The Minneapolis journal., 1905-12-05
PlLLSBURY IS
PROUD OF TEAM
Makes Claim to the State Cham
pionship and Gives the
Records.
Special to The journal.

1poC1al 10 Aue JCu1ud4s .
0watonna, Mimi, Dec. 5.--With tho close Of
the 1904 season the Pilsbury academy team
looks back unbroken series Of victo-
rieS and on record which can hardly be equaled
by any other preparatory school team in the
state --.'
Pillsbury started the season by holding the
university team to eighteen points. Then next
the deaf rutes were defeated by an oyerwhem-
ing score. The Albert Lea high-school team was
then easily defeated by team of P1llsbury
substitutes. The game with Winona was for
the championship Of southern Minnesota and
was won BY Pillsbury in the fastest game ever
played here. "
The fast and heavy Rochester state asylum
team was next beaten of its feet. feature
calls by the Rochester papers, which termed
them ''the most gentlemanly' players ever on a
Rochester gridiron." Mankato normal was bur-
aed under 41-to-o score and their champion
ship aspirations went gl1mmering.
The final game WAS the biggest surprise Of the
year, when Pillsbury defeated Hamline 8 to &.
Outweighed twenty pounds to the man, and with
the disadvantage. of a slippery, muddy field
against them, the piIlsburys outplayed their
college opponents at every point and would
have beaten them much worse had the field
been in good condition.
Tracy high school, putting up a claim to the
state championship. asked for game with
Pillsbury, but upon learning Of the latter 8
yietory sIy over Hamline' resonsidered and re-.
Pillsbury out Of their class as did also
shattuck this year. The shads practically ac-
knoWledged the gr1d1ron superiority Of Pills
bury and confessed their unwillingness to again
buffer defeat this season.
BY misprint 1t was made to seem that Pills
bury conceded the superiority Of North high
This IS not true. Pillsbury claims an equal title
to the state championship with the Minneapolis
school and only comedies this right Of dispute
to the title to that one school.
Robert Cox, Minneapolis boy, who made
good at right end this fall, was elected captain
of next years team Mt the annual banquet, Cox
Is very popular fellow at the school and
should get good results from his men.
The following players will be awarded sweat
ers and the much-coveted 'P'': Captain Ted
Smith. Lynn Porter, Robert Knatvold, Allan
Harvey Peterson Bruce b1iddlebank
Homer Rugg, Earl Palmer, Malcolm Jones and
Ezra Colquhoun. OF these men all except two
WILL return next year. and it is highly probable
that one Of these two will decide to return fol
advanced work. This gives practically un
broken team to 60 on the field next fall. and
great things are thus expected Of next years
team.
The loss of Ted Smith, who has eaptained the
team and directed Its movements as quarter
back for two years, will be keenly felt but 8
substitute has already been found in tho person
OF Alfred Erickson, who held down that posi-
ton on the second team this year, and will
make good for first team next fall.
Smith will enter the university in the fall
and should easily be the favorite for quarter
on the freshman team. He is the fastest prep
quarter In the state, without doubt. Directly
after the holidays the Pillsbury baseball team
will so into training. Twenty candidates are
announced.