THE MICHIGAN DAILY WAE s 5 The PRESS ANGL By GEORGE J. ANDROS THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTION to "The Press Angle" is by Clayton Hepler, junior member of The Daily sports staff. Personally, I prefer to take no stand on the contents and trend of thought at the present, but as an editor I recognize it as a well}-written piece that may be food for thought in view of the fact that two of the Detroit papers and several prominent alumni have started the "wolves" howling over the Michigan football setup. Ferdinand A. Rockwell, who, according to the wily Bob Zuppke, lays his claim to fame upon the fact that he actually laid a hand upon Red Grange as he raced to five touchdowns to defeat Michigan 39-14 in 1924, has taken upon himself the task of leader of the anvil chorus that is already out for the Kipke scalp. Writing for a Detroit newspaper, this expert experter, who graduated from Michigan in 1925, has this to say about the Spartan game which watt played here Saturday : "Of all the factors which contributed to the shattering of the Uni- versity of Michigan comeback hopes, none seems more outstanding now than the atmosphere of defeatism which so thoroughly has per- meated Wolverine football. Mention Indiana, Minnesota, Northwest- ern and Ohio State and Michigan alumni will be inclined to duck. "For the Michigan football coach promised last winter, last summer and last spring that his football team 'would lose four games in 1936.' At the annual Michigan-Michigan State luncheon here last Friday, Harry Kipke in a soft apologetic voice, asked his listeners to place themselves in the posi- tion of his many sophomores 'with 50,000 people watching you.' And he continued about the mistakes sophomores seem to make. "The Michigan football squad is composed of intelligent young men who can read and interpret the expressions of the coach. They are impression- able young men. And if their coach spreads the gospel of 'four defeats in 1936,' it must become the hymn of the team. It was and it is. The third period of the Michigan-State game proved it. "The score was tied at 7 to 7. It was the time for aggressiveness. It was the time for a rally. . . . But the Wolverine attack bogged down. There was no charge or leadership.. "And that was why Bachman was quiet about his sophomores. Audacious Bachman turned loose his sophomores in the third period. They hadn't. been told they'd lose any games in 1936. They had been told they would whip Michigan. They did. It was sophomore Johnny Pingel, for whom no apologies had been made, who put the Spartans out in front. * * * * Varsity Starts Preparing For Indiana Game Sweet Rey Kipke Discusses Made Against Reserves Play Mistakes State As Frosh New York (N.L.) A Moore.lf........... Bartell, ss......... Terry, lb.......... Ott, rf............ Ripple, cf......... Mancuso, c........ Whitehead, 2b ...... Jackson, 3b........ Schumacher, p .... . Totals....... In preparation for the opening Conference game against Indiana this Saturday, Coach Kipke spent a great deal of yesterday's light drill point- New York (A.L.) .ng out the Varsity's mistakes made Crosetti, ss ...... in the Spartan tilt. The reserve squad Rolfe, 3b ........ aas sent through a long scrimmage Dimaggio, cf .... . enIFM Seedball Holiday Is Declared gS sn pnAfter State VictoryI lB R H O A EAST LANSING, Oct. 5.-(P)-A 5 2 2 1 01 Tt victory celebration interrupted the 4 1 1 2 2 This A I preparations of Michigan State's con- 5 0 0 6 2 quering football team for Saturday's 5 1 1 1 0 With two games scheduled this af- game with Carnegie Tech at Pitts- 2 1 1 2 0 ternoon, the I-M speedball season burgh. 3 0 2 14 2 gets officially under way. Twenty- Classes suspended as the student 4 0 1 3 4 four teams, bracketed in six leagues, body lionized tlse squad that humbled 4 0 0 1 1 will participate in the round robin Michigan last Saturday for the third 4 0 0 0 2 competition, which will be climaxed successive year-an unprecedented by a playoff to determine the cham- feat. One after another the players 36 5 8 30 13 pionship nine. had to get up before the massed Each team will play three games. student body and take a bow, while AB R H O A Besides the playoff among the league the coaches praised their work. 5 0 0 2 3 winners, there will be consolation Coach Charley Bachman sent home 5 0 2 3 1 play-offs among the other groups. early the players who saw most of the 4 0 1 4 0 Theta Chi, featuring the play of service against Michigan but called a 4 0 1 5 1 the Howell brothers, defeated Delta scrimmage for the rest. A study of 5 0 1 8 0 Epsilon, 16 to 3, for the champion- the records tonight showed that seven 0 0 0 0 0 ship last year. of Michigan State's ball carriers aver- 4 2 2 2 0 Included on today's program are aged more than five yards against 4 1 1 2 0 the Phi Gamma Delta-Kappa Nu, and Michigan and that the entire team 3 1 1 3 1 the Beta Theta Pi-Chi Phi contests had an average of 7.1 yards advance . 