THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1923 "0'00, LIMIT[ I I I Wool- mumnow- 1 EGER ATTAINS GREAgT RECORD- MANAGER TRYOUTS FOR I MINOR SPORTS WANTEDf Sohpomores who wish to try out for assistant managers of Minor Sports, which include hockey, swimming, wrestling, and golf, report at the wrestling room in Waterman Gynnasium between 3 and 5 o'clock any day this week or next. R. V. Rice, Manager. i i r i i i i i i i ; DOBIE MIRACLE MANf OF RIDIR"ON II In .. 1111 s D fill] 1* lined in Spalding's Swimming Guide society basketball leagues should do will hold upon all rulings upon infrac- so immediately. tions of the rules or fouls. I The deadline for the fraternity bag- The two games scheduled for the ketball team entries has been set at freshmen sectional group speedball 5 o'clock, Dec. 10. The schedules will league which have not been played 'be announced immediately after school will be run off at 4 o'clock this after- starts following Christmas vacation. noon as follows: Team 6 vs. team 10 team 5 vs. team . The outlook for a record breaking - n ----noa -.vtn - hn -aa -- ligan's 1924 Football Caiptain Won 12 Letters in high School Athletics R HALFBACK HIAS NEVER AYED IN LOSING GRID GAME Cornell Mentor Earns Place Ranking Coaches of Country t I 1 i Among % I I A in rrnr n i r rr r -Am-mbounwammo HAS MET DEFEAT IN BUT THREE GAMVES I Herbert Steger, Michigan's football captain-elect, has attained a brilli- ant record, both in athletiPs, scholar- ship, and outside activities. Gradu- ating from Oak Park High School, Oak Park, Ill., the spring of 1921, "Herb" left beliind him a (great lIst of achievements. In the four years he was in High Sch'sol, he won 12 letters, four of which were in football. Steger also competed in baseball, bas- ketball, and track. He played short stop on the Oak Park baseball team, guard on the court squad and Ian the dashes and tossed the weights in 1 i t >, PHI CHI RETAIS LeAD IN FRATEITY AC AWARDING OF POINTS FOR HAND- BALL MEET RAISES MANY STANDINGS (By Norman E. Brown) By bringing the powerful Cornell eleven through the past season with- out q defeat, Gilmour Dobie, coach of the Big Red team, added to his im- pressive record as a gridiron mentor.I In 17 years of coaching, Dobie's aggre- gations have chalked up 89 victories, three ties, while only three defeats have been suffered by his proteges. Which ought to stamp this angular wizard as the miracle man of the grid- iron. No other coach of nationally recog- niaed institutions can produce such a record. The statement thdt over a span of 14 years in that 17-season run Dobie carried his teams through with- For the third successive year Kap- pa Nu annexed the handball champion-j pionship of the fraternities. Alpha Rho Chi was their opponent and had to be content with second place be- cause the winners excelled in every phase of the game, taking the three matches by scores of 21-8, 21-9, 21-15.1 Segall, Kappa Nu, bore the brunt of the attack and easily distinguished; himself as the best handball playerI that has been seen on the courts this! The schedule for practice for the 40 yard free style, 200 yard free style, fraternity and class basketball team for tonight follows: 6 o'clock, Peers, fancy diving contest, 40 yard back L m d i Alphas Tht'C hi; 6:30 Lambda Chi Alpha, 10 adfe tl o Theta Chi; 6:30 stroke, 100 yard free style, plunge for o'clock, Cygnus, Delta Alpha Epsilon, distance, 60 yard breast stroke, 160 Pi Kappa Alpha; 7 o'clock, Trigon, yard relay for a four man team. Sigma Phi Epsilon. Xi Psi Phi, fresh Fraternity athletic managers should engineers; 9:45 o'clock, Beta Phi Del- take particular notice of the following ta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Alpha Tau Om- rules: Four men must be entered in ega. the meet in order to secure points for Three practice periods have been as- ;entering; each man will be permitted signed for Friday and are as follows: to compete in three events, no more; 6 o'clock, Sigma club, Tau Epsilon Phi, only two men from the same fraternityj Phi Mu Alpha. independent teams is bright as a num- ber of managers have signified that they will enter a team. As soon as a few more enter, leagues will be form- ed and the schedule, which will start after Christmas vacation, will be an- nounced. Any independent manager can enter in the independent league by organizing a team and turning the name of his players into the Intramur- al offlice. basxetbait season among the class and Coached by Thistlewaite M9ichigan's 1924 football captain, as on nine championship teams liile in high school. The Illinois cliool walked off with the honors in football for four successive year, one' bf 'these seasons bringing a national title to Oak Park. In winning the American interscholastic gridiron hionors, "Herb" and his teamates de- feited D'ayton High, 19-6. On Day- ton's eleven were Jack Keefer, Ollie Flee and Dobeliet. Keefer won his letter on Michigan's gridiron squad lstyear , .nd received hondrable men-.f tion from Walter Eckersall. Klee Iad Dobeliet are both backfield stars at Ohio State at present. Steger also helped his school win two b'aketball championships, and three track titles. The Oak Park track squad won the National Indoor In- ferscholastics one year, with Steger bu 'tlte team. "Herb's" high school football days were spent under the tutelage of Glenn Thistlewaite, who coached the Oak Park eleven. Thist- Iewaite is now head football coach at Northwestern University. In the four years that Steger