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4 We ree rW? 2 IVE cents: 51 VOL 74 NO DETROIT MICHIGAN SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1 5 1 908 SPORTING SECTION i 111 wMssgagaggggg ste SECTION WORST DEEAT THE YOST REGIME i it U5W Vjz Vs HOLLENBACK MAKINGTHE IRST TOUCHDOWN THE SECOND HAL igures in Pennsylvania Game Are 29 to 0 Men of the East Proving Best Eleven School Has Had Against To Schulz and Allerdice Prove Costly side lines to advise Corn Yost to Yost play that wasn't allowed a Incid vAViniN SCHULZ MICHIGAN CAPTAIN HOLLENBACK PENNSYLVANIA YALE COMES ROM BEHIND in losing Brings Great Victory to Old (ocs to Pieces in Second Half ion it hidden Coi tthe Harvard game on though the1 first half 9' JI iirlhtirl Heycr tli i incet on goal il'IOII half i purpose which had i 1 1 1 1 1 the Pass wa rriors miles hud been brought Plt Dowd 7 IT A PENNSYLVANIA MICHIGAN Goebel A If HUBS He: A HENUHUOK A Center SCHULZ A Err Ji Left end end Quarter Bt: A Manter Means Union Co! University i brilliant foot A striking contrast to this ar yj Igloju sly vkepb Leld it IoaIr Utu cover and the posts Cam gio Tech 0 Hamilton College 0 GASTON VI ET HI UH MAUKS Dillon Bergen Bead Hight Hight Hight end Hight tackle Hight guard Left guard Lett tackle ba nd a nd went know only to Sinnmaryt Bingham Johnson Phllbln Murphy Wheaton Steffen hidings LINTHICUM NVASMUND If A 4 i I In hold 11 gh I mg a nil ii ehiril the heart' seem i out of his followers Wight Bell McCiillx li O'JUiurke LANIBERTOX PIKE HHADUOCK C11OOKS KEIXATH MILLER MANTER SOMERS NN HOLLENBACK DOUGLASS ALLERDICE DAVISON Daly ield Goals Sub li obs 1 And there the ofiteials lot' of police on Monday morning Siegirng Waller Macadyen Buckingham McGregor Booth' Hamman Welch i' Bishop A fVtAx ray of hardened 'ea mpa igners' is the Michigan teanj with but one man in its line up who Plight be termed an old playeri Kchulz Two of the men were playing their lirsl games yesterday and several other down of the second period which virtually cinched the contest came 1 (i orcester 0 5 Massachusetts A A A been so complete the winning team margin over the forwards til CK't'llMiOiial II al Iln'UM anti the exi'erlencc gained lit thh Gopher battle tlnie 'was taken out although number of substitutes were made The aunts nuiry: CHICAGO Schoinincr Hoffman Khi horn Killy Badem oeh Herschel Eliott Kelly alk second halt and I otf line to K'l 'rhe play itself is described in de tail elsew here This half without incident The seeoiitlliacL a start that took the heart out of the Michigan team and froze hopes that until then liar! welled in the hos tile entire 7b minutes only two on which mine nt one opportunity to try a rx i a oom i a rim nifi iSTORY THE GAME SHOWS THAT PENN A 'I 4 LOOKS BETTER AT ALL ANGLES PLAY which Michigan was fooled so that Penn recovered the ball a forward pass that looked to hit lie 'ground before being touched but that was declared legal any protest on tlie'iai't anyone: on the Held and two lino plunges On this series of plays Penn carried the' ball from he mid field mark to a touchdown without over having relinquished it though she kicked off to start the half Afterthat touchdowns were mere ii' tiling new in the jeis Brides Coy bmleiiei Ty den in nn 1 loiTniuii 'Shearer Mows Hutchinson Princeton Uno and it required the combined least four Princeton this Yale player a nnrl I'aiy jwho' replaced 0 ield respectively In i It 1 1 1 1 1 1 a ed hr i 1 1 ia iut possible that havng' Lt into the grueling con mie when the Princeton living theirs work shone ian it' would have done nf 1a 1 maL sti aiiu vu year ago It was handled by three men Keinath and Alains in the backfield the latter making a very short run witli the ball to niake sure that it had the legal five yards leeway and by Draper taking the ball on the long down the field and completing the touchdown Only one man was near him and he seriously threaten to get the runner It was the most spectacu lar pass of the game Michigan made most of hers straight down the lieldvPenn used a variety all at angles few' of them ishort Michigan made consistent gains with the forward pass but once that light after this touchcio'wn After the kick off she got the ball into shadow of goal posts on a penalty and fumble then Jost It Then from mfd field she carried it back on the forward pass These two plays closely followed oa other and the same men Al lerdice to Wasmund figured in bbtli La rgely hrough tho