clans and Surgeons. The doctors usu-
ally have number of old university
players in their lineup, and while
their team work is usually below
standard, their Individual defensive
play makes ground gaining against
them difficult. In the east none of
the games scheduled is Of Importance.
A majority of the Chicago football
writer's rank Chicago, Michigan and
Minnesota as the strongest teams in
the west to-day basing their estimates
upon the scores in Saturdays games.
Stage, Is admitted to have a much
stronger team than last year Ca fact
which no one will dispute), and the
maroons are believed to be further
advanced than any Of the other teams.
1t Is conceded, however, that Stage
will have a hard task to whip his
line into shape for the big games, and
several of the scribes take a rather
pessimistic view of the situation. It
is hard to see why Chicago's adher-
ents should be discouraged, since
81 Stage has three linemen, Ellsworth
Big Maxwell and Ahlswede, who are
the equals of any in the west in thei,
positions. Besides these Stage ha:
two first class ends in Lee Maxwell
and Speik, and a lot of heavy mer
who give promise of developing into
stars.
Michigan is generally held to be az
strong as last year. In Heston, Ora.
yer, Tom Hammond and Longman
Yost has a wonderful array of backs
altho he has no quarter of the class
of Weeks. The Inter-Ocean says O.
the wolverines: .....
Michigan's material is of undoubtet
quality, and all Yost has to do now is t.
develop 1t and perfect the team play. H
is without superior at this kind Of work
From this it seems that Michigan is jus
as good now as year ago. The TELEGRAPH
stories of the Ann Arbor game state tina
M1chigans defense work was better thai
the offense. This is as it should be, from
Michigan point of view. If the defens
Is all right, Yost will take care of the OF
81 tense. He has the heaviest backs in tn
west, and he can be counted on to max
them fast and to make them work to
Y gether like machine .r.. 49,.
I Michigan showed stronger that Wiscon
4 sin Saturday. The wolverines hay
reached a further stage of developnen
than the badgers, and it is to be expecte
that they will keep on developing faster
for they have a greater number Of vetera
men who are free from the individuc
faults which made the work of the Wis
cons1n squad appear ragged. It is Ger
tain that Case is much stronger tina
Northwestern of Naperville, and when thj
fact Is taken into consideration the wis
consin showing suffers still further b
comparison.
Stage has disordered line to whip int
shape, while his back field will almost tax
care of itself. Yost has his back field t
drill to machinelike perfection while hi
line is doing satisfactory work Yost
task is a good deal easier than Stages,
The Record-Herald concludes fror
the M1chigan-Case game that Yost ha
strong, high-grade squad, wit
fast and heavy backs, altho withou
a sprtnt1ng quarter of the class c
Eckersan or Weeks. Wisconsin
held to have a green squad of goo
material. The weakness of Chica go
line is admitted to be a serious prot
3e lem. Regarding Minnesota, TIL
Record-Herald says:
The report that the Minnesota gian
are fast was given another piece of SUI
port by the score of 40 to 0 against Gri1
( nell's clever tacklers. Chicago men,
they are counting on playing for Il
championship with Michigan, on Thank
81 giving Day, may we'll begin to hope TIL
Michigan will be in top form for the gan
with Minnesota at Minneapolis Nov. 8
the day when the rnaroons will play Wi
consin. Minnesota, on paper, seems clea
~ in the championship class.
TO a Minnesota man it seems abo,
time that that old superstition in r,
gard to the giants on the gophe
squad was discarded. Last year Mi,
y nesota was little, if any, heavier tina
Michigan or Wisconsin. This year tt