The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-17
FIRST GAME OF
FOOTBALL SEASON
GoPHERs GRAPHING WITH THE
HIGH-SCHOOL TEAMS.
Second Week Of Work on Northrop
Field Finds the Team in Fair Shape
What the Men Have Been Doing
Making OF the First Team.
BY O'Laughlin.

Football in the northwest opened In
earnest this afternoon when the kickoff
came in the game between the gophers
and the Minneapolis and st. Paul Cen
trail high teams. From this time until
Thanksgiving the man in the moleskin
will hold the boards, crowding every
other athlete to the rear. The season
is young but, all things taken into con-
sideration, Minnesota 8 outlook is fair.
The team which confronted the high
school players this afternoon is made
up of two veterans of last year, some
Of last years second team and raw ma
terial. Under a coach of lesser ability
than DR.. Williams the outlook would
not be encouraging. AS it is, the
friends Of the varsity are hopeful Of a
successful year.
This week has brought about the vir-
tual selection Of first team. Natur-
ally Nose Strathern is center. Luce,
q promising youngster, is at left end,
with Bobby Marshall on the other side
Of the line. Case, the big. St. Cloud
tackle, is next to Luce and is the most
promising Of the new men, He appar-
emily knows more football and plays
harder than any of the, recruits. It
was his coming which pushed Tschabold
and Ittner out Of the going on the first
team. Max Kicker is playing harder
than ever before, and if he Keeps up
to his standard Of the week, is q fix
ture on the first team. Dan Smith, on
the right Of Strathern, has been going
tackle, is Percy Brush, the Macales-
ter Offering. Brush has improved won
derfully since he joined the squad at
Waconia.
Little Humber, who is running the
team today at quarter, is a. prime ia
vorite with the followers Of the Min.
nesota game. The only fear expressed
about Hunter is that he might become
hardly try him, as he will be playing
against men he has met before and
played with No matter who comes
out or who does not, Hunter has the
making Of q star quarter. By next
year his fame will have spread beyond
the limits Of the "big nine' terri tory
if he continues to work as he has since
the serious work of the team started.
Burgan will be at left half and looks
like a valuable man. He plays his
game with all that he has in him most
of the time, and his lapses have been
few. Irsfeld is at right half this after
noon alternating with Kremer, who is
working for place on the first team
with vengeance. There is little need
is known from Ann Arbor to Lincoln
and from Hopkins to Hamline. Neither
high school should score on the varsity,
but such things do happen. Last year
Hunter, who is playing quarter on the
varsity team today, went around the
formidable 1908 team for touchdown
Some promising youngster may repeat
the trick today.
Work of the Week.
The weeks work has, on the whole,
been satisfactory. The men of the
team are working earnestly most of the
time. but there have been some lapses
which provoked wrath among the
coaches. The only reassuring thing
about these lapses has been that they
were on the part of men who rarely
Offend and who know better. The
scrimmage work has developed that
the team is strong, altho the interfer
ence and otfense are yet to receive theil
full measure Of attention. On advanc
ing the ball against the big men in the
second team the mass plays have de-
veloped that the line will be hard tc
hold and attempts to work around the
ends have not been successful in the
main, altho once or twice they have
been worked. Punts have been wei
cared for by the back field, Hunter
especially showing well in the carry
The second team contains some mel
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year. Tschabold should be a star Of
proportions by next season for the frs
team, and Ittner, Bandelin, Stanford
Dan Clarke, Nuess1e and Vita are me1
who have given the big fellows no enc
of trouble in the scrimmages Of thu
last ten days: Tschabold is almost goot
enough for the first team, but did no
enough snap. Next year he will be ;
mighty obstacle when it comes to max
ing up the first team, even if he doe
not succeed in getting to the first saua(
this season. Joe Cutting and Varco ar,
two likely looking lads for quarter
but both have their football book II
front Of them for a good hard cours
1t is probable that the second team
may be given a show this afternoon
against the Central high Of Mime
apolis. Last night IS plans were for tn
first team to meet st: Paul the frs
twenty minute half and the second team
the second. The lineups of the varsit,
and high school teams will be as fol
lows:
Left End--Lnce,
Left Tackle-Case.
Left Guard-Ricker.
Center-.Captain strathern.
Right Tackle-Brush
Blight End-Marshall.
Observation-Disclosures.
Left Half-Burgan.
Right Half-Kremer, Irsfeld.
Fu1lback-Current.
MINNEAPOLIS CENTRAL.
Left End-LaVayea, Burlington.
Left Tackle-Larrabee Simmons,
Left Guardianship Shave
Center-Parker. Farnham
Right Guard-Schroeder Melin.
Right Tackle--Melin, Coppage.
Right End-Gardner, Cochran.
Observation-Disclosures Laxton,
Left Ha1f-Jamison Toban
Right Ha1f-Storer. Weisman.
Fu1lback-CaDtain Morse.
ST. PAUL@CENTRAL.
Ends-A. McGregor, II. Halderman.
Tackles-J, Bunker K Knoche.
Guards-F. Ellison, S. Sandberg.
Center-John Sheahan.
Observation-Disclosures LIE Claire.
Halfbacks-H. Horwitz, j. Watson.
Fullback--William Fitzsimmons.
Substitutes-Crooks, Dafrou, Hobson, 8. Rel
ford
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