The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
SPORTS
(By Dick Cullum)
Sports Editor, Minneapolis Journal

Minneapolis, Nov. Snow comes
the football game toward which
Minnesotas football team has been
pointing for year, the game with
Northwestern in Memorial Stadium
Saturday.
There is no doubt the Gophers
have been saving too much for
in mind that they have neglected
other important chores.
Thoughts of the opportunity to
avenge the to 0 defeat North
western gave them in the mud at
Evanston last fall have prevented
the Gophers from preparing them
selves adequately for earlier games
on their schedule, have over
balanced and upset their entire
season.
And the same thoughts may up
set their play now that the oppor-
tunity for revenge is at hand. There
is such thing as team being too
highly keyed. you know; and there
is real danger that the Gophers
may be too highly keyed Saturday.
Bernie Bierman's job, this week,
will be to hold the boys back so
that they may enter the game with
clear minds and well controlled re-
action. His job all the rest of the
season has been to try to get the
boys interested in each game as it
came along when all they wanted
to think about was Northwestern.
And the job is complicated by
the fact that the Northwestern
team is improving fast and will be
a highly dangerous outfit when it
comes to Minneapolis. Lynn
Waldorf. coach of the Wildcats, is
famed for his ability to keep
team improving from week to
week. His teams are always danger
Gus late in the season. Look at the
record. In nine years of coaching
big league football, he has been
beaten only three times in Novem-
Der. He is in his third year in the
Conference schedules are so
difficult that contending teams
cannot keep up the same pace in
games that do not count in the
championship race. That explains,
in part at least, why outside teams,
if they are a good team, have the
advantage. To the outside team
it Is big game, chance to beat
a big league outfit, but to the
Conference team it is more or less
practice game.
Well, of all the strictly league
games of the season none can be
more stubbornly fought than that
return engagement between Wild
cat and Gopher. Sixty-four thou
sand fans will be there to see it and
as many again would be there if
the stadium could hold them.
Big Ten and he has not yet lost
Big Ten game in November.
This year he started with a
powerful backfield and a strong
line on the right side. The left side,
however, was weak. Then along
came Nick Cutlich, a sophomore
left tackle, who made all the diff
ference. He turned out to be a
truly brilliant player. He gave the
left side of the Wildcats line just
the strength it needed.
Northwestern is just as eager to
prove it deserved to win last year
as the Gophers are eager to prove
they did not deserve to lose. Be-
yond a doubt it will be the most
bitterly fought game Of the season
in the Midwest, even surprising in
intensity that terrific battle be-
tween Minnesota and Notre Dame.
After all . Conference games
mean more than non-Conference
games and this one Is right up in
the championship bracket. The
boys always put forth little extra
effort when playing in their own
league. Consequently they always
have to let down little when play
ing out of their own league.