The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-08
GOPHERS LOOK
STRONG AGAIN
MINNESOTA LIKELY TO WIN THE
CONFERENCE TITLE, WITH
WISCONSIN OR ILL
NolS SECOND.

All the conference football coaches
have issued calls for men to start
work on Monday, Sept %. Conference
rules forbid organized fall practice be-
fore Sept. 20, but every football men,
tor i'm the West will have his men on
hand for practice as soon as the LID
is off
1t looks like Minnesota for the con-
ference title again this year with Illi-
nOis or Wisconsin contesting for sec
ond honors. At Minneapolis Doc"
williams will take a bunch of about
thirty men in hand when the season
opens Tom Shevln. Yale end, Will
be on the coaching squad at the state
university again, though he expects 10
leave for the east in time for the work
of whipping Yale into shape for the
Harvard game on Nov %.
Minnesota will lose heavily in the
back field 1t lie doubtful whether a
field general the equal Of McGovern
will appear in Minnesota uniform for
some years to come. Johnson, the
hard plunging half will also be sadly
missed Walker, all-American tackle,
missed the election to the captaincy
last year. and whether he will be back
in the lineup is extremely doubtful, as
the giant lineman has aspirations for
an Eastern football record, and was
being carefully worked up along these
lines by a lumber of eastern college
scouts last season. Young, the veter-
an tackle, whose accident in the
Michigan game is given as the cause
Of Minnesota's defeat there, will also
be a distinct loss
Illinois Also Strong.
Illinois had clear claim To the
second honors i'm the conference last
season and viii doubtless have as
good a team this season. The losses
from graduation were not as severe
as those suffered by the Gophers, and
the team with its diversified attack,
Is certain To be a factor in deciding
the conference title. Illinois Will play
Minnesota on November %, this game
having been substituted for the Mich
igan game.
BADGERS New Coach.
At Wisconsin a new coach makes
the situation very doubtful one.
Jack Richards has done no coaching of
Importance since leaving Wisconsin
on graduation some years ago. When
I'm school. he was an all-Western half
and a wonderful man on both offense
and defense but his coaching ability
IS mere guess work. From present,
prospects Richards will have the best
bunch of material to work with that
Wisconsin has had for years. The
freshman team last year pushed the
varsity all over the field in practice
ana a little careful work with the
first year huskies has resulted in
bringing practically all of them
through the year with clean scholar
ship records. A couple of especially
heavy and fast ends are looked to for
some sensations in Western football
Wisconsin suffers but one serious loss
by graduation, that Of last years cap
tain, Jimmy Dean.
Outlook at Chicago.
Coacn A. A. Stagg of Chicago was
quoted as saying last year that the
faculty were tightening up so HARD
that he never hoped TO produce an
| other winning team at the Rockefeller
school. He lived up to his predictions
| last year, and the Maroons are mo-
looked upon as serious conference con.
tenders this season. The grand ole
man" of western football is a WHARF
at developing individual stars, how
ever. and the appearance OF a Stagg
taught Steffens or Eckersall may pu
the dope all wrong along this line.
All Watching Michigan.
! Western football fans win watcl
Michigan with great interest ever
though the conference has again stern
~ ruled the Ann Arbor school out q
somewhat questionable honor OF mem
bership. Yost says he will have tn
| strongest team that ever carried tn