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This condition made it necessary for Coach Richards to pick his team early and to try and
round it into shape as soon as possible. He could not work upon any particular offensix e because
he had to spend all his time on defensi\-e work.
He did, and Wisconsin held Notre Dame to a tic. People were somewhat dissatisficd. Not
those who knew conditions, but those who take each game as it comes and who fail to consider
that the purpose of preliminary games is to develop the team for the championship gamcs to
come. They also failed to give Notre Dame credit for having a strong team.
Next came Illinois and the Badgers were defeated bv the narrow margin of seven points. It
was in this game that Wisconsin really first began to show the results of Richards' coaching for
the Badgers outplayed the Illini and, but for a few  unfortunate 'breaks,' would have won. It
was a defeat that, instead of causing the usual gloom, was taken with the philosophical fecling of
"better things to come.
The Minnesota game was the one that started cveryone running for the band-wagon. Hailed
as conference champions, the Gophers came out of the north prepared to repeat the trick turned
at Minneapolis the year before. They returned on the short end of a 10 to 7 score and they were
lucky to get the seven. It was the biggest upset of the year. In that game Coach Richards made
good the claims of his friends for, with inferior material he had his team worked up to such a
pitch that 'losing' was not in their vocabulary

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