The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-12
Saturday Game Should Be Better Than Muskegon Tilt,
But It's Hard to See Where Grand Rapids Has Chance
It's Old Story of Good
Little Team Meeting
Good Big Team


tative. to find the Grand Rapids
Central gridders between the time
they arrive in Detroit late this aft
ernoon and / o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon. Coach Upton announces
that as soon as he gets his charges
herded into town, he is going To
lose them In the rush crowd and
when all pursuit has been baffed.
will spirit his boys to a suburban
hotel for the night Upton doesn't
recommend the excitement Of down
town quarters for pregame hostel
ries.
Upton expects much OF his
charges. He siustically pre-
diets a victory. Critics who have
been watching his eleven, however.
cannot see how IL can defeat the
powerful Detroit team. Speed is
Upton's only hope and that's what
Muskegon tried. But Grand Rapids
is outweighed II pounds TO the man
all the way around the squad. and
IL Muskegon could only get away
once or twice for good gains, il is
hard TO see how tho Rapids can
score frequently. And frequent
scores are all that can save the
Furniture City, It is believed. for
Upton's defense is viewed with
alarm. The coach himself is as
much to blame for this as any one.
for he has spent the past two weeks
shifting his line. and hardly a for
ward il playing now in a position
in which he IL accustomed. II De
troit were only Just heavy. Upton
would have a chance, but the down
Is the old boxing proposition of a
good big man meeting q good little
man.
According TO the weight figures
passed out by the upstate coach. his
team averages but Isl pounds and
no member weighs more than 1852
The backfeld Is as heavy as the
line. The announced poundage.
however. may mean but little, for II
is a popular pastime these days to
juggle weight figures as q strategy
cal maneuver. Muskegon sent
down . report On poundage that
failed to do II. team justice by a
big margin. But Upton's figures in
clude height. and 1t develops that
there Is not a player on the visiting
squad who has an altitude of more
than S feet . inches. II this is cor
rect the big Detroiters can simply
90 over the heads Of the midget foe
men and plant the ball for first
downs. II II hard to believe that
the Grand Rapids team is as small
as It Is painted. but IL II is, neither
speed nor the excellent coaching It
has received for the past two weeks
is likely to save it.
There Is a lot OF respect for Din
ME Upton's coaching in these parts,
and Central athletic moguls expect
Saturdays game to be better than
the Muskegon encounter, which was
a whale Of contest until the last
few minutes, when the Muskies
gave up the ghost. That game was
marred by incompetent officiating.
and the pestiferous determination
Of Coach Gudelsky to get into the
limelight. Upton knows more than
to butt into a game after the kick
or. and II is announced that the
officiating Saturday Will be all to
the good
Coach Buss has his Detroiters In
fine shape: Some excellent work
has been done with the Central grid.
ders this year. Yesterday, in dis
cussing the post-season games that
may be scheduled. II was asserted
by one in position to know that
so good is the physical condition
of Central that the boys could be
kept in top form for games as late
as early December. Although II has
been necessary To point the Buss-
ties for big games at frequent in
tervals during the season, they are
now as fresh as they were q month
ago.
This upper peninsula has about as
many champions as teams this fall.
The undefeated schools from the
north country are angling for games
with Central both claim the u. p.
title. Menominee and Marquette
are the elevens In question. Cen
trail io also receiving scores Of chsl-
lenges from other schools shout the
country, seeking western champion
ship games for Nov. 81 and Dec 4.
but Athletic Director Davis In still
angling for that Everett game.
Everett has turned down CHtral
several unes. but as fast as an
other team is scheduled by the Bos.
toneers. some obscure eleven hobs
up and defeats II, spelling the cham
pionship aspect OF the proposed tilt.
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