Grinnell at Minnesota

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  The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., October 21, 1900, page 9

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  EASY FOR THE o(|PH[RS TO THE TUNE OF go VISITORS WERE TOO LIGHT. minnesota Did Not Work Hard Until the Game Was Nearly Over, and Then They Played Tag With Opponents. The eleven undergraduates who compose the football team of the University of Minnesota, defeated the team from Grinnell, To-, on Northrop field yesterday afternoon, by a score of 26 to 0. Said young undergraduates were not COM PEELED to work very hard to accomplish this end, as the Grinnell men were much lighter than they, and were at the dis advantage of being on stFaie5e grounds. The contest was not particularly inter esJing, as it could be easily seen from the first that the home team outclaSsed the visitors. The latter played quite as good ball as the former, but the differ ence of twenty pounds to the man told, and they were never in it. During the first part of the first half and the end of the second, Minnesota played good hard ball. Minnesota won the game yesterday by the same tactics as were used against the Chicago team week ago There were few open plays, line bucking for big gains being the order of the day. The u” won the toss and took the south goal, thereby getting the advantage of the strong southeasterly wind. Both teams started in to play unusually fast ball. but Minnesota kept the pig skin in her opponents territory, and in side of five minutes forced it over the line for a touch down. Tweet carried the ball over and Mueller missed the goal. Score to 0. After this a period of hard uphill work on the part of Grinnell, and most casual playing on the part of the home team, commenced. The visitors tried every trick they knew to make gains, but the best they could do was to keep the ball in about the center of the gridiron Min nesota acted as if it thought the game was too easy, and did not appear to t-y Both teams broke through the opposing line to block punts, and made short gains around the ends. Hassman tried place kick from the Grinnell twenty five yard line, but it was slow work and the kick was blocked Just before the end of the half the home team took a brace The ball was forced down to the TWEEN ty-yard line and then Hassman kicked goal from the field, a beautiful piece oil work against the strong wind. few moments later Aune went through the line for another touchdown, and the Score stood Is to 0. Dobie made a poor attempt at kick-out, which was not Caught. Then it was that the Minnesota play ers came out of their lethargic condition, and from that time on the game was very fast BY a series of mass plays the ball vas once more carried over the Grinncll line by Aune. and this time Mueller kicked a goal, making the score Il TO o. Another delay was caused by the loss of the ball. which cleared the fence rs Well as the goal posts, ana was taken home as a memento by some enthusiast on the outside. 1t was rap idly becoming dark, and Minnesota play ed for all there was in it during the rest of the game. Once again the ball was carried over the line by Aune, the goal missed by Mueller and the final score was made % TO 0. GripnelI, through a tumble got the ball on the Minnesota twenty-five yard line, and an attempt at a place kick was made The play was blocked; anu The whistle blew for the finish of the game. ra.s. a15- - Fellows, the left tackle of Grinnen. was undoubtedly the star player of the day He was always III the same and had a way of making Van Nalkenburg and Lafans look foolish. Dobie. Aune and Twect all played good ball for the home team. THE GAME IN DETAIL. Minnesota won the toss and chose the south goal. Grinnell kicked off thirty yards to Fee Dobie kicked forty yarls to Clarke, who returned the ball ten yards. Foster made ten yards around left end. Grlnnell attempted to punt and Tweet blocked it and Clarke fell on the bail on a tumble. Line plunges by Tweet and Lafans netted fifteen yards more and Tweet plunged over for a touchdown in the first five minutes of play. Mueller missed goal Score: Min Desota ). Grinnell 0. Grinnell kicked off forty-five yards 10 Fee, who returned the ball twenty yards. Minnesota punted at once for thirty-five yards. tiske returned the ball fifteen yards. Foster made five yards through left tackle. Minnesota held for downs and punted forty-five yards Fiske ran out of bounds in catching the ball. Grin nell failed to gain and punted thirty yards. TWeet made ten yards through left tackle. GrinneH got the ball on downs and failing to gain punted thirty yards. Clarke caught his own punt and GrInnen again punted twenty-five yards and then punted seventy-tive yards out of bounds. On the kicl1out Dobie caught the ball and returned it ten yards. Grin, nell blocked an attempted punt and fell on the ball for a loss of fifteen yard ), Minnesota punted forty-fve~yards out of bounds. Lyman made seven yards through right tackle. Grinnel punted twenty-five yards and Douglass fell on the ball. Clarke punted fifteen yards and another Grinnell man fell on the ball. At this point Smith took the place of Tweet at left half Clarke punted thirty-five yards to Dobie and Tiff made sew en- yards through right tackle Long line plunges by Aune, Lafans and Smith brought the ball to the middle of the field. Flynn made seven yards through the line and Mueller followed by break ing through the line for fifteen yards

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Minnesota leads 10–⁠2–⁠1 in 13 meetings, counting the four since this game.