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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDA'Y', NOVEMBER 23, 1918.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1918.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1918.
IN CHARGE OF THIS ISSUE
Editor-Jos. A. Bernstein
Hanager-Le Grand A. Gaines
Editorial Assistants-David Landis,
James C. J. Martin, Herman A.
August, Henry I. O'Brien, Muriel
Bauman, Marguerite Clark.
Business Assistants-M. B. Covell,
W. C. Parmenter, J. F. Scherger,
Ned Ives, C. F. Schneider, C. W.
Wier, Edward Priehs, Robert Mc-
Kean, Era R. Welsh.
MICHIGAN COURTS NO ALIBI
Michigan is not looking for any alibi
to spring on the sporting world if her
chances of winning the Conference
title fail to materialize.
Certain gridiron critics in Detroit1
claim that the Maize and Blue will
not have an alibi to present this year
on account of two things. First, '
Michigan formerly had a ruling that
no freshman could play on the Var-
sity, and the Aggies have always em-1
ployed first year men. This year both
teams are using freshmen.
Secondly, the Wolverines generallyc
play the weaker teams early in the
season, and if defeated by one of them,
the alibi is said to come from the
Maize and Blue headquatrers that the1
men have not received sufficient train-
ing.
ThIs year practically every team
playing Michigan employs freshmen.
Every game has been a hard one, and
there have been no minor contests
early In the season. Therefore, the
Detroit writers say that there is posi-
tively no alibi for Michigan if shee
loses this year.
But why should Michigan have an
alibi? If a team is the winner itt
should not crow loudly over the fact,
unless it chances to defeat an aggre-
gation conceded to be superior. If it
loses, there shouldunot be any sobbing.
It should come out frankly and admit
that it was defeated by a superior,
faster or cleverer eleven. That is the
way the Wolverines intend to do, al-
ways have done, and will continue to
do, if perchance a defeat should come
to the Michigan camp.
But the biggest reason why the
Maize and Blue needs no alibi this
year is because the Wolverine fans
know that the Michigan eleven is a
first class one and that nothing short
of a football whirlwind can beat it.
There is no doubt about M. A. C.
having a dark horse this year.
"Only 11 men against 11 men," but
it doesn't look that way sometimes.
That makes another game to get
even for.I
DOULSSEES BIG
SEASON NEXT YEAR
Coach Yost's Right Hand Man Pays
Tribute to Teacinigs of his Chef,
the Hurry Up Man
AUGUST INTERVIEWS LINE
INSTRUCTOR ON NEXT TEAK
Former Wolverine Stars will Return to
School Upon Discharge from Army,
Making Formidable Eleven
(By Herman A. August)
"The fall of 1919 should witness the
gridiron game at the pinnacle of its
popularity and universality.
The coming season ought to see the
football game take its place as the
foremost American sport.
And-to us in this immediate vicin-
ity this last is the most important and
most pleasing of all-Michigan next
fall ought to possess the most formid-
able and invincible football eleven it
has had since the days when 'Mich-
igan ruled the west and Yale reigned
over the east.'"
That's the way Prentiss Douglas,
chief aide-de-camp to Fielding H'.
Yost, a faithful football fan for more
than a decade, and a deep student of
football fundamentals, sums up the
future of the great college game.
Peace Brings Change
"Yesterday fans were many, but
footballers few," says the smiling
Michigan assistant coach. "Tomor-
row, when the camps and cantonments
are emptied and their charges allow-
ed to go back to their respective
duties, we're going to see a remark-
able increase in the number of the
athletically-inclined men. At least
this war has taught us to fight, and
the man who is coming out of the
training of war is going to be a scrap-
per of the first rank, full of all the
pep and fight that one needs, to be a
worth-while football player.
"More than once in days gone by
have men of splendid physique report-
ed to us, out on Ferry field, only to
leave the next day because they
couldn't stand the rough handling
they were getting. The trouble was
they weren't used to the hard work
that football required. Very few peo-
ple really realize what the player
must go through. It's war in minia-
ture, and we all know the kind of
men that war demands. The camps,
and trenches have developed the man
was fit but scared of hard work
and also the man who has the goods
but was afraid to take a chance.
"Also the army and navy have both
emphasized the great value of ath-
letics in their training. The best
coaches in the country have been
called into service to make the boys
better fit for the work ahead of them.
The result is already apparent. Every-
where interest in sports is increasing;
everywhere men are taking part in
COACH YOST
For 18 years the coach of Michigan
elevens, the producers of the wonder-
ful machine that gave the Aggies such
a hard fight at Ferry field this aft-
ernoon, believes in getting into things
with fighting clothes on.
games and not merely standing on the
sidelines watching others play."
What 1919 Holds
So much for the prospects of foot-
ball in general. Now, what does 1919
hold in store for Michigan? "Prent"
Douglass believes we could wish for
no better prospects.
