PAGE T R P M I r P T ('- -A: ' ,.T t-I A t f V a a Iv I'. L- 1 I J/A I L4 1 TITJRS DAY, FEBRUARY 26,.1931 b aw Veenker Resigns From Oi%9 0 Verille Cacig S a VeenkerTakesPost n at Iowa Institution FOOTBALL ENTOR Purple Natators . to Face Varsity Outstand ng Dual Meet of Year to be Staged Tomorrow., TO ONCHIchg General Strength of Michigan IMIANs' LEFT PILOT SEEKS TOIMPROVE SIDE OFCLEVELA]I T'S INFIELD Will Take Charge of Gridiro Sport at Iowa State Next September. Coach George F. Veenker, hea( basketball coach and assistan football coach at Michigan, has re- signed from the Michigan athletic staff to accept a position as hea fotball mentor at Iowa State Co lege, at Ames, Iowa, according t an announcement made public b the coach himself yesterday. Coach Veenker will remain wit the University of Michigan coach- ing staff for the remainder of the present season , and will continu to act in the capacity of instructoi in the Michigan summer school oi coaches until next September, when he will assume his new duties at Iowa State. Loss to Mhigan. The resignation of Coach Veen- ker will be a great loss to -he Mih- igan coaching staf. For the past five years he has been a valuable aid to the head football coach, and for the past three seasons has guided the destinies of the Maize and Blue quintet. Veenker has made many friends throughout the Western Conference as well as at Michigan, and was well satisfied with his position here, but he has alwoys desired to be a head football coach, and the opportunity came when T. N. Met-- calf, Director of Athletics at Iowa State College, offered him the posi- tion of head gridiron mentor. Veenker stated yesterday that he greatly regretted leaving Michigan because of the large number of friends and acquaintances he had made during his five year stay here. He also expressed himself as re- luctant to give up his work with the present basketball team, most of the members of which will be returning to play again next year. To Coach Football. The resigning mentor is recog- nized as an excellent football coach with a thorough knowledge of the game. He is conceded to be one of the most able gridiron scouts in the game today. His ability to analyze opponents' plays and formations has been of great assistance to the Michigan gridders Many of the Wolverine elevens own formations and plans of attack that have been the result of Veenker's efforts. In. his first year as head basket- ball coach, Veenker sent his quintet of cagers through the Conference season with but two losses to finish in a tie with Wisconsin for the Conference championship. The fol- lowing year the Wolverine lost but four games, but this was not good enough to win the title, and the Michigan five had to be content with a fifth place in the standing. Again this year the Wolverines have lost several games, but the squad is composed almost exclusive- ly of sophomores, and still has a good chance of ending up near the top of the ratings. Jack Malloy, from North Adams, Mass., is called the best all-around athlete at West Point. He has col- lected two letters each in football basketball, baseball and track. By I-' i By Cullen Kennedy IDcdnFaor y ! I rcken Should Prove A n n u a 11 y, Northwestern and DecidingFactor. Michigan meet in a swimming con- test which is universally recognized Some real action will be seen as the outstanding inter-collegiate next Saturday night in the field dual meet of the year. With both house when Coach C> Hoyt schools having had national and stacks his track stars - §ainst world record holders almost every 'the Chicago aggregation t: thin- year, the encounter draws interest clads, who are bringing several of from every section of the country. the ranking luminaries of the Con- Keen rivalry has existed between ference to show the Michigan boys the two schools for many years, es- some real speed in some of the n illz hx~n t.ha ai l n VEENA1EF - COACH Varsity basketball and assistant gridiron mentor, who has resigned his post at Michigan to become head football coach at Iowa State College. He will stay at Michigan until the end of the summer ses- sion. Cpeciaiy wnen Leir tank Leams face each other, as the champion- ship usually goes to one of the two. The always powerful Wolver- ine swimrming aggregation has lost but one dual meet in six years and that was when the Wildcats scored a 3'7-32 tri- umph in 1929 in the new In- tramural pool. The meet was a fierce one, but the Michigan tankmen later redeemed them- selves and avenged their defeat at the hands of the Purple by swamping their opponents in the all-Conference to walk off with the Big Ten champion- ship. In the following year, 1930, the Wolves and Wildcats reversed the whole procedure, Northwestern carrying off the honors in the all- Conference affair, after the Michi- gan tankers had beaten them in the