THE MICHIGAN DAILY PR ESS PASSES By BUD BENJAMIN Minnesota's Badman Bring On Minnesota .. . FROM all advance appearances, it seems that the Yale trip has de- generated to little more than a social affair, whereas the trek to Minnesota this Saturday wil ltell us just how good this 1938 football team is. This column has been amazed at the spirited, optimism which per- vades the campus. For the first tine since 1933, Michigan has a chance to dump Minnesota on the gridiron, and there's plenty of students who will lay their shekels on the line that they do. Minnesota, they claim, is the most overrated team in the country. To date they have beaten- Washington (15-0), Nebraska (16-7), and Pur- due (7-0), and, claim the enthusiastic ones, it doesn't mean a thing. Wash- ington, since then, has been tied by little Idaho and whipped by U.C.L.A. Iowa State dumped Nebraska last Saturday. Purdue is scarcely the class of the Conference. Further analysis, however, shows the weakness of any such assump- tion. Comparative football scores are the most unadulterated tripe ever foisted on a helpless public. They mean absolutely nothing as the rec- ord books so accurately show. Secondly you can take it from one who certainly should know, Bennie Oosterbaan, that the Gophers are "as tough as ever." Oosterbaan has: scouted the Gophers in all of their three games this year, and he claims' they've got a typically strong club. Most important of all, is the fact that the scores of these games do not bring out the measure of Minnesota's superiority., Against Purdue, for ex- ample, they ran up 17 first downs to the oppositions' one, and outplayed the Boilermakers throughout. Only a powerful Purdue line prevented a, big score. Since the beginning of 1933, Minne- sota has lost but one Conference game, that being to Northwestern in 1936 by a 6 to 0 score. They were tied four times in 1933, once by Michigan. * * * THAT was the year, you know, of Michigan's 'last championship team. Men like Herm Everhardus, Stan Fay, Chuck Bernard, Whitey Wistert, Ted Petoskey, and Ivy Wil- liamson-to name a few-combined to make that Michigan team the rec- ognized national champions of the nation.I Since 1933 the tide has changed. Michigan left the head lines. Wol- verine news was relegated to the last' page of the sport section. Michigan was forgotten. In 1934 the score was 34 to 0, in 1935 it was 40 to 0, in1 1936 the Gophers won 26 to 0, and last year, 39 to 6. How those Swedes love to whip Michigan. That spotlight has begun to focus back to Michigan this year. "Im- proved, improved, improved" howls the football press, and everyone 1im- mediately wonders "how much?" The question may well be answered .Saturday. To date, the evidence is not conclusive. Michigan Statej could not match the Wolverines' un- deniable power in the line. Chicago's trouncing in that drab affair of Sat- urday was in the main due to the hopelessly inferior Maroon team. Michigan this year has conclusively proven the old football adage that you can figure your won and lost total on the strength of your forward wall. There's no use denying the impetus that Michigan's sophomores have provided this year . In Tom Harmon and Paul Kromer, you have two fin- ished performers. Confident and cocky, they have an assurance and Noise that- seems utterly strange for first year men. Against Chicago, Harmon definitely proved that his capabilities were not confined to ball carrying. His block of Littleford cleared the way for Purucker's first touchdown. His defensive play was at all times deadly and sure. In the line Ralph Fritz is certainly as good a sophomore guard as you will find in the Conference. You have not seen much of Ed Frutig, but he's a coming end. Backs Howard Mehaf- fey, Ed Christy, Bill Luther, Walter Kitti, and the transfered Dave Strong are definitely of Conference calibre. Those two blocking powerhouses, For- est Evashevski and Jack Meyer, have' brought back to Michigan football a recently neglected art. As to Saturday's game, it's bound John Mariucci proved quite a for- midable threat to Michigan hoceky players last winter, and the Wol- verine football team will find him no less formidable on the left end of Minnesota's forward wall when they meet the Gophers in their an- nual classic at Minneapolis this Saturday. to be tough. Minnesota, is still a class outfit. Michigan continues to roll, still gaining momentum and propor- tion like the oft compared snowball. As I see it, Saturday's game will be a battle of two fine lines with both backfields loaded with dynamite. If Michigan can shake veterans Pu- rucker and Trosko, or sophomores Harmon, Kromer, Mehaffey, and Christy into that treasured 'open space, neither Minesota or anyone else will bring them down. * * * How those juniors sweated this week over the' football predictions! Yet the results weren't too bad with the concensus picking 19 games out of 2 for a .731 percentage. Columbia's defeat of Army, Penn's trouncing of Yale, Illi- nois' 12 to 2 win over Indiana, Tennessee's triumph over Auburn, U.C.L.A.'s over Washington, Iowa State's over Nebraska, and South- ern Cal's over Ohio State tripped the boys up a little. Top man this week, was Dick Sierk who smacked out an .846 average with 22 right and four wrong. Second in the standings was that venerable economist Newell McCabe with six wrong and .769. Varsity Trains For Powerful Gopher Team Wolverines Are Confident As Janke, Smith Add Strength To Lineup The supreme test is approaching. The keynote of joy and hilarity which prevailed in the Michigan dressing room after Saturday's on- slaught was entirely missing yester- day afternoon as Coach Crisler set- tled down to the serious business of preparing his charges for the Min- neapolis invasion this week-end. Unlike teams of recent years, it will be a cocky, confident , gang of Wolverines who'll be out to reclaim the Little Brown Jug, which has been Gopher property for the past four years. And for the first time in as many years, the Varsity is conl ceded more than a fighting chance of bringing the trophy back to Ann Arbor. Saturday Will Tell Michigan has a good team. They proved this by their 14-0 conquest of Michigan State, substantiated it by last week's 45-7 massacre of the Ma- roons of Chicago. But just how good remains to be seen. Saturday will tell the tale. In the meantime, down Minnesotai way, they're not crying any blues. True that their scores to date seem j to indicate that the Gophers aren't the powerhouse of yesteryear, true that their ace back, Harold Van Every is probably lost for the season, at least for the Michigan game, but Minnesota still has what it takes. No less an authority than Bennie Ooos- terbaan, who scouted the Gophers in all three of their games says so. Ac- cording to Oosterbaan they're as tough as ever. No More Holiday Yesterday afternoon, Crisler broke the procedure of a light Monday' workout, sending the Varsity through a stiff signal drill and dummy scrim- mage, followed by a defensive drill, with the Junior Varsity running through Minnesota plays. Scrimmage is on tap for this af- ternoon and tomorrow. Thursday the boys entrain for Minneapolis. Saturday the campus will know the answer. A prime feature of the Chicago -Michigan Daily Photo. All freshman wrestling can Paul Kromer, high-scoring Michigan back is shown above contributing dates report at Waterman Gym his share to his team's 45-7 triumph over the maroon invaders from the 1 p.m. Windy City. On this play Kromer rounded right end and galloped 25 Otto Kelley, Freshman Coach yards for a touchdown. m - _ _ _ _ . 1 Perhaps I am, I am one of fussy. those fellows that likes the little YES, PERHAPS I AM FUSSY. things to be right. Take for instance my laundry. There's nothing I get a big- ger kick out of than putting on a freshly laundered shirt. I happen to be one of those fellows that appreciates a perfectly laundered collar, and I know it's going to be that way if it comes from the laundry The Laundry picks my soiled clothes up and delivers them. That saves me the trouble of taking my laurdry to the post office and saves mother trouble too. That's another thing I enjoy. Well, perhaps I am fussy but I like ny clothes laundered the LAUNDRY way. Price per 1b. 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