The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-10
Coach Yost Discusses Frats
And Football at Michigan
,Re.sents Insinuation
That independents
Are HaInpered !,

When Coach Yost, Of the University
OF Michigan. read Tuesday afternoon
the story from On slumnus 70 the
erect that the fratsEnitiss ware run
Mag the football teams q Michigan
into the ground he snortsd.
~Jf there II any man. whether -
u IN alumnus Of this university -
not" said Yost. who believes that
the fgratsrnities have the whip hand
over the selection q the 'varsity
players, lot him come % the univers
atty and u he can and On indepsn&
eut upon the campus Who = capable
Of replacing any player On the team.
not only will play him. but I win
rejoice over the discovery.
1T u only natural that the ma
jority Of the football mon should b
fraternity men. for when - likely
looking man comes to school. he II
Immediately snapped up BY . frat,
Tor Il u generally known that the
reputation OF . fraternity u kept
up by IL representation In univer.
sity AFFAIRS. In fact TO secure . foot
ball man. . fraternity win often
make concessions that they win not
make to other men. This makes
nearly every good football man .
fraternity man, and they are Micht
gan's best material"
But on the other hand, there n
no hostility shown the independents.
OF the present squad. Milard. Ray.
mond and weske are Independents,
while Ebervein and Benton were
also non fraternity men. Al Of these
men have started games this year
and have received al the chance
that any man could receive. There
10 no fraternity that has more than
ono man on the FIRST team and 20
they can not find fault In that 10
gard.
Some Of the greatest OF Michi.
gan's football teams have been COM
posed Of independents. Schults.
Allmendixger. Lichtner and many
others were not fraternity men,"
Yost himself belongs to frater.
ity which has . chapter here. bat
there 10 at present only ono man on
the squad who 10 . member OF this
fraternity. This man In Sharpe and
though he has not been considered
good enough to start any games. be
ID looked upon by nj - being . com
ing star Of the Chaig type. The
campus feels that any criticism
against the coach On these grounds
10 unfounded and naturally resent
such q statement. Even the indie
pendents are Of the opinion that
every man who IL eligible u given
q fair chance to make good and u
he falls II II his own fault rather
than the fact that he does or dos
not belong.
Willard vii not start the PENN
game, but whether II viii 90 Whaien,
Reske or Rehor 70 begin 1t that
guard, Yost does not know. He put
his men through . hard workout IN
IN effort to ind the right men Tues
day afternoon. but Is still undecided.
Reiman viii not start. according -
Yost and may not be used At Al
The injured knee ID given this star
lot of trouble In getting under way
and he II very slow. He will prob
able be given . chance TO win hi1
letter however.
Yost again said today that he was
considering using Weimans and
Peach, the freshmen ends. st tack
leo nevt year. Peach weighs 1eSs
while Weimans goev him sevsa
pounds better. Yost has been witch
ing these men closely and looks Tor
big things from them. Yost c0nsid-
ers Deske and Boyd the dark horses
Of 1916.