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i I MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934 TWELVE The Minneapolis Star. Kostka Big Headache for Sutherland; Pays Great Tribute to Gophers it's Bob mm Tenner Smashing Over Goal Line to Beat Pittsburgh aaKSJsr cmTFN ER I "Tt -t trv gt, arrets, mm kv Never Get in Front Just a quaint old Bob Tenner habit, If you ask us. Here is pudgy, plowing Bob smashing his way past the last tackier as he sprints across the goal line for an 18-yard forward passing touchdown romp to give the Gophers a 13 to 7 victory over Pittsburgh. If the Panther complains about Tenner getting in its tall feathers, he lias reason to because it marked the second straight year Tenner had beat Pitt. Note that Tenner had to do some battling and running to score.

He Is hemmed in by four tacklers, lias already stiff-armed one off his feet and Is set to drag Larue over the goal line as the Panther back took his last desperate shot. Notice, also. Again1. 55 Julie Alfonse Out of Head as He Scores First Gopher Tally Julie Alfonsa actually was in a daze when he scored Minnesota's first touchdown against Pittsburgh. He had been knocked cuckoo on the play Just before his dash over the goal line, but no one knew it until after he had scored.

Then he mentioned the fact to Pug He revived quickly once they put six points on the scoreboard for the Gophers. British Win First Solo Playoff Series Contest The two out of three game play-on series for the Twin City Soccer league championship opened at Nicollet field Sunday with the British Americans of St. Paul winning from the Minneapolis Norwegians, 2 to 1, before 3,000 spectators. Chris Dim-leavy sent the downriver team- into the lead in the first half but Odd Langoien tied the count two minutes-later. Alex Llndstrom scored the winning marker on a penalty kick midway in the second half.

BIERMAN On Air Tonight to Tell About Pitt Game Bernie Bierman, back from Pittsburgh with his weary but triumphant squad, will go on the air at 8:30 tonight over WTCN to tell Northwest football fan how the Pitt struggle looked from the coaches' Mr. Bierman's talk is a feature of the weekly broadcasts of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of iftllillSlllfllSIiiiliiilIllillw 1 of Him, Coach Warns Injured Regulars Will Be Ready for Hawkey es Bierman Pleased, Calls Off Practice for Chalk Talk Minnesota Strategy Works in Brilliant Win-Panthers Better Than Against U.S.C. how the players congregated around this particular play, 14 of them showing in the picture. IIovdovn Charles By CHARLES JOHNSON Contrary to all reports, Minnesota's football regulars came through the gruelling Pittsburgh encounter with only two Injuries and they are regarded as minor by the medical staff. There was some worry among the Gopher coaches en route home lrom Pittsburgh over a chest injury suffered by Stan Kostka, but it was announced today that he has only a strained muscle that probably will be normal by the end of the week.

His chest was X-rayed and photos showed nothing serious. Art Clarkson, injured early in the game, was believed to have suffered a torn muscle in his elbow. X-rays today indicated that it also was a bruise. He should be O.K. within a few days.

MAYBE IT WAS Bernie Bierman's carefully arranged strategy laid out in advance, but whatever it was, Minnesota's football team did not look like National Conference champions or champions of any league for three periods against a. much improved Pitts burgh team Saturday. Then bane! Those Gophers typical of the great money players they, are, to win an outstanding football game against a really strong rival in a most sensational way. As a matter of fact, the manner in made them even greater than they had been touted in advance and brought them out of that viciously played struggle with more nationwide credit than any Maroon and Gold eleven ever got before. Mind you, we are not finding first three quarters, but that doesn't mean that they didn't look like just another football team.

Rack your memory and see if you can recall any Minnesota eleven (even out a first down until within three quarter. It just doesn't seem possible. It's also well to bear in mind much chance to show their real power. Munjas' accurate kicking kept the Bierman lads in the hole through Yet even at the start of the second were still kicking on first and second down. There Seidel, Alfonse and Kostka got six yards In three tries.

