The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-11
TWO NEW VIEWS
OF CONFERENCE
MICHIGAN STUDENTS ARE NOT
ANXIOUS TO RETURN-MIN-
NEeoTA ADHERENTS WANT
WOLVERINES.

Michigan can do without the confer
once better than the conference can
do without Michigan.
This is the sentiment in Ann Ar
Dor over the proposed returning 10
the western conference, as suggested in
following the Minnesota
Chicago game last saturday
When the Wolverines broke away
from the conference back i'm 1905, 1t
was predicted in the west THAT Micii-
gan wouldn't be able TO get games,
and consequently Michigan would lose
prestige in the college world of sport.
Things have turned out entirely differ
lent, for instead of losing Michigan has
Iadvancod-th strength Of the Wolyer-
ines is now realized IN the cast.
1t is rather ,e:-,;;..;cal If Michigan
would return To the Conference unless
some of the bars stipulating what and
lhow many teams should be played
were let down. Relations between
Michigan and Pennsylvania are very
friendly, and as Pennsylvania has al
ways been considered one Of the lead
ling institutions of the east i'm things
lathletlc, the Wolverines would be OPP
posed to dropping Penn from the sche-
dule.
It has always been the deere of
Michigan to arrange games with the
hest Of the eastern colleges, the pur-
pose being the determining of a cham
lpion team. Michigan is steadily break
ing into the east, and if IL desired to
continue so doing it would be folly to
return to the Conference and its re-
lstrictions.
Hard Slam For Conference.
Bruce" of the Duluth Herald is one
of the many western football writer's
who have taken a firm stand against
the conference. I'm snappy sporting
editorial viewed from Minnesota
standpoint, he hands out the following
wallop, straight from the shoulder:
stop and compare the present seas
on with ones of the past. Then we
had the game with Michigan, We al
aays had that grand struggle TO look
AUl wal Il W, FNNNllN al AilN u A'At'Ni''iA
that two great schools would send two
representative teams out on TO the
gridiron TO do lusty battle. In the light
Of the past and out Of the experience OF
Saturday, there viii grow a cauny sus-
lpicion Of the teams that are developed
at Chicago, Illinois, Iowa, Northwest
ern and Wisconsin.
As long as Stage could turn out
teams worthy of the name his am
bition was like that Of Napoleon
of old, for. you know. Stage has often
been called the little Napoleon OF
western football. OF late years his
teams have been a joke among a row
Of deuces The powers that be at Chi
cago rule the conference. Together
with Illinois. Northwestern, Iowa and
some more of the weak sisters of the
west, they have conspired to prevent
the playing of eastern teams. because
! 1; pleased the willing policy of Stagg,
and they have contrived to make the
authorities of Minnesota see things in
this same narrow and wishy washy
! light
The conference is a joke-an unholy
joke cold and dismal. II has by its
pcrvcrse rulings on the training table
robbed the west of its big game the
present season. Selfish. as weak insti-
tutions often arc, II has played the dog
In the manger act, refusing TO per-
init the scheduling Of games with Eas-
tern teams. with the decline Of Chica-
go as a football factor of serious de-
gree and has retired into its little
shell. forcing the fans of the west 20
witness games that for the past two
seasons have been so one-sided that
they have failed to be interesting.
Conference football--ha, hal II is 70
laugh. Back to the training table,
back to games with Michigan and the
good old struggles Of tho pas.