TUESDAY, OCT. 20 1936 T HE MICHIGAN DAILY 6 23 Men Report For Season's First Cage Drill Team Faces Tough Big Ten Schedule; Fundamentals Feature Long Practice Twenty-three men reported to Coach Franklin C. Cappon for the first cage practice of the year last night at the Intramural Sports Build- ing basketball courts and began a long conditioning process in prepara- tion for one of the toughest Big Ten campaigns that a Michigan quintet has undertaken in many years. Coach Cappon put the squad through a long practice on funda- mentals emphasizing set-up shots, slow approach dribbles and driving shots, side shots, and pivot passes. Fundamentals will continue to hold the squad's attention for the re- mainder of the week. Four Lettermen Return Included in the 23 men who report- ed were four-letter men; Capt. John- ny Gee, John Townsend, Herm Fish- man, and Dick Joslin, who was a regular in 1934 and 1935 but dropped out of competition last season in order to concentrate on his studies and Manny Slavin and Bill Lane, re- serves from last year's team. , Also on the floor were five con- tenders from last season's freshman team who are trying out for the Var- sity for the first time. They are Dick Long, Ben Weaver, Leo Beebe, Frank- lin Shull, Jr. and Sam Henderson. Matt Patanelli, Bill Barclay, and Danny Smick, who are at the present time devoting their time to the foot- ball team, will report after the close of the grid season. Don Brwer, a reserve on the 1935-36 squad, did not report. He intends to drop out of athletic competition until the base- ball season. First Five Undetermined Coach Cappon has no definite ideas on any first five. With the exception of Gee and Townsend no man on the squad is sure of a position.nThe out- look for the coming season is good but there are three positions open and the men who fill them will have to work hard in the next month and a half to start against Michigan Nor- mal on Dec. 7 in the opener. Other men who reported for the first practice are : Eddie Payne, Bob DeWhit, Vic ,Canever, Bill Whitehead, Jim Clark, Harold Reiter, Paul Sobor- off, Fred Kiseveck, John Sullivan, and Jules Johnson. Varsity Shows Pep In Drills Despite Defeat Working under an obvious handi- cap of tired muscles and a let down condition after Saturday's hard bat- tle with the Gophers, the Wolverine football team nevertheless went through a peppy workout yesterday afternoon, winding up its work with a scrimmage against the fresh- men for those who didn't see action against Minnesota. Coach Harry Kipke is intending to spend the week working on the of- fense, and yesterday's session was only a beginning of what the Mich- igan mentor has planned for his changes. -The Varsity and second string members of the squad spent their time on pass plays against the second and third stringers, with Alex Loiko on the tossing end of the plays. A definite change back to the wing back for Alex is not planned as yet, Coach Kipke said. New combinations are being tried in order to find one that will click with the new offense being planned for Columbia. Bill Barclay, who played a great game on the defense for Michigan against ,Minnesota, was kept from a heavy workout in order to rest him- self after bruising work Saturday. Injured in Saturday's tilt, Fred Janke, left tackle, will probably be out for the rest of the season. If The Michigan System Is Punk, What Of Bierman 's Club H.ere's The Truth By BONTH WILLIAMS fect sucker out of him, knocked him SO THE MICHIGAN SYSTEM is all completely out of the play and drove washed up, worthless, helpless through for a big gain. Now that against modern football with its happened because Butch forgot what Kip had told him, "When your man newe haver iopmentro thTes at pulls out, go in one yard and drop to Bud Shaver in, the"^Detroit Times1'and ,I Mill Marsh in the Ann Arbor Daily News said in their rehashes of Sat- urday's Wolverine-Gopher clash. I know why they both arrived at the same opinion but that's beside the1 point. The fact of the matter is that both of them are wrong, dead wrong, ... and they're not wrong very often.1 The only difference in the Mich-} igan and Minnesota systems is that_ the Gophers have more and better ball players, or rather perhaps more experienced ball players than Mich- igan. Michigan had seven out of every eight plays which Minne- sota used. Michigan had the identical spinners, latefals, cross bucks, passes. In other words, the systems were practically iden- tical.. The whole thing simmers down to perfection of execution. Here's the why and wherefore. Two years ago Michigan had the poorest material in the Conference. Now they've got better material, but it still isn't as good as most of the material in the Conference or at Michigan State. Teams Are All Better YOU BET football has changed in the last three years, but it isn't the type of football half so much as it is the calibre of the ball players. Take a look around