Beloit at Wisconsin

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  The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., November 7, 1904, page 14

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  BADGERS WILL MAKE A FIGHT TEAM WILL GIVE MINNESOTA ELEVEN A HARD TEST. Not Improbable that wisconsin Will Win Unless the Gophers Battle as They Have Not Done This Year Beloit Game a Walkover-Strength and Weakness of Wisconsin. From a Staff Correspondent. From Stan Correspondent. Madison. Wis, Nov. 7.-Despite the internal Of which the outer world has heard So much this fall, the badgers have evidently had the time, material and disposition to make football team which is going to prove a formidable opponent for Minnesota next Saturday. The Wisconsin authorities speeded their team up to Its limit for the Michigan game. After that the men who are depended upon to “do things to Minnesota fired out of the practice for a week and told to take things easy. They began work again today, and by Saturday Min nesota will confront just as strong team, If not stronger. than the one which faced Yost and his cohorts. The badgers have evidently had all sorts Of ma terial from which to make a team this year. They have big men, and the big fellows have speed. In Saturdays game they were pitted against Beloit, team which did not make first down at any time, and which did not hold the badgers for downs but once. Then the bail was the Beloit 8-yard line. and the little fell lows braced up fought like demons and held their big opponents. Saturdays game was fought out entirely in Beloit’s territory. The big badgers smashed The only place where Beloit put up any showing was in the work of her two little ends. These chaps got away under every punt by the Beloit fullback, and in nine out of ten cases got the badger who caught the ball before he could return five feet. AS the Beloit team kicked every time they had the ball, these fellows almost ran their little hearts out before shutdown. Played in the Dark. The game of Saturday late in starting on account Of Beloit’s late arrival. When 1t finished it SO dark that the spectators could not discern the ball when it was in the air, and the struggling mass Of players the field represented nothing more than wrigglng confusion of dull color The final $50, and could have well been sixty had 1t not been for the one weak spot in the work of Wis consin-fumbling. No less than nine times during the fifty min utes’ play did the badgers tumble and in every on the ball, and on three occasions the fumbles were made when badger line bucks would have resulted in touchdowns. Beloit promptly kicked the ball out of danger. Playing against such slight resistance, and with substitutes in the team, it was a hard ! matter to get true line on badger form con- | trasting with Minnesota 1t did develop, how ever, that Minnesota must play her game from the first kickoff to the footing of the whistle | marking the end Of the second half, or gopher colors will be tra1led in the dust and the first defeat Of Minnesota team on Northrop field be ! registered in local football history Minnesota | is up against proposition where they must play | the game, play it safely and smoothly, not fun BILE and fight like wildcats at all stages. ! Minnesota cannot depend upon weight in her offense or defense. Wisconsin has that neutralized by line as heavy as Minnesota’s, If not heavier, and the backfeld is another section of speedy beef -, Men Play Hard. | Wisconsin’s play appears slightly crude, but this is counterbalanced by the devil may care style in which the members go into the scrimmage Every man In the team gets into it. No one stands by and let’s the other fellows at. | tend to the work. The minute the ball Is snapped, every badger gets busy like flash, and, despite the disparity in size and the old idea | that little man is faster than large one, the | Madison men got the charge Beloit every occasion. | To give some idea Of the Wisconsin team one has only to figure the weights and the men. Here is hat of the PLAYERS Of the first team and subs with their weights Perry, left end, 1875. Deering, left tackle. 1888. Donovan, left guard, 1914.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, November 6, 1904, page 11 (results column)

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  CHICAGO GIVES TEXAS DRUBDING Southerners Play Well at First But Lose Out GREAT ADVANCE AT START Carried Ball to chIcasO’s FIve-Yard Llne Only to Tumble and Lose Ii, the Other Side Making a Touch pown-es to Q. ADVANCE AT START FOOTBALL RESULTS. Alabama, 16; Georgia, 5. Tulane, 1o Marion, Q, Techs, Il; Clemson, Il. Vanderbilt, 22; Tennessee, 0. Virginia, 5; V. P. l., 0. Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, O. Georgetown. 16; North Carolina, o. Princeton, 12; West Point, 6. Harvard, O; Dartmouth, 0. Yale, %; Brown, o. Pennsylvania, 22; Lafayette, O. Chicago 6s; Texas. 0. Washington University. il; Missouri, 0. Amherst, 40; Holy Cross, g. Purdue, 84; Indiana Medical, 5. Illinois. 46 Ohio State University. Q. Navy, 20; Pennsylvania State College. g. Wisconsin, 36; Beloit, 0. Nebraska, IT; Iowa, 6. Michigan, 36; Drake College, Chicago, November 5.-By a score of 6S to the University of Chicago defeat ed the University of Texas on Marshal Field today The Texans presented a team that was the pick of the south and in the early stages of the game show ed good football quality by steadily ad- vancing the ball from their own twenty ydTu allH6 lO NuiCabO AiNC-y dAA AAAloI where they lost sAeir only chance to score Scarborough of Texas was sent though the center but Eckersall picked 1t up and made sensational run of 100 yards for a touchdown for Chicago. He was closely chased by Jones of Texas Texas played hard after this, but the Chicago men had taken the lead and by quick and aggressive football tac- tics sent one man after another across the Texas goal line for eleven touch downs Nine goals were kicked from touch downs, and one from the field. The second half opened with fast playing an exchange of punts. Chicago advancing the ball to the forty yard line, where Eckersall made a beautiful drop kick, scoring the only goal from the field. Speik made a run of forty yards on a kick off, and Spidell and Lee Maxwell both made runs of twenty-five yards. DeTray who had been substituted in the second half made run of fifty yards and soon after carried the ball over the goal line. Long runs of twenty to forty yards also were made by Hendrickson and Robinson of the Texas team. Ten thousand people braved the cold weather to see the game

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Wisconsin leads 15–⁠0 in 15 meetings, counting the three since this game.