Evening star., 1926-11-01

ingram Is not the brow beating
1ype of coach. He is easy with his
men, and is himself part and parcel
OF the squad. which is as 1t always
IS with the great majority of suq-
cessful coaches. Ingram knows foot
ball and is able to inpart his knowl-
edge. Not only that, but Ingram Ia
in far better position to coach at
the Navy than any other OF the
coaches have been.
In the first place. he was a Navy
player himself. having been a star
back in 1916. 1917 and 1918; and, there
fore, understands conditions under
which he is working. And further
more 1ngram's brother. Comdr. Jonas
Ingram. Is in charge of athletics.
which insures Bill of absolute control
of the squad and prevents interfer-
cnce Of any kind.
Comdr. Jonas Ingrams manage
ment of athletics at the Naval Acad-
"my has been with signal success.
but if anybody in after years inquiries
what was the biggest contributing
factor, the answer unQueStionably
will be the getting Of his brother
Bill to head the foot ball squad.
And the value of a good scout to
foot ball squad cannot be overesti-
mated, which is why it was said at
me Deg Oh tIllS lIdL SOIIIuI
Richardson should share equally
with Ingram the credit for Navy's
victory. Comdr. Richardson secuted
the Michigan team, and he got Mich
icans plays so well that Navy's de-
Tense was built with a certain surety
that otherwise could not have been
done.
Last Wednesday Comdr. Richard.
son sat on bench in the Navy dress.
ing room and told the writer not only
the type of passes Michigan would
use, but also the trick plays that
might be expected. And Michigan
did Just what was predicted 1t would
10. With such certain knowledge of
A1ichigan's offense Navy had an ad.
Iantage that gave it the game. Mich.
igan did not seem to have near so
accurate knowledge of Navy that
Navy had OF Michigan.
After the game between Michigan
and Navy Bill Ingram was asked
what he had to say. This was his
reply:
"Of course, there's not much for
me to say. I'm tickled over the re-
suit and have a right to be. Our
fellows played real foot ball and got
ava with it. There was never a
moment when they were not alert
and giving their best, and their best
was good enough"
Five minutes after that Yost was
asked what he had to say about
losing 1t was q characteristic Ia
comic reply that came from him:
They won and we lost. Last year
we threw the ball where our receiv-
ers were. and this year we threw
them whore fhov Naron'f That's
all there was to it."
As a matter of fact. it seemed to
most persons present as II Michigan
depended too much on forward pass
ing and did not have a sufficiently
strong running game to effect good
balance. Yost's scheme of offense
seemed to be long passes, that IL in.
tercepted were as good as punts. and
If caught would put the Michigan
team in scoring territory. from which
point a. drop kick, trick run or an.
other pass would be used to get
points. The scheme did not work
against Navy. N1ichigan's potential
receivers of long passes were SO well
covered and Friedman was so hard
rushed by Navy's forwards that just
hat slight fraction OF a second so
necessary TO accurate passing was not
available to make Michigan's offense
successful.
Of course, it is true that Michigan
was under the handicap of being
against an eleven that last year was
beaten. 81 to 0, and that 1t suffered
undoubtedly from the effort it put
forth a week ago against Illinois, but
even SO 1t is difficult to understand
why some of the Middle Western
elevens have not stopped Michigan
iust as effectively as did the Navy.
Catholic University lost to Loyola
Yesterday at New Orleans by to 0,