The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-06

Minnesota met the hardest proposition
of the season in ST. Thomas yesterday
afternoon and the heavy Gophers were
only able to run up a score of Al to
against the collegians. In addition Min
neSOta had a narrow escape from being
scored on by drop kick and the decision
was so close that many of the spectators
differed with the official.
st. Thomas played hard, plucky game
and they wernt on the field but a few
moments before they convinced the var
sity followers. who had been predicting
60 to 0, that they were far from being
conservative. Minnesota did not show
up so well. especially on the defense
The line was heavy and strong enough
to prevent the collegians from making
first down through it, but the Saints
We're always able to gain a yard, which,
when taking the disparity of weight into
consideration. doesn't reflect any great
credit on the varsity.
Hunter was out of the game yesterday
and his absence was soon noticed. The
long runs We're not in evidence and the
team went to work slower. Fumbles.
offside plays and fouls on the part of
the varsity were frequent, and in gen
eral the play was loose and ragged Min
nesota suffered several penalties and es-
capped as MANY more. Marshall is the
chief offender in this respect, and had
the game been other than a practice af-
fair, the varsity would have been penal
lied many more yards that it was
FumbIes Are Costly
The fumbling was particularly disas-
trOuS, Kremer being guilty of one Seri-
Gus muff. Gleason blundered twice on
punts and Cutting once. 1t was the mer-
est chance that one did not count for a
touchdown. STATE, who is as speedy a
man as there was on the field, got the
ball with a clear field ahead, but stumbled
as he picked it up, otherwise he would
certainly have carried it over the line.
With the ball the varsity did fairly
well, and as a rule made good gains,
but the Saints tackled hard and persist
emily and the going wasn't particularly
easy In the first half, which was fif
teen minutes duration. the varsity scor-
ed four tOuchdowns and missed one goal.
which made the score % to 0. 1t was
generally expected that the varsity would
score more frequently in the second half
on the supposition that the heavy work
of the collegians would tell on them.
Such was not the case. however. and
the Saints went into the second half
every bit as hard as the first and allow
ed but four tOuchdoWns.
Cutting and Weisel We're tried in Hun
ter's position and neither one came any
where near playing the ball of the regular.
Larllin played right half, and while he
showed a disposition to get into the play,
was frequently ineffective on the defen-
sive. The left side of the line was changed
about. Luce and Case at end, Tschabold
and Kicker at tackle and Sanborn and
Liner at guard. None ola anythlQg
tonishing work.
Conmy played a good game for the
Saints, ran his team well, returned kick
offs and punts better than any man on
the field and was always in the play.
OShaughnessy was injured early in the
contest and O'Phelan replaced him and
did good service throughout. Pennington
proved himself TO be a line bucker of
force and courage. The line played hard
all the time and the entire team put
up a very creditable game of football.
Varsity Kicks Off
Marshall kicked off 40 yards to Conmy,
who was down III his tracks. st. Thomas
tried the line twice without any gains,
doWned on the 40-yard line. KTeneT
went through right tackle for 10 yards
Cutting hit the same spot for 2, Case
circled left end for 4 and Kicker made
around left end for Is yards. Cutting tried
left end for no gain and Brush went
through right tackle for s. while Case
went around the end for 4. Davies made
a good gain. but Minnesota was penalized
yards for offside play. Kremer made
yards through right tackle and Larkin
yards and fumbled. but Minnesota fell on
the ball, Kicker tried left guard without
a gain and Marshall went around the
tackle for the first touchdown and Mar
shall kicked goal.
Pennington kicked off to Kremer on the
20-yard line, and Kremer came back 10
yards. Marshall went around left end for
Is yards and was downed by Onslaught
messy, who then retired from the game,
O'Phelan taking his place Brush made 6
yards through left guard and Davies went
around left end for 10. Case made 10
yards around end and Smith made
right tackle for IA yards. and Larlkin
went Is yards for touchdown.
Marshall kicked off to Conmy on the
15-yard line, who brought the bah back
20 yards st. Thomas lost the bah on
tumble and Davis made yards through
right tackle. Case went through the
tackle for u. and Kremer took the ball
10 yards and then fumbled to ST Thorn
as, O'Phelan dropping on the ball on the