The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-24
[GoPIERs And HO0sERs CLOSE FOOTBALL SEASON OF
Big . E|'.L|..E.| J In
! FINAL BATTLES
Yale Meets Harvard, Maroons
Play Nebraska, and Gophers
Take on Indiana.

Chicago, Nov. 2.-The curtain on the 1906
football drama is about to be rung down. with
the games that are scheduled to be played today
the first session Of work under the new rules.
''debrutalizing" the gridiron sport win come to
an end. In the east there Will be two or three
Ihanksgiving-day games and the final social
event or the season, the army-navy contest, at
Philadelphia on Dec. l..
New Haven is the scene and Yale and Har-
ward the actors in the final '.big'' game Of the
year-the most important of the season. for on
Its result depends the championship of the coun-
try. No western team can be figured this year
In the running with either the crimson or the
blue so far as national championships 60. Bar
ring Princeton's tied game with the bulldogs,
height of the championship climax. victory
for Cambridge means the undisputed premier
ship OF Harvard Should Yale win,. the Els
the failure of the blue to defeat the tigers last
week initiates against IA clear title for Yale.
While the Yale-Harvard battle is far and
away the most important gridiron contest of
today's schedule, there is, one other In the east
that Is attracting considerable attention. This
Is the annual struggle between Dartmouth and
Brown. Those two institutions are ancient
ception Of one year, since 1894. In the eleven
games that have been contested each team has
been returned victor five times, with one ~ to
IL 10 tie sandwiched In That was In 1896. and
In 1917 no game was played. a.
Other football games in the east slated for
today are of small Importance. Pennsylvania.
thru with Michigan and waiting for Cornell on
dies play the Virginia Polytechnic school at
Annapolis; West Point has the beefy Syracuse
eleven for opponents Of the Cadets while Car
Isle, beaten Unexpectedly by Vanderbilt Thurs
day, will meet specially selected lot of play
ers OF the University of Cincinnati liz IL.
Chicago winds up its football career for 1905
today at Marshall field with Nebraska. This
Is the. first appearance Of the cornhuskers in
Chicago. and 1t is the final appearance of Cap
tain Eckersan with the marOons--two reasons
for the great interest being shown in this
game Conditions at Marshall field bid fair to
be right for both teams, for both want a fast
hard, dry turf and with clear, snappy air. ;
Under these: conditions each team will be at
Its best and spectators will be promised some
thing brilliant on the part Of each contestant
in showing the difference between the old line
plung1ng game that has been known for years
past and the new, open-runntng, passing, tossing
and kicking game that the maroons showed so
prettily last week against Illinois.
Nebraska's football squad was four hours
late reaching the city yesterday. The team did
not arrive at the Grand Central station until
about go in the afternoon. Coach Foster then
hurried his men across the city to the Van
Buren, street station Of the Illinois Central
where an express train was taken for Hyde
Park. The team was taken to the Hyde Park
hotel, which will be their headquarters while
in the city. Coach Foster gave his team light
signal practice yesterday afternoon, and last
night the men were taken to 'Hutchinson's COM
mons for the final purity banquet rendered
ny CnlcaSo 10 1tS opponents the Gay previous
to the battle.
In the squad under the leadership of Coach
Foster and Manager Eager are these players
Captain Glenn Mason, right end; Rice, right
tackle; Taylor, right guard; Harvey, center
Chaloupka. left guard; Matters, left tackle;
johnson, left end; Cooke, quarterback: Little,
right half; Weller left half; Craig, fullbackj
and the following cubs: Wilke, 'Frume, Perrin
Drain, Mcdonald, Denslow, Miller and Schmidt
With the Lincoln team came nearly 100 Ne.
braska students intent on seeing the performance
of their men against the heralded maroons. Ne
braskans are not Wanting the strength of the
cornhuskers and offering no money to back
their team except at long Odds and rather or
whether the westerners will score instead Of
win, but they still entertain a lurking hope
thai the working of the new rules will SO far
equalize the two teams that something NAV
drop at some point Of the game that will give
Nebraska its longed-for chance and at least a
touchdown on the midwayites II not actual VIC
tory. ~ = II = =
No other game in the middle west slated for
TO-DAY approaches in Importance the maroon
cornhusker battle at Marshall field. Illinois,
beaten three successive times will ATTEMPT TO
redeem itself against Purdue at LAFAYETTE. Min
nesota meets Jimmy Sheldon's Indiana eleven
ana Iowa plays Ames, the agricultural school Of
Iowa, which beat Nebraska IA to o. -.
With the exception Of Iowa all of the ssbio
n1ne' wil1rclose the season with today's games
each having played its allotment of ave hermit
TED under the revised rules. Iowa's game with
Ames is only the fourth for the hawkeyes. and
they have contest billed for THANKSGIVING dav
against the University Of st. Louis at St. louis