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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, JAN. 5, 1937
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By GEORGE J. A*W )E$
(Daily Spots 3SStW
Developments
During the holiday period several
more or less significant development
and innumerable rumors concerning
Michigan's much-publicized football
"situation" came before the public.
1. The Detroit Free Press, with
its inimitable Tod Rockwell in back
of the typewriter, brought forth the
story that athletic authorities of the
University were getting ready to fire
Harry Kipke as head coach, advance
Wally Weber to the top spot, and in-
stall Dutch Clark, great professional
back, and Ivan Williamson, 1932 Var-
sity captain and present coach of
ends at Yale, as assistants to Weber.
2. On the same afternoon
rival papers printed a denial by
Athletic Director Fielding H.
Yost that such changes were
planned, while the next edition
of The Free Press quoted Pro-
fessor Yost as saying "there
might be some changes made."
3. The issue of The Free Press
that told of the sweeping changes to
be made had elaborated to the effect
of saying that Franklin Cappon,As-
sistant Director of Athletics and
head basketball coach, was to be
droppeeas Professor Yost's potential
successor.
4. Coach Cappon brought his
basketball team home from a suc-
cessful invasion of the Pacific Coast
and said: "It is all new to me." Web-
er commented likewise.
5. The Free Press and Mr.
Rockwell continued on successive
days to elaborate further on its
position, saying that there was at
present great dissension on the
Michigan football coaching staff,
that the dissension was the
cause of Michigan's football de-
cline, that the dissension started
when Jack Blott left Michigan
as line coach after the 1933 sea-
son, the proportioning of Blott's
former salary among the present
staff was the underlying cause of
the dissension, etc., etc., until
Mr. Rockwell forgot John Re-
cegzi, Bill Renner and Matt Pat-
anelli and stated that Michigan
has had no kicker, no passer, no,
quarterback and no inspiration
in the line in the past three
years.
6. In the meantime Coach Kipke
was in New York being elevated from
senior vice-president to president of
the National Football Coaches Asso-
diation. Kip was quoted as saying;
that he wanted nothing else but to
coach football at. the Michigan he
loved.
7. From New York came an As-
sociated Press dispatch as follows:
"One observer, after talking with
football coaches here for their an-
nual meeting, commented on the
situation at Michigan:
"'The dope is that Fielding
Yost was all set to make some
big changes in the Michigan
coaching staff, but became so
angry with the newspapers for
popping with the story he may
change his mind and keep Harry
Klpke as head coach anyway'."
8. Professor Yost stated Sunday
night that he knew nothing about
the dispatch and had nothing to say.
9. Several outstate papers rallied
to the support of Kipke with the
backing of alumni organizations.
Xipke's home-town daily, The Lan-
sing State Journal, accused an
Unamed Detroit paper, obviously The
Free Press, and its editor of "going
after" Kipke because of the Michigan
coach's activity in writing for a rival
newspaper.
10. The News of Lansing, a
popular weekly supporting the
New Deal and championing the
masses, printed the prediction of
an unnamed member of the
Board ofwRegents that Professor
Yost's days as Director of Ath-
letics were numbered.
The prediction was evolved from
the proposition that the break of
the story to fire Kipke was a "trial
balloon" sent up by Yost, and its
biggest effect was to stir up senti-
ment against "someone worth firing"
-meaning Yost.
HELD FOR ROBBERY
COLDWATER, Jan. 4. - (P) -
Michael Nowicki, 37, a former em-
ploye of the Detroit postoffice, went
on trial in circuit court here today on
a charge of robbery armed. He is ac-I
cused of holding up Mrs. Effie Jet-
frey, Matteson Lake Grocery store
proprietor, taking groceries but ig-
noring money in the cash register.
Eight Sports Inaugurate I-M Winter Season,
BIG TEN BASKETBALL
Indiana 28. Iowa 24.
Northwestern 47, Illinois 38.
Purdue 43, Wisconsin 30.
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Buy Football Club
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-(P)-The
American Professional Football
League today voted Rochester into
the league. The franchise was
awarded to Mike Palm, of Rochester,
and Harry Newman, former Michigan
star.
