The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21

Football teams in the West and the
South began their training period last
week with the same pre-war enthusiasm
that characterized the restoration OF the
game in the East. Like the teams here,
most of them have an abundance OF ma
tcrial. due to men returning from the
service.
The customary heavy schedules VIII
he played by the big teams in the West.
They have the worlds series idea
about football out there, playing for
championship" rather than to beat any
particular rival. Despite this however
the Minnesota Chicago Michigan rivalry
very closely approaches the Yale-Har-
vard-Prnceton feeling in the East.
The 1919 schedule in the West is sur
prising in that it calls for only four m
tersectional games. This is due 10 tne
fact that Michigan has reentered the
western intercollegiate Conference, and
for the first time since, 1905, will play no
Eastern games.
Notre Dame will come to West Point
to play the Army November s, and syria
cuse will meet Indiana and Nebraska III
the West November % and ThanksgiV-
ing Day respectively Northwestern
plays Rutgers in Newark on NoVem-
Der 90.
Another interesting phase of the West
of the big universities out there nave
new coaches this year. while many East
ern universities have been unable 10 re-
| tain the coaches they had before the
war. J. r. Richards Of Wisconsin VIII
teach football at his alma mater and
Charles Bachman of Notre Dame will
be in charge at Northwestern.
| Indications are that Michigan, MIME
gotta and Chicago will hold their GUS
tomary place IN the sun.
| Michfgan's prospects are especially
rosy More than seventy candidates
have reported TO Yost, including twenty
three M meu. Capt. Goetz, tackle
and Stekete. halfback, are all-Ameyi-
cans. In addition Yost expects to obtain
the services of Pat Smith. an all-Amerl-
can fulIback of 1916, who left school
to Join the navy.
Yost will be able to place an all-vet-
eran team on the field. Michigan must
meet Ohio. Northwestern. Chicago Hi
nois and Minnesota on successive sat
urdays.
Minnesota Is strong.
DIR. Williams will have a team at
Minnesota that will be no plaything for
any of them. He has a squad of over
hfty men at work and will have practt-
cally an entire veteran team.
For the two years preceding the war
the Gophers were followed by an unkind
\ INK. They were conceded 10 have the
! best team in the Big Nine Git was
"Nine" instead of "Ten' at that time)
but both in 1915 and 1916 one oft-color
game against Illinois deprived the Min
nesota eleven of it's rightful place as
champion. In 1915 Illinois tied the
Gophers and shared the championship
with them. And in 1915 Illinois beat
the Minnesota team, giving the nominal
championship to Ohio which had played
only the lightest sort OF schedule.
Were 1t not for the fact that Michi'
lgan again is In the Conference Mime
sofa would be almost a certainty FOL
premier honors. With Michigan back
however, indications are that these two
Ititans will surge back and forth In AM
Arbor November % in a mighty struggle
for the leadership
At Chicago Stagg will have an abl
eleven, but he has not the same calibr'
of material that Williams and Yos
have. lie will have practically no ex
perienced material from the 1918 S. a
T. c. team. since Chicago had few mel
who played in more than one game las
year due to repeated calls the Gov
eminent made on the corps for office
material.
stagg has a squad Of nearly fifty mel