The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-11
GOPHERS NOW ARE
HAVING EASY TINE
Coach Williams Giving the
Squad But Little Hard
Work

Minneapolis. MIMI. Nov. 11-Per.
haps before in the history OF
Minnesota football has a Gopher
team escaped with less work in pre-.
paration for a decisive game than
h 1911 team is getting these chill
afternoons. The men we're put through
their PAGES in fairly forceful style ear.
ly in the year by way of getting ready
for Ames, South Dakota, Iowa and Ne.
braska. After the C~ornhuskers had
been routed, there was another dash
of hard work before the Maroons
came. The Gophers were drawn out
to q fine point as far as training went
n were in mid -season form for that
game.
After Chicago had been systemati-
cally Tapped in the big eight mara.
than. the players believed they were
face to face with the hardest siege Of
training ever given q Minnesota team,
They were fooled. The four practice
days since that contest have been de-
voted to demonstration Of the new
plays and scrimmage has been en-
tirely eliminated SO far as the old rip
and smash style of work goes. There
has been scrimmage each day but Of a
kind the players have dubbed "pur.
ity." The new wrinkle Is a revelation
to the old time Gophers who are as.
6tSting DR.. H. L. Williams in the coach.
ing.
Players Are Careful
Each day the varsity lines up
against the college team and goes
executed as though in actual battle but
there is a total absence Of strenuosity
that has filled the old timers with awe.
Hard tackling ,is tabooed and there is
no playing that might possibly injure
the contestants. The playing ability
Of the Gophers has already been sub.
jected to the acid test and now the
man will be letter perfec. The Min
nesota plays depend for their efficiency
on speed and precision and every man
must be in the right place. Once the
fast developing athletes get down their
new plays. the coaches will have no
worry about -Minnesota's ability to
execute them against Wisconsin.
h varsity n college teams went
through a stiff session of this steriliz-
ed scrimmage. Those who were behind
the barred doors say the Gophers are
showing no signs of going stale and
that last night they looked better than
ever before this ear All danger of
approaching s%faleness and injury to
any Of the men. needed for the tanning
OF h Badger has been obviated ow.
ing to the nature of the work. Ear
~ next week. perhaps there will be a
return to the old red blood sort of
work but it is not looked for until
then Four days of practice will be
available next week for the men leave
Minneapolis Thursday night A final
light workout will be given the men in
Milwaukee Friday afternoon Then
the books will be closed and the Bad
gers will be invited to sic on their dogs
of war
Stands Going Down
Work of demolition as well as con-
struction was done on the university
field yesterday. The last game of the
year has been played there and un-
tointtng Of the temporary grandstands
has begun. The workmen fell upon the
north structure first and before dark
it was a bare skeleton of timbers. The
work of tearing down the others will
go forward rapidly and by the middle
nf next week the south stand will be
the only one left to witness the finish
ing touches that will he put on the
Gopher football machine.
down at the Dewey theater over in