Newman, All-American quarter-
back at Michigan in 1932, played for
the Brooklyn Bay Parkways in the
American Professional League last
fall. Previous to that he spent three
years with the New York Giants in'
the National Football League, pilot-
ing them to three Eastern Division
and one league titles. He is now in
Florida on a football barnstorming
tour.
Palm coached the Brooklyn Ameri-
can League team last fall. Prior to
that he was Harvard backfield coach.
B1owl Football
Games Seem
Here TO Stay~
Sponsors State Decision
Of N.C.A.A. Will Have
No Bearing On Future
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.---U)-"Bowl"
football games, started 34 years ago
when Michigan shellacked Stanford
49-0 in the unofficial Tournament of
Roses inaugural at Pasadena, ap-
parently are here to stay notwith-
standing a fresh charge against ex-
tra-curricular gridiron activity un-
leashed last week by the National
Collegiate Athletic Association.
The N.C.A.A. unanimously adopt-
ed a report by Z. G. Clevenger, of In-
diana University, that post-season
football games have no part in ath-
letic programs "because they serve no
sound educational ends, and such
promotions merely trade upon inter-
collegiate football for commercial
purposes." The N.C.A.A., however,
did nothing to end these post-season
fixtures.
This New Year's day saw no fewer
than six "bowl games," the idea
spreading even to Cuba where the
elevens of Villanova and Auburn
clashed in the Bacardi Bowl.
Warren V. Miller, a member of the
committee sponsoring the annual
Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans,
said the N.C.A.A's opposition would
not affect their annual classic.
Speaking of the N.C.A.A.'s recent
convention in New York, he went a
step further.
"The officials," he said, "talk one
way, but the conferences are run by
the athletic departments of the col-
leges."
That just about sums up the views
expressed by a number of other
officials identified with last Friday's
contests. Around 200,000 spectators
patronized the games on widely-sep-
arated battle fronts, and, according
to W. Keith Phillips, chairman of
the Orange Bowl committee in Mi-
ami, "the people should decide."
Cage And Ice
Hockey Teams
Lead The Way
Fraternity Fives Already
Playing; Independents
Start Practice Thursday
Intramural winter sports' activities
begin in earnest this week and next
as eight varied sports get under way.
Fraternity 'asketball practice
games began last night, and will
continue until Thursday. Independ-
ents get their first taste of competi-
tion on Thursday in practice com-
bat which will last through Satur-
day. On Monday of next week actual
tournament play for both begins.
Forty-eight Class A fives and 28 Class!
B are entered in the fraternity divi-
sion, while 30 Independent teams will
participate.
Ice hockey also edged into the I-M
program last night with the playing
of several practice matches. The 20,
sextets, of which 4 are Independent,t
open official competition on Monday
of next week.
Deadlinedates for entries in five
All Campus sports have been moved
up to allow groups more time to get
under the wire. Codeball and singles
Handball entries wil close Jan. 11,
instead of Jan. 4 as originally an-
nounced. Play in both sports starts
Jan. 13. Bowling and Twenty-one#
units will have until Jan. 11 to enter
the tourney and play for both be-
gins on the 13th. Tennis and bad-
minton singles participants must en-
ter before Jan. 12. They will go into
action on the 15th. Other All Campus
sports entries are due as originally
scheduled.
The fraternity standings to date
Coach Lowery Slates Toronto,
Kitchener To Prolong Season
By BONTH WILLIAMS for 15 consecutive weeks, or five
The University of Toronto's high- weeks longer than the football sea-
ly touted Varsity hockey team will son.
definitely meet Michigan in the Col- Following Sarnia Saturday comes
iseum on the 6th of March, Coach Fooi
Eddie Lowrey said late yesterday af- the all important clash with the
ternoon as he swathed his swollen Minnesota Gophers the succeeding
neck with alternate hot and cold
towels and prepared to send his
charges through their first serious
drill in preparation for the invasion
of another Canadian foe, Sarnia,
Saturday night.
Lowrey whose swollen glands con-
fine his discourse to a husky whisper,
refused to go to bed, and pointed out
that the team
Captain Vic
was in great shape.
