El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-14
FOOTBALL TEAMS
IN USUAL FIGHT
Prospect F'avOrs Wordy War
and No Championship
as Result

games have already been played by
the various college elevens and IN a
a line on the relative strength or oiL-
ferent teams. Seven weeks from TO-
dav the 1911 season viii be history,
and Ii ought 10 be possible 70 say
'frhis team is eastern cnamploni lnaL
one IS western champion this one IS
southern champion that one IS 4f1h
champion"
Instead. there win be squabbhng,
argument and idle chatter, Win no
chance Of reaching decision
There VIII be no champions.
Ii was ever thus-eVer since the IN
tercollegiats game became universally
adopted.
Yale. Harvard and Princeton the
self-stvled "big three childishly re-
fuse to meet Pennsylvania AS a re-
suit, the eastern title must remain
moOted question
Arkansas tells Vanderbilt; You
must play in my yard" The answer
is You must play in my yard Lney
don't play and the southern supremacy
IS a thing for debate.
The Western Trouble.
But, worse than these instances OF
babyism is the condition that exists
between the western conference ana
the University Of Michigan Inc lrol-
bic that began five years ago WIN
petty differences over eligibility rules
and eliminated in Michigan's eIpul-
sion from membership in the confer
euce. has never been patched UP, anu
accordingly Michigan, the generally
acknowledge peer q "esse.Li tI--,755s-l
in the Erldiron sport goes lhI w
the season without meeting any or Iae
biEEer conference teams-AIlnne sota'
Chicago or Wisconsin.
This IS deeply TO be regretted, as
western football fans could ENJOY
nothing more than Mich1gan-Onl
caEo lIlchigan-4iunes "a, or MEM
gan Wisconsin game Not even -
or Harvard opposing 4llcnlBan cou--
equal any OF these combinations as an
attraction In the west But the DlB
fact in the case is that, If Michigan
should meet one or two OF Lnes5 teams
there would be a western champion
However, as matters stand, lnsLed1
OF having champion. the west VIII
have an argument, one Whlcn cannot
be settled. AS In past years every 4af
fetched comparison available Wll1 De
brought into play and 1T VIII pc one
Of those thfnrs spoken thusIy; Every
man entitled TO his own opinion
lIIchiEan's Strength.
There are two ways that Mlcnlgal $
strength can be compared WIN lne
conference teams-bOth unsausIac-
tory. one Is through the medium or
the scores made against NeDraska Dy
Michigan and Minnesota minnesota
clashes with the other big conference
teams. But this viii result in a
faulty conclusion, because Michigan
meets the Cornhuszers at the tai end
Of the season, November 20 Wnen
both teams are expected to De IN
Nebraska next Saturday-too early for
either team TO show its proper FORM
The other system should give
somewhat better result, but Is even
more "beat-arouno-tn e-husn- 1naL ls
through the balancing or the Alcnl-
Ean-COrneu and ChicagO-COrneu re-
suits The wolverines battle with the
fasteners on November IL, ana en-
cagO takes them on one week later
Cornell should be about as strong Tor
one rame 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 or
these scores with Chicago's record in
the conference games. Nowhere is
there way TO get anything better
than second degree comparison pc
tween Michigan and Wisconsin
Without bringing up the question
as to who should be blamed for this
situation, it can be said with empha-
sis that the condition as It exists IS
rank Injustice 20 Michigan and that IT
should be remedied by next year at
Meaningless Title.
Which ever Of the conference teams
does best against the other members
of this childishly autOcrattc body viii
be able TO boast the meaningless, but
nevertheless high sounding title OF
Conference champions. All Mtch1-
gan can say IS that she played good
football ana made better scores II IN
deed that happens to be so. The pity
of IL IS that Michigan is undOub tedly
on the football map as Ear as the abil-
ity Of her gridiron representative are
concerned and could possibly thrash
any one Of the conference conrenders.
last Saturdays game with Case and
todavs tussIe with the Michigan Ag-
Eies showed that coach Hurry Up"
= ost has q bunch Of fine material and
he is the very person to whip 1t into
the strong scoring machines invariably
turned out by the Ann Arbor institu-
AIichigan's campaign is being
watched more closely than that Of
any other team I'm the country out
side Of Yale, Harvard and Princeton
This is because Of the fact that Mich
igan meets Vanderbilt probably the
strongest southern team, and Syracuse,
Cornell and Pennsylvania all worthy
nfssiOnaries Of the east 1t IS truly
q peculiar schedule when a team plays
ali but one Of its important games
against teams from other ends Of the
country
Next Saturdays game with Ohio
State does not amount to more than
a practice session, but the following
week the big ones begin TO come. Van
derbiIt visits Ann ArbOr on October
%, Syracuse on November &, Cornell
on the 11th and Pennsylvania on the
18Th, and the wolverines journey to
Lincoln for the Nebraska conflict on
the 25th- Verify, It is a hard route to
Gravel
10 emerge cred1gab1y from such
series Of ordeaIs means that Michigan
viii have to play football OF the first
calfber and that, not only viii Tost
need a good eleven. but a good twenty
or thirty For there VIII be men laid
up, particularly when they go into
such fracases as these win be.
Yost says he has the men TO do the
deeds He has lost BenbrOOk, the ALI
American guard But he has already
developed a good successor for the big
fellow in KOhler, a giant sophomore, ;
who is eligible this year for the first
time The rest OF his outfit Is well
balanced with a scinttuating star here
and there TO provide sensation for the
Michigan rOOters. Taking the squad as
a whole, IL is in YOsts own terms, a
bully" one. and as said before, it is (
to be regretted that Michigan does not
get a shot at the conference contend
ers for the championship.
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