The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-28
BOTH TEAMS SAY
THEY ARE RIGHT
High School Situation. Is Confused
Thru Disbarring Of z
Players. - 10y
BY Gil.

North and South highs both claim the game
scheduled for yesterday, by default. About 9
o'clock yesterday morning the North High Ath-
letic board of control held a meeting and de-
cided to cancel the game scheduled for the
afternoon as protest against what they claimed
unfair treatment by the board Of appeals.
They notified Manager Solem Of South Side.
Later in the morning they reconsidered their
action in part( and offered to play the second
team against South Side. This proposal was
Indignantly rejected by the orange and black
management. At a still later time Manager
Gaylord of North, called up Manager Solem
and offered to play the first team, that Is as
much of it as had been declared eligible Solem
rejected this offer on the ground that 1t was
made too late. North then announced that 1t
would have a team ready and waiting at tho
appointed time and would claim the game by
default If the South Side team failed to
~. North on Field. -
At 2:3o a team composed Of regulars and
substitutes lined up on North Side field and
after waiting for fifteen minutes ran few
formations down the ! field to the goal line
where choose" Oswald went thru the imag-
mary South Side team for a touchdown. The
sole representative of, the Southtown school on
the field was an excelsior-flled dummy nailed
to the goalpost. . T.
At North High every one was excited and
much belligerent talk was to be heard Many
undergraduates insist that unless the board OF
appeal reinstates the four men ruled out North
Side will withdraw from the city contest and
fill its dates with outside teams. No action will
South Side is fully as indignant as North
They insist that the North Side management
broke the contract when they called the game
off the first time and that the game should s.
to them. on default Theyc particularly in
dignant over. the proposition, that they play the
North Side second team. s-s -r.. e.. : IS. g. ?
| Tie North Side rooters are not disposed to re
| gard the decision Of the board of appeals as
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not one of their men would have been barred
4 They are determined to fight the case. and are
j giving out mysterious hints Of Developments
/ in few days. It is understood that a com
4 work on Bthe case are preparing an elabor
! ate brief of evidence and argument for use IL
urging a reversal Of the boards decision. ~:
North Highs Losses.
With the Kings, Iberson and Wilkinson on
J! of the game the blue. and white team is seri
4 ogsly crippled. Frank King played right guard
i Wilkinson quarter, A. King fullback; and Iber
!: son right half. With the exception of A. KIM
: all these men were playing in their regula
positions. A. King belongs at half but ha
: been substituting FOR Marks. The loss Of thes
I! men will put North out Of the running so ia
the championship is concerned and the Con
: sternation and excitement which pervades Mort
II High is but natural. !. - ~. = E ...-
/ A close observer of high school football sci
l today: 1T does not appear very clearly tina
it was necessary to defer. action on these me
until the evening before the game and it
here that the injustice Of the case lies. Unles
some rule is adopted which will prevent eleventh
hour protests and dilatory decisions high schot
j football is in serious danger. There is +
reason why the matter of protests cannot
= placed on fair basis. ~ .E.. 80. .-t
Nj ''As things stand at present there is serior
= danger that North will withdraw from the cit
+ league, cancel its games and play what men
:, pleases against teams not bound by the cit
rules. This is largely due to the fact that i
+ men were not barred until the day Of the gam
Il 1.-THE board If appeals met on Tuesday b,
!: took no action, except to adjourn to Thursda
Y At 6 o'clock Thursday night 1t reached a d
: cisfon in the cases Of the King boys and Ibe
son. The Marks case was referred to cor
mittee A ruling which would be self-operati'
was made in the case of Wilkinson. The boa
! did not, has been reported, meet Frid,
! morning to consider the Wilkinson case. {
Thursday night it sent a telegram to the Sha
, tuck authorities asking for certain informati
!, and agreed that Wilkinson should be barred fro
q the game of the following day if the reply sa
i, that he had played four years on the Shattut
n team. A telegram to that effect was rece1y
d Friday morning and operated as decisi
y against the North Side quarter"
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