The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-18
BORIGINAL blood flows in the

~ veins of many of the paleface
- ~ population Of Minneapolis,
Judging by the attitude of the North
rop field crowd toward the victorious
Carlisle team yesterday afternoon.
Never has the defeat of the maroon and
nor the prowess of the victorious Wis
itors received more hearty and spontan-
eous acknowledgements. Disappoint-
ment over the failure of the gophers to
play up to what was expected from
them was almost forgotten in the de-
light felt at the splendid showing made
by the sons of "the first families Of
America
Audience Came Late.
There were few early corners at
Northrop field The first real bite of
winter was in the air and everyone was
anxious to reduce the period Of expos
ure to a minimum. AS result there
was the worst case of congestion at the
rop field. The green ticket gate, at
Church street and the viaduct, holds the
doubtful honor of being the worst of
the lot. Two columns of people, one
from the Interurban and the other
from the Oak street line, pressed in
from either side, while third, made up
of those who had come down the cam
pus-bucked the center. Had it not
been for the cold air, the jam might
cases of prostration. AS it was, every
body arriving in reasonable time, got in
to see the kickoff.
According to an official estimate
there were over $4,000 people in the
grandstand and bleachers to see the
game. They were distributed about as
follows: south stand 1000; north
stand, 1880; west stand, 2,70o; stand.
e Ing PafGfm 9d6 lib boxes 1900 and
the stands and the boxes accommodated
about 1900 more.
was the prime consideration of the
spectators, and from the number of
blanket muffled forms to be seen, an
outsider might have imagined that the
entire Indian population of the north
men. Steamer rugs, Navajo blankets,
bedblankets, horseblankets and automo.
bile tarpaulins were all much in evil
dence. Everywhere was heard the ryth-
mic sound Of chilly feet stamping on
the footboards in an effort to start a
circulation. 1889 81.
r.. When the Roofing Began.
s. When the band marched onto the
field the grand stand began to sit up
and take notice, and when the Mime
sofa team trotted out from it's training
quarters it received the combined ap-
plause Of $4,000 frostbitten voices.
Carlisle also received fitting ovation.
No one knew the aboriginal yell, but
all had q notion, carried over from
childhood, Of what a warwhoop should
be.
Never since the days that the Chip
rr,I IL
Falls Of the great river has such a
sound been heard in such a volume
within the confnest of Minneapolis.
shrill and high the excited yips Of the
Indian rooters cut thru the HYa-ya-ya-
ya-ya-yaya' with which their pale
face rivals did honor to the aboriginal
team. Turnout the game each deserv-
ing play pulled off by the Carlisle team
met with the same high pitched yell of
applause. Outside the university Sec
ton there was little real roofing for
Minnesota.
Tho the usually tickle over-town
gold, it did not give tongue to it's feel
Ing in any ordered cheering. Wild
whoops of exultation greeted each rally
of the demoralized gopher forces and,
toward the end of the struggle. one
hearing the noise without seeing the
field might well have thought that
Minnesota was scoring touchdown after
touchdown.
Red Rooters Up to Date.
The real interest of the day, aside
from the game, centered in the Indian
rooters who had made the long Journey
to Minneapolis from the northern res
ervatlons in order to see their team
play. Those who thought to see the
stately paint and feathers of Fenni-
more Cooper or the squalid mixture of
white and red garb described by later
writer's, must have been sadly disap-
pointed. The "braves' wore the
garb of civilization and wore it with
the air of men to whom it was familiar.
The "squaws,' and there were a num-
Der Of Indian women in the little bar
ties Of reds scattered here and there
about the field were dressed, if any
thing, a little better than the average
OF their paler sisters The majority
of the White Earth and other contin-
gents were Carlisle graduates, and not
the untutored children of the forest Il
. has pleased few local "sign paint
,rs' to picture from their knowledge
Of the Indian Of fiction.
Distinguished from the Minnesota