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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927
T ANK SQUAD
ORANGE TEAM RQASTS" BAER WShL
9IN COAST SBA~
ARRAY OFLUMINARIES
Backstroke Duel Betw en Spindle And I
Morse, Syracuse Sensation, Is
Pxpected To Feature
MORSE IS TEAM'S STARI
WILL OPEN
SEASON
AGAINST SYRACUSE
~TLE
As the first step in the defense of
their laurels won last year, Coach
Matt Mann's national intercollegiate
swimming champions will depart to-
morrow for Buffalo where they will
meet the "surprise" Syracuse tank
which has thrown a scare into the
Eastern association.
Coach Harold Ulen, of the Orange,
team, has developed a group of indi-
vidual stars expected to furnish con-
siderable competition for the Wolver-
ines when the rival splashers encoun-
ter each other on Saturday.
Boast Easts' Leading Scorer.
Mergott, leading point scorer in the
Intercollegiate association which in-
cludes Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton,.
Cornell, Columbia, Penn, C.C.N.Y., and
Rutgers, is a crawl stroke artist of
exceptilonal merit.
In the back stroke Syracuse pre-
sents one of the greatest stylists in
the country, Morse, whose prowess is
indicated by the fact that he has nego-
tiated the 150-yard distance in the as-
tounding time of 1:45 3-5.
Spindle, Michigan's Big Ten record
holder, will oppose the Syracuse star
in what should prove to be the feature
match !of the dual meet.
Blew, fancy diver, and Cermak,
breast stroke, are the other Syracuse
stars granted at least an even chance
to annex first places in their respec-
tive specialties.
First Eastern Collegiate Rival.
In meeting the' Syracuse squad so
early in the season Coach Matt Mann's
well-balanced team is matched against
the first representative it has ever
faced belonging to the self-styled In-
tercollegiate associatio .
For years a match with Yale has
been sought, but the perennial title-
holders have never designed to meet
the Wolverines, either in dual compe-
tition or in the National Intercolleg-
iate association individual champion-
ships, held in the Middle West last
year for the first time in almost a
decade.
That the Syracuse aggregation is a
representative one is proved by the
fact that five members of the Orange
team which last season defeated Dart-
.mouth, 42-20, and held Yale to the
lowest margin in the Eastern tourney,
39-23,are listed upon the roster of the
entries this season.
ALBION-Coaches of the M. I. A. A.
will hold a meeting here Monday.
Ray Baer
Wolverine guard, mentioned
Conference and all-American
this season, who will play
annual East-West grid game
at San Francisco.
for all-
honors
in the
Dec. 26
CARDINAL HARRIERS
BOAST WIDE MARGIN
IN BIG TEN TITLES
(Special to The Daily)
MADISON, Nov. 30.-By winning
their fourth consecutive Western Con-
ference championship recently, the
University of Wisconsin commands a
position in cross country running farl
above that of any Mid-Western con-
tender. Under the guidance of track
coach, Tom Jones, the harriers sport
has flourished at the Badger school
for 22 years.
Since 1905, when Wisconsin was
first represented by a team in cross
country, the Badgers have won nine
Western Conference titles. Four years
they have finished in second place,'
and five times the Cardinal has copped
third. Only four times in-the 22 years
of fall distance running have the
13adgers fallen below third place in
the Conference.
Wisconsin has won 25 dual cross
country meets during this period,
while a number of quadrangular and
special races have also been staged
and won by the Badgers. Only three
times have dual mets been lost, and
one has been tied. While Wisconsin
has been annexing the last four Big
Ten championships she has not been
defeated in a single dual meet.
The last cross country loss was at
the hands of Michigan in 1923. Some
of the stiffest competition handed
Jones' men has been by the Missouril
Valley school.
Four Teamas Name
Footbarll Captain
For 1928Campaign
Four Conference teams have already
selected their captains for the 1928i
football season, four others have yet
to name their leadrs and the two re-
maining of the Big Ten outfits havej
determined to follw the plan of choos-
ing field leaders for each contest in-
stead of a single captain for the en-g
tire season,
The captains already named forI
next year include George Rich of
Michigan, "Butch" Nowack of Illinois,
Harvey Olson of Purdue, and Saul
Weislow of Chicago. Minnesota, Wis-
consin, Northwestern, and Iowa havec
yet to select their 1928 pilots, while
Ohio State and Indiana have decided<
to abandon the system of choosing
captains.
