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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
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Minnesota, it is known, will come to
Madison determined to play winning
football, and the problem of the short
intervening time is how to stem the
tide. The practice this week will not
be hard, but will be aimed at perfect
ing the team in signals and bracing so
that costly mistakes may be avoided.
The team is a trifle over-trained as
it is. This fact, and the frozen
ground, being the reason why scrim-
IMAGES were omitted last week.
Trainer O'Dea has informed Coaches
Curtis and Mccarthy that only SO
much work as is absolutely necessary
ought to be given.
The Wisconsin team came home
early yesterday morning. There has
been no demonstration for the play
ers, and the disappointment over the
tie by Northwestern is gerater than
that which followed the pleasant
brush at Ann Arbor. All the players
are in as good physical condition and
better than expected Captain Alb
bolt is the worst off, but not much
worse than last week. There is not to
be any shake-up of the team, tho it
has been announced that Baine will
take the place of Wrabetz.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23

them. I think Chicago can
beat the Michigan team that was put
on the field to-day, but I will not at
tempt to say what the result will be
when our regulars get in. However,
Michigan is not going to score any
thing like seven touchdowns, as I saw
some one quoted after the Wisconsin
Michigan game. Your man Curtis is
a good one, and Hammond and Ecker
sail will no doubt be a standoff."
J. r. koehler, assistant coach for
Chicago, said: II have seen both the
Wisconsin and Oberlin games here,
shade the better over Chicago to win
the Thanksgiving Day game, but there
are three days left yet, and a lot Of
things can happen in these days. /
should say James is a better man than
Norcross at quarter
One thing was settled by the Wis
sin-NorthWestern game Saturday.
Northwestern is out Of the champion
ship calculations entirely, altho she
Will still be undefeated by q western
team after Thanksgiving Day. Her
showing of inferiority to wisconsin
proves beyond doubt that she is not
IN a class with Michigan or Mime
sofa. Even should Wisconsin beat the
gophers Thanksgiving day. the winner
be acknowledged champion, while if
Minnesota wins, llonors will be divided
between her and Michigan or Chicago.
Had Northwestern played as hard a
schedule as Chicago, Michigan, Mime
sofa or Wisconsin, she would UNI
doubtedly have been defeated ere this.
The defeat Of Illinois by Iowa. was
a slight surprise, yet most Of the close
followers of the game We're ready for
almost any result. Illinois has made
the worst showing in years, having
lost fives games; those with Chicago
Northwestern, Indiana, Minnesota and
Iowa. Probably the eleven had lost
its nerve from successive defeats when
It met the flawkeyes. The Nebraska
Illinois game Thursday looks like q
cinch for the cornhuskers.
The result Of the Yale-Harvar6
game occasioned no surprise. Yale
was regarded as an almost. sure win.
ner, yet Harvard was recognized as
steadily improving team, and the goot
stand of the losers only fulfilled the
expectations of many,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
NEAR The CLIMAX
Western Football Season Nears It's
Close-Deductions From Games
Of Saturday.
Northwestern Will Claim Tie for
Championship if Chicago
Team Beats Michigan.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Services.
Chicago, Nov. 23.-Western football
for the season Of 1903 is near to its
climax. OF the regularly scheduled
remain. OF the hundreds of games
that will be played in the west that
day, but two will have direct bearing
on the championship, and these two
are now absorbing the bulk of public
attention. Next Thursday tens Of
thousands of enthusiasts will go out
to see Chicago and Michigan and Wis
consin and Minnesota in the last bat
tie of a season that has been marked
by high-class football and brilliant,
sensational plays
The game Of Saturday left the sit-
uation practically unchanged. North
western came out of it's struggle with
Wisconsin unbeaten, contrary to gem
eral expectations. McCornack's elev-
EN- has made wonderful showing,
having now finished it's season of west
ern play unbeaten. Undoubtedly this
seasons Northwestern team is the best
the Evanston school ever had. For
/ the first time in many years North
western is a factor in determining the
championship.
The inability of the purple team
to win three Of its games must be a
disappointment to it's supporters. A
record Of three tie games in season
! 10 ALidoIulIldIy. LIE SdIllGS dTG gem
orally disappointing. Northwestern's tie
with Chicago partook Of the nature of
! a, victory because of the very surprise
! of it, and because Of the superior
ground gaining ability the purple
showed at that time. Northwestern
/ has been greater as a defensive than
as an offensive team. The Northwestern
offense has improved little if any since
| the Chicago game. To offset this,
however, Mccormack has stiffened his
line until it has become almost invul-
nerable.
Naturally there is discussion just
now as to Northwestern's right to
claim the championship. This right
/ seems to hinge on the outcome of the
i Chicago Michigan game. If Chicago
wins Northwestern undoubtedly will
lay claim to first rank and probably
will want a post-season game with
4 Chicago to settle the tie game played
more likely, Northwestern will have
no valid claim on the coveted title.
/ Michigan won from Wisconsin deci-
4 sively.... Northwestern was able to tie
Wisconsin by taking advantage Of bad
ger fumbles and penalties. Chicago
, men will not be willing to grant
! Northwestern's claim to the cham
pionship if Chicago wins on Thanks
giving Day. They hold that since Chi
cago beat Wisconsin,, a team which
Northwestern failed to defeat, Chicago
q has prior claims. Northwestern holds
that in view of it's clear record, and
especially in view Of it's tie with Chi
cago, it has a right to class with Chi
4 cago. no matter what happens.
+ hAltho Chicago men may not admit
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
BADGERS FEEL GLOOMY
NO Confidence That Wisconsin VIII
Beat Gophers Thursday.

