THaE MICHIGIAN fRAILI PACE 'T j );l !:;'I. l '' ' t i 4 1 4 ' If ilk ' .,..<.. ..,.,,,,,< ,.,,.,,.., - =°-- 1 // M- 1I /1 r. M' 1 7F qq { j ! 1 U!- 1 ---- -- P.I +.r °' hsr J===d I h. L I L. A TON SPEAKS ON ITBALL SEASON Why Small Colleges Have Been So Successful In Football By Fielding H. Yost st Football Player y Must Secure AIMS TEAM DID ITS BEST 'Willie" Hestop, probably the atest football player that Michigan s ever had, gave a talk at the Umni football smoker in Detroit on evening of November 27, in which outlined the causes for the unsuc- sful season of 1915. lis talk, which centers on the ne- sity of work among undergradu- s and alumni, was printed in the troit News, and follows in part: 'The trouble with this year's team s not the coach, not the trainer, not team. The team did all it could. was with them in the clubahouse ore the Cornell game, and I >w. I have frequently heard it said t they did not have the proper nrt, that they did not fight, they not care whether they won or t. That is not true. I heard the ,several talks giver t team before the Cornell game. tch Yost spoke last, and gave them ronderful talk, and I saw five or six those big fellows let the tears roll vn their cheeks, as they listened, iting for their last game for Mich- n. A team that feels like that does it possibly can, and our team cer- mly did that day. I saw them pla, t game, and. I know what I am klng about. Michigan's team had right state of mind, and it played best football it could play. Th ch did all he could, and criticism of t is as foolish as it is ill advised.r lust shows ignorance of the critic. But the alumni and undergraduates not do all that they could. Until :higan men get into the state of id to use every proper effort to ure athletes and get them to Ann >or, Michigan will continue to have a fair football team. No coach in the world can add re than 25 per cent to the excel- ee of the team. The other 75 per t is in the material. Muchigan must better material. We have the ball instruction, we must get the terial. MVichigan has no scholarships to r athletes. There are no avail- e positions for men who must earn ir own way through college, and erally the good football prospect a son of a family in rather poor, umstances. He has had to work, . therefore he is in good physical dition. But if he goes to college must earn his way, partially, at st, and naturally enough he takes best opportunity that presents it- As long as such conditions exist higan will not have the great ball teams she once had, for pr colleges look at the matter dif- ntly from Michigan. Other schools the real football players and get men who play some football. not want my remarks construed reflection upon any of the men his year's team. We have 8ome football players-some. onditions have changed since I at Michigan. When I was in ge the alumni, students and head he athletic association made a greater effort than at present t athletes to come to Michigan. e bodies at every other big insti- still make the same efforts gan once made, but in Ann Arbor ent has changed. I do not advo- hiring athletes, but I do believe owing a genuine interest in in- g men who can play football to to Michigan. We want winning and we can have them if we all is time for the alumni, the ath- (Copyright 1915 by the Central Press Association) The small college football teams have been remarkably successful dur- ing the season just closed. Colgate defeated Yale 16 to 0 and trimmed the Army 13 to 0. Virginia beat Yale 10 o 0, and W. and J. humbled the Elis with a score of 16 to 6. The Michigan Aggies showed remarkable strength. The University of Pittsburgh and Washington and Lee won their share of games. Why is it thatsmall colleges, each with a meager student body, are able to defeat teams selected from univer- sities with enrollments of thousands? I have been asked this question numberless times, and believe I know the answer. In the first place, the one-year resi- dence rule and the three-year play- ing limit of the large universities keep away natural athletes, the husky boys who are anxious to make a var- sity team immediately on entering college. Add to these facts the secondary consideration that the large univer- sities as a rule have higher entrance requirements and insist upon a higher standard of scholarship. The big uni- versities are in the limelight. Even if they were disposed to be more len- ient toward athletes, their prominence does not admit of any such leniency. Further, the boy of average means who has to work for his college course is apt to feel an easier environ- ment in a small school, where there is not much show of wealth or aristoc- racy. Most of the good football play- ers have been poor boys, or boys in very ordinary circumstances. It is natural that boys of this class should be attracted to the small col- leges, where they can work their way through and still feel no social dis- advantage. But the big thing to emphasize is this: The ambitious, aggressive foot- COACH YOST ball player just out of high school is attracted to the small college be- cause