Show T Willie Heston Tells His Greatest Thrill By WILLIE HESTON CAs As told to Harvey Woodruff of ot the C. C T. T S. S Service My greatest football thrill came Inthe in inthe inthe the first game I 1 ever played for Michi Michi- gan It was in 1001 1901 agaInst Albion which f if I 1 remember rightly did not make a first down all afternoon and was beaten 50 to 0 O. O although the halves were shortened to 20 minutes each CAME FROM CALIFORNIA I You see I had come on from San I Jose Normal school in California a a comparatively unknown freshman freshman- freshmen were eligible then then but but had gone one to Whittemore lake for the preliminary preliminary pre pre- practice We had preliminary prelim inary mary practice and a n training table then When I arrived at Whittemore lake lakeI I felt very discouraged for I 1 learned that the entire regular backfield from the year before was back Those boys were Boss Weeks at quarter the great kicker Sv and Reid and Shaw But I kept on trying That W was lS Fielding Yosts Yost's first year as Michigan coach and the start of the so-called so point a minute teams which were not beaten until 1905 Well for tor some reason Yost formed the opinion I might be good at back ing log up the line Une So after alter Michigan rolled up a safe total in the first half I started the second half In the back back- field While sitting on the bench 1 I had noted not not- ed that Albion's guard played very wide of ot his center and that the quarterback made rather long passes to his backs to start their runs if any We kicked off as Albion lined up Instead of backing up the line I 1 sneaked In between our guard and center opposite opp site the hole in the Albion Ablon line W Th When en their signal was given Iven I 1 dashed dashe through grabbed the baIl ball as their quarter tried to throw It lt t to a a. back and as there was no one to stop me I went vent on 30 yards to a touchdown That rt brought me considerable attention and I 1 was pretty much of a regular after that It wasn't the greatest play I I ever made of course but It gave me the greatest thrill of the four years I 1 wore the maize and blue The greatest thrill I could get now would be to se semy see seemy seemy my son Jack make a 1 touchdown for Michigan |