the Conference, at State-Indiana miles above their rating of three years ago, Minnesota and Ohio State consistently good in- stead of just spasmodic, Northwest- ern back on the crest, Purdue right up there, Illinois strong, State beat- ing the country's best ... Why? Why are they all better than a few years ago, why is it that there is no longer a soft spot in the Con- ference. Because by now every school with the exception of Chicago, which is heavily endowed, knows that unless they have a winning ball club they can't get crowds; no crowds, no dough; no dough, no other athletics, no intramural program, no interest on Stadium bonds. So instead of increasing en- trance requirements as they did either relaxed them or left them alone. Despite that Kipke has managed to get a good bunch of ball players together at last. But they're still young and inexperi- enced. They're a great bunch and they'll be one of the best teams in the country just as soon as they start to click. Just how green they were was demonstrat- ed in Memorial Stadium Satur- day on the first play of the game. Butch Jordan, crazy to play his head off for Michigan, lined up at tackle on the first play from scrim- mage. (Two sophomore Wolverine tackles by the way.) The ball was snapped, the guard opposite him stepped back. Jordan, intent upon driving in, came crashing into the Minnesota backfield, and - wham, smack flat on his face he went as the Gophers, having made the per- your knees, then you cantta e taken out of the play." Barclay Looks Great When Jordan gets a little more ex-' perience, he'll know better, and that's characteristic of a lot of the Mich- igan team. Bill Barclay was prob- ably the outstanding Wolverine on the field. Patt, Janke, and Siegel were the outstanding linemen. John Out For The Season coach that everybody wants to work for. Where do these good football players go who want to come here despite the adverse condi tions and yet who can't meet the requirements. They go to State, to O.S.U., to Minnesota. Do you know that Andy Uram a'nd Rudy Gmitro had a grand total of 13 high school credits between them when they entered Minnesota? Do you know that there are times when Michigan football players aren't getting enough to eat. Boys who are out there giving everything they've got to win, and then finding that it's not enough. It's heart breaking, but they don't quit. How would you feel if you were in Kip's shoes. He know's what's the matter, and he'd give anything he's got, try anything in the world, if he thought it would do any good. The team went out on the field up there in Minneapolis determined to win, to upset the experts and they came home trounced again, but still with the un- quenchable Michigan spirit of fight. AS KIP sat in the coach on the way home Sunday, he looked old and worried, but he still kept up his courageous air. The last three years have been hell for Kip, but he never complains about his own plight. "Whatever you say, it isn't the team's fault, the boys are the greatest bunch in the world, and they're giving everything they've got. That's what makes it so tough." - that's what Harry Kipke has to say about the situa- tion, and that shows just how great a guy he is. Three Saturdays in a row, Mich- igan has been primed to win. Each week they have gotten a little better and run into a correspondingly better ball club. This Saturday, Little, Sid Luckman and the rest of the Lions will find a team that has definitely arrived- a ball club that will rise and vindi- cate itself, the Michigan system, and -Kip. And that's straight stuff. National League Award Given To Carl Hubbell CLEVELAND, Oct. 19.-0P-Carl, Hubbell, sensational left-handed pitcher whose baffling "screw ball"' won 26 campaign victories and the '36 pennant for thehNew York Giants, was unanimously chosen today as the year's most valuable National League player by a committee representing the Baseball Writers Association of America. The sinewy hurler won the same recognition in 1933. Hubbell received 60 votes, with sixj of the eight committeemen naming the lanky southpaw as their first choice. Jerome (Dizzy) Dean, ace of the St. Louis Cardinals' pitching staff, was given second place with 53 votes. Billy Herman placed third. VOLLEYBALL RESULTS Trigon, 2 Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1 Phi Kappa Psi, 2 Phi Psi, 2 Trigon, 1 Phi Delta Theta, 1 Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1 Phi Delta Theta, 2. I-M SPEDBALL SCORES Play in the Intramural Depart- ment's fraternity league speedball program continued undiminished yes- terday with Sigma Chi edging out Al- pha Kappa Lambda 9-8; Phi Beta Delta trouncing Phi Sigma Delta 18- 4; and Psi Upsilon beating Theta Xi 9-6. Approximately six games a day will be played every afternoon H. E. PHILP ALL KINDS O TAILORING Main Street OVER CAHOW'S DRUG STORE I,. Corona means faster prog. 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