The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-11
BOTH SIDES HAVE
THEIR SAY IN BIG
FOOTBALL MIX-UP
Coach Longmsn Declares Bartelme
Said Last January Disputed Play
ers Were in Good Stand
ing.
Notre Dame Plays Clean Football,
He Says, and Doesn't Deserve
Knocks.

ANN ARBOR Nov. especially
shorty Longman, Notre Dame
coach, has come forward with this
statement regarding his position in
the recent trouble between Michigan
and Notre Dame. lie declares that he
has been misquoted Dy the press and
that the following is the only state
ment that he has made,
Il had not intended answering the
recent articles relative 10 Notre Dame
or myself but | have had so many
requests that | feel a word will not
be out of place,
In regard 10 the eligibility of my
players, all will say is that Mr. Bar
telme told me last January that there
was no question about Dimmick and
Philbrook. | took the matter up with
the authorities here and told them of
Mr.. Bartelmes Interpretation OF the
rule. not knowing that Curtis had al
ready told them the same. and found
that they agreed with Mr.. Bartelme.
Two days before the game was
the first intimation that had Of any
objection 10 them, when Prof. Eloi-
brooks protest came. The ultimate
result is the ruination of our season,
which | believe would have been a
greater surprise than last years, ow-
ing TO the fact that our team was
pointed for the Michigan game.
1T was a hard blow 10 Notre Dame,
a college which had acted openly and
fairly in every way. which had never
tried 10 conceal a fact and which
supposed her Interpretation OF the
rule was the same as MiChigans. Ii
was equally hard for her coach.
Now, aside from the real issue.
the Interpretation OF one rule, certain
overzealous writer's have raked mp
everything they could imagine TO hurt
Notre Dame and myself
What better evidence is there than
that every man on the Michigan team
tells you that the Notre Dame game
was as clean as any game he ever
played in? Every man on the Nj. A.
c.. Pittsburg, Rose Poly, Olivet, Wa
bash or Marquette teams will tell
you the same. Is not this more con-
elusive than a mere rumor?
''One young man has stated that
I was hanging around Ann Arbor last
year sort of rubbing IL in after the
game. | was a visitor in my own
home after the game for one day. md
II is very fiattering that this is his
strongest criticism.
He also states | have had trouble
with my players. That's small thing
TO talk about at best, but such is not
the case. AT least | have never had
to send my captains or anyone else
10 the gym for telling me TO go to -
Now. through this entire trouble
have YOU noticed that Notre Dame
has ever said an unkind word about
Michigan? Did you notice that she
confined herself only 10 the issue?
Did you notice last fall when Mr..
Vest accused her Of having ringers,
she simply proved her record clean?
Now I have been accused of lack
OF college spirit and If what these NO
writer's seemingly demand Is right.
am guilty. The kind of college spirit
| cherish is the one which requires
man TO do his best for the college he
represents. II is one which does not
mean running along the side lines
yelling 'rah. 'rah, 'rah love my uni
yersity. but to go out on the held
and smash myself 70 help the team
win
1T is very easy to sit on the side
lines and tell what the players ought
to be doing TO tell the coach how 10
coach his men. and when to visit his
home: 10 say that everything my mi
yersity Goes is just right and every
thing an opponent does is all wrong;
IL our team wins. TO say the other
team is poor; il the other team wins
they are ringers, roughnecks. slug
gers. or else they are so old we took
nitv on them because they were
feeble. but my idea Of sportsmanship
is this: May the better team win, and
~ the other team is the better give
them the credit and try TO win from
them the next time.
IF | have done wrong. say SO, DIT
kindly PUT it in some tangible form
and prove It 10 the people, and stop
these imaginary rumors.