Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-29
INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS
Michigan Maa Not Have Football
 Team in the Field.
BY SOL METZGER Coach Washington & Jefferson Foot
 ball Team.


 Just as Michigan had taken steps 1 to re-enter the conference, which is the right place for it to be, intercol- legiate sport, in so far as the Vol
 smash. The glad news has it's draw
 backs in so far as immediate results
 are concerned. In the first place all
 outside competition is over and it is 1 ooubtfu1 if football will te played this fall. Fielding H. Yost, the long 1 time Michigan coach put a damper 1 on 1t when he came to Ann Arbor to hold spring tractice and delivered an address that was about as able a tfrade against the kaiser militar- ism and Prussianism as has been heard in this country Yost, who is an able attorney and a most success ful business man, knows how to speak All of which indicates that Michi- gan will probably not play football ] this fall. Fact of the ma tier is few students wish it or hope for it. The tractiVe The feeling is that it is far better to wait until 1918 when at least four conference colleges will be met. The reentry of Michigan in the
 conference doesn't necessarily mean that all relations with Pennsylvania and Cornell will cease. Conference teams may meet other than confer ence colleges in sport Witness the Illinois Colgate game last fall. And they need not meet all the other con ference teams. Northwestern last fall and this could not schedule games With Minnesota, among others.
 Michigan will likely stand fast to its Pennsylvania alliance in the fu- ture Each of these large universi- past with other large universities in their respective territories over ath- letics. Both have been denied big games with nearby rivals though a at everywhere and the war will do much to remove past objections and even hatreds. College men and col lege athletes are of much the same l fuence of this war will do much to replace prejudice with friendship.
 When will the limit be reached in i Some hold that Walter Travis be- l cause he began golf >A thirty sax l years of age and then won three i American and one British amateur | championship. Is without parallel in i the ancient and honorable game But | Col Frank B. Trout of Lancaster, Pa, took up the sport at the age of fifty | nine. Three years later he did IT | over course on which Travis once made a record of 66. In track athlet- | ics Kaufman, Lockwood, Lippincott and Meredith. of Pennsylvania, all point winners and two of them, Lippincott and Meredith, worlds record holders, hold the naiIe relay record of SIS, an average of 49 I-z seconds Tor each quarter-mile run A most magnificent performance when we remember it was made the end of | April, one month before these men l were prime. Yet Lawson Robertson, l Pennsylvania's new track coach says that if war does not interfere his freshman relay team, which won the Freshman championship last month In 3-22 on a heavy track, will make a new worlds record for the mile be fore another year has gone by. This team consists of Davis Hough Max am and Eby. Robertson believes l Maxam capable of AS seconds next spring end Eby within a stride or two of him Davis and Hough should be II