medlum of the it lining flood and curried atul down to defea i ctrs Die Uinir i "light bit terly 'to'avoid mg disaster lut the 'When near the end mill half Capt Jiillon I run forward passes a liptrac'o for num Jtot sides were la vish in use of the basket ha 11 1 variet of Rugby There was 'Just one Penn made good on a lot of her trials Michigar) seldom managed to have he man atid the bail form a junc tion at theriglit' spot i1 touchdown was scor ed on ope of forxvard pass one lil baffled Michigan just as IJenn iwas baffled ly the NV KMT Prmisyl vanlu Mieiifgsn 0 Chicago Cornell Kansas 20 Nebraska Ohio Slate 17 Vanderbilt Illinois Wcsli yan 7U Lincoln 0 AV ester a Bcbcrvc 11 Dctutlsun 0 Caso 11 AVesleyun 0 Kenyon Is Wooster Drake 12 Jnwa i Illinois 15 Purdue Si Louis 6 Creighton Northwestern 1 Lawrence Aines Grinnell 0 Iv resorted to tlio' on side Yale re lied almost upon runs through tackle mid: around the ends and line pl unxes 1 1 was during One of these des "1 and Tihbott of 1'iila' Tibboft by bls i nn i aroim'd' ends his I 'lodging in nperi field possible Princeton's only while with that Hiitv and grit which iho chief characteristics guard RILEY tnckle CKUNirNCKER tn he kicking dopa rtmeni of the gamein 1 his a grcal 'advantage to rhe Blue tun Coy Ii igh lt i ting spirals Averc not on ly hard to handle but 1 they gave' the Yale ends plenty of' time to gef he field and they were generally 'oti the Prim ton men when the ball was caught Tibbott Dawson ffbT AlcCrohan ij V' I Coy 1 from touchdowns: Hobbs 1 Waller ixts laiean for Haines fnrvLllley Duly for JTielil Murphy for Wheaton Bingham for 'Johnson Corey tor Bingham:" Pfeifler for Dawson for ITelifer for McNul jen tor' Buckingham Mcad ven for 'McGregor "for Mcadyen Bergen for DiUon Bishop tor AVelch Referee i Pendleton ot Bowdoin Um pire' 1 II Minds of Pennsylvania ield 11 Hall ot Daitmouth Lines Young nt Cornell Time: 35 min ute hiKs Attendance? 30 0l0 lUgbt'hnlfLeft half Eullback irst half Pennsylvania U3 BY JOE JACKSON Ann Arbor Mich November 14 tJMichigan's lean years contin ued Penn has again fattened at her expense or the third time in as many seasons these east and west rivals met today auditor the third time Penn friumhed 'AJfever before has her victory never before has had so great a "tThisS time the in favor many points Red and Blue delphia when present series not only the lias ie an has sustained since Yost took charge of its football fortunes Not in all his experience here has he seen any eleven pile up five toucKdotvns on ms proteges Not onlv did threaten to defeat her counted their in big con tests in minutes On th' very of the all import ant conflict Yost was undecided as t'his line up while team tvitlvi the exception of one of night Quarter score was 21) tb 0 nearly twice as being scored by the as in 1906 at the first game of this was played 'It was most crushing defeat administered to Mlnh but that the Maize pud Blue Worthwlm Mowr Hchnmim'r from Gardner Hclmnuncr ICvitri IVroiin 1 i Hivinl I Nell Snow Michigan' Head linotnnan Riordan Wisconsin ield Judge Klug A Time of Th I rtv fiveminuU'B ISSUES STATEMENTS not in I lies history of the these two great unl two 'men' snotic so Milwaukee Win November President O'Brien of the American association announced today them ivas absolutely no truth In Hu reports that tlie association had'tc nexved its option on its Jioctli side grounds in Chicago or tliat Il bud been after a park In Pittsburg I said the a ssocial is after peace end not Avar ami will not try to Invade any city now by tho major leagues He iwill go to Buffalo Monday to meet President I'owers of the' Eastern league and arrange a meeting of the minor league magnates thee for Wednes day OOTBaYl RESULTS Neit Ltfiey carry such a dis tance as thosei of Coy A point where prince oncompletely out Annnnrn Wa in tackling in tlie opennnic after time a Yale man would miss a Princeton runner The tackling of Princeton was hard! Pro positions has been "a unit for the entire season ootball tvisdom is acquired in the thick of the fight not in chalk talks and the Red and Blue men were as much wiser than their rivals as their experience was greater There really were complete games on erry field 'on tills sad Saturday afternoon The first half was a battle in fact as well as In name the second was a massacre a rout a period that made Michigan hearts bleed for the men who AAiearing their colors 7 All was nbt joy in' opening period