The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-05
ScOfbaIl.
A WONDERFUL RECORD
Michigan Football Team Far Out.
classes Any Other Col
lege Eleven.

Never in its twenty years OF football
history has the University OF Michigan
had a football team to compare with the
one OF 1901, either in team work. speed.
high scoring ability. almost invulnerable
defense and irresistible offense. The
nearest approach to it were the IS and IS
teams. the first one having won the west
era championship and held Harvard TO
the low score of 4, and the other having
again won the western championship.
The 1901 Michigan football team, by es-
tablishing 501 points as the highest score
ever made by a college team in one sea-
son of play, accomplished a feat which
justly gives IL renown, but when the fact
is considered that her ten opponents were
unable in $40 minutes of actual play to
score 4 single point, this feat becomes
something wonderful, indeed. incredible.
Had Michigan played against second
class colleges merely the score Of sol to o
might not seem so wonderful but when
suen teams as the Carlisle Inf-ans, Chi
cago, Northwestern, Iowa I'D others
were unable to score il serves 10 show
her true strength. No enc is better quail
flied to give an account Of the records
the Michigan team made this year and
the reasons for its success, than Coach
| Fielding Harris Yost, who, together with
] Keene Fitzpatrick as trainer, made the
! team success. Yost says:
The Michigan team smashed more
] lOOlDdll I6COTQS LIllS year lNaA any ONAcE
| team in the history Of the game. In the
/ first place, the score of sol to viii long
/ stand as the high-wEter mark IN football
! scoring during a single season. But this
/ high score is not the only record Mich
| tgan has made this year, Tor the score OF
| Is to 0 against Buffalo stands as the
/ highest one ever run up in a game be-
| tween colleges. Michtgan's smallest score.
! that of 2 to against Ohio State, is larg-
! er than the smallest score any team has
1 Will
I ali the teams opposing her but one was
| able to secure a single one of its own
/ puntS, showing the fine work Of our ends
| and tackles. The fUllback has been called
! upon but once in the course of the sea-
son 10 make a tackle; this was when Mer-
! rill Of BelOit got around end for fifteen
yards on a fake kick. The longest gain
of the season against Michigan was this
/ same fifteen-yard run of Merrilfs. Mich
/ igan averaged 80 points game, not quite
point minute. The same eleven mer
! played in every game of the season, not
a single player being injured or laid u
[ for more than a day, something which
speaks well for DR.. Fitzpatrick's excel
lent training.
Il attribute the success of the team Il
several things-to the age, weight ant
! speed of the individual players, to gooC
defense, 10 splendid team work. TO the
speed with which ali the plays were exc
| cuted, and TO good training. The meI
were of the right age; all over 20, and
( the average for the team was y. Tn,
weight of the men was about right ant
wen distributed; the teams average pc
player was 119 pounds, stripped. As TO
speed. all the men, except one, were abl
to run 100 yards under IL seconds.
Since ten of the eleven men were -uset
10 carry the ball, and called upon alter
! nately to do so. the work was so distrib
uted that al the end of a game the mel
! were comparatively fresh. Then, we ha,
the best punter in the country to he'll
! advance the ball Sweely's punts aver
aged over forty yards for the season
Herman of Harvard. who is considers
the best punter in the east, was able t
make an average of only thirty-thre
yards in the Yale-Harvard game. T
l-show something Of the relative speed 0
Michigan and Harvard, we can take 70
Consideration the Miehigan-Iowa an
I 4ale-HarVard games. On Thanksglvin
day at Chicago Michigan executed q
plays in seventy minutes. while on tn
same day Harvard ran off only 146 4
seventy minutes of play, which show
! that Michigan was 30 per cent faster tina
Harvard. This shows also that Michiga
= executed over three plays a minute, and
of the ball by Iowa, IL can readily be see
/ that she made as high as five and 81
plays a minute.
''AIiChigans work on the defensive ha
been excellent all season. Four Of tn
teams opposing her were unable to carr
the ball into or play in her half of tn
| last three games her opponents mad
but one play in Michigan territory. and j
, the last three games her opponents mad
their first downs but seven times. Dul
ing the season Michigan made eighty
seven tOuchdOWnS. kicked siXty-One goal
/ from touchdowns and one goal from til
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