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PASSES
- By BUD BENJAMIN -
Wrong Down John.. .
A FEW WEEKS ago in conjunction
with a football rules quiz, this
column penned a stirring eulogy on
the modern football official. Ah, what
a rare integrity these lads had, what
a profound background, what a su-
perb courage .
Iretract. I definitely take back
all of this in its entirety. I have had
my fill of football officialdom. I
have stood enough. They have taken
advantage of my leniency once too
often.
Saturday I sat in the Yale press
box and watched a. good share of
a football afternoon being spent
in informal round table discus-
sions between players and offi-
cials. The men in white 'simply
could not get their signals
straight. They hemmed and
hawed, changed their minds,
raved a little, and messed up a
lot of valuable time.
Today this all seems so very minor
I hesitate to mention it. It merely
scratches the surface. For if ever a
faux pas was pulled on the gridiron,
it was John Getchell's boner at South
Benid Saturday. Wrong Down Get-
chell may now take his place along
side Long Count Dave Barry, Wrong
Way Roy Riegels, Wrong'Way Corn-
gan, and Wrong Say Avery Brupdage.
The mellow baa of goats will ever re-
mind one of Mr. Getchell's Saturday
job,
The act in itself was bad enough,
but allowing for human error Mr.
Getchell might be excused. It was
the follow up that proved to be the
killer-dillet. Here's the story.
Carnegie Tech is giving Notre
Dame a good going over, and it is
the fourth quarter with the score
tied at zero. Tech has the ball
with a yard to go for first down.
The quarterback asks Getchell
what down it Is. John replies:
"Third down." Tech tries a line
play, it fails, and Notre Dame
gets possession of the ball. Mr.
Getchell has dropped a stitch.
Regulars Rout Subs 25 To 0 In Practice Scrimmag
Crisler Drills
Team In Pass
Plays For Illini
[larmon Hurls Touchdown
Passes To Trosko And
Frutig; Strong Stars
As hot as the afternoon's sun was
the varsity's passing attack yester-
day the regular Michigan gridders
trimmed the second team by four
touchdowns and an extra point.
Preparing to fill the air with passesr
against Illinois, come Saturday, Coach
Fritz Crisler drilled his charges on
several aerial plays and then held the
aforementioned scrimmage.
After a few minutes of. even play,
Tom Harmon, rapidly improving his
accuracy with the pigskin, hurled a
long pass which Fred Trosko snared]
and raced across the goal line. With
Harmon holding, Brennan attempted
the conversion but his effort was wide.
Frutig Scores
Shortly after Harmon whipped an-
other which .Ed Frutig took on the
run, crashing into defenseman- Paul
Kromer but the junior end slid off,
held his footing and ran on to score.
Brennan was successful with the
extra point making the score reds
(first team) 13, blues (second team)
0.
Dave Strong replaced Harmon, who
bruised his right ankle, and exhibited
the flash, drive and passing ability
which labeled him an outstanding
back with the Illini two years ago. He
played as though it was this Saturday
in the Stadium and he was gaining
his opportunity to do for the Wol-
verine cause what he accomplished
against it in 1936.
Kitti Runs 60 yards
The third red touchdown came on
another long pass, thrown by Strong
and caught by Wally Hook, Brennan's
kick again slicing wide of the goal
post.s. The blue attack was com-
pletely halted and the reds increased
their total on a play in which the
blocking was similar to the effective
work done in the memorable Minne-
sota conflict. Walt Kitti, broke off
tackle, cut back into the secondary
and ran 60 yards with nary a hand
laid on him. The kick was partially
blocked.
A disappointing note in the prac-
tice session was the failure of thel
reds to convert more than one out ofl
four attempted points after touch-
down. The Michigan-Illinois games
for the past five years have been de-
cided by kicks and they are likely to
play an important part again Satur-
day.
An End( Of ilcarts~
Theta Xi Wins Valek Emerges From Obscurity
I-M Speedball' To Become Regular Varsity End
Vince Valek, junior end on the
Wolverine grid squad, has jumped
from. third string end to a starting
position in one year. It is said that
he is one of the lightest ends in
the Conference but he has overcome
this lack of weight by an excess of
energy and fight.
FI-M Sports
Phi Delta Theta, last year's inter-
fraternityspeedball champions, has
again won the championship of their,
league and the right to compete in
the play-offs which begin next week.
Theta Delta Chi has also clinched a
play-off berth by finishing on top of
League III. The remaining six leagues
will complete their schedules by
Thursday night in order that the
winners will be sufficiently rested for
the play-offs.
The Interfraternity volleyball
league will pry the lid off its sea-
son Monday night, with 40 teams,
including Lambia Chi Alpha, de-
fending champions, participating
in the tournament.
The Independentutos;ich football
season is now in full sway with 10
teams representing the zones of Con-
gress in the heat of the struggle. Their
volleyball season begins Oct. 31, so
all entries of independent teams must
be in by the 29th. The Whirlwinds,
last year's leaders, will not be in the
leaguie this year but the Chinese
students will be back to repeat pre-
vious showings.
