The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-29
COACH WILLIAMS
TALKS FOOTBALL
INTERVIEWED BY JOURNAL MAN
IN PHILADELPHIA.


IN PHILADELPHIA.
Says Minnesota Will Have a Strong
Team, but Material Will Require
Much Work to Whip 1t Into Shape
Regards Northwestern as Strong
Foe-Due Here Thursday.
DR.. H. L. Williams, coach of the
University of Minnesota football team,
with his wife and son, arrived on the
Mercen, at quarantine in Philadelphia
yesterday after several months in
Europe. Upon his arrival at quaran-
tine he was interviewed by T h e
j ourna It's correspondent He said:
The outlook for Minnesota is that
we shall have strong team, but
probably it will not be so strong as
last year. Its strength depends alto
gether on the new material and num-
Der OF old men Who return to the uni
yersity this term. We expect to lose
several of our best and strongest men.
A large part of the line and several
places in the back field must he re-
filled. In fact, the team must be
made over entirely. 1t will be impos-
sible to tell before reaching Minneap-
oils just how many men we shall lose
or what new men we shall find. We
must expect to lose a certain number
of good men every year. This year
the loss is particularly heavy. With
many new men to develop and many
places to fill, the development and
progress of the team will necessarily
be slow. The early weeks Of the sea-
son will therefore be spent in rudi-
10, ,fnl al
pies, and in the discovery and devel-
opment of new material; 50 that it will
be we'll into october before we can
hope to begin team work. Last year,
the men as they played on Thanksgiv-
ing Day, were playing together in
their final positions by the last of
September. This year we shall do
lected by the first of November.
1.-The new rules will not radically
affect the game, and old players will
have no difficulty in conforming to any
new style Of play which may be ne
cessitated by the rules.
Good Season Predicted.
General outlook is certainly for
one of the most interesting seasons Of
football we have ever had. Michigan,
Chicago and Northwestern should all
be very strong. Northwestern is par
ticularly to be watched. From what
have been able to learn it seems that
Northwestern will surely have the
strongest team in her history and may
very likely be one of the leading can
didates for the western championship
This is especially interesting to Min
nesotans, in as much as we shall meet
Northwestern in Chicago on the Sat
urday before Thanksgiving. The
game with Wisconsin in Minneapolis,
in the middle of November will, as the
game with Wisconsin always is, be a
great contest.
The game with Nebraska in the
middle of October will be one which
will excite nearly as keen interest and
enthusiasm as the great game in 1908
with University Of Michigan. Nebras-
ka, on her last visit to Minnesota, de-
feated the university, as will be re-
membered, by score Of to 0 in an
early season game. This years game
with Nebraska will again be early, and
be whether the team can be developed
and rounded into form early enough
to meet the Nebraskans successfully
Nebraska has been undefeated fo1
three years Minnesota has an old
defeat to wipe out and Nebraska new
be one Of the hardest fought and most
interesting ever played in Mime
apolis.
The University of Iowa and Ames
always plays hard football. This year
these institutions will have back
nearly their entire old squads, so thai
they may be expected to have ever
better teams than usual.
1.-The schedule for Minnesota is Ger.
tainly a hard one and it will require
every effort and every energy on the
part Of candidates, coaches anG
alumni to carry it thru successfully
The development of the new team ant
the watching of its progress as the
season advances will be particularly
interesting"
| Posted as to Wisconsin.
| DR.. Williams has his own opinion!
about the Wisconsin team-it
strength and weakness woule
not be interviewed about particular
and details today. While abroad HI
has received pretty accurate informa
ton about the probable makeup o
the badger team, and knows quite wei
what each man on it is capable of do
ing. For strategic reasons he is keep
ing that information to himself for
while.
Part Of the time DR.. williams ha
spent in Europe was put in at Vienn
and Berlin in special post-graduat
studies in hospitals. He landed a
Naples In the first week in May an,
after spending three weeks in trave
in that country, visiting Rome, Flor
. ence and Vienna reached Vienna Jun
/ /. He and his family came directl
home by way Of the Rhine, thru Hol
land, thence to London and Liverpool
1 Surprised by Customs Officers.
Customs officers at this port CAV
DR.. Williams a surprise when they as
sessed him As per cent duty on som
medical instruments he brought wit
him. 1t had been reported in Wen
ma that Secretary Shaw had ruled thu
anything could be brought in free {
coed $10O, whether articles were sui
gical instruments or bales of hay.
European War Sentiment.
DR.. Williams threw some light o
the feeling and sympathies of Austr
ans and Germans in the Russo-Ja
. war which is directly contrary to ger
; eral understanding in this country. II
said that the people Of Vienna WEI
following the events of the war wit
) keenest interest. The sympathies
; the Viennese is undoubtedly wit
Japan, altho officially this cannot /
expressed. In Berlin, among poop
at large, sympathy is everywhere wit
Japan. He found in both countrie
however, that whereas the sympathy
!. the people was with the Japanese, ar
! it was believed that Japan may ]
$ temporarily successful; might perha]
capture Port Arthur and possib
even defeat the present army und
= Kuropatkin, the people of neither eli
= could conceive any other outcome