The Detroit times., 1911-11-20
. WOLVERINES APPROACH
THE NEBRASKA DESSERT
WITH HEARTY APPETITES
Winning of the Pennsy Contest
Has Whetted Their Appe-
tites For More.
MERCER GREAT PLAYER.
Owing TIC Circumstances, Michi-
ganders Stand Poor Show
For All-American Team.
MERCER GREAT PLAYER.

For All-Amerlcan Team.
BY RALPH L. YoNkER.
The Wolverines come to the dessert
mart of This football schedule with
good healthy appetite, after all. While
n looked for a time. not only before
the game with Pennsy when II was
known that Bottles" Thomson was
out. bur during the game itself, as II
michigan would have a dark brown
taste by the time the Nebraska game
came around. the Michiganders can
prepare for the denouement OF the
sridirot prandial proceedings with
epicurean fastidity Which means
that they tackle Nebraska next Satur-
day with appetites whetted Tor VIC
tory. ~
There is danger that the coming
struggle may be too lightly regarded.
The strain OF the Maize and Blue sea-
son is over. There has been de-
scided let down in anxiety about the
future principally because the future
doesn't count for much But Nenras-
ka doesn't feel that way about Satur-
days game. To win that would mean
glory galore TO the Nebraskans.
Nebraska has cleaned up every
thing II has met In the west, with the
exception of Minnesota, by large
scores. To complete season with
victory over the Wolverines is the
pinnacle OF their aspirations. Nebras-
ka has everything TO win and nothing
whatever TO lose. A team fighting I'M
: der these conditions has big ad-
vantage. So Michigan had better
watch out
Saturdays contest will be the last
in which Capt Conklin will take part
While with the extra burden OF the
captaincy, the blond boy hasn't star
red this year. at the end of the sea-
son he will have left name for him
self worthy TO be placed with those
OF Michigan's best football leaders.
While the contest will be the last
for ConkIin, Ii will be the first be
tween the first university at which
Coach Yost made name for himself
and the last At Nebraska, Fielding
H. started on his way TO famedom in
the realm of football coaching.
Michigan may count its football
season a success. Not one in the
bowling category, 1t is true, but one
In which the final goal was reached
In the way that had been planned out.
Michigan's coaching had been point
ed towards winning the Pennsy game
by trick plays. by surprise on the
Pennsies. True IL was that some of
the Yost surprise parties leaked soon
enough after they were started so
that the Sons OF William Penn broke
'eIn all up. That one when Mcmillan
tried fake run on a placekick for
nation, when the score was to 5,
was a notable example. Somebody
who was invading Michigan soil
reasoned that Michigan wouldn't try
goal from the field when the three
points II would bring meant no vic
tory, and so nailed the man with the
ball.
But the trick that was needed to
( win got away II isn't the cleverness
OF the trick: it's the getting away with
IL that counts, after all.
Yet Michigan has not had a won
derful team. Battered and bruised
. most OF the season. constantly shifted
as TO the lineup, Its stars out of COM
mission intermittently, the team did
not show any wonderful team work,
and its stellar lights were not able to
\ shine steadily or in sufficient con-
cordance to rank Michigan's 1911
team with the great ones of it's his
tory.
This seems strange. too. after the
excellent prospects that II appeared
TO have In the early practice at Whit
mere Lake. Beef, brains and speed
were there but seemed hard TO get
together. Also, the injury ink work.
ed overtime.
Thomson, Craig, Mcmillan and
Wells, the four men who looked
brightest for jobs as heavenly lights,
We're unable TO make n brilliant stel-
lar showing, principally because OF
being Kept out of games by injuries
or because of being shifted TO strange
positions.
thomson was kept out OF the BIG
game OF the season: Craig has been
Kept out because OF Injuries and used
al quarter, 10 which he did not seem
adapted; Mcmillan has played but III.
tie because Of bum knee: and Wells
has been In a strange berth most OF
the time.
AS result OF all these merging
bits OF ill-fortune, Michigan. It seems.
VIII stand poor chance TO break on
TO the All-American team.
In Saturdays game. Mcmillan show.
ed his worth In running the team. He
had the knack of picking the plays
that went through at critical times.
Craig was the spectacular boy OF
The day with his great broken field
running. Wells took care OF most OF
the intoxicating
llAIy Meek did the unexpected which
might really have been evnacted ue
1layed good. steady game, neither
brilliant nor mediocre Tho uson
7'ould have added much on defensive
'rength. yet Meek held his Job down
r~eutably.
The absence OF Thomson added
-Aatlv 20 the burden OF Mcmillan I'm
licking plays. which didn't appear
N the surface. hut which meant n
srent deal for he had no sure gamer
through the line TO depend on.
Hut In Individual playing. the big
roses must be shunted TO Mercer, the
Ponnsy fIlIback He surely seems 70
live up 10 the reputation given him
Is Mike Murphy. who says that he Is
The fastest man In football His mar
.aioa,e epaed In circllng the ends per.