by any means as the Quakers made a touchdown and kicked a goal but its later ments brought the onljf ray of hope that Michigan was to see all after noon After the easterners made the score 'and Michigan got' her back to tlie" wind the Wolverines rallied 'and for the remainder of tlie half kept the fighting in territory By means of two cleverly executed forward passes the men: of Yost were able to carry the ball from midfield to their 7 yard The Maize and Blue host in the stands could see nothing but a touchdown and called frantically for the score that would make It game Seven yards is'a long distance when it has to be hewn from solid rock however and that is what the Pennsy line turned out to be 'i' Two men' who tried to the' ball across that little gap Of terri tory were buried beneath an aval anche of red and blue and with but one more to trick in Wasmund and Allerdice fell back to the 20 yard line as though: to trv a goal from placement' The signal was for forward ipass lioAvever and ball when tossed 'struck the ground behind the: Penn goaL line harmless touch ba ck 'Vi Pennsylvania was able to punt Continued on Page' Part 1 Yale Princeton 6 Harvard 6 Dartmouth 0 AA'eat Point 6 AA' ash Ins toil Jeffer son 6 Virginia Georgetown 1 Harvard reshmen rt Yale kreshmen Syracuse 28 Tufts 0 Carlisle 8 Pittsburg 0 Navy Penn State 0 'Williams 24 AVealeyan 4 Amherst fl Middlebury 5 Bowdnln 10 Maine 0 Brown 12 Vermont: Holy crone Springfield 5 New York le go 3 Marietta 27 Caleato 23 Harvard reshmen 0 Yale reshmen SOUTIL Kentucky 12 rojio Polytechnic being pushed into hisabilo Avbcn lie went to the grassmukinr a 'hard tnt'klc was slowed up for Hie rest of that period eiintl absolutely unable BiiKtln tlie play in the second halt He wanted to go through though he coulil neither aid in stopping plays nor help tn ndMincing So bad' was bls condition that Referee Langford himself halted the game in the second hall and went to thd BY A BATCHELOH Ann Arbor Mich November II Outclasseki as team and individu ally with thf exception of tlie cen ter position Michigan was helpless before tlie magnificent ivork of the Pc 1 a i a 1 1 VYo 1 or I cn ds were circled the line ripped asunder tlie kicker outdistanced the team outguessed by the sturdy sons of XYlliiarn Penn Nothing was saved from the wreck except the knowl edge that eleven players of the Maize ami Blue did the best they knew against hopeless odds Probably the majority of the Michigan alumni and undergrad uates despaired of victory beforo the battle but the greatest alarmist among their number hardly expect ed the awful beating that the green team got at the hands of what "is probablvtbe fastest aggregation the gridiron has seen since the days Ot tlie IieW lUOlllUll ukhlmn xvas walloped bA' splendid machine there is at least thi consolation AVI th seasoned ma terial to xvork on the Quaker coach es have built up an aggregation that will stand among the greatest If there is a weak spot In the Red and Blue Michigan failed to find it yesterday afternoon in 70 minutes of play Each man is a star in bis position yet so well have the part machine been fitted that the individual is to a large ex tent subordinated It is eleven men Avorking as one a team of stars and a star team Practicallj' ail of the Pennsylvan ians are veterans battle scarred campaigners to whom the tricks of tiie football trade an opembook They are old In years and in ex perience muscular rangy and ac Pennaylvauia 1: Michigan 0 Second Michigan 0 Hollenback 2 Drstper rnnn' cnrlett I Michigan never rival out sue only' once in There were the path at nart AVus un fn tlie first period she had I 11 Ud 1 Nil A fc' Al X2 8 1 rk I I 1 f' I I I 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 RIIUU twice to pierce the Renn line with tlie bull inside 1 tic 10 yard On the third down however she elected to trya forward pass mid lost the hull Irreparable injury was (done i to chances by the disabling of Captain Schulz About the middle of the first half he an injur' some knee appnr cull case with' Dillon Neither eleven wassure in handling punts but this was to tlie slippery ball 3 Yale students began their cele bru iont after the blew for a cesSat ion of hos a neaneti mu laic did the famous' snake dance through oilier antics foot pan en tnusias is Left tackle Left guard Center of the thar Gapt Dlllon llilcon remained in pretty rbad evera I join but tlie su the nbiekv captain Is suffering from a general