Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-13
PREPARE FOR THE
FOOTBALL SEASON
CHICAGO AND MICHIGAN MAY
NOT MEET
Minnesota Has Best Schedule OF
Years-WoIverines Have No Big
Game in Sight Except Con-
test With Pennsylvania

The opening of the football season
viii witness a rather strained condition
between several of the big colleges Of
the middle west, and at least three
gridiron contests which have in time
past aroused enthusiasm will not occur.
1t was bad enough when Michigan
and Minnesota severed rela tions sew
eral years ago. but so far as may be
judged Chicago and the Wolverines
are now destined to remain as enemies,
at least temporarily.
Minnesota will have the best football
schedule this fall since 1903, when
Wisconsin and Michigan were both
upon the gopher date book. DR.. II.
L. Williams has completed the tenta-
tive schedule given above, subject to
the approval of the board of control
and there is but little doubt that that
body will hasten to concur in the ar
rangement.
The big nine conference, in its rule
regulating football, forbade the playing
of games between the large universities
and the fresh water college teams. 1t
also limited the number of games to
five and declared that the season must
come to an end the week. or at least
the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
This put the Minnesota authorities
upon the hunt for games. The con-
university games be discouraged and
this resulted in the breaking of the
Wisconsin contract and the severing,
temporarily at least, of the relations
between Michigan and Chicago.
Followers of Minnesota football
were tired of watching the gophers win
easy victories over the minor teams of
the surrounding states, and realizing
this fact, the athletic director set out
t1 cob 6tI10 Txoc
possible under the restrictions placed
upon the game. That he has sue
ceeded better than any other western
director is shown by the bookings.
Wisconsin's schedule looks puny be-
side that of former years. Michigan
is without a game of any importance,
save the game with Pennsylvania.
Chicago and Minnesota are to get to-
gether under a contract altogether new
in football, in which it is believed
muckerism can be relegated to the rear.
The terms of the unusual contract
were published but a short time ago
and are familiar to all followers Of the
game in the west.
The first arrangement for a 1906
game was made with the Carlisle In
dians. This was followed with the
Nebraska, Chicago, Ames and Indiana
contracts in order. All of the games.
save one, are to be played on Northrop
field, and the November 10th absence
of the gophers this year brings the
maroonS in Minneapolis in 1907 for the
first time in a long string OF years.
Ames and Nebraska are the only
teams on this years schedule which
were on that of last season. Nebraska
! Is not a conference team, but athletic
relations have been under existence for
long time between the two institu-
tions. Nebraska always gives the go
piers something to worry over in foot
| ball although the Minnesota team has
/ won majority of the games played.
Ames always comes for a practice
game and Coach Ristine's men from
the pumpkin institute" while always
defeated, have been used in the past to
give the Minnesota team players the
first taste of the real hard work that
is to come. They always fight hard
against Minnesota and make interesting
football.
Chicago, holding the western cham
pionship through the overthrow of
Michigan last season, will prove the
big game of the schedule. This game
comes within a week after the Ne
braska contest, and the gophers will
probably be at their highest pitch of
development for the maroon battle.
The week following the Minnesotans
must meet the Carlisle team and the
Saturday following that encounter the
hoosierS.
Carlisle is coached by George Wood
ruff who knows his football book from
cover to cover, and this game will
doubtless attract thousands to North
rop field on account of it's novelty, and
in addition being one of the intersec-
tional games scheduled, so far, for 1906.
Indiana is coached by the old maroon
star, Sheldon, and the boosters are
expected to put up a rafting contest.
Taken all in all, the schedule is all
that any football rooter could ask for.
1t is the best of the last three years
and it is a question but that it is the
best ever offered by the Minnesota
athletic governors.
This fall brings the first trial of the
reformed game and it will add new
interest to the play. Minneapolis is
assured of four good games, and five if
the rooters care to go to Chicago-and
it is highly probable that some 10000
or so will find time to do this very
thing.
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