The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-25
THOMPSON'S PUNTS AND
FRONT HEAVEESS ARE DUE
FOR MUCH IMPROVEMENT
Yost Is Figuring On Using Open
Play More in Future; Is
Drilling Fullback.
VARSITY SCORED TWENTY
When Substitute Lineup Pun
meled Second String Tuesday
-Four Touchdowns Resulted.

ANN ARBOR. Oct 25.-"Bottles'
Thomson, otherwise known as
"Vonus,' the catapult fullback of the
Michigan backfield, has been coming
in for good share of Fielding II
Yosts $5.000-a-year attention these
days-about $500 worth. so to speak
Venus" is the man behind the boot
in all punting and onside kicking by
the varsity and he Is the gent slat
ed to do most of the forward pass
ing
So far In his open football career
Bottles" has distinguished himself
chiefly as punter. Fifty yards Ii q
mere bag OF shells for Venus when
II comes TO punting, but unfortunate
ly. his forward passing has been at
fected by the same strenuosity Now
w. Camp and some other folks put
Ii into the rule book that a front
heave that goes more than 20 yards
beyond the line of scrimmage before
somebody hugs II is a punk piece OF
football, and Mr. Yost Is endeavoring
to inject little respect for Mr.,
Camps rule book into Bottles
head.
Last Saturday Thomson uncorked
a mighty fling that travelled about
40 yards before II struck land. Cap
tain Conklin, who was waiting for
IL at the legal limit watched ii go
ten feet over his head. and then went
back and gave Shorty Mcmillan a
chance to call some more signals.
ssnDttIAof hnnn IL In, hio
forward passing all year though ii
must be confessed that three-fourths
of this has been due more to uncer-
tainty as TO where the ends were go
ing to be to take the fling than to
really poor passing. Still Bottles"
will stand Improvement as pitcher
of pigskin.
Also, his onside kicking has been
hefty rather than helpful All of his
onside kicks In the o. s. U. game
and Michigan tried number-were
really f1attened out punts that the
Michigan ends could no more cover
than fly. ALI of them travelled clear
back tn Mr.. Foss, who made II ex-
ceedingly interesting for the Maize
and Blue at all times and then some.
The Wolverine coach is evidently
preparing for a more extensive open
than has been on exhibit
ton heretofore This means that
Bottles" will have his work cut out
for him In addition TO helping Stan
Wells rip thunder out Of the line.
Yost Is not satisfied with the way
the young men attempted to work
forward passes against Ohio State,
nor with the way they permitted o..
S. u. to work them against Michi-
gan. The coach figures that everyone
OF States's heaves should have been
messed up II Craig had been playing
up in forward pass territory Instead
OF lying back for a punt. Craig did
come UP once and interrupted the O.
S. u. parade just when il began to
look squally.
State relied entirely on short passes.
Yost doesn't believe in that sort OF
thing and coaches his men TO use the
long spectacular kind that eats up
ground when they work and cause
heart disease when they don't
In Tuesdays practice varsity
composed mostly of substitutes bat
trede the scrubs for 20 points. Meek
took Thomson's place at full, Huebel
was at Carpell's right half and Har-
rington at Craig's left. At the wings,
Cooper was on the right in place of
Wells and Wenner at the left for
Capt. Ccnklin. Garrells and Roblee
substituted for the regular tackles.
The scrubs were unfortunate in
that couple of the touchdowns scor-
cd by the varsity were fiuky. Otis,
Peterson. Matteson and Smith showed
up well for the second string. Otis,
a big linesman, especially, Is show
ing lots OF stuff and may get a chance
10 break in with the regulars.
Ono feature OF the afternoons
practice was the thorough drill given
Boyle In place kicking Yost de-
peads on Tom for straight-away boot
ing and he was kept busy for some
time in his favorite amusement.
Squib Torbet an old Detroit Cen
tral star, is out OF the game for a
week on account of a torn ligament