Beloit at Minnesota

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  The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., October 25, 1903, page 1

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  in the ThnqB Bets erFoobaH Games After being pushed, showed and dragged about the fields of Ann Arbor and Madison by the Michigan and Wis consin teams, the plucky little Badgers from Beloit came to Greater Northrop field yesterday afternoon and were defeated by Minnesota. Final score, 46 to 0. Michigan defeated Beloit by the score of 70 to 0, and then Wisconsin piled up 81 points against HOLSTERS little men. Minnesota contented herself with a paltry 46 points. At first glance these scores frighten, but the friends of Minnesota are Of fered in this game with Beloit no chance to desert the maroon and gold. Yesterdays game can tell the crit les nothing. 1t might be said that Minnesota played her second team against the eleven from the Wisconsin college. There was no chance offered to COM pare scores. Capt Rogers and Burdick, the two Minnesota ends were out of the game, the pair being called upon by the Hen nepin county courts to do jury duty. O’Brien was out, and, after the game was fairly started, the regular men retired one by one and substitutes went in in their places Minnesota piled up 80 points in the first half with pfdCUcdlly NAH Il Iedus dHu,~WIIn Tic entire regular Gopher lineup in, all who watched the game know that Min nesota could have scored at will and easily passed the marks made by the Wolverines and the Badgers. Despite the fact that they had not the slightest chance, HOLSTERS men played a plucky game. The defeats by the big teams appear to have hardened the little Badgers, and from beginning to end they worked faithfully, and once during the game were almost rewarded with a score against Mime sota This narrow escape for the Gophers came at the windup of the first half, when the Minnesota men, put into their own territory by an exchange of punts and a punishment of 20 yards for holding in the line, attempted to punt out of danger Beloit blocked the punt and Mills fell on the ball on Minnesota’s 2-yard line. Mills was given the ball and Beloit hit the Go pher line hard, but Minnesota refused to bulge, and the little halfback was thrown back for a 2-yard loss. Before the little fellows could try again the whistle sounded for the end of the half. Mills and the little colored end, Strothers, were the stars of the Belo1t team and the colored boy Marshall won special mention on the Minnesota kicking department for the Gophers, and, in addition to kicking, every goal from touchdowns dropped the ball through the posts twice on place kicks. He missed two attempts, one of them by but a few inches, the ball striking one of the goal posts. Story of the Game. Marshall kicked off for Minnesota to Beloits 23-yard line and Slater was , downed in his tracks. Beloit failed to make any distance and attempted to punt, but Strathern blocked the kick and fell on the ball on the 15-yard line. Kremer went through to the courtyard line and Current went over for the touchdown on the next rush. Marshall kicked goal. Score, to O. Marshall kicked to the 20-yard line and Beloit came back yards. Beloit punted to the center of the field. kremer and Burger got mixed up and Be lott got the ball in the collision. -Beloit punted again to Minnesota’s 3O-yard line and Irsfield came back 20 yards. The Minnesota backs made 30 yards in three attempts, and Burger went along to the 15-yard line. Minnesota FUN bled here and Beloit got the ball on her S-yard line. Minnesota was pen allied yards for offside play in at tempting to block a punt, and Beloit tried the line again. Beloit fumbled and lost the ball on her 15-yard line, and Kremer went to the 5-yard line. Current went across with the second touchdown and Marshall kicked goal. Score, II to 0. Marshall booted to the 1O-yard line and Mills came back Is yards. Beloit punted to the 50-yard line and Strothers .downed Marshall before he could start back. Current went through the line for 10 yards and Burger made the nF~d limo In f1rin C1rrsa was injured and Boeckman took his place. Marshall got yards more and then Boeckman got by the Beloit ends and went the rest of the way for touchdown. Marshall kicked goal Score, Is to 0. Marshall kicked over the Beloit line and Beloit kicked out from her 25-yard line to the center of the field. Marshall went back 10 yards and Bergen broke

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  The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., October 26, 1903, page 1

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  Minnesota’s play against Beloit last Saturday was too one-sided to be in teresting to the crowd. Starting in with only five regular players, the eleven that faced the little badgers, was not the best that Minnesota had by any means. Even those few reg ulars were pulled out until by the middle of the second half Jimmy Irsfield was the only one left, and he was playing at quarter, a position at which he had been spracticing for only two days. The second and third. team boys made up the gopher team and they had a good time, but it wasn’t thrilling football, as the score 46 to 0 shows. .-a Not the Minnesota Team. It was plainly apparent at the start that it was not the full Minnesota varsity team which was ION the grid

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Minnesota leads 3–⁠0–⁠1 in four meetings.