The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15
ECkERSALL TO
TRY MICHIGAN
Stages FAST QUARTERBACK
WILL ENTER AT ANN ARBOR.
Says He Made the Mistake Of His Life
i'll Going to Chicago--Cannot Ma
circulate at Michigan Without
Honorable Discharge" from Mid
way College.
New York Sun Special Service.

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Ann Arbor, Mich, Dec. 15.-Walter
| Eckersall has announced his true in
tention, that Of entering Michigan i'm
mediately after Christmas, to Tom
Hammond of Yost's eleven. Ham
mond has two letters from Eckersall
asking him to look, up his chances at
Michigan. II made, the mistake of
my life in going to Chicago Ecker
He has had the Michigan plan in
mind ever since Thanksgiving and
even earlier. ~ HoWsgSer, Eckersall in
tended to- finish he aorably his full
| sem ester in Chicago, Hammond says,
suddenly dropping Out. E.."
Hammond and other Michigan
students learned on inquiry that Eek
ersall would not be allowed to enter
i Michigan unless he could show a slip
of paper from President Harper show
ing an honorable discharge" from
Chicago. 1t will do Eckersall no good
/ to try Michigan's entrance eXamina-
tons. When once man has entered
any American university, the law Of
honorable discharge is binding
Professor Pattengill, head of the
Michigan athletic board, said that this
would be inexorable in Eckersall' S
| case. On Michigans books there is
a rule as to the personality of an
entrance candidate which might be
used to to bar Eckersall. The Michi-
gan faculty hints plainly that Ecker
sail is all objectionable personality.
Michigan athletic authorities of great
er influence than Hammond are not
surprised to know Eckersalls inten-
tions. s--.... :~-.. .=.-=. go
Walter Camp, Yales athletic di-
rector and head football coach, found
many good points in the western foot
ball teams of 1903. In letter to the
Yale alumni Weekly, he says:
ANY eastern football team which
believes that the play of the best
teams in the middle west is crude.
should go out and watch one Of the
important contests there, and become
convinced of his error. Some of the
teams carry the development of the
play to a point fully as high and even
more complicated than eastern teams.
For instance, on the attack and in
assaults on the wings. one at least OF
| the western teams has a greater Vari-
ETY. and perfection Of drill than any OF
the eastern teams. The detail Of posi-
ton play as such may not be brought
TO quite SO high a point; but, on the
other hand. the movements Of the
men, not only in formation plays, but
in plays Of the nature Of wing shifts
and In runs outside tackle, are moi
only more complicated but more rap
idly executed than those of eastern
teams. s.. .r-E s:
eff there is q weakness in attack, il
seems to be that the assault along
the middle of the line from guard tc
guard is not as powerful or effective
rs that In eastern attack. This may
be only a popularity of this particu-
lar year and season. because most OF
the coaches out there Informed the
writer that there were no remarkable
guards on the middle western teams
this year, while it will be remembered
that in the east, in the last few years
there have been several phenomena
players occupying these positions. Mer
of the old order Of Heffelfinger an6
like Hare and Glass are. of course
an exceptional product of any sea
son at any time.
'tIn defense the western teams vary
, Michigan and Minnesota are the
r strongest in this respect, and both
{ play an order of defense very like tina
used at New Haven. In kicking III
man whom the writer saw in the
{ west came up to the mark set by mer
like Mitchell and Dewitt this yea1
, In the east, altho the work of Ecker
sail of Chicago. in drop kicking, II
$ some Of his earlier games, was phe
nomenal.'
4 Arthur. Fl. Curtis was reelected
coach of the University of Wisconsin
football team, at salary of $1,SOt
3 a year, last night at a meeting Of thu
board of directors of the Athletic as
, ISOLATION. No baseball coach wa
j elected.
James Temple, Jr., football traine
s for West Point military academy, re
turned to his home in Milwaukee yes
terday and announced that he ha,
| signed contract to train the Yves
/ Point boys again next season. He viii
: train the college baseball team a
iBrookings, S. D., next spring.