was in high scliool, the football team did not lose a single game. "Herb" weighed 180 pounds at the time he graduated and was pronounced by Walter Eckersall the best football player in any Mid- Western prep school. Illness Handicaps Work Steger's high school activities Were iot confined to athletics alone. He was always a good student, and was fresident of his class in both his jun- Ifr and senior years, besides being jrdminent along other lines. He en- fered the, University in the fall of Although several fraternities ad- vanced considerably on the fraternity all-around athletic efficiency char following the awarding of points earned in .the recent handball meet none of the houses failed to displac the present leader, Phi Chi, from thei insecure lead over the other entrants for the cup*. Alpha Rho Chi made the best ad- vance raising to second place with a total of 222 points, 4 1-2 points be- hind the leaders. Beta Theta Pi, in third place retained their small lead over the general fraternities, Phi Sig- ma Delta being the closest rival with 204 points, 11 markers behind the Betas. Phi Sigma Kappa rose from tenth place to the fifth position and is fast rounding into their traditional fight for the cup such as was wit- nessed last year towards the close of the season. Kappa Nu also arose to among the leading ten as a result of their recent victory in the handball tournament. The other fraternities contained in the first ten were originally higher but fell when the handball points were added with those earned in speed- ball and cross-country. There will be little change in the present staildings until after the swimming meet. Following the event Beta Theta Pi is expected to regain the lead as they have a veteran water squad which has annexed the champ- ionship for the last two years and every one of their stars J&s eligible. Some of the other fraternities, how- ever, believe that there is some ques- tion as to who will win the meet this year, for they claim to have some stars, too, that must be reckoned with when the finals are held. Following is the standing today of the ten leading oragnizations in the fight: Phi Chi, 226 1-2, Alpha Rho Chi, 222, Beta Theta Pi, 215, Phi Sig- ma Delta, 160 1-2, Acacia, 159 1-2, Nu 176 1-2, Kappa Nu, 167 1-2, Phi Gam- ma Delta, 160 1-2, Acacia, 159 1-2, Nu Sigma Nu 155, Delta Tau Upsilon, 153 1-2. l y t s 4 , e r s fall at Waterman gymnasium. The will be allowed to compete in each other players, winner and loser, were single event; managers should be pre- If the Varstiy basketball squad va- about on a par and the latter made the pared to hand a list of their entries cates Waterman gymnasium after most of their points by taking advant- ! and the events in which they will com- Christmas vacation a class B fratern- age of the breaks. The matches were pete, upon arrival at the Y, to the In- ity basketball league will be organized. by far the best seen on the courts this tramural manager in charge of the Fraternity athletic managers should fall. meet. see to it that they have plenty of men -- The preliminaries will start prompt- out for practice so that if the plans In a circular which has been sent to ly at 3 o'clock, next Monday afternoon, go through they will have enough ma- alIl nf thP rf arritic u ih'a l:'#o v n aip , , , - - ,,,,,,,,-P-, 1.4 +.., . -Ia. P -..+. Gt ,a -out a single defeat may make his suc- out asingl defat ma mak his uc- ~.A& L~' L1~L1ULLy Lman11arrivingL after a zthmanarrivmg teer tat toe teiam t tor two aeams - cess~seem even more brilliant. which will be held at the swimming wrill not be permitted to participate. be". began hscareer as ant t meet preliminaries next Monday has The finals will follow at 3 o'clock the All managers intending to - enter -iof college elevens when called to North been announced. They are as follows: following Wednesday. The rules out- teams in the independent, class, and Dakota Agricultural college after two years at Minneapolis high school. Two. - years later the University of Washing- ton called him and his success in the next eight years that followed drew i the attention of. the entire foo ball E world. In those 12 years he never once . tasted the bitter dregs of defeat. His teams won 53 games and tied three. His powerful scoring machines ran up - a total of 1,686 points while his op- ponents managed to score 113. ? l Eastern colleges began bidding for his services and the Annapolis officials 6 won out. In 1917 and 1918 no atten-.j tion was paid to football, but in 1919 4 Dobie saw his team go to defeat for the first time over a span of 14 cam- paigns. Georgetown trounced the - Navy 6 to 0. That Dobie was peeved . - was indicated by the way the Navy = turned to and trounced the Army 6 to IEp 0 for the first time in five years. Three years ago Dobie moved to III Cornell. He had to reconstruct the de- pleted Cornell outfit and while the re A BARE ARM MAY BE BEAUTIFUL building was going on Dartmouth and== Penn walloped his lads severely. But that was the last. The fun stopped but one of our ornamental or jeweled gold there. Cornell hit its stride and Dobie E-bracelets make it still morelHave has won over 20 games in a row for c Wllm lovely. the Ithacans.seen the new link bracelets such as we are .,nshowing now? Bracelet watches are here in overcoat TILEN TO RESIGN FROM/dimw ghsnlebatd quite an array. Perhaps a new necklace or You'll find it in the Society So. H COP TEAM;lavaliere will appeal to you. Brand Robinhood. A me- dium wiht sinle-breasted - Philadelphia Dec. 5.