The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-20
CAPTAIN AND THE
COACH OPINIONS
What They Thought About
the Badger Gopher
Battle

Madison. Wis, Nov. 20.-Dr. H. L.
Williams, Minnesota: 1.-THE field was
frozen solid, icy and slippery, SO that
standing up. to say nothing of running.
was very difficult. The icy wind. blow
ing all the time. and weather condi-
lions made offensive football very diff
hcult. Even on kicking. 1t was hard
for the kicker to get a good foothold
to punt. End running was almost
Impossible, as the runner could not
turn on the icy ground. For the same
reason, It was almost impossible to
play h forward pass game.
Minnesota is entirely satisfied with
tne game which her men put up. Ev-
cry man did his best. The score which
Wisconsin made might be considered
almost in the nature of a fuke. 1
might rather say gift. The umpire
footed his horn for a foul when Min
nesota had kicked. Every man on the
team stopped n made no effort
Whatever to stop the Wisconsin man
who caught and was running back
with the ball. When he had gone by
the team and capron saw that he had
not stopped at the horn, he made a
wild dash for him. but slipped just as
he tackled, and so missed him.
Wisconsin refused the penalty for
which the horn had been blown, and
so had an easy touchdown. Just at
the end the team narrowly escaped a
disaster similar to the one which hap
pened in the last Michigan game in
Minnesota. An injudicious forward
pass made on her W twenty-five
yard line with less than a minute to
play. was caught by Mol on the run.
He was by the team in a flash for what
looked like a touchdown. but Frank
forced him out of bounds one yard
from the goal line. The ball was
brought in fifteen yards from the side
line and Wisconsin had the oppor-
tunity of her life to win the game.
There was but n yard to go. Min
gain was made"
John Richards, Wisconsin: ION a
dry field, Wisconsin would have won
the game easily. The contest showed
the comparative merits Of both sides,
and. man for man, Wisconsin out
played Minnesota. Wisconsin proved
n had h superior team. and those
who witnessed the game will generally
admit that Wisconsin must be conced-
ed the western college conference
championship for 1911.
THE field was wretched. Seldom
lave we played under such adverse
weather conditions. The footing was
Insecure aid treacherous. and no one
knew where he was going to land
when he started with the ball. The
ground was frozen stiff, and has not
thawed an iota. Wisconsin was handi-
capped by the hard. slippery ground.
both teams suffered from the cold
wind that raked the field"
Al Buster. Captain of Wisconsin:
Il am thoroughly disappointed at the
outcome of Saturdays game. VIC
should have won hands down, but we
were handicapped by the field. Our
men were unable to get started, and
generally slipped when they had a
chance to make a substantial gain.
OF course, the bad going worked
against Minnesota as we'll, but not as
much as against us.
w had our hearts set on winning
n game. aiEdtI made that prediction
bravado thatfI said the best team
would win and the best team was ours.
Luck was a big factor in the battle,
but l am sure that on a dry field we
could have done the business"
Rosenwald, Acting Captain
minnesota: Il expected We were go
Ing to win the game. but we didn't.
We missed Earle Pickering moro than
the spectators might think. Much
of u attack had been built up around
him. and his sudden withdrawal from
competition rather disorganized us.
We have few to offer, but
with a dry field I think it would have
oeen a different story. We were UNI
able to get much of our stuff working.
and whenever we had an opportunity
1t seemed that someone always slipped
on the icy ground. We saw at the
start that the team that had the luck
on its side had the best chance. we
were right on that. but luck was not
WITH us as much as we would have