The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-11
NO CHANCE FOR
HARVARD GAME
POST SEASON GAME DISCUSSED
IN CASE WOLVERINES WIN
TOMORROW AND BEAT
GoPHERS.

Since the victory Of the Michigan
team over Syracuse and the evidences
of undeveloped strength in the VOL
verines which was manifested then,
the Ann Arbor student body has been
hooking for more worlds To conquer
in case Coach Yosts pupils take the
Ouakers TO camp tomorrow and hum
BILE the proud Gophers one week later.
A post-season game with Harvard has
been proposed but there is little chance
that either management would con
sent.
A post season game between Mich
igan and Harvard would test for the
first time the comparative merits of
eastern and western football. Harvard
has yet to defeat Yale. but that part
of the program appears to be a mere
matter of routine If the work of the
two elevens against Cornell and Brown
respectively can be taken as any kind
of reliable criterion. With Walter
Camps proteges out OF the way. Har-
ward will be acclaimed champions of
the east. regardless of the opinion that
than Pennsylvania.
After Western Title.
Meantime, Michigan hopes to fight
her way to the undisputed supremacy
of the west for the second time I'm as
many years. Minnesota already is
practically champion of the western
conference, and as no teams outside of
the conference, have shown any
strength this year, the Michigan Min
nesota game will settle the western
championship. If Michigan wins from
Minnesota a week from next Saturday,
the Wolverines will be even more
clearly entitled to be hailed champions
of the west than the Harvard eleven
will be to be accorded the same rank
ing among the eastern teams.
Perhaps Fielding H. Yost wouldn't
relish the prospect of such a game.
lie has shown his heels to the west
so often fguratively speaking. that
he has been longing for some time to
particular are not so far inferior to
eastern methods as the critics of the
elite east would have us believe.
Respected Last Year.
Last year for the first time he
gained serious recognition and real re-
spect i'm the east by virtue of Mich
igans defeat of Pennsylvania and a
reptition of that achievement Satur-
day would put the Wolverines in a po-
sition where they can effectually
claim recognition among the greatest
Of the country's elevens.
AS much as Yost would delight in
pointing his eleven for a game with
Harvard at the close of the season,
" the season ends as he expects IL to,
he isn't foolish enough to think that
there will be any such game Time
was not so many years ago that Har-
ward would have scorned to play Mich
igan because the Wolverines had yet
TO go and get a reputation" Now a
Harvard refusal to take on Michigan
would be grounded on different rea-
son. victory for Harvard in post
season game would add nothing to the
seasons record for the Crimson. while
a defeat, which would not be entirely
impossible, would relieve the east of
much of the prestige that her critics
nave been pursuing for ages.
Nothing to Harvard.
From purely selfish standpoint. it
would be serious misstep for Har-
ward to consent to game with Mich
isan this year, even provided Michi-
gan had first beaten Penn and Minne-
sofa and Harvard had triumphed over
her old rivals from New Haven. BY
deieating Yale. Harvard will be con-
ceded the championship of the east,
ana the championship of the west, adj
ued TO the eastern title. would mean
uothing to Harvard. At the same time
must be conceded that Michigan
would have an excellent chance to
larry home the honors, and then--per-
ISL the thought-"deah old Hahvu'd"
"ould nave to admit that sometimes
,'al FOOTBALL does penetrate beyond the
A"eShenies and that there Is an unex-
piored region this side Of Pittsburg.