The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-13
HOPE OF VICTORY
In PURPLE CAMP
The Wonderful Improvement at
Northwestern Arouses En-
thusiasm.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Nov. 1s.-optimism has replaced
pessimism in the Northwestern football camp,
and the Methodists looking forward
to tie annual game with Minnesota with great
hopes of victory. The purple team has made
wonderful Improvement since the Chicago game.
The eleven which showed practically Of
Tense against the maroons. have been working
with machine-lke precision. Mccormack believes
eleven in the country.
The past week has been one of revolution.
Mccormack, always a devotee Of the close mass
style Of offense, has taken to open attack,
used SO successfully by the maroons and Mich
igan. The ease with which the Chicago backs
gained thru his line by their shifty attack
off tackle and the inability Of his pushing
style of offense to penetrate the Chicago line,
caused Mccormack to revise his offensive sys-
> New and intricate formations, with johnson
starring in trick plays, will mark the offense
of the purple against the gophers. Mccormack
realizes that he cannot hope to defeat Min
nesota with the slower style of attack, as
his light forwards are no match for the gopher
linemen. Speed, and speed alone, is what he
Will rely On to Wln
Get Dark Sweaters.
The most singular development of the week
was the changing Of the sweaters of the play
ers from purple to gray. The purple jerseys
worn by the Methodists made it easy mat
ter for the opposing teams to pick the man
carrying the ball, as the pigskin stood out in
bold relief against the color. 1t is believed that
the gray will make it hard for the North
western opponents to select the man with the
ball.
+ Hurdling will be of the main features
of the Northwestern attack against Minnesota.
Mccormack has had special class in hurdling
for the past week. All of the backfeld candi-
dates and some of the linemen have spent an
hour daily running thru the hurdles. While the
form used in jumping the sticks is altogether
different from that which football players en-
nj n hp1j that trni min Of
track hurdling will help the backs get high
into the air and result in good gains.
TO Get Director
| at Northwestern will be made at the end of
| the present football season. Since Mccormack
announced that he would not coach the North
western team another year, plans have been
| formulated for the adoption of the athletic
director system now In vogue at Minnesota and
Chicago. Some eastern star, perhaps Hogan of
tb ae oz NIL be e secured If possible to
| the end Of the professional coach so far as
| northwestern Is concerned. The director will
be made regular member of the faculty and
| will have charge Of all branches of athletics.
1t was first suggested that the graduate sys-
tenn should be adopted, but the turmoil result.
| ing from the employment of former stars at
| wisconsin put an end to all discussion Of that
| plan. Many of the Northwestern alumni wanted
| to see the position given to Dixie Fleager or
Joe Hunter, but the general sentiment would
not allow the employment Of a graduate.
Gopher Game Indians Last.
The Minnesota Northwestern game, Nov 25
| will mark the passing of one of the greatest
| football players that ever played the game
ern has announced that the Minnesota game
will be his last. He has already played six
years of football in fast company, having beer
| a member of the Carlisle Indian team for foul
years and OF Northwestern for two seasons. He
| reached the climax Of his football career il
his senior year at Carlisle, when he was unani
mously selected as All-American quarterback
| Since that time he has been steadily going
back and has shown only flashes Of his rea
form.
Johnson will be the last Of the Carlisle In
| dams to play more than four years of football
| as the new conference rule has placed Carlisle
| in the same class as the other colleges, thu:
limiting the football career Of Indians to fou
|