The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-08
GOPHERS MOVE ON
CHICAGO TONIGHT

condition and into machine.like smoothness
stage has been at 1t comparatively short time
ana the season Is early. II Stage has an at
tack OF seventy-fye plays or a greater number,
which to put them into precision Of execution.
Thru comparison Of the backfelds 1t is ad.
mitted that Chicago has the edge on pure speed
Minnesota has the better Of it on power and
weight, with speed that Is not to be sneezed at
chicago is expecting to play the new football
against tile old, basing this opinion upon the
fact that Dr. Williams has In the past built mp
a play that was marked for its power. He has
never been given proper credit for the strategy
OF his attack. His teams have always been
made up Of big men, and the cry Of defeated
teams has always been that OF ''they beat US
by weight" The gopher teams under the Yale
coach have always had speed beyond that &C.
credited to them. They have won by combina-
ton OF speed and power and were given credit
alone for weight. Students Of football know
that mountain Of flesh does not necessarily
imply good football player. Minnesota has
never had any of these human boxcars whose
only claim to ability as football player was
based upon his bulk. They have been on the
field and In the university, but the early fall
elimination has generally put them on the side.
lines. They have not even been used on the
scrub. .. 49, &.
How true this story of old football against the
new, may be win remain for Saturday to de-
eide. Against Ames and Nebraska the gopher
coach cid not show anything but straight foot
ball. H2 did not have to- althO Nebraska for
time looked tho it would call for opening
up Of the sealed book preparing for Chicago.
What the gopher coach has developed for Chicago
is an unknown quantity to all save the players
and the very few on the practice field at Sc
cret practice for the past three weeks.
The Gopher offense.
That Minnesota will have satisfactory attack
and versatile one is the general belief OF
the rooters. DR.. Williams is one of the strate-
gists of the game and fully the equal Of his
old friend and college. chum. Stage. in that re-
spect. Both ait members Of the rules commit
tee and attended the many conferences. DR..
Williams had just as good chance as Stagg to
come to a thoro understanding of the possibili-
ties of the cules. Each was compelled, of
course, to adapt his play to the material in
hand The result will be an attack in each case
to the new rules. This would, on the face of 1t,
appear to give Stagg the necessity for fast
whirlwind play, and Minnesota straight foot
ball. Either coach may have something up his
sleeve for the other.
1t is going to be great battle but Mime
sofa should win. There is general belief that
Minnesota could have licked Chicago with any
OF Its teams OF the past four years, including
the defeated team Of last year, If the game was
played later in the season. Minnesota can win
IT the men go on the field with the do-or-die
spirit and free from stagefright. There is no
need for stagefright, as the gophers can lick
the maroons If they will 60 out with the deter
m1nation that it must and has to be done. The
men have had the advantage of a careful tutor
Ing at the hands of one of the best coaches in
the country, and it is up to the men now. The
coach cannot help them after the whistle blows.
The team and attendants leave tonight At s
o'clock over the Minneapolis & st. Louis, and
on their arrival at Chicago will go at once to
the Chicago Beach hotel In the afternoon the
men will be taken out for signal practice and
in the evening will attend the so-called purity
banquet given by the University of Chicago,
where they will meet the Chicago team and
break bread with them.
Then comes Saturday and the game. The
rooters start for Chicago tonight and by Satur-
day it is believed that at least 5000 Minneso-
tans will be in the windy CITY,. There will not
be tn outpouring of two years ago. when The
Journal ran excursion and put the rate at
apolitans going to see the game with Northwes-
ern.