ESDAY, JAN. 17, 1933 THE MICHIGAN DAILY njuries Put Wolverine Ice Captain On Sidelines For Big Ten AIck PAGE THREI pener Emmy Reid Out For Month With Fractured Hand Crash Against Boards In St. Mary's Contest Places Co-Captain On Sidelines Out For Month FROM THE PRESS BOX ICWJOHNTHOMAS. a [- Li- Y- a V 1 It / 1 1 %./ V t/J FIELDING H. YOST, Harry Kipke, Harvey Woodruff, and Prof. Frank Dickinson were together recently, and as would be expected, the talk swung around to football. The biggest trouble with the game at present is not any of the features that the rules committee considered in their re- cent meeting in New York, but incomplete statistics, they felt. Every yard gained should be included, whether by running, passing or kicking, they said. The length of punts, minus their runback, and the length of kickoffs, minus their return, should be included. Yost and Kipke explained Michigan's edge over Minnesota in the kicking department. Mich- igan made something like 287 yards in this department alone, more than most teams make by running and passing. Professor Dickinson asked Yost Ill Luck Takes Toll On Wolve Grappler Team . M Blair Thomas Down1 With Influenza; Spoden Has In jured Leg 'Hank", Keeper Of Equipment Room, Holds Job For 14 Years The bright spot in the scene is the return of Neil Gabler, who comes back this year to the campus and Michigan hockey after an absence of, several years. He was known as one of the best defensemen in the entire conference, and became scholastic- ally eligible Friday night just before game time. He took a major part' in the fray against the Redmen. Gabler Helps Defense Gabler's eligibility and Reid's in-I jury seems to indicate a shift in theI lineup as John Sherf seems the logi- cal candidate for the left wing posi- tion, while Gabler will probably fill in :at the left defense post vacated by Sherf's removal to the front line. David will play his usual right wing, and Crossman is slated to complete the forward wall at his position of center ice. Despite the fact that the compon- ent parts of the team remaining are likely to form an efficient unit, it is an unquestioned fact that the ab- sence of Reid will handicap the team to a great extent. The Wolverines failed to click on Friday night when Reid was unable to be an important cog in the defense, and chances against the strong Minnesota aggre- g a t io n are materially lessened through the accident. Crossman Badly Bruised Crossman seemed ineffectual in his scoring attempts after Reid was in- jured, and the teamwork which has been built up between the two offen- sive stars will be shattered by the left wing's absence. Sherf and Cross- man will probably bear the weight of the offense against the Northmen, with Sherf as an individual perfor- mer getting the edge in the advance predictions. Crossman was badly bruised in the melee Friday night, and his work since his illness has lacked the usual speed. Red Wings, Amerks Hockey Sensations NEW YORK, Jan. 16.--A)-An- other week of hard battles, to which were added a couple of highly in- teresting shakeups in the losing clubs, has left the Detroit Red WingsI and New York Americans holding7 their places as the reigning sensa-1 tions of the National hockey league. Neither of these teams has lost a game in 1933, and when it came to~ a decisionbetween them Sunday night they struggled warily to a 1-1 tie. The Red Wings have gone through ten games and the Amerks seven without a defeat. OPINIONS DIFFER Col. Jake Ruppert, owner of the Yanks, opposes the broadcasting of1 baseball, but William Veeck, presi-1 dent of the Cubs, says the broad- casting of Cub games has helped thet attendance. A fractured hand received when he crashed against the boards dur- ing the first period of the St. Mary's game Friday night will keep Co-Cap- tain Emmy Reid out of the series against Minnesota this week and will probably keep him on the bench for a month or more. Fencers Open Season Against State Tonight Michigan's fencing team will jour- ney to East Lansing tonight to meet the Spartans in the first meet of the season. Seven men, five of whom are vet- erans, will make the trip to Mich- igan State. Only two of the three are entrants in the foil event, not having the advantage of previous team competition. Captain Jerome Winig and Bob Nahrgang will enter the epee event. Both men were members of last year's squad. Jim DeStefano, with two years' experience, and Albert Little are slated as the entrants in the sabres. Jerome Meyer, boasting a year of competition, will be supported by Hyman Maas and Bob Sellars, new- comers, in the foils. Mass displaced Basset as the third man in a recent fence-off... ... A meet with the Toledo Y. M. C. A. team, carded for last Sturday was washed out when the Ohioans failed to appear. Coach John Johnstone has receiv- ed an invitation to take his team to Chicago, to meet Chicago and Northwestern. It has not been an- nounced whether the invitation will be accepted. 