The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
Is NOT UP TO YOsI KELLY A PLUNGER
Coach Had Nothing to Do With Get
ting Gregory for Michigan,
Says an Alumnus.
Wolverine Students and Graduate.
Much Excited by Charges of
President Jordan.

A. local Michigan alumnuS, who is close
ly in touch with athletic affairs at his
alma mater, said to-day that he was sat
isfied that the charges against Coach Yost,
and Center Rush Gregory Of last fall s.
team made by President Jordan of Stan :
ford university were entirely without
foundation. He said:
Last fall Immediately after the Michi-.
gan Minnesota football game at Ann Ar
bor, I met an old classmate, who has tax
en- an active part in the development Of
athletics at Michigan for some years. He
was thoroly in touch with affairs on the
football squad last fall and talked to me,
as a fellow alumnus, freely, and I am sat-
1sfed, truthfully. I questioned him in re-
gard to all the men on the Michigan team
who had been under suspicion, and among
others about Gregory. 2 Z
According to the story he told me,
Yost had nothing to do with. inducing
Gregory to enter at Michigan. Yost did
tell my classmate that Gregory, who was
a resident of some small town near Los
Angeles, was promising man. Ny class,
mate wrote to a brother fraternity man
who was in business at Los Angeles, tell
ing him that Gregory intended to study
law, and advising him to use all legitimate
means to persuade Gregory to enter
Michigan. The Los Angeles alumnus held
several conversations with Gregory and
the latter's parents, and convinced them
that the Michigan law school offered more
advantages than those of any other In
stitution they had under consideration.
II also have had assurances from pro-
fessors in the law school at Michigan that
Gregory is an Industrious and conscien-
tious student, I feel justified in stating
positively that none of the men on the
Michigan team last year were induced to
enter the university by promise of gain"
/. The faculty Of the University Of Michi-
gan took official cognizance of Presi-
ent Jordan's attack on Coach Yost and
Gregory In g. meeting of the board of con-
troll. The speech delivered by DR.. Jor-
dan at the University of Chicago last week
was taken up, analysed and answered. In
directly a rebuke was administered to
Professor Scott Of the local faculty, who
spoke from the same platform as did
President Jordan and who himself init
mated that athletics at Ann Arbor were
not all they should be. -. H.zs -
In the statement given out after the
meeting by Professor PattengiIl, head Of
the board Of control, the most sensational
features were considered the direct
charges of unsportsmanlilke conduct
against Professor A. A. Stagg of the Uni
versity of Chicago. It reaches its climax
in the closing sentence of Professor Pat
tengil's statement that the present con-
ditions Of athletics is absolutely intol
erable.'' -. .,.:,..~.~ :.
Professor Pattengill strongly defends the
University of Michigan's standing in both
scholarship and athletics and says that
special care was taken in regard to the
case Of Center Rush Gregory. Professor
Pattengill asserts that President Jordans
accusations are ungenerous.
Michigan students are extremely indig-
nant at the statements concerning Yost
and Gregory, made by Professor Jordan.
There. is absolutely no truth in his
statements. said the big center 1t Is
all slander and nothing else. 1t is a
shame--it is Shame, I say. Yost did. not
influence me to come here. I came here
because it was the best place within my
reach to study my chosen profession. #
anybody had anthing to do with my COM
ing here it was Professor Ferguson e, OF
Stanford. He recommended Michigan
himself. don't like the reflections cast
on my standing as a scholar one bit. I
have never failed in an examination
since I have been here, and I passed by
entrance examinations without scratch.
I got diploma from San Jose high school
before came here and had as good a
standing as any freshman: = ~
=s.~.' *
The University OF Chicago professors
and athletes take exception to the state
ment of Professor Pattengin Of the Uni
versity Of Michigan in regard to President
Jordan and Professor Stagg, but none was
willing to be quoted when interviewed
Professor Stagg, at whom the shafts of
criticism were mainly directed refused to
reply to the insinuation Of unsportsman-
like conduct, but intimated that he might
give out a statement in writing later on.
The students at Chicago were a unit in
unfolding Professor Stage and his ath-
letic policy. - ..:. g