The Detroit times., 1914-11-18
Despite Losing Season Students
Wildly Cheer Players as MS
Are Awarded
DETROIT SPEAKERS
FEATURE PROGRAM
Schermerhorn Makes Hit With
Military Report of Yost's
1914 Campaign

~&@NAN <hANASAts Ahtth.s wv lo."0Lu-
dents at the University Of Michigan
last night gave splendid exhibition
OF school spirit. when, At the annual
football smoker At Waterman gym.
they cheered the losing 1914 team TO
the echo in one of the widest dem
onstrations In campus history. AT the
close of the mass meeting. when the
ms" We're awarded the is varsity
men, the cheering reached it's climax
and each gridder was paid yocifer-
GUS tribute that rocked the steel and
concrete building Prof Bunker OF
the law department. represented the
university, +. ID. Eaman. the alumni.
and II. b. Carpenter, the student body
on the program. The speaker OF the
evening was James Schermerhorn OF
Detroit. Mr.. Schermerhorn was once
q student at West Point, and one Of
the hits OF the evening was his field
marshals report" Of the Yost cam
paign OF 1914. Mr.. Schermerhorn said
In part:
BY virtue OF the war experience
gained at the United States Military
academy. and OF the great contribu-
tons made by your gridiron 10 my
journalistic training, will proceed
to constitute myself the war once OF
the athletic association. and publish
the following communique upon the
operations at the front since mobiliz-
alton In September:
Roughly speaking, as becomes this
style OF warfare, the battle line has
extended from East Lansing, on the
extreme west to Cambridge on the
extreme east. q distance OF 1000
miles. The engagements may be
comprehended under the general title
of ''the battle OF the four rivers
the Grand, the Huron, the Onondaga
and the Charles.
First, In the west, on the banks OF
the Grand, We crushed the Landstrum
OF the Michigan Agricultural college.
They were quite. unprepared for the
onslaught OF our forces, none OF them
having posted himself on the do
horning OF hydraulic rams.
Second, In the east, we advanced
along the Onondaga, and shelled the
Syracuse eleven upon the hills back
OF the town; but finding the enemy
in greater strength than our own
forces, we retired in good order upon
our base, using the railroad with
which the principal street of SYRIA
cuse Is paved. The morale OF our
army remained excellent.
Third, on our extreme right, We
crossed the Charles In mass forma-
pressing the foe desperately when
something went wrong with the sig
nal service, and. In the confusion We
failed 20 follow up our advantage.
Our. advance. however, was many
kilometers greater than the enemy's.
This was the first try-out OF the aerial
branch. II was beautiful--worth any
old tumble, indeed-to see Count Yost
go up I'm the air. We fell back from
this sortie without confusion In ac-
cordance with a prepared plan. the
attack will be renewed with conf
dence at this point, in due course.
Fourth. on the south bank OF the
Huron, we repulsed brilliantly sue
cession OF violent attacks up to and
including Nov. It'll. On this day, the
Pennsylvanians were cut TO pieces.
The weather was unusually favorable
for operations throughout the cam
paign, with the exception of the
battle with Vanderbilt, when someone
cut the dykes. On Nov. 18th. our
forces. which had been under hre for
several weeks. were attacked with
considerable violence from the east,
and were obliged 70 cede some
ground, which will be regained In
the next engagement.
To sum up, there have been actions
and contradictions, seizures and ces-
sion Of territory. victories and re-
verses. and on the whole, the situa-
ton remains eminently satisfactory,
with a capital NJ In the eminently.
It's q great spirit Of optimism that
fixes upon the night for this ratiflca-
ton many weeks before the season
IL over II reminds one Of the san
guine city scribe who dashes into
the ONCE and shrieks. Hold the
forms for a terrible murder to be
committed at nine o'clock tonight"
There's something invfncible about
university that arranges It's ratifica-
lions In advance. and never has rea-
son TO postpone them.
Win or lose. II shows you are dead