1 0 0 1 2 at 4:15. At 5:15, the games between on each offensive play. 1 0 0 0 0 Sigma Chi and Phi Beta Delta, Phi Bachman paid tribute to his squad, 1 0 1 0 2 Sigma Delta and Alpha Kappa which turned out to be far stronger .37 4 10 30 10 Lambda, and Theta Xi and Lambda than anyone expected. ing in 6th. Chi Alpha will be played. --------it. in 0h. FINE RECORD H. E. PHiLP 001 000 1-5, . FIE ECRDAL KIND~s OF I I-M GYM TEAM All men interested in the I-M gym team, or in joining the be- ginner's class are invited to re- port at the I-M building on Wed- nesday afternoon, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. BEFOR E YO TOO LATEGETYOUR. COLLEGE RING Bearing Official Seal . Certified $2.00 Value only, I vith the freshman gridders. Indiana opened their season last Saturday by swamping Centre Col- lege, 38 to 0. The Hoosiers will not only be out to make it two straight >ut will also seek to avenge last year's 7-0 loss as a result of Vern Iuffman's fumble of a punt which was recovered by Capt. Matt Patanelli >ehind the goal line. Davis Returns With the return of Corby Davis, veteran fullback, who has been out with an infection, to the starting Qehrig, lb ...... Dickey, c ....... Seeds, zz ....... Selkirk, rf ...... Powell, If ...... Lazzeri, 2b ...... Ruffing, p ...... Johnson, z ...... Malone, p ....... Totals .... C l F1 L 3, r I I z-Batted for Ruff zz-Ran for Dickey New York' (N) .300 New York (A), 011 002 000 0-4 "But the problems still are questions of leadership, speed, blocking and tackling. None is more important than leadership. And that cannot be inspired by the coach assuming the attitude of the defeatist." It seems a shame to this writer that a sports writer must stoop to Rock- well's position. That he should take advantage of his position to step on a coach when he is down. It was a different matter in the years 1930-33. Then Mr. Rockwell node the bandwagon with the rest of the sports scribes and the Wolverines were praised to the high heavens. But more important, in the interests of accuracy, Coach Kipke and Michigan rooters the nation over, it might be well to set Mr. Rockwell straight upon a few facts. To straighten out any misconceptions that may arise from his article. 1. If there is an attitude of defeatism centered around the Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern and Ohio State games, what possible connection can that have with the Michigan State game? 2. If Mr. Rockwell had bothered to talk to Coach Kipke this fall, or had even read the papers, he would know that Coach Kipke and the entire squad felt that if they passed the Michigan State hurdle that they would have an excellent chance of winning six of the eight scheduled games. 3. If Mr. Rockwell had bothered to drop around the locker room in Yost Field House occasionally, he would know that the Wolverines had no intention of getting beaten by the Spartans, that certainly every player on the squad believed that they could and would win. 4. If Mr. Rockwell had bothered to go down and see Coach Kipke after the game Saturday, he would have seen one of the bitterest men in the country, because Kipke firmly believed that the Wolverines would take the measure of the East Lansing team. 5. If Mr. Rockwell had bothered to examine the starting lineups of the Saturday game he would have seen that the entire Spartan team was composed of regulars, while there were six men in the Michigan lineup that had never competed in collegiate football before in their life. 6. If Mr. Rockwell had looked at the line that paved the way for Johnny Pingel's run, he would have realized that every single one of them was ' veteran. 