The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-20
Great Coach Has Little Promis-
ing Football Material
in Sight.
BEN HARRIS RETURNS
FRESH FROM MICHIGAN
Says Billy Maloney, Crack Dis
tance Runner, Formerly At
tended Local High School.

Ben Harris, the Salt Lake boy who
made the Michigan Reserves under
Coach Yost last year, and has pros
poets of making the varsity team
before he graduates, has just re-
turned home from Ann Arbor In ad-
dition 10 taking an active part In
athletics Ben was president OF his
class, head OF the student body in the
school Of music. member of the glee
club and was also prominently
identified with other college organiZa-
tions. Before going to Michigan, Ben
was student at the high school here.
and played tackle on the crack foot
ball team.
What Football Changes Mean.
Commenting on football changes and
the outlook for a winning team at
Michigan next year, Ben said: The
general opinion at Ann Arbor is that
the game. as played next fall, Will be
open and faster than ever. 1t Will call
for lighter and speedier men, The giant
huskies who have been given the
preference heretofore Will retire, and
average-siZed fellows who think and
act moro quickly Will take their places.
Big job for Yost.
LAS for Yost. he has the task of
DtEOTe MIN. ne
eligibility rule has played havoc at
Michigan, and cuts out several OF our
best men, both in football and track.
Only three or four Of the crack men on
last years team VIII be back,
Among those who will be missing are
Schultz, Schultz. Rheinschild Barlow,
Tom Hammond, Longman, and several
of the most promising substitutes. Tost
has less than fifty men TO pick
from to make his team next year.
These include the Reserves. the fresh
men team of last year and some few
students who may turn out to try the
new game. The task presented Yost
is to make a team out OF practically
nothing. II he succeeds, and Mlchi-
ganders still have confidence In him,
then there is no denying that he is the
greatest coach that ever lived
Football In the Middle West Will
be rather unsettled next year. The
sport has been abolished at Wisconsin
for the coming season, and that loses
Michigan one game. Chicago has
decided to play only small teams, and
try with Minnesota. Michigan students
regret this action of Chicago. We
were anxious for a game, although next
years prospects are none too encourage
Ing. There is a feeling around Ann
Arbor that Chicago does not care to
risk the championship which she won
by so narrow a margin after six de-
feats There is some consolation, how
ever, in the fact Michigan VIII have an
opportunity TO get a relative line OH
the playing of the Big Four through
her Pennsylvania game
Maloney Former Salt Laker.
One OF the most interesting bits Of
Information brought home by Mr.. Har-
ris is the news that Billy Maloney,
the crack Michigan distance runner,
was formerly a student at the Salt
Lake high school. 1t was Billy Ma
loney, Coo, Roe and Capt. Ramey
that won the four-mile intercollegiate
relay race at Philadelphia last May
and lowered the worlds record by flf-
teen seconds. BY experts the team is
rated the greatest that has ever been
| brought together In this country
Students who attended the Salt Lake
| high school back in 1901 all remember
| Willie Maloney as a result of little
| joke that happened at his expense.
| George A. Eaton had just assumed the
| principalshIp of the school, and while
| speaking one morning he stopped 10
make sure he was being heard In the
| back part OF the room, and asked /:
| willie Maloney, can you hear what /
am saying?" NO. sir" answered VIII
| lie, and the writer we'll remembers how
the reply sent the students into hys-
| terics with laughter.
Doesn't Look Like Athlete,
Perhaps the reason high school stu
| dents never fancied the Michigan
| Willie Mahoney the one they knew
is that the youngster Is the last person
| In the world one would pick for an
athlete. He is slightly built and small.
| but his endurance is marvellous. Ma
| loney Is also regarded as one OF
the most scientific boxers at Michigan.
| This is his first year of active part!ci-
patton in college athletics, and great
! things are predicted for him.