Pennsylvania at Michigan

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  The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram, Richmond, Ind., November 20, 1908, page 2

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  II COST $55,O77.65 EAST AGAINST WEST, Pennsylvania and Michigan Eley- ems Clash on Nov. Ia. “HURRY UP” YOST OPTIMISTIC Wolverines ResourcefuI Coach Says His Team Has Excellent Chance to Defeat Pennsy This Year-Great Struggle Anticipated. His Team Has Excellent Chance to Defeat Pennsy This Year-6reat Struggle Anticipated. Giving no heed To the result Of Penn sylvanias games. Michigan has pond ed away to develop a football machine can tramp roughshod over the red and blue when the two elevens meet in Ann Arbor on Nov. IA. Michigan’s chance for a victory over Pennsylvania this season is much more encouraging than 1t was at this time in 1907. The schedule has been better. and the Michigan team promises to be 80 per cent stronger than it was year ago. While the back field will not be as strong as 1t was in the days of Heston, Hammond and Longman, yet it will be speedy and quite skillful- In spite of the fact that Pennsylvamia has beaten Michigan for the last two years in succession, there are many who fear that the tables will be turned this year. The Quakers know that Michigan will make this game the crisis of its season. Pennsylvania expoets Michigan to be stronger this year than last. but unless some great trans formation takes place this cannot be said of the red and blue. The team has had almost as many setbacks this year as did the 1905 eleven. which lost three of it’s best men within the first two weeks of the season. Captain Adolph Schulz of Fort Wayne, Ind. is now playing his fourth year on the Michigan team. He is six feet two inches I’m height, strips at about 30 pounds and is quite active for a man Of his size. He does a great deal of tackling in the open as well as guard his position against all attacks at that point. In the fall Of 1907 he was picked as an All American cen ter by Walter Camp. William Wasmund of Detroit, Mich who was the varsity quarterback dur ing the season of 1907. has played his old position in several games. David w. Allerdice played a good game on the varsity last fall. Allerdice weighs about 175 pounds, is strong and has considerable speed. Prentiss P. Douglass, who came to Michigan from De PAW university, Is an excellent halfback or end rush. Fullback James X. Watkins. weight IT’S pounds, height FIVE feet eleven inches, is powerful for a man Of his size. is quite active and very hard worker Sam Dawson. one of the guards of Alpena, Mich. played tackle

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 16, 1908, page 1

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  MICHIGAN DEFEATED. Pennsylvania Used the Forward Pass With More Accuracy. Ann Arbor. Mich. Nov. 16.-Pennsylvania defeated Michigan for the third successive time by the score of % to o. Yost’s men were beaten at their own game. Pennsylvania used the forward pass with more accuracy and more effect than did Michigan. One touchdown, the result of a. perfect forward pass, by Pennsylvania, completed the score for the first half In making it the ball went from keinath, at quarter. back to Hollenback and then across to Draper twenty yards nearer the Michigan goal. The Pennsylvania tackle shot out over the line before the Michigan players realized that the very play they were counting upon had been successfully played against them. Two minutes after the opening of the second half Hollenback skirted Embs and scored the second touchdown of the game Then Michigan went to pieces. Crashing into the guards and tackles, hammering the ends and defensive halves, working the forward pass and clever fake plays. the Pennsylvania backs, behind their superb interference. tore through the men sorrow came when Schultz, the great cap tain-center was taken from the game. This was the first time in four years of play that Schultz ever left the field with the game incomplete. PENNSYLVANIA. outclassed Michigan at every point. The Michigan defense was weak and the offense erratic. Pennsylvania gained total of 40 yards while Michigan was making 304. The easterns suffered 40 yards of penalty to Michigan S. HOllenback out-aVeraged Alerdlce on the punts with 80 yards to the Michigan mans 81

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1908, page 1

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  CRUSHING DEFEAT FOR WOLVERINES Pennsylvania Scores Five TouchdoWns Against the inexperienced Michi- gan Team. Special Dispatch TO The Star. ANN ARBOR. Mich, November H. For the third time Michigan and Pennsylvania met today and for the third time Pennsylvania triumphed. Never before has her victory been so complete. the score being 30 to o in Pennsylvania favor. 1t was not only the most crush ing defeat that Pennsylvania has administered to Michigan. but the worst the Maize and Blue has sustained since Yost took charge Of its foot ball fortunes. Not in all his experience here had he seen any eleven pile up five touchdowns on his proteges. Twice before Pennsylvania had the honors. though last years game probably would have been a tie but for the pres ence and decision of a badly ratified Of fetal.

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Michigan leads 11–⁠8–⁠2 in 21 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.