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M INNESOTA'S 1927
team lines up for its last
is now athletic director, head
football coach and director of
home game today against the the annual Drake Relay meet.
Drake Bulldogs, coached by Although Drake ranks next
Ossie Solem, one of Minne- to Grinnell among Missouri
sota's grea t ends of other days. Valley conference schools in
Like the Oklahoma Aggies, ha ving the smallest male en-
which Minnesota played in the rollment, the Bulldogs, under
season's second game, Drake Solem's tutelage, have won a
is a Missouri Valley Confer- majori ty of their games against
ence team, and for several conference rivals, and have
years past has put one of the made a creditable showing in
best . teams of that loop into many non-conference games,
the field. including battles with Notre
Drake replaces Butler on Dame, the Navy, Pittsburgh,
Minnesota's schedule as the Mississippi and Florida.
opponent in the game which At the close of the present
serves as curtain raiser to the season, Solem will take his
final contest of the year, that proteges to Los Angeles, where
with Michigan at Ann Arbor the Bulldogs will play the
o~ November 19. University of California in the
Ossie Solem went to Drake "big bowl. This game will con-
in 1921 as football coach. He (Continued on Page 4)
Drake Squad. Left to right: Richard Kerr. Richard Nesbitt. Jack Barnes. Eldon McVeety. Archie
Johnson. Perry Hobbs. Captain Bill Cook. Jack Bowes. Barney Myers. Porterfield Cock,ayne.
Clarence Gordon, Stanford Arts and Leonard Ryan. .
4 The Minnesota Goal Post
D AV I D MacMillan,
Minnesota's new bask~
other teams in the league,
including the Troy team, the
et ball coach, came to Min~ De Neris and Pittsburgh.
nesota last summer from the Following a year as coach
University of Idaho, where at the New Brunswick, N. J.
he had a seven years' record high school he was called to
of successful coaching, dur~ Idaho seven years ago. At
ing which he was head of the Moscow he resumed his
work in physical education, studies and was graduated
assistant football coach, and from the University of Idaho
varsity coach of basketball in 1922 with the degre.e of -
and baseball. Bachelor of Science.
MacMillan entered ath~ During seven years at
letics while he was a student Idaho, MacMillan coached
in the academy department two teams that were Pacific
at Oberlin College, his sports Coast champions and five
being football, baseball and that were runners~up for
basketball. Leaving Oberlin, principal honors on the coast,
he went to the Savage School his team never finishing lower
of Physical Education in than second place. He also
New York during 1914 and turned out two champion
1915. He later became coach DAVID MacMILLAN baseball teams for the Idaho
at the De Witt Clinton high insti tu tion.
school in that city and directed the foot~ With the new Field House as the scene
ball, basketball and track teams there. of his activities, Minnesota is looking to
Two track championships went to De~ MacMillan to bring back the former
Witt Clinton during MacMillan's regime. glories of Minnesota basketball teams,
While in New York MacMillan played such as were theirs in the days when Dr.
on the famous ".Celtics," a professional L. J. Cooke was leading them to national
basketball team in the eastern league, championships and E. B. Pierce, now
which goes through a schedule of 150 chairman of the committee on inter~
games a season. He played also with collegiate athletics, was a star forward.
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Minnesota decided this year to Harris and many other faithful alumni of
get away from the program idea Minnesota have contributed much time
entirely and to issue a publication of the and effort to sell "Goal Post" space. In
magazine type, containing information view of this and of the fact that the publi-
of general interest on athletics and in- cation is free, Minnesota hopes that Twin
cluding, in a center spread, a lineup of City advertisers will look with kindly eye
the teams and squads. on solicitors for "Goal Post" space when
By making "The Goal Post" a success, the season of 1928 rolls around, a season
Minnesota believes it can claim to be the which will see more and bigger home
only school in the "Big Ten" that pre- games than we have had this year.
sents a reasonably elaborate athletic Suggestions regarding "The Goal
publication to football crowds. Else- Post" should be sent to the editor, T. E.
where such books cost 25 cents and, on Steward, at 216 Administration building,
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can be maintained by the athletic ad- issue may get busy at once. As advertis-
ministration only as long as sufficient ing manager the "M" club engaged
advertising revenue to pay for it is ob- Truman G. Brooke, who has handled
tained. No profit has ever been made on the details of the campaign. The "Goal
football publications by the university, Post" has been printed by the Jensen
and last year it was put out at a loss of Printing Company.
