SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1936
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
'Michigan Spirit' Outstanding In Varsity's Final Grid Pi
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By GEORGE J. ANROr
(Daily Sports Editor)
Picking Them
WITH your editor fast in the throes
of Piersol's "Human Anatomy"
and the mysterious "Bonth Williams"
in Minneapolis ready totwrite for
The Daily the story of the biggest
upset of the year, Freddie De Lano,
the staff's expert on national foot-
ball, steps in with his first official
effort at picking the winners in what
he terms a "day of upsets."
TODAY is the day of upsets.
The 1936 football season is yet
young but on each Saturday so far
the nation's gridders have shown a
definite tendency to duplicate each
others' feats. First the major elevens
displayed this unity with a series of
gigantic scores; then came a day of
close, hard fought, low scoring bat-
tles that were supposed to go far
toward deciding the national cham-
pionship. Tomorrow there will be
another trend, a trend that will bring
joy to the hearts of those somewhat
eccentric individuals who capitalize
on the long shots.
Sure, we're going out on a
limb-and may take a killing
drop as a result-but every now
and then the form players are
taken for a ride and to our way
of thinking Oct. 17 is the date
for their next journey.
We're not quite bold enough to say
that the fireworks will start in Min-
neapolis with a Michigan triumph
over Minnesota just as the Gophers
are ready to tie Notre Dame's record
'or consecutive victories-but strang-
er things have happenea. However,
we are looking for a Northwestern
victory over Ohio State. The Buck-
eyes got a taste of defeat last week
from'Pitt and will be handed a sec-
ond morsel by the Wildcats, the one
eleven that may meet Minnesota on
equal footing this month.
PURDUE will romp all over Chi-
cago, the Zuppke-coached Illini
will hold Iowa's Oze Simmons in
check for the first half but may
take a two touchdown licking, while
Verne Huffman will be the main fac-
tor in Indiana's holding Nebraska
down to a low score. Elsewhere in the
Mid-West Michigan State will take
the measure of Missouri while down
at South Bend they'll be singing
"When Irish Backs Go Marching By"
with Wisconsin finding those backs
just too tough to stop short of three
touchdowns.
In the East, Harvard will dash
out plenty of trouble for Army's
big eleven but the Cadets should
win. Yale, fresh from a win
over Pennsylvania, will sink the
Navy and Temple will hand Car-
negie Tech a third straight shel-
lacking. It will be Cornell over
Syracuse, Dartmouth over Brown,
Colgate by a narrow margin over
Tulane's big Green Wave and
Pittsburgh by whatever it wishes
over Duquesne.
While most of the experts like
Princeton over Pennsylvania, the
Tigers having lost but one start in
three seasons, we'll put our money
on the Quakers who will be repre-
sented for the third straight year by
practically the same eleven men.
These Quakers are definitely overdue
and tomorrow we'll be expecting them
to start clicking.
OUT on the West Coast we're back-
ing California in its clash with
U.C.L.A. to the extent of seven points
and also, Southern California over
Washington State. Washington, the
team that almost toppled Minnesota
three weeks ago, should take Oregon
State in stride.
Below the Mason-Dixon line
fans are going to be surprised to
see Georgia Tech take the mea-
sure of Duke, Rice will turn the
tables on Georgia and Louisiana
State will take a close one from
Missississippi. We'll also take
Baylor over Texas, T. A. & M. to
beat Texas Christian, Southern
Methodist to top Vanderbilt,
Tennessee to beat Alabama, Kan-
sas over Oklahoma and Mar-
quette to hurdle Kansas State.
We may be wrong and our average
bad, but so what? There's only one
game that really matters and if our
own ball club wins no one will re-
member how the others came out
F.H.D.
BASKETBALL MANAGERS
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igh Pitch
Tilt Today
Sweet Impress
s With Kicking
n Workout
NTH WILLIAMS
Nemesis For,
End Runs?
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 16.-
(Special to The Daily)-When the
Wolverines ran out in the gloomy sta-
dium today under lowering clouds
they confused the natives who ex-
pected them to go humbly through
their signals and then retire to the
showers. Instead, Kip put the boys
through a long kicking and passing
drill followed by a snappy signal
workout in which Michigan looked
like a championship club. The scribes
looked on in wide-eyed admiration as
Bob Cooper and Ced Sweet took turns
kicking long spirals; Johnny Smith-
ers gave the boys something to talk
about as he booted the ball between
the uprights from all angles of the
field.
