Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-06
NOTRE DANE BACK AT YOST
Catholic School Laughs at Michigan
Cosoh's Cry Of Inehgibility.
CALLS HIM A POOR SPORTSMAN
Challenges Hurry-up TO Point Out
Any Mah on Indiana Team
who L. Disqualified
60 Play.
CALLS HIM A POOR SPORTSMAN

NOTRE DAME. Ind, Dec. 5.-To the
Sporting Editor Of The Bee: Great indig-
nation has been aroused at Notre Dame,
over the unfounded charges. made by
Fielding II. Yost Of Michigan. in order
that he might, as he thinks, be able the
more to claim the western honors for his
eleven, which was so decisively defeated
by the gold and blue warriors under the
leadership OF +. G. Longman.
The stand taken by Mr.. Yost brands
him as a bad loser and q poor sportsman.
Almost every critic through the west con-
siders Michigan's claim to the champion
ship OF the west as a huge joke. In fact
one authority on foot ball. In a private
letter to the faculty here said that Yost
was making a poor squeal."
Both the western and the eastern cri
tics concede the western honors to IN,
Catholics and the cry that Yost is maRins
Is extremely amusing, but his charges
that the Notre Dame men are Ineligible
and that Notre Dame, as he expresses il,
has eligibility rules of her own. cannot
go unchRllenged II Yost had knowledge
OF ineligibility Of any Notre Dame man,
he should have made this known before
the game with Michigan and to the proper
authorities, the athletic board Of con-
LEOl OF NOlIt 1DdllAts anu nut nave up
pealed to the general public through the
press. There is a faculty board OF con-
troll here which has control of all sth-
letics at the university and passes onfthe
eligibility OK any man in question. 10th
ing is known at Notre Dame that would
disqualify any man on the team that met
Michigan.
Yost charged Notre Dame with play
ing freshmen and four-year men, which
Notre Dame does not deny, for freshmen
aud four-year men are eligible for posi-
t~ions~of the athletic teams here, but
when playing schools who do not use
their freshmen and fOur-year men Notre
Dame abides by their ruling, as the
games with the conference schools in the
past have demonstrated. Notre Dame
played four-year men in the game against
Michigan, but Yost used men who have
played more than three years and who
are ineligible to play against conference
teams. On this ground Michigan has n
room for complaint for they used thei
four men against Notre Dame and al,
sent the same men into the contest
against Pennsylvania.
No fault can be found with the class
standing of the members OF the Notre
Dame foot ball eleven. An Interview with
the director of studies, shows that out
of seventeen regulars, eleven have records
for best scholarship, one is president Of
the senior class and class orator, an
other, a medal man in civil engineering.
OF the other six, not one has fallen be-
low the passing standard in examinations
with the exception of DolGn and
Schmitt, senior engineers, Kelley, Math-
ews, Philbrook and Maloney, who are
engineers and science men, who have
their hands full with their regular
schedule all the rest of the varsity men
are taking from three to ten extra hours
a week. Vaughan, who has been the
sensation of the season has an extra
class on his bill and he is an engineer
which is the hardest course in the cur
riculum.
The charges brought forth by Yost are
altogether false and without foundation.
In fact It would be very difficult TO find
a more serious bunch of young men than
those who have won their letters on the
gridiron here this season.