The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-12
CHAMPIONS BACK
ON NATIVE SOIL


mage. The only difference in costume was in
The headgear and Minnesotas lighter leather
was soon reduced by mud and rain to color
very close to that Of the Chicago players.
licking the men was hard task for the
ooters and pressworkers who were following
t. closely. Under fair conditions the modern
ootball player Is hard to recognize when wear
ing headgear and guard but when
sarbed almost exactly alike and playing in the
tain and mud the task becomes formidable
| one. 1t fooled even the players.
Current Fooled.
Captain Current. in talking of this feature,
remarked last night that or twice he saw
Eckersall coming thru the field and a man in
maroon In front Of him. ."rwice l discovered
Just in time" said Current, that the man
thought of our fellows and going
10 tackle Eckie all right, was really Chicago
man giving Eckie interference Then it took
quick work"
Minnesota made remarkable showing in that
not substitute was used. The men We're tired
| toward the close, but they had fought and
won one of the greatest gridiron battles of the
year the coach hesitated to take a man out.
There were, of course, some heartburnings the
sdeline over not getting in in the big game Of
the year. but it would have been injustice
to any man to have taken him out later in the
game after the work that had been performed
by every man during the first half and the
longer part of the second. Chicago used but one
substitute, and he was sent In, more than any
thing else, to permit the maroons to change
their attack.
1t remained for Minnesota to show the only
"new'' football. Eckersan once attempted the
triple pass, but it nailed back Of the maroon
line. Minnesota used two forward passes, the
first being failure, while the second gave
ten yards. ''' "-. r. i ~ - -= II T.
over Chicago Minnesota now comes into the
championship of the west In spite of the at
tempts on the part, Of the faculties to provide
the .'big nine' with championless season
IF
ference has been such as to place the champion
ship at stake in the Chicago Minnesota game
| of yesterday Minnesota won, and In taking
away from Stagg's team the honors which the
maroons wrested from Michigan year ago. es-
tablished Its claims to the premier honors in the
west.
True, neither Chicago nor Minnesota has met,
| or will meet Michigan, or Wisconsin. Nel cher Of
these teams has shown any form this season
which would give 1t valid right to contest the
gophers title. Michigan is admittedly below its
historic form, and for the first time since Yost
took charge of its football destinies has been
the victim of a slump that has lasted thruout
the season. .-s '.s
The wolverines began the season with %
to victory Case, and We're then given
! hard fight to defeat Ohio state, nosing out to
0 victory. Illinois, the only 'big nine' team
they met, suffer ed decisive defeat, tho not
Ultil it had crossed Michigan's goal line and
scored a field goal. The score was % to g.
Then came Vanderbilt, holding the southern
title, and it all but defeated Yost's warriors,
who saved by Garrels' remarkable run in
the last minute of play, and won 10 to 6. This
game completed Michigans western schedule.
Wisconsin has been coming up steadily from
the first game O: the season, when it pre-
dicted that it would drop into the company of
the lesser lights It began the season poorly by
defeating Lawrence to o, and North Dakota
/ 10 to 0. Then In the second half of the Iowa
game it rallied and by an Is to 4 score. At
Urbena yesterday it won 16 to victory. The
badgers, too, must be counted out of the cham
pionship for, altho they. have suffered de-
featsy they have not shown the strength to enti-
tie them to serious consideration against either
Chicago or Minnesota. -.F-
AS for the other members of the big nine,
Northwestern is deciding interclass football
games in the classroom; Indiana has been defeat
has lost to Chicago, Wabash and Notre Dame
and Iowa has. been defeated by Wisconsin,
Maroons Concede.
However different, the result of Saturdays
game might have been dry. fast field, that
is factor which does not enter into the situa-
ton. Minnesota. under the conditions, had the
| superior team. and won. It's victory is con-
ceded by the maroons, with no inclination to
haggle over what might have happened. .
The Carlisle Game.
| With Minnesota conceded the western cham
pionship this year, interest is being focused on
| its game with the Carlisle Indians in Mime
| apolis next Saturday. AS comparison between
the east and west, this contest bids fair to
shadow even Saturdays, contest and to attract
greater attention than any other game this
weeks schedule
! The Indians have a wonderfully fast and
strong team this fall. Their defeat at the
hands of Harvard Saturday their first seri-
Gus setback this year, and this was won by
the narrow margin of five points after a des-
perate battle. After the Minnesota game they
| will meet Vanderbilt, thus having on this sched-
| ule the champions Of the west and south, as
well as two of, the big four of the east. While
prospects are against Harvard's winning the