$800. This year the book will probably . And remember, there's a reason for
show about an even break. our advertising campaign. We hope we
It is due to the co-operation of the shall not have to charge ticket buyers
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"M" Club, composed of men who have for the information we now supply free.
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OFFICIALS
Referee. Lee Daniels. Loyola; Umpire. H . G. Hedges. Dartmouth; Field Judge. Ed. Shave. Minnesota;
Head Linesman. ] . A. Riley. Georgetown.
9
THE SCORE
1st Qtr. 2d Qtr. 3d Qtr. 4th Qtr. Final
Minn.
Drake
MINNESOTA DRAKE
Touchdowns ..•.................... Touchdowns ..•.•..................
Goals from field ......•.......•.•.• • Goals from field .................•.•
Goals from touchdown ............. . Goals from touchdown .•.........•••
10 The M innesota Goal Post
A WEEK from
today Minn-
Minnesota beat
Michigan in the
esota will close its first two games
1927 season at Ann played between the
Arbor, where Dr. rival universlties,
Spears' team will those of 1892 and
play Michigan in 1893, and won
Minnesota's 19th again in 1919. The
game with the famous game of
famous Wolverines. 1903 was a tie at6
I t will be the last to 6, as everyone
game with Michi- in Minnesota who
gan for two years, is 30 years old
as the three-year remembers.
schedule arranged Michigan has
last fall eliminates made 265 points to
the Minnesota- Minnesota's 118.
Michigan game in Michigan has never
1928. been held scoreless.
Few of the games The Little Brown jug Minnesota has gone
ha ve gone in to without scores in
large scores, as the table of results shows: nine of the 18 games.
1892 Minnesota . . 14; Michigan . . 6 Minnesota's eagerness to beat Michi-
1893 Minnesota : . 34; Michigan .. 20 gan is probably due less to any "natural
1895 Minnesota . . 0; Michigan . . 20 rivalry" between the two teams than to
1896 Minnesota . . 4; Michigan . . 6 the fact that the Michigan series is the
1897 Minnesota .. 0; Michigan .. 16 only one between Minnesota and a West-
1902 Minnesota .. 6; Michigan . . 23 ern Conference team, or for that matter,
1903 Minnesota.. 6; Michigan . . 6 any team, in which Minnesota is on the
1909 Minnesota . . 6; Michigan . . 15 short end, over the long period of years.
1910 Minnesota .. 0; Michigan . . 6 Minnesota is ahead on its series with
1919 Minnesota .. 34; Michigan .. 7 Iowa, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, Indi-
1920 Minnesota . . 0; Michigan .. 3 ana and Ohio State, as well as with
1921 Minnesota .. 0; Michigan .. 38 Northwestern and the few games ever
1922 Minnesota .. 7; Michigan .. 16 played with Purdue. So it is natural that
1923 Minnesota .. 0; Michigan . . 10 there should be a general desire to tone
1924 Minnesota .. . 0; Michigan .. 13 up the anemic record against Yost's
1925 Minnesota. . 0; Michigan .. 35 hordes.
1926 (I) Minnesota . . 0; Michigan .. 20 Minnesota will play before the biggest
1926 (2) Minnesota. . 6; Michigan .. 7 crowd that ever saw a Minnesota team
1927 Minnesota.. ?; Michigan .. ? (Continued nn Page /3)
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Michigan Will Be Next and Last abled. them to defeat the Staters by 21
(Continued from Page 10) to O.
Instead of the annual battle with the
in action when it goes against Michigan. Wolverines for the Little Brown Jug,
The new Michigan Stadium has a seating Gopher fans will see the Minnesota
capacity in excess of 70,000 persons, team in action against Chicago in 1928.
probably 12,000 more than ever saw a
home game in the Gopher Stadium.
Illinois, Ohio State and Michigan now Compliments of
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