The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-29

agely with the odds in favor of Min
nesota, but not so decidedly that the
Gophers were able to score again. After
that first quarter it seemed to be felt
by the Gopher rooters that the game
was settled beyond all question. Teh
tricky young Minnesotans, though,
were satisfied to play carefully and
keep the enemy from violating their
goal.
Old time followers Of the game
rubbed their eyes, and their minds
swept back a decade or SO when the
shifty men who wore the maroon and
gold swung into action. The team
took on temporarily the appearance Of
one Of the old machines that Yost
and Williams were wont to assemble in
the early years of the present century.
The teams of Minnesota and Michigan
in 1903 and 1904 boosted that they
could roll up a point q minute. In
that respect they had nothing or the
Gophers in yesterdays first quarter.
One touchdown was chalked up eight
minutes after the first whistle and the
second vas registered six minutes lat
er. Fourteen points had been reeled off
by Minnesota in exactly fourteen min
utes of elapsed time, and a volume Of
| cheers went up when this act became
known.
But the old-timers. who were led to
expect q high score, did not reckon
with the fighting ability and spunk Of
the South Dakotans. In actual foot
ball work they did nothing especially
noteworthy, but they showed Mime
sofa how to go down fighting. Their
plucky work was not wasted on the
crowd and they were warmly cheered
through it all.
The Gopher Stars.
The record Of the days work shows
that McAlmon and Shaughnessy made
the touchdowns and that Tollefson
booted two points in the way Of Min
nesota by negotiating goals after
t~ouchdowns. There were several other
Gophers who failed to figure in the
actual scoring, but their great offensive
work and their sturdy, il not consist
ent defensive play helped the whole
team over many a rough bump. The
fact that South Dakota made first
down only once speaks more than vol
umes can tell Of the way the invaders
were resisted.
, While the attack displayed by Min
nesota did not approximate brilliancy
and there were rough corners visible
on all sides their showing sent the big
crowd home with a feeling of hope
over the games to come. Minnesota
eemed uncertain at times when the
other side had the ball. Punt were
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those in the grandstand perhaps did
not know that the breeze that raked
the field made handling fly balls a
somewhat hazardous matter.
In the Minnesota lineup were two
men. Scion and Barron, who were hav-
ing their first taste of intercollegiate
football. Despite their. inexperience
they fitted into the scheme of things
in pleasing style and their work belied
fhnir Inoly IF triol hy fro Pinr-
man in the back field (and "Ap' Is a
necessary adjunct inasmuch as his
brother Bernie crawled into the lineup
before the trouble was OVer) was
author of the longest run of the day.
1t was a thirty-five yard ash early
in the first quarter that put the ball
within striking distance Of the enc
my's goal and made the first touch
down a possibility. Practice in fol-
lowing the ball stood the Gophers N
good stead and was directly RESPONSE
BILE for the second Minnesota trip
across the Coyote goal. After the
second kickoff a twenty-five yard run
by Tollefson and several smashes at
the South Dakota line brought the ball
past midfield and Tollefson punted. 1t
was fumbled by a Coyote on his own
ten-yard line as Rosenthal bore Town
upon him. Then the swarthy-skinned
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on it a foo from the South Dakota
goal. 1t was simply a matter of form
then sending McAlmon across.
The Line Work.
gAOne of the surprises of the day was
the treatment accorded the South Da-
kota line. In last years game the
visiting forwards bored through the
Gopher forwards, stopped plays in
their inception, demoralized the back
field and mussed up Minnesota's plan
Of campaign. Yesterday, however,
brought al entirely different story.
Ostrom, Robertson and Rosenthal, the
center trio, played their opponents off
their feet n were in complete charge
of the show most of the afternoon.
Sawyer and Barron, and later Snyder,
filled the tackles in splendid style.
Captain Brown, the valiant left tackle
of Henderson's crew, bald of head and