The Detroit times., 1908-11-16
Nv PAUL X. aRuskE.

And now, In calm, contemplctiye
retrospect OF that 30 to victory OF
4 Pennsylvania, with all due admiration
for the prowess OF the winner what.
{. by all the great eternal Walter CanI'
allied Michigan?
II was hardly To be expected that
lost's inexperienced team would beat
y pennsylvania. That Penn would win
by touchdown or two seemed rea'
sonable TO predict. That. however, the
b visitors at Ann Arbor should rub II in
IT such a clip as five Of them 10 moth
Ing. as scarcely applicable without the
concession that Michigan was not only
beaten but was actually disgraced.
For a team coached by SO great a
master as Fielding n. Yost 70 be beat
y en- by such margin by a team physi-
csiIy not whit superior In weight or
4 strength implies a mighty want first
Of all In football spirit and this lack,
A probably mere than any other factor,
y WAS the occasion OF Michigan's de-
feat.
The Michigan eleven played the
& game with all the phlegmatic demean-
or Of q company OF regulars. giving an
exhibition drill Their calmness was
simply maddening 10 the Michigan
rooter who recalls the old teams OF
the early years OF the Yost regime,
dashing. impetuous. enthusiastic and
brilliant
These fellows remarked one %
Yost's assistant coaches one evening
earlier in the week, would make
n great crew fer n l3-inck gun on one Of
" Uncle Sans battle ships. They'd be
20 placidly impersonal and cool about
their work that they'd surely waste
4 mighty little powder. There's no hur-
rying EN-; they're bound TO take their
4 own good time FOR everything and
they'd shoot just as straight and be
4 inst as deliberately IL the deck was
4 Ginking under them, as they would at
a target practice"
And these arc the qualities that the
Michigan eleven showed In its big
y battle. There was no jumping into
e plays; each man got into place with
3 deliberation and pushed Conscientious
I'LL the whistle blew II something
went wrong through the deliberate
nature Of their movements, they went
4 Through with their parts just the same.
y Scoring by the enemy found them
\ unperturbed- The, boy who stood or
the burning deck. eating peanuts by
the peck had nothing on them. They
were there to finish out 20 minutes
& ~ play and they conscientously per-
B 1ormed their task. When ii was over
they sponged on their Lrows. donned
their sweaters and went home, still
ulruffled, with one or two excep-
y tons. sf
GET MAD PLAYING FOOTBALL:
THAT WAS NOT FOR GENTLE
MEN AND SCHOLARS.
In the meantime. how about Penn?
1 Did those brawny athletes from the
city OF brotherly love, do their little
Gtunt on this plan? Not by a consid-
erabie margin. THEY PLAYED HARD
y rOOTBALL FROM START TO FIN
n l6H AND THEIR TACTICS WERE
4 CONSISTENTLY AGGRESSIVE AND
BEl-LIGERENT. They knew what a
Aging tackle. was and they didn't hest
y 1nte In making IL. In the interference
4 each man put his vis-a-yis out OF play
whenever possible, as II he meant To
have him stay out. On the attack. the
Penn warriors jumped recklessly In,
s.as II IL was renuine fun for them.
There was proud superiority In their
every move and. as Michigan grew
\ weaker under their fusillade OF rough
Y but usually perfectly legal play. Penn's
men gloried In their strength and
tolled up the score with their every
ondeavor.
Penn undoubtedly moved faster and
oIhouoht better than Michigan. The
<&onsn knew more football and football
& 1sas natural with them, not an ac-
3 ,lred sort. Of sport.
Undoubtedly Michigan would have
lone better. had 1t not been for the
oarly disablement OF Capt. Schultz.
(; (olIowed soon after by similar catas-
|1rophe to Right Half Allerdice.
q Uohuitz remained In the game till near
4 The close, but was OF little use to his
{<eam after the first few minutes. Aller-
& 1lce played It out from start TO finish
& hut his inability to forward pass, on
H account of the broken collar bone he
5Eoceived when breaking up bunch OF
Ponnsyivania interference prevented
Aia team from working its most cher
ohed plays. PENIS roughness was
1xdoubtedly what put both these men
Int OF the play. On the other hand,
<o{ the Penn men tc leave the field be-
tEt the contest was over, only two
1einath and Capt. Hollenback-did so
ocause they were lin" and the former
inferred the game. in crippled cond!-
1on. while the latter simply himself
Erd runs, of which large percent
~ were from fake kicks, formed the
bgf reliable plays OF the Penn team
~ IL most OF these Hollenback car
~ the ball. In almost every case
lthiean's ends and tackles were
ocked and the only men on the
1wary line OF defense necessary TO
swept ont OF the way by the Quaker
@&fforence were the Michigan half
n1n. When the runs were made
I'm kicking position. both Allerdice
IA Douglas were removed TO the Sec
6nry line of defense. where they
1ore. Tor the time, out OF the play
neine the few minutes in which
eHu1fx was himself. these plays were
11hout avail. When, however, the