The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-22
.HAWKEYES ARE
GETTING CHESTY
THINK THEY HAVE A SHOW WITH
GOPHERS.
Will Attempt to Score If They Cannot
Win-Chicago Papers Fair in Some
WAYS, but Have Optical Jimjams or
Moral Paralysis-Colonel Joyce Pro-
e..
notes an Excursion.

OherS. early In the season Tue leeliuS was
general that II Minnesota got thru the W1scon-
sin game with q victory her progress up TO the
close of the season would be easy. Then came
rumors Of sudden jump in Northwestern form,
and the game proved one Of the hardest or the
year, made doubly so by the JACKIE Lantern
tactics Of the Northwestern authorities.
That game over, it was thought that Iowa
would be easy. This morning word comes tnat
the hawkeyes came thru the Illinois game IN
fine fettle and are working like Turks with the
idea Of doing things to Minnesota They are
figuring scoring, and team when can score
always has a chance to win. Minnesota is game
but the injury list will probably put the game
on almost an even footing Today Minnesota
has no great edge on Iowa There appears 10 Dc
little rest for the weary gophers.
While the Chicago press was, Tor the most
part fair to the gophers in comparing them with
Michigan, there is one point which SUCKS ueep
with every follower of the Minnesota team.
These critics, thru an tnexcusable ignorance or
for purpose, persist in saying that "N1nnesota
won by weight and brute strength"
While not claiming to be great moral exam.
ole for the youth of the land, the writer cannot
see the use of telling lies when the truth Will
answer fairly we'll. In fact, there was less
than sixty pounds difference between the weights
Of the teams. twas in favor of Minnesota
About Weight.
The advantage Of ffty-seven pounds OF weight,
lcattered among twenttwo or even eleven men'
does not win football games. After Minnesota sofa
began to make substitutions the weight ratio
(essened as in every instance the man VINO went
In was pounds lighter than the man he replaced
In casting about for some way to ease down
Northwestern after the blowing OF last week,
the Chicago press, In some quarters, reverted TO
the talk of weight and brute strength IL
Is rot. 49,
Minnesota won because her men played better.
football and knew more football than did North
western. They won because they had had better
coaching and were coached by man who knows
more football than Mccormack, Conner and Jen-
nings combined. They because they fought
M to the last minute. They had been d1sor-
ganized and crippled by buccaneer tactics, ana
were still strong enough to make monkeys OF the
Northwestern team when 1t came to the posi-
bility of their scoring. Naturally, the spbst1tu-
lions and changes made necessary by the strain
ern matter hurt the Offense more than 1T did
the defense. 1t circumscribed Minnesotas at
tack to few plays The Northwestern men
played pluckily but they did not lose on account
of Minnesotas weight advantage. Their bril-
lance of attack in the first few minutes gave
way to attempts to gain by straight football.
They were outgeneraed and defeated on the
straight merits of football and it is manifestly
unfair to insnuate, as do some OF the chicago
turf writer's, that Northwestern played better
football, but were "crushed by superior weight"
There come times in the lives of most of us
when it would be better to tell the truth. It's
now up to Chicago.
About Lineup.
1t was teegraphed broadcast over east and
west that Minnesota, In the latter part Of the
game presented almost an entirely different
the outset" That is merely another case of
moral paresis Minnesota put in but four sub.
stitutes and all of them in the latter end of the
second half AS one sporting writer of Chicago
said Saturday: 1.-The -- sporting staff is
made up of Michigan men. -- of the ----
is student, and (naming two more Chicago
upon students who not players for their
football If this statement be true, it Is easy
to see wherein the natural prejudice is likely
to warp judgment 1t also lowers, to great
President Northrop is not at all pleased with
the methods adopted by Northwestern to get
strathern out Of the way. In discussing the
matter he says:
vantage ne for ' Northwestern to have protested
Gscds on the II of thf be sdm @
the protest rather than take the. chances O
ev ton win the ney wou
and the question of what the decision woult
s an on as p peRt the rSat SS9R
nesota men won by 50 decisive a score in tn
ssa sreS tP Sat aM il at s as
score would have been rolled up If Strathern hat
been sh IN the nsst Of Saturday with
ear glued to telephone receiver 1 Mnen In
s g w pays Ua nn f
10 very brief time between calls until the Min
lnesota men took the ball and carried it out o
danger.
On to Iowa.
Every indication points to a large crowd goint
from Minneapolis to Cedar Rapids for tn,
Thanksgiving game. Minnesota today is proude
of the team than it before the Northwestern
mixup. There will not be an outturning of tn
masses to Cedar Rapids as there was to Chi
cago, but the fellows who get out and "swea
blood when a man makes an inch on Mime
sofa will be there, hoarse but happy. The Rocl
Island will give rate of SIS for the round trip
Those getting this rate will leave on a specia
train tomorrow evening. There is another rat
secured by Colonel Frank Joyce which appeal
to many. 1t is $40 and covers railroad fare
sleeping car berths and admission to the game
This rate should attract heavy attendance, an
If Iowa, at the last minute, is to make fgh
of it the team needs the assistance Of ever
rooter who has voice enough left to scare tn
parlor mouse back under the piano.
Now it's "On to Iowa. and then let 1t snoy
I'll winter.