Madison Y; Wis, Nov. 2s.-Conidence
1 Ina wisconsin will whip Minnesota
,,I !. there is not a suspicion of
u IN Mad1son:. The opinion prevails
and gold would be a gift of fortune
ana not demonstration Of superiority.
Notwithstanding the fact that bad
luck urndid the badgers Saturday. the
game ending a tie by reason Of a
touchdown Northwestern gained with
the assistance of an untimely tumble.
contemplation of the THANKSGIVING dav
contest is gloomy in the extreme
And there is no threat now OF in
sistirg that the "Minnies'' be ladvlike.
That incident is closed, the only rem
nant being feeling that Michigan
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23

game at Ann Arbor, but the fact that in
three successive games the cardinal men
have been unable to get single victory,
with the last hard game but four days be-
fore the Thanksgiving Day contest, can
not but dishearten Curtis men and prove
big handicap to them at Madison.
In consequence the Michigan Chicago
contest will be the big one next Thurs
day and its result is likely to do more to
determine the western leadership than any
other. If Chicago can win this game by a
good sized score, to all who consider that
the Wisconsin tie put the purple out Of
the running, the maroons will look to be
the virtual if not the actual champions.
If Michigan wins, the wolverines will
have to dispute their title with Minnesota,
unless the badgers should do the unex-
pected and defeat Coach Williams men at
Madison.
The Chronicle says:
After Saturdays battles on the gridiron
the situation in the west remains exactly
the same as it was three weeks ago.
Probably never in the history Of foot
ball have the conditions in the west been
SO complicated. Three weeks ago Satur-
day Chicago beat wisconsin at Madison
and put that one big school out of the
running. That left four colleges to bat
tie for the western championship--Chi
go, Michigan, Minnesota and Northwest
ern.
Four Teams Still In 1t.
The same four colleges are still in the
fighting to-day, with practically no
changes in the situation unless one lets
the difference in scores count in the de-
Gliding. AS it looks now, the season will
have to end without any one being able
to point to one institution and say:
There is the champion team Of the
vest
There is, however, one possibility that
| might give one team a c.ean title. That
is Yost's wolverines. Michigan has the
only eleven in which there is a possibility
of having the western honors without be-
| ing disputed by some. rival.
However, the possibility that would give
| the supremacy again to the Ann Arbor
eleven is SO doubtful that no one, not
even the supporters of the maize and blue,
are considering it. Two. difficulties would
have to be overcome. One is that the
! Michigan team defeat Stages maroons
Thursday at Marshall field. That is no,
SO great and the rooters at, Ann Arbol
will have plenty of money to back up Their
! team in the event. The other is thai
| Wisconsin, which has lost to Chicago anc
Michigan and tied with Northwestern
defeat Minnesota at Madison this week
| The latter difficulty is too great to be
considered by any Of the followers Of
| the game.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
LEAVE TOMORROW NIGHT
Gopher Squad Is Off for Wisconsin to
Meet Badgers