Wolverines Fool Them
Michigan's got everybody in Min-
neapolis fooled and here's why: the
barrage of photographers that turned
out when the team pulled in at the
station this morning to take pictures
of the "Lambs" were greeted by
thirty-four optimistic Wolverines who
acted as if they were going to take
on the St. Paul ninth grade. The re-
porters were so astonished they ran
banner stories of the spirit of the
reincarnated Michigan team and
printed pictures on the front pages of
all three papers.
"I've never seen the boys so worked
up," Kip smiled as they stormed
into the lockers after the final work-
out preparatory to the big clash to-
morrow. No sooner had the team
dressed than a light rain began to
fall. The Gophers went through their
motion in a hurry and then the tar-
paulin was hauled out and the sta-
dium blanketed over until game-time
tomorrow.
The Michigan squad had a double
dose of skull practice in the hotel
here today, and went to bed at 10
o'clock.
Orchestra Plays 'Victors'
The orchestra in the hotel dining
room played "The Victors" when the
team sat down to dinner tonight and
the whole assembly rose and clapped.
There's more spirit here than any
one could ever have hoped for from
a team that has dropped its first two
games.
"We're gonna bring back the jug,"
the boys roared as they swarmed
under the showers late this afternoon,
"and when we do I'm gonna take the
throttle into Chicago and Patt can
shovel the coal," chimed in Johnny
Smithers.
"Rich you can pull whistle."
That's exactly the way the squad
feels about the game. The experts
and even the local Michigan rooters
have called it Minnesota by four
touchdowns. But that's because they
aren't in on the 'know.' Michigan
won't be beaten tomorrow if guts and
fight can prevent it, and what a
chance for an upset.
Team Wants 'Jug'
The boys just sit around and hope
and keep telling each other how swell
it would be "If we could just bring
it back" (The Jug). When they feel
that way, look out Mr. Bierman.
Kip has named the same line-up
which started against Indiana to
face the Gophers in the stadium here
tomorrow. There isn't a man on the
squad who is not in tip top shape,
and they're all ready to give their
damndest to conk the Norsemen.
Professor Aigler gave the team a
pep talk at the morning meeting here
in the hotel and regaled the boys
with stories of other great Michigan-
Minnesota battles. Tomorrow the
1936 edition of Wolverine grid men
will run out on the field before a
packed stadium of partisan fans,
Soph Sprint Prospect
Rests After Operation
Roy Heath, Salina, Kan., sopho-
more track prospect at the University
was reported resting easily this after-
noon following an appendicitis op-
eration last night in the University
Health Service.
Heath is a sprint prospect and
will team with Sam Stoller, Michi-
gan's Olympic representative, in the
100-yard dash. He is holder of the
freshman record for 220 yards, 21.1
seconds, made last spring.
Whether Michigan's backfield
can function on end runs today,
will depend largely on whether the
interference can block out the vet-
eran Dwight Reed, speedy 180
pound end. He will figure greatly1
in the Gophers' aerial attack should
they try to gain ground in that
manner.
Gehrig Named
'Most Valuable'
fPlayer Again
Appling Annexes Second
In Winner's Poll; Averill
Is In Third Place
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-(/P)-For the
second time in his remarkable career,
Lou Gehrig, burly first baseman of
the New York Yankees, today was
named the American League's "most
valuable player" by the Baseball
Writers Association.
Leader of one of the most vicious
team batting attacks in the history
of the game, Gehrig topped the
league with 49 homers, batted .354,
drove in 152 runs, ran his stretch
of consecutive games to 1,808, and
led the Yankees to American League
and World Series championships.
Appling Is Second
Luke Appling, brilliant Chicago
White Sox shortstop and new Amer-
ican League batting champion, was
second in the voting. Earl Averill,
Indians, was third, and Charley
Gehringer, Tigers, fourth.
Only three other players have re-
ceived the award twice-Mickey
Cochrane, Athletics and Tigers, 1928-
1934; Walter Johnson, Senators,
1913-1924, and Jimmie Foxx, Red
Sox, 1932-1933. Gehrig won the
award for the first time in 1927.
The selection was made by a com-
mittee of eight writers, one from
each city in the American League.
