Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
AID OF HALLOWEEN SPOOKS
ONLY HOPE OF MICHIGAN
Yosts Team Intimate Terms With Goblins and
, Ring Lardner Believes Harvard Eleven Will
I Be Treated Surprise by Wolverines

4 believe, is the proper way TO star
a Saturday morning football story. No
only does 1t give the head writer's a val
liable hint, but It also describes the situa
ton so clearly that no reader can 81
wrong; that is, no reader with an ounce
Of Intelligent boob might gathei
that factory whistle was what they wer,
awaiting, but your normal man with a
normal brain knows at once that the one
referred TO was Mr.. Langford's.
Twenty-Five thousand people will have
paid admission into the stadium before
the whistle blows IL the Harvard Ath.
letic Association is a true prophet OF
the 5000 approximately 24,oOo will be pull
Ing for the Crimson. The other 1000 will
yell for the best team ever developed
in the West Goke), and go OF the 1000
were in Boston last night, making enough
noise for i've times that number.
Michigan rooters probably know that
Michigan is up against It. II they know
what know Ccries OF "impossible!") they
are aware Of the fact that the signs
favor Harvard. The Crimson is present
with bigger and better material infinitely
more experienced. II the best man in
the Harvard lineup is disabled, it will
be a trifing bit Of hard luck. II the
best man on the Michigan team is put
out of It, good night!
THREE KINDS OF FOOTBALL.
I believe Yost, the coach. looks at the
matter thus:
The Michigan team Is capable of play.
ing three kinds Of football-phenomen
average and punk II Michigan plays
phenomenally, that is, It's very best game
every minute. it has a chance to win. II
Michigan plays its natural game, the
game It has played during the greater
part OF a season of dscouraging acct
dents and upsets, it will lose. And If it
plays punkly, to use the adverb. II will be
swamped not really swamped. either for
II Harvard sees that it has a cinch it will
undoubtedly save it's best men and its
best plays for Princeton.
In other words in order to win, the
Wolverines must perform better than
they have performed so fur this season,
and. with their full strength in the field,
each man must go at top speed from
they rise to the heights at this most i'm
portant point in their careers or will they
DOW to strength that is generally believed
superior and be content with any one of
dozen aiibs that are theirs?
AT syracuse week ago they performed
In manner that would have shaned a
team Of cows. VIII they repeat that per-
iormance. or will the knowledge that this
Is thelr Dig game stimulate them to \
proficiency hitherto unattained? Some
language!
It cannot be said that Mlchigan's best
team will face Harvard's best-ror Jsr-
yard. without Brickley is not the real
Harvard Michigan, without Gait and
Whalen and with Splawn and Hughitt
IN poor condition, is doubtless weaker
than Michigan with Gait and W'halen
and with the other two in form. But
where injuries wreck Michigan's chances
they merely put a crimp in Harvard's,
or do not affect them at all Harvard
loses BricSley the greatest point kicker
since our own Eckersall and has to do
his work not one good kicker OF field
goals. but two-Mahan and Whitney.
Michigan loses Gait one Of the best half
backs It ever possessed. and is forced to
use an end in his stead without coming
close TO hlling the hole made by his dis
ability.
But, honest to goodness. have a
hunch that the defeat at Syracuse and
the other innumerabe setbacks are co-
ing to make Michigan fight today, and IF
the men OF YOst do fight Harvard will get |
better practice for the Princeton game !
than its scrub could give il. And, as
stated. II the Wolverines, all of them,
perform up to their highest possibilities. |
they may play a Halloween prank at !
Cambridge that will not be appreciated |
east of Buffalo.
YOsT SHIFTS GUARDS.
Yost has made one more importan. |
change in the Michigan lineup. He has !
shifted the two guards Michael. who has !
been at right. will be at left; Watson, who !
has been al left will be at right You can !
see for yourselves how important II Is |
was told that il was done TO balance |
the weight Of the line. On the Harvard 1
side Wilmington Is slated to start the
game ut right guard. but II Michigan |
gets too rambuuctlous Pennock Will go |
n. Pennock Is in condition. I'm told,
lut why waste him on Michigan II
Michigan proves ioks7 He knows
enough about football 10 play II against
T,.ls and Harvard without the added ex-
,eHence OF a game against our alleged
lubs.
l know better than to ask Yost for
'uBI- -p6IOEG~Llc- -pGAtlc ALaLrAA4ElI- DAk
lon4sbody requested one. and he said:
How do ! know what my men are
Eoing 10 do out on that neld? If they
10 what I want them to they'll win.
But they didn't do Il at Syracuse last
Saturday. and hSvs no idea whether
,r not thsy win DO II today"
n VIII be noticed that tbs average
zsishts ef the two teams As given out
~ the coaches, show 4 big advantage
or Hsryard-tEo-elsventh OF a pound
took down the weights because IL Is
customary and not because II will make
my difference Most coaches, believe
would rather have an athlets Weighing
% pounds than one tipping the scales
II 220, If the 10 were mostly sand and
rain and the 22O mostly mush. More
lVar. the said coaches may be shaving
he figures a BIT. All Of Us should bibbls |
The Michigan squad did not have what
ould be termed a day Of rest Yost and
IuEh White the assistant coach, lee
ured the boys IN the morning, and at
I o'clock they we're carted 10 Cambridge
or lunch. The team, the coaches and
he scribes ate az the Varsity Club and
ujoysd the same fare es he Harvard
unch got After eating one Of those
Harvard training table meals can
lainly see why so many men 90 out
Dr. the football team al Cambridge. And
aat beinE just lunch, ] wish they'd in
its me 70 dinner.
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