'B' Basketball Team Def eats Freshmen 23-18 By defeating the freshman basket- ball squad 23 to 18 yesterday after- noon the B team regained some of the prestige it lost last week when the frosh gave it a decisive set back. Coach Ray Courtright started Pet- rie and Teitlebaum at forwards, Al- len at center, and Oliver and Kosit- chek at guards for the B team, which was opposed by Ford and Evans at the forward berths, Silverman at center, and Tomango and Jablonski as the guards. During the first half the two teams battled on even terms until the last two minutes of play when Kositchek and Wistert, who had been substitut- ed for Allen at center, scored two quick baskets to, put the B team in front as the half ended 13 to 8. At the start of the second half Coach Fisher of the freshman started an entirely new lineup, consisting of Levine and Miller, forwards, Bower- man, center, and Nelson and McCol- lum, guards. These five played against the B team for 15 minutes, and with five minutes to go and the score 21 to 16 against them, the frosh starting lineup was sent in. Both the freshman and B teams managed to score one basket during these last five minutes and the game ended 23 to 18. Individual scoring for the two teams was as follows: B team-Pet- nie 1, Teitlebaum 4, Allen 2, Kosit- chek 6, istert 2, Barta 4, Seeley 4. For the freshmen: Ford 6, Silverman 2, Tomango 2, Miller 2, Bowerman 2, and McCollum 2. CUBS SIGN HENDRICK Harvey Hendrick continues his globe-trotting. After playing big league ball for Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Cincinnati teams, he has been signed by the Chicago Cubs as utility infielder. and Kipke to explain "Michigan's system" of kicking early in the ser- ies of downs, second or third down. He thought that somehow that spell- ed the success of Michigan's play. It was pointed out that the kicker, about 12 yards behind the line of scrimmage, is a threat for running, passing, or kicking. If the second- ary backs up for a kick, a pass has every chance to be successful. Con- sequently Michigan's opponents could not back up and therefore their run- back of punts was reduced to a min- imum, while Newman could reduce their kicking average with long run- backs and consequently increase Michigan's edge in gi'ound gain. Professor Dickinson considered this one feature the kernel of Michigan's success. He laughed at the sugges- tion that the "system" was "punt, pass, and prayer." He said that he had seen too many Wolverine games to be "taken in with that hokum." . .' . PnROFESSOR DICKINSON was *teaching a beginning economics course. In the back row sat a Daily Illini sport writer, "the only one who ever had a spark of journalism on our student publication," Dickinson said. "The sport writer had slept through three months of my class," he con- tinued, "but jumped up with a jerk when I said that the use of expon- ents could be made to rate football elevens." After the class the student newspaperman came up to Professor Dickinson's desk and asked if he could explain such a use again. The next day the Daily Illini carried the story, and the Dickinson rating was born. John .Thomas, former All-Ameri- can from Chicago, once asked Dick- inson a pertinent question concern- ing the rating system which was then very new. Our own Roscoe Huston, the man who did not miss a Michi- gan gridiron game for 25 years, is also responsible for another change in the system. Both of these ques- tions led to amendments. * * * IN ALL THERE are about 15 differ- ent methods of rating football teams nationally. The present Dick- inson system is the thirteenth that he has used. He is the first one to point out its weakness, but outside of the one week point, it is superior to all other systems. The weakest ink in his chain is that he takes a sample and uses it as if it represented a round-robin series of games. For instance one or two intersectional games are played during the season, the outcome of these games determine the strength or weakness of one section over an- other. If a complete round-robin series had been played between the teams of both sections, the true re- sults would be obtainable. This hap- pened this year. Far western teams lost their first five intersectional games. This brought down their rat- ing until it was too much for South- ern California to overcome, in com- paring their season with Michigan's.1 * * There are two separate divisions in his rating. The first is intra-see- tional, like the Big Ten or the South- ern Conference. The same general principles are followed in both. The tie games are one-half won and one- half lost. A tie by a weak team is equal to a defeat by a strong team, if the team is strong itself. At the end of the Big Ten sea- son all teams that have a percentage above 50 are put in one division and all others in a second. The first div- ision is that of the strong elevens and the second of the weak. Then Dickinson goes over the sea- son's results again giving 30 points for a victory over a first division team, 22/ for a tie, and 15 for a defeat. Only .20 points are given for a vic- tory over a second division team, 15 for a tie, and 10 for a loss. The