The Minnesota football team will
leave for Wisconsin Tuesday night.
They will spend Wednesday in Mil
waukee, going to the badger capital
Ihursday morning. The Milwaukee
Alhletlc club has offered the team the
use Of it's gymnasium, and practice
viii be held there Wednesday. Two
days more hard work remains for the
squad before leaving. The gridiron on
Northrop field has been covered with
nay Tor a week, SO that last nights
snoWtal! will not interfere with prac-
tice. Inc second and third teams will
get trip to Madison as a reward Of
patriotism.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
Easy for Notre Dame.

Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 23.-The game be-
tween Notre Dame and Ohio Medical uni
versity Saturday, resulting in a score Of
35 to 0 for Notre Dame, was disappoint-
ing in several particulars. The attendance
was small a, crowd of about 1900 coming
out. 1t was evident at all times that the
needles We're outclassed, and that TIE
only question was as to Notre Dame S
score.
The "medics" advanced infreauentIy
and then thru the right Of the Notre Dame
line, where they seemed to have discovered
a vulnerable point in Steiner and Furlong.
The features were the play Of Salmon and
Spencer and two runs by Shaugh messy OF
ninety and thirty yards.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
YALE MAKES $4,000
Neat Profit for Ellis in This Years
Football Season.

New York Sun Special Service.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 23.-It was
figured last night by some Of the
Yale football officials that the Yale
Football association would this year,
after paying all expenses, have a bal
ance in the treasury of about $50, 900.
This will make the past season foot
ball at Yale the most profitable in the
history of the game at this university
or any university in the country, it is
stated. 1t was estimated that Yale's
profit from the Columbia game in
New York would be about $4,000.
Her net gain from the Princeton
game was put down at $4,000. Yale's
share Of the Harvard game money
will net at least $4,000. The total
net receipts for Yale for the season
will be therefore about $4,000, leav-
ing a net profit Of over $4,000.
4. Yale's net receipts last season ag-
gregated $4,000. Out of this came
an expenditure Of about SIG 5000 fol-
new grand stands on the football field
.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
TWAS RATHER TAME
Varsity Scores 40 Points on Aggies
Without Any Playing Burst
ing Blood Vessels.
Minnesota Now Needs but 5 Points
to Break Record for a
Seasons Score.
Saturdays Scores.
WEST.

