The Detroit times., 1911-11-13
EXPLANATIONS IN ORDER
ONcEMOREii aFORGET EN-
AND GET PENNSYLVANIA"
.Let the Dead past Bury Its
Dead" and Hustle This Week,
Is Advice To Wolverines.
PENNSY'S FORM SURPRISE.
Good of the Ill-Winds Of Varsity
Injuries Is That Scrubs
Are Given Chances.
PENNsYs FORM SURPRISE.
BY RALPH |. YoNkER.

BY RALPH L. YoNkER.
Blue Monday is right. Besides the
remembrance of that Michigan squad,
completely outlucked on foreign
field, losing the opening of hostilities
: with Cornell after IL years OF truce.
there is the dull. thuding promise that
Pennsylvania is taking very decided
reversal OF form after showing Class
ID football most OF the season
II is easy to praise the losing team,
II You have won, and hearty thanks
are extended TO the fasteners for
boosting themselves by telling how
we'll Michigan played but the Woly-
crimes didn't journey eastward for
praise. The team that wins doesn't
have to explain. Michigan has lots
of explanation but?
II appears that Michigan played on
baseball diamond thinly coated
which gave hard surface the punt
ed ptgsktn bounding high into the air
at every punt. The top coating gave
none to good foothold for the Michi-
gan runners, who were used to Ferry
field.
IL appears that Michigan gained
nearly twice as much territory as Cor
nell and lost the game simply be-
cause red sweaters blocked Thomp-
sons kick from behind his own goal
line and then one of them wound IL
self around the ball, SO that five
points were registered by the touch
down, and one more when Butlermade
an easy goal.
LET the dead past bury Its dead
n han
defeated aggregation.
Pennsy is the goal of the season
after all. Michigan cannot hope this
year to class with the best in the east
and there is no western conference
that Michigan knows anything about,
thansk TO Alonzo A. The Wolver-
ines have a week TO prepare for the
victory which will make themselves
solid again with Michigan adherents.
The indications are that the Pennsy
game VIII be the greatest OF the west
Whether the football displayed will
be troubling the high water mark is
hard TO say after some OF the medi-
ocre football that both teams have
played through the season, but the
crowd and the music and the tense
excitement of the contest will out.
rank anything OF the season.
While il is true that the football
enthusiasts" are going 10 the games
now because they want To see foot
ball rather than the crowds and while
the college chorus yell Is giving way
10 real, spontaneous cheering, never
theless, the spectators part in max.
ing the day big one, is still large.
Only this attraction and the desire
10 see some of Michigan's past de-
feats avenged, will draw the big gang
TO Ann Arbor for confidence that Yost
has wonderful team, has faded.
The Wolverines are feeling pretty
well for a bunch that underwent the
gruelling they did, Saturday. Brute:
Pontius and Thomson were the worst
of after the contest. and both OF them
were in pretty fair shape Monday, and
were expected TO get into Saturdays
game.
III the hospital aggregation can keep
their hands OF the Michigan crew
there ought to be a pretty presentable
squad TO face Pennsy as Jimmy
Craig is expected TO be back and all
the rest OF the bunch except Shorty
Mcmillan will be ready for action.
II one is looking for excuses one OF
the best seems TO be centered In
shorty" A great deal OF the blame
for Michigan's poor showing has been
laid at the door of Picard. the sub
stitute quarterback, whose handling OF
punts has been subject TO consider |
able criticism.
Now there isn't a doubt but that !
shorty" Mcmillan can handle punts |
better than Picard. and has the head
to catch on TO such an unexpected
thing as that hard, bounding field at
Ithaca. That's what makes hsm one
of the greatest little quarterbacks OF
the day, and is why he would have
helped Yost greatly
In fairness TO Picard, IL may be said
that football can't be learned IN a
day. Picard has had big bunch OF
responsibility thrust upon him upon
short notice when he has had little
experience. Next year will be Pics
time 10 sho whis true worth.
The only good of the ill-winds OF in
juries that have tornadoed into 1.-The
Michigan camp seems to be that the
Woodworking, much-abused scrubs are
given a chance on the regulars when
the former varsity men are shunted
off into the substitute channel
Kaynor, hauled over from the sec
ond string has made good in the line
by his persistent, logged work. Now
Peterson, former team-mate OF
Conklin and Boyle, In high school
- q
line. and wyman, a back, will be given
an opportunity to cavort with the.
bunch OF ground-sainers in the Yost
squad. -
Friends Want BENDER.
pitcher Bender OF the Athletics has
never been given his land allotment