The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-19
SURPRISE TO Y0ST.
Michigan's Coach Expresses Aston
ishment at the Speed Of the
Minnesota Eleven.
Gophers Show Improvement in All
Departments in the Game
With Iowa.
Saturdays Scores.
WEST.


WEST.
Minnesota 49,, Iowa Q.
Michigan 81. Indiana 0.
Wisconsin 81, Beloit Q.
Chicago 0, Northwestern 0.
Illinois "a, Purdue O..
Drake IT, Missouri 0.
Knox 20, Physicians and Surgeons 0.
Notre Dame 56, De Paw 0.
Oberin 80, Ohio Wesleyan 0.
Nebraska is. Haskell Indians 0.
Creighton 10. South Dakota 2.
Kansas II, Colorado II.
Miami Is, Cincinnati 0.
Ames So, Coe 0.
Wabash IS. Indiana P. &; S. 0.
Ohio State SO. Kenyon 0.
EAST
Yale y. Penn State 0.
Harvard S, West Point 0.
Pennsylvania 80. Brown O..
Princeton II. Carlisle 0.
Cornell 6, Bucknell o.
Columbia II, Amherst O.
Dartmouth IT, Williams 0.
Navy 5, Dickinson 0.
Harvard Freshmen 0. Phillips Exeter o.
Great Scott. look at those fellows
go!"
That was the comment of Hurry
Up Yost of Michigan as he watched
Minnesota piling up her Is points on
Iowa Saturday. 1t was not remark
designed for public consumption, but
an involuntary exclamation drawn
from the Michigan coach in the course
of the game. Coming from a man
who has developed two Of the fastest
teams ever seen in the country, these
words are the highest tribute yet paid
to the speed of the Minnesota team.
Minnesota's play Saturday showed
remarkable Improvement and stamps
the team as unquestionably champion
ship calibre. Phenomenal as has been
the speed of the gophers this year, in
comparison with the slow and cum
bersome elevens of past seasons, Sat-
urday's play was so per cent faster
than anything the team has shown
this year. The plays were put off so
quickly that the Iowa men frequently
we're unable to form for the defense
before the Minnesota backs struck the
line. The gophers fairly took their
opponents off their feet in the first
few minutes of play, and before the
first half was very far advanced nearly
every Iowa man was up in the air.
1t was far and away the fastest foot
ball ever seen on Minnesota field,
and nothing much faster has ever been
witnessed in the west.
Line Shows Improvement.
The surprise of the day however,
was not the speed shown by Mime
sofa, for fast play had been expected.
Improvement in the play of the line
men. They got the jump on their op-
ponents continually both on the Of
Tense and on the defense. Expecting
to find weak points in the gopher rush
line, Iowa directed her attacks in the
first half at the Minnesota forwards
but the line held like adamant. Iowa's
plays were stopped at the line or be-
hind it, not in Minnesota's back field.
From tackle to- tackle the line was
impregnable. Pattee, who took
Schacht's place at right tackle, did re-
markable work on the defense, fire.
quently breaking thru and messing up
Iowa's interference. Webster on the
other side did even better work, and
the center trio, Warren, Strathern and
Thorpe, played star football.
Minnesota is not yet playing really
championship ball. The interference
on some of the plays was loose, and
once or twice Iowa's backs were able
to sift thru and get the runner.
OBrien's work in handling punts is
still weak, tho it shows considerable
Improvement. There is also a tend
ency for the linemen to hold or get
offsde, and this fault cost Minnesota
many yards in penalties. But the
general play is remarkably strong for
this time of year. The team as it
played Saturday cannot beat Michigan,
but II as much improvement is made
In the next two weeks as has been
made in the past fortnight, Mime
sofa will give Michigan the hardest
battle that team has ever had. Mich
igan's chances now are not two to one,
nor anything like it,
Iowa Gets Severe Jolt.
1t is not likely that Iowa expected to
win. Some of the students may have
looked for victory, but it is doubtful
II their opinion was shared by Coach
Chalmers or the players. Still the
most pessimistic of the visitors was
startled by the way in which their
supposedly strong team was OUT
classed. In the first half Minnesota
was never checked except when a pen
atty made it necessary to gain from
ten to twenty-five yards to make first
down. Iowa could not gain either
thru the line or around the ends, and
was forced to punt in short order
whenever she got possession of the
pail. Minnesota swept down the field
with regularity which would have
been monotonOus but for the speed of
the play and the spectacular character
of the runs by O'Brien and Davies.
In the second half, Iowa directed
her attack at Minnesota's ends, while
the gophers devoted more attention to
line plunges. Still the hawkeyes
cc;ild not hold the ball for more than
half dozen plays at time even
when Minnesota's offside work en-
abled the visitors to get an occasional
unearned first down. But considering
how seldom Iowa had an opportunity