he stands a chance of making the varsity immediately and playing all of his four years. He is a bit afraid of the entrance requirements of the big universities--in fact, he often knows that he couldn't get in without conditons. He also knows that eligibility rules are not very strictly observed, sometimes, in the small schools. He knows that he has a chance to play summer baseball without being barred. Why? Because nobody takes the trouble to question the eligibility of the men from small colleges. The small colleges are spared the limelight of eligibility inquiry that Hloods the big university teams. The past season furnishes plenty of illus- trations. Yale lost LeGore, star full- back, Galvin of Wisconsin, star full back, had to drop out, and Minnesota had to give up Solon, its fullback and captain, all because they had play- ed summer baseball. In the meantime, nobody bothered to inquire whether any small college men had played baseball or not. . A four-year football player has the wonderful asset of experience. The team playing four-year men has more of its old team left over from the prev- ious season with which to build a new team than can be the case in the large universities. The small colleges usually play longer schedules, which also helps materially in training and seasoning men. The man who gets a chance to play in a maximum of not overafifteen or twenty games in his whole college career has not the opportunity for development afforded the man who plays in eight or ten games every season for four years., Briefly, the ambitious preparatory school football player finds it easier to get into a small college, easier to stay there, easy to make the team the first year if he is a star, and easy- to escape too searching inquiry about his eligibility. Ie has a chance to play four full years. My own opinion is that young men should find it far preferable to master the higher scholarship requirements of the large universities rather than take the easier way. They would be much better off in the end, in com- pensation for the greater effort. As further reward, they would gain the greater prestige that the large univer- sity affords. Football men are born, and then de- veloped. It is impossible to develop some men, as they do not have the native ability. As good a coach as "Pop" Warner found this out when with poor material at Carlisle during the season of 1914 he lost nine games. The size of a student body has very little to do with the success of a foot- ball team. The number of first-class athletes who choose to enroll them- selves determines results. Give me fifteen men naturally fitted for football, and the student body can number 200 or 10,000 without affect- ing the outcome. PLAN "M" CLUB DINNERS EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO FOS- TER GOOD FELLOWSHIP AMONG FOOTBALL MEN With a view to fostering good fel- lowship among the members of the; football squad, a series of "M" club dinners to be held at the Michigan Union has been planned during the year. Those whose names were placed on the indoor training list will be in- vited to attend. At the dinners efforts will be made to keep before the men the op'por- tunity, and at the same time the task, which is theirs, in molding the ma- terial which is Michigan's hope for next fall. The men who have been chosen to go through the winter training at Wa- terman gymnasium have spent a long season, and it is no light task to con- tinue the grind of training through- out the year. These dinners will be in the nature of miniature mass meet- ings for the football men alone. Roosevelt Keeps Out of 1916 Race New York, Dec. 1.-Colonel Roose- velt has taken steps to undo the action of the Progressive Republican state committee which placed his name at the head of the primary ballot. At his office today it was emphatically made plain that the Colonel is not seeking the office of President. TO STAGE SHOOT DECEMBER J. It. COLE AND W. F. EVANS ' BE MAIN FEATURES AT EXH BITION An exhibition shoot is to be stage at Ferry Field at 3:00 o'clock FridE afternoon, December 3, by member of the Michigan Rifle club. John R. Cole, Jr., and W. F. Evan are to be the main features of tb shoot, and the reputations which thei two cracksmen have built up for ther selves gives promise of an interestir exhibition. Mr. Evans holds the title of char pion one arm shot of the world, an his feats are said to approach th marvelous. One of his favorite stun is to shoot at a 22-short thrown in the air, and attempt to explode ti cartridge. The exhibition Saturday will not I restricted to members of the Rif club, and all others who are interes ed in marksmanship are invited 1 that organization to be present. Prof. lI. W. Aigler Talks tq Jr. Lai An informal program and smok. was held at the Union Tuesday nigl by the junior law class. Prof. Ralp W. Aigler of the law faculty gave talk. _THE- DAILY SPORTOSUOPE It is understood that a few of these critics who have been selecting All- American elevens, actually saw some. of the men that they picked, in action. Burglars robbed Illinois