It was fourth and four to go. Seidel called for his trick scoring play. The ball was snapped to Kostka, He lateral-led to Seidel and the quarterBack shoved it to Lund who was running far to his right, waiting to get Tenner into the pen. Once he found the receiver, Pug threw one of his finest passes right into Bob's hands. Contrary to reports, it wasn't a matter of Tenner merely stepping over the line.

He caught the ball on the five-yard line and fought his way through four Pittsburgh tacklers (see THE STAR'S photo) before he scored. He had to do some battling to get over. Out of the game Minnesota got more favorable publicity than ever before. There were heroes galore, but outstanding in the Gopher line were Larson, Bevan and Widseth. Bevan was all over the field making tackles, blocking and battling.

Widseth was down fast on punts and smacking with every ounce of energy in his 225 pound frame. He really was glorious offensively and defensively. Larson played a truly All-American game in the second half. It was one of his best performances of his brilliant career. Kostka, Alfonse Lead In the backfleld, Kostka and Alfonse stood' out in ball carrying ac tivities.

Stan had the power and how he used it! Alfonse ran harder than ever before and socked viciously on the defense. Then there was the mar velous field generalship that actually brought about Pitt's downfall. On the defense, LeVoir and Beise did marvelous work, especially In the fourth quarter. As for Pug Lund, he couldn't have lost any prestige even though he didn't gain his usual yardage. His kicking was the best we have ever seen him turn loose.

He averaged as well as Munjas and got his boots so Well up in the air that the hard charging Gophers had plenty of time to get down. Pittsburgh was a great team Sat urday, 50 per cent more Impressive than against Southern California. Its line played a surprising game until battered to bits. Weinstock was stopped cold on the Minnesota goal line in the first half, but he was a dan gerous boy all afternoon. After a day of rest, the Gophers will get ready for Iowa, having only three days to handle their prepara tions.

Southern California is blaming its football disasters on the fact the players hang around Hollywood too much but Max Baer trained on the cinema lots and look what he did. Everything moves in cycles, the Notre Dame football team Included. But those things just proved was Saturday afternoon against a punt receiver on a fair catch, another for backfield in motion and another for offside. When Bruhn hit Larue on his fair catch, he never saw the receiver put up his hands. As he came tearing down the field like a streak with his head down, all he could see in front of him was the ball going into Larue's hand.

And how he hit the Panther! Betting became very brisk just before game time, and for a change the Gopher rooters made quite a cleaning away from home. Many showed a sizeable profit for the trip. Bernie Bierman and his Gophers were besieged by autograph seekers after the game. All of them signed gladly. Pittsburgh lost 31 yards in two plays In the third quarter.

The Gophers were smashing through with a vengeance and smothered the ball carriers completely. It was after they had been pushed back to their goal line that the Panthers' ace kicker, Munjas, came through with a brilliant 60 yard punt in the pinch. Martin Swanson, Bernie's brother, and Win Eller, Minneapoli-tans who now are living in Pittsburgh, were the happiest folks in that town Saturday night. They sure enjoyed the triumph for the old home state. Bernie Bierman never will forget Tom Morken, the well-known Head Man.

As the first half ended, Tom, who was sitting on the bench, walked over to Bernie and said: "Don't worry, coach, we'll beat them In the second half by a score of 13 to 7." And the Gophers did. Les Etter, university publicity man, picked the exact score three days before the game. Rennebohm was guilty of a few bad passes, but he made up for that by his marvelous defensive play. Dale's tosses were a little low. Every city of ariy size in the east had sports writers on hand to see the game.

All of them spoke well of the Gophers after the game. What Princeton fears is overconfl-dence. The Tigers probably were thinking about that when they clawed little Amherst 75 to 0. SUEDE LEATHER ZIPPER JACKETS .11 1 ana jsrown Met ton with sport backs. NICOLLET AVL I Special MM Gophers Just Too Good for Us, Says Jock Game Has Many Highlights Kostka! Kostka! Kostka! The only way ever to get him down is to have three men jump on his back.

