The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
BADGERS THINK
VICTORY IS SURE
King Has the Best Material of
Any of the Western
x. Coaches.

Madison, Wis, Sept. 9.-The new regime in
football is on at Wisconsin. and it is now time
worrying over the badgers. The badgers are
buoyant with hope under the leadership of Phil
King, Eddie Holt and Alvin Kraenzlein, the
former Wisconsin and Pennsylvania track star.
Wisconsin had great team in 1902, the last
year OF Kings coaching 1t was defeated
three times, but not dtsgraced once. Then came
the Curtis Cochems rule. Both the coaches were
graduates of the Madison school, and both had
been stars ode the cardinal football teams. The
coaches were Jealous of, each other. The men
paid little attention to the orders of their lead
ers and cliaues fayoring the two coaches sprang
up in the squad.
In 1908, under the graduate system, tho there
was wealth of material in the school, the
badgers met defeat at the hands of their three
greatest rivals-Michgan, Minnesota and Chi
cago.
Last year the conditions were even more cha
otto and the badgers went down in defeat and
disgrace again In their three big games, tho
the coaches had one of the greatest aggregations
of husky football aspirants in the west. At the
close of the season the graduate coaching system
was done away with and Phil King, the who
made the name of Wisconsin feared in football
circles In the past, was finally induced to once
more take charge of the badger team and lead 1t
out of the wilderness in which it had wandered
during the two years of the Curtis Cochems rule.
King to Win?
Kings work began this week, and all follow
ers of football are expecting great team this
year.
Tho the Wisconsin coach will have to over
come the demoralizing forces which have under
mined athletics at Madison in the last two years
before he can start to mold his team, he is eX-
pected to at least force Minnesota Chicago and
Michigan to their limits before the championship
goes to either school.
To begin WITH Wisconsin was benefited more
than any other school by the six months fresh
man rule. Not member of last years team
was lost by graduation the four-year rule.
King will have, at best, twenty veterans of last
years squad with whom to begin work and many
other promising men who refused to try for the
team last year. owing to the partially shown
Line to Be Strong.
Nearly all of last years linemen have signi-
fed their intentions of returning to school and
trying for the team. Findlay and Bush, I'M
doubtedly two of the best ends in the west last
season, will try for their old positions, while
Bertke and Brindly last years tackles, probably
will be seen in the same places when the big
games are played this fall
King will have several other candidates for
the tackles, however, as there were no less than
ten trying for these places last season. In the
Chicago-W Wisconsin game last Thanksgiving day
no less than seven men were used at right
tackle to withstand the terrific Chicago offense
which was aimed at that place, and another
man was ready to go into the position as the
referees whistle told Of the ending of the
game.
>At guard Donovan Of last years team will
be back and new man from the surplus tackle
candidates will probably be found for the other
guard.
For the center position great contest is ex-
pected. Remp, last years center, and Robin
son, the substitute for the position, are the
leading candidates. The two men are anything
but friends. They quarreled all last season, and