The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-11

kato kicked off to Shattuck, held her for
downs, and carried the ball back to the
Shattuck fifteen yard line. There Man
kato got mixed up in the signals and
lost the ball to Shattuck. Printz, Shat
tuck's full back and captain, now punt
ed for fifty yards and one of Shattuck's
ends picked up the ball and carried it
over for touch down, when the ball
had not touched any man of the normal
team. The referee, however, allowed the
touch down. Such was the luck that
Mankato ran against during the first
half, which ended in score of ii to 6.
in favor of Shattuck. During almost
all the second half, Mankato had the ball
in Shattuck's territory; yet Shattuck
made gain of six points more, while
Mankato gained nothing.
There was some excellent individual
work on the Mankato side. O'Brien, the
full back, and Ed and Bob Kramer, the
right and left half, did some splendid
line plunging. Henning and Just, the
right and left tackle, made some good
gains through the line. Krost and
Kramer, right and left end, played ex-
cellent defensive games. Among their
opponents, the Mankato men recognized
the well known features of Harry Dia-
mond of this city, who played good game
as right half for Shattuck.
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Minnesota had an easy time with the
light team from Lawrence university
on Northrop field on the state university
campus at Minneapolis Saturday after
noon and ran up SO points without any
great exertion. Not once in the entire
game did the Appleton team come any
where near holding the varsity team
for downs and the afternoon was mostly
spent romping up and down the field
There were frequent changes in the var
sity lineup and there was hardly suf-
ficient opposition to bring out the merits
of the Gophers on the offensive.
Lawrence came to Minnesota primed
with trick plays, which they executed
cleverly and which in the hands of
heavier and stronger team would have
been serious. Lawrence made two TWEEN
tyfve-yard gains and one thirty-yard
advance and each time the runner got
clear of the line, only to come to a
halt in the arms of Harris. All told
Lawrence made about ninety yards
against the varsity, exclusive of returns
from punts and kickoffs.
/ On the defensive Lawrence was out
classed by the size of the score, which
would have been larger had not Mime
sofa seen fit to kick off frequently in
order to allow the visitors to get the
ball and permit practice on the defense.
Lawrence was unable to hold the Goph-
ers at any time, although they were
addicted to rallies which required dis
lance These were few and far between,
however, and the only way to put the
varsity on the defensive was to boot the
ball.
Following is summary of the results
of the principal games of football played
last Saturday afternoon:
West-Minnesota 80, Lawrence o;
Wisconsin SO, Beloit O; Nebraska II,
Iowa 6; Chicago So, Texas O.; Michi-
gan &c. Drake a; Illinois As, Ohio State
O.; Kansas "a, Notre Dame 5; Purdue "a,
Indiana Medics 5.
East-Harvard 0, Dartmouth o;
Princeton IL, West Point 6; Yale %,
Brown o; Cornell so, Lehigh 5; Amherst
40, Holy Cross 6; Navy 20, Pennsyl-
vania state 9.
Minor Observation-Disclosures 6, Orion
vile O.; Crookston 40, Warren 5; Pills
bury 60, st, Peter O.; Winona Normal 6,
Winona High O.