Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1910 — MICHIGAN’S FOOTBALL SQUAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MICHIGAN’S FOOTBALL SQUAD

Michigan’s close game with the Michigan Aggies, in which the Wolverines were victorious, 6 to 3, should not be taken too seriously, as the Aggies have one of the strongest teams in years this season and in Hill the farmers have a player who continually can keep his team from being scored upon by his beautiful punting. -i The game demonstrated one thing, and that is that Michigan has a strongdefense, one that will be mighty hard for Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Minnesota to penetrate. If Coach Yost is satisfied with this defense he surely will develop an ofTense which will be equally effective. Followers of football should not take this contest or the one with Case as criterions of Michigan’s strength. Yost Is going to have a strong and powerful eleven and he is sure to have a team which will make things exceedingly interesting for

Michigan’s opponents. Whatever use Michigan may make of the changes in the rules this yedr, it is certain that the opportunities offered by the rule allowing unrestricted direct passes is to be taken full advantage of by the Wolverine eleven. Yost himself doesn’t say that he is going to use the direct pass exclusively, and probably he won’t. But it is a good bet that the big majority of the plays upon which he pins his faith in the Notre Dame, Minnesota and Pennsylvania games will be plays in which there is no middleman —in other words, plays in which the quarterback is the man who calls the signals, and nothing more. The Wolverine leader always has been strong for crossbucks and straight bucks by the halfbacks, and under the new code the chances for success of those plays seem to have increased Immeasurably.

Strong and Powerful Eleven.