Each member of the committee
picked has 10 best players, the first
player on each list getting 10 points,
the second nine, the third eight, and
so on.
Gehrig Gains 73 Points
Under this system, Gehrig was first
on four of the eight lists and totalled
73 points. Appling received three
first place votes and a total of 65
points. Averill was given 48 points
and Gehringer, who received the oth-
er first place vote, 39.
Following Gehringer on the list
were Bill Dickey, Yankees catcher, 29
points, Joe Kuehl, Senators, and Ver-
non Kennedy, White Sox, 27, and Joe
Dimaggio, Yankees, 26.
Others who received five or more
votes were Tommy Bridges, Tigers,
25, Hal Trosky, Indians, 19, Jimmy
Foxx, Red Sox, 16, Gerald Walker,
Tigers, 14, Beau Bell, Browns, 10,
Wally Moses, Athletics, 7, and Bob
Grove, Red Sox, who won the award
in 1931.
SAVING HIS STRENGTH
Football practice isn't tough for
Frank Mautte, Fordham's wraith-
like back. Mautte weighs only 155
for his six feet one and Coach Jim
Crowley has excused him from all
scrimmage sessions to save his
strength.
Title Hopes At
Stake In N. U.,
Buckeye Battle
All Conference Teams See
Action Today; Maroons,
Purdue Stage Finale
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-(P)-Cham-
pionshpi hopes of Ohio State and '
Northwestern in the Western Con-
ference race rise or fall tomorrow.
The Wildcats and the Buckeyes
battle at Evanston before 40,0001
spectators in a game that figures to
be one of the best of the 'Big Ten sea-
son. So far as the Wildcats are con-
cerned, the conflict will serve as an
opportunity to make amends for the
trouncing received at Columbus a
year ago. Coach Lynn Waldorf of
Northwestern got his players off the
mark much faster this fall and they
proved their worth by walloping Iowa
and then blasting North Dakota State
in a tune-up.
Ohio Has Edge
Ohio State, however, with superior
man power and a more versatile at-
tack, appears to have a decided edge.
Against Pittsburgh, admittedly one
of the country's outstanding elevens,
the Buckeyes were impotent on of-
fense, but the power is there and the
Wildcats know it. The aerial and
lateral pass offense which the Buck-
eyes have is causing fretting among
the Northwestern adherents, but the
Purple line, good as it appears to be,
may snarl the tricky Buckeye forma-
tions, as the Panthers did. Every
team in the conference will be in
action tomorrow, with Wisconsin and
Indiana alone going outside for com-
petition.
Purdue figures to knock off Chicago
in the Maroon's initial Western Con-
ference effort of this season. The
Boilermakers, although planning to
save their fireworks for the game
with Minnesota a week hence, have
enough, it appears, to chalk their
ninth straight victory over the scrap-
py Maroons. After tomorrow Chicago
will not have to "fear Purdue" as it
has done for years, starting with
the days of Amos Alonzo Stagg, for
after tomorrow their long football
relationship will be severed.
Iowa Faces Illini
Iowa and flashy Ozzie Simmons
figure to repulse Illinois. Bo Mc-
Millin takes a well balanced
eleven to Lincoln to fight the Ne-
braskans, and if the Cornhuskers
haven't recovered from their terrific
struggle with Minnesota a week ago,
the Hoosiers may bring home a vic-
tory.
Notre Dame Stadium will be the
arena for the battle of the Horsemen,
when Wisconsin and Notre Dame
engage in their tenth game. Notre
Dame appears to pack too much
power but Wisconsin has been im-
proving steadily.
Wolverine Coaches
Off To Scout Foes
Several of the Michigan coaches
will be unable to watch their proteges
in their attempt to stem the Swedish
horde from the north this week-end.
The staff will be spread through
the Mid-West and the East watching
the future opponents of Michigan
battle it out on the line. Benny Oos-
terbaan, who always concentrates his
scouting ability on Minnesota will be
with the squad watching to see if
his observation are of any avail, as
will Cappon.
Wallie Weber, however, is sched-
uled to leave for Iowa City today
where the Indians of Illinois and the
Hawkeyes are slated to tangle.
Ray Courtright and Keen will
board a train in the opposite direc-
tion and will travel toward the rising
sun. Keen will chart Pennsylvania's
plays while Courtright will map the
Columbia attack.
