The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
INTEREST REMAINS
In HIGH SCHOOLS
Tho Central Is Certain Champion
More Exciting Games Will
Be Played.
By Gil.

High school football is like a burnt
out romancandle, barely sizzling, but
worth shaking for the sake of what
unburnt powder there may be in it.
The only game in prospect is the South
for next Friday. North will undoubted-
ly play another game, but no one can
say with whom.
Central has retired with the cham
pionship, and it's team is not only dis
banded but also we'll along in the task
of breaking training. East, which
holds second place, is also thru. with,
the city championship is concerned, the
season ended with the Central-South
game on Nov. 10.
There is no question about the stand
ing of the teams, the games have been
won in regular rotation and there are
no confusing ties to be figured out by
beaten both East and South, holds the
championship. East, which lost to Cen
trail but won from South, stands next.
South. defeated by both Central and
East, must go to the foot of the list.
North, which has forfeited game to
each Of it's three rivals, is technically
at the bottom Of the list, but it seems
at once more accurate and more just
to say that North is out Of it.
Champions Deserve Honor.
The champions are B. fine lot of high
school players and have won the honor
beyond the shadow Of a doubt. Both
of the decisive victories were cleanly
won and there is no reason to suppose
that, were the games to be played over
again, the score would be materially
different.
In it's personnel the red and blue team
is fortunate. The men who have played
thru the season are fine, gentlemanly
lot of fellows as we'll as determined and
plucky players. Coach Morse handled
the team well and brought it thru sew
lie is to be congratulated on the quality
of football he instilled into his charges.
He is more to be congratulated on the
tactful way he upheld the morale Of the
team at the time Captain Dickinson
aud three of the best men on the squad
were thrown out by the operation of the
antifraternitv rule. The situation was
that the team had suffered blow which
would at once destroy its strength and
fighting spirit.
Hard Luck at East.
East did not, in any game of the sea-
son, develop its full potential strength.
Whether or not the ultimate result
the crimson been the prey of continual
bard luck can never be said: Coach
Wymar had, at the opening of the sea.
son, as fine lot of material as could
be found on any field in the CITY,, and,
while his men were together, developed
a style of play which looked irresis-
tible.
Unfortunately the team which got 20.
gether for practice, at the opening of
the season never played high school
game and the team work which gave
such promise Of success was completely
shattered by freque Mt shifting and re.
arrangement. The East Side team would
be remarkable for the stoicism with
which it met successive losses, each CT
which seemed heavy enough to wipe II
eff the football map.
1t is hard to say just how much OF
the season is left. The st. Paul-Soutf
Side game is a certainty. It will be
rlayed next Friday in St. Paul, prob
ably at Lexington park. Making the
scores run un by Central on each Of thu
teams the. basis Of comparison, the st
Paul bunch would seem to have the bes
of it,