The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-28
TALE
SIIRS UNIVERSITY
Charged that Minnesota Football
Team Was Betrayed to
Carlisle Indians.
WILD STORIES OF
BIG BRIDES PAID
Friends Of Former Player Ac-
cused Of Treachery Defend
Him.

Minnesota football circles have been
disturbed for a week or, ten days over
rnmors of treachery to the gophers on,
the day of the Carlisle game. Wild
stories of every description have been
in circulation. Some Of them have been 5.
to the effect that players " sold out, II
and the gossips have even gone SO far
as to name specific players and the
sums they are alleged to have received.
the highest price being set at 1000. !.
These stories have been laughed at in
football circles as the mutterings of
Clique Of gamblers who have lost heavi.-
ly this season.
Minnesota football is unfortunate in
that Minneapolis has circle of gam
blers who, while having no connection
versity, bet heavily upon the games.
On the Chicago game this clique J
plunged on Chicago, only to lose. The E
gophers were Immediately installed as
g favorites" in the Carlisle Minnesota
game, and the gamblers plunged more
heavily than ever to recoup their losses.
: The result Of the game came near re-
sulting in a free-lunch outlook for most
days away. This set their tongues to
rafting in a non discriminating style
and the. gambling element had no hes
itancy in attributing its losses to
Hcrookedness of the players. These
charges were farcical on their face. ts
Gossip on Campus.
One rumor, tho, removed from the
class mentioned, has caused an endless
amount Of gossip on.the campus and in
This was to the effect that former
Minnesota player had g addressed the
Carlisle players just before they went
upon the field; that forgetting his al
legiance and loyalty to his alma mater
he had lent 'sadvice and counsel to the
enemy $Ss
In university football this is con-
sidered a severe break in the ethics.
ternoon of the game. Oscar Munson,
janitor of the armory, went into the
| room occupied by the Carlisle team to
repair a leaking steam pipe. Munson
declares that the former gopher was
with the Carlisle players and was talk
Ing to then MHnson says: 8 heard
You. I thought nothing of it at tho
time and left the room to go on with
my ether work. ; 5. 5SSs
| Munsons repeated the story and IL
| was seized upon, after the game, and
added to in many different ways. It
grew to SUCH proportions that the
prayer, uedIiHg Ol IL, euIeTeu a SGf0Hu.f
GUS denial and sought in every way
possible to remove any idea that he
had been guilty of betraying the Min
| nesota team in any manner.
10th to Credit Charge.
The friends of the man are legion
and they are 10th to believe that he
did anything of a reprehepsible nature.
They point out the fact that he has
10 70 ho {oo md hot
on the Sunday following the game he
was. using his powers Of persuasion on
two members Of the Carlisle team, ma
tive sons of Minnesota, to~get, them to
enter. Minnesota even tho the confer
enSe rules would require a full years
the Minnesota team. The fragmentary
remark which the janitor sayst.he over
heard, they point out, is capable of a
multiple interpretation The player is
a friend of Bemus Pierce, Carlisle's
| coach, and the gopher, they declare, did
nothing more than attempt to make
Pierce's visit to Minneapolis a pleas
ant one, on The social side only; and
they say it is ridiculous to imagine that
| iniure Minnesota IS chances in the game.
| The football authorities, since the
victim of the gossip has taken the
trouble to make a stiff denial Of the
stories of disloyalty, express confidence
in him and say they do not give any
credence to the gossip. The original
story has been magnifed and enlarged
upon to degree embarrassing to the
young man. His friends assert that he
| is a victim Of circumstance thru his
friendship with the Indian coach, a
friendship that dates back for several
years. They say the talk, the embel-
lishment Of the original story, is great
injustice to him and that no more loyal
| Minnnantan ean he found In tho sfato