Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-08-27
Green TEAM IS
GOPHER OUTLOOK
Coach Williams Returns to
Camp and First Gossip
Comes from Mill City.
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Minneapolis, Mimi, Aug. 27.-Dr.
H.. L. Williams, director of the foot
nall forces at the University of Min
nesota. returned to the city yesterday
after a two weeks %sojourn at Lake
ltasca. He has little to report in the
way of football news but says the an
sWers he mas received to his letters
rom the candidates for the 1914 team
Indicate that all of the players are
ehthusiastlc over the approach of the
opening OF the practice season. He
has heard from most Of them and says
ne finds that few of the new" men
are bothered by conditions and that
II those he has heard from are to he
taken as a standard of comparison the
Gopher will not he greatly bothered
ny scholastic deficiencies this fall.
some Of the dependables or men bad
~ needed have not responded to the
first letters of the season but SO far
as known at present all of these fell
lows will he back.
Minnesota's football prospects for
1914 seem to rest upon the football
sense" of the candidates. It will be
a green team, very greer in fact. but
If the men have the ability to follow
the tutoring there is little doubt that
the material can be welded into a
good team this veal and one of the
best by next season. The situation is
something parallel to the season of
1908. when the material was good but
extremely green and the season pro-
crossed through ties and defeats unit,
the memorable Waterloo for the Car
isle team. That team. the following
year, swept the conference before it
and found the task an easy one. But
III the early stages of 1908 when the
youngsters were getting their foot
ball training. there We're ties, defeats
and general encouragement that led
to an obortive crusade to fire the
coach and a general disturbance of
the local football world.
This years team will be made up
largely Of new material. Few of last
years players will be hack. The coach
is confronted with the task Of build
ing up a machine from green mate
rial. Some of it is good, excellent in
fact, but the task of building a cham
pionship team is one fraught with
much hard work and worry for the
coach. There are men who will APP
pear or September 20 who have bril-
liant high school records behind them
and there is seemingly weight. speed
and brains in the outfit. There are
some men who, under the tutelage of
the veteran coach of the Gophers
should develop into stars as great as
have eve worn the cleated shoes on
Northrop field. The prospects Of the
season are on the knees Of the gods
as 1t were and son of man cannot
say what these untried chaps will do
under a season so curtailed that the
preliminary practice is made up OF
games they are expected to win and
under rules whereby an academy team
stands a good show Of licking a var
sity in the early part Of the season.
Minnesota is just now on one Of the
low stages of the football see-saw
common to every big university.
But II the men come through as ex-
pected they appear to be a rather
satisfactory basis upon which the
coach car start building another one
Of his famous machines. The worst
drawback is the curtailed practice sea-
son, the lack of the training table and
the few games allowed under the fan
atical theorizing Of the conference.