total number of points for a team is divid- ed by the number of gamesif the Conference games for the different schools total a different number. Michigan had six Conference games this year, while another college might have had only five. As can be seen comparativve scores are not taken into consideration in the system. Only victories and losses according to the strength of the op- position. There are several other minor features in the method but these are the principle factors. MRS. DICKINSON keeps the rec- ord of 110 colleges throughout the United States for the final deter- mination of intersectional ratings. Each conference is considered as an individual team. When an intersec- tional game is played a winning team gets twice as many points as the los- ing team. The status of the losing team cannot be determined until the season is over, so intersectional rat- ings are not made until after the schedule is completed. To get the intersectional relations Dickinson takes all the games be- tween East and Mid-West teams. The standing of the winner of each of; these games, in his own Conference,! is subtracted from the number of points he got for winning it, and then this number is divided by two. That gives the winning team's dis- trict a plus or a minus for the losing conference eleven. For instance, Princeton's standing might have been 16 after the whole season was over, in the East league. Then Michigan's victory over them would be scored as 32 points for Michigan minus our own standing in the Big Ten which might have been, say 26. The differ- ence is 6 points, divided by two leaves a plus three for the Mid- West over the East. Group In Leagues Thus the intersectional ratings are made by adding all the pluses and minuses for each of these games. The leagues are determined by Dickin- son by the number of games played with opponents from that region. For that reason, the University of Detroit and Michigan State were classified as eastern teams. Notre Dame was first rated as an Eastern team and then as a Mid-Western one. However rating them in each league made no difference in the rat- ings. Then the intersectional rating of superiority of one section is applied to their standings. One section is taken to be 0 and the others are classed on its basis. For instance this year the East was 0. That made the Pacific Coast minus 2.71 and the Big Ten plus 4.67. The Pacific Coast had its poorest intersectional season on record, losing the first five games of this kind. Post-season games are not includ- ed or if the team rests three weeks before their last game, it is not in- cluded either. The final result takes 40 hours work even after the whole season recoird is complete for each section. Winner 'Shows More' All this answers the question, "which one of the leading teams overcame the stiffest opposition?" This could mean "National Cham- pions" if one considers that the.team that overcame the toughest opposi- tion is the best in the country. Dick- inson does not think that the two are synomonous but that a team that wins his trophy simply has overcome more than the second place team. The second place team may have more but it has not shown as much. Harry.Kipke is the youngest coach ever to receive this award. He is 33 years old. In 1925 at the Michigan- Illinois basketball game in Ann Ar- bor, the first trophy ever presented by Dickinson in public, was given to Michigan. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE award is voted on by the Conference football coaches, ten officials, J. J. Griffith, Wilfred Smith, and Harvey Woodruff. Votes for a player as number one counts two points, and each's second choice counts one point. The men who are voted by their teammates as their most valu- able players are eligible for the final voting. Injuries and illness have taken their toll of the wrestling squad, With the team going into its last week of training before the opening meet of the season, the match with Michigan State carded for Saturday night, three members of the Varsity are on the hospital list. Captain Blair Thomas is down in bed with influenza and there seems to be little chance of his swinging into action against the Spartans. John Spoden, light heavyweight, is out of action with an injured leg, while Joe Oakley, veteran, is still suf- fering from a knee injury. The lat- ter may be able to appear in Satur- day's meet however. If Spoden is unable to compete Willard Hildebrand will get the call in the heavy- weight class. Hil- debrand, All-Cam- pus champion in 1931, was late re- porting t o t h e squad but is in good shape. The only other out- standing h e a v y, Tom O'Bryon, has been ill. Should both , i4GE R.N 0 O ak l ey an d Thomas be out of action Coach Cliff Keen will have a problem. He might enter Bob Helli- well, tetterman in the 145-lb. class, at 135-lbs., Thomas' old stand. Ed Landwehr or Don Lewis would then get the call in the heavier class. If Oakley is ready to wrestle, Keen might place him at 135 and let Helli- well occupy his usual position. Only one -other position remains in reasonable doubt. In the 125-b. class either Seymour Rubin or Dal Sig- wart may get the call. Sigwart, a let- terman two years ago, was late re- porting. Rubin, State A. A. U. champ at 126 last year, has performed well in the workouts to date, winning the event in the All-Campus meet. The remainder of the team seems fairly certain. Jimmy Landrum, Art Mosier, and Ed Wilson, all veterans, are fixtures at 118, 155, and 165 lbs. The 175-lb. class is open, with Har- vey Bauss the most likely entrant. Kipke Speaks At Notre Dame Dinner SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 16.