The Detroit times., 1915-11-10
Coach Yost Discusses F'rats
And Football at Michigan
r e 8 ents InsinuatiOn
That independents
Are Hampered

ANN ARBOR. Mich. Nov. 10
When Coach Yost, Of the University
OF Michigan. read Tuesday afternoon
the story from an alumnus to the
effect that the fraternities were run
ming the football teams Of Michigan
into the ground. he snorted.
III there IL any man, whether he
IL an alumnus of this university or
not" said Yost. "who believes that
the fraternities have the whip hand
over the selection OF the varsity
players, let him come to the univer.
sity and II he can nnd IN indepsud-
emit upon the campus who 10 capable
Of replacing any player on the team.
not only will ! play him. but viii
rejoice over the discovery.
1T 10 only natural that the ma
jority OF the football men should Do
fraternity men. for when q likely
looking man comes to school. he Il
Immediately snapped up by . frat.
for It 10 generally known that the
reputation Of Q fraternity II kept
up by It's representation In univsr.
sity affairs. In fact to secure . foot
ball man. Q fraternity will often
make concessions that they will not
make to other men. This makes
nearly every good football man .
fraternity man, and they are Michi-
gan's best material"
But on the other hand, there n
no hostility shown the independents.
OF the present squad. Willard. Ray
mond and Weske are Independents.
while Eberwein and Benton were
also non fraternity men. Al Of these
men have started games this year
and have received oil the chance
that any man could receive. There
is no fraternity that has more than
one man on the first team and 90
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.
Allmendinger. Lichtner and many
others were not fraternity men"
Yost himself belongs to . frater
lily which has a chapter here. but
there il at present only one man on
the squad who is a member OF this
fraternity. This man is Sharpe and
though he has not been considered
good eQOugh to start any games, he
10 looked up by all as being a COM
ing star OF the Craig type. The
campus feels that any criticism
against the coach on these grounds
Is unfounded and naturally resent
such statement. Even the indie
pendents are of the opinion that
every man who is eligible Is given
a fair chance to make good and X
he fails Il Is his own fault rather
than the fact that he does or does
not belong.
Willard will not start the Penn
game, but whether II will 90 whalen,
Reske or Rehor TO begin at that
guard, Yost does not know. He put
his men through a hard workout In
an effort to find the right men Tues
day afternoon. but Is still undecided.
Reiman will not start. according To
Yosr and may not be used at al
The injured knee Ia giving this star
a lot of trouble In getting under way
and he is very slow. He will prob
able be given chance to win his
letter however.
Yost again said today that he Was
considering using Weimans and
Peach, the freshmen ends. at tack.
les next year. Peach weighs 1S6.
while weimans goes him seven
pounds better. Yost has been watch
ing these men closely and looks for
big things from them. Yost consid-
ers Weske and Boyd the dark horses
of 1915.