The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-06

The optimists find most OF their am
munition In the Harvard game
year ago. They recall that after be-
ing battered by the Aggies and over
whelmed by Syracuse. Yost so
starched up his weak line that only
the finest sort Of luck save the
Crimson q decision over the west
year ago. Yost can get at least one
good game out OF any line. say the
boys. and this will he the game, pre-
dict they. But Cornell 10 4 to l
favorite when the speculation OF
real mazuma Is mentioned and there
Ia not much being wagered.
But there are flaws In the Har-
ward argument. for Cornell beat the
Crimson Just about the time OF year
that Michigan failed. and now the
Big Red team Is just sweeping the
crest Of top form. which Harvard
was not a year ago the middle Of
October.
Yost may have q chance. He will
not need a lot OF luck, but the west
erners are getting all the luck this
year In sport It's not q strong
team that has been developed at
Ann Arbor this fall. II has the
weight and strength, but seemingly
not the football idea. All season
long II has been unable To grasp
even the fundamentals, and when
those can't be learned. there Is no
reason to criticize q coach who has
been tried and found the real stafr
In other years. The material sim
ply isn't there.
But Michigan should play the best
game II has this year. IL II il not
crushed too soon. Captain Cochran
last year was mentioned by Walter
Camp az one Of the finest tackles in
the country. This year he has not
played a strong game: either on de-
FENCE or offense. II is inconceiva BILE
that be should not come to life. and
this may be the day. II Cochran
should play a. he has played. one
side of the line will be made i'm.
pregnable and Maulbetsch will get
chance to start one of those
crashing. boring drives down the
field that Ii likely to change the
scoreboard figures. Niemann is a
light center, but he has been play
ing good ball III some respects. He
may perk up. Both Benton. and
Staatz are capable Of better thanking
than they have exhibited this year,
and may come back today Dunno.
the third end likely to be used. Is
certain 70 play like a dervish, for II
Is whispered that high honor awaits
him II he comes through. Maui
betsch. the greatest plunging half
back in the country, Is certain TO
rip up things II somebody will only
open a hole for him. One will be
enough. Pat Smith Is a coming foot
ball star. and will start his first big
game. Nobody knows what he will
do. brit il is believed that the longer
he stays In. the better chance Mich
igan will have. There's the clue to
Pats weakness. He has been hurt
frequently this year, and may not be
able to last long And that goes for
Reimann, also, and this linesman Is
about the best thing .Yost has in the
trenches.
Catlett can star against some
teams, but never has been very sue
cessful in skirting such ends as Cor
nell has been turning out for some
years. II Is true that there are
many respects in which Michigan
can expect much improved team
today, but the hitch Is that IL Cor
nell plays the grade OF football the
Ithacans have all season II will take
more than an improved weak team
to stop them.
There isn't a better balanced team
In the country Than Cornell this
year II can kick, forward pass and
carry the ball through the line and
around the tanks with equal facil.
ity. In Capt. Barrett II has SO re-
markable an all-around player that
In jest II is frequently said that he
Il the whole team. But II Ia Coach
Sharpe's proud boast that the loss
OF no one man, including Barrett
can weaken his team II IL true.
Barrett played but one quarter OF
the Harvard game. but after he was
injured. the Redlegs scored enough
uoiuts IN ipeuro n vfcfory
Moreover. victory today means as
much to Cornell "a victory ever
meant to q football team. A clean
sweep-barring a crushing Of Har
ward by Princeton today by an over
whelming score-means a claim on
the football championship Of the
nation for Cornell. and then the
Ithacans will have the honor Of be
Ing supreme In recent years In
every form OF intercollegiate ath.
letics. Track, baseball. basketball
crew, have seen the Red triumph
ant, but never has grid supremacy
como to Ithaca. Cornell simply
won't be denied this afternoon, IN
less Yost performs the miraculous
But It's big day in Ann Arbor
Just the same. The same old crowd
II here-a little bigger than ever
II anything. Everybody is gay and
noisy and unless one dropped into
the undercurrent ~ speculation on
the game. II would seem that never