relaxa tion and' that luscondition is not serintis 'Twice iluring the second half Coy attempted field goals but on each occasion tic failed His first endeavor was from inid lield Tlie 'heavv avi terrsoaked: 'ball sped di rect I toward thebar and dropped onlv a few Juchen sliQrt Ji wa wondcrtlii Rick A ate Mrong in Kiekiug was'partieularly strong and Dillon nn ini a moment later' on Goebel sent tlie Y'l io goal "lot' picked it out of the tin one of his spcc Behind faultless Jn as not stopped until mldtieH Thi dash Hl the team on ACE TO ACE IN BIG CONTEST WITH A SUMMARY THE PLAY Score With' orward Although seemed unable to use openlplays their touchdown strangely enough came as the re sult of tho only successful forward pass'" made by tlie Ithacans The Cornell eleven was able stop most intricate plays The men'' had evidently been drill ed to watch every move and thoy followed their instruc tions to the letter The doughty Marodn leader wore a conspicuous headgear and tho men ot the east kept this' constantly in view iltqring the first half the play xvas entirely In territory and time and again tho Marodns carried the ball within striking distance when a forward pass Would be intercepted and thb voyage would have to be gone over anew' Capt tWalder of Cornell proved superior in the punting game ami moreover his ends got down quick ly Steffen' amUPage were usually thrown In their tracks or onlya yard or so before being grappled Owing to the cold fumbling was frequent" end play was not as as in the Minnesota game This xvasin part due to the stiff resistance of Cornell The fieldKwas' dry i and hard giving plenty of opportunity for fast work So eager were the fortvards of both sides that penalties were frequent Chicago suffered the most several forward passes 'hitting the ground A SLeffeB the Main Star SjtetTep was the brilliant 'feature the' contest Ills broken field runs bettered many of Chicago's longest gains coining that way Once or twice he stood alone between the runners and the midway goal but his plunge brought down the man Page and Schommer attends prevented many gains In their direction and Tddirgs of ten sliot through the line like a Jwhirlwind: Cornell appeared afraid to even test the new game and made an at tempt to: otier A Left hnlf lUght half A ullback It i '1 Il I Oil and fpblycJ' to aT flandstilt at Marshall held 'today the score ending 6 '6 The eastern war riors led until tlie last three min of play Uen UantT dashc' caftled tile ball? over for oons and il'up Throughout tlie game it xvas" tbe Open style of against 0kl tinie formations ot the east By far tlie greatest crowd nf tib'e year was out to sec tho flfinl battlei lu re this season They graved the biting wind and And were rewarded by one of the greatest contests in footbalt history it was one df latest crea tions that the tic possible a llghtnihg likq triple forward pass lea go had carried the ball by desperate the fifteen yard line Midway rooters yvere shriek ing for a touchdown and Cornell implored Its heavy line to stand firm But the stone walL'resistance was "not necessary Steffen re ceived tlie ball and tossed it to Pat Page battling elevens grap pled for a moment and Schommer ran but of the crush and waited for the ball i It was not long in com ing? Page lint ling it over the tan gled tlu yers into his hands There were ly a i inns Schommer dashed behind Driven to Desperation Athletes Negotiate Successful Triple 'Pass1 which 'Nets Touchdown which Ties Most "Enthusiastic Admirers Admit Chicago ortunate as They Were Both' Outweighed and Outplayed by Ithacans 1 tSiwlal de Tlie ree shreds C'lcagos forwar Chicago November 14 Chicago though pu died back to show only of the brillianey he day ire move he captain Ills sugges tion was followed to center and 1 figuring in tlie only substitution that Michigan made probably would not have averted but It cer tainly wouil have made the game less "one sidtd Schulz wth Doug lass and XVasmurnl being the back bone of the Michigan eleven The big captain ranged tlie field during the first half in which Penn scored but soneeiand Penn romped up and downthei Jot in the ksecond period in which" could nothing other than moral to his I meh and In which pen ti scored four touchdowns 'if His: was not4'i'bivonlv kt injury Penh having morp'liun her share of mishaps But icame late and cost nothing Like Michigan site lost her captain but the game was close to 'its 'fififsli tlie time: Earlier