-(IP) -James A. Farley of New York, chairman of the Democratic nation- al committee, headed a long list of speakers at the annual Notte Dame football testimonial dinner. The speakers last night were in- troduced by James Crowley, member of Notre Dame's famous "Four Horsemen," who recently resigned as head coach at Michigan State College to accept a similar place at Fordham. They included: Gov. Paul V. McNutt of, Indiana, Mayor W. R. Hinkle of South Bend, Harry Kipke, head coach at Michi- gan; Coach Charles E. Dorais, of the University of Detroit, Coach Noble Kizer of Purdue, Coach Heartly (Hunk) Anderson of Notre Dame, and Athletic Director Jesse Harper. No Axe to Grind .. . No Old Merchandise To Palm Off-- By HARMON A. WOLFE t More work and the same dougho -that's the lament of the gentleman , in the squirrel cage at the Field House. Ever since Henry (Hank) Hatch started work for the athletic association way back in 1919-justt 14 years ago in March-the little odd' jobs about the whole athletic plantI have turned to that gentleman fort their solution. Although Hank is sup- posed to be the athletic equipment man, and only that, he has all the plain and fancy fixing to do for the' whole field house; even the task ofx painting visiting basketball players't names on the scoreboard for the eve-k ning.N If you will recall the fellow whof helped carry the trophy table to theE center of the basketball floor be-I tween halves of the Illinois gamei Saturday night, and then held the certificates for the national football champs, you will have some idea of the size of the man who checks over nearly $10,000 worth of equipment in the supply room. That's just an- other of the major jobs that drift in Hank's direction. Most For Football A large share of that $10,000, of course, is in the form of football sup- plies, but track and baseball follow a close second and third for total value. On the subject of value, the Little Brown Jug has to be figured in' too. Hank has to see that it doesn't turn up missing before the Minne- sota tussle; perhaps that's just moral' value, but nevertheless important. Just to emphasize the fact that :in-c dustriousness isn't the only requisite for Hatch's job, it need only be men-t tioned that it's a smart man who keeps some 400 clever college boysa from carrying away the yearly towel supply before the whistle blows in June. For some unknown reason, Hank seems to have just as many towels at the end of the year as at the first, even though it has been1 rumored that no Michigan athlete ever purchased a towel in a local shop. When they asked Henry to paint Gymnasts To H( P ratce With Coach Bill West's gymnastics squac will hold a combined practice witli the Michigan State Normal tean Wednesday night at the Intramura Building. There will be no competi- tion and no score kept. The team from the Ypsilanti school does not compete in meets but en- gages exclusively in exhibitions. Mos of its talent lies in the tumbling event and exercises on the fiyine rings, side horse, and other regula. tion gymnastic features are neglect ed. In their special event, however the Ypsi tumblers are said to be very proficient and would probably defea the Wolverines in competition. Coach West has four regulars back from last year's squad and consider the present team to be the best it the history of Michigan gymnastics the Illinois basketball players' names on the scoreboard at noon last Sat- urday, a new standard for rush work was installed. Not only the regular, but a long list of substitutes had to be painted in readiness before game time. It looks now as though Hank is going to become a painter, too, besides doing the electrical, plumbing and carpentering work. Rush Work For Hank The whole athletic staff is hoping now that Hatch won't have any eye trouble in years to come, due to handling those new gypsy uniforms which the boys are wearing. With every team in the Big Ten represent- ed in cqlors on the new sweat outfits, Hank is having real trouble in keep- ing things straight. He has a con- stant worry that Ypsilanti or Albion or anybody else for that matter may slip in with an armful of dirty uni- forms and trick him into passing out some of the new kaleidoscopic equip- ment. I . I Bargains In Utility Garments I Slicker-lined Gordon Corduroy Coats in shades of brown and.tan, Reduced to $4.95 Navy blue heavy Cossack Jackets with zipper fronts and high storm collars. 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