All candidates wishing to try out
for the varsity basketball team re-
port at the I-M building today at
7:30 p.m.
Jake Townsend, Asst. Coach.
Victory Over Psi Upsilon
ClinchesLeague Title
In a contest that was not decidedt
until the final whistle, Theta Xi de-
feated Psi Upsion, 7-5, and therebyi
won the speedball championship of
their four-team league. Both teams1
had been undefeated previous to to-
day's game.r
With three minutes of playing timej
remaining and the teams deadlocked
at five all, Theta Xi went on a two-
point scoring spree to win. Ed Chris-
tensen scored after a display of some
beautiful passing and then Don Lew-E
is put the game on ice by scoring on
a touchdown kick.
For the losers Bob Mitchell was a;
constant threat, scoring two points
and exhibiting a fine all-around game
In another hard fought battle
which decided a league title, Lambda
Chi Alpha downed Trigon, 7-6. Dick
Knowe led both teams in scoring by
tallying three touchdowns and -one
field goal for a total of six points.
Gene Klein paced the losers with
three points.
In the highest scoring contest of
the day Theta Chi Phi trounced Pi
Lambda Phi, 12-4.' This game was
dominated by the fine passing of the
veteran combination of Dick Shroth
and Bob Barber, aided by the ex-
cellent kicking of Johnny Aye. I
Strange as it may seem, the out-'
standing' player on the defeated teamt
was their goalie, Lorrie Greenblatt,
who did not allow one kick to get by
him. All the points scored against
his team were accounted for by1
passes.
The fourth and last game played
was won by Phi Kappa Sigma who1
smeared Sigma Alpha Mu, 7-1.
Spartans Seek Sub
For Johnny Pingel,
EAST LANSING, Oct. 25.-(P)-
They're trying to make another John-
ny Pingel at Michigan State College1
:nd get ready for Santa Clara's
touchdown giants at the same time.
After watching Pingel play a majorl
part in taking Syracuse's measure
last weekend, Coach Charley Bach-
man realized that a capable substi-
tute for Pingel must be developed if
the Mt. Clemens speed merchant is
to retain his effectiveness throughout
the seasonf The problem arose when
Gene Ciolek was injured, removing
Pingel's worthy alternate.
By HERB LEV
Long after the dusk had set on
Ferry Field yesterday evening, long
after this team-mates had finished
their showers and started homeward,
a lean, lanky boy remained on the
practice gridiron and booted long
spirals.
For now, Vince Valek, Michigan's
versatile junior end has a new duty.
With Norm Purucker in doubtful
shape this week due to a shoulder in-
jury, Valek, regular left flanker, will
add the punting burden to the list of
chores he regularly performs for the
Wolverine eleven.
Before the present season opened,
experts who followed Michigan foot-
ball, agreed that the Wolverine stock
would go up if the highly touted
sophomore backs came through and
if the veteran linemen showed the ex-
pected improvement.
Valek Comes Forward
What happened is well known to
ITravis Comning
To Tigers Say
Trade Rumors
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-)-
. Trade rumors are buzzing so loud
around Griffith Stadium these days
that you can hardly hear President
Clark Griffith of the Wshington
Senator say-Cecil Travis.
The talk is:
That the Detroit Tigers are fran-
tically trying to get Travis, the gang-
ling Georgia shorstop, from the Sen-
ators either outright or by a player
trade.
Griffith won't divulge anything--
just shakes his gray head, looks out
the window at the gray sky and
chews on his cigar. But-
Buddy Lewis, who plays third base
for the Senators and who rooms with
Travis, dropped some significant in-
formation the other day.
Returning from Detroit, where he
had gone to buy an automobile, Lewis
let it be known to friends that per-
sons close to the Detroit management
had talked to him about baseball.
"No," said Buddy, "they don't want
me. They want my room mate."
Illini Has Light Workout
And Dummy Scrimmage
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.--(P) - George
Rettinger, regular Illinois fullback,
was moved down to the third team
Tuesday as Coach Bob Zuppke gave
his first' stringers a light workout and
prescribed heavy duty for the second
and third elevens. The first team,
with Ralph Bennett atfullback, went
through a dummy scrimmage against
the "B" team, which ran Michigan
plays. The second and third string-
ers scrimmaged freshmen using the
Wolverine attack.
Carnegie players and coach ex-
plode, but Mr. Getchell is adamant.
He even threatens to penalize the
Tech lads for taking too much time.
Tech's quarterback screams that had
he known it was fourth down, he
would have punted. "I know that,'
replies a hurt Getchell, "but what can
I do."
He didn't do anything. Notre Dame
did. They scored the winning touch-
down in three plays. Now to the af-
termath.