7. If Mr. kockwell thinks that leadership can be inspired (by that I mean that a coach can inspire the quarterback to think of winning plays, for so Mr. Rockwell implied) here are a few facts garnered from the record, which may not only shed a little light upon that subject but also may shed a little light upoi why Mr. Rockwell is taking up the cudgel against Michigan football. Way back in 1922, a sophomore by the name of Tod Rockwell came out for the Michigan team, but was among those who were dropped off the squad in the first cut. The next year the would be quarterback was mentioned in the newspapers as a boy who had possibilities. It was not until his senior year that he jumped from ninth ranking backfield man to a regular position. Way back in 1921 a sophomore by the name of Harry Kipke came out for the Michigan team, and was made a regular his first year. His second year he was Walter Camp's choice for All-American honors at half back. And his third year he captained the Wolverines. Which may or may not have something to do with the question in hand. If Mr. Rockwell thinks that leadership can be inspired, why didn't he grab a few buckets full the day he played tailback to the Grange comet. And also the last game of the 1924 season when he quarter- backed the Michigan team to the short end of a 10-2 score against Iowa? Surely "Hurry-Up" Yost was never a coach to assume what Mr. Rockwell so glibly terms a defeatist attitude. Most assuredly not in the face of the undefeated record of the previous season when Harry Kipke was captain. I do agree with Mr. Rockwell when he says that leadership, speed, block- ing and tackling are still problems. Leadership is foremost, as Coach Kipke himself said after Saturday's game in saying that the "quarterbacking left a lot to be desired." But I do not agree that a defeatist attitude is the basis of the Wolverine lineup, Indiana will be at full strength for the Wolverine tilt. In addition to Davis and Huffman, Bo McMillan ,oasts two veteran tackles in Capt. Chris Dal Sasso and Ted Livingston. The Varsity's light workout con-) sisted mainly of running through th various plays and a short snappy pass session with Bill Barclay doing the Bossing. A slight leg injury kept Bob Cooper from taking part in the drill but he is expected to don a uniform today. Johnny Smithers worked out despite a bruised left arm. After a short calisthenic drill, Coach Kipke named a tentative lineup composed of Art Valpey and Danny Smick, ends with Fred Janke and Clarence Van- dewater, at the tackles, George Mar- zonie and John Brennan, guards and Joe Rinaldi at center. With Cooper out. Alex Loiko was named at halfback along with Smith- ers. Levine was at quarterback with Sweet at fullback. Those also picked on the Varsity squad were Capt. Matt Patanelli, Mel Kramer, Jesse Garber. Jim Lincoln and Frank Bissell. Later the entire squad ran through plays. Reserves Battle Frosh In the meantime a reserve squad tested their running and passing at- tack against a plucky freshman team. Barclay directed the reserve's play with Stark Ritchie, Tex Stanton, Wally Hook and Bob Curren turn- ing in fine performances in the back- field, Chet Stabovitz, Don Siegel, Ed Greenwald, John Jordan, Fred Ziem, Earl Luby and Elmer Gedeon started in the line. Coach Cappon, who has been out with a back injury suffered in a skirmish with his linemen last week, donned a uniform and returned to his post as assistant line coach. Fer- ris Jennings also rejoined the squad after being out with a leg injury but did not take part in the scrimmage. showing during the second half. I'm backing the players 100 per cent and looking forward, with the majorityof the sports writers who sat in the press box Saturday, to mid-season when Michigan will have a team to be reckoned with. So if Coach Kipke's understudy in kicking, Mr. Rockwell, can realize that there is such a thing as looking the facts squarely in the face, per- haps the defeatist charge against the Michigan coaching staff and squad will be buried, as it should be. -F.C.H. Errors: Ott, Bartell, Crosetti, Jack- son. Runs Batted In: Bartell, Rip- ple, Whiteh'ead, Selkirk, Crosetti, Lazzeri, Terry. Two Base Hits: Moore 2, Bartell, Mancuso, Dimaggio. Home Run: Selkirk. Sacrifices: Mancuso, Bartell. Double Plays: Schumacher, Terry and Mancuso; Crosetti, Lazzeri and Gehrig, Whitehead and Terry, Mancuso and Whitehead. Earned Runs: New York (NL) 4; NY (AL) 3. Left on Bases: New York (NL) 6; New York (A) 9. Bases On Balls: Schu- macher 6; Ruffing 1; Malone 1. Strikeouts: Ruffing 7; Malone 1; Schumacher 10. CALL FOR I-M MANAGERS All second semester freshmen and sophomores, and junior men students are asked to try out as I-M managers Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday, Oct. 6-7-8 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the student office of the I-M building. BOYS-- Get into one of our CORDUROY COATS Wool lined with inner Slicker Lining at $7.95 APPEARING EXCLUSIVELY an The Michigan Daili Fordham University football teams since 1883 have played 294 games, won 172, lost 96 and tied 26. A total of 4,609 points have been scored by the Rams and 2,521 by the opposition. 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