The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-29
shaps Have Forced Both Yost
ia Haughton to Use Strange
Combination Of Both
ECTIONAL TYPES ARE
FAST PASSING AWAY
New Game Peculiar To No Sim
4 sle Part of Country, Despite
It's Occidental Tinge
BY HAROLD v. WILCOX.


The whole country is sitting tight
Mud holding It's breath as II awaits
|/<ha hurting OF General Yost's dashing
IIhlans against the massed infantry
kf Harvard and decisive Judgment
MDon the merits OF the so-called west
En6n and eastern type Of football
Probably the score OF Saturdays
g Mash at Cambridge will be popularity
occepted as a genuine verdict on the
worth OF the gridiron sport in the
6aat and west, a question over which
6ouversational battles have been
Jared for years. But as matter OF
net. the Michigan-Harvard game will
+ nave no such decisive result.
+ A the result OF the mishaps and
Unexpected developments OF season
B momorable In score of respects, We
Will zee both the Wolverines and
ECfimscn Saturday playing a strange
1oombination OF the old eastern and
<nestern types OF the game.
For two weeks we have seen Field
|lng Yost, facing the probable loss,
+. eoriy IN the game. OF his kicker and
( he held general OF his strategical at
Tack, exerting every effort to pour
1Qme old "army game" concrete into
ne holes OF line that has persisted
- leaking like a sieve. Western stun
~ has In plenty, but without Splawn
10 kick and Hughitt to direct. the
1Iunging OF Maulbetsch and q line
hat can hold before the Crimson on
noght will be Michigan's only saliva
Non. With Splawn and Hughitt both
D1oying throughout the game, OF
|ogarse. Yost could expect his team
play as he had planned that IL
Mould, but II IL too much to expect
tr the injured stars TO be able to last
2 oFy long.
AZ Cambridge we have seen Haugh-
~. his wonderful offensive machine
battered by the loss Of Captain
mickey, combing his squad for kick
- and importing Canadian coaches
% teach HIS men the new art OF hurl-
q Hx, rather than carrying the ball,
style Of attack long held typicaliy
reetcrn."
How successful the two master
cntors have been in meeting the UNI
roseen emergencies OF the past few
@eeks can only be told after the
Ime Is played, but whatever the
nal result, Saturdays battle at Sol
[crs field can be considered inter-
&ctional only In the sense that teams
IDm the east and west have met and
|tysd.
n It Is to be regretted that Michigan
nd Harvard did not meet q year or
We ago. for It Is very probable that
viii be several years before there
kII be distinctive sectional type of
oo<ball The autumn sport Is under.
sing q great change this year In all
1rtz OF the country, In much the
anne direction. While II can be
olmed with some justice that
xprywhere the western" game Is
mink Into its own. nevertheless the
Den game. as IL Ii being developed,
n many respects genuinely new.
~ rugby game can claim even q
yDotef influence than can the mas
0t8 OF the Occidental type.
The problems OF attack and defense
<not are being faced are puzzling the
E9ooc and west alike, and until the diff
ctont solutions become peculiar TO
4l1erent sections OF the country, inter-
1octforal games can be OF greater In
I1E4ot than sectional contests only
4<oUse they more satisfactorily de-
<Ido the national championship.
However. there Is a great difference
1D(Ween the modern open game aud
10 style Of play that circumstances
- forced upon Harvard and Michi-
~ for Saturdays clash. The latter
11II be largely combination OF the
.onotern and western vintages OF 1912
1o4 1919, with only an occasional dash
|of 1914. AZ
What Is meant by eastern VS.. west.
am football styles, anyway" asks one
eAstern critic. appropos Of the 1914
Eaxhe. "Hirkay came on from Kansas
and Ames from Illinois to coach Yale
and Princeton. located In Connecticut
and New Jersey. II any one can un-
{angle the intersectional answers
rom this he II welcome to the result"
0uessers Know All About IL.
Roger Bresnahan and w. w. Ar
uAour, Of Kansas City. had long con-
Terence yesterday afternoon. The
Guessers Immediately announced that
the pair were planning to put an
American association team back in
Toledo.