-William T. overcoat,withpatchpoCkts Tilden today was unchanged in his Bad lih laetote it theDain thaCup tennis ta of1924oFELLOWS: It Would Make a Good Christmas Present for and a shtfle to theiskirt. "as long as the present system of Yo rGr=a m , o lnt t . handling this play continues."t our Girl at Home, W ouldn't It? r l cut An that's also Tilden's attitude is the result of crit icism by Harold H. Hackett, of the{ Davis Cup committee, who said Tild- en's play in the doubles was that of a - novice and stated that the chamfpion IA1W adhamN's&ICo had "parked his intelligence outside . State Street MittStreet the stadium" during the match. "I do not consider myself a first= class doubles player," Tilden said to- STATE STREET JEWELER day, "and it is just possible that the committee has beaten me to the de- cision that I shall not play in the future." 302 S. State Street.1 Tilden attacked the secrecy that the . committee usually surrounds the se- -I lection of the Davis cup teams. He11111111 iih ill 1 iIif 1111111 iIi i ilil1111111lilligi 1 il ll said such mystery was childish and unwarranted. He said he did not 111 1111 Ii111Ili li1 1IiI know until 36 hours before that he was to play doubles with R. Norris M Williams. He said he had never play- ed right court in tournament doubles on**E before and was accustomed to left E court.T {I Illness handicapped his athletic Worlk in his freshman year, although he worked on indoor track. He was seriously ill for several weeks at holi- da~y time, and weakened to such an extent that he was unable to take Bart in athletics for the remainder of the year. An operation for appendi- citis was followed by complications, and "Herb" lost nearly 35 pounds. For the rest of the school year and during the following summer he de- voted himself to bringing back the poundage and strength he lost while ill. When he returned in September of 1922 for early football practice, he was not as heavy as he was when he entered school, but was in excellent condition. Running Mate for Kipke Steger was a fine player from the start. He shone in the scrimmages, and opened his football career for Michigan by running 45 yards around end for a touchdown in the Case game. Ie made the score on the first play called after he entered the game. He played regularly after that, and has been one of Michigan's main- stays for the past two seasons. This year, while most of Michigan's oppon-, ents devoted themselves to watching Harry Kipke, the Ws~olverines' All- American halfback, Steger got away for consistent gains. He and Kipkea were a great pair of halves, and Steg- er proved to be an able running mate for Michigan's great captain.At the close of the season, his teammates picked "Herb" to act us captain for next year. Their choice is a fitting tribute to the Oak Park boy's merit,t both as an athlete and a man. Steger1 is a fine player, a natural, leader, is cool under fire, and has a football head. He should have a brilliant sea- son in 1924, and will be an able cap- tain. .He has never played in a losing game ,while at Michigan.. Steger was president of his classt during his sophomore year in the; university. He is a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. Mntries can be made for the all-{ campus swimming meet any time be-1 tween now and Christmas vacation. The date for the preliminaries and finals will be announced when school is resumed, Jan. 3. Some sport has been poked at Ohio State for scheduling Indiana and Pur- due, so-called weaker sisters of the Big Ten Conference, for grid games next fall. To' my mind this should prove a good thing for Ohio. The team is in a rut. It has been losing con- sistently. What it needs more than anything else is a different mental at- titude. A few victories, after the long spell of defeats, will have the proper physchological effect, even though the beaten opponents do not represent the strength of the conference teams in general. Ohio State has the material, the coach and the spirit to win if it can only shake off the sleeping sickness of defeat. Is Walter Camp sounding a great truth when he says 'that the trouble with college athletic's is "that tlfere is too much "athletics and too few ath- letes." He gives one something to ponder over when 'he points out that every week many thousands of persons crowd into stadiums to watch 22 men in ac- tion. Thousands of dollars are spent yearly to perfect these 22 athletes and the other students derive no benefitj from this expenditure. He says, in "The World's Work," the boy of todayI certainly needs the developiient of "courage and strength and wits and skill as athletics do develop them." Why deny these splendid opportunities to the great mapority of boys for the sake of the annual big game and the annual regatta, he asks. In these words is food for thought on the part of college officials and graduate bodies. 0 .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. ., .. A BATTLE? OH BOY! This Dempsey-Firpo affair was' nothing to what "Husk" O'Hare is going to put on when he trots out his Super-Orchestra against his Syncopated Soldiers at the Drake arena Friday night, the 28th. This fight will go down in the annals of music. Get your tickets from WALT SCHERER, Daily Office. Cticago's First Intereollegiate Ball. We are making them "TAILORED TO YOUR IDEA" -* By Ka of IndianapoIis Take a lo0ok at our ae Fifty-three-Dollar Specia Better grades if you desire $53 to $100 : C rTlr"TU r Y"% lC"T UTCTT 5A C V A X TI-"