The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-25
GOLFERS RETRACTS,
Muck.Rake Writer Manages to Con.
ceal In Mass of Near News
Complete ExOneration of
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Under pressure, Golfers Weekly
has published retraction of its
charges that Earl Luce and James
lrsfield of the Minnesota football
team were guilty of betting on the
outcome of the Beloit game three
years ago. Hidden under news" of
the middle-western football situation,
and coupled with slur at western
colleges in general and the University
OF Minnesota in particular, there is
retractiOn. 1t is complete, though
buried in considerable amount of
information which was news-once
upon time
Dish Of Humble Crow.
In an article signed by E. S. Jor-
dan, raker of football muck, these
statements are made:
Nine middle-western universities
have agreed to drastic code, made
college law by the intercollegiate con-
ference. March 10, 1906. Five most
important recommendations, more
hopeful than any passed in the east,
promise permanent good.
intercollegiate games between
Chicago, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota have been abandoned.
Schedules are to include only five
minor games, the last to be played
one week before Thanksgiving. All
students are barred from participation
during the first year of college re-
sidence. Players are limited to three
years participation during under
graduate years only. Admission
prices have been arbitrarily fixed at a
maximum of so cents a seat, includ-
ing reserved seats.
Such measures as these denote an
awakened faculty conscience, at least
in the middle west. Faculty consci-
ence must finally govern. Scruples
are rare in the old school of pigskin
idols, recruited from the sinew-build-
ing trades. Esprit de crops was un-
known in some universities. There is
a striking case at the University of
Minnesota. In 1905 the newspapers
OF Minneapolis and st. Paul made
much of sensational charges against
certain unnamed players on the Min
nesota team, in what was called a
gambling SELL They stated that
some of the players had profitei by
bets made on the game with Beloit
college, knowing beforehand, through
coaching instructions, what the score
would be. In seeking to definitely es-
tablish these charges, was informed
by members of the university foot
ball team and even coaches, hence an
parently responsible sources, that
James Irsfield and Earl Luce, both
players on the university team, had
Drofited in the way reported. When
these players, jesirous of clearing
themselves of the imputation. asked 10
be confronted with proof, the men
from whom the story came were nm
able to substantiate their first testi-
mony, and consequently we are glad
to say that there is absolutely no evil
dence that Mr.. Irsfield or Mr. Luce
ever made the bets on the game in
question. We make this statement
with cordial desire to repair the in
justice caused by the publication in
good faith of the story that proved to
be unfOunded."
In as much as the North Dakota
football team plays Wisconsin on Oct
~, the following account of conditions
then might be of interest.
Madison, Wis, Sept 24.-As the
time for the opening of the University
of Wisconsin approaches, football
prospects begin to brighten somewhat.
Dr.. c. P. Hutchins, the new director
of athletics, who will have charge of
all outdoor sports, will issue a call
today for football candidates to re-
port for practice next Thursday, the
opening day Of the university From
then on the lower campus and Ran
dali field will be the scene of football
activities.
Despite the radical changes in the