The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12
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Northrop field next fall would be well
coined by everyone interested in the
welfare OF the Minnesota team, were it
not for the fact that the date proposed
comes so early in the season, and that
the schedule now is as hard as is COM
patible with safety Minnesota meets
Nebraska, which can always be
counted on to send Al strong team, Oct,
20. Two weeks later comes Wiscon-
sin, and then Northwestern. Wiscon-
sin is always dangerous and North !
western has apparently regained her
place in the front ranks Of western
teams Minnesota. must be on edge
for all these games. To take game
with Carlisle on the schedule would
give four games, each Of which, in all
probability, would tax the strength Of
the team.
The date proposed for the Carlisle
game is Oct. 8. This is earlier than
Minnesota has ever played a game
of championship description, and is
three weeks earlier than the date
usually set by western teams for the
first really hard game. Classes do not
begin at MINNESOTA until the second
week in September, and many Of the
best players do not report for practice
until that time. That would give the
coaches only month to get ready for
one of the hardest games of the sea-
son. AS it now seems probable that
not. more than three or four of last
years great team will return In the
fall, the herculean task the coaches
would have can be appreciated. Min
nesota lost to Nebraska in 1902 be-
cause the team was not on edge for a
hard contest, and even the rainbow Of
an eastern game ought not to tempt
the board ofscontrol to schedule con-
test the results of which. might cause
the loss of one or more games later in
the season. 1t is hard enough to get
team on edge by Nov. 1, and keep it
there during the remainder of the sea-
son, but to get an eleven in condition
for bruising contest by Oct. 8, and
keep it there until Thanksgiving Day
would be practically impossible.
JASPER GOODWIN, the new coach
e of the Columbia university crew,
says he thinks American college oars
men are as a rule trained too hard.
/ He believes in shortening the train
ing season, and will follow this pol
icy at Columbia. He announces his
intention Of putting in the hardest
work in April, when the men will
be sent over the four-mile course as
Eofteri as possible. The last few weeks
Twill be devoted to working up speed
Mr.. goodwin says he believes in hav.
ingH his men enter a contest full OF
ginger and a little bit overweight.
Thisis anew theory in rowing, eAe
similar ideas have been growing il
j favor in other sbranehes Of sport Iii
lIrecent years. Yhes two most success
full, pugiIists Of recent years, ST ffrie'
and Young Corbett, pursue methods
, Of training wholly at variance will
those of most fighters. The champion
/ a11-around athlete of America is
lawyer, who won the title last sum
mer without any special course o
training in addition to his usual exer
z else on the track. George V. Bonhae
! one Of the best long distance runner
: in the country, in q recent newspape
S article, cautioned beginners to
4 careful, above all, not to overtrair
The. West Point football team ha
t shown that an eleven of champion
g ship class can be developed withou
= nearly as much drill as is devoted
d most college teams.
: Mr.. Goodwin may be wrong in hi
;. theory, as he has had little or no ea
e Iperience with eight-oared crews row
It ing over four-nile courses, but hi
general ideas are certainly in line wit
the trend Of modern thought upo
h training Cor athletic contests.
n - Thor.