Hardest Game Ever Seen

"The hardest game ever played on Ferry Field" is what Coach Yost predicts for Saturday's game. Manager Baird also is of the same opinion. Both Michigan and Wisconsin have strong lines. Neither has developed any great punter, so that the game will be largely one of strength and endurance. The score will undoubtedly be a very close one. It may be that not more than one touchdown will be made in the game. It will be a battle royal and one worth going many miles to see.

Excursions are coming from all quarters. The Michigan Central expects to bring in 1,500 from Detroit. Lansing will send a big contingent. The Grand Trunk runs an excursion from Port Huron. It is a long trip here from Madison, but about 200 loyal Madison rooters will be here to cheer their team on.

The seating arrangements will be a little different from last year. The boxes on the side lines are being erected outside of the wire netting. General admittance is $1, but those paying this price can see only from the ends of the field as they will not this year be permitted on the sidelines. Last year they crowded in on the sidelines in such a manner that at one point a catastrophe was narrowly missed. This year the boxes have the sidelines and standing will not be permitted outside of the boxes on the sidelines.

Reserved seats are $1 extra and some excellent ones are yet to be had.

In Madison the people generally decorate heavily for a big football game. This will be the biggest game of the year and possibly the biggest game Ferry Field ever saw and it would be very appropriate if the town would decorate in honor of the thousands of football enthusiasts who will be here.

While the football management has not this year been around with a personal request to the stores to close during the game, it would be a compliment very highly appreciated by them if the stores would close for the two or three hours the game lasts, and it would be a very welcome opportunity for the proprietors and clerks to see a great game which many will travel hundreds of miles to see. Ann Arbor merchants have not been called on this year to contribute to athletics as they have in the past. These big games were formerly played in Detroit and money taken from here there instead of being brought into the city, and it would be well to show appreciation of this fact.The rooting on Saturday will be a feature of the occasion and an attempt will be made to have several thousand voices sing the "Yellow and Blue."