TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 22,
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How
To Stop Minnesota Is Prob
[em ForBig Ten Coaches
Rumblings Of The Far-Off Cage Season
Ohio Is Slated
To Make Strong
Bid For Honors
Northwestern And Indiana
Rate hig As Contenders
For Conference Laurels
Openers Are Tough
Other Teams Are Classed
In Lower Bracket But
May SpringUpsets
By FRED H. DeLANO
In 1935 the big problem facing
football teams in the Western Con-
ference was how to make Bernie
Bierman and his Gophers relinquish
their iron grip on theschampion-
ship. A year later-the same thing
all over; who can stop Minnesota?
It is true that Bierman's club was
hit hard by graduation with the loss
of such stars as Smith, Seidel, Beise
and LeVoir, but a good freshman
squad from last year is expected to
fill the gaps. At the same time Julius
Alphonse, captain of the 1936 Goph-
ers, and such other stars as Widseth,
Uram, Thompson and Gmitro should
give Bierman a real backbone for
another great team. Minnesota has
not been beaten since the Michigan
game of 1932 when Harry Newman
booted a field goal to give the Wol-
verines a 3-0 decision.
Ohio State, co-holders of the title
last year with the Gophers, will also
be making a strong bid for a second
consecutive place on the throne. The
wealth of reserve material is not so
much in evidence in the Buckeye
camp this season, but Coach Francis
Schmidt is expected to develop a
great team out of his hand-picked
squad of eighty.
Ohio Has Speed
Schmidt is expecting much from a
backfield probably composed of
"Tippy" Dye, Nick Wasylick, Joe Wil-
liams and Jim McDonald. Only the
latter weighs more than 170, speed
thus being the mainstay of the 1936
Buckeyes.
Indiana is a team expected to show
as much improvement as any in the
league. Last year the "Praying Col-
onel," Coach Bo McMillan drove the
Hoosiers to third place in the final
standings. With 20 lettermen re-
turning this fall it begins to look as
though the scramble for iie Big Ten
title may be a wide open one after
all. At leaft, there will be a tough
fight for second place.
Northwestern, after closing like a
cyclene last November and including
Notre Dame among its conquered, is
in the same class with Indiana. They
will constantly be threatening for
the lead and may be able to do much
toward taking it.
Heap Is Star
Northwestern has a hard October
schedule, meeting Iowa, Ohio State,
Illinois and Minnesota in that time.
Don Heap, hard-running halfback,
will probably carry the brunt of the
Wildcat attack and no one will dis-
pute his ability to do it and do it
well.
Difficult opening games seem -to be
the rule rather than the exception
in the Conference this year with
Minnesota meeting the University of
Washington in Seattle Sept. 26 in a
real 'est. Ohio State takes on N.Y.U.
in its first battle while local fans
will get an eyeful when Michigan
State invades Ann Arbor, Oct. 3.
After one gets beyond Minnesota,
Ohio State, Northwestern and In-
diana he finds little to choose from
between Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Purdue. Chicago is generally con-
ceded the cellar position in the Con-
'3 7 Track Captain
-Co urtesy
of The Cleveland News.
Capt. Bob Osgood of Michigan's
track team went as far as the
fina trials at Randall's Island in
States Olympic team this sum-
mer but the great Wolverine
hurdler fell in the finals to lose'his
chance.
ference, probably finding the loss of
the great Jay Berwanger too great
to overcome. As far as Michigan is
concerned its possibilities are dealt
with elsewhere. Critics realize that
Kipke's club is on the comeback trail
but how far it will travel toward the
top this year ig difficult to predict.
Illini Hard Hit
Illinois was hit too hard by grad-
uation to be a title contender al-
though the Indians are liable to rise
high some Saturday and knock off
a team high in the standings. No
Zuppke coached eleven ever concedes
defeat.
Oze Siminons, great Negro back at
Iowa, may lead 'the Hawkeyes to
unpredicted heights as he will' be
supported by a cast largely made up
of veterans.
Purdue's locker room tragedy of a
week ago spoiled any title hopes the
Boilermakers might have held. Coach
Nobel Kizer has a fine backfield on
hand but the line will probably be
weak.
Australia's most famous horse race,
the Melbourne Cup, draws about 110,-
000 attendance, twice the Kentucky
Derby crowd.
M.S.C. Team
To Face Four
Sophomores
Blocking And Tackling
Left Out Of Early Drills;
Stress Conditioning
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men. Both are tall rugged players,
highly adept at snagging passes
A good supply of backfield material
has been a cheering note to Kipkc
and few will be surprised if the State
game finds three sophomores and a
junior holding down the back posi-
tions.
Four Quarterbacks
There are four main contenders for
the quarterback post, Bob Cooper,
Louie Levine, Bill Barclayband Fer-
ris Jennings. Cooper is actually a
junior but because he was injured
beforethe 1935 season opened and
did not play at all last year he has
three years of competition left. He
can pass and punt and is expected
to develop into a good field general.
