The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-09-29
YOST UNCORKS
HIS new PLAYS
MlcHIoAN's Willy FOOTBALL
MENTOR is BUILDING GREAT
MACHINE TO REPRESENT
MAIZE AND BLUE.

WhitmOre Lake, Sept' N"i'h
yoet has changed his whole football
nroeram. Judging from the num-
her and style of the tasks he is
handing To his perspiring athletes
there will be no more conditioning
work of the light feathery kind. All
the men did today was gruelling work.
In the first place the Wolverine
leader gave out his first batch of
eienals today. One dozen plays was
all the smiling one shook out of his
sleeve. but he says he has few
moro n little better than those he
exposed today. For the most part
these plays handed out are shifts
and kicks. on one day the guard
and tackle shifts 10 the other side OF
the center The backs shift, the ball
20 snapped and the spectators and the
opposition are left to guess whether
the play is to be forward pass, a kick
or a run. All these new plays start
from the same old ~" shaped forma-
tion which Yost showed To his boys
on the day they started work here.
At present there are Is men on the
squad. five of them veterans who won
their IN" last year. OF the others all
have had considerable football exper-
fence. either on the Michigan fresh
man team or on the second eleven at
Michigan. A few other candidates are
expected to struggle i'm during the
week, so that il is practically certain
that before the team breaks camp here
next saturday the list will have been
swelled to the 20 to whom invitations
were first sent. Harrington, power
ful backfield man, who started with
the freshman eleven last year. Is eX-
pected soon. while Pattengill. end ON
last years varsity, will be in ready for
work sometime before the opening of
college.
For uniformity i'm size, this year
group of line candidates rivals the
teams of 1903, '04 and '05. Capt. Ben
brook easily towers above the others
but with that one exception the mel
are about equal in weight. When II
Is considered that the bunch OF line
men will average more than lSt
pounds one can readily see why Yos
is so well pleased with the prospects
for a formidable set of forwards FOL
this years eleven.
Capt. Benbrook undoubtedly VIII b'
left at guard, where last year ne
showed so well that Walter cam
chose him for his imaginary Allan
erica eleven: while Conklin at end
Edmunds at guard, and Wells a
tackle, are the other line veteran
who probably will not be shifted TN
year. That leaves Andy Smiths Jo
at center, one tackle position. and al
end for Yost TO fill. Yost hasn't giVel
up all hope that Smith will return bu
as the big fellow has wired that uh
less he can obtain parental consent
which seems to be reluctant I'm forth
coming, he will keep out of the gam
this fall, there is likelihood that
viii be available.
For center the men who probabl
will battle hardest are Cole, for wv
years end on the Oberlin colleg
eleven. and George Lawton. the bi
Detroiter whom nothing but a pain
full set OF boils kept from regula
position last season. Cole has nee
working well swapping the ball In IN
first two days practice, although
stranger to the position, and looks |
have a good chance to land the Jol
particularly IL Yost decides to us
George Lawton for the puntng.
that case Lawton will be used eithe
at tackle or in the backheld.
With Magidsohn and Pettengih
last years eleven on hand but wv
backfield positions remain to be mice
For these vacancies there are pient
of candidates. and most of them nav
shown their ability to go the dis
lance. wenner, quinn, Boyle NC
MILAN and Harrington are the mos
promising at this time. although the'
are others who cannot be counted ou
until the lineup is definitely an
nounced.
The job of developing a kicker
succeed Dave Ailerdice has not prove
fearful task. Lawton and Edmund
are brilliant kickers, and either wou'
be able TO do the punting If IL wer
not for the fact that they are almo'
sure to be used in the line.
However, Bottles Thompson, fui
back on last years freshman eleve