The Detroit times., 1913-11-27
ldirOn Teams in the Golden
Glow Have Demonstrated
Their Superiority
III ALWAYS JUST ONE
STEP AHEAD OF THE GAME
IT Believed That Four Western
Teams Could Master Great
Harvard Team

~ wanted 10 know how best 10
IKE his fortune Horace Greeley pun
| the famous. Go West II we could
hate a Horace Greeley. Oh iootoa,i'
\ dollars to the hole IN the oousu'
ID that he'd say today TO the caste u
SIlegc coaches who want 10 urn q
Iccessful football team, go wes''
y boy; go west.
|For, despite all hide bound con
kvative and yet withal, enthusiastic
Ietarn football solons 10 the con
kry Notwithstanding. the east TINS
" has had clearly demonstrated "
Nthe superiority of the progressive
- Just as it has been In railroad
l3alatfon. the initiative ana recaii
the granting of suffrage 10 Mo-
~. 80 It has been in football. The
~ has been willing to take a chance
prpRressiyism, and the west mas
a out Instead OF merely playing
following the spirit OF ths
hanged rules" the west went aho
ne it." Witness, the games that
spectators of the west have al
kdv enjoyed and in which there has
n pretty free scoring by both WIN
- and loosers. Witness, also, the
hr victories that went west In the
II esst VS.. west games played this
AZ.
rrue Syracuse beat Western Re-
i've by So to 0. but in the first place,
estern Reserve had an admittedly
LAX eleven, and second, the losers
= NOT real representatives OF the
bgressiye. take-a-chance west. Al
lie. Princeton and Harvard, they've
+eafened development OF open play
lha.s all. When the big games
mc thc came old-fashioned tactics
q a;ratcsy was in order. The
kxnes have obviously fearful Of TAX
] elicuce. This doesn't apply to
kr Tsarner. OF Carlisle, who doesn't
IA (. darn Ii the other eleven scores.
! he asks Is that his team scores
IRE f-caIcnily. and the result has
la that when the Redskins came 70
En, everyone wants 10 see them, for
5 ian knows the game Will be open !;
NJ know there will be plenty OF
|bring, they know they'll be amle 70
! their moneys worth.
)-xrihg attack. a marked improve
INIT iii tho new football, and a
llingness on the part OF nearly all
IA generals 10 take a chance, Choir
terized the most successful season
|foo95all the middle west has known
many years. Without exception
powerful teams developed in the
ut this year were opponents oil
|en-field work. Chicago, Michigan.
,tre Dame. Minnesota and Michigan
kgies--the conquering eleyens of the
tritory west OF the Alleghenies--
IA up winning scores by frequent
>Ort to the forward pass. battling
TX formations that thrilled the
bwds and open-field running perhaps
burpassed in the history OF the
~.
from the standpoint OF the spec
50r. as well as of the grid-iron tacti-
ID. the western game showed vast
provement. The result was a foot
revival" Chicago three times
kyed before crowds of more than
O0O rooters end the capacity or
hrly every western football field
ID taxed at the big games.
tagg's men reached the, climax of
|wer In the Minneapolis game when
~ defeated Minnesota - to z.
Der that battle. Doc" Williams.
hnesota mentor. and one Of the
Dest critics of the game, declared
! belief that Chicago could COM
Ne on equal terms with Harvard,
Inceton, Yale. Carlisle, or Dart
Duth. Other western football men
I even further. Even counting In
Inward, they believe that the dash
! power OF four western teams
Iicago, Michigan. Notre Dame and
: Michigan Aggies-could over
velm the best elevens In the east.
1eensive weakness was the most
Dnerable point In the armor of most
the western teams this year. Chi
20 proving one of the few excep-
ms. On the offensive, the west de-
Hoped some Of the most brilliant and
Iftiest ground gamers since the
n Of Eckersall. Norgren, Gray. and
e1ell, OF Chicago; lhaughnessy. OF
nnesota; Cliphant, OF Purdue;
1ae. Of Illinois, and Craig. OF Michi
|, were the high lights among the
Iptern backfield men.
Nebraska and Iowa developed won
{ful scoring machines. Coach Haw'
4 former Dartmouth star, tutored
y IOWans In q spread formation that
" not solved all season. Nebraska
Net the form sheets by trimming
lnnesota before the season was fair
i under way. Wisconsin, western
symptoms OF 1912, got away badly
hacking the offensive power OF the
~ eleven, succumbed to the Michi
y Aggies and Minnesota. and got
" Z tie with Purdue. before the fin
clash at Chicago.
kud despite all these obvious truths
all-American team pickers OF the
t<-those Extraordinarily boys who
wv did start things gcing In foot
Mn = few days will proceed tc
! shout 'steeu eastern players fol-
~ on this mythical elecen. I,
Sooo wants to bet you that the ma
nv Of the AliAmerican selections
~ - eastern men, take the bel
H1vo n 900 To one cent. Your
Xn1Ch forces us to opine tina,
80 r(I1ee we're changed to max,
moro open IL b from teams
~ Ne most progressivenes:
1<ln ~ ehot nll-American selcc
oGoo11 ~ ua1e. But 4 was eve
N 4fooH tevGrnI ccngressioHa
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