The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-16
BY ROSCOE FAWcETT.


giene associations objections TO gig
sling, we cannot help II when We
think OF the eco trouncing the Ore
gon Aggies gave TO the Michigan
Agg!es. at Lansing. Mich. recently.
Back in the east and the middle
west they hardly knew football was
played out here. And yet, the Pa
-eihe northwestern conference has
with middle western and eastern
elevens for several seasons past
Teams out here are fully as heavy,
too. as those Of the eastward. Ore
gon recently sent a team against
! Washington State college that aver
aged 1871 pounds TO the man. strip
ped weight. The Pacific northwest
las never received just credit for
It's football teams. This is due prin-
cipally to geographic conditions,
Walter Camp has tried 10 be fair,
4 We believe. in his All-American
selections every fall, but Mr.. Camp
! has never seen Northwestern
game, and. as result. many an All
American athlete hereabouts has fad
ed into Oblivion unhonored, unsung,
and unknown beyond the eastern
states line Possibly the Oregon Ag
gies decisive victory over the best
the middle west had to offer will
help some. This year, Their are al
the very least eight or ten stars on
/ Pacific northwest teams who are en-
titled TO consideration on any All
American team that was ever pick.
ed. Here they are: Laythe. 210-
pound tackle. Oregon Aggies; Abra
ham 11S-pe#Ra fuiibaek, Oregon Ag-
gies; Beckett. compound tackle. Ore
gon; Miller, 2Oo-pound halfback,
Washington: Bangs. 170-pound half
back. Washington State college;
Dietz. l7s-pound halfback. Washing
ton State college, Apploquist. 1856
pound tackle, Washington State col
lege; Hoover. l70-pound fullbsck.
. Whitman.
II have never seen a greater all
around football player than Johnny
Beckett OF my team" said Hugo
3ezdek. Oregon coach. 10 the writer.
not long ago. Hugo says Washing
ton State would have beaten Oregon.
500 were it not for Beckett's almost
superhuman efforts. And Bezdek
used to be quite some football play
or himself back az. Chicago. a few
years ago; and he knows what he
1 is talking about. On any other
team than little Whitman college. OF
( Walla Walla, fullback Hoover would
be another shining light.
/ Halfback Miller, OF the University
of Washington eleven. is too well
known ali over the country to need
much boosting. Walter Camp men
toned" him a couple of years ago.
Miller weighs about 200 pounds and
is the original human juggernaut.
AId the same goes for the Washing
ton State college trio. Bangs. Dletz
and Applequist. Coach Bill Dietz.
the old Carlisle indian star. says
these three could make any team in
the country and be phenoms.
On the strength OF their showing
in the Michigan Aggie game IL is
very likely that fullback Abraham.
Of the Oregon Aggies and tackle
I.aythe. Of the same team, will be
recognized by the eastern critics
Out here rival coaches have for two
I years referred TO Abraham as the
greatest fullback in the country"
Evidently the Albany plunger lived
up TO reputation in the Michigan
game, judging from newspaper &C
counts OF the soiree. Hofer and
Billie. OF the Oregon Aggies, consti
tute another pair of stars OF high
rank
/ Comparative scores, used in
| 'Housethat-Jack- built" sort OF fash
| ion, don't amount to birds nests in
giving an absolutely accurate line on
the strength OF two teams on oppo-
site ends of the doping" They are
always interesting, however, and the
! crop growing out OF the Oregon Ag-
eies- Michigan Aggies game will be
doubly so in view of the marked
/ superiority In favor OF the Pacific
northwest. How rs this7 Washing
ton State college beat the Oregon
Aggies. 300; the Oregon Aggies beat
/ the Michigan Aggies, 300 the Mich
! igan Aggies beat Michigan. 200;
ergo. Washington State is 70 points
better than Michigan. and the Ore
gcn Aggies are "a points superior TO
+ Yost's- crew. Investigating hIrther.
Syracuse beat Michigan, 1871. and
I Princeton beat Syracuse. 30. so
Washington State college has a So
point margin over Princeton. And
4 Princeton beat Lafayette. 40-3. and
/ Lafayette beat Pennsylvania, 40.
And remember. too. that Cornell IN
rated as only 10 points better than
! Princeton, as shown by their scores
with Williams. Cornell beat VII
liams. $50, and Princeton beat VIII.
liams, 27.0. Yet Cornell defeated
Harvard. 100 So, on comparative
scores, Washington State college Is
80 points superior 10 Cornell. so
points superior to Harvard. and -
! points superior 10 Yale. gagged by
Washington and Jefferson's scores
with Yale and Lafayette.
OF course. these comparisons are
merely fanciful and Syracuse may
upset GOO all over the horizon when
this strong eastern eleven comes 10