The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22
FEE May COME BACK.
Star Tackle Of 1900 and 1901 Mime
sofa Elevens Is Likely
to Return.
Wisconsin and Michigan Likely to
Be the Chief Contenders
in the West.

Minnesota mas not Deeu dltOSetue1
die. Three good husky young men from
Winona are expected to matriculate at the
this fall, and will try for the
team They are all men of experience and
are considered very good material for the
varsity squad. Their names are Kremer,
oech and Newman, and all are said to be
both heavy and fast
The rooters, however will be more in
terested in the news that Charlie Fee, the
star tackle Of the, 1900 and 1901 Minnesota
teams, may return to the university TINS
fa in which case he will PLAY on N the me ne
while he was member of the team, and he
was declared by Phil Allen. the old Chicago
player to be one of the best round-gainers
1t is understood that Dr. Williams wants
to play Warren tackle on last years team,
at guard, and If Fee returns it is practl,
cally certain that he will take his old
position on the left side Of the line and
that Warren will be moved in.
So far as preseason estimate can de-
eide, Chicago and Michigan will be the chief
ship this year. Stage and Yost have SUI
fered less in the loss OF veteran players
will have practically veteran team, and he
is further fortunate in the fact that he. had
a large percentage of freshmen on his eleven
and second team last year: These men were
very green at the beginning of the season,
as the poor showing made by the maroons
against the smaller colleges showed. BY the
season,
this bunch of raw material into a we'll
drilled team. This year, starting out with
more seasoned bunch of men, Stage has
good chance to develop a team which can an
stop the famous. Michigan attack. 1t will
be a good deal like an irresistible force en-
countering an immovable body.
Michigan has lost Weeks, sweeley- and Nc
Gugin, but she still has Heston, Hernsten.
Jones, Maddox Captain 5Redden, Carter,
Gregory, Graver and Cole. The two last
named were not regulars last year; but both
Internationally varsity caliber. This gives
Yost practically nine old men, besides
bunch of frst-class high school players and
year it was thought Michigan would be weak
after losing Neil Snow, Shorts, Wilson and
Reddner, but the prophecy was incorrect;
d every day. Mesgsn a viii be-
strong-much stronger than Minnesota would
like to have her. The public, as usual,
sticks by the winner, and predicts clean
record for Vests team again.
Wisconsin does not promise to bother the
two teams just mentioned. The badgers have
| lost two good men from the line in Lerum
| and scow, altho the latter last season did
not live up to his reputation Behind the
| line they will be shy Juneau, but this cannot
really be considered a loss, since he played
| Abbott, Vanderboon and Fogg, however, the
| eight veterans left are pretty poor varsity
material, unless they develop considerably.
| What Curtis will do as coach is problemat-
| ical but he will hardly show the craft and
resource of King.
Illinois, with new coach George Wood
the front rank The Him have always been
touted as dangerous dark horses, but have
! never ranked better than fourth at the end
of season. Woodruff declares he will use
| not more than three light men this fall, but
| he may find, as others have done, that his
heavy men do not come up to expectations
OF Stahl and Cook. The list of old var
| sity men and substitutes who will return is
| a long one, but until Illinois demonstrates
her strength she cannot be considered very
/ formidable competitor.
4 Northwestern also is trying a new coach,
I Mccormack of Dartmouth If he makes good
the purple should have a strong team. Many
football critics have long held that North
Westerns poor showing was due to poor
coaching rather than to lack of material II
this theory is correct and ;f # 1S
/ purple may regain the place it held in the
I west in the days Of Potter and Van Doozer
Iowa for the present cannot even be con-
1 sidered good dark horse.
The prospects of Minnesota, and the mer
available for the team, have been so often
discussed that further treatment may seen
superfuous. Briefly stated, Minnesota should
defeat Wisconsin. She has a chance to trim
Michigan, but even a prejudiced critic cannot
admit that the chance is a very big one. II
mate can decide, to the chance that any
team has until the game is over. The pIob
able rank of the gophers at the end of the
! season is second or third.
| Minnesota loses more old men than Wis
! consin, but nevertheless she has more gooe
men left. Truth to tell, the presence upor
the team of Lafans, Knowlton and Val
| Valkenburg last year was a doubtful benefit
| This is said without any wish to discredi
the splendid work done by the last namet
In the Wisconsin game, nor the services o
the other two in various contests. or thu
veterans, however, Rogers, Schacht, Warren
strathern, Harris, Davies. Irstieid and Thorp
all are men ne OF proven v VARSITY caner whs
second team material is above the average.
A feature of Spaldings official Football
Guide for 1903 is an article by Coach Yost o
the Middle West" After reviewing the sea
son of 1902 Yost says:
GAS to the future of football in the middl
west, believe that the standard OF excellenc
will increase each year, and that on
team or several teams will stand in elias
by themselves, as the large universities ar
getting theid equal share of experienced hig
school and collegiate players, who have ha
!, the benefit of good coaching; the tendenc
, will be one of equality. The increased inter
est everywhere manifested in the game wi
suit in a higher standard for the sport gen
orally. The east will need to look to he
, laurels, for no longer do the leading wester
teams consider themselves inferior in any wa
to the best eleven the east can produce.
Prestige is only public sentiment, and on
finds that the public generally west of th
Ohio river believe that game between tn
champion team of the west and the east woul
2 result in favor Of the former. They are will
: ing to undertake the task
1.-THE year 1903 promises to be the most az
tive year in football the west has known. A
the leading universities and colleges are ea
Ipecting strong teams, and any team that wiz
4 the championship this years will have to
E In discussing Football West of the Missi:
= sippi River Captain Westover of the 19(
= Nebraska team makes some remarks whc
: apply as we'll to the so-called middle ives
= and which are there of interest here. Il
) says:
e ''These games that have been played in tt
!. | past few years show that the western ma
O with proper training can put as good gan
+ as the much hearalded easterner. The We
:, is at disadvantage In not having systel
8 the work of one man. Good salaries are pa
: and they get the best men from the east b,
r the latter have not the time to develop tt
8 team as 1t should be developed. In a few yea,
: this Objectionable feature will be oyercom
a as alumni players are helping out with tt
second elevens and as far as they are alb
,. assist the head coach
| Neither the faculties nor the stude
bodies show the spirit yet that makes pla
n Fer think that he is playing for his school,
y Men do not get out as they should, it beil
II hard work to keep second team during t
Ic whole season. Nearly every year there mu
ID be from four to seven new men developed
J. the team, from forty to fifty men being {
J that show up on the field the first of Il
z In couple Of weeks they probably new
g show up again, and at the end of the seas
st there are only about twenty of the faithf
K. left;
- it is probably the way in which they we
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