The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-12-07
Tales of Treachery Fly
About the "U."
THERE'S TALK OF BRIDES.
Former Player Said to Be the culprIt
Who Put the Indians Wise to
Something.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Minnesota football circles have been
disturbed for a week or ten days over
rumors of treachery to the gophers on
the day of the Carlisle game, says The
Minneapolis Journal. Wild stories of
every description have been in circula-
ton. Some of them have been to the
effect that players "sold out" 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 $1,000.
These stories have been laughed at in
football circles as the mutterings of a
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
IN any way with the team or the uni
versity, bet heavily upon the games.
On the Chicago game this clique plung-
ed on Chicago, only to lose. The goph-
ers were Immediately installed as "fav-
critics" in the Carlisle Minnesota game,
and the gamblers plunged more heavlly
than ever to recoup their losses.
The result of the game came near re-
sulting in free-lunch outlook for most
of them, with Thanksgiving but few
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
'icrookedness" of the players. These
charges were farcical on their face.
One rumor, though, removed from the
class mentioned, has caused an endless
amount of gossip on the campus and in
the inner circles of foot ball affairs.
This was to the effect that a former
Minnesota player had addressed" the
Carlisle players just before they went
upon the field; that forgetting his al
legiance and loyalty to his alma master
he had lent "advice and counsel to the
enemy"
In university football this is con.
sidered severe break in the ethics.
The story had its beginning on the at.
ternoon of the game. Oscar Munson,
janitor of the armory, went into the
room occupied by the Carlisle team to
repair leaking steam pipe. Munson
declares that the former gopher was with
the Calisle players and was talking to
them. Munson says: 81 heard him
say, Go after 'em, do as tell YOU
I thought nothing of it at the time and
left the room to 60 on with my other
work."
Munson repeated the story and it was
seized upon, after the game, and added
to in many different ways. 1t grew
to such proportions that the player,
hearing of it, entered strenuous denial,
and sought in every way possible to re-
move any idea that he had been guilty
Of betraying the Minnesota team in any
manner.
The friends of the man are legion and
they are 10th to believe that he did any
thing of reprehensive nature. They
CONT out the fact that he has always
been loyal to the team and that on the
Sunday following the game he was using
his powers of persuasions on two mem
oers of the Carlisle team, native sons of
to get them to enter Mime
sofa even though the conference rules
would require full years college work
before they could play on the Mime
,ota team. The fragmentary remark
which the janitor says he overheard,
hey point out, is capable of a multiple
The player is a friend
If Bemus Pierce, Carlisle's coach, and
he gopher, they declare, did nothing
more than attempt to- make : Pierce's
Iisit to Minneapolis a pleasant one, on
he social side only; and they say it rs
'idiculous to imagine that the young
pan would do anything to injure Min
lesota's chances in the game.
The football authorities, since the
7ictim of the gossip has taken the
rouble to make stiff denial of the
stories of disloyalty, express confidence
n him and say they do not give any
.redence to the gossip. The original
tory has been magnifed and enlarged
,pon to degree embarrassing to the
,oung man. His friends assert that he
$ victim of circumstance through his
with the Indian coach, a
that dates back for several
,ears. They say the talk, the embel-
ishment of the original story, is q great
Injustice to him and that no more loyal
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