THE MICHIGAN DAILY TITX'PSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1959' TINE IIUCHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 195w Badgers To Try for Bowl Bid; Gophers' Warmath Hangs On MIKE STOCK ... top Big Ten scorer' MINNEAPOLIS OP) - Football melodrama on a grand scale, matching a title contender against a tormented tailender with its coach in trouble, turns Saturday's Minnesota - Wisconsin game into one of the crisis battles of the year. For 69 years Minnesota, and1 Wisconsin have been'playing foot- ball in a generally cordial rivalry that is one of the nation's oldest. But rarely have -they met in a situation that has the theatrics of this one. Wisconsin cai at least tie for the Big Ten championship by win- ning, perhaps get the Rose Bowl trip that it wants as badly as the title. Its coach, Milt Bruhn, is a Gopher alumnus who just a day ago had to deny that Minnesota groups are trying to pry him away for the Gopher coaching job. Wisconsin Aims Minnesota has no targets as lofty as the ones Wisconsin is shooting for. But it wants-des- perately, to hear the players tell it-to prove that it can beat a ranking football team after being kicked around in 21/2 years of nearly uninterrupted failure. The Gopher coach, Murray War- math, may be directing his last game at Minnesota. Under inter- mittent attack since 1957, he is now in a virtual state of siege. Downtown groups say they have enough cash pledged to buy the last two years of his contract. The university itself may do it. Warmath possibly has made up his mind and the Wisconsin game may have no bearing on his deci- sion. Despite the increasing ten- sion around him, he was relaxed last Saturday to the point of join- ing a team pillow fight on the flight back from Purdue. But it is doubtful if ever there was a game h.; wanted more to win. Avoid Solo Finish Added to these elements are the Gophers' eagerness to avoid -the school's first solo finish in last place in the Big Ten and the in- tensity of a battle between husky neighbors who usually produce he- man football no matter what the stakes. And the whole happy show will be viewed not only by some 55,000 fans here but kibitzers from coast to coast via television. Minnesota has been working out secretly all week but makes no attempt to conceal that it is gear- ing its defenses to stop Dale Hack- bart, who has been especially hard on Minnesota the last two years. Despite a 4-2 record in the Big Ten against Minnesota's 1-5, the Badgers may encounter more trouble than the figures suggest. Minnesota cannot handle speed, but the Badgers have little of this. In a trench battle along the line, the Gophers usually hold up pretty well. 14 Stock First i Scoring Teams Battle for Bowl Bids As Stars Seek Top Honors- Bob Ferguson, third in total rush- ing with 288 yards, has the best conference average, 7.2 yards on 40 hauls. Next most active carrier to Stock is Indiana fullback Vic Jones, fourth in yardage with 269 on 78 tries. Jeter's Iowa teammate, quar- terback Olen Treadway, apparent- ly is destined to take both the passing and total ofense titles. Treadway wound up Big Ten play with an aerial record of 63 completions in 111 tosses for a .568 percentage. i GRID SELECTIONS Bowl bids are at stake this Saturday as the final Grid Picks contest of the year has its usual 20 games to be picked by contest- ants hopeful of winning two free passes to the Michigan Theatre, now showing "Career" with Dean Martin and Shirley Maclaine. Saturday's contests will go a long way toward deciding who will play in the various major holiday bowl games with Syracuse the only team having accepted a bid so far, to the Cotton Bowl. As a result of this incentive which many of the squads have, the games will present a double problem. The way to try and solve it is by sending in your 20 choices to Grid Picks, the Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, or fill out a blank at The Daily. Mailed en- tries would be preferable on a post card, with name, address, and telephone included. THIS WEEK'S GAMES CHICAGO (p) - The payoff round comes up in the Big Ten Football race Saturday, and with it the last chance for several highly ranked n.idwest candidates to gild their all-America bids. The nationally televised game between Wisconsin and Minnesota will spotlight the talents of three fine Badger performers - guard Jerry Stalcup, tackle Dan Lan- phear and quarterback Dale Hack- bart. The Badgers are shooting for the Conference title and a possible Rose Bowl trip. Under the same pressure as Wis- consin, Northwestern's Wildcats will be clawing for the same prizes at Illinois whose guard Bill Burrell is a prime All-America candidate. OSU Guard O uDropped COLUMBUS (R)-Ernie Wright, starting right guard of Ohio State's football team for the last two years, has been "separated from Ohio State University for disciplinary reasons," it was an- nounced yesterday. The announcement came from William S. Guthrie, director of student affairs. He explained that it is a policy of long standing of the university that it does not dis- close the reasons for such action. Wright, 6' 3", 242-pound junior from Toledo, broke in as a regu- lar last year and started the cur- rent season as ta'ckle. He was re- turned to right guard after the first three games. He will be replaced in Satur- day's game with Michigan by Gabe Hartman, 209-pound junior from Troy, who held down the right guard spot while Wright worked as tackle. Guthrie explained that Wright "understands he may initiate his own request for return to the uni- versity at some future date." The number one target of Bur- rell and his Illini mates will be Northwestern halfback Ron Bur- ton, a superb runner, but one who has been plagued by injury.and fumbling. Other Northwestern stars still well regarded are center Jim An- dreotti and Fullback Mike Stock. Another important game, Iowa State versus Oklahoma, will put to an acid test the ability of the nation's two top rushers, fullback Tom Watkins and halfback Dwight Nichols, both of Iowa State. This game may not only bolster, an All-America bid by either, but could blow the Cyclones into the Orange Bowl. Most Exciting Back Board member Maury White of the Des Moines Register and Tri- bune described Nichols as "the most exciting back in the Big Eight since Bobby Reynolds' soph- omore year at Nabraska." Ohio State end Jim Houston, still in the All-America running, finishers against Michigan Satur- day, while two other top-notch wingmen, Iowa's Don Norton and Notre Dame's Monty Sickles duel in the Hawkeye-Irish meeting at Iowa City. Michigan State's fast-finishing quarterback, Dean Look, gets his last shot against Miami of Florida Friday night. If Northwestern and Wisconsin both lose Saturday, then Look can be credited with steering the Spartans to the Big Ten title. Larry Sherry Wins Award NEW YORK (P)-Larry Sherry, rookie relief ace of the Los Angeles Dodgers, yesterday was named the October winner in the S. Rae Hic- kok Professional Athlete of the Year balloting. Sherry, who won two games and saved two others as the Dodgers beat the White Sox in the World Series, won by a wide margin over Cleveland Browns' fullback Jimmy Brown. Others high in the voting were Ted Kluszewski of the White Sox, quarterback Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts, second baseman Charlie Neal of the Dodg- ers and pro basketball star Wilt Chamberlain. Earlier monthly winners have been Bob Pettit, Ed Lubanski, El- gin Baylor, Art Wall, Harvey Had- dix; Ingemar Johansson, Jose Be- cerra, Willie McCocey, and Early Wynn. ) l _, I -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Ohio State at Michigan (score) Northwestern at Illinois Purdue at Indiana Notre Dame at Iowa Wisconsin at Minnesota Iowa State at Oklahoma Missouri at Kansas Nebraska at Kansas State Penn State at Pittsburgh Dartmouth at Princeton 11. 12. 13, 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Harvard at Yale Tennessee at Kentucky N. Carolina St. at S. 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