WEST.
Minnesota 40, State Agricultural o.
Wisconsin 6, Northwestern s.
Michigan AZ, Oberlin 0.
Iowa 12 Illinois 0.
Notre Dame So. Ohio NEEDLES O.
Nebraska 81, Bellevue 10.
Wabash TO- Depauw 0.
Ames Seconds Is, Red Oak 0.
Wisconsin Freshmen II, Chicago Fresh
men 0.
EAST.
Yale 16. Harvard 0.
Lehigh II, Lafayette Q.
Rutgers 0. Franklin and Marshall ..
Virginia Polytechnic II, Annapolis 0.
Virginia 6, Carlisle 6.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23
FOUR TEAMS IN IT
Chicago Papers Figure Northwest
ern Still Factor in Calculations
for the Championship.
Defeat Is Predicted for the Badgers
When They Meet Minnesota
Thursday.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Nov. 23.-rhe Tribune this
morning in commenting OH the foot
ball situation, says:
The Saturday before Thanksgiving
which usually brings a, pause in the foot
bal. battle, because so many teams save
themselves for the final games of their
schedule on turkey day. was more con-
spicuous in the west than in the east
this year. The reason was that the Yale.
Harvard game of last Saturday was of
secondary Importance to the football en-
thusiast in general to the Yale Princeton
game Of the previous week, while the
Northwestern-W Wisconsin contest here had,
or was expected to have, considerable
bearing on the disposition Of final honors.
The tie score which resulted did have
considerable bearing on the situation IN
the west, but only in the way Of com
p-icating affairs. The situation in which
Northwestern supporters find themselves
is unique, to say the least. Mccormack S
men have completed their western sched-
ule, which probably was as hard as any
Northwestern team has played in recent
years, without having a defeat registered
against them, yet the showing they have
made against teams which have been de-
feated by other colleges leaves their po-
sition in the western football ranks an
exceedingly uncertain and debatable one
games between Chicago and Michigan and
between Minnesota and Wisconsin may dc
something to clear the atmosphere. but
at present the situation is extremely com.
plicated.
Record Herald Comment.
The Record-Herald says:
With the close of the football season
but three days away, it now seems i'm.
probable that the remaining games car
definitely establish western champion
ship The results Of Saturday leave fou]
teams-Michigan Minnesota, Chicago anc
Observation-Disclosures in the west
The Thanksgiving Day games between
Michigan and Chicago and between Min
nesota and Wisconsin may put two o
these teams out Of the running, but a
least two universities will be left to dis
! .pute any claim for a championship
whether or not the grounds for the disput,
are strictly tenable.
Atmosphere Partially Cleared.
| Saturdays tie, unsatisfactory as such
game usually is, did help somewhat il
| clearing the atmosphere. While it leave
Northwestern undefeated, the fact that tn
purple In its late season form was unabl
1 to win from a team which Chicago ha,
beaten 15 to 6, indicates that the purpl
can hardly claim eql'ality with the ma
rooms on the strength Of the early tie be
tween the two local elevens. At the sam
time the inability of the badgers to bette
improve their opportunities makes tn
Mime sota-Wisconsin game appear to b
an easy one for the gophers.
\ Not alone did the badgers work Of Sat
iurday compare unfavorably with thei
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23

In q most innocuous and at times
farcical exhibition of football on
Northrop field Saturday, Minnesota
ran up score OF ~ on the state aSll-
cultural college.
Minnesota adherents are now con-
fdent that Minnesota will beat Michi-
gan's score Of 644 to IL, made last
year, and the largest score ever made
by a western team in one season, IL
not the largest ever made in this coun-
try. Minnesota now has total OF
$40 points to her credit, and one
touchdown against Wisconsin will
bring her total for the season above
that Of the Michigan 1902 eleven.
The agricultural team, while about
as beefy as the gophers, was very
green. It has been practicing for only
q. month, and up to that time many
of the players had never seen a foot
ball Under the circumstances Coach
Aune Is entitled to considerable credit
for the quality of play shown by his
pupils, who gave good exhibition of
straight football. altho showing weak
ness in the fine points of the game.
Several experiments We're tried in
the Minnesota lineup in the first half.
Varco ~-0s tried out at quarter, and
Thorpe mt to fullback, giving Big
Smith a nance at right guard. With
the exception Of Kremer in Irsfield' s
team was made up of regulars. 49,. q.
An Element of Comedy.
Northrop field was covered a foot
deep with hay and this added an ele-
nent of comedy to the game, as the
center and quarter were obliged to dig
holes in the hay whenever the ball was
passed. Some difficulty was expert
enced in finding the center of the grid
iron for the first kickoff. The hay
made fast play difficult, and under the
circumstances the team played a good
game, scoring practically at will
Varco showed UP in excellent form at
quarter. He made touchdown by
a forty-yard end run two minutes after
the game opened and shortly after
broke thru the whole agricultural
team after catching q punt, and rar
Z forty-five yards for another score. He
handled kicks cleanly, showed grea
speed in carrying the ball and ran the
team well.
In the first half the first team made
four touchdowns, and Rogers kicked
all four goals. The only criticism
upon the teams work was the ole
tendency to offside play. This has
cost scores in some of the most i'm
portant games of the year, and is {
fault hardly excusable at this date
especially in so easy a game.
In the second half the whole sec
ond team went in. Little Smith raj
the eleven from quarter Gleason
Weisel and Neussle made up the res
of the backfield, and the line included
kjelland at center, Kicker and Benson
at guards, Brown and Oech at tackles
and Luce and Tuck at ends. Late
Hunter went in at left end and Deer
Ing at left half. The second team wa
+ even more successful than the regu
lars, scoring five touchdowns, bu
Gleason made poor showing in kick
ing goals, failing to land one. Glea
son, however, played a good gam
otherwise, scoring one touchdown b
q forty-yard run after catching
punt. We1sel and Neussle did goo
work in advancing the ball.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23