Glance over the list of the ex-grid-
ders that are expected back here next
year to resume their studies, and see
if you can blame the ever-optimistic
"Doug", "Tank' Wieman, "Clif,"
Sparks, "Pat" Smith, "Butch" Froem-
ke, Peach and West, the latter the
1916 All-fresh captain. The list in-
cludes a smashing plunger, a consist-
ent open-field runner, a booting artist
of note, a forward passing end that
made critics and coaches sit up and
take notice. Add these stars to Steke-
tee and Vick and their kin and then
say whether we have a right to hope
for a championship 1919 aggregation
that will do justice to the stiff sched-
ule that Athletic Director Phil. G.
Bartelme promises for next season.
Culver Visits Syracuse Game
Ensign Ward C. Culver was in town
'last Saturday to see our boys wallop
on Syracuse. He was a football star
here last year and is now captain of
the Selfridge field team. He was also
captain of the Great Lakes eleven.
'YOST PRODUCES TEAM
IN FACE OFHNICPS
WA , INFLUENZA AND FRESHMEN
llOLI) NO TERROR FOR
COACH
(By Jos. A. Bernstein)
In the face of some of the greatest
handicaps that a football coach could
experience, Fielding H. Yost, coach of
the Michigan football squad, has sue-
ceeded in turning out what is con-
sidered by some of the foremost crit-
ics; to be one of the best football
teams in the country.
With the short time alloted for foot-
ball practice, by military authorities,
to contend with, the coach was hand-
ed his first handica of the year. Then
came the "flu' epidemic, and finally
the freshmen.
Freshmen flay
For the first time in many years,
the eligibility rules under which the
team played permitted the first year
men to take an active part on the,
varsity squad. The problem offered
a hard one for any coach, yet Coach
Yost went at it with such a will that
in a short time he had developed two
freshmen into the foremost stars on
the team.
An hour and a half each day was
all the time military or naval author-
ities could permit the men to devote
to the gridiron game, yet in this short
period each day, the Michigan coach
succeeded in his remarkable work.
With concentrated and specialized
practice every day, and occasional
blackboard talks for the theoretical
end of the game, all systematized in-
to a football building organization,
the team was at last perfected, ready
for the schedule.
However, the original schedule,
somewhat mutilated as the result of
the influenza epidemic which prevail-
ed over the country, left a period of
more than a month during which time,
the Wolverines were given no more
action than the practice field afforded.
But at the close of this period they
were ready for any opposition that
could be placed against them.
Win Three Games
That they succeeded is evident from
the record of the team to date. Three
times they met and defeated strong
teams, among which was the strong-
est team in the east, the Syracuse
eleven.
Despite all the handicaps that he
had to contend with, Coach Yost's
team of 1918 is one of the strongest
in years. Predictions are to the effect
that it will take the championship of
the country, or at least the honors of
the conference.
With characteristic hurry up spirit,
the Wolverine coach has succeeded
in making his war time eleven one of
the greatest in the history of the
school, despite the handicaps which
he was forced to meet.
UNDEFEATED ELEVENS MEET
IN SMOKY CITY TODAY
Pittsburgh, Nov. 23.--Two of the
most remarkable football machines
in the history of the modern gridiron
game meet here today, when the elev-
ens of Georgia Institute of Technolo-
gy and University of Pittsburgh play
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MICHIGAN
TEAM
Was prepared to satisfy your idea of
N hat a foot ball game should be
The Arcade Cafeteria
(Nickels Arcade)
is prepared to furnish you an equal variety
in good food. EAT here and you will
breathe a sigh of contentment and say,
"This Is The End Of A Perfect Day."
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for the benefit of the United War
Work fund. Not since the season of
1914 has either team lowered its col-
ors to a rival combination and dur-
ing this period of close to four foot-
ball years both combinations have
amassed point totals running into the
hundreds.
Anticipating the
enlarged demand
for photographs (for the boys over
there)we have made special arrange-
ments to meet it
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However don't delay-- time is short.
Send your photographs by mail and
save your Xmas boxes
for other
things
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SUGDEN
DRUG
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PRESCRIPTIONS
AFTER THE GAME.
Visit Our New Lunch Room
Everything to Eat
Hot and Cold Drinks
We Make Our Own Baked Goods
TUTTLE'S LUNCH ROOM
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We said before the game that
would be worth the money. Now
know it.
It
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Porto Rico Takes Up Football
New York, Nov. 23.-Football, not
soccer, but the-man-to-man intercol-
legiate type, has been started in Por-
to Rico and thee soldiers are taking
to it like ducks to water, despite heat
and sandy playing field that elsewhere
would be considered too heavy for fast
team work.
The Specialty Hat Shop
Is showing beautiful little hats for dress
and party wear at
REASONABLE PRICES
Emma B. Fogerty
117 E. Liberty Street
338 Maynard
Across from Arcade
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