Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
WEST WANTS TO INVADE EAST
Foot Bali Teams Out Here Not Think
ing of Breaking Up-Ehst Up
act by Old

NEW YORK, Dec. Awhile the eastern
foot ball adherents and enemies are re-
viewing the controversies of 1905 and talk
Ing Of reorganizinN changing and perhaps
eliminating the great autumn sport, the
players in the middle-west are planning for
next season and speaking Of raids into
eastern camps and Of games to decide the
championship Of the United States. And
all this enthusiasm is the result OF the
Michigan victories.
Foot ball prestige has been an un-
questioned attribute Of eastern col
leges for the last few years, since the
conference dispute which hampered the
Wolverines One does not have to glance
far into the depths OF foot ball history.
however. to remember days when the
corn-fed and wheat-farming youths came
from the prairies to the campus and rolled
up phenomenal foot BAN scores. When the
eastern men saw some of those tallies they
used to wonder If Stagg and Yost dressed
their teams in track suits and coached
squads made up entirely Of 44O-yard cham
pions. At that time there was some
thought In the minds of many that II GER
tain interseotional games had been ar
ranged the eastern bleaoherites would have
believed that the Yale-Harvard contest
was an interesting tradition.
At the close OF this season the middle
western colleges are abuzz with foot ball
conjecture. The Michlgan-Pennsylvania
and the Chicago-Cor tie nave loosed
rumor. and rumor runs amuck.
Coach Stagg Of Chicago has announced
invitations for games next season from
Pennsylvania, Brown and the Navy. The
Cornell game has not been scheduled, but
It Is a probability. Many followers Of the
two colleges think that a Michigan-C hicago
game will be arranged. As for Michigan,
although the Notre Dame question still
shoulders, the Maize and Blue believes
that its teams are the best In tina section
and IL would like to know what would hap
pen II a war party went TO the east next
fan All the credit Of Michigan's victori-
Gus wind-up this season is given to Coach
Yost. and the "Hurry-Up" man Is the hero
OF Ann Arbor. No one who follows the
game Is apt to refute the opinion that
Vest deserves all the laurels a coach can
receive for taking a raw lot OF material
and building the team which Michigan
supported in the observation-disclosures
games. The Wolverine players demon
strated that they knew where credit be.
longs when they carried Yost from Frank,
ling Field on their shoulders after defeat,
ing the Red and Blue. He worked up a
new Offense for the Minnesota contest and
then the successful coach gave the opinion
hat talk pounded foot ball into his greer
recruits and hard work did the rest New,
crtheless the middle-wcst halls Yost as q
great man these days.
There was an Interesting Incident con
nected with the banquet given the tw,
teams after hat Minnesota Michigan game
Il seems hat the Wolverines once had
water Jug which was an heirloom and
fetish and a generally desirable hit Of team
property. The scores OF certain season,
were painted on It's battered sides and N,
water boy who trotted on and off the fel,
with that particular Jug n~avigated a suru
and was a superior person. After the Min
nesota game OF 1908 the jug APPARENT!
s-vaporated with It's contents. Last Satur
day the Minnesota coach arose az the ban
luet and presented the Michigan team WIKI
the resurrected jug and confessed tina
Minnesota had sort Of lifted the cup
ala not say IN what obscure corner OF th
sym" the jug had been gathering dust
nor did he say that admiring freshme.
had been told tales OF the genius VIII
Switched the same. but he desired that IN
relic be kept as a trophy and played 10
each year hy the c0ntending teams. s
Mtchigan has its Dug again and. mingle.
Win the peeling paint of other days Is an
fresh record Of is Isos victory over Min
-esota