students of $30 which the undergraduates had won by backing their football eleven during this past season. However, it is safe to say that there have been no such dire calamities in the vicinity of Ann Arbor, Mich., -New Haven, Conn., or Philadelphia, Pa. At least none have been reported to date. Vanderbilt comes to bat with the suggestion that Michigan play Yale, the entire gate receipts to go to the loser. Thanks, "Vandy," old pal, we'll keep your timely little advice ,in mind, and we might challenge Yale under those stipulations, except for one fact. We need the money. Willie Hoppe won the recent billiard tournament with ease despite the lib- eral handicaps that he conceded to every one of his opponents. It has been suggested that in all future matches, Hoppe's opponents should be charged the regular price of admis- sion, the same as are the rest of the spectators. Michigan baseball authorities are busy with the schedule, and many students are wondering whether the 1916 team will win as big a percentage of their games as did the team of 1914. They may, and here's hoping, but one contest can be officially chalk- ed up as "lost" right now. It is as- sumed that the annual alumni game will be booked, as usual. It doesn't make much difference who play the other eight positions, but if one, eorge Harold Sisler pitches, the only question is just how much to nothing the score will be. The name of T. Hawley Tapping has been suggested to this column as worthy of consideration for the Sportoscope's All-Campus eleven. The argument is advanced that Tapping is a close friend of "Germany" Schulz, and thus after the .game had started, he could sneak out behind the stands and persuade Schulz to disguise him- self in Tapping's outfit and finish the game. There is only one drawback to this, and that is the fact .that we do not see how any of the present stars could be displaced. The only solu- tion would be to play 12 men, and this could easily be arranged for, un- doubtedly. This Tapping goes on the Roll of Honor. i MAY GilE NUMERALS FOR INDOOR BASEBALL Director Rowe Holds Out Promise Class Insignia if Sufficient Interest is Aroused of Phoenix Club to Give Smoker Tonight Phoenix club, an organization of men from Detroit Western High School, will give a smoker at the Phoenix house at 8:00 o'clock tonight in honor of the Totem club, an organ- ization of men from Eastern High School. Douglas A. Graham, '16, and Mr.; Matthai, a Detroit attorney, will speak. Many Detroit alumni will be present and plenty of eats and a general good time is being arranged for. Forty Miners Killed in Boomer Mine Charleston, W. V., Dec. 1.-Officials o fthe Boomer Coal & Coke Company announced this afternoon that at least 40 miners were killed in the Boomer mine, trapped more than a mile from the entrance by explosion this after- noon. Ten miners, rescued from the sub-entrance to the mine at 6 o'clock this evening, reported having seen many men apparently dead lying a short distance from the scene of the explosion. Interest in interclass indoor base- ball has soared above par with the announcement from the athletic as- sociation that numerals may be given for this sport. While it was at first understood that class insignia would not be given for the indoor diamond series, the num- ber of classes sending teams into the league may cause a reversal of this decision. Director Rowe yesterday advanced the statement that in case sufficient interest were shown by the classes to make the competition of such a nature as to place indoor base- ball on a level with the other inter- class sports, that numerals would be awarded to the high teams in much the same manner that they are won in baseball, basketball and football. Those class teams which still wish to enter the league, should make ap- plication to the Intramural office at once, as the complete schedule for the indoor season will be arranged so as to start with Monday night's games at Waterman gymnasium. The practice sessions on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights, from 7:00 to 9:00 o'clock are affording an i LUNCHES AND LAUG HTER Possibly you fail to see the connection but if the foregoing combination is over your head you will soon get the vital spark if you eat at THE RENELLEN A PLACE OF DISTINCTIVE SERVICE H.OSPIC E I honestly believe that there would be more laughter in this world and hence it would be a lot better place to live if more of its people could command Renellen Service. i' ssociation and the students to in taking an active interest, proper lines, in inducing prep N. B.-Ellen Young has promised us something special for tomorrow Dinner. athletes to come to Michigan. excellent opportunity to the managers we will get the material that to get their men on the floor before schools get, and because we the opening of the series, and from Cost and because we are Mich- the showing made to date it is ex- aen we will again whip every- pected that 'the rivalry will be keen off the map." from the time of the opening clash. Drop in and see what she has for you. R. V. i Ze Daily Ad