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MICHIGAN HS WON
TWICE IN IG6 TEN
Tied for Third Championship in Major
Sports Since Re-entrance Into
Conference
INDOOR TRACK TITLE ALSO
TAKEN BY WOLVERINE TEAM
Maize and Blue Are Now Conquerers
of West in Truth as Well as
Song
A few years ago Grantland Rice
wrote a bit of verse about the good
old times when "Yale was king of the
conquered East and Michigan ruled
the West."
At that time the Maize and Blue
was persisting in her eastern policy,
with indifferent- success. Rice was
thinking of the days of 1901 to 1905, of
the point a minute teams, days when
Michigan athlets were piling up
Western Conference championships in
every sport.
For years undergraduates sang the
stirring refrain, "Hail, hail to Mich-
igan, the ,Champions of the West,"
while the Varsity was mauling Syra-
cuse orr.Cornell. Visiting Conference
friends would ask where we go that
claim to the western title.
Have Had Title Twice
They no longer ask that question.
The reason why is contained in Mich-
igan's record since returning to the
Conference. The Maize and Blue be-
gan active participation in Big Ten
athletics in the fall of 1917. Of the
five major sportschampionships de-
ided since that time, we have amass-
*d.exactly one half the titles; two,
with a tie for 'third. In 1918 we led
the Conference in baseball and track,
and ranked with Illinois in football.
No other school won more than one,
the 1917 football title going to Ohio
State, and the basketball honors to
Wisconsin.
Our start in Big Ten athletics was a
hit saddening to alumni and students
alike. The 1917 football team dropped
its only Conference game to North-
western. True, two of the mainstays
of the eleven were kept out on elig-
ibility rules, but we lost. This was
followed by the depressing basketball
record, when- visiting teams counted
on'their AnnArbor games as sure
boosts to their percentages. But
Michigan followers remembered that
it was the first year for basketball,
and waited..
One Minor Championship
They were rewarded when the track
team whipped Chicago decisively, and
followed this up by winning the Con-
ference indoor championship. The
spiked athletes swept on through the
season in the same fashion, winning
again from Chicago, an crowning the
year with an overwhelming victory
over the whole West in the outdoor
championships.
Meanwhile the baseball team was
succeeding in the same decisive fash-
ion. Their schedule included every
strong team in the Big Ten. The cham-
pionship was finally decided by their
slashing victories on their western
trip, when Chicago, Iowa, and Illinois
were beaten within four days. The
season closed with but one defeat, at
the hands of our ancient rivals, the
Maroons.
Last fall Yost was not to be out-
done by Farrell or Lundgren. The
football season closed without a de-
feat. Unfortunately the war and the
influenza, with the bashfulness of Ill-
inois, kept us from an unchallenged

title.
Good Chance to Continue
The chances for the continuation of
this remarkable record are very good.
Baseball chances are again excellent,
to say the least. It is difficult to see
how the 1919 track team can be kept
from making an even more brilliant
record than its predecessor. The
basketball team will at least vastly
improve the. showing made in 19-S.
Our place in the minor sports will
be just as good in time. The 1 18
tennis team had a good record,
though topped by Chicago and Wiscon-
sin. Last fall's cross country team
was prevented by the war from show-
ing its worth. As yet we have not de-
veloped teams for Conference competi-
tion in swimming, boxing, wrestling,
gymnastics or fencing; but these will

The basketball team will need,
a manager next year. This is I
an excellent opportunity for
juniors and sophomores. All
men desiring to try out call
Harry Heffner, '20, phone 18.
es. In general most of the titles had
been going to Chicago, Minnesota, Ill-
inois, and Wisconsin, with Purdue oc-
casionally gathering in a crumb in
basketball or baseball. In the fall of
1916 Ohio State invaded the charmed
circle, obtaining the football cham-
pionship. Now Michigan is back, and
gathering in the lion's share.
However, the spirit of the Confer-
ence schools is excellent. The gener-
al feeling is, the more good teams the
better, and let the best one win. Mich-
igan shares that feeling, but her fol-
lowers may be pardoned their pride
that amid strenuous competition, she
has again assumed her quite familiar
place as "Champion of the West."

YEARLINGS WORK HARD
TO FORM GOOD QUINTET

handling any more.
Squad Is Working Hard
After the first elimination Coach
Rowley started in with the funda-
mentals of the game and took the'
whole squad right through a thor-!
ough training. Some of the candi-
dates have had much more experi-
ence than others and the standard
of the players differs greatly. It was
thought at first by many of these ex-
perienced ones that nothing could be
learned in this "kindergarten" class in
basketball. It did not take them long
to realize, however, that Coach Row-
ley was presenting the whole gaane
in an altogether different light than
they had ever viewed it before. It
seems that the college basketball en-
tails a number of new principles that
are entirely omitted in the prep
school training.
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CHICAGO COMPOSED
OF RETURNED MEN
Chicago's fast basketball team, a
championship contender in the West-
ern conference because of its three
victories and no defeats so far this
season, is composed of veterans that
have returned from various army
and navy camps in the last few
weeks. The customary Christmas
holiday tour was called off this year
as the team lacked players of high
caliber at that time. Old men com-
ing back, however, have made a
powerful machine that has won eas-
ily from Iowa, Purdue, and Michigan.
Iowa was considered a possible Con-
ference winner, and Michigan was
looked on as the 1919 darkhorse.
A week before Christmas, Captain
Paul Hinkle returned from Camp
MacArthur, Texas. With him came

McGuire, a forward from last
and H. 0. Crisler,_ a sub guari
C. Gorgas, the best inthe Cc
ence at center last year, was
charged just after Christmas
the Cleveland Naval school. Bi
who starred at forward in the 14
gan game, got out of the tank
almost the same time. H. G.
liams', a forward who came from
tress Monroe last week, is the
to return and with Gale Bloc
forward, now ineligible, coming
the Pier Naval school,' Decembe
completes the list of veterans
from last year.
With this group of men to
with Coach Pages is breathing
freely and the basketball situati
beginning to assume a pre-wa
pect.
You will 'iways find satisfactic
adverltsing in the Daily.--Adv.

TWENTY-SIX MEN REMAIN
SQUAD; SURVIVED
FIRST CUT

ON

Progress is being made rapidly in
freshman basketball e these days. At
the first call for try-outs over 50
candidates appeared and Waterman
gymnasium was crowded to the limit
for several nights with both Varsity
and yearlings. An elimination had to
take place at once and Coach Row-
ley, who has charge of the fresh-
men, chose 10 different teams and
picked out those who showed up best
by his observation of the scrimmages.
The squad has dwindled down now
to 26 and Rowley has expressed re-
gret at having been forced to let so
many promising men go. However,
on account of the facilities now at
hand he cannot see his way towards

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