Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20
MICHIGAN IS winner
Gains Western Championship
by Defeating Minnesota.
FORWARD PASSES DO 1T
Wells Goes Over for Touchdown in
Last Quarter Of Desperate
Play.

ANN ARBOR, Mich, November 10
The Maize and Blue floats over the Ma
room and Gold tonight, for Michigan. by
a score Of 6 to 0, captured the western
foot ball championship from Minnesota
on Ferry Field this afternoon.
Two clean-cut forward passes did it. 1t
was in the last quarter. Neither side
had been able to shatter the others de-
Tense and the crowd of 1900 had resign
ed itself to a no-score tie game. 1t was
Michigan's ball in the center Of the field.
The Indian summer temperature was be-
coming chilly and the sunlight feeble.
Wells, whose name is written large to-
night, ran out and sent the ball straight
to Borleske. The crowd cheered itself
hoarse, for this was one Of the few sue
cessful forward passes of the game, and
it had Melted e yards.
Michigan lined up quickly. The same
play was hardly to be expected soDsoon
and in exactly the same way. Yet that
was the strategy. Wells ran to the side
as before and threw diagonally down the
field as before, to Borleske.
Michigan now had four yards to 90.
Every spectator was on his or her feet,
the Minnesota crowd crying Hold,
hold" 1t was serious moment for
both sides. and they took time to breathe
and collect themselves for the supreme
effort. Wells was hurled against CEN
ter, but the whole Minnesota team got
into the defense and stopped the play
tack was deceptive. Wells found a hole
at the left tackle. and. although the
enemy fell upon him furiously. they were
too late He twisted across the line. He
emerged a hero. Ann Arbor is his pri-
vate property tonight, as well as the
oh IN q
partners, however-plenty Of then,-par-
,ticularly Capt. Benbrook. who was a
marvel at defense; Pattengill, MCMILLAN
and Lawton. Conglin' kicked goal.
Minnesota started out with confidence
born of the easy victories over Gus IT'S
curing the oval on Michigan's 43-yard
line, McGovern, Rosenwald, Johnston and
Stevens marched down the field TO Mich
igan's S-yard line. Michigan's cry OF
Hold. hold!' was almost a wall. but her
players responded. Borleske went into
the melee like an elephant through
canebrake and stopped McGovern for a
loss Cornwall on the next play stopped
Johnston In his tracks. The Dali was
right in front Of the goal posts, and
when McGovern prepared to try for
field goal from placement the trick looked
easy He was about Is yards from the
goal, but overanxiety was ms unoolng:
His toe caught the oval at one size anu
Michigan tried q field goal In the third
neriod and missed, but not until Law
ton had come so close to It tnat the
crowd thought he had succeeded ana
was correspondingly h 3 sa ,,,ss ae
by a hair. 1t happened thus: %
Edmunds on a forward pass, threw TO
Wells, but the flight of the pigskin was
The interruption threw 1t
into Benbrooks hands and 16 yards was
through
for 9 yards. A forward pass on fake
kick sent Michigan to the enemy's 9-yard
line.
At this interesting point the rest period
ing being done by the crowd when the
teams lined up again. Magidsohn, how
ever. in two attempts failed to gain.
The ball was i'm front of the goal posts
and Lawton made his hairbreadth miss
of a goal from placement.
George Lawton played fullback for
Michigan He had not expected to up
to a week ago, when Minnesota protested
the eligibility Of Thomson, the regular
fullback. Coach Yost accordingly trained
Lawton for all there was in him. and,
although Thomson was declared eligible
today, Lawton played throughout the
game and did his work magnifcently.
He is tall and rangy, and makes the de-
seem to be going much, but he covered
a lot of ground today. He made one
run of IS yards and two others of 20
the only long runs Of the
day.
Two of them were made from fake punt
Pattengill distinguished HIM
self in running back punts. He was usu-
ally good for ; or 10 yards in a game In
which the opposing ends usually dropped
their man in his tracks. McGovern. for
instance, who has been whirlwind In
this department of the game in the earlier
and easier games, was seldom able to re-
rain ground on punts. Nor was he par
= efficient in offense today, but II
..irness, be stated that Michigan
.iad been trained to play for him. He
was watched every second, particularly
by Capt. Benbrool, who repeatedly broke
and downed him.
The Michigan captain shone on defense,
with respect to multiplying for
ward passes. He displayed an unerring
instinct for these. and virtually made this
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