i FOOTBALL EXTRA! IAO SiAia xtt FOOTBAL FEXTRA! VOL. XLIX. No. 6 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1938 PRICE FIVE Cl I I Wolverines Are Seth ToBreak Four-Year Michigan State Jinx Lineups for Today's Game University of Michigan 85,000 Expected To Fill Stadium To See Opener With Determined State' Kickoff At 2 P. M.; Weights About Even By BUD BENJAMIN Four years of football humiliation go on the block today. Before the excited eyes of, more than 85,000 football crazed fans, Michigan and Michigan State tangle in the 1938 inaugural at the Stadium. Game' time is 2 p.m. Their eyes aglow and their spirits high by the concerted cry of "it's Michigan's year at last" and the im- petus of a new coaching staff, it will nevertheless be an underdog Wolver- ine that hits the might of Michigan State this afternoon. Cocky and arrogant, State will seek to attain the zenith of their football domination. Never in its history. has Michigan been defeated five years in a row by any rival. That is State's aim today. Oan Michigan come back? Today the cry resounds in every nook and mner of the campus. Football fever has hit this town and the ennui of the,.i tine campus existence has ut- terly disappeared. For in the eyes of the rabid Wolverine fan there is only one thing at stake today-the success or failure of the 1938 season. Coaches Leaders Gridiron chicanery today will be, directed by two of the leading coaches of the country. Leading the army of Sparta will be baldish, affable, Charley Bachman, exponent of the Notre Dame system and brains of State's four victories. Worrying for Michigan is Herbert Orrin (Fritz) Crisler, quiet, intelli- gent and eager to auspiciously open his new regime at Michigan. Crisler employs the single wing with an un- balanced line to either side. Data Incomplete Lineup data at writing is incom- plete. Michigan State's roster is set with Ed Abdo's replacement of Dar- win Dudley the only change over theĀ°11 that faced hapless Wayne last week-end. Michigan's starting ros- ter has been the cause celebre ever since practice began Sept. 10. Statistically Michigan holds a negligible weight advantage both in line and in backfield. The Wolver- ine line averages 193% pounds from end to end, one more than the State riot Possesses Many Famous Predecessors When 5,000 Michigan students fell back before the onslaught of police tear gas last night, it was the finish' of the fourth major riot in University history and the third in which tear gas was used.. It was almost exactly a year ago today-Oct. 1-when the most serious fracas in recent Ann Arbor history took place. When the last results had been tabulated, four University students were under arrest, Patrol- man Rolland Gainsley had suffered an injury which necessitated an op- eration and several students were isted among those hurt.d: Besides that students made short order of a fire truck, seizing- the ig- nition keys, throwing the extinguish- er into a fire, letting the air out of the truck tires, removing the .spare ires and picking up the truck and noving it to the sidewalk! Before the crowd finally dispersed police had released tear gas three times-for the first time since the Torch murders of five years ago. Jerry Hoag was also manager of Butterfield's Liberty St.nshowhouse the night of March 4, 1923 when 5,- 000 students, celebrating a basketball victory over Wisconsin which gave them the Big Ten title, stormed the place and did $1,500 worth of dam- (Continued on Page 6) Student Killed In Auto Crash, Pos. LE LT, LG C RG RT RE QB L" IM FB Name Dan Smick or Vince Vaick Fred Janke, (Capt.) Jack Brennan Archie Kodros Ralph Heikkinen Bill Smith John Nicholson Forest Evashevski Jack Meyer Paul Kromer or To n Harmon Fred Trosko or Norm Pimrile.ker Wally Hook or Ed Phillips Yrs. on Squad 2 0 2 I 1 2 7 1 0 0 0 2 2 Wt. 205 170 205 200, 190 182 210 190 198 195 1 60 194 154 180 176 180 Height 6'1"r 5'9 " 6'2" 6'3 " 6'1" 5'9" 5'10" 5,'~ 5'10 Home Town Hazel Park Holly Jackson Racine, Wis. Alton, Ill. Ramsay San Antonio, Tex. Elkhart, Ind. Detroit Elyria, Ohio Lorain, Ohio Gary, Ind. Flint Youngstown, O. Grand Rapids Bradford, Pa. Ii' Michigan State Pos. LE LT LG C RG RT RE QB LH RH FB Name C. Walter Nelson Alex Ketzkon Lyle Rockenbach Ronald Alling Edward Abdo Ernest Bremer Mike Kinek Leslie Bruckner Joahn P ingel Steve Szasz Usif Haney Yrs. on} Squad 2 l 2 0 2 l 1 2 2. Wt. 202 190 185 190 193 195 190 195 178 165 190 Height 6'1" 5'10" 5'9"1 r0" 5'10 " 6'0" 6'1" 6'1" Home Town Chicago, Ill: Mattawan Crystal Lake, Ill. Lansing Detroit East Lansing Whiting, Ind. Milan Mt. Clemens Arlington Hts., Ill. Kingsrt, Tenn. Crisler Em hasize State's Experiene( Bachman Puzzle( Exclusive Interviews Show Both Mento Would Prefer Classic Contest Later; Sophs Are Question Mark CRISLER INTERVIEW Coach Fritz Crisler in an interview with The Daily yesterday admit that Michigan was entering today's game with Michigan State as underd but refused to predict an outcome for the classic meeting. "Anything can happen in football," said Crisler. "Sure we're the undi dogs. On paper and by virtue of past form, State should beat us, but forti ately football is not decided that way. That's what makes it a. great game. "Physically," said Crisler, "the team is ready for the game. TI muscles are hardened and they're toughened, but they haven't reached t full endurance yet: They are not as far advanced