The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-19
GREAT RESPECT
FOR GOPHERS
Chicago Football Critics Look on
Minnesota Aggregation With
Fear and Admiration.
They Think champio Lies Be.
tween Minnesota and Mich
gan This Year.
Special to The journal.

upoll MiciliSdH, falLl.O minnesota has prob
ably the greatest eleven in its history this
fall. Wisconsin viii! be kept in the same
class with Michigan and the gophers until
1t mas its first big game. Then it will be
lett to itself to prove whether or not it
belongs there. 2
/; Mlnnesota's victory over Iowa by a score
Of IS to shows where the gophers are at
this year. They will take a great beat
Ing and the team which can do this will
have to be. wonderful aggregation. Mich
1gan has nothing to complain about by
beating Indiana by a score of 81 to o.
While at this distance the count looks a
bit disappointing, when compared with
the scores run up by Minnesota and Wis
consin, the boosters may have improved
not little since Chicago beat them by a
score of "a to 9 on Oct. 8, two weeks be-
fore. s j. -.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan are
still holding off,. None of these schools
has a hard game scheduled =; wisconsin
will play little Knox, an easy contest for
the cardinal indeed Michigan will meet
Drake. while Minnesota will go up against
Beloit. That poor little badger college is
surely having a hard row of stumps to
hoe. First it was Michigan with q ~ to
o.: score. Then it was Wisconsin, with a
score Of 81 to 0. Next it will be Mime
sofa and only the fates of football can tell
what that score will be. The men must
that they dread the daily training and
the team will be a plucky one, indeed, If
it goes thru the entire season under such
terrible defeats. OF course, Minnesota
viii try to pile up a greater score than did
wisconsin: Maybesit wilIstry to make as
many as Michigan and Wisconsin made
together. When the fierce gopher play
against Iowa Is remembered, 1T may be
that Mime >ota can do even this.
Anyway the statement made the Begin
ming, of the season that the west will see
some Of the greatest football it ever saw
this year, still holds, and with firmer
grip than ever. So
What the Record Herald Says. ):
The Record-Herald says. :.
/ ! Michigan by defeating Indiana 81 to %,
did the expected. Minnesota by It's. rs
points against Iowa gives new foundation
to, thesbelief that the gophers are likely
to give ''Yost's machine with its two
years of success a great game week
from next Saturday. Wisconsin, by eclip-
ing Michigari's total against Beloit,s gives
warning that Coach Curtis and his green
[sauaa naY have sonnet l,tns thea.
r The failure ST the maroon 1tns 10 come
after. the Purdue game, and the Ills with
the purple will. for the present att least
put Chicago below Michigan, Minnesota
and perhaps Wisconsin, in figuring form in
championship possibilities. But it can by
no means be counted out of it. and the
temporary setback may bring Improve:
ments In the next two weeks which will
again put the midway warriors in the
front rank.
The big scores of Minnesota, Michigan
and wisconsin make these teams look like
the present leaders for western champion.
ship, at least so far as early scores. car
ever give a line on championship posi-:
bilities.
| : The gophers' Is points against Iowa not
| only put another big nine college out
! Of the running, but show more forcib1J
than ever that DR.. Williams men will
| have more speed than they have eVel
shown before. t..s,sae . : /: ( 1{s%ss
| While the sgophers were busy with the
fhawkeyes, however, Michigan was no
idle. I. The team which has held the leader.
| ship of the west for the past two year.
added twenty points to the total made
| by Chicago against Indiana, and that while
Yost was away at Minneapolis, getting
pointers on the gophers' play. There i!
| no keener observer of football tactics thar
the gridiron general at Ann 5Arbor. Tht
| Minnesota game now looks to be the hard
! est on his schedule. 1t will be a grea
/ game when the opponents Of last Thanks
| giving Day meet, that is certain, but, al
| tho he has fewer veterans than any of thu
4 other coaches, when Yost sends his meI
i on the field at Minneapolis the gOphers
\ strong as they are, will do well to look t.
4 their laurels. "a s..g I, E., ts.. 49,
T. Wisconsin. took a turn at comparativ,
figures, and by running 81 points on Be
1 lott not only beat Michigan's sscor,
against the same team week earlier b,
s. points,, but also set a new high scor,
mark for a badger team. The points
difference does not by any means show tn,
Madison men stronger than the wolver
ines but 1t does prove that Coach Curti
! Is rounding his men into form. The bad
gers look. dangerous enough to be- highl,
considered, at least until some of thei
old time rivals show ability to stop them
On the same dc that Michigan and Min
nesota meet, y Oct. 81, Chicago will 4pIa,
WISCONSIN at Madison, and when thes,
4 two contests are. over.4the race for frs
.honors will have been narrowed dow,
perceptibly. 52
Other Comments.
4 The Tribune says:
4 Judged by Saturdays game 1t now look
as if the western teams ranked in the fol
lowing order: Michigan. Minnesota, Wis
1 consin, With Chicago, Illionis, and North
western closely punched for fourth hon
ors. That is the way itlooks. taking Sat
urdays games a a basis. Whether or no
that basis is a just one is up to Stage t,
/ show.
On the results Of Saturdays game
4 Michigan, as before, rules the favorite
/ with Minnesota "a strong second. Wis
i consin's great showing against Beloit put
Curtis men well toward the front.
The American says: "Minnesots
| doomed up strongly Saturday, com
i pletely showing under the. hawkeyes
1.-THE gophers are certainly strong Thu
|, year and Coach Chalmers men arr
4 certainly weak.
The Examiner says: "The Wiscon
sin and Michigan scores are enough
to send cold chills up and down tn,
mareons spines. These chills SHOULD
! do them some good, too. AS matters
now stand, it looks as If the western
champi lay between Michigan
and Minnesota, with Wisconsin ,tlirt
and Northwestern and Chicago claim
4 ing fourth position. .
BROKE WORLDS RECORD.
Denver, Col.. Oct. 19.-By dressing 4 Il ,aod
pound steer in three minutes and thirty-ef9ht sec
onds Jacob Baer; employed in local packing
/ plant. has reduced the worlds record by twent
4 seconds and incidentally won the western cham