The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-09-23
BIG FOOTBALL GAME IS NEXT
 SATURDAY P. M.
Seattle Fans to Witness Huskies and Gophers
 Tn Great Contest


 pending Minnesota Washington game on September 26 has all the interest of Rose Bowl inter sectional contest. Never before in the Pacific Northwest has there been game of such interest, and around Minneapolis it is reported that enthusiasm is reaching high CT pitch for this football game than at any time in recent years.
 It is no secret that Minnesota would have been invited to play in the Rose Bowl each year of the last three years had it not been against the policy of the school to play post-season games. Hence here is an opportunity to size up the Gopher strength with team that is admittedly one of the strongest on the Pacific Coast-at least team that can be termed as representative.
 Team Lineup
 1Cb Qo olLC lD tlllD WldCly 1iCl dlSk ed team from Minnesota:
 Under Coach Bernie Bierman a phenomenal record has been made During the last three seasons not a single defeat has been met. Sev- enteen games have been won con- secutively and it has been twenty five contests ago that the Gophers tasted defeat.
 How strong will the 1886 team be in comparison to the undefeated aggregation of last year? Five va cancies loom at center, guard, tackle, quarterback, and halfback, but to offset this there are "A lettermen ready to step in and fight for positions in competition with the best sophomore aggrega- ton Minnesota has had in many years.
 Weak on Ends
 At ends-a position where Wash ington is certainly not strong-Min- nesota will have it's starters of last year-Ray King and Dwight Reed. Four other letter winners of almost equal strength await the call to go in at the extremities. These are Dominic Krezowski, Frank War ner. Russ Vile and Ray Antil. Bruce Bergman, letter. winner of two years ago, will be an outstand- ing reserve.
 At tackle the shining star is Co-captain Ed Widseth, named on nearly every All-American team last year. Lou Midler, who alter mated with Widseth and Dick Smith last fall, will handle the other posi- tion. Ed Kafka and B. Willis Smith have also won letters at guard positions and will be back. Includ- ed in the new men are such heavy wrighLs as Fritz Growing, POS pounds Robert Hoel, PIT; Bob John- son, 195; Marvin LeVoir, 21O; FL dred Miller, 235; Howard Parkin- son, 220; and Win Pederson, 21O. What an array of brawn there is here!
 Quartcrback-WiIk
 Charles Bud" Wilkinson, named all-conference and other honor positions at guard, will this year be shifted to quarterback. In his place will be Bob Weld, 195 pounds, who started many of the games last year and saw plenty of action. Frank Earle, Merle Larson and Sam Riley will be back from last years lineup.
 Although two lettermen are back at center, Earl Svendson and Stan Hanson, Coach Bierman looks for newcomer, John Kulbiaski, well over 6 feet and weighing 200 pounds, to be the outstanding can- didate for this spot.
 Wilkinson at quarter is tall and exceedingly rangy and has nat ural football smartness. His next competitor will be Sam Hunt, ITO pounder, and quarterbacks who will return include Vernal Babe" Le- Voir, Harvey Ring and Harlan Hurd
 Alfonso Is Halfback
 Co-captain Julius Alfonso will be back at his old position after an absence of year. In 1883 and 1884 his ability led Coach Herman to term him the best halfback in America who neither kicks nor passes" He showed up exception ally well in the Spring turnout. Alternating with Alfonso at right halfback is Rudy Gmitro, called the pony halfback. He weighs but 155 pounds and is elusive and hard to bring down. Last season he aver aged 15.07 yards per attempt in