The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-14
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Iowa football rooters are showing
SO much confidence in the ability of
their eleven to defeat Minnesota Sat
urday that the Minnesotans are be-
coming anxious. Altho the Iowans
ore the most chesty- of western col
lege men, and often display an en-
. thusiasm quite unwarranted by the
ability of the team, it is just possible
that this time they have good
grounds for their optimism. This
Impression Is strengthened by the
report Assistant Coach Dobie brings
from Iowa City. Doble does not say
there Is any serious danger OF Iowa
winning, but he thinks the score will
be much closer than local rooters
generally imagine. "a' - .~... T..
The Daily Iowan, the official paper
Of Iowa university, starts it's report
of the Iowa-Drake game Saturday
with the following jolly for the
hawkeye eleven:
Iowa 12, Minnesota 6, or something like
that. 1t looks awfully good, and it's likely
to happen Saturday on Northrup field.
Iowa showed the greatest advance Of
her weeks of steady Improvement In the
Drake game Saturday.
Iowas championship team Of 1900 de-
feated Drake 26 to the week before the
Chicago game. The team which Drake
brought to Iowa field this year was the
strongest team Drake has yet played
against Iowa. 1t was evenly balanced,
very large and fast. r.
Iowa's showing of superiority over the
strong Drake eleven was conclusive. Still
inexperienced in some Of the finer points
of the game, the Iowa team showed Its
admirers and it's opponents and all who
We're on Iowa field to see, Saturday that
Iowa has strong team this year.
Manager SpE ngler could not have ar
ranged q better game for the week be-
fore Minnesota than the Drake game. The
Christians were big, overwhelming Iowa
twenty pounds to the man at least, just
about the overweight that Minnesota will
put against Iowa. Their backs were fast
just as Minnesota's backs are. said by
careful watchers to be this year.
At the beginning Of the season, 1t was
not hoped that Coach Chalmers would be
able to build up a team this year that
would defeat the gophers, with the green
material with which he started. 1t was
hoped that he would be able to develop a
team that would win the state games and
be a nucleus that would be able to &c
things to Minnesota next year when the
gophers come to Iowa field. ..
But the present stage OF play by the
hawkeyeS renders necessary a revision OF
expectations.
To Minnesotans this sounds
stronger than the facts justify. All
the good things that have been SAID
in the last few days about Chalmers
men may be true, but it will take
more than talk to convince the var
sitv students here that Iowa has a
team as good as the gophers. But
the impression is growing that the
score is likely to be quite close. DR..
Williams and the assistant coaches
are sparing no efforts, and If Mime
sofa shows a reversal of form Satur-
day, it will not be- because the
coaches underestimate the strength
of the hawkeyes. The practice last
night was strenuous, closing with a
fierce half hour scrimmage between
the first and second teams. The play
last Saturday was fast, but not fast
enough to suit DR.. Williams, who is
working the first eleven for still
more sDeed.g Much time has been
spent this week also in trying to
eliminate the fumbling, which was a
great defect in the play last week
1t is said that O'Brien, as a result OF
much Individual coaching, is already
showing considerable improvement
in handling punts.
1t is not known who will fill the
place in the line left vacant by
Schachts injury, nor will it be known
until the men appear on the f1elc
SATURDAY. IL IS doubtful IL LII. w IL
liams knows himself who will get the
place. The Minnesota coach rarely
announces a lineup until few min
utes before the game starts, and the
margin of difference between Big
Smith, Pattee, Benson. Russell ant
Oech is so small that two or three
of them may be given chance II
the Iowa game.
All the western universities are
thru with mid-week games, excep
Chicago, which has a game with the
Rush Medics scheduled for to-day
This game will give fair opportu
nifty Of comparing Chicago with Him
ois, which ran up a score Of 81 to
against the doctors Saturday. Chi
and with her fast back field Is 1ikel.
to go still higher.
In the east Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton, Pennsylvania, Columbia all hav
games. PrincetOn's contest is thu
most important. The tigers NEE
Lehigh, one Of the best of the secont
division teams. Pennsylvania's strons
eleven scored only 1 6 on Lehigh Oct
8, indicating that the smaller insti
tuition. will give the tigers a sever
tryout. The other games are o
minor Importance, altho the Wesley
ans may hold Harvards cripple,
team to a low score.
IOWA VERY CONFIDENT
Eawkeye hooters Sure Their Team