THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TWE uarterbacks Create Problem INJURIES INCURRED: Grid Face Mask Good or Bac By TOM WEBBER Coach Bump Elliott 'has re- peated over and over again that depth will be his biggest problem this year. This shouldn't be the problem at quarterback where the roster lists four well known names. Or, then, maybe that's just the problem. Having four quarter- backs, that is. First First there's Dave Glinka. Last, year Olinka was the first sopho- more in a long, long time to start the season as Michigan's quarter- back. After a satisfactory year as Oregon',Star Identifies B ribemaker Michael Bruce, a University of Oregon football player, told a Senate subcommittee last' week that he was offered a bribe to fix last year's Michigan-Oregon foot- ball game. Bruce told the subcommittee that two gamblers had offered him $5,000 to fix the game so Michigan would win by at least eight points. In a dramatic scene. before the committee Bruce pointed out Frank Rosenthal as one of the men who presented the bribe.. Rosenthal, who hails from Chi- cago and Miami, is -termed by the subcommittee as a big time lay- off bookmaker. Budin, Other Briber The other man who offered the bribe was identified as David Budin, but very little was said about him. Bruce explained that the bribe attempt came on the evening of Sept. 23, 1960, the night before the game, when Rosenthal came to his hotel room to make his of- fer. Rosenthal also told Bruce that hie would, give him an additional $5,000 if he could secure the serv- ices of Oregon quarterback David Gross. Bruce brought news of the bribe immediately to his coach, and the Michigan State police were. quickly notified. The police managed to pick up Budin on the spot, but failed to find Rosenthal. He was later picked up and brought before the subcommittee. a sophomore quarterback he is once again back to led the attack, but with onehitch. He suffered a slight shoulder separation (the throwing arm naturally) and hasn't been able to scrimmage since the third day of practice. He's working out with the team again and is throwing the football once more. Elliott says he'll be ready for the opener, how- ever, and apparently hasn't con- sidered an alternative. Glinka's Shadow Behind Glinka._is senior letter- man John Stamos. Stamos blos- somed into a defensive star last year, but showed offensive in- capabilities. Thus far in fall prac- tice, though, Stamos has brighten- ed Elliott with his improved play at quarterback. Listed third and presently run- ning the second team is' Forest "Frosty" Evashevski. Frosty lifted some eyebrows with his passing during spring practice and was born and raised by his athletic director father on Michigan's winged-T offense. Elliott warns, however, that he is "only" a soph- omore. Chandler-? Last, but not least, is junior Don Chandler. Chandler, you'll remember, is the boy who almost had his left leg torn off at the knee in last year's Michigan State game. Elliott calls dhandler a "better than good" passer and the twinkle in Bump's eye indicates he might be better than that. The trouble is that Chandler, although his knee has heeled, is very much hampered by it. "He can't move back from the line very well," Elliott said. And that's the list. In rating the four, Elliott called Glinka "below good as a runper, but the best we have." He labeled Chandler as the best passer - "although we aren't selling Glinka and Evashevski short as passers." Probably Stamos But when pressed hard Elliott said that ifhe had to play a game tomorrow without Glinka, he'd go with Stamos. As for going with four quarter- backs, Elliott indicated that he, hoped one of them would get hot and pull away from the others. "The team seems to run better under one quarterback," he said. And so with two weeks re- maining before the opener, that's the Michigan quarterback situa- tion. <0 By JOHN DOBBERTIN Did you ever snicker at that odd looking helmet that grid ace Denny Fitzgerald wore last year? It didn't appear sturdy and it looked like something from around the turn of, the century-but ac- cording to recent research by Dr. Richard C. Schneider of the Uni- versity Medical Center, Fitzger- ald may have had the safest hel- met of anyone on the field. Dr. Schneider reviewed 18 re- corded deaths resulting from football injuries in the 1959 sea- son and found that 14 of these were caused by head and spinal injuries. Helmets Responsible Dr. Schneider and H. O. "Fritz" Crisler, University athletic direc- tor, believe that the tough plastic helmet with the protruding face guard is responsible for these fa- talities. "One of the most troublesome things is the face mask," Crisler said. "I don't think it serves the purpose for which it was intend- ed. It was designed to protect the face, but in an attempt to do that you've created leverage with re- sults worse than before." Projecting Mask In some cases the face mask projects as far as 31/% inches in front of a player's nose. If this Read and Use Daily Classifieds "guard" is struck with a hard blow there is the possibility that the helmet, held on the head by the chin strap, will slide back and the tough plastic will jam into the back of a player's neck. Crisler also pointed out that the helmet "guard" sometimes slips into the face of an opponent with possible nose injuries result- ing. University Experimenting The University is presently ex- perimenting with a new type hel- met which has a soft material in back. Frank J. Cavanaugh, head trainer of the Cornell University grid team, suggested in Newsweek (Aug. 21) that "with a softer hel- met we could do away with the face mask completely."j Supporting the need for such al change and Dr. Schneider's re- search are the records of the Committee on Injuries and Fatal- ities of the American Football Coaches Association. Progressive Trend According to the committee, 208 fatalities recorded since 1947 show "a slowly progressive trend away from abdominal and internal in- juries and a corresponding in- crease in head and spinal injur- ies. "The helmet is very, very new and like anything in medicine it's going to take a while to sink in, be tested and proved out," stated William Bender of the University Medical Center. Dr. Schneider suggests that a chin strap be developed which re- leases under certain pressures, and he also recommends that the helmet's back edge have a flange of ,sponge rubber to reduce the striking force on the neck verte- brae. 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