Evening star., 1927-12-06
MICHIGAN BOOKING
FOR SECOND SQUAD
Seeks Big Ten Clashes for
Extra EIeven-I0Wa to
Adopt Scheme.

By the Associated Press.
- HICAGO, December 6.-The
two-team foot ball system
long talked of both in the
~ Western Conference and in
other sections, is to become
a reality in the Big Ten next Fall,
with Michigan taking the initiative.
Iowa also has announced definite
plans for second team.
Fielding II. Yost, director Of ath-
letics. and DIR. Clarence Cook Little.
president of Michigan, have an.
nounced that games for the second
| Michigan team are being sought
among both conference and non
ference schools.
AS most conference teams have
completed their 1928 schedules, and
| none have yet indicated any inten-
| ton to follow the Michigan system,
the two teams will be rated as first
and second for the 1923 season, the
Michigan authorities said, but event
ually they are to be developed into
two squads of equal power.
Wisconsin is considering the two
team" plan also. George Little. di-
rector of athletics. and Glenn
Thistlethwaite. foot ball coach. laid
the plan before the recent Western
Conference annual meeting and got
a ruling from the faculty athletic
committee that would permit the dual
| system.
George Huff director Of athletics
and Robert G.. Zuppke, foot ball coach
at the University of Illinois. were a
bit skeptical of the success of the
"two-team" plan.
ZunnIte Not EnfI,usoJ
Nobody knows whether the two
team plan is good or not" Zuppke
said, because nobody knows what it
will lead to-
OF all the conference coaches in the
season just closed Zuppke could per.
haps come the nearest to presenting
two fairly well balanced squads.
needing no stars to draw the
crowds. After several years expert
ence with ''stars," Zuppke announced
at the testimonial banquet to Red
Grange that he hoped he never had
another star.
The "two-team" plan is a fine thing
for schools with big undergraduate
enrolment. A. A. Stagg of Chicago,
dean of the Big Ten coaches, said,
but not for him. He pointed out tha I
conference rules specify foot ball
games on eight days of the Fall term:
with no limit on the number of games
| team may play on each day. if it
| wishes. One of the teams always will
be regarded as the varsity and the
| other as the second team, Stagg said,
for conference championship pur-
| poses.
The system has it's advantages in
giving opportunities for more students
to play, Stage said. but with a small
enrolment he was sure he wouldn t
have enough good material to put a
second team in the field next Fall.
Not for Minnesota.
Minnesota has no two-team plans
for 1928, Fred Luehring, director of
athletics said, adding that this must
not be taken to mean that the eXperi-
ment might not be tried there next
Fall
How successful thhRplan will be
remains to be seens sIsuehring said.
But it is likely that most schools will
give 1t trial within a year or So"
Sooner or later all the Big Ten
schools will have at least partial
schedule for "A second team in the
opinion of Maj. John L. Griffith, ath-
letic commissioner of the conference,
for all the coaches and athletic direc-
tors voted favorably on the second
team plan when it was proposed last
May. Some of the schools may try it
out for only a game or two next Fall.
to see whether 1t works, Mai Griffith
said. but he felt that the incentive it
would give to larger number of boys
to come out for foot ball would make
the plan success.