The event alone can decide the question of supremacy.

The Michigan Central Railroad has contributed to the success and popularity of these games by giving special rates and providing

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special accommodations. Extra trains have been run, sometimes in two sections, to accommodate the crowds. As a result, every year has seen hundreds of enthusiastic students accompanying the team to Chicago and cheering their heroes at the most eventful contest of the year.

Coaching has been a prominent factor in this series of games. In 1893 Frank Barbour, an old Yale quarterback, coached Michigan and taught the men, who afterward made Michigan famous, Yale methods. He was not a great coach in every sense of the term, but he knew the game and had a class of apt scholars. From him Michigan learned the style of interference which, with the right kind of men, has always been successful. From him "Jimmie" Baird learned the quarterback's duties so well that in the end the pupil undoubtedly surpassed the teacher. "Jerry" Me

Cauley, of Princeton, the magnetic and beloved leader, followed him and did most of the coaching for two seasons. What he did for the team is shown by its record in 189495. He had an exceptionally fine lot of material, adjusted his methods to those which had proved successful at Michigan, and by the force of his personality held the men together as no other coach did during these six years. He taught Michigan how to play a defensive game, as might be expected of a line man. Douglas Ward, also of Princeton, followed him and suffers by comparison. Ward was a brilliant athlete and fair coach, but ne did not have the qualities which go to make a good coach. During the

two years Michigan tried graduate coaching, with "Dutch" Ferbert as chief, in 1897, and "Buck" Hall as the nominal head of the coaching department in 1898. Now Ferbert was the greatest half

sequence. True it is that he did not have the material wh.ch was at the disposal of his predecessor, but candor compels the statement that the teams he coached lacked something in unity and the ability which follows unity. In 1898 the Michigan team was wonderfully successful, but Ferbert and Hall had the assistance of "Jimmie" Baird during the latter part of the season. Baird was a great leader. The record of the team in 1897 and 1898 bears out the statement that something was lacking in their development. Far be it from the writer to detract anything from what Ferbert did for Michigan. As has been said before, he was without a peer as a player in his position and coached as well as any Michigan player could, with one exception. This season graduate coaching has been given up and it remains to be seen what the result of the coming game will prove. Space forbids the mention of those whose names stand out most prominently as football heroes. Mention has been made of many of

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them in passing and the simple enu-meration of the players will bring to mind those who are pre-eminent. But in closing, a word should be said concerning "Jimmie" Baird, for without him of Michigan football would be any history. incomplete. As a quarterback, a captain, and as a coach, Baird stands out as the greatest football player Michigan has ever had. Quarterback in the Chicago games in 1893-4-5, captain in 1895, coach for several weeks in 1898, his part in winning the Chigames is self-evident. As a quarterback he was clever, resourceful, unerring in passing the ball, wonderfully strong on defensive playing as a captain he was patient, commanding, skillful in handling men and possessed of the confidence and affection of his team to a remarkable degree; as a second coach he was energetic, enthusiastic and inspiring to the men when he was teaching. At all times he was master of the situation.