The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-24
YOUNG LADIES
PREVENT WORK
Gophers Have Hard Time
Getting Down to Real
Business.

WouiQ inc coacneS QUIZ get little
concentration out of their football
terday afternoon. The Hawkeye peril
was held up before the eyes Of the
young stalwarts n they were warned
that defeat would be their fate IL they
did not get right down to the grind.
The bosses did their level best to
interest their pupils. but the pupils
minds were not OF their work. There
was a reason why sufficient attention
was not paid to the coaches. Sh-sh!
There were young ladies present. 1t
was not according to the arrange
ments of Or. Williams. who insisted
that visitors be kept off the field.
They were there. however. Ostensibly
the girls we're not interested in the
football practice, for they were stag
Ing a game Of indoor baseball on the
diamond behind the north stand.
Tie Boys Wcrc Interested.
The girls were deeply engrossed in
their game, apparently. but some of
the ruder boys said their game was
just an alibi for being or hand. OF
course the grand stand separated the
parties. but a bare grandstand is no
real barrier and some Of the football
candidates almost. unwound their YER
tebrae trying to look between the
planks to see how the girls game was
going. 1t did them a lot Of good,
though for the girls neve even
looked at the gridiron crowd. None
Of n attaches of the field had the
presence was in violation Of one Of
DR.. Williams stern rules. But the
doctor saw them. too. and he said
nothing. As a result the Young Wo-
men remained until their game came
to a natural end.
The football boys paid a little
more attention to the work in hand
after n other game broke up and
they gave the new plays a critical
workout. There was scrimmage of a
mild sort. most of which was devoted
to a test Of Iowa plays that Sig Har-
ris grabbed of at the HaWkeye-Ma-
room game in Chicago Saturday.
shamus McGovern stood by with a
parcel of Iowa plays that he had
gathered at Urbana while Illinois was
walloping Indiana the same day. but
MIS- Information was not called for by
the head coach. Iowa is the thing
now. DR.. Williams impressed upon his
apostles. and he remarked that I'LL
nois will be looked forward to in due
time.
Scrimmage Was Slow.
pe%rfunctory. manner. The coaches
persistently called for more dash and
snap IN the work, but their pleas fell
on deaf ears. The eleven did no,
show the life and spirit that marked
their work last Saturday and the d.
rectors did not attempt to conceal
their ~displeasure. The men are not
grasping their duties as quickly as
the moguls desire and the candidates
We're given a stiff lecture after tho
days work was done. It looked as
though the hired hands were still
tired from their efforts in downing
language that they were a crowd Of
!oafers and buns. The coaches are
beginning to grow alarmed lest their
charges are slowing up in their work.
The practice yesterday made 1t look
as though the fears Of the directors
are we'll grounded.
Little Roadway vas made with the
new plays as q result Of the general
'lassitude in evidence. It Is the feeling
of those In authority that the men
had better master the work given out
earlier In the year before much in the
way Of new work is attempted,
The day was as cold and raw as any
OF the season, and those who were not
actually engaged in hard practice
stuck to their fur-lined mackinaws
n kept their hands buried in the
VI sMe oettJdm1nS. Solem Is
still out Of the running and there Is
little hope Of his getting into the
skirmish with Jess Hawley's buckos.
He was In uniform yesterday, his
arm still In a sling, but he followed
the practice with great interest and is
determined not to get rusty on tho
signals or the new work that is being
handed out. There were no bones
snapped In yesterdays session and ali
hands thanked their stars for that. for
1t Is felt that Minnesota needs her
very strongest battle line in the next
encounter.