CAGERS REPORT
All candidates for the Varsity
basketball team report at the In-
tramural Sports Building basket-
ball courts for opening practice at
7:45 p.m. Monday. Bring your
own equipment.
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Baseball Captures Game Today Tests Kick
Practice Limelight
As Gridders Travel Two opposing theories of the kick- consin and Columbia games. In both
_______off will be in force tomorrow a contests the Wolverines forced the
Mm- oppositionhdirectly after the kick to
With the football team invading Minneapolis as Michigan and I make a break. a break which Michi-
Minnesota intent upon being the first nesota meet on the gridiron.
as well as the last team to defeat the The one is that of the Kipke-Yostl
Gopherssince they started their win- teams, which holds that to make the
ning streak, baseball assumed the
leading role around Yost Field House kick is the best way to open the
yesterday as several Varsity baseball game, hoping that the opponents will
candidates continued their fall drills fumble and give the kicking team
with a light workout., the ball deep in opposing territory
wt Sihprkomisingt.with a minimum of effort. The other
Burt Smith, promising junior hurl- is that of the Bierman-coached Min-
er who has been showing Coach Fish- nesota eleven which sees in the kick-
er plenty of 'stuff' these past few off return one of the most important
weeks and Walter Peckinpaugh, offensive plays of the game.
sophomore infield prospect, began a e play of th
two-man practice session that even- Each theory has been used with
tually ended up in a five-man affair great success in the past by each of
including Coach Fisher who caught its exponents, and last year saw each
Smith's deliveries despite his civilian team cashing in on its respective
clothes. Steve Uricek, veteran second theory.
baseman and the Wolverine's leading Michigan's most effective use of
hitter last year, and Lester Brauser, the kickoff last year was in the Wis-
reserve catcher, were the late comers.
To make the picture complete, Wesley
Brew, senior baseball manager,
showed up as a spectator.
While the Wolverine mentor was
helping Smith to polish off the rough
spots in his curve and change of pace
delivery, Uricek and Peckinpaugh
managed to sharpen their batting eye
with a short hitting drill made pos-
sible by the aid of Norman Purkuer,
Arriving late, Brauser got Uricek to
hit him some fly balls and later
competed with him in a snappy FOR SAT U R DA)
'pepper' game.
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Lansing Central
Beats Pioneers
This is the time of year when football spectators must be
prepared for anything in the way of weather. The late after-
noon sun can no longer be depended upon to contribute very
much warmth, so that it's well to go prepared if you want to
enjoy the game. Notice the practical accessories pictured
below:
By 26-0
Score
Swamp Local Squad With
Three Touchdowns In
Initial Five Minutes
Litterally sweeping Ann Arbor's
Pioneers off their feet in the first five
minutes of last night's game at
Wines Field, Lansing Central's pow-
erful eleven took a long step toward
the state high school grid cham-
pionship .with a spectacular 26-0 tri-
umph before 4,500 people.
Before the game was more than
five minutes old Central was lead-
ing the Ann Arbor team, 20-0. There
was no more scoring until the third
quarter when Lansing shoved over
ianother touchdown.
Central received the opening
kickoff and in seven plays moved
from their own 25 yard line the
length of the field for a score. Ted
Tykocki was the spearhead of the
attack and scored on a wide sweep. 1
A few moments later Ann Arbor took
the ball for the first time but a punt
was blocked, Dunca, Lansing end,
catching it and stepping off 20 yards
for another score.
This time the try for point was
good. On the following kickoff Lan-
sing again receive.d and Bryce Brown,
taking the ball on his five yard stripe,
sped 95 yards behind perfect inter-
ference for the third touchdown over
a completely demoralized Ann Ar-
bor eleven. The attempted conver-
sion was successful.
Ann. Arbor made only one first I
down during the entire game, this in
the fourth quarter while the Lansing
lineup was filled with second string
material.
A SELLOUT
The Pitt office announced the
Notre Dame game is a sellout and
said over 75,000 have obtained tickets.
Right: Socks are much in evi.
dence at football games. The
smartest ones seen are these
bold colored wool argyles.
Right: A shoe much favored
by enthusiastic stadiumites is
made of brown reverse calf,
has a blucher front and no toe
cap; the sole is heavy, either
leather or gum rubber.
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