The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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By VEDDER GARD

E1E see by the headlines that
81 INx/I there were a number or
Jrupsets Saturday on the col
lese gridirons. Now, just what is
an upset? 1t means that fay
orite' is defeated. Just what is a
favorite? One team is held to have
THE advantage over it's opponent
because Of past records.
The football writer's broadcast
their opinions and choose one team
as having the best chance to win.
That selected team becomes the
favorite.
Sometimes the wrong team is
made the favorite, but that doesn't
make any difference. If the "fav-
orite" loses it is an upset. A foot
ball team does not remain the same
from week to week. There are
changes in the lineup and changes
in morale. These things are not
always known. And, besides, there
are the breaks of the game. There
is always a reason for each Upset.
Every team has a chance in
every game, provided the schools
are of anywhere near equal
strength and enrolment.
One must learn not to, be, sur
prised at anything during the grid
season. The upsets happen every
year and will continue as long as
eleven good men oppose another
eleven good men on the white
chalked field of battle.
"Navy BilI' Ingram is vim
Dictated. The Annapolis coach
took an Indiana University team
to Michigan last year and was de-
feated, 63 to 0. This year, as
coach of the Middies, he defeated
the Wolverines, 10 to 0.
Bill got Gin bad" at /. U. with
some of the alumni by not prais-
ing the material at his disposal
I'm fact he said it wasn't so good.
There must be something to this.
Bill hasn't improved that much
in one year as coach.
On the other hand, the Navy
got beat, "a to 0, by Michigan
last season. Ingram probably
learned a lot about that Mich.
igan forward passing attack i'm
1925. He had it smOthered
Saturday by regular basketball
man-tO-man defense, according to
reports. y -
CN1OMETIMES an inch is the
10 margin between winning
~ and losing on the football
field. There was no better illus
tration than at Washington Park
Sunday in the Muncle-J. J. c. bat
tie. The veteran Cooney Check
aye booted one that hit the goal
post and then caromed toward the
cross bar.
luckily for the local eleven,
the pigskin fell in front of the
bar and not across it. The bali
probably would have gone. over
the bar if it had hit the goal
post a half-inch farther to the
right.
In the fourth quarter in the
Pennsylvania Illinois contest the
eastern team had one Of it's best
opportunities to score, but on
fourth down Wascolonis~ of Penna
failed to make the necessary ten
yards by inches on the Illini 49,
yard line. The ball went over and
Illinois punted out of danger.
A couple of inches one way or
another sometimes is the differ
ence between. winning and los
ing. Such little things turn the
tide when two evenly matched
teams struggle for supremacy.
LEWIS Of Northwestern rep
resents a Methodist institu-
II ton on the gridiron, but he
ran back that~.opening kickoff
against Indiana Saturday in very
unorthodox fashion. Sibley of I.
U. booted the ball from a point
about ten yards from the sideline.
1t was a short kick and Lewis
got the ball at about the thirty
yard line going at full speed
ahead. He kept right on sprint
ing down the sideline as straight
as an arrow. There wasn't any
body near him. 1t was a strange
sight.
Usually on such a play the man
who receives the ball near the
side line cuts back toward the OPP
posite side so that he won't be
forced out Of bounds. Evidently
Tiny" had some radical ideas on
the subject.
He did not wait for interfer->
ence or stop to think it over. He
was an oppOrtunist who made
touchdown by quick thinking
and quick running.
There did not seem to be any
airmen in the Army eleven that
defeated Yale. They were all in
fantrymen who disdained to use
an aerial attack. And they didn't
need 1t.
After observing the manner in
which Navy smothered Michi-
gan's great air game it is prob
able that the soldiers will stay on
the ground when they clash with
the Midshipmen at Chicago late
this month.
~ 7OMETIMES the lane is so
ID long that it seems there is
s~s-@ no turning, but it always
TURNS. Sometimes the worm is
forced to crawl along for many
years before getting rid Of the in
feriority complex, but it finally
TURNS.
When the Army eleven finally
got mad" Yale was smoth-
cred under the ferociOus rushes
OF the Cadet backs and the ter
rifle charging of the soldier line
men,. Crushing power overcame