The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-07
BADGERS WILL
MAKE A FIGHT
TEAM WILL GIVE MINNESOTA
ELEVEN A HARD TEST.
Not Improbable that wisconsin Will
Win Unless the Gophers Battle as
They Have Not Done This Year
Beloit Game a Walkover-Strength
and Weakness of Wisconsin.
From a Staff Correspondent.

From Stan Correspondent.
Madison. Wis, Nov. 7.-Despite the internal
Of which the outer world has heard So
much this fall, the badgers have evidently had
the time, material and disposition to make
football team which is going to prove a formid-
able opponent for Minnesota next Saturday. The
Wisconsin authorities speeded their team up to
Its limit for the Michigan game. After that
the men who are depended upon to "do things
to Minnesota fired out of the practice for
a week and told to take things easy. They
began work again today, and by Saturday Min
nesota will confront just as strong team, If
not stronger. than the one which faced Yost and
his cohorts.
The badgers have evidently had all sorts Of
ma terial from which to make a team this year.
They have big men, and the big fellows have
speed. In Saturdays game they were pitted
against Beloit, team which did not make first
down at any time, and which did not hold the
badgers for downs but once. Then the bail
was the Beloit 8-yard line. and the little fell
lows braced up fought like demons and held
their big opponents.
Saturdays game was fought out entirely in
Beloit's territory. The big badgers smashed
The only place where Beloit put up any showing
was in the work of her two little ends. These
chaps got away under every punt by the Beloit
fullback, and in nine out of ten cases got the
badger who caught the ball before he could re-
turn five feet. AS the Beloit team kicked every
time they had the ball, these fellows almost ran
their little hearts out before shutdown.
Played in the Dark.
The game of Saturday late in starting
on account Of Beloit's late arrival. When 1t
finished it SO dark that the spectators could
not discern the ball when it was in the air,
and the struggling mass Of players the field
represented nothing more than wrigglng con-
fusion of dull color The final $50,
and could have well been sixty had 1t not
been for the one weak spot in the work of Wis
consin-fumbling.
No less than nine times during the fifty min
utes' play did the badgers tumble and in every
on the ball, and on three occasions the fumbles
were made when badger line bucks would have
resulted in touchdowns. Beloit promptly kicked
the ball out of danger.
Playing against such slight resistance, and
with substitutes in the team, it was a hard
! matter to get true line on badger form con-
| trasting with Minnesota 1t did develop, how
ever, that Minnesota must play her game from
the first kickoff to the footing of the whistle
| marking the end Of the second half, or gopher
colors will be tra1led in the dust and the first de-
feat Of Minnesota team on Northrop field be
! registered in local football history Minnesota
| is up against proposition where they must play
| the game, play it safely and smoothly, not fun
BILE and fight like wildcats at all stages.
! Minnesota cannot depend upon weight in her
offense or defense. Wisconsin has that neu-
tralized by line as heavy as Minnesota's, If
not heavier, and the backfeld is another section
of speedy beef -,
Men Play Hard.
| Wisconsin's play appears slightly crude, but
this is counterbalanced by the devil may care
style in which the members go into the scrim-
mage Every man In the team gets into it.
No one stands by and let's the other fellows at.
| tend to the work. The minute the ball Is
snapped, every badger gets busy like flash, and,
despite the disparity in size and the old idea
| that little man is faster than large one, the
| Madison men got the charge Beloit every
occasion.
| To give some idea Of the Wisconsin team one
has only to figure the weights and the men. Here
is hat of the PLAYERS Of the first team and
subs with their weights
Perry, left end, 1875.
Deering, left tackle. 1888.
Donovan, left guard, 1914.