The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-17
FOOTBALL
COACH YOSI IS HERE.
Michigan's Hurry Up Leader Comes
Up to See the Gophers
Play Iowa.
Denies the Charges Against the
Eligibility Of Any: Of the
Wolverines.


Of the Michigan football team, arrived
In Minneapolis this morning to see
the Minnesota team for the first time
this season. Yost is rather inclined
to be bearlsh in speaking Of conditions
at Michigan and to resent certain as
pensions cast upon the morale Of
Michigan athletics.
men the papers have been crediting
us with" he said. They have been
saying that Carter, Jones and Law
renee, last years guard and fullbacks,
are playing again this season.
II give $1,000 to any person who
has seen either OF these men In a
football suit on a Michigan field or
with the Michigan team this fall.
When Carter came to, US last year it
was because had been compelled to
leave an eastern college and had been
sent out to Michigan to be under the
care Of Rev. Mr.. Patton, a pastor of
one of the Ann Arbor churches, who
was an old friend of the Carter fam
lily.
HE lived at the home OF this pas
tor and played football on the Mich
igan team last fall. At the close of
the season he made the same error
he had made down east and his father
took him home. But the boy was de-
termined to. stay in college and play
the game and he, came back last
summer and made up all his studies
did not avail him, however, and he
is now reading law in his fathers Of
flee at Auburn, Me. We had nothing
to do with his coming west and did
not know of it until he. arrived.
Jones, who always had weak
heart, had an attack Of typhoid fever
last spring and since then he has
r Of ~ L:
physician. Lawrence is back in coll
!ege and is eligible to play but can
not do so for private reasons. ] only
wish we had two good guards"
!, In taking up the matter. Of Casper
Whitney'sa severe structures on him
and athletics at Michigan Mr.. Yost
said: IF Gregory was in college be-
cause he was being paid to play foot
ball he would not be working for his
board. He would not be selling cigars
in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti evenings
to- pay his way thru. Does 1t stand
to reason that Michigan would have
paid to bring to. college a man who
had never. even played the game in
high school, just on the bare chance
that he would make the team?
!. Gregory comes from California, as
do some thirty or forty other students
at Michigan. But that is nothing
against him, neither is it "a, reflection
upon his amateur standing that he
sells cigars during the summer be-
cause he needs the money. Other stu
dents work their way thru college
without being subject to adverse
criticism. ~, ,a~ r -
"If Heston has ever been profess
sional I know nothing about it and
know of no one who does. 1t is nat
ural that the standing Of memb ers
Of winning. team should be inves'
tigated and they are often subject tc
the, annoyance of hoaxes started by
other colleges or enterprising news
paper menu 49, Is
Yost does not think that the play
ing by. Chicago of Eckersall the ia.
nous quarterback, will affect the
standing Of those who, play with OF
against him and he does not. believe
that Eckersall ever played for money
He said: So. y.-s.t. r.
received money for playing with the
Spaulding team, and I have it upor
the authority Of Mr.. WEIGH, Of the
Spauldfng firm, that while he was {
memb Der Of, their baseball team he re.
fused all cash considerations.
IT do not think that the case
against him will be pressed to the
play in games with him. The grow
Ing tendency to literal Interpretation
of rules, OF. doubtful value is putting
the game, in a bad light before the
public and will not help to make 1
more popular, The Mueller case Il
one. in point. ~
'.You people at Minnesota, or any
where else, have ample opportunit!
to find out just who and what we arr
playing. You have had men down tt
our games every Saturday. I've n,
doubt and they are more than vel
come. DR.. Williams can have a pas
to the sidelines Of ali the games w,
play between now and Oct. 81. Yo1
want to win the game, in a scleal
fashion. and so. do we. We are o.
common. ground.
He had nothing to say about tn,
relative merits of the different team
or about the outcome Of the gam,
this afternoon. ~. @
II have seen neither team" he said
Gas far as my influencing the boart
Of control."s he said, "I'll give any
one a thousand dollars who can SHOW
that I ever appeared before the boart
or approached any individual on it il
the matter Of the eligibility of an.
member Of the Michigan 1tean..I hav,
enough to do teaching the men tn,
game
Eau Claire ForfeIts the Game.
Winona, Mimi, Oct. 1.-THE footba