At the present he looks like the best
choice for this spot.
Johnny Smithers, a star in several
games last fall, is expected to hold
down the wing back position where
his ability as a blocker can be highly
utilized. At the other halfback po-
sition a sophomore from Hamtramck,
Alex Loiko, looks like a fair bet for
a starting position for he can put
and pass and is also a fair runner
Hook Impressive
Stark Ritchie, a halfback who
flashed excellent form on several oc-
casions last year, Chris Everhardus,
or Wally Hook may, however, take
Loiko's place away from him. Hook, a!
sophomore, has impressed the
coaches with his work this fall in
practice and is sure to get a chance
to show his ability under fire.
At the fullback spot Cedric Sweet,
By RAYMOND GOODMAN
Amo ngt )o injured in the Pur-
1 ,o tvi'aning r'oom fire was Pat Ma-
laska, "fiery" little Boilermaker guard
and a reserve back on the football'
team. His injuries were not seriousI
and he will undoubtedly be back ont
tie floor for the Lafayette, Ind.,
team when it meets the Michigan
quintet in the Conference opener on
January 9'(Ih.
Few of the 5,500 who saw the Pur-t
due-Michigan game last March 6th'
at Yost Field House will ever forget1
the drive, desire to win, and lightning
speed that characterized Malaska's
play and was in a large part respon-
sible for the Boilermaker's amazing
rally to win 38-37.-
* * *
That Purdue game brings to mindc
the little incident that was reported1
in the now deceased Hot Stove which
may have further repercussions dur-
ing the coming year. It ran like this:t
"It is rumored that Coach Piggyf
Lambert of Purdue was overheardi
while talking to his Boilermakers in
the locker room at the first Purdue-
Michigan game two months ago as he
said, "Aw, you guys ought to be 20k
points ahead of those big clowns."
"And it is rumored that John
Townsend was the man who over-
heard the ambitious Mr. Lambert.
"But it is no rumor that John
Townsend was telling a Michigan
coach yesterday that Lambert would
eat those words.
"Was Brooklyn still in the Na-
tional League?"
Gee Leads Cagers
lie was planning to attempt a
!c ,back at the Evanston ciool this!
coming winter when a heart at-
tack ended his life.
* . * *
We realize that it is a bit too early
to start making any title claim and
that the best that Michigan can be
rated is just as a "threat," but still
we feel that the Varsity is headed in
the direction of a Big Ten cage
championship.
Townsend's passing, back board,
play, endurance, and team work;
Gee's hook shot, height, and after
three years we can finally say ex-
perience;aFishman's speed, deception,
and temperment, Patanelli's defen-
sive skill, Slavin's crazy girations that
make his play under the basket and
off the back board dangerous, Smick's
height and aggressiveness, Barclay's
speed and accuracy make us confi-
dent that we are not just overly pa-
triotic. Also contributing to this con-
fidence is the fact that Purdue and
Indiana finally play each other this
year. * * *
We are glad that the Townsends'
brother act has been broken up by
the graduation of brother Earl. It is,
however, for purely ulterior reasons
and not because we do not feel that
his loss will be a blow to the Varsity
but rather because his presence made
it very hard to write about the Wol-
verine cagers.
You couldn't refer to John Town-
send without using his whole name
for not only were there two Town-
sends but also two or rather three
"Johns," Gee, Jablonski, and the om-
nipresent Townsend. Now at least
our problems are simplified with Earl
and John Jablonski graduated.
Seto Fit As A Fiddle
After Shaking 'Misery'
EAST LANSING-UP)-Steve Sebo,
Michigan State College halfback who
played most of the 1935 football sea-
son concealing from his coaches the
fact his back was injured, said today
he was "right."
The stocky little ball toter said a
summer's rest has wiped away the
last trace of spinal soreness that
made his every movement last fall an
agony.
Despite the fact that he had
never competed in organized bas-
ketball before enrolling at Mich--
igan in 1933 Johnny Gee (above),
six foot nine inch captain-elect of
the Wolverine cage quintet, has
justified the confidence of Coach
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Franklin C. Cappon and earned
the right to lead the Varsity in its It was with regret that we learned
title asault on Purdue and In- of the death of Jesse MacAnally of
diana in the 1936-37 season. Greencastle, Ind., Northwestern cen-
tter of two years ago. As a high
school player Jesse established him-
A REAL IRON MAN .self as one of the finest centers in In-
Andrew E. Wyant, playing with diana history. In the pre-Confer-
Bucknell in 1888 1889 and 1890 and ernce games in the 1934-35 season, his
.ith .Ui 'tsophomore year, he held the pace but
with the Unversity of Chicago from broke down in the heat of the Big
1891 to 1894, played 98 games of Ten campaign and failed to return
college football. to school last year.
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