The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-26
JIMMIE CRAIG, DETROIT
BOY, YOST'S SEASONS
FIND FOR THE BACKF|tLO
AT Quarter He Was Not Up to
Par on Running Team, But
at Half He Is Great.
MICHIGAN OFFENSE GOOD.
Mcmillan, Craig and Boble Do
the Scoring Against the
Scrubs Wednesday.
MICHIGAN OFFENSE GOOD.

ANN ARBOR, Oct. 26-Jimmie
Craig. OF Detroit. is certainly the find
OF the season in the Michigan back.
Acid Every scrimmage is proving
this and then some. The way the
youngster picks holes off tackle when
running With the ball and hikes down
a broken field tor Is or 20-yard gains
has assured him his place even il his
handling OF punts didn't make him
mighty valuable man TO have In
Shorty McMillans neighborhood when
the other fellows are booting.
lost started Jimmie AT quarter up
al Whitmcre lake, though the young
mans job ON the fresh team. last
year had been at end. Quarter wasn't
exactly the place for James. Ho
played remarkably himself. but his
judgment in selecting plays for the
other fellows 10 work at wasn't the
best in the world. Yost recognized
this but there was nothing else 20 do
Picard wasn't showing the class then
that he has since displayed and
Shorty Nc MILAN was acting shy and
COY over In Detroit
Il looked as though Yost would
have TO spoil good back to make
very ordinary quarter Hen Shorty
suddenly decided TO soak up little
more OF that higher education stuff
and folks began TO wonder what iost
wee going 10 do with Craig Mani
fesrly he was hardly heavy enough To
make try TO displace Garrels who
was then ornsmenting left end and
there was absolutely no chance OF his
getting sian Wells job at the other
extremity The difficulty solved itself
beautifully and incidentally took care
o. the question of where 10 find. re-
liable left half when Yost sent Nc
MILAN In against NJ. A. c. and shifted
Craig 10 half
Craig had been playing magnificent
" at quarter and running the team
like a lame duck Relieved OF the re-
sponsibility OF picking the plays the
youngster electrified everybody He
has been keeping IL up every night
ever since.
He runs hard land fast and like
Star Wells he keeps running until the
or. osition comes around and sits on
his head. He is almost as hard TO
tackle as Thomson and is wizard at
lodging inside the secondary defense
al or he has set them hiking TO stop
wide end run that never comes. He
IL light, great deal lighter than Car.
pell or Thomson, but he is faster than
either OF them and runs hard He
seems TO have a faculty for keeping
his feet much better than Carpell who
Is also a mighty hard man to stop in
an open field. Craig Is also a hard
tackler on defense. More than one
o s. u. gain came TO grief In his
arms last Saturday. When Il comes
70 handling punts the youngster Is
showing even better than Shorty Nc
MILAN and that is saying something.
With Thomson and Wells TO smash
things and Carpell and Craig to slip
through of tackle, all the Michigan
ofscnse needs now Ia a little more ac-
cu-acy in the handling OF the long for
ward pass and II will be about as
evenly balanced q scoring machine as
has been seen In this neck Of the
woods since 1905.
In yesterdays practice the varsity
had shorty" Mcmillan and Craig
score touchdowns against the scrubs
and Boyle kick couple OF goals from
the held after fair catches. Otis, the
big scrub lineman, was bumped in the
head severely and was not just all
there after the scrimmage work. but
tho injury was not thought TO be
serious.
The varsity gets a swipe at the
All-Fresh today. the last hard scrim-
mage before the Vanderbilt game.
Saturday. The All-Fresh have hard
game coming themselves. Saturday,
with the Adrian college aggregation
nj Adrian