The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-29
CHICAGO DOPE
SHOWS ANXIETY
Gophers Accredited with Strength
by Writers Who Have Not
Seen Them.
Journa! Special Service.


Chicago. Oct -29.-With the football season
II hardly more than started, the fight for western
Is honors has narrowed down to three teams, Chi
Ncago, Minnesota and Michigan, In spite of faculty
Neforts to abolish struggle for the champion
5 ship, says the Inter Ocean. And there is more
q than a chance that the bringing of the base
III tional leagues and of the world to Chicago will
Sbe followed within the next month by the reten-
K ton Of the football championship that was won
last year by Stages maroons.
81 Chicagos victory on Saturday over the sturdy
boosters by 80 to score proved that the
new team which Stage is developing is, under
1.-THE new rules proving worthy successor to the
a championship eleven Of last year. and that two
i least even terms. Minnesota showed its team
for the first time in the Ames game and the %
4 to score Is indicative of strong eleven, and
one to be feared by Chicago. Michigan defeated
. Illinois, but allowed its goal line to be crossed
Il winning % to 8.
BY combination of defeats and victories the
best team may this year claim the championship
of the country. Thru the Michigan Pennsylvania
game at Pennsylvania on Nov. II, and more par
ticularly thru the Minnesota-Carlisle game at
( Minneapolis on the same date, the relative
strength Of eastern and western teams will be
tested. The Indians defeated Pennsylvania and
y Princeton defeated Cornell Saturday; the In
81 dians play Harvard Nov. 10, Princeton plays
Yale Nov. II and Yale PLAYS Harvard No. a.
4 This series of games is the key to the possible
settlement of the football championship Of the
country.
Stage Coming.
There is a gap in the Chicago schedule this
week. On Saturday Coach Stage and Captain
Eckersall will watch Minnesota and Nebraska
on Northrop field to get line on a few of the
Z plays Chicago may have to meet, and the de-
Tense 1t will have to overcome when the gophers
come to Marshall field the following Saturday.
Il The Chronicle says: 1.-THE Saturday game
served to show that the maroon line is wofully
weak, much weaker than 1t should be against
? Satur-
day. OF course, Coach Stage may, and probably
will, strengthen 1t before the husky gophers
are met, but the latter's bunch of linesmen are
tried vets and stars of the highest magnitude.
with such men as Vita, Ittner, Case, Smith and
Marshall there seems little chance Of breaking
thru According to reports from Minneapolis
these men played magnificent game against
the classy Anles eleven and could not be pene-
5trated for any considerable gains.
q ITO Offset this, Stage will probably use trick
plays and plays made possible under the new
rules, trusting to the speed Of the backs to circle
the Minneapolis defense There is small chance
OF going thru the stone wall which has be-
come historic regards Minnesota teams. Eek
ersall. Stefen and Walker should be able to start
something and the ends and halves of Minnesota
will probably have their hands full to stop these
men when they once get decent sort Of
start.
Carlisle a Big Game.
b It begins to look as tho the Michigan Pennsyl-
vania game would shrink into minuteness before
that which will be contested between Mime
sofa and the Carlisle Indians. The first named
has been touted up all winter as the one which
will show the relative strength between east
s.and west in football but it no longer seems
ESQ now. The awful beating which the In
.Bdians gave Penn Saturday puts the red and blue
in secondary light more than the defeat ad-
ministered to it by Swarthmore did.
Carlisle stands out as one OF the best IN
be one to conjure by. According to reports Min
nesota HI; grand eleven, and its games with