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Jack Merrill, Bill Wood, George
Cooke, and the Chase twins, Ed and
Bill have been getting in some holi-
day licks, and Gib James who spent
most of the vacation period in the
University hospital, has gained three
pounds and appears fitter than ever.
15 Long Weeks
Toronto is not the only change that
has been made in the schedule.
Kitchener, a perennially strong
O.H.A. team has been booked to close
the season on either the tenth or
thirteenth of March. Either date
will make this the longest and most
arduous schedule which a Michigan
hockey team has ever faced. Begin-
ning on Nov. 28, the Wolverines labor
Swimmers ResumeI
Works After Victory
In Dixie Exhibition
Matt Mann and his sun-tanned
crew of tankers arrived in Ann Arbor
Saturday night all set to start the
practice grind for the coming season.
The swimming team spent the entire
vacation at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
taking part in the annual Aquatic
Forum sponsored by that city every
winter.
The feature of the Aquatic Forum
was the annual meet between the
East and West teams. The outstand-
ing swimmers from colleges in the
eastern and western parts of the
country banded together for the
meet held on Dec. 30.
The roster of the West teams
looked very much like a Michigan
Varsity line-up. Ed Kirar, Walt
Tomski, Bob Mowerson, co-captains
Jack Kasley and Frank Barnard, Tom
Haynie, Ben Grady, Fred Robinson
and Ed Hutchens teamed up with
Cutter of Illinois and Everett of
Ohio to out-swim the Easterners,
18-10.
The West team came through with
victories in the 200-meter backstroke,
400-meter relay, 300-meter relay,
150-meter medley, 200-meter breast
:stroke and 200-meter free style relay.
Matt Mann expects the now inel-
igible natators to escape the jinx
when first-semester marks are issued,
making the .entire squad eligible for
all of the meets except those with
Indiana on Jan. 16, and Michigan
State on Jan. 27.
week-end. Originally scheduled for
Friday and Saturday nights, Coach
Lowrey has requested that the games
be played on Thursday and Satur-
day, thus giving each team a night of
rest in between encounters. Whether
or not the proopsed change goes
through is now up to the Minnesota
Athletic officials.
Have .500 Percentage
With four games already under
their belts, the Wolverines boast a
.500 average. They dropped their
first two encounters to Chatham and
Brantford and then came back to the
wars with wins over Western On-
tario and McMaster. Sarnia will be
the fifth game of the season and the
fifth with a strong Canadian team.
Barring unforseen injuries and the
eligibility jinx which has a particular
affection for hockey players, Michi-
gan should have one of its good
years. The scheduling of Toronto is
in reality the first step towards estab-
lishing a rivalry with the strong
teams of the east which include
Queens, Montreal, Yale, Harvard,
Princeton, and Dartmouth.
If suitable arrangements can be
made for a home and home series
with Toronto for next season, there
is no reason why the more easterly
members of top collegiate hockey can
not be added to the Michigan puck
schedule in the near future.
Kipke Accepts
Duties As New
Coaches' Prexy
Honored by the American Football
Coaches Association by being elected
president, Michigan's Coach Harry G.
Kipke immediately started to per-
form his duties.
In his inaugural address at the
sixteenth annual convention meeting
in New York City Dec. 30 which rep-
resented, all the college coaches of
the country, Kipke, who succeeded
Tuss McLaughry of Brown, stated
that the coaches were rated by the
play of the teams and he stressed the
importance of victories in football.
If the time comes when keen com-
petition is gone and coaches aren't
judged by performance and are
rated by character building or how
many good athletes the coaches turn
out of the colleges, Coach Kipke said,
then there won't be many spectators
in the stands.
His first official duty, however,
was to announce that he would name.
a special committee to study the
gambling situation in football as out-
lined by Coach Charles Dorais of
Detroit. This committee will look
into alleged activities of professional
gamblers as well as football pools.
Besides this he named the various
committees without which the as-
sociation would be in the dark.
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times, the Bulldogs will be a danger-
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he is a leader on the offense and
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