All of the captains named thus far,,
with the single exception of Rich are
linemen. Nowack of Illinois is a
tackle and has been named for all-
Conference honors on several mythical
teams. Weislow of Chicago is also a
tackle, while Olson, the Purdue leadert
for next year, plays center. George,
Rich of Michigan, who succeeds the
thrice all-American Oosterbaan as
pilot of the Wolverines, has been citeda
for all-Conference honors by numer-
ous grid critics.
Ohio State and Indiana have deter-
mined to initiate a new system into
Conference circles by going through
the 1928 season without a regular1
grid captain. A field leader will be
selected for each of the games on the
schedule and the teams will name
their captain for the season after the
final game has been played.
NUMERALS AWARDED TO
45 PURPLE YEARLINGS
(Special to The Daily)
EVANSTON, Nov. 30 - Forty-five
freshmen from 12 different states were,
awarded football numerals at North-
western this week for their work on
the yearling football squad. A num-
ber of promising backs and a quartet
of likely looking ends are included in
the group.
More than 80 freshmen participated
in the football program outlined by
Coach Dick Hanley this fall. Instead
of the usual daily scrimmage sessions,
with the Varsity Coach Hanley organ
ized his yearlings into a league of
four teams and kept them busy allI
season playing among themselves.
Each team was in charge of a fresh-
man coach who drilled them in the
rudiments of the Hanley system.
WIEMAN WILL SPEAK[
AT ALUMNIBNQET
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Michigan Football Coach To Address
Gatherings In 10 Cities
'Ohroughout State
TO ARRANGE SCHEDULES
Coach Elton E. Wieman, Michigan's
grid mentor, will leave today on an
extended speaking tour during which
he will deliver addresses in 10 Michi-
gan cities and Chicago. Most of Coach
Wieman's engagements are at football
banquets or luncheons given by civic
organizations.
Tonight Coach Wieman will be the
speaker at the annual civic dinner'
sponsored by the Saginaw Kiwanis
club, for the two local high school
football teams, Eastern and Arthur
Hill.
Which eleven gridmen will be hon--
Pittsburgh, Flanagan of Notre Dame,
ored is largely a matter of conjecture, Wittmer of Princeton, Lane and Mar-
for, as usual, the talent is too abund- sters of Dartmouth and Roepke of
ant to really do justice to all of the Penn State all demand serious consid-
greatest players. eration.
Bennie Oosterbaan, already twice
named all-American, is generally Welch is a strong favorite and
looked upon as a certainty at one has received almost universal ac-
end. Not to name the Michigan leader claim, being a real sensation for
would almost seem sacrilege. the Panthers. Flanagan, all-star
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Grantland Rice's all-American selec-
tions.
Numerous teams have been
picked by different authorities
but Rice's team, due to be an-
nounced in Colliers this week
(today or tomorrow) is regafrded
generally as official and hence
has the great am.ount of interest
attaching.
hall a dozen others-likewise it is im-
possible to go wrong with any two of
perhaps eight or ten.
Spears of Vanderbilt, Mann of
Southern Methodist, Connor of
New York, and McPhail of Dart-
mouth are all fine quarterbacks
and one of them may be given the
post with Drury being shifted to
one of the halves.
If so r if not, Gibby Welch of
Will Attend Chicago Meeting
On Friday and Saturday Coach Wie-
man will attend the athletic directors
and coaches meeting in Chiago. At
this time Michigan's Big Ten schedul-
es in baseball, track, hockey, swim-
ming, wrestling, tennIs, and golf for
1928 will be drawn up. Tomorrow
night he will speak at the banquet of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
A testimonial banquet given by the
Michigan alumni and civic clubs of
Kalamazoo honoring Louis Gilbert,
Wolverine backfield ace, will be at-
tended by Coach Wieman on Satur-
day night. He will give a speech at
this time.
Michigan's grid coach will be the
speaker at the Mt. Pleasant Normal
College annual football dinner at Mt.
Pleasant on Monday night, Dec. 5.
Three Greenville Clubs Convene
The combneld Rotary, Kiwanis, and
University of Michigan clubs of
Greenville will hear Coach Wieman
at a luncheon Tuesday noon. Tuesday
evening he will address the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and Flint high
school football team at Flint.
