The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-01
MINNESOTA IS NOW
PREPARING FOR CHI
Game Promises to Be the
Most Interesting in the
West

face to fac with Chicago and one of
n most important games of tho
schedule so far as conference cham
pionship prospects go. If the Gophers
are to win another conference title,
Chicago must be cleaned out of the
path. LAST year at this time it was all
Minnesota with the adherents of Chi
cago looking for soft spots on which
to light. This season the preliminary
eleven Is today far from being as adj
vanced and polished a team as were
the Gophers Of 1910 at this stage of the
season.
Chicago is generally conceded to be
q easily improved team over last year
Stage has discovered in Scruby q won.
derful kicker from placement. His
field goals nave marked every game
played by the Maroons this year, and
the best advices have it that Stage is
depending upon this youngsters toe TO
bring humiliation to Gopherdom.
Stage has a strong line, with fast.
competent ends. SO the scouts report,
and in the process Of elimination the
Gopher line and Maroon forwards may
be cancelled. In the backfield Mime.
sofa has the edge as it is not believed
that Stage can muster four men of the
quality of Pickering. Rosenwald, Cap.
run dUO stevens
Scruby can kick from placement, but
there 70 q certain bulky person in Min
nesota's. lineup who has not missed a
field goal this. year-that is. a goal
after touchdown. Morrell has been
kicking goals from all angles in ali
sorts OF atmospheric whirls and Gains
With the elaboration and precision of
a duck hunter in a blind. Stranger
things might happen than for Morrell,
II Kicking became necessary, to boot a
few between the Chicago posts. Cap
ron is practictng diligently on his drop
Kicking n taken as a whole, Minne-
sofa can be said to be fairly we'll forti-
fled In the kicking game. Pickering
can Kick spirals as we'll as my player
In the west this year. although his
work Saturday was not up to his u.s.
ual grade.
The tales Of scruby's proves will
not a Minnesota. He will be
watched closely but not feared. Several
years ago Minnesota tangled with Chi
|cago when the Maroons possessed a
great Held goal kicker in Eckersall.
VINO had brought defeat to numerous
rivals. Marshall was playing in that
game and in a downpour of rain and
with a ball as slippery as a creased
Gel, booted a field goal that told the
story.
Both Stage and DR.: Williams will
send out teams composed of veterans
and men OF less experience. Gopher
adherents believe the Gopher veterans
possess more football ability and class
tnan do the Maroon veterans, but the
Gopher team has not been pointed up
this season-has never reached its pos
sioiiity In FORM. It Appropriated form
In the second half Of the Nebraska
game but showed little last Saturday.
There may have been something of in
tentton In this. as 1t is hoped this week
70 prlng them up as far as possible
for the Maroon game. II the players
respond to the coaching and get up on
their toes. a great game will result. as
stage Is pointing up for this struggle
IN a hope Of revenging his upsets of
two years past.
Stage Is expected to resort to tricky
play. There is a general belief that
he will lean more toward the fluff style
or football thar to the older variety.
No one knows what Minnesota will
pull in Saturdays battle. Ames and
South Dakota were licked on primary
football. A little more was shown for
Nebraska. but not much. The same
plays that defeated Nebraska sent
Iowa down to defeat without a Goph-
er ever playing against a Hawkeye
formation by way Of precaution. This
is an unusual procedure. but the time
Defore. the Chicago game was too lin
tied to waste in preparation for a team
that was rather accurately sized up.
As a result Coach Hawley had built UP
a good defense for the we'll known
plays and the defensive work Of his
team was made to appear better than
would have been the case had Minne-
sofa opened up anything the Hawkeye
scouts had not watched and dia-
grammed.
The work this week will be directed
toward a polishing up. an Improvement
OF the team play and improving the
speed. Robinson and Rosenwald are
expected to get into the swing Of things
much better by Saturday. Robinson
having been held back by class work in
preparation for his examinations and
Rosenwald by an injury. With this
pair In trim and working smoothly, the
team should be able to show a great
improvement with the practice Of the
week. The material is there and the
willingness to work. Saturdays show.
ing rests upon the ability Of the play
ers to take advantage of the coaching.