The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
BY o'Loughlln.

l. Il braska, on Northrop field
Yesterday afternoon by score of - to
o in the most sensational game Of the
local season. Minnesota g triumph,
came thru the medium of two Held
goals by "B9bby. .R MarS a;ai, a attner
Nebraska gave the gophers scare. Of
pronounced proportions. Two weeks
ago Ames defeated Nebraska in a de
cisiye manner. Ames came to Nor
throp field for it's annual drubbing and
it was administered in the usual style.
From this it was reasoned that >Nebras-
ka would come along and take worse
beating than ever, but right here the
dope went wrong.
Nebraska Of yesterday could have
swamped Ames, at it's best, by score
Of "a to 0. It was virtually a new
team. The cornhuskers had turned the
same trick that Minnesota performed
last year-developed in wonderful man
ner under the spur and sting of de-
feat. &. $50 -.
Minnesota, thru injuries Of the week
y in scrimmage, was compelled to send in
mixed team. The omitted players are
none of them injured so seriously! but
that they will get into the Chicago
game, but with the big western foot
ball event of the year but week away
the gopher coach did not feel like tax
seemed strong enough to win and his
Judgment was vindicated-b not until
after the rooters had had thirty min
utes of discomfort.
To tell the truth Minnesota played
lethargic game in the first half: Ne
and there was little if any difference
in the weights of the teams. Stafford,
at center, is light man and Weist is
another comparatively light chap.
Doane in the backfeld is not heavy and
parity in weight which might have ex-
listed.
offense Was Surprising. ~
Nebraska g attack in the past has
never been brilliant. 1t has been hard
pushed with great spirit and pluck.
change in the cornhusker attack. It
was fast and made up almost entirely
of tricks, fakes and forward passes.
On straight football the cornhuskers
were lost. They could do nothing. In
the first half their attack perplexed
Minnesota and the team unquestionably
rallied. however, at critical stages and
held the Lincoln team with asgrim
determination that went far to make up
for any of their shortcomings. -
Minnesota s offense was circum-
scribed. DR.. Williams had evidently
instructed that only straight football
carried out to the letter. Comparative
ly few plays were unearthed. The
presence of Professor A. A. Stagg, in
the grandstand with Walter Eckersall,
may have had some effect Of this kind,
but it is safe to guess that the offense
against Chicago will be different.
The cornhusker offense in the first
half was of the whirlwind variety.
The gopher ends were tricked on sew
went up the field in style that was
far from pleasing to the Minnesota
rooters. Then the gophers braced and
battle royal ensued. It ragged up
and down The field for the length Of
the first half with neither side scoring.
The forward pass came into evidence
with the visitors, and Nebraska has a
pass that is dangerous. Minnesota
soon tumbled to the tricks and they
were not so ga!inful: Marshall and 1T
ner were working like Trojans on the
ends, with Marshall having the time of
his life with Johnson, the Nebraska
left end. The veteran cornhusker was
holding like drowning man at straws
and it is to Marshall s credit that he
kept under such trying circumstances
and did not resent it.
COOKE, the Nebraska quarter was
peTniciously active. He got thru to,
work the backfeld hard to get him on
several occasions and was downed once
or twice by the last man between him
and the gopher goal. Marshall was
out as field goal kicker, and while
his first attempts were failures he per-
sisted until he succeeded. Cooke once
escaped around the right end and elud-
Ing the backs went streaking down the
field with Shuknecht alone in pursuit.
1t was sensational run, the best Of
the day, but Shuknecht. after a magni-
ficent pursuit, landed his man on Min
nesota g 15-yard line and threw him
out of bounds. This was the high tide
of the Nebraska offense and after that
It waned.
= Power with crudensss ...>..
Minnesota offense was powerful.
crude at times and not greatly diversi.
fed. In the first half the team play
was not ur to the needs and the inter
1erence was wofully inadequate, the
men played doggedlY and without spir.
1t save when the Nehraskans menaced
their goal. The first half was decid-
edlv in favor Of the visitors = =.
Then came the change. The gophers
came out for the second half with line
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