The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-28
VARSITY SPORTS
And PROSPECTS
REMARKABLE YEAR IN ATH.
LETICs AT THE .U.''
Success i'll Almost Every Line but in
Baseball-Footbal Prospects for the
Coming Season-The Basketball
Record Track Team Made Good
Showing.

With the exception Of the confer
ence meet at Chicago week from to-
day the year in university athletics
is at an end. In many ways it has
tory Of Minnesota. It has been marked
by expansion, not only territorial, as
evidenced by the enlarged field, but
also by an increased interest in a
greater number of sports.
With many Of the old stars gone
and no new men who were known to
be Of the same caliber to fill their
places the football situation looked
dubious at the outset, but out Of his
raw material DR.. H. Ia Williams con-
structed a team which finished it's
schedule without a defeat and with a
record of a score a minute.
Starting with its preseason train
ing at Clearwater lake, the squad
worked with one object in view-the
far.sighted policy made the early de-
velopment of the team seem poor,
and it was not until the Iowa game
that it became apparent to even the
most hostile critics that Minnesota
had a football team in the fullest
sense of the term
The commentator won from the
eastern critics was, next to the west
ern championship, the best thing won
ginning Of the winter sports the spirit
which clamored for a greater DIVERSE
ty in athletics began to make itself
felt
The basketball team carried off its
usual laurels. Both the home and
trip schedules were played thru with
out a defeat by a college team, and
the only thing to be regretted about
the seasons work is that no game
was played with Columbia to settle
the national championship. The girls
were equally successful in their cam
paign. They divided games evenly
with Nebraska, and won every other
contest. The exchange Of games with
Nebraska was the most important
event Of the season and marked the
beginning Of intercollegiate contests
for women.
The game played by the various
class teams and by the freshmen in
particular, showed that material for
varsity football will not lacking next
season.
The ice hockey club entered upon
the third year of a precarious ex-
istence but succumbed early to the
cold weather which greeted its Fenc-
ing made it's first appearance on the
list of varsity sports and while no foil
contests We're held, some material was
developed which may later result in
a fencing club and ultimately in inter
collegiate contests. The possibility OF
having a crew as the result of the
back water from the government dam
was brought up for public discussion
for the first time. The university cir
Gus brought the work Of the gymnasts
to the front and aroused a great deal
of enthusiasm over this branch of ath-
letics. The subsequent eastern trip of
the gymnastic team, while barren Of
victory, did much to place the sport
on a firm basis and to increase Min
nesota's standing in the east.
The demand by the student body for
track and baseball teams was in line
with the tendency manifested in the
winter sports.
The track team made a good show
ing. The indoor meet brought out
some good men and the entry of
prep school men in certain events
material toward Minnesota. The
freshman meet with Shattuck was a
more complete carrying out of the
same idea. The track team itself,
while weak in some departm ents, has
shown up we'll as whole and the
eight men who are to be entered in
the conference meet should make
some places.
Baseball was not so successful. Tho
the great number Of candidates at the
start promised we'll, the team failed to
play more than a mediocre game. The
support Of the student body was Not so
ardent as it's demand for a
team seemed to promise. This
that the game has become SO
professionalism that the loyalty of
even college fans can not develop
much enthusiasm over a losing team.
The work of all the teams was
greatly helped by the efficient and
honest management of both the un-
dergraduate managers, Bernard and
Deering.
For next year the outlook is good.
OF the first team and substitutes,
Strathers, Burdick, Marshall, Harris,
Thorpe, Irsfleld, Davies, Current.
Smith have already signifed their in
tention Of reappearing on the grid
iron next fall. For the past month
Captain Strathers has had a squad out
for practice every night. Many of the
old varsity men and a great many
| of last years second and third teams
have been out. The schedule for next
fall shows four big games, Nebraska
| Oct. 20; Wisconsin, Nov. IL; North
western, Nov. 10, and Iowa, Nov. "A
The last two will be played at Chi
cago and Rock Island, respectively.
sHEvLIN IN THE FINALS.
Philadelphia, May 2s.-The preliminary trials
| in the twenty-ninth intercollegiate championships
Shevlin and Clapp of Yale qualified. the forme
/ in the hammer throw, while C1app made good IL