The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-10
STAGE Warned,
Walter Kennedy, an Ex-MarOOn
Player, Gives Advice.
Says YOst's Machine May Crush
by Mere Weight.
THANKSGIVING GAME.
A Handicap to Wolverines Is
the Injury to NOrcrOss.
Michigan Eleven From Tackle
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THANKSGIVING GAME.
Michigan Eleven From Tackle
to Tackle Is Best Going.

Chicago, Nov. 10.-Walter Ken
nedy Chieago's famous captain and
quarterback Of the champion Maroon
eleven of 1893, sounds a warning to the
Midway team in its preparation for
the Michigan game Thanksgiving day
From tackle to tackle AIichigan's line
is the best in the business" says the
old Maroon warrior. "and Curtis is the
best man for short gains Yost ever
had
Kennedy has seen Michigan play
several times this season and has
watched their development with care.
He is living at Albion, Mich, where ne
is vice president and manager OF the
Albion Recorder and also coaches the
football team OF Albion college. on
October rs Kennedy's eleven played
the Yost machine and the result was
20 to 0 in favor of Ann Arbor.
While the old Maroon hero sees IN
the wolverines a formidable grld1roh
machine for which he wants chicago
to prepare with the greatsl care ny
also sees defects which ought to give
the Midway bunch hope of downing
them.
Wolverines Handicap.
one of the greatest handicaDs under
which the Wolverines viii have to
labor is the injury to Captain NOT
cross, the speedy Quarterpack. VINO -
the ginger of the team and keeps lt
WORKING at high tension throughout
the battle "NOrSy' went down ana
out on the first tackle in the Albion
game and kennedy says ne VIII 90
we'll to play i'm one Of the big games
Michigan has yet to face-either Wis
consin or Chicago There IS httle
chances, he thinks, of the little cap
tain being able to play in both.
While Yost's line, from tackle 10
tackle, is impregnable, the ends are
weak. says Kennedy, and one hanback,
is not UP to the standard. Under these
conditions, especially if NCrcross
should be put out of the game, Chi
cago looks good to Stages old star.
sYo st says he has better defensive
team than last year" says Kennedy. It
told him I didn't believe there would
be as much scoring in the Chicago
game this year as last, and he laughed
and said there would be more. He's
pretty confident. Curtis is the best
man for short gains Y ost has ever had
"I've seen Michigan play several
games and I believe that from tackle
TO tackle they are the best in the bust
ness Their ends and one half are not
so good. and if NOrcrOsS should be put
out I'm the Wisconsin game which he
is quite liable to be. your optimistic
friend is going to put his little week 81
salary on the maroon
YOst's Team Heavy.
some idea or COaCn stage TASK is
60 be cleaned from a comparison of
weights of the two elevens which will
battle for supremacy Thanksgiving
day-a battle which it is believed win
result in greater football than is to be
seen at YaIe-Harvard or Yale
Prince games. Michigan will out
weigh Chicago fifteen pounds, in the
average, per man.
Think Of bucking against a handicap
of that sort. The lightest man of the
regulars and first subs weighs 40
pounds
1t seems incredible that such pom
derosity can be induced to move in
anything but a sluggish manner; yet
Bunny Booth testifies the Michigan
attack is the same old lightning. Stage
has his hopes of beating Michigan, and
betting may be at even money.
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