Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-10-10 | Page 10 | Beware Triple Threat

BEWARE TRIPLE THREAT kipk e By B1BLY K ANN. Players carrying the triple threat are the most desired candidates ror W'j the backfleld in this football daj and age Michigan has. n Harry Klpke, Herb Sieger and Qeo. Dunleavy, three such plajers lor her fU22 backfleld Kipkr should ' 1 1 one ol I . halfbacks of the season FJeTvas, In his high school days, the besl developed in Michigan schofasth i -Clad) Injured 'r, the Michigan-' IhlO , State game at the start of Inst season f; he did not play much but 'in- year he Is working better than ever IN PRELIMINARY PRACTR b Klpke kicked s little last year. He averaged 35 yards on his punts. He lias been booting the ball toi an average aver-age of r.O yards in preliminary prio-l tlco this autumn. Also, Klpke Is forward passing bettor bet-tor than he did in iffl and h. is running run-ning faster. As a runner Kipke Is B hard man to tackle. He nas an individual style, arrlng th.. knees high, toes i, touching the ground and can turn, dodge and reverse with r- Uisrkable speed quickness and agility. DUB to his Improvement over last' season. Michigan will have an im,JOi-l tant triple threat In him. IIKIj as a fullback There Is Herb Sieger. He is ll-j Bible for tho Michigan varsity this year and will undoubtedly play fullback. full-back. In 1920 he played with Oak I fork high of Chicago and was regarded re-garded as tho best "prep" echool player play-er In the west. There are football players that can! run better than St-ij.-r. some Can k'ck' better and some can forward pass bet-. ter. but there probably Is no' anothwl that run do all three things ns vcll as1 Steger. Weighing more thnn HOj pounds. Steger Is an ideal n.llba-k and he ha.s tho triple threat developed! to an even Lsyel. TRICK ILL Ml W N George Dunleavy has been at Michigan Mich-igan two years, but is read - lor the Varsity for the first Hint- in kin col-' lege career. He has been Ineligible1 befor . Like Klpke and steger. Dunleavy can pass, kick and uin Ha can Corr ward pa.s while going at tup speed and that Is something few backfleld men eyer did. Nearly all oi them come to a stoj) before they ci thro-.'. ' the bail. They have to balance themselves. them-selves. Dunleavy hurls a football While off balance and hurls It accurately. accu-rately. Michigan never before b.ia had the wealth of backfleld material thai ot possesses this season. Michigan has for years needed a good player who can pass. Lick anjl run. This season Yost has three such men in his arslty. It Is almost certain cer-tain that two of them will be In the j backfleld in all games and their essence ess-ence means that the Michigan attack this season win have versatility and deception that It never developed before.