1t does not seem that Wisconsin has
a team of the same caliber as Minis
nesota. vet in spite of this fact, and :
in spite of the probable poor condi- {
ton of wisconsin, Minnesota has not
cinch, It is very hard to beat Wis
consin at Madison, as many Mime
sofa, team has learned to its sorrow.
Overconfidence may cost the gophers
dear, as it has in the past. But If the
team plays up to it's form, Wiscon-
sins chances are exceedingly slim.
One thing which will count against
Minnesota is the weakness which she
has shown this season, as III the past,
in advancing the ball when inside her
opponents twenty-yard line. This was
strikingly evident in the Michigan
game, and was also apparent In
lesser degree in some of the less i'm
portant contests Wisconsin has 4
reputation Of several years standing
for fighting hard under the shadow
of her own goal posts, and unless
Minnesota can put the needed extra
steam on at critical times the badgers
may furnish a surprise.
Saturdays games threw little light
upon the situation as regards the
other great Thanksgiving Day game
/ that between Michigan and Chicago.
On the past records Of the two teams
! the contest appears a foregone con-
clusion. In spite of the far superior
showing of Michigan, however, critics
have recognized the fact that Chicago
was a team of magnificent POSSIBLE,
tiles, and that Stages men might give
Michigan a surprise if they could once
reach the highest form which the in
dividual ability of the players justi-.
fed.
The showing made by the maroons
against West Point indicated the pos
/ sibility that the maroons had at last
struck their gait, and they are now
conceded a fair fighting chance. Coach
] Yost of Michigan is in receipt of
most interesting letter from Captain
/ Charles King of West Point. Captain
/ King witnessed the Chicago Wisconsin
i game early in the season and also saw
last Saturdays game between Chicago
and West Point. In his opinion, as
4 improved 200 per cent since he first
i saw them play, and he predicts no
4 easy game for the wolverines on
! Thanksgiving Day. He considers
/ Eckersall in a class with Quarterback
j DAILY, who has the reputation of be-
4 says that the quickness with which.
Eckersall gets the plays off and the
i #cleverness with which he handles
Epunts are wonderful
Coach stage and Assistant Coach
! Koehler, who saw the Michigan-o ber-
lin game Saturday, expressed the opin-
] ion that Michigan was slightly strong
er than Chicago, but not enough to
! cinch the game Stage said:
AT this moment Michigan has the
i better chance to win in the Thanks
j giving day game. I cannot predict
/ the result, but saw enough to-day to
4 convince me that Chicago must put
4 in hard training In the next few days.
Michigan had in a substitute back field
to-day, and altho ragged in spots, they
4 put UP a fast and snappy game, and,
4 with the regulars in, it makes it all
the harder proposition for Chicago.
.sOberlin put up a. hard offense for
so light a team, but Michigan over