The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-30
FOOTBALL,
BADGERS LOOK GOOD.
Wisconsin Team Is in Better. Shape
for To-morrow's Game Than
Chicago.
Nebraska Is Expected. to Defeat
# Iowa-Few Close Games
e in East.

BY O'Clock tomorrow evening the
football championship race in the mid
die west will be confined to three, an6
perhaps two, teams Aside from the
Michigan Minnesota contest, the game
which attracts most attention is the
Wisconsin, Chicago struggle at Madi.
son. 1t is hard to predict the outcome
of the struggle, since Wisconsin il
practically an unknown quantity. UP
to the time of the Beloit game two
weeks ago, the badgers were not reck-
oned as dangerous competitors OF
Michigan, Chicago Or Minnesota. The
big score of Curtis men against Be
lott has raised the stock Of the team
considerably, while Chicago suffered
a fall in the estimation of the public
thru her poor showing against North
western. 4 Hi. 30
= Those who saw the Beloit team play
here a week ago believe that score
of 80 against the little badgers does
not indicate great strength. It is the
general opinion of the critics who saw
the game that Minnesota's second
team, which played Beloit could have
scored 80 or 100 points had the play
ers and coaches so desired. This not
wlthstanding Coach HOLSTERS state
ment that his men played better
against Minnesota than against Wis
consin. SO Wisconsin's big score must
be considered meaningless. Her to-
tai of 81 against Knox also Is unim-
portant. The badgers may have a
strong team, or they may be mediocre.
Tomorrow will tell.
Chicago is more seriously regarded
since her defeat of Illinois, supposedly
one of the strongest of the big nine
elevens. If Stages team shows as
form as last weeks play showed over
the Saturday before, the maroons
should win. Unfortunately for Chi
caeo, her team has been badly Grip
tN1, and Coach Stage himself has
kfSn too ill to attend all the practices
this week. Under these circumstances
the badgers should be a strong ia
vorite. With Parry and Hill out Of the
line, and Bezdek and Schnur crippled,
the maroons will be exceedingly lucky
If they escape a crushing defeat-as-
Stunning that the wolf stories are true,
and that Wisconsin has a team equal
to the average in strength.
The Illinois, northwestern game is
another problem. Many pick North
western because that team practically
defeated Chicago, while the Illini were
beaten by the maroons. Men who saw
both games, however, say that Wood
rufus team played as we'll as McCOr-
nack's. If that criticism is correct,
Illinois should win, for Northwestern
Is likely to be. Over-confident while
the weak point of the Illini have been
shown up, and her players will work
harder.
Another game of some Importance
in the west is that between Iowa and
Nebraska. Nebraska is an unknown
quantity, but is generally thought to
be slightly weaker than last year. The
chances favor the cornhuskers. 4+
While it is the general opinion that
the winner of the Michigan Minnesota.
game will win the championship, the
winner Of the Chicago con-
test must be reckoned in the running.
1t may prove that both these two
teams are stronger than has been sup
posed. If Northwestern defeats Illi-
nois, she will still be in the race, the
oretically at least. If Illinois wins,
the victors in the two other contests
will be left to fight it out for the
championship. Should these two teams
be Minnesota and Chicago, and should
Minnesota later beat Wisconsin, and
Chicago defeat Michigan, a tie for the
championship will result. Such a con-
tingency is quite possible, tho remote.
In the east the games are of less
Importance. Yale plays Columbia, and
this must, theoretically, be considered |
a championship contest, in view of
the new OrkerS -Qe1eaL OF FennSyl-
vania. The Ellis, however, are nearly
certain to win the game, and it prom
Uses to be important only as indicating
the comparative strength Of Yale and
Pennsylvania, and also being the
severest tryout Of the season for the
New Haven men. Coach Williams of
Pennsylvania says that the Ellis should |
beat Columbia twenty points.
Princeton engages the Cornell team,
which is an unknown quantity, but
apparently weaker than usual. The |
tigers, altho a middleweight team,
have been playing. in better form than
any Of the other big teams, and the !
contest, while hard, does not appear
especially dangerous for Princeton.
Harvard, on her showing in the last !
two games, should win handily from |
the Carlisle Indians. The crimson
eleven has taken a remarkable BRACE
and cannot yet be counted out. The |
Indians promise to give them no more
than a hard practice game. Pennsyl-
vania meets the heavy but cumber-
some Bucknell team, which will not
prove troublesome if Penn plays in
anything like her real form. The
West Point-Verm ont Brown Williams
and Dartmouth Wesleyan games are
unimportant.