U 'AGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JAN. 5, 1937 PRESS" ANGLE 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. ""I --,r Newman And Palm 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. Heyliger, Bert Smith, are: Lambda Chi Alpha . Psi Upsilon ........ Chi Psi ........... . Theta Chi ......... Theta Xi .......... Sigma Alpha Mu Phi Kappa Psi ..... .486 ............480 ............473 ............460 ............429 ............427 ............407 .338 a ..........331 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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