Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-15
What Basis Will Serve to Determine the Foot Ball Championship
ny MONTY.

from today the isil season will be his
lsery, and Il ought TO be possible to say;
I This team is eastern champion, that
enc e western champion. this one is
Southern ehampion that one Is the cham
nlen."
Instead, there will be sauabblng, argu-
meat and IDLE chatter with no chance
of reaching q decision.
There win be no champions
II was ever thus-ever since the inter-
Ncousgiate game became universally
ladopted.
4 Yale. Harvard and Princeton, the self
styled Dig three ohildishly refuses to
meet Pennsylvania As result the east
Nsrn title must remain q mootsd question.
Arkansas tells Vanderbilt: You must
inlay IN nay yard" The answer is. You
Smust play IN my yard" They don't
play and the southern supremacy Is a
lthlak for debate
But, worse than these instances OF
bahyiGn Is the condition that exists be-
twaen The Western Conference and the
FUnlvsrsity Of Michigan. The trouble there
ibegan five years ago with petty differ
ences over tho eligibility ruios and cul-
minated IN Michigans expulsion from
membership in the conference which has
never been patched up, and accordingly
J Michigan, the generally aoknow., eyed
/ peer Of western colleges in the gr.diTpn
sport. goes through the season without
meeting any OF the bigger conference
teams-ALlnnesota, Chicago or Wlsconsn.
This Is deeply to be regretted, rs west
ern foot ball fans could enjoy nothing
more than a Mlehiaan-chioago. 1iichi.
san-Ninnesota or q Wisconsin
game. Not even Yale or Harvard op-
posing Michigan could equal anr OF these
combinations as an attraction IN tho
west But the BIG fact in the case 10 that
80 Michigan bheuid meet one or tWo OF
these teams there would be western
champion.
However. as matters stand, instead Of
! having q champion the west will aave
an argument. one which cannot be SCI.
tied. A. IN the past years, every far.
fetched argument possible will be brought
I into play and II will be one OF these
things. spoken thuslyi Every man 10
entitled 10 bis own opinion"
There are two ways that Miohigan's
strength can be compared with the con-
ference teams-both unsatisfactory. One
Is through the medium OF the scores made
against Nebraska by Michigan and Min
nesota- Minnesota clashes with the
other big conference teams. But this
viii result in a faulty conclusion. be-
cause Michigan meets the Cornhuskers
a. the tail-end OF the season, November
Is, when both teams are expected TO be
IN prime shape whereas Minnesota faces
Nebraska next saturday-too early for
either team TO show It's proper form.
J The other system should give some
what better result, but IL ever more
"beat-around- the bush" That is through
che balancing OF the Mloalgan-c ornc;l
and chieago-cornel results. The VOL.
verinea battle with the easternors on NO
vember II. and Chicago takes them on
one week later. Cornell should be about
ss strong for one game as for the other.
while neither OF the western teams can
give alibis for poor form because OF the
date when they play Then again comes
THE secondary comparison OF these scores
with chicaso's record In the conference
games Nowhere In there a way to get
snythins better than a second degree
comparison between Michigan and wis.
consin.
Without bringing up the question az 10
/
Il can be said with emphasis that the
condition "a II exists is a rank injustice
leo Michigan and that It should be rem
ledied by next year at the latest
Whichever OF the conference teams
does best against the other members OF
this childfshly autocratic body win be
able to boaat the meaningless, hut never
ltheless high-sounding title OF Confer
ence Champions" All Michigan can say
lis that II played good foot ball and made
better scores. IL indeed that happens 10
be so. The pity of It IS that Michigan
is undoubtedly on the foot ball map 20
far as the ability OF her srldiron repre-
sentatives are concerned and could possi-
bly, thrash any one OF the conference con-
tenders. Last Saturdays game with
Case and today's tussie with the Miehi-
gan Aggies showed that Coach Hurry
! Up" Yost has a bunch OF fine material.
and be Is the very person 20 whip 81 into
the strong -scoring machine invariably
turned out By the Ann Arbor institution.
afichigan's campaign is being watched
more closely that that OF any other team
In the country. outside Of Yale, Harvard
and Princeton. Thit Is because ~ The
fact that Michigan meet Vanderbilt.
probably the strongest southern team,
and Syracuse. Cornell and Pennsylvania.
all worthy missionaries OF the east II
Is truly a peculiar schedule when a team
PLAYS all but one Of lee important games
against teams from other ends OF the
loountry.
Next Saturdays game with Ohio State
does not amount 10 more than practices
Esssion. but the following week the bis
ones begin 10 come. Vanderbilt visits
Ann Arbor on October g. Syracuse on
November 4. Cornell on the 18th and
pennsylvania on the 18th. and the
wolverines journey 20 Lincoln for the Ne
lhraska conflict on the 25th Verify. 1t Il
a hard route 20 travel.
To emerge creditably from such a series
lot ordeals means that Michigan viii have
70 play foot ball OF the first caliber ant
that not only viii Yost need a goot
eleven. but a good twenty or thirty FOL
there win be men laid up, particularly
when Il goes into such fracases as thes'
will be.
Yost says he has the men 10 DO tn
desds. He has lost Benbrook. the All
American guard But he has already de
yeloped a good successor for the big Eel
How IN Kohler. 9 giant sophomore. VIII
Is eligible this year tor the first time
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