previous dual meet, 40-35. Com- ing back in the championship con- Yearling Thinclads Will Hold test, the Purple secured 45 markers to Michigan's 31, a quintet of stars. Telegraphic Contest With Captain Schwartz, Hinch, Peterson, Illinois Trackmen. Howlett, and Wilson, accounting --- for all but four of the 45 points. Yearling track men are preparing However, this year's encoun- for their first outside competition ter which will be held at 7 of the year, a telegraphic meet with o'clock tomorrow night will be Io s, thehyear, asegraphic edletdwi principally a battle of sopho- ^linois, which has been scheduled more stars, both teams having to start next Wednesday and con- lost heavily through graduation tinue through Friday. last June. Untried as they are Comparison of the first year men ( in stiff competition, tomorrow's with those of other Big Ten schools contest should uncover several new men of exceptional ability is impossible at present, but several in nearly all events. of the yearlings have hung up some Covode and Wilson, of North- ieal records in the inter-squad western, and Ladd, Smith, Raike, meets which have been held under and Valentine of Michigan are the the direction of Coach Ken Doher- only veterans who placed in last, ty. The high jump and the 35- year's meet, Valentine, captain ofI pound weight records have been the Wolverines this season, swam broken by this year's squad. The in the medley relay which took dashmen, too, have shown some first as well as taking second hon- real speed. ors in the 150 yard back stroke. The Illini were sort of washed off Ladd finished third in the quarter the track by the Notre Dame fresh- mile swim, Smith placed second in events. The Maroon mile relay team, composed of Letts, Cameron. Iay- don, and Bibbs, is rated as their biggest threat. Last week in a meet with the Iowa tracksters, the Chi- cago quartet ran away with the event. They are rated as one of the best baton passers in the Big Ten competition. Letts Wins Mile. Letts also took a first in the mile run, tying with his own teammate, Brainard. They turned in a ,time of 4:30.8, which looks well for Wolfe of the Maize and Blue squad, who chalked up a time of 4:26.7 in the opening meet last Saturday. Wolfe, however, will have to be at his best, for Letts is one of tne best runners in the college ranks and can lower his time to around 4:20 when the opposition demands it. Eddie Tolan. who has been add- ing new laurels to his already I famous name, will also find some real competition in Captain East of the visiting Maroons. East ran the 60 in :6.3 in the Iowa meet while the best Tolan could do was :6.4 last week. Austin Favored. Austin seems to have the two mile event cinched if he can repeat his record breaking performance of last week, for Kelley of Chicago has not been able to do the grindI in the Michigan man's lace. Cam- eron and Brainard also star for the Maroons in the half and quarter mile runs respectively. Turner of Michigan can be depended upon to take the 880 event, for the best time that Chicago has turned in yet is 2:5, . The quarter mile will probably go to Chicago unless Russell can improve his time. Eknovich, Glad- ding, and DeBaker will also be pushing the pace setter in this event. Michigan is going to be woe- fully weak in the high jump and shot put events, but as the situa- tion stacks up now, the Maize and Blue should muster enough team points to run off with the meet. I By Sheldon C. Fullerton. (Editor's Note: This is the fourth of a series of articles dealing with the chan~ces of the major league clubs in 1931). Two weak positions, both on the left side of the infield, loom up be- fore Manager Roger Peckinpaugh as he starts his Cleveland Indians Ithrough their training paces at New Orleans. With capable men filling the shortstop and third basej assignments, this team,.the young- est in the big leagues, would make a deterinned bid for the pennant; as mttvye stancl now it will prob- >.ly have to be content with a rt2 diviSion berth. Eddie Morgan, the Tribe's regular iirst baseman in 1930, has an- nouinced his intention of quitting the national game for a business career, but this may be all a part of a holdout stunt on his part. He broke all records last year for home runs by a Cleveland player, and his loss will be keenly felt if he really does decide to close his baseball career now. In the event that he carries through his threat Lew Fonseca, American League batting champion in 1929, will play first base for Cleveland. Johnny Hodapp, who made the most hits of any player in the BIG TEN BOWLING MEET ON TONIGHT Michigan Teams to Use Union Alleys for Competition. The annual Big Ten telegraphic bowling meet will be held tonight$ at 7:30, the Michigan contingent bowling at the Union alleys. All schools in the Western Con- I C I ,; .- - - - _ _ . S $