The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-10

4: Nov. 17-Carlisle, on Northrop
/: field.
/: Nov. 24-lndiana, on Northrop
/: field.
by O'Loughlin.l
Minnesota's football will be a trifle
belated this year. The university
opens on Sept. IS, and not until that
time will the rules of the big nine con-
ference permit the candidates for the
gopher team of 1906 to gather.
There is no rule, however, against
individual practice in the back yard
at home, and some of the more ambi-
tious youngsters who would carry off
gridiron honors this fall are humping
and booting the ball about the vacant
lots near their homes.
Captain Earl Current returns to
Minneapolis this week from Duluth,
where he and Dick Remp, formerly a
star of the Wisconsin team, have been
tors. Current will start looking up
such preliminary work as falls to
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the football season.
In seasons gone by, Minneapolis
rOoters have started going to foot
ball games in September, but not un-
til month later will the gates be
thrown open to the public this year.
The first game comes when Coach
Ristine brings his band of farmers
from Ames on Oct. q for the first
game, of the season. Ames has been
long-standing opponent of Mime
sofa at football, and in the shakeup of
the western situation, Ames and Ne
braska are the only schools on last
years list honored with a place upon
the gopher chedule this season. Wis
consin has dropped out of football
save in minor sense, and Iowa has
seen fit to select games with teams
more in its class.
Schedule is Good.
The schedule of 1906 is the best
for Minnesota in yearsand the hard
est. Ames, always middle-season
game in years gone by, has become
first or tryout game, but highly i'm
p0rtant in every sense of the word.
Ristine always has a team of husky
chaps who are not walked over. and
while they can hardly hope to win
from the gophers, they never fail to
put up a good stiff battle.
Following Ames comes Nebraska,
on Nov. 3, for the annual battle. Ne
braska was licked overwhelmingly
last year, and the cornhuskers look
back upon that fatal day as some
thing of Waterloo. This year, with
a new coach and, material additions
to their strength, they should be bet
ter than ever. Some of their material
was getting so old that it was mono
tonous and Coach Booth appeared re-
luctant to troy out new blood. Booth
is no longer with Nebraska, having
given way to Coach Foster, Dart
mouth man, who, 1t is safe to say,
will introduce new spirit and new
regime at Nebraska.
Following the Nebraska game the
gophers go to Chicago on Nov. 10,
where they play Coach Stages men
for the first time since 1900, on Mar
shall field. This is the famous gen
tlemen's game" in which an extraor-
binary contract figured. The teams
are to meet in spirit of friendliness.
Each side has pledged not to indulge
in any tactics which could in any way
be construed as savOring OF muck
erism. The teams are to meet at a
banquet the night before the game,
and everything possible done to pro,
mote friendly spirit. The visits Of
the Chicago track and baseball teams
to Minneapolis gave the Midway ath-
letes high opinion of Minnesota hos
pitality and they have assured the
gophers that they will reciprocate
when the Minnesotans visit them.
The Big Game.
This game will rivet the attention of
the whole country on Nov. 10. as it is
the only big western game of the year
in the old sense of a big game"
Both teams will be keyed up to their
highest efficiency for this contest, and
with everything equal, it should be
heroic struggle, fully up to the not
able game of last Thanksgiving Day,
when Chicago and Michigan were in
the limelight
Following the Chicago game. the
gophers come back ana on the next
Saturday meet the famous Indian team
from Carlisle. This will be the first
meeting of the east and west in many
years, and the outcome will be watch
ed with great interest. The fame of
the Carlisle team is widespread and
this contest will probably draw out
the banner crowd of the year in Min
neapolis.
The final struggle Of the season
comes on Nov. "a, when Jimmy Shell
don, the old Chicago star, brings his
Indiana team to Northrop field. In
diana is growing as a football center.
and a rousing game for the windup
of the season is expected.
While the five games constitute the
shortest schedule in the history of
the university, it is splendidly ar
ranged one, and football affairs will
hum while it is on. 1t is without cues
ton the most diversified a sto class,
and interesting schedule of any in
stitution in the west.
Until the university opens it will
be q hard matter to get line on the
players for this season, although many
of last years men left with the avowed
intention of returning. There will
probably be no lack of candidates as
q successful season this year and the
winning Of an IN" at football this
year will not be an empty honor in
any sense of the word. A chance to
get into the biggest western game of
The year has not been offered to Min
nesota candidates for a long time: 1t