The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-29
rkops Have Forced Both Yost
" Hasghton to Use Strange
Combination Of Both
rCIIONAL TYPES ARE
FAST PASSING AWAY
NV Game Peculiar To No Sim
~ Part Of Country. Despite
tt Occidental Tinge

tt Occidental Tinge
BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX.
Ths whole country 10 sitting tight
IA holding its breath as It awaits
~ hurting Of General Yost's dashins
UhInns against the massed infantry
- Harvard and decisive judgment
<n the merits Of the so-called west
G1n ana eastsrn type OF football.
tobably the score OF Saturday.
1ooh af Cambridge will be popularity
1ccoptod % Q genuine verdict on the
vorfh OF the gridiron sport In the
not ana west, question over which
nvornat1onal battles have been
voeoA Tor years. But as matter OF
Hcf tn Nichigan-Haryard game Will
nvo no such decisive result.
~ the result OF the mishaps and
hoxpocted Developments OF season
morablo "a o score Of respects. we
|c11l ~ both the wolverines and
|Elnoon Saturday playing . strange
- b1nntion Of the old eastern and
roofofn types Of the game.
M two weeks we have seen Field
~ yo0t facing the probable loss,
ofly n the game. Of his kicker and
- Held general Of his strategical at
10y. oxerting every effort TO pour
rmo old army game" concrete into
~ holes OF q line that has persisted
loaking Ike q sieve. Western stun
o has a plenty, but without Splawn
tlck and Hughitt to direct, the
rmglng OF Maulbetsch and q line
~ can hold before the Crimson on
HGxht win be Michigan's only saliva
~ With Splawn and Hughitt both
V1ng throughout the game, OF
1xSe, Yost could expect his team
Ray as he had planned that Il
I'D, hut Il n too much to expect
~ ~ injured stars 10 be able to last
~ long.
q Cambridge we have seen Haugh-
h11 wonderful offensive machine
k1fGred By the loss Of Captain
1c1tloy. bombing his squad for kick
In o1d Importing Canadian coaches
' - teach his men the new art of hurl
nk rather than carrying the ball.
etyle q attack long held typicaily
How successful the two master
(ontcrs have been In meeting the nm
xoseen emergencies Of the past few
&oo1m can only be told after the
mo Is played, but whatever the
bal result, Saturdays battle at Sol
MI Held can be considered inter.
c<1onaI only In the sense that teams
~ the east and west have met and
e 8 to DO regretted that Michigan
~ Harvard did not meet year or
10 ago, for Il IL very probable that
VIII be several years before there
40 be distinctive sectional type Of
o1ball. The autumn sport n under
Mig great change this year IN al
1r>9 Of the country. In much the
GDo direction. While Il can b
1uned with some Justice that
(cEywhere the western" game y
niDg into tts own, nevertheless the
~ game - Il n being developed.
~ many respects genuinely new.
% rugby game can claim even .
onfoe influence than can the mas
~ e the Occidental type.
The problems of attack and defen3s
- o1e being faced are puxxling the
k and west alike. and until the dif-
- solutions become peculiar TO
L1gont sections Of the country. intsr.
oCe1Gnal games cen be Of greater In
GA8M 0SCllO08k COulo8l8 Only
4 0koUoo they more satisfactorily de-
- Ne national championship.
HoWuvers there n 3 great difference
okwoon the modern open game and
- Deyle Of play that circumstances
80 1orced upon Harvard and Michi-
IN 1or Saturdays clash. The latter
IlI - largely . combination OF the
+ 1netlsn and western vintages OF 1917
ood 1913. with only an occasional dash
<1l 1914.
What II meant BY eastern W. west
{qgn 1ootball styles. anyway" asks one
onetorn critic. appropos Of the 1914
nme. "HirkAy came on from Kansas
ma Ames from Illinois to coach Yale
md Princeton. located in Connecticut
( "a New Jersey. II any one can I'M.
ong1e the International answers
60m this he II welcome TO the result"
ouesssrs Know All About Il.
Roger Bresnahan and w. w. Ar
i m0ur, Of Kansas City. had a long con-
4oronce yesterday afternoon. The
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