PAGE EIGHT .!- """ 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 --l- 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 E 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 (Continued on Page Nine.) i 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 (Oontinued on Page .Nine.) J 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. 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