The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-18
GOPHER VICTORY BY
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Minnesota Viii Have a Hard
FightWith Badgers Thanks
giving Day.
BY BILLY MAC.

Tire IHduhSSlNiuS udy game d runaway
from the Badgers, Coach Williams ar
rayed his players in extra heavy cloth
ing yesterday afternoon, and, despite
the cold weather, the team went
through its practice on Northrop field.
AS everyone expected, DR.. Williams,
on his return from Chicago, gave the
lie to the interview in which he was
quoted as saying that Minnesota would
double the score rolled up against
Wisconsin by Michigan, and the Min>
nesota coach, while working hard to
land the victory for the maroon and
gold, politely declines to even guess
at the possible score.
The fact is. to put it plainly, Mime
sofa has one of the hardest games of
it's season, if not the hardest, in front
of her. Chicago and Michigan both
defeated Wisconsin, fjbut these defeats
were not of the kind that should set
the Minnesota rooters off on a reckless
chase for easy money! Eckersall won
the Wisconsin game for Chicago, and
not once did the MaroonS get across
the Badger line. Michigan scored a
touchdown, but an unfortunate tumble
alone made this touchdown possible.
Hammond made the rest of the points
with his mighty boot.
Michigan really won from the Wiscon-
sin team by having men able to pull
victories out of the fire with the kick
ing game. Minnesota up to date has
not developed such a; kicker The
nearest the maroon and gold comes to
this style of play is in her colored
player, Marshall. Whether he is, to
use slang expression, "the goods or
not remains to be seen. DR.. Williams
I,3e Oh {s1,.l nEz
prepare him for the game with Curtis
men, or the colored man may not ap-
pear the goods to the Minnesota coach
and may be left out of the lineup. 1t
would be hard for Curtis if Minnesota
did turn Marshall loose and goals from
the field cost the third big game Of
Wisconsin's hard season.
Minnesota has the greatest football
team in the history of the university,
and the enthusiasts have the right to
believe that this time the Gophers,
despite the fact that the Badgers
have dropped but three games on her
home grounds In the last twelve years.
are going down to Madison to win.
Minnesota enthusiasts have the right
to expect the victory. but they must
not, in their enthusiasm, forget the fact
that the Wisconsin team is a real foot
ball team, upon par with Michigan
and Chicago, and that the game will
be a hard one for the Gophers.
Gophers Have an Advantage.
Minnesota has an advantage over
Wisconsin, but how much this advan-
tage amounts to remains for Saturday
to decide. Wisconsin has played
through hard schedule, and on Sat-
urday will meet Northwestern, which,
on paper, looks a hard game, but
whether this game with the purple will
disable the Badger players remains to
be seen. Northwestern came out of
her last game badly crippled, and un-
less her men are able to get back into
shape before Saturday. the Wisconsin
team is promised nothing more than
hard practice game.
Minnesota may play a game Satur-
day, but as yet the contest has not
been arranged. A game with st. Thorn
as college has been suggested and it is
more than probable that the Saints
will be invited to furnish the Gophers
their last practice of the season.
In the Wisconsin camp the feeling is
much the same as encountered in for
mer years. Every Wisconsin student
has always singled tout Minnesota as
the one team for the Badgers to defeat,
and the team, like all former teams,
will go into the game against the Co
piers imbued with this feeling. Wis
consin, too, has~been lucky on her own
grounds, and this also will encourage
the Badger players. 70
There is but one thing to fear in the
coming clash with Curtis men, and
that one thing is overconfidence. At
the present time the Minnesota men
are working hard for a game that does
not appear easy, and if this feeling can
be held until the battle, all will be easy
Minnacnto mis-
this modest feeling has helped the Min
nesota team of 1903 on to it's victories.
The Gophers are separated from the
public as much as possible by their
coach and DR.. Williams is endeavoring
to convince his men that the game with
Wisconsin is to be hard battle, but
the feeling of overconfidence when once
started easily spreads and in becoming
victims of the feeling the Minnesota
enthusiasts but hurt the team.
Michigan Still Sore.
Yost and a number Of the Michigan
players after their game with the Badg-
ers promised the Wisconsin men that
Minnesota would be disappointed by
encountering defeat on THANKSGIVING
day, but the expressions of the Michi-
gan men must be taken for just what
they are really worth. With them the
wish is father to the thought
Michigan, sad to say, appears cheap
to the Minnesota followers and to all
honest minded football followers. 1t is
now apparent that the big Wolverines,
the champions of former years, are not
big ENOUGH to stand for a defeat or
even a tie game. Yost and Redden
backed water on the bowls that came
from Ann Arbor when Michigan was
forced to return with nothing better
than a to 6 score. Redden admitted
that it was merely rough game and
that the Minnesota men did not DELHI
erately attempt to stamp the finish of
football careers into Heston and others
with their boots, but the Minnesota
game still stings, and the Michigan
men apparently are not overlooking a
single opportunity to swing the ham
mer Minnesotaward.
AT an informal gathering after the
Wisconsin game, Capt. Redden told Of
the disappointments he had expert
eneed during the season because of the
unsportsmanlike conduct of football
players. He admitted that Wisconsin,
had team of gentlemen, this being
easy with a victory IN hand, but as
Minnesota had a team of roughS, tho
Michigan captain felt that the football
game was not what 1t should be, and at
times he feels determined to retire
from the game.
Mould Sever Relations.
The tales told the Badgers by the
Michigan team after the game were
thrilling enough to bring up serious
discussion relative to the seyering. of
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