The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-02
BY O'Loughlin.


The gophers came thru the Shattuck- Pillsbury
game without injury and have two games for
consideration this week. On Wednesday after
noon they meet the st. Thomas team, coached
by Ed Rogers, and lively affair is looked for.
Rogers tricky player and will attempt to
send some of his wards the Minnesota goal.
The college team is light, but reports from
st. Thomas say that they fast. st. Thomas
teams always made up of young fellows
who fight to the last inch, and the game will
be interesting.
known Of the prowess of the fickertails. They
have kept their football proceedings well under
J cover this yeaE, and may have something up
their sleeves for the gophers.
Minnesota starts into the October work with
! splendid gain and heavy loss in material.
The return of Fred Burgan will compensate in
{ declared ineligible by the faculty of the law
school. Case Won his 'M'' in his freshman
year and was expected to make splendid
showing this year. Burgan is a good, hard
Z working little at the end. and will prove
Of great value to the coach in whipping the
line into shape
Saturdays Play.
Saturdays play gives little basis upon which
to base any early-season comparisons of the
western teams Michigan went against Wes-
leyan and rolled IN high schore. The Yves
/: 1eyan3defense could not Withstand the onslaughts
. of the heavy wolverines, and it appears to have
= been as easy for Michigan to go thru their
opponents line as to go the ends. 1t was
case of high scoring in short halves, but
( bespeaks weakness for Wesleyan than
! merit for Michigan.
! Lincoln high school held Nebraska to a small
( score. The Lincoln school boys, altho out
: weighed by the cornhuskers, put up stiff fight
! and showed that Booths offense is not coming
j along fast 1t last year. The alb.
; sence of Bender may have something to do with
this, he always did the greater part of the
aggressive work for the Nebraska team.
Wisconsin played Naperville as it pleased
running up a score of 400. The badgers are
said to have displayed the same fault noted ir
! the play Of the gophers-fumbles at times wher
fumbes were least wanted. The play did moi
develop anything new. the part of Kings
men, the old men did the work. The badger:
showed little team work. and the man with the
ball was inclined to get outside lag behint
his interference.
Chicago Ragged.
Chicago is said to have played poorly ant
fumbled in miserable shape in the game will
caused any trouble for Stages human freigh
cars. who seemed unable to place their weigh
against the lighter boosters. Wabash played
such stiff game that Eckersalls famous boo
was dumping against the ball most of tn
time. He also got away for. his usual run Vi
the field, and captured all of the credit for tn
Chicago side of the game. To Wabash belong
the honors Of the day. With Stages materia
Chicago looked formidable at the outset blu
such performances as that at Marshall feel
Saturday will cause a decided drop in ambi
/ ton and hope if the faults are as glaring i
their remaining practice games. !. Is.
Gophers Well Up.
The gophers played right up on par wit
their rivals and outplayed Chicago and Ne
braska. This done with the college tear
| playing the second half While this is nothin
K! upon which to base any predictions it goes
II show that by comparison, the team is workin
n in earnest and is in the western championshi
| race.