The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-19
ROOTERS PONDER
OVER BIG GAME.

professional sportsman. They are playing for
the love OF the game and loyalty to
their institution. They grieve over their
mistakes and shortcomings more than do their
friends. @s<& s.s5s. a.
This Is the time for everybody to whoop it
up FOR good game Saturday, and close Of the
season with victory. All the dope and finely
drawn deductions in the world will not change
the score, and to the credit of Minnesota it may
be said that the voice Of the knocker has not
been heard. Minneapolis and Minnesota have
eheered the victors and sent them home last
night giving their veil and winding up with
lobby. E +. - +. :. 49,
It's indiana just now. as they will come Sat-
uroay with an idea that they can repeat on the
gophers. The Minnesota. neYer-quit Is stronger
today than ever. The western championship Is
stu nailed up, and that is lot-past years
Press Comment.
The Examiner says: 1.-THE east and west met
In football in two different spots Saturday after
noon' ana IN both cases the victory went TO the
east While there is nothing official in either
one OF the games, 1t looks as tho the east viii
for the season, - " oo
There is no doubt that Michigan does not
ieptesent the strength Of the west, but Pennsyl .
wanna mas been beaten in the east and is cer;
talhly weaker than either Harvard Yale or!
Princeton. In the Minneapolis game the Cor
s stne. lndians whipped what is considered the
were beaten the week before by Harvard q
SECOND blow Is registered in favor of the east.
rom reports that came from Philadelphia
anu rom reports that came from Minneapolis, it
seems that the western teams were absolutely
outclassed in both instances. Michigan was NO
match tor the Quakers and Minneapolis never
nag chance to stop the shifty Indians
hotn OF the western teams failed miserably
ulaer the system OF play brought out by the
new rules. The Indians. used an omen stv1e of
play and ON dry field easily fooled the big
sIrong Fellows on the gopher eleven MICHIGAN
csed only straight football and never had a,
cnance to advance the ball against the strong
ilnemen on the Quaker team,
>. 90 II seems that the west has failed because
1t did not utilize the possibilities of the omen,
style OF play. Coach Yost has been opposed to
a rank failure DR.. Williams was in favor Of
the open game but seems to be lacking in ma
terlal TO carry out plays such as the system re-,
cures. The Indians are built for the new style
.,n1, . consequently Won from team which I'M
aoubtedly is more powerful than they are Penn
savanna was simply too strong for the wolyer-
mes and walked over them to victory
one thing was plainly brought out in the
game ga at minneapolis, and that is the fact that
tne gophers can be whipped on a dry field Car
isle has speedy and shifty team on the order
OF Chicago With firm footing the Indians were
aole to work all kinds of tricks against the
neasy minnesota men, who were powerless to
stop the plays. ~ ..s
This proves that Chicago was greatly: handi
capped the week before by being limited to
f ta f 10 football of the slippery cond
s cTa OF the field. With dry field, fast and
shltty team like Chicago or the Carlisle Indians
Will invariably get the better of strong and
heaVy fellows like those the Minnesota eleven
chicago proved its worth in Saturdays game
against Illinois: On fairly dry field Captain
Eckersall shot his fast little men I'D and down
the field almost at WILL because the opposing
players never knew what to expect There is
no doubt that Chicago would have been held
down to smaller score if the Minnesota team
mad been their opponents but at the same time
no team on earth could have prevented some
OF the tricks used by Chicago Saturday from be-
ing successful. IT -.
Stage had the same tricks planned to work
against Minnesota week earlier but was afraid
to u:e them because of the wet and slippery bali.
II chicago had met Minnesota on Marshall field
saturday there are hundreds of critics of the
game who declare that the maroons would have
won and won by big score"
The Record Herald: Apparently the ves+ern
eleVens have been slow in getting next to the
possibilities of the rules. 1t was the east
against the west Saturday, and in the games in
which Michigan and Minnesota figured. the
eastern style outclassel the westerners The
one exception was the Chicago Illinois game on
Marshall field, but as this had no intersectional
slsnlncance' real proof of its versatility Of
comparison lacking.
NO such calamity has ever befallen the west
IN single afternoon, if ever, as the twin de-
reats of Michigan and Minnesota. The redskins
were supposed to show the eastern style Of the
game This they did to Minnesota's woe and
conclusively showed that the gophers are not as
strong as they have been generally regarded.
'Of course, 1t was field goals which largely
dominated the score but as this phase of the
sport seems to have taken the place of the
time-honored touchdown, it counts lust as much
In the final results. 49,
Turning eastward the defeat Of the wolver
ines by the more or less despised Pennsylvania
eleven, came as shock to western supporters Of
Michigan. The fact that Pennsylvania points
were made on touchdowns made the defeat of
| the westerners more surprising as it had been
t conn predlcted that even with weakened
team the quakers would never be able to mt
the wolverines goal line in jeopardy
1T is reasonable to suppose that eastern crit
les Will now draw final conclusion as to the
comparative strength between the east and west,
and IN this the east is not likely to suffer AZ
| matter of fact the strongest western team did
not go east, and judging from the maroons' SEN
sational showing it is a debated question
whether or mot the Indians met the best eleven
in the west. II. :,
"Of course Minnesota must be given credit for
victory over Chicago, but the game was con.
sloefed by critics as more or less gamble On
me other hand, Minnesota certainly did not play
Its best football against the Indians and Tins
In summing it up it looks as If the east caught
the west far off its real game 80. =
'Whether Or not the eastern teams are far.
ther advanced in the style made necessary by
the scrambling of the old rules remains to 10
seen. 1t looks that way but it certainly will
| take another year so to make this conclusion.
AS matters now stand the east certainly has a
shade in football strength as we'll as versatility
of both attack and defense. It is NOT believed
that anyone will dispute that the winner among
| the big four' will be clearly entitled IN The
national championship" - -:s-,.1c- -, -
Inc Inter Oceans; 'The east and west have
| again met in football, and. once more The NOR
from the other side of the Alleghenies have
| been victorious. The intersectional defeat was
| ADMINISTERED IN TWO doses Saturday. ~
! AT Philadelphia, Pennsylvania defeated Mich
1gan' while at Minneapolis the Carlisle Indians
were downing Minnesota. The scores were
identical, IT to 0. The Pennsylvania Michigar
game can hardly be considered representa- five
game. Neither team represented the best, OF
| even approached the best game PLAYED in its
| section. nj. ,-,-ss. >. - - - SC = - -
.'E enn was completely out .of the race ir
| the east. having lost to Swarthmore to O.
the Carlisle Indians, "a to s, and tied with
Lafayette, 0 to 0. It's only important victory
was against Brown, IA to o.. =.
4 The playing Of the quakers has been far
! below their standard of former years and is
admittedly below that of the other big Four
teams On the; other hand, Michigan which In
| former years has represented the best there was
| in, the west, this year was the victim of q
! bad slump. The team that lost to Pennsylvania
Saturday Is not the same team that suffered Its
first defeat in four years before Stages maroons
last Thanksgiving. 1t showed up weakly against
| Ohio State and Vanderbilt, but put up fair
| game against Illinois.
"Coach Stage of the maroons in discussing
the game, said: 4 regret that the west lost
| both games but don't believe that the Miehi:
| gan-Pennsylvania contest can be considered as
representative, either Of western football OF
Michigan football. The team Michigan has
| this year is not circumstance to the one 1t
had last year. The team it had in the Thanks
giving game would be hard to duplicate
while the Michigan-P pennsylvania game can
not be considered representative, the defeat of
Minnesota, the acknowledged champions of the
west, at the hands of the Carlisle Indians,