t toward being a failure.|
|Michigan's chance for victory depends on its line. |
|There is grave doubt in the minds of some that |
|Michigan has a line. Yost believes it has, because |
|he has seen his center, his two guards, and his two |
|tackles charge and block in practice. He hasn't seen|
|them do anything in games but look sick. But he |
|knows they can do something else and he is wondering|
|if to-morrow will be the day when they prove it to |
|the public and to Cornell. |
| |
|If the Michigan line should play tomorrow as it |
|played against the Aggies and against Syracuse, the |
|best back field in the land would be null and void. |
|But if the Michigan line comes to life, performs as |
|it has done when Assistant Coaches Schultz, |
|Almendinger and Raynsford were scrimmaging against |
|it and using all the words they knew as lashes to |
|drive it to action, then Cornell will find itself |
|up against the toughest foe it has faced this year. |
| |
|Yost admits he has a good back field. His |
|combination of one senior, one junior and one |
|sophomore--Catlett, Maulbetsch and Smith--would, he |
|believes, gain acres of ground against any team in |
|the country if the line would give them half a |
|chance. |
| |
|Smith, to be sure, is in bad shape. He is going to |
|start the game, but few expect him to last through. |
|Bay City gave him to Michigan, and before he was |
|hurt he showed enough to convince his coach that he |
|has the makings of another Galt. |
| |
|He is of the versatile type, and besides being a |
|good ground gainer himself, he is of great |
|assistance as an interferer and a handy man on |
|defense. He backs up the line when the other side |
|has the ball. At present almost everything ails him,|
|save possibly barber's itch and the h. and m. |
|disease that helped make Niles famous. |
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|Maulbet