The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-02
CRASHED IN THE FOGIGIEE SMALL CREDIT
Chicago Writers Fail to Do Justice
to Minnesota for Her Showing
Saturday.
Stages Eleven Still Reckoned in the
Running Northwestern Stock
Goes Up.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Nov. p Commenting on
Saturdays football games the Tribune
this morning says:
A tie between Michigan and Minnesota,
the two strongest teams to-day in the
west; a victory for Chicago, for which one
man was In measure responsible; a hair
breadth b which places Northwestern
In line for a. claim on the
championship; railway disaster,
which plotted out the athletic prospects
of Purdue, and two Overwhelming. VIC
tories In the east were the results Of Sat-
urday, Oct 81, the red letter day Of the
football season of 1903.
The games Of Saturday were expected
! to simplify materially the western foot
ball championship situation. Instead, that
| situation has been complicated. Barring
a tie" the critics had said, two or per-
haps three teams will be left as candi-
dates for premier; honors.'' The tie re-
suited and there are, still four contenders
1 Further than that, the schedules for the
! rest OF. the season are so arranged that in
/ certain contingencies none Of these four
can have a clear title, while, on the other
/ hand, In certain other contingencies, Wis
tconsin, an outsider, might land the PEN
nant.
The games yet to be played which have
a distinct bearing on the championship,
are: Chicago Michigan, Minnesota-Wis
consin, Wisconsin Michigan and Wiscon-
sin Northwestern. On the result OF these
games much depends. The possibilities
are these:
II Chicago beats Michigan and wis
consin beats Minnesota, Chicago will lead.
4 If Michigan beats Wisconsin and CHI
cago, and Wisconsin wins its two other
big games Michigan will be the only, team
with a clear record. If Minnesota beats
i Wisconsin, Michigan beats Chicago, and
/ WISCONSIN heat re- NTichioar and Norfhuyes.
tern, Minnesota will be the leader. If
| Northwestern beats Wisconsin, Wiscon-
sin beats Minnesota and Michigan, and
Michigan beats Chicago, Northwestern can
claim first honors. This last looks like a
long shot, but these four are the only
possibilities for any team to show score
sheet unmarried by defeat. An unbroken
series Of victories for Wisconsin, with a
4 defeat for Chicago on Thanksgiving day,
would give Curtis team a chance to claim
first rank. Other combinations Of defeats
and victories would result in various ties
1 Any Of the possibilities mentioned may
4 turn out to be a reality, and therefore
the fight will be on for nearly another
/ months. It ise. new thing to be figuring
Northwestern as. q, championship factor,
but under Walter McCormick's coaching
the purple has won the right to recogni-
ton: So far it is one Of the four I'M
beaten teams. To hazard a prediction as
to which. if any, of these will be un-
Il beaten Nov. 26 would be rash. #
~ Greatest Game In Years.
In considering the showing Of the teams
on Saturday it must be said that the
: greatest game Of any, east or west, was
the Michigan Minnesota game. Nothing
, of recent years can compare with 1t, save
J only the Michigan Wisconsin game last
: year.
It was a game in which two teams, as
, nearly perfect in men and In ability as
. teams can well be, were matched togethet
: by two coaches, masters In their art
] i Judging from the storycof the game
: Michigan should have; won Yost's mer
o. gained most ground by straight plungtng
: To Minnesota, however, is due all praise
!, for the great fight after Michigan's score
I and the irresistible plugging that won thu
: touchdown in the last few moments O.
:. play. 81
al The Record Herald says:
- E-..A flay of sensational football games still
left four teams in the running for the ives
d tern championship 1t was on the card
h 4 for. three Of the six teams who played Sat
: urday to be put out Of lists, but the grea,
i tie game at Minneapolis upset calculaS
h lions, and as consequence both Mich
# gan and Minnesota are still on the grid
o iron map.
1t Startling surprises over the results eth
n err east or west did not materialize. Al
Is the games4in the west at least were con
;. sidered even propositions before the team
J. met. Michigan and Minnesota wer
l. thought evenly matched, and so it turne'
e out. Chicago and Wisconsin had a.
n equally solid phalanx Of adherents tn
n week before the game, and the same he'll
true with Illinois and Northwestern.
"A Score Is Unsatisfactory
Altho comforting to partisans Of Mich
/ igan and Minnesota, under the circurn
stances the score at Minneapolis must b
considered unsatisfactory to football en-
thusiasts in general tie leaves tn
question of superiority open for endles
arguments and the brilliant contest be
tween the wolverines and gophers wi
probably not be an exception. Shout
both teams go thru the season undefeate
nothing but a post season game coul
bring an end to arguments which WI
otherwise last until the next gridiron sea
/ son rolls around. re. 5iss
[ The Record Herald says:
+ without counting the chickens befor
they are Matched local football enthusiast
1 see visions of the real championship gam
on Marshall Field on Thanksgiving day
q. when Michigan. meets Chicago. tn
maroons will meet the Haskell Indian
next Saturday and this will PRACTICAL
wind up their western campaign unit
Thanksgiving day. The outcome OF tn
game with West Point in the east ca
have no bearing on the western title.
Michigan has a harder schedule, br
betting on what. has happened, Mtchiga
should defeat wisconsin, Oberlin and Obi
state OF course the Wisconsin game No
IA is not by any: means a foregone cor
o y, cluston, but the wolverine rooters cour
he confidently on victory.
ss. Wisconsin and Illinois must be counte
> f. out, and that. leaves Northwestern an
Minnesota. Northwestern has only or
~ hard game left on its schedule before