The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-20
GOPHERS BEGIN
WORK FOR ILLINOIS

Minneapolis. Nov. 2O--With the men
in good condition, despite the hard S
to s battle with the, University of
Wisconsin team at Madison, the Uni
versity of Mtnnesotas football team
returned Sunday. and will begin prac-
tice for the game with Illinois, to be
played next Saturday at Champaign.
Minnesota Is entirely satisfied with
the game her men put up" is the way
DR.. Fl. L. Williams, Minnesota coach,
views the battle. Every man did his
best The score wisconsin made might
be considered almost in the nature OF
a fluke, might say gift. The UNI
pire footed his horn for foul when
Minnesota kicked Every man on the
Minnesota team then stopped and made
no effort TO check the Wisconsin run
ner, who had caught and was running
back the ball When he had gone by
the team and Capron saw that he had
not stopped with the horn, Capron
made a wild dash for him but slip
ped as he was tackled and SO missed
him. wisconsin refused the penalty
for which the horn had been blown
and SO had an easy touchdown"
Saturdays Game.
On an icy and vino swept field Min
nesota and Wisconsin Saturday slip
ped and skated to s to 6 tie at Madi-
son. 1t was a great game. poorly
played; bueomelieved by spectacular
run OF Capin for a Touchdown on the
first kick on and by two almost equally
brilliant sprints by "Keclxie'' Moli, one
Of which yielded a score and another
which came within inches OF the goal
line.
There was action from start to an
ish, but not the kind laid down in
the code of intercollegiate football, OF
course excepting the thrilling per-
formances of the wonderful Capron Of
the gophers and the equally brilliant
Moll OF the cardinals. The run of
Capron was an exact duplicate OF the
one Steffen OF Chicago made against
the badgers q few years back, with
the exception that Capron's sprint was
only for eighty -five yards, while that
Of Steffen was the entire length of
the field.
Scores Of kiek-eff.
Capron, catching the ball hot off
Molrs toe with the opening whistle,
squirmed and lodged through the en-
tire cardinal eleven, with pursuer after
pursuer dropping along the right OF
way until he had the piEskin safely
planted for touchdown.
MolI in the final period did almost
as well, but less credit went with the
second touchdown, which eventually
sprouted into full grown tie, thereby
preventing the gophers from winning
the championship, on which they had
confidently counted after Capron's SEN
sational sprint ct the Beginning.
From Minnesota'a viewpoint the
score was luke but 1t was secured
legally, just the same. 1t was not
Moll's fault that all but two OF the
gophers stopped in their tracks after
hearing Umpire Fleager's warning
toot. There was no question about
Fleager footing his horn on the TO
Pliers flfty-yard line because OF the
holding OF Powers OF Minnesota, but
as Wisconsin was the offended side
1t could elect to take either the penalty
or the gain.
There was no question about M0lrs
second run, which came a few mo-
ments before the game ended Getting
the ball in the center OF the field on an
intercepted forward pass the neet
quarterback covered fifty-three yards
before hen ran out OF line Just as
victory was in sight. One more play
and the whistle blew which ended the
desperate struggle.