The Detroit times., 1914-11-18
Not Probable That Single Boy
From This City viii Be on
1915 Eleven
CENTRAL HITHERTO
ALWAYS REPRESENTED
Hurry-up Man Makes Reason
abs Objection to Numbering
Of Grid Warriors
BY HAROLD v. wILoox.

BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX.
Y Tor the first time In many, many
years. there exists the prospect OF
- great University of Michigan foot
: AL team without single Detroit
psrsd u the varsity lineup. A worth
While wolverine eleven that did not
look 20 Detroit for several stars would
( b something OF curiosity, but that
II sxectly what Yost will have In
1918, 4 present indications are worth
- Cast Raynsford was the only De-
{fol&6s to win his an" this year. and
49, we're but four "R's" awarded to
EJ1A6egs from the City Of the Straits.
Nono Of this quartet, which is COM
poooA Of lawrence Roehm. Don
J1nos, Floyd Morse and Harry Cal
". ase picked as IN" material for
1911, despite the fact that both Roehm
and James broke into the regular
-llDonp q various times early this
I'LL. No Detroiters were on the fresh
nan team this year. and II looks as
n e would be- Q couple of years or
nero boepre this city will again have
nomo Oraigs. Psttsrsons and Rayns-
3pele % root for on Ferry field.
- ASropos az the contention that no
~a6oqnate dsfense has yet been found
- utOp the new open style Of foot
IN when brilliantly used. II must be
o6Dltted that Cornell Saturday found
- 0minentIy satisfactory defense for
That purpose. All that seems neces-
lay. e CoSnelrs system II adhered
-, q for the defensive line to break
through IN body and surround the
attncking backheld. A forward pass
nisht then work. but . fake play
however, another attacking line
nj would permit such liberties
would b hard to ind anywhere else
n oelect circles this season. unless
q would Do at tho University Of Penn
sylyania, The old criticism, that the
nav game is unstoppable when well
executed. still stands. Illinois trim
med Chicago, Minnesota walloped Wis
oonsin and Yale crushed Princeton
With Il, and Princeton nearly turned
Is tables on the Bull Dog by the same
sort Of performances.
IA IA 4 matter OF fact, the Yale eley-
~ has developed the finest attack In
80 country. Some OF Its possibili-
81 were seen last Saturday, and
! ne skill with which the ball was
.tosseA and slipped hither and yon
I I've promise of more than little
6elodrams when Harvard goes to In
itiate the new stadium Mt New Haven
mis- week end. Incidentally, Harvard
Is working day and night to invent
some means Of embarrassing the
strategy OF the Blue, and II gridiron
intelligence can successfully cope with
the new attack, we viii certainly hear
OF the fact on the 21st inst.
Il remained for Fielding H. Yost
"a rive q really good excuse for not
using numerals to aid spectators In
identifying football players. The
hurry-up man IL credited with the as
sertion that making II easy for fans
70 know players tends to tempt the
gridders toward Individual playing.
Fialding H. IN strong for team work.
and anything that would seem to In
terfere with the machine idea comes
under his ban, spectators or no spec
tators. We do not think for min
uts that Michigan will long have an
unnumbered team, but we must hand
ft % Mr.. Yost for objecting with an
affection that Is neither absurd and
juvenile.
The majority Of coaches that have
banned the big numbers on the jer-
oeyS Of the gridders have expressed
fear that the numerals would prove
too great an aid to such Of the enemy
a were on scout duty. As q matter
Of fact, q scout that cannot find out
what he wants 10 know I'm the way OF
plays and formations without the aid
Of Tags II not worth his expense
mooey.
a Penney. Dartmouth. Cornell and
Half q dozen other schools have CIV
en- the numbers q good tryout. and
never has there been o time during |
q eame when the spectators who had
invested q dime for score cards, were |
IN doubt as to the Identity Of a play
or on the field. The fans were de-
lighted with the innovation. and there |
10 no doubt but that popular clamor
win bring the rest OF the schools
into line before many more games
are played.
coach at Brown university, who Is In
Detroit this week looking over pros
pective material on the Detroit Cen
trail team. intimates that he agrees
with what q lot OF people In these
parts have been thinking. When
Brown went to Harvard last Satur-
day for its big game of the year. the
Providence boys found that Coach
Haughton and his stars had gone to |
see Yale play, and that only bunch |
OF second and third string men were
left for the scheduled game
Brown tied that aggregation and II |
= q shame the Providence boys
didn't win. Harvard certainly laid |
itself open to criticism by It's action. |
I'VE would rather have taken a good |
licking from the Crimson regulars
than have played a tie game with (
scrubs," whittemore said, and afte1 |
Substituting the game. Harvard should
hnxs respected that feeling.
Whittemore says that Les Clark
w1li be All-American material In a
few years. He was very favorable
11norcssed with Keeton, Culver and
cnDknin Straw. Of the Central team.
BRICKLEY TO HAVE NO M