Reina tli Jiyrt been forced out one of his1 'shoulders being dislo cated TlmJ oilier I'oniisv Iva nia ns who withdrew suffered' from minor injuries Allerdtee home hopes suffered sfoincer bone in ho? lirst'hd If of the game but pluckily stayed to the finish though suffer! ngOgreatly The twinkling Jbe op this blonde haired hooter did not irulso tlie! havoc that had iicen iiopi Those Avho went to the field se hi hoist hem overtlie ba were dis appointed both in ma 1 1 ord of ria I and coin tile ti on On it is one rea chance as noted ho 'was allowed no effort On his one trial with chances very sligb tTie failed There was plentv of but only this 'one attempt to oyer that route 'And there were penalties being busier lipper Title Escanaba Escanaba Mich November 14 Esca ntbi Hlgli Bcliool football team "on the ch implonshtp bv de reatlns Houghton JO to 0 Houghtonas conij'letelv oulvlassed Lstinabi lo el (l touchdowns anyone goal from CHICAGO BATTLES CORNELL ELEVEN TO A 6 TO 6 TIE 'I J' i rains a era in good condi 11 Im' tierce tackling and iking imp plunges caused'n io draw freely on its esh material! Jl i uno was lost in pre teams ran up and 1 tvfis (Jos ootball Season with Defeat After lakiih' Lead in irst Determination with Speed field to inside the 10 yard line There an assault on failed" and Michigan Itself elected not to' try a field goal on the third) dovyn losing the ball on an iti' om forward pass In the second part of this period she did tho best work of the game and inadq her I 4txAra a i at Mich School for ML icusant 0 Hillsdale IS Hudcun 0 Idina 10 Sturgis 0 Ibiuffhton Adrian High School 11 Toledo Su perlors Arthur TH1I of Sugluaw 0 Owosso High School 0 Adrian College lb BJlbsfleld Indepetid ents 0 4 it J'S? I kww Laugford Trinity umpire Eilwnrdj Prince A field' judge McCarthy Brown head linesman Lcrum NN iacun A am of Thirty five mlnutcacaeh i PRINCETON IN LAST HAL 1: 1 A next came the longest run of the game Man ier getting away for a ruiu'of' 60 yards the longest run the daytt were inuue largely on straight football the Quakers tak ing advantage of the weakness first and absence Jaterof Schulz to rip up the line By mixing this sort of work with forward passes of bewildering variety and onside kicks that always found the most favorable spots they made long marches down the field and put the ball across ive times in the' day they crossed the line anil four times' the" goal was kicked Scar lett making one miss though the bull was close enough to bounce off the Elsewhere the Avork of the' play ers and the teams will be found discussed in detail Briefly it may be said Ilia Penn showed a team was better than Michigan's in most positions and hat more football It is a better team than cither of the two that beat the and in 1906' and 1907J that is if plays better football and knowstlie game more thoroughly It was strong on the open gantO I while Michigan 'was not especially successful at this It put Michi interference out ofXthe way and It' protected its 'own runners AVhen there was a biinchof Penn mon down bn the man vlio caught When Michigan i kicked the' Penn seemed to single out men und to put tliem i out of the play before they got started When ichigait jjrled a forwardpass some Penn inan was always there to bump the man 'who should 'catch it Michigan tried practically tio end runs though she could not pierce the lfnc Probably she 'could havn great flank eri They took earn of her In such plays Us did' have ff opportunity tv into The iPonn men were fast certain and tackled fliard Michigan in facing such a team was under' a handicap and it showed in the work of mbst of the men Tlie odds were uneven and tlie result was tlie only one that could be' looked for Logan i Haines I Hobbs Lilley Andrus Biddle A A WilliiMiH Mil II T111TIII HI I IW 'I I 1 Wt 1 ''Qi C7XL II Z7T S' isi a 2 7 if' 'wTT' Ji tjiiLtfiWni I I PHI 4 2 a 1 1 LwZy A 4 4 a a 1 jx uti a 5 A X' tV LtMMMblM SSflHn byr at a S3 Bl 'IM If Mil 1 1 I i1 JJI II nflTI UM nill er SB I A 4 11 i 'a a imhmkw I in I MIMI MH MBMK '7 'z a Tm iTiLTT iff wmiBn1 1 Mi ''WJZV i liMMB i I 111 i iilll 1 si J0 'vjmvt 'V 'v WW CXXW OQIZMA SWW OMAAWS WUCUJVV'lVy a1 CzX VV irifiriinnmn'YY' T' a 'W' MA' 140 rninr'j Tinr rifi Iim ii Oi fflMI iWlTi i Ml ft A A A A 1 1 Jjr 1 r1 MHOH I I'X'Z Sws 6 zas a si Zz XOCvV zX z4 'fl ZA i cz IK zZ OOr ft 'J KC I 1 5 ri a jf cl iim 7 7 rariflx A IT I in rVl 4 i.

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