Never get in front of him." Holding his head as he paced Up and down the floor of his Stadium office 15 minutes after the game as lie tried to figure out what had happened in the fourth quarter, congenial Jock Sutherland of Pittsburgh paid that tribute to the Minnesota Thunderbolt as well as to the Go phers generally. When he got Kostka off his mind, Jock talked about his victorious rivals. "Minnesota impressed me very much," he continued. "They are a really fine football team. We were afraid of their power, and our ad vance strategy was to keep' them in the hole as long as possible.

We did a good job of it in the first half, but one fumble got us in a jam, and then the Gophers went to work. I still say Lund is every Inch a foot ball player. He did some fine kick- ing today. I thought my boys played to the limit of tLeir ability, but the Gophers were just too good for us." That's a pretty fair tribute from a rival coach whom we actually be lieved, like many Pittsburghers, that his team' would beat Minnesota. Were those Gophers ever happy in their dressing room after the game They were having the time of their lives running from one to another and slapping each other on the back.

The coaches had trouble getting the boys into the showers, they were so excited and elated. Bert Baston was another who en joyed that victory. He and the Go phers were razzed pretty hard as they walked off the field at the end of the first half. But when the Go- phers made the final trip after the game, Bert made a speech to the ra2' zers they won't forget for a spell. All of the old grads, especially those from Washington and New York, fought their way into the dressing room to tell the boys from their alma mater how much they liked their play.

Johnny McGovern was one of the first to get to the dressing rooms. Seiforde Stellwag- en, oncj a great tennis player, was next to get by the door, followed by Shorty Long, Harold Hanson of 1914 fame and many others. There was hardly a vacant seat in the stands when the kickoff was made. Prices ranged from 25 cents for boys up through $1.10, $1.65 and $2.73. Not a single penalty was called on Pittsburgh despite the fact that from the press box it seemed that the Panthers were Jumping offside most of the afternoon.

The Gophers-got pne for holding, one for tackling against Southern California the week previous. That made the victory one of the greatest feats that a Minnesota team has ever accomplished. With all the big shots of the experting game getting ready to blast those Gophers to smithereens as. they failed to show their expected power, the boys went to work, smashed over two touchdowns on two 07 Sports Johnson went to work with a fury that is which Minnesota won that game fault with the Gophers' play in the the poor ones) that was held with plays of the finish of the third the fact that the Gophers never had most of the first three quarters. half, when they were behind, they how great the Minnesota team really much better Pitt eleven than we from behind to win through trick' and delivered in a manner that no on power and brute strength as ex That ought to take Minnesota out or wlo read about it will have a turning' point of that viciously it came late in the third quarter KOSTKA crowd.

judgment that Glenn Seidel used laterally to Nicksick who raced half the length of the field for the first score. Some Minnesota players as well as rooters thought the ball was passed forward and not laterally, but we talked to visiting coaches after the game who were on ton of the play and they insist it wasn't tossed forward. It was a grand play just the same and gained 64 yards for a touchdown. It wasn't until midway In the third period that the Gophers went to work. Widseth had hit Larue so hard as "he caught a Lund punt that he fumbled with Larson recovering on the Pitt 42 yard line.

Alfonse pick- ed up two yards on a line play. Then the hard charging Kostka got loose at the Pitt left tackle for nine yards and first down on the 31 yard stripe. Kostka added seven more in two tries and then Lund added another. That made it fourth and two to go for a first down on Pitt's 22 yard line. With the Panthers waiting for pass, Alfonse took the ball from Kostka -who faked a spinner.

Alfonse planned to go through the Pitt right tacKle, but saw the end tearing tnrougn. Julie immediately cut to ward center and then changed his course to Pitt's right side. By the time the Panthers discovered who had the ball and where it was. AI fonse was racing for the corner of the field and a touchdown. Bill Be-van kicked goal to tie the count Tenner's Touchdown Prize But the prize was the Tenner touchdown play.

