The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
BY O'LoughlIn.

tflne Delated this year.
The university opens on
Sept Is, and not until that time.
VIII the rules of the big nlne confer
gopher team of 1906 to gather.
There IS no rule, however, against
individual practice in the back yard
at home, and some of the more ambi-
tious youngsters who would carry off
gridiron honors this fall are humping
and boOting the ball about the vacant
lots near their homes.
Captain Earl Current returns to Min
neapolis this week from Duluth, where
he and Dick Remp, formerly star of
the Wisconsin team, have been acting
as government barge inspectors. Cur
rent will start looking up his cohorts
for the season and doing such prelimi-
nary work as falls to every captain
prior to the opening of the football
season.
In seasons gone by, Minneapolis root
ers have started going to football games
IN September, but not until month
later will the gates be thrown open to
comes when Coach Ristine brings his
band of farmers from Ames on Oct.
n for, the, first game of the season.
Ames has been a lOng-standing oppO-
nent of Minnesota at football, and in
the shakeup of the western situation,
Ames, and Nebraska are the only
schools on last years list honored with
a place upon the gopher schedule this
season: Wisconsin has dropped out of
football save in a minor sense, and
Iowa has seen fit to select games with
teams more in it's class
Schedule Is Good.
The schedule of 1906 is the best for
Minnesota in years-and the hardest.
Ames, always a middle-season game in
years gone by, has become first or a
tryout game, but highly important in
every sense of the word. Ristine al
ways has team of husky chaps who
can hardly hope to win from the 60
piers, they never fail to put up a good,
stiff battle
Following Ames comes Nebraska, on
Nov; 3, for, the annual battle. Ne
braska was licked overwhelmingly last
year, and the cornhuskers look back
upon that fatal day as something of
a Waterloo. This year, with a new
coach and material additions to their
strength, they should be better than
ever. Some of their material was get
ting so old that it was monotonous,
and Coach Booth appeared reluctant to
= try out new blood. Booth is no longer
With Nebraska, having given way to
Coach Foster, Dartmouth man, who,
1t is safe to say, will introduce new
spirit and new regime at Nebraska.
Following the Nebraska game the
gophers go to Chicago on Nov, 10,
where they play Coach Stages men for
the first time since 1900, on Marshall
field. This is the famous "gentlemen 8
game IN which an extraordinary con-
tract figured. The teams are to meet
has pledged not to indulge in any tao
tics which could in any way be con-
strued as savoring Of muckerism, The
teams are to meet at a banquet the
night before the game, and everything
possible done to promote a friendly
spirit: The visits Of the Chicago track
and baseball teams to Minneapolis
gave the Midway athletes high opin-
ION OF Minnesota hospitality and they
rreclprocate when the Minnesotans visit
them.
The Big Game.
This game will rivet the attention of
the whole country on Nov. 10, as it is
the only big western game of the year
in the old sense of a Nbip oame ),
Both teams will be keyed up to their
highest efficiency for this contest. and
with. everything equal, it should be a
heroic struggle, fully up to the notable
game or last Thanksgiving Day, when
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gophers come back ana on s the next ext
Saturday meet the famous Indian team
from Carlisle. This will be the frst
meeting of the east and west in MANY
years, and the outcome will be watched
With great interest. The fame of the
Carlisle team is widespread and this
contest will probably draw out the ban
~ 4ha
The final STRUGGLE of the season comes
on Nov: "a, when Jimmy Sheldon, the
team to Northrop field' III Ind iauaan ia
growing as a football center, and a
rousing game for the windup of the sea-
son IS expected.
While the five games constitute the
shortest schedule in the history Of the
university, it is splendidly arranged
one, and football affairs will hum willie
II IS on: 1t is without question the most
diversified as to class, and interesting
schedule of any institution in the west.
Untll the university opens it will be
hard matter to get line on the play
ers for this season, altho many Of last
year men left with the avowed inten-
ZION OF returning. There will probably
De, no lack Of candidates. as a success
19l season this year and the winning
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not be an empty honor in any sense Of
the word. A chance to get into the
biggest western game of the year has
not been offered to Minnesota candi-
dates for a long time. It will prove
an attractlve magnet for the veterans
and those eligible to try for the first
varsity team. - =. -.
The Players Question.
There will be several vacancies thr,
various causes. Burgan has PLAYED his
aIiotted time at end. Kramer is ineligi-
ole at right half. Joe Cutting left the
university thru graduation. Brush.
Prayed ms last year in 1905. Weisel,;
sub-quarter of =. last season, has been
engaged as assistant coach to take the
place OF Gilmore Dobie who is now at
Fargo lmparting the rudiments of foot
pail to the young idea Of the prairies.
Dolan took degree in the spring and