When Mr. Getchell asked what
he might do he stuck his neck
way out. No less personages than
Lou Little, Jimmy Crowley, Ben-
nie Friedman, Steve Owen of the
New York Giants, Potsy Clark of
the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Stan-
ley Woodward of the New York
Herald Tribune, have agreed that
Getchell should have called the
play back.
In sight of this overwhelming
opinion I fail to appreciate Mr. El-
mer Layden of Notre Dame's state-
ment that "the quarterback should
have known," that he should have
consulted the head linesman's mark-
er, and that Notre Dame got several
raw decisions too and thus the whole
thing evens up.
Now, come, come Mr. Layden.'
Injury is bad enough but adding in-
sult to it is pretty sour stuff. I won-
der what would happen if a boxer
decided to take a count, and the ref-
eree skipped from eight to ten; or if
a batter asks an ump what the count
is he tells him 3 and 1, and then pro-
ceeds to call him out on strikes on
the next pitch; or if a wrestling ref
taps the man on top signifying a fall,
and then tells him that he was merely
brushing a moth off his back. Mr.
Layden might take off a few minutes,
put himself on the other side of the
fence, and then attend chapel regu-
larly for a week. As if he needs to.
IOWA'S DAILY EDITOR gets the
palm for the best crack of the
week. They're having a pretty rough
time of it out in the corn country with:
victories as sparse as prosperous
farmers.
When Daily Iowan Editor John
Mooney and Sports Editor Dennis
Sullivan appeared at practice Mon-
day, they received a riotous recep-
tion from the team. Mr. Sullivan
had written some pretty strong stuff
after Iowa's defeat by Colgate, and
Mr. Mooney had written some edi-
torials, the gist of which had been
that the Hawkeyes were an under-
nourished ball club.
Thin and emaciated, the play-
ers nevertheless took good care
of the two unfortunates of the
fourth estate. Led by Henry Lue-
beke, a tackle, who has been
starved down to a mere 300
pounds, they tossed the two jour-j
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Dave Strong Awaits Chance To Play
Against Former Alma Mater, Illinois
By TOM PHARES
As Michigan's Varsity drills for this
week's Illinois homecoming battle,
there's a certain little guy who takes
time gilt between each bullet pass and
spiraling punt to mutter something
to himself.
"I sure hope I get in there Satur-
day;" he growls. And he means it.
For two years Dave Strong has been
waiting for this Saturday to roll
around. It was just two years ago,
you remember, that Dave booted a
field goal for Illinois which put the
skids under Michigan and won his
team a 9-6 victory.
'In Father's Footsteps
That was all right, but Dave had
other things in mind. His Dad had
begn a Michigan man, and ever since
the eighth grade, he had wanted to
come to Ann Arbor and perhaps play
football for the Wolverines.
Upon his graduation from high
school in Helena, Mont., where he had
starred in four sports, Strong sent his
application to Michigan, and to be
safe, also Southern California, North-
western and Illinois. Michigan was
:he only school to turn him down. His
86 per cent average was not good
enough they said. 90 was the re-
quirement.
Enrolled At Illinois
Somewhat peeved, Dave enrolled at
Illinois, played freshman football and
the next year moved up to the varsity.
Promptly spraining his ankle he was
out of the first two games and was
still somewhat incapacitated when
the squad journeyed west to tackle
Southern California.
Zuppke kept him on the bench for
the majority of the game but finally,
with less than two minutes to go in
the final quarter and the Illini sound-
ly trounced, Zup turned to Strong.
nist Jimmy Powers of the New York
Daily News.'
Cracks Jimmy: "Hey, what's. all
"Dave," he barked, "can you play
quarterback?"
Halfback Strong, who had never
played quarterback in his life, nod-
ded eagerly and was sent in with in-
structions to punt his team out of
was not in the lineup. There was
only one thing to do and he did it.
He kicked the goal himself and won
the game.
Came the following summer and
Dave made his decision to transfer
to Michigan. He talked with his
father, talked to Zuppke, and- wrote
to Kipke. Nobody had any objec-
tions, so last year, although not eli-
gible for varsity competition until
he had resided here a year, Dave
played with the freshman team along
with Harmon, Kromer and the rest.
He showed the speed which en-
abled him to run the 100 yard dash in
9.8 seconds three times in high school.
He passed accurately and punted im-
pressively. His punting average with
Illinois was above 40 yards per kick.
And now Dave has his chance. Sat-
urday he may make up to Michigan
fans for that good place kick in the
fall of 1936.
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He'd like to face-
Old Mates
danger. He called the signals for a
pass play and made a first down. Two
more Strong passes scored a touch-
down and Zuppke left him in. From
that time on, he was the regular Il-
linois quarterback.
Played 243 Minutes
He played 243 minutes during the
last five games of the season, seeing
service a full 60 minutes against
Michigan, and when it came time for
a try for field goal in that battle,
Dave was stumped for a moment.
Spurgeon, the regular place kicker,
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