Munjas had kicked to Lund on Pug's 40-yard line. There was a six-yard return. On the next play, Kostka made his grandest drive of the day. It was a smashing 18-yard run that found Stan knocking off no less than three tacklers with brute strength and finally coming to rest on the Pitt 24-yard mark. brilliantly conceived plays and came ery, smartness and a.

display of courage that one seldom has seen in any Minnesota team. The Gophers were on the spot one believed possible not largely pected, but rather on smart play. Chalk Talk Today The rest of the Gophers were tip top despite the fact that they used up plenty of energy as they dealt out a terrible physical beating to the Panthers. However, Bernie Bierman figured that his regulars were a little too tired to work out today so he called off practice and substituted a short chalk talk at 6 o'clock. Bierman today was well pleased with his team's Bhowing as he inspected the scout's reports of Iowa's -downfall at the hands of Ames Sat- urday.

r-s "I have a lot of praise for the stand our boys made in the second half," Bernie added to his usual comment. "They certainly did themselves and their school proud. I know one thing about the Pittsburgh game and that Is that I hope we don't run up against a better line than the Panthers showed us." Bierman figures that Iowa will be harder to beat next Saturday than at any time since the season, started because the Hawkeyes have suffered two straight defeats. He's a little worried about the Gophers' mental reactions for the Iowa tilt after all he fuss that the home folks have made over them since they got back. The turnout of 15.000 to welcome the boys at the Great Northern station yesterday Is unprecedented in.

Minne sota football history. As for the Pittsburgh game, the Gophers saved their best stuff for the second half but they worried their well wishers aplenty because they got nowhere in the first two periods and didn't get a first down until the third quarter was almost over. Play Safety First Game There seems to be no doubt that It was Bierman strategy to play a safety first kicking game in the first half and turn loose his tricks in the second, but that idea worried the Gopher rooters no little. However, the manner in which Minnesota won in the fourth period made the victory one or the choicest a Maroon and Gold team ever scored. All of the touchdowns were scored-on smart, deceptive plays that left many wondering how it happened.

For example, Nicksick's touchdown was the result of a clever play that caupht most of the Gophers fiat foot-j ed. Weinstotk started through the Minnesota right tackle and had gained from 10 to 12 yards. He was bout to do tackled when he passed! a of th "Dumb Swede" class forever, especially in the east. it it One New York writer- picked Pittsburgh to win from Minnesota by four touchdowns. We'd like to see his explana-' tion today.

WIDSETH'S TACKLE TURNING POINT VVERYONE WHO SAW the game different idea of what was the fought struggle, but our guess is that when Ed Widseth smacked punt-catching Larue with the force of a ton of dynamite. Larue thought a switch engine hit him for he dropped the ball, and the alert Larson pounced on it. Then the Gophers got down to the important business of putting on a final burst of speed that left 64,800 paid hands groggy. But let's look at some other high spots: In the first place, Stan Kostka just about ruined those Panthers physically. He gave them such a thorough individual physical beating that the home boys were reeling and staggering like a lot of punch drunk fighters in the last quarter.

They were positively groggy, and the bruising Kostka gave them plenty of punishment. His feat of knocking off no Tenner Sneaks Rabbit Foot in Pants, Taunts Panthers With It After Score Don't think for a minute that Bob Tenner didn't think a rabbit's foot is good luck. He tucked one of Mayor Bainbridge's gifts inside of his football trousers just before the Gophers went on the Held. He never said a word to any one, and no one saw him do it. Just after he scored, he pulled out the good luck piece and wildly waved It at the Panther players and then hurried Into a huddle to show the Gophers.

He was a tickled young man. less than three tacklers as he plowed 18 yards to set the stage for the winning touchdown was a scene that will live long in the memories of that gigantic and appreciative Then there was the marvelous J. (Continued on Page 14).