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Like most Big Ten teams, it had a line that averaged 200 Ibs., had reserves three deep. Among its backs were two streaks who could run 100 in 10 flat. And the prize Host Yost wanted most to show off was its 194-lb. halfback, Tom Harmon, who at 20 and only half way through his second year in a Varsity jersey, has been hailed as the No. 1 footballer of the year...
There have always been big boys in the Big Ten: Chicago's Walter Eckersall, Illinois' Red Grange, Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski and Herbert Joesting, Michigan's Willie Heston, Harry Kipke, Benny Friedman. But Tom Harmon can run like Grange, buck like Joesting-and pass and kick besides. Although he may not be a point-a-minute man he could almost qualify as a half-a-point-a-minute man. In the first three games of the season (in which he played a total of 124 minutes), he scored 52 points: seven touchdowns, seven points-after-touchdown...
...Terrible Tommy and his teammates, Fielding Yost and his Homecoming guests-including fabulous Willie Heston (1901-04), whose spraddle legs once scored no touchdowns-wriggled in among the 54,000 football fans in Michigan's magnificent stadium. They saw the vaunted Michigan backs-(Harmon, Kromer, Westfall and Evashevski)-trot onto the field and in less time than it takes to say Evashevski make sausage meat of a not-so-bad Yale team that had beaten Army and Columbia earlier in the season...
...three, running with the power of a wild buffalo and the cunning of a hounded fox, Harmon scored a touchdown. By half time he had scored another and his running mate, Paul Kromer, had crossed the goal line for a third. Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter -by this time looking as monstrous to the Blue Boys as Willie Heston had looked to the West Virginia footballers of 1904-Terrible Tommy got loose and dashed 57 yards, with tacklers diving into thin air after him, for his third touchdown...
When the final whistle blew, Harmon had scored 21 of Michigan's 27 points (he kicked three points-after-touchdown), had gained 203 of Michigan's total of 353 yards from scrimmage. At the end of the first half, Yale had made only one first down; just before the end of the third quarter, they crossed midfield for the first time; and, although they managed to sneak in an airway touchdown in the last few minutes of the game, their 27-to-7 drubbing was practically a knockout. All afternoon the husky Yales had gained only 35 yards...