The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

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the field from the grandstands. This
is what they sung: 49,:

is what they sung e., .ts..
How'd you like to be a hoosier?
How'd you like to be their team?
When we've won that game Of football,
They'll see gophers in their dreams.
- They can't break our mighty stonewall;
''Touchdown.' hear the rooters roar.
Then who wants to be hoosier:
When we begin (yel)
We play like sin (yell)
The gophers play corking game Of ball.
Instead Of the usual unquenchable hi
larity which follows victory Of the
Minnesota team, there was on the con-
trary feeling yesterday afternoon,
very much like despondency. The cause
was not so much the disappointment
over the showing of the team in the
last two contests as the realization
that several Of the old stars had
played their last game on Minnesota
team. There was a genuine feeling of
gloom among the few more loyal adher-
ents, who collected about the training
quarters after the game, when six vet
Grams began to pack up their apparatus
good. And these men felt the regret
no less keenly. With the rest of the
team, however, it was different. The
arduous training of the past three
months had begun to pail on the men,
and it was with a real feeling of relief
that they put away their suits for the
season. IT is thought, however, that
some means Of keeping the Z men in
training to slight extent all during
the remainder Of the year will be in
vented by DR.. Williams, and the ath-
letic board. ..,
Features of the Crowd.
There were no humorous features of
tho ror tfhoro To-
adverse comment on the pig chasing
episode, which number of sophomores
arranged to amuse the audience during
the. halves of the game with Carlisle
put a ban on the college humorists, and
there was only the stately marching of
the band, and the playing Of "Minne-
sofa, Hail to Thee' as ''Prexy' had
desired.
When the teams trotted out onto the
field after the intermission, with the
score board recording the ominous Min
nesota 6, Indiana 6, the crowds settled
down, to await the outcome. Again
and again the rooters were called upon
by Long John' Sinclair, the rooter
captain, to give the Minnesota yell,
and the locomotive delivery which is
now used almost entirely, was never
given with better effect. The immense
'oAuAlo " oouAu SeeIAeu W WAKE even
more echoes than it did at the Carlisle
game. Each man on the team was
cheered repeatedly, and at some time
during the game every Minnesota play
er was told that he was ."La-la, a
LULU, and Ski-U-Mah. -
Outside of the university students
there was very little roofing for either
side, altho the sympathies of the spec
tators were plainly for the Minnesota
team. Nevertheless, there was always
a burst of cheering for the Indiana
players whenever the boosters sue
ceeded in executing a good play. Many
of the attempts of the Indiana team
to get away for the second touch
down which would have meant defeat
for Minnesota, called for unqualified ad-
held their breath lest the touch
down should come.
When the whistle blew at the end of
the allotted time, there was the usual
wild careening Of cushions thru the air,
and the stampede of rooters across the
Scared gridiron as they followed the
champion team of the west to its quar-
tiers in the armory. ~.t
There was none Of the harassing
congestion either before or after the
game, that was an unpleasant feature
VI Cne MlnnesOCa-CarllSle contest, and
only the south stand was used to seat
the crowd. The standing room, the
bleachers, the north stand, and the rows
of boxes-all were an empty reminder
of the thousands that saw the gophers
go down to defeat at the hands of the
aborigjnes last Saturday.
AS the .grandstands emptied, and the
crowds filed out the gates Of Northrop
field, deep silence settled down on
the scene Of the battlefield where four
times this season the Minnesota foot
ball team had wrestled with challengers
of her supremacy, once with defeat,
and three times with victory. Not un.
til another year has rolled around will
the gopher yell ring out again across
the trampled gridiron from the throats
of thousands; and when it does it will
still be in defense 'of the football
championship Of the west.