The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-24
PREPARING FOR IT..
The A. c. Bunch Is Doing Some Hard
Work This Week to Get in
Shane.

Fargo Forum-The scrimmase work
last night at 4. c. was more specially
directed toward Strengthening the
weak spots in the team. Oshwald is
doing better work than at any time
this season. He is getting down lower
in the line every night. Haskins is
finding out what to do with his weight
and is covering more ground than for
merly. South is spending more time
on tackling and is getting his man
oftener and surer. Hallenberg is do
ing more studying than ever and get
ting the strategy of the game better
The whole team is going smoother.
The fare and a third rate on the rail-
roads for next Saturdays game with
the U. N. D. is already bearing fruit.
Many out-of-town fans are signifying
their intention of being present tina,
day. 1t all tends to a big crowd.
It's just as We thought. The new
new rules are a failure. They will
put the flower of our youth on the bum
The first sign was given last week
at Madison, where one of the best
players was seen walking with short,
dainty steps down the street and smok-
ing cigarette. Under the old rules
he would have been tearing along at
an impetuous gait with mans plug
of tobacco in his face.
Illinois says there is something
mighty suspicious about the departure
of player Watson from the classic walls
Of the state varsity to the also clas-
sic halls of the Midway. 1t would be
premature to pass an opinion until
we know whether he is a great ath-
lete or nothing more than student.
In making up his team this year,
Coach Stage Is said to have spurned
beef for speed. They are certainly
handing it to beef in Chicago this year.
Coach Yost says Michigan will have
to go some to beat Pennsylvania. The
quakers may as we'll prepare for the
deep, dark gloom. It's almost all over
when "Hurry-Up" begins to talk like
that
As matter of course few players
are being killed or injured, but under
the new rules it is purely accidental,
not intentional.
Our Minneapolis correspondent says
that between study and bootball prac-
tice the candidates have their hands
full. We presume 1t just doubles the
work of last season.
Each of the western elevcns starts
tho season Will. elmer an individual
play will revolve.
Chicago with its incompatible Eek
ersall should have ! backfield. the
equal and maybe the superior Of any
in the country
Minnesota will have q line. (provid-
ed the faculty does not interfere), al
ready conceded to be the strongest in
tho west.
Michigan has punter in Garrels
who should prove a surprise even in
the east where good puntins is not
rare.
Nebraska will revolve its play round
the speedy and heady Benedict, Who
will play end or quarter, and Capt.
Mason, the fullback.
Football has begun to take on a new
lease Of life in Wisconsin under the
new policy Of its athletic supervisor,
DR.. Hutchings. Capt. Gelbach, at
guard, will will prove the mainstay
of the team.
Coach Stage and his maroons nat
urally arouse the greatest interest
among the Minnesota players and their
followers.
The game of the west will be that
between Chicago and Minnesota, at
Chicago, on Nov. 10. The winner of
that contest will be hailed as the cham
pion of the west. The title. however,
may prove an empty one. The result
of games that follow this one may up
set all calculations.
Michigan has one important game
in that with Pennsylvania at Philadel-
phia on Nov II.
Football comparisons have been con-
clusively proven time and again a bas-
Is for miscalculations as to the
strength and weakness of a team.
Such comparisons will be interesting
this season as the only means Of de-
termining the real value of eastern
and western elevens. Carlisle will
prove the testing factor. Through this
team and the games it will play, the
east can be compared with the west.
The strength of Yale and Harvard and
Pennsylvania can each be tested in
the east. Michigan, Chicago and Min
nesota can also be compared in the
west
In the east, Pennsylvania plays Car
Isle next Saturday.
Yale played Pennsylvania state,
which has already defeated Carlisle,
today. Harvard will next play Car
Isle on Nov 10 at Cambridge.
Michigan will play Pennsylvania on
Nov. II, and Minnesota will play Car
isle at Northrop field on the same
date.
The scores of each of these games
can thus be placed comparatively to-
gether and give an idea of the respec-
tive merits of the different events.
Coach Stage has been extremely
lucky thus far in his gridiron mater
ial. In the backfield he started with
Capt. Eckersall at quarter, with Wal
ker and Steffens at halfbacks, and
Williamson, who "sub'd" for Bezdeck
a year ago, at fullback. These men
are first-class players, but two Of
them will probably be displaced by
players with more speed and less