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Show PEl'S DIM OP WOLVERINES SMji UPSET Yost's Eleven Fails to Live Up to Advance Notices; Ohio State's Slate Clean. By ARTHUR STRUWE. By International News Service. X1SW VOrtK, Nov. IS. Out of a study of the foothall results of yesterday two facta stand out strongly: 1 The team that smothered Michigan would have played Plttsbiirs to a standstill stand-still had the clash of Pennsylvania with Genn Warner's uhargcs taken place last week hiMtead of three weeks ago. 'I Ohio State stands out as the undisputed undis-puted champion of the west for the second consecutive year and has a right to measure meas-ure up to the best the east bus produced. To most followers of gridiron achievements achieve-ments the result of the Vonnayh aiiia-Mlchignn aiiia-Mlchignn game was h surprise. While the former team had shown a steady mid powerful pow-erful development, the western eleven was thought to he made up of players with an unusual punch and with an elusive and overpowering attack. All reports from Michigan indicated that Yost had created one of his old-time elevens, that he had t remendous driving power in the back-fleUJ, back-fleUJ, n well developed aerial attack and a defense that was rush proof. Berry Fig Star. But KolwelTs proteges shat tered the reputation of the Wolverines. The Penn-t sylvan lu boys proved superior in every angle of the game. They had a stone wall defense, they displayed a varied and powerful attack and they had Kerry. Here fs the outstanding individual player of t he season in the east. To be sure, Oliphant of the Army has done some great work and has rolled up many a score, but it must be remembered that he h:is played generally against weaker teams and leas strenuous opposition. Berry, on the other hand, has been consistently valuable against every kind of opponent. He is a dashing, spectacular, player whose record will entitle him to a place high on the football roll of honor. 1 1 is running was strong and heady, his tackling was deadly, his punting was well placed and his toe carried the real scoring punch. In the Michigan line-up only one man stood out prominently. That was Lambert, Lam-bert, the center. Ho really did about half of the riefenf.ive work of his team. He was after the ball every minute and did nun-h. of the kicking and most of that which was vital. Wieman, at fullback, full-back, also did some good work. A Two-Man Team. After the disqualification of Weston, the star quarter. Yost's eleven was really a two-man lean?. The back field was un-i even a nd the line weak In spite of the statement of Walter Eckersall. the former Chicago star, who declared the line was one of the best ever developed in the. west. Ohio State's victory was clear cut and decisive. Tt pave the team a clean record on the season In which practically all the games were with first line elevens. Georgia Technical again showed that it was a mighty powerful team the best, probably, that the south lias ever produced. pro-duced. U ts to be regretted that Pitt has not seen fit to accept the challenge of the scrappy southerners for a post season came. 8uch a eon test would have f ur-ished ur-ished a real line on the strength of Warner's War-ner's boys and incidentally would have put a neat sum in the coffers of the Red Cross. Oliphant's Individual work for the army will stand out fnr some time. Any man vho can score four touchdowns and kick six goals in a single contest is certainly omc piayer. |