Omaha daily bee., 1914-01-04
WILL BE NOTABLE CONTEST
Followers Anticipating the
vard-Michigan Game.
YosT HAS BIG JOB ON HAND
Has Five veteran WcRrcrs Of the
"M." and Must Build Up HiS
Tcam out Of New Ma
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BOSTON, Mass, Jan. "a well nigh
perfect foot ball machine against team
on which six men are new to varsity
foot ball. That's the situation that the
grdiron student is due TO see on october
81 1914. when Harvard meets Michigan
on Soldiers field. To offset this handl-
cap the Wolverines have just one asset,
Fielding H. Yost. alias "Hurry-up,' their
coach. Even at that the Maize and Blue
rooters look with confidence to the in
it,al invasion OF the fields dedicated TO
the Big Six of the east, and who is there
at present to dispute them. Certainly no
one i'm this section of the foot ball world
can debate the point successfully.
Western foot ball maze it's own mark
i'm the season just past. Particularly IN
the games played against eastern teams
Michigan showed its prowess. Syracuse,
no weak brother in the 1918 game, was
subdued by a score Of 43 to T. Cornell
also went under the yoke, failing to score,
: while the westerners amassed II points
and Pennsylvania was humbled, 13 to O
II comparative scores were called into
the discussion there might be use for an
interrogation point, but these are direct,
east against west, and they provide no
hope for loving tryst of the two com.
pass points, in foot balloon at least. IL
will be knife-to-knife war, and If Mich-
gan can play, with new material, the
sort of foot ball that distinguished the
west this year, the Crimson veterans will
find themselves in a field distinctly diff
cult to plow.
Harvard Has Chance.
Harvard has all the right in the world
| to look for a third successful season
next fall. OF this years championship
team and subs, ten men will answer
Coach Haughton's call in September.
They are Captain Charles TOE" Brick
| ley fullback; Mahan and Bradlee, half
backs; Logan. quarterback; Trumbull,
center; Pennock and Gilman, guards, and
Hardwick, end, for the regulars, with
Cowen, guard, and Soucy, center, in re-
serve. These provide Haughton with all
the necessary cogs for his foot ball ma
chine, and there is a goodly bunch of
! this years freshman grdironers who will
be available as packing for the present
holes.
Against this veteran showing what has
| Michigan to rely on? Just five wearers
of the varsity M" three in the line and
| two in the backfeld. What Yost has to
| build on is excellent in itself. What the
tone of the whole team will be when
| leavened with new material remains to
be seen. Six men are just enough major
ity on foot ball team to raise particular
sheol, particularly when they are new
to big-time booking. The men who re-
main to Michigan are Captain Rayns-
ford and Lyons, ends; Cochrane guard
F 7 pta
back. These men have had plenty of ex-
perience and the coach knows what may
be expected of them. In fact he admit
ted that he very nearly included Hughitt
in his choice of an All-American team
and would have done so had he not felt
that Jimmy Craig was the Wolverine with
the best title to the honor.
Aside from this squad Of the old guard
Yost has just four men in sight at
present. Traphagen looks best for Pat
terson's place at center for he is a sure
passer and also is aggressive. He showed
possibilities in his playing on scrub this
year and Is lucky in having a coach who
is a fine developer of material with the
least promise, AS another lncsman,
Rehor, 22O-pounder. looms up. The other
two men, Mautbesch and Splawn, are
backs, and did so well on the freshman
team that there Is little chance Of their
escaping a varsity job next year
',Maultey" is decidedly there when II
comes to line bucking and has been com
pared in this department Of play with
Whitney Of Dartmouth Splawn has a
, powerful leg swing which made his
J Punts fearsome thing to the varsity
/ end, in addition, is a marvel with the
/ forward pass, His weak point Is defense
! but this merely offers chance to Yost
r 10 demonstrate what he can do as a
} teacher. Three other substitutes return
! James, at end; Bushnell. quarter. ant
) Catlett, half, but in his forecasts vost
? hasn't figured them very largely