Next Wednesday evening Coach
Wieman will be the speaker at the
Owosso high school football banquet.
He will deliver an address before the
Unliversity'of Michigan and Rotary
club of Charlotte at 'their high school
football dinner Thursday noon, Dec. 8.
That night he will' speak to the Uni-
versity of Michigan club of Midland.
The Saginaw University of Michi-
gan club will hear the Wolverine foot-
ball mentor on Friday noon, Dec. 9.
Friday afternoon Coach Wieman will
return to Midland to speak before a
local high school assembly. That
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The man who will fill in at the
other flank is due to be a new fig-,
ure in the all-American arithmeT
ical table. Georgia has what Rice
terms the "best pair of ends on
one team in S'hiver and Nash. ,
Yale, too, has a great pair of
wingmen in Fishwick and Elliot.
Shiver, captain of undefeated Geor-
gia, has been a favorite but his team-
mate, a junior, has been fully as shin-
ing a light as his pilot and may gain
precedence. Fishwick cannot be for-
gotten either.
Capt. Morley Drury, of Notre
Dame fame for two years because
of missed goal kicks, is in our
opinion the greatest back in the
country and should be given a
place.
The Minnesota Thunderbolt, Herb
Joesting, seems to be about the best
fullback. Briante of New York uni-
versity and Amos of Washington and
Jefferson are great fullbacks as well.
There have been scrambles before
that he is, has been a whirlwind
at times, but Rockne's system of
substitutions has kept him out of /
the game almost too much.
One real sensation erupted this year
among the sophomores in Marsters of
Dartmouth. He is the greatest ground
gainer in the East.
Princeton's young star, Witt-
mer, is a wonderful back as is
Roepke of Penn State. Caldwell's
ineligibility considerably eased the
troubles of critics for he was
headed to a berth.
Out of the West comes Presnell of
Nebraska whom Rice calls the "hard-
est running halfback" in the coun-
try. '
At center one must consider
Charlesworth of Yale and Bettin-
court of St. Marys, the latter
school lately famous for beating
Leland Stanford, Rouse o' Chica-
go and and perhaps Reitsch of
Illinois. The son of Old Eli
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ALL-AMERICAN DOPE
The sporting world is at present but never one quite like that of the
n a pitiable condition-pop-eyed and 1927 halfbacks. It is impossible to
tense, awaiting the announcement of select a pair and do any justice to
PICK SOUTHERN TIEAM
FOR GAME ONCOAST,
Players Will Leave Birminghaim Dec.
17, Arrhing In Los Angeles
Dec. t0 For Feature Contest
SQUAD TO INCLUDE 20 MEN
By Herbert E. Vedder
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30-A score,
of stars of the football constellation
below the Mason-Dixon line will be
chosen for the squad which will re-
present that section in the South-
Coast contest here Dec. 26.
W. H. "Champ" Pickens, one of
the principal sponsors of the post
season game, today announced that
the southern squad of 20 men would
leave Birmingham Dec. 17 and would
arrive here Dec. 20.
Because of school examinations, the
Southerners will' have' little time to
practice together before the intersec-
tional contest.
Held Conference Last Week
Although Coaches Wade of Alaba-
ma, McGugin of Vanderbilt and 'Alex-
anlder 'of Georgia Tech, confered in
Birmingham a week ago to select the
southern squad, they refused to an-
nounce what ,men would make the
trip.
Pickens today said the 20 would
be chosen from the following men:
Ends-Nash and Shivers of Georgia
Tech., Greson of Vanderbilt, Spotts
of Washington and Lee, Brown of Tu-
lane.
Tlakles-Hood of Georgia Tech.,
Pickhard of Alabama, Warren of Lou-
isiana State University.
Guards-Smith of Georgia, Bowdoin.
of Alabama, Barnhill, of Tennessee,
Caldwell of Virginia, Tipps of Wash-
ington and Lee.
Quarterbacks-Manville and Spears
of Vanderbilt.
halfbacks-Cohen of Mississippi,
McDowell of North Carolina State,
Brown of Alabama, Thomas of Mary-
land, Godfrey of Tulane.
Fullbacks-Middlekauf of Alabama,
Shotts of Tennessee.
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