The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-17
GRIDIRON NEWS FROM EASTERN AND WESTERN FIELDS
ARE
CAUSE OF WORRY.
High School Coaches Lecture the
Laggards Over Their Short
comings.

Practice at Central high yesterday afternoon
was anything but satisfactory to Coach Morse
practice, and everyone late. The team
seemed to be suffering with general feeling
Of lassitude and manifested a willingness to rest
upon the laurels won at st. Cloud.
+ The practice was set for o'clock, and 1t was
after before enough men were out to permit
signal practice. Green, Saxon, Bresky and
Shave We're not there at all. Carpenter was
sent in at quarter for Green. and the other
places were filled with second-team men.
The first half hour Of signal work not
calculated to soothe the feelings of the coach
or inspire the rooters the sidelines with
confidence. The whole team seemed to be suf-
fering with acute mental collapse and cut their
signals dead with the vacant stare of a total
stranger. Time and again the quarter was left
holding the ball In outstretched hands while
the interference tore large chunks out of the
| atmosphere and the man who should have taken
1t butted thru the line empty-handed
The men refused to run low in spite Of the
urging Of Coaches Morse and Yerxa. Morse
tried Parker at full for while, then switched
back to Schroeder; tried Parker again, and
finally settled down with Schroeder.
Finally Awakened.
! Late in the afternoon enough men got out to
| make two full teams, and scrimmage was start
| began to show some signs Of life, played fierce
ly and began to get into the line hard. But
| this was not enough to pacify either of the
coaches, and after practice the entire squad
| handed out by any coach.
! Coach Morse started out by reminding the
| squad that only two days Of practice would be
possible before the East Side game. Then he
scored the absentees and announced that one
Of them at least would be dropped from the
| squad for the season If he failed to report at
| 3 pm. today. "You fellows Think said the
! coach. because you went up to st. Cloud and
beat team which had not had a coach for a
full week, that you are the only team in the
state that play football. If Loomis had
| been with that st. Cloud team two weeks sooner
you would have gotten the worst licking Cen.
| trail team ever had. Yet you come around here
and loaf thru practice because you think you
| know everything and don't need to work. Some
Of you think they are so good they don't need to
practice at all. Unless you brace up nobody
will know that you are on the gridiron at all
next Friday" -.s u. - -.
Yerxa Talked, Too.
When Morse finished Howard Yerxa repeated
his remarks with some additions and improve
ments. This seemed to pull the team out Of
their feeling Of dissatisfaction, and at theil
request Morse gave them fifteen minutes more
practice. T..
The Central squad has suffered a great dea
from absentees and late-comers. The string OF
black marks in Coach Morse's little red note
book is appalling. Austin one Of the second
team l1nemen, is out of the game with a broker
collar bone, and another second-team man hal
been barred for being below grade in his studies
Much hard work must be done in the tw,
days left for scrimmage practice before thu
East Side-Central game.
Bunnell Injured.
East Side has met with more misfortune
Captain Bunnell, the fullback, has a badly
smashed nose. and if he plays Friday it will
be against the orders Of his physician. Cos
grove, the right guard, has slipped a shoulder
blade. Hawley went in at full in yesterday
practice.
Both teams will be worked to their limit /
, preparation for Fridays contest, for both team
now realize that the defeated one will be com
pletely out Of the running for the season. ~
!, South Side will play at Superior Saturday
! and Coach Goldblum is hard at work buildin
; up his defense. He is being assisted by
: bunch Of South Side alumni. Yesterday Joh1
! son. Void, Bang, McGregor, Berg and Gapro
: were out and lined up with the second team
The orange and black players are greatl
troubled by the crowd which gathers on the III
enclosed field where they practice, and are lool
Ing for more secluded grounds. ~ g.,
I At North Side George Nye is tearing thing
! up in his preparation for the Shattuck game
The cadets victory over Hamline last Saturda
e has raised the stock Of the Faribault team
q and the Fremont avenue men realize that the
: will have to- go some to take the boys in gra
into camp. -.~