The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-29
FOOTBALL
MANCHESTER NEXT
Minnesota Will Play Practice
Game With Football Team From
Midway Tomorrow.
Secret Signal Practice the Order Of
the Day at Northrop
Field.
Games Tomorrow.

Games Tomorrow.
Mime ota- Manchester at Northrop field.
Chicago-Monmouth at Chicago.
Illinois Osteopaths at Champaign.
Northwestern-Alumni at Evanston.
Harvard -Bowdoin at Cambridge.
Yale-Tufts at New Haven.
Princeton Swarthmore at Princeton.
Penn FRANKLIN and Marshall at Philadelphia.
Columbia Wesleyan at New York.
Cornell alfred at Ithaca.
Carlsle-St. Mary's at Carlisle.
Dartmouth Massachusetts State College at Han
Tomorrow afternoon the university
football team will meet Manchester col
lege on NorthrOp field In practice game.
The game will be fifteen minute halves.
and the admission will be % cents to all
parts of the field. The Manchester team
has been coached by George Mueller, the
old varsity guard. DR.. Williams has not
yet decided upon the varsity team, but
it is probable that the gophers will line UP
as follows:
Left end, Rogers (captain): left tackle.
Warren, Oech; left guard, Benson, Rus
sell; center, Strathern; right guard. Bur-
dick, Pattee; right tackle, Webster; right
end, Marshall Tuck; quarter, O'Brien;
left half, Davies, Bergen; right half, 1rs-
field, Neussle; fullback. Thorpe, Currant.
Several other games will be played in
the east and west tomorrow, but none
Is Of Importance. Chicago's contest with
Monmouth will be simply a question Of
the size Of the score. Illinois plays the
osteopaths at Champaign, and Northwest
ern meets the alumni at Evanston. In
the east Princeton opens her schedule with
a game against Swarthmore. Harvard
meets Bowdoin, and Yale engages with
Tufts, while Pennsylvania opposes Frank
lin and Marshall. All the other big east
ern teams have games except Columbia,
West Point and Brown.
In the west. Wisconsin and Michigan
have not yet started their schedules, and
neither will play a game until Saturday.
Secret signal practice was the order Of
the day at Northrop field yesterday. The
first team men worked behind closed
gates. while the rooters were RECALLED by
a. hot scrimmage the campus between
the second and third teams. DR.. Williams
spent nearly an hour drilling the varsity
eleven in various plays, working for speed
and accuracy. The work showed great
Improvement in both these respects.
Before the team lined up for the signal
practice the men were given special drill
in handling punts. Minnesota was weak
in handling the ball In the Carleton game
Saturday, and yesterday half an hour was
spent in drilling the players in this de-
partment Of the game. Gleason, Thorpe,
Burdick and Kremer did the punting, and
the men caught the twisters better toward
the close of the practice.
More time than usual was spent in work
with the tackling dummy The men were
told to run full speed at the machine,
and special attention was devoted to
teaching the players to tackle lower Trs-
field. Rogers and Thorpe did the best
work. but in general the squad showed up
very poorly. The men were also drilled
in charging the dummy as tho 1t were
the body Of an opponent, brushing it out
Of the way.
Several Of the men are still on the hos
pital list still further emphasizing the
need Of a competent trainer Schacht,
who has been out for a week and was
for q time threatened with typhoid fever.
will be out In a few days. Bob Marshall
Is on the side lines with a sore leg Sig
Harris, whose elbow was dislocated a
week ago, Is improving rapidly and viii
be out in suit within week or two.
Luce was on the field yesterday, but Is
not able to take part In the practice.
The only important feature of the prac-
tice yesterday was the trying out of
Thorpe at guard. Thorpe played this po-
sition In Pillsbury academy, and has
worked In the line on the varsity SQUAD
more or less during the last two years
but has played most of the time in the
back field. Many believe he will make
better forward than a back.
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