The Detroit times., 1912-11-04
Michigan and Pennsy Are Suf-
fering From Same
AZ Scarcity
PENN HAS MORE COACHES
THAN HAS MICHIGAN
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Neither University is Up to
Usual Stand
ard
by RALPH q. YONKER.

~ AS@hI@ a - O<' - 49,
The Michigan and Pennsylvania
football teams are suffering from the
same malady, scarcity OF varsity
football material
Michigan has been losing games
unexpectedly and her victory OF 20.
gained at the last moment In the
game with the South Dakota team
Saturday, was a victory only by a
very narrow margin. A little break
OF luck either way meant defeat.
Some say Michigan was outplayed by
the lighter team and should have
lost.
Just now II Is about time for the
stories that annually appear In mid.
season TO make their way into public
prints. Michigan must bring In her
graduate football men and give each
and every man a private tutor. This
/ is all we'll and good and is doubtless
of use at times, but the trouble with
Michigan's football team is not the
coaching any more than II is with
Pennsys. Ii Is lack OF material
The usual excuse for losing a game
sAat- comes ont of Ann Arbor is lack
Of fight Let lack OF fight be lack OF
hght IL II wants TO; that doesn't get
away from the fact that the material
IL not right or there would be fight
ff there Is any man on earth who
can inspire fight. II Is Coach Yost.
As far as the private tutoring
schane. that is fine II the athletic
ppthc ,Aes ~ IN Arbor desire H.
Tut We have enough ~coanaefce In
both Coach Yost and these author
tiles TO be satisfied that the system
now in vogue is good enough to win
games when there is material to win
them with.
Back IN the point-a-minute days
there wasn't any hue and cry about
getting a flock of instructors. Yost
had the material and he was making
out os il wonderful teams. Yost Is a
football wizard but even +. WIS
can't win ganieS through their wizard.
~ alone.
Al Pepnsy, where Michigan plays
next Saturday, they have a bunch o.
craches for the varsity, yet Penn Is
making very poor showing this year
Saturday against Penn State they
proved to be no better than they have
been during the earlier part Of the
sea5on and lost.
are placing much of the blame for
the situation squarely on the shoul-
ders OF the students themselves
They think II inconceivable that 5000
cannot place at least score OF line
men In the hands OF the coaches TO
|st-y for places on the team. In one
Department alone Pennsy has more
students available for the football
SQUAD than has Dartmouth and some
osher colleges that are making fine
showing In the whole school.
The game that Is Of chief interest
locally with the exception OF those
games bearing directly on the state
ligh school championship. is over and
Central has another overwhelming
victory over Eastern, to its credit.
The score OF 1910 represents nothing
in humility to the easterners, as far
as the heavy end is concerned. They
expected to lose. The zero that is
ch3lked up for ther1 Is what grinds
she boulevarders They wanted to
score at least against the big Stock
II & huskies.
Every year, Central, far outclassing
it's most formidable city rivals, meets
and defeats the eaIterners. Every
.year the men OF wuesthoff come back
from a defeat OF the year before and
try hard to get at least score.
Eastern must prepare for another
defeat next Saturday when IL meets
Ttlsdo Central at Toledo. Toledo Is
about as strong as Detroit Central
Central Is preparing for the first
!. galrc that endangerg its chances for
Sthe state high school Championship,
that with Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids and Muskegon are
Central's only formidable rivals, al
though after the season Is over. Pok
agon and Brimley will probably rise