The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03

Wisconsin team was wofully weak and
little could be judged Of the football
ability of the twenty freshmen who
were given trial in this game. Fryk
man at halfback played for the first
time for the freshmen and his work was
q feature Of rather monotonous game.
On Oct. Is the freshmen played their
first game against a strong opponent
by a score Of 6 to O. The North d.
kota team outweighed Harris proteges
man for man but the campaign for
speed was beginning to tell and the
game was won thru the speed Of the
backfeld men and the quick charging of
the linemen. Heavy line candidates had
not yet appeared in any numbers but
the light men got the charge on their
opponents and won a creditable vic
tory.
It Was Defeat.
Iowa came the next week and the
Minnesota youngsters played their first
big game of the year against heavy
Hawkeye aggregation. In this game
Maloney and Forker played the tackle
positions while Ertle, Merrill, Fryxman
and Moore made up the backfeld. Both
Of these combinations were new but the
men went into the play with spirit and
won by a score Of 5 to 0. The work of
Eakins at guard was conspicuous, both
on defense and offense.
On Oct. % the Faribault mutes played
an interesting game against the fresh
men but the university men had taken
slump during the week and altho the
freshmen won, % to 0, the deaf ard
dumb players gained a great deal of
ground against their heavier opponents.
Wisconsin came the next week and
the freshmen tasted defeat for the first
time. The team won the good will of
the spectators by it's plucky fight, how
ever, and when the whistle was blown
five minutes early I'M the second half in
order to give time for lining the grid
iron for the big game in the afternoon
the Minnesota team had the ball on the
Wisconsin 15-yard line and Bly,, the
freshman fullback, was carrying the
ball for repeated gains of from three tc
five yards.
The Second Defeat.
The second defeat of the freshman
oSesSSL
high won from the 1909 team by a score
of 5 to 0. In this game the Freshmen
took the ball within five yards of thu
North high goal twice, only to lose it by
fumbling. ~e-
The spirit shown by the freshmen
after these two defeats was the best
of the year and the team put in hard
week Of practice resolved to swamp
| the Methodist freshmen in the last
game of the season. The swapping
process materialized and the North,
westerners went down by a score of
So to O. In this game the strongest
team of the year represented the
gophers. Morse at tackle, and max
/ ing his first appearance for the uni
versity, played a remarkable game, and
Kiser, on the regulars for the first
time, played strongly at the other
tackle position. Atkinson, who had
been playing halfback on the freshmen
scrubs, made his debut as a quarter
back and did the most spectacular work
of the year.
With the Northwestern game the sea
son Is work for the freshmen team came
ito an end The games won had been
won fairly and by good consistent foot
ball and the games lost had been lost
by remarkably narrow margins and
/ only after the hardest kind Of a strug
gle.
@ Will Get Numerals.
/ AS a result Of the season 'sspIay prob.
lahly nineteen uniYersity freshmen will