Champions Of West

CHAMPIONS OF WEST.

MICHIGAN DEFEATS MINNESOTA ON GRIDIRON THANKSGIVING.

Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 28.- By a score of 23 to 6 Michigan on Thanksgiving defeated Minnesota and earned the undisputed title to the western football championship. It took seventy minutes of furious play to finish the game. At times both teams, especially Michigan, were brilliant; at times the game on both sides was ragged, but it never ceased to be desperate.

The superiority of the Wolverines over the Gophers is not now questioned. In the first half they carried the ball 205 yards, compared with 85 yards to the credit of Minnesota. In the second half the Michiganders made 180 yards against 165 for Minnesota. Minnesota braced wonderfully after Flynn's touchdown and played a better game thereafter than they had done previously. It was no fault of their determination that they did not score again, it was rather that they were up against a team wonderfully well-drilled in defense as well as offense.

Michigan made her first score after about ten minutes of play in the first half. The attack was directed mostly against left tackle, which seemed totally incapable of coping with the diversified forms in which the Michigan men came at them. In a grinding mass play Maddock went over the line, and the first score of the western championship contest had been recorded. This was the only touchdown of the game made on straight line blocking. Sweeley converted it into a goal and the score was, Michigan 6, Minnesota 0.

Heston made the second touchdown by mysteriously escaping through the line and carrying the ball squarely behind the goal posts.

The next score went to Minnesota on one of the most curious flukes ever seen on a gridiron. Weeks broke through the Minnesota line as Knowlton was punting, but succeeded only in cheeking the flight of the ball. It hit the ground before the Michigan man could reach it. On the bound the Michigander touched the ball, but it bounded away and Flynn caught it without checking his speed and went down the field with Redden chasing him, to no avail. Sweeley next came into prominence by kicking a goal from field at a rather awkward angle from the 25-yard line. Heston made Michigan's last score, breaking through Minnesota's line on the 30 yard line and running down the field without once being in imminent danger of a Gopher tackler.

It was, the universal comment ran after the game, Michigan's superior speed and teamwork earned the victory.

Other Games in State.

Traverse City, 0; Muskegon, 0.

Grand Rapids, 30; Orchard Lake, 6.

Ionia, 30; Grand Rapids, 0.

Flint Deaf and Dumb, 45; Normals, 0.

Grand Haven, 11; Muskegon, 0.

South Haven, 5; Kalamazoo, 0.

Cadillac, 6; Manistee, 5.

Standish, 10; Bay City, 0.

West Branch, 23; Saginaw, 0.

Petoskey, 16; Cheboygan, 0.

Petoskey High, 11; East Jordan, 0.