The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-13
CHICAGO CRITICS
ON THE OUTLOOK
All Agree that Western Football
Championship Is High in
the Air.

Chicago, Nov 13.-The Record Herald says:
Results of western football Saturday helped
little to give positive line upon the contests
in which Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago
are to vie for final honors. Interest in the
Michigan Wisconsin game next Saturday and in
the Chicago-Michigan contest Thanksgiving Day
was rather increased than lessened and the
two contests, taken together, promise fitting
climax to season in which the championship
is likely to be determined satisfactorily.
Only the Chicago-Purdue battle afforded u
great amount of food for discussion, as both
Michigan and Wisconsin against weak op-
ponents won easily. Purdue, however, showed
its class in unmistakable fashion, and amply
bore out the statement made in this column
earlier in the season that Purdue is a factor.
To not interested directly in Chicago,
who believes Hestons statement that the Yost
line this year is better on defense than ever.
the conclusion forces itself that Michigan must
win the Thanksgiving Day game
Maroons Are Blue.
''If Michigan is good last year and
Chicago better than it showed against Pur-
due" said one eastern critic who saw the
Day game by score Of 40 to o.
Chicago hopes this is an extreme view But
with Dan Boone declared ineligible and Walker
incapacitated the maroons views, which have
been more or less roseate so far, have taken
on decided blueness. But there remain over
two solid weeks of working days and much
may be done in that time.
men to face Saturday and the wolverine coac,
realize this. Phil King is the Phil King Of
old and too great credit cannot be given him
for gaining victory over Minnesota the first
year of his 1eturn to Madison.
Chronicle Less Anxious.
The Chronicle says: All the eyes of the
football world were turned toward Marshall
field Saturday afternoon. There was not an
other gridiron battle in the west that held any
importance in declaring the final championship
team, not another one that was even inter-
esting to the students who are now beginning
to e ths Ral waseEs Of the
field was Of interest mainly because the con-
test was sure to be severe test for the
maroons, who are to meet Michigan Thanks
giving Day for what will probably be the de-
Gliding game of the season. AS was expected
by everyone, the Chicago team had little diff
Guilty in gaining another victory altho the en-
tire first half of the battle the eleven coached
by Herrnstein put up valiant fight that at
times even threatened the local goal.
Stages men soon had used uD all the
strength Of the Purdue men, however, and the
second half proved easy for the Chicago players.
Coach Lowenthal of the Illinois team stated he
believed the maroons had a fine chance to de-
feat Michigan.
Michigan Charged.
The most dlscouraging condition of the mid
way camp at present is the loss of Boone, the
big halfback who protested by Purdue and
declared ineligible. There is much discussion
over the conduct Of the Purdue Authorities in
entering the protest and it is claimed by many
that it came from Michigan Inducements.
Michigan representatives were at the game at
Marshall field in countless numbers. While they
were watching the work of the much-dreaded
having a runaway practice with the Ohio State
team. 1t no test of Yosts men, and simply
| afforded them chance to whet up their offense
for the battle with the Wisconsin team this
week Wisconsin also had nothing but some
practice with Beloit. But they injured their
great star, Findley, in one play so badly that
he may not be able to last the entire game
Saturday.
Minnesota came back in grand shape, in spite
of her defeat by the badgers the previous week,
|, and Saturday set her scoring apparatus to work
ing ana ran up elgnty-ohe polnts on tne SCUM
! braska and Northwestern yet this fall but will
| likely dispose of both Of them in easy fashion.
| McCornack's Northwestern team showed up in
| good form. 49,
Key in Ann Arbor Game.
| The Chicago Tribune says: With the finish
of the football season Of 1905 less than three
| weeks away, interest, which has been unusual
until the curtain IS rung down the final ac1
on Thanksgiving day. In the east, where the
big games are not allowed to interfere witt
turkey dinners, the end will come a week from
( next Saturday.
| There remain three games in the west which
will have an important bearing on the fna
rating Of the leading elevens. The first OF
these in point Of time is the Wisconsin, Michigan
a fair at Ann Arbor next Saturday, the SECOND
the Northwestern-M Minnesota game at Minneapolis
a week later, and the last and most important
| Of all probably is the Michigan-Chicago battle
scheduled for Chicago on Thanksgiving day.
! Saturdays Ann .Arbor game will give the frs
| real line on Yost's team which it has beer
possible to get this year, as nothing on thu
schedule to date has fefed them
Yost has q powerful team no one doubts. How
strong no one knows, probably not even Yost
1t is not known even how heavy the team is
! for it is the statement Of all who have seel
the team in action that the weights of tn
men announced far below the real figures
Just what Michigan hopes to gain by this polio.
of concealment cannot be guessed as the ele
ment Of possible surprise is eliminated by tn
fact that the team has been on public exhibition
repeatedly.
Wisconsin a Mystery.
Wisconsin's chances in Saturdays game, there
fore, are a matter of conjecture only. TIL
badgers exhibited a strong defense against Chi
cago, then apparently neglected its defense t
| improve the onfense for the Minnesota game o.
| What Kings men showed in either one of thes
games alone they would have small chance 0
beating Michigan.
But If Wisconsin can perfect the defens
shown against the maroons, eliminate the fumt
ling Of punts and the uneven charging exhibite
in the Minnesota game, and at the same tim
did between those two big games, it will b
a formidable rival even for the Michigan team.
After next Saturday Chicagos chances agains
Michigan will be better determined in all prot
ability than at present. The test given tn
maroons last Saturday by Purdue did not en-
nance Chicago's outlook much as it did Pun
dues. Coach Herrnstein demonstrated, he had
strong team already, with some splendid ma
terial on which to work another year. H
should be able to make Purdue factor in tn
west long his material holds
In the game at Minneapolis two weeks henc
Northwestern has an opportunity to retriev
many of the laurels lost to Chicago, and Coac
Mccormack is working to that end.
Race Still in Air.
The Inter-Ocean says: Saturdays game
brought no changes in the western championshi
. race. Michigan and Wisconsin both played sec
ond-rate teams and by wide margins. CHI
cagos defeat of Purdue, while the game wa
hard fought, showed that the maroons had
strong team.
Those who went to the Chicago-Purdue gam
with the hopes of getting line OH the rea
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