as they will be later." "Mentally,"- he continued, "I can't say yes or no. What they do a how they feel immediately before game time is what counts." Asked how his m'en felt about the State game, Crisler stated: "They aren't unduly hopped up. They're o. k., but they feel that our s son does not open and close against State." What does this game mean to the players? "It means a lot," replied Crisler," yet I don't think they'll fold if we 14 If they do, it will hurt." Crisler admitted his, dependence upon sophomores might endan Wolverine possibilities: "Every coach is worried about his sophomores." he stated. "They have been under fire, and you never can figure who will rise to-the heightsa who will collapse." Crisler also admitted that the "stop Pingel" problem wasa pressing o "Although I've never seen Pingel I've heard plenty about him," he stag "We're going to-rush his passing and kicking plenty but that boy can ru hear. We can't concentrate on one of his specialties. He's got too many." Speaking of being underdogs, Crisler especially emphasized the grea experience of the State players, who average practically a year more in e perience than do the Wolverines, and also the transition that his men h had to make under a changed coaching regime. "If we hadn't taught a new system," he said, "we would be much furt along. Much smoother. Much more finished." He admitted that the blocking and tackling were improved but empb sized that he still desired improvement in those departments. "We have a long way to go yet," he said. Crisler, refused to issue any lineup. "Nothing until game time," was his retort. He said he would substitute according to the progress of the game. "One thing is certain," he concluded. "We'll give'em absolutely eve thing we've got. They may be hot and everythiag may be working right them and then we'll get whipped. But we'll still shoot the works." And the precedure might conceivably be reversed., ' "Yes," he grinned, "yes indeed." He seemed pleased with the idea. Officials: Officials:-Referce J. S. Getchell (St. Thomas); Umpire Graves (Ill.); Headlinesmen: P. W. Finsterwald (Syracuse). Lion Gardiner (Ill.); Field jpdge Perry 1 Charles Brandman, '40M, Dies NearToledo, 0. Charles Brandman. '40M, 23 years old, was killed early yesterday in anj automobile accident which occured shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday at the corner of Middlesex Drive and Dar- lington Road, near Toledo. Wade Stone, jr., a high school freshman, driver of the other car, was seriously injured. Another student, Florence Schwab, a sophomore in the University music school, was seriously injured yester- day afternoon when she stepped out between twodparked cars at E. Wil- liam St. and Maynard St. into the path of an automobile. Miss Jessie E. Pickell, 1053 Olivia Ave., was the driver of the car. Miss Schwab was knocked uncon- scious and suffered a fracture of the left arm. Taken to St. Joseph's Mer- cy Hospital, she was later transferred to the University Hospital. From Cincinnati, she lives at 236 S. Thayer St. in Ann Arbor. Reich Crosses I Czech Border; Poles Militant4 Mob Greets Chamberlain Who Says He Returned With Honorable Peace BERLIN, Oct. 1- (Saturday) -(UP) -The first contingent of German troops crossed the Czechosovak fron- tier near Aigen, upper Austria, early today starting Adolf Hitler's occu- pation of territory granted him by the four-power Munich accord. The grey-clad German ifantry- men marched over the border shortly after 1 a. m. (7 p. mn. EST, Friday) little more than an hour after the midnight deadline Hitler had set for his occupation. PRAGUE, Sept. 30 --P) - The Czechoslovak government, after bow- ing under protest to the Munich par- tition accord,'received a new Polish note tonight calling for immediate response to Poland's territorial de- mands. In Warsaw, the Polish government was understood to have set noon to- morrow (6 a. m. EST) as a deadline for answering its demands. Mass Meeting Hears Appeal To Aid Czechs' The necessity for America to help in the preservation of democracy in Europe was urged in the three reso- lutions introduced at the mass "Save Czechoslovakia" Rally held at noon yesterday on the library steps. Approximately 250 students attend- ed the meeting which Dr. Kenneth B. Miller, executive secretary of the Pres- byterian Church in Detroit, and Mor- ris Lichtenstein, '39, addressed. Although some people think a demonstrationof this variety is futile, Dr. Miller declared, in the face of recent developments, it really has a, two fold purpose: we can enter pro- test against what has been done to the Czechoslovakian people and we can m;narshal opinion to prevent the rest of the country going the same way. Dr. Miller, who lived in Czechoslo- vakia several years, praised the coun- try for the admirable use to which it put democracy. It has been extreme- ly liberal in its treatment of minori- ties, he said, and the Sudeten prob- lem most certainly could have been settled peacefully were it not for Hit- ler. Resolutions urging the government to send representations to Germany not to violate the Kellogg-Briand Pact, to declare sympathy with Czech- oslovakia and facilitate trade be- tween that country and the United States and to declare an embargo on war supplies were read by Robert (Continued on Page 6) 5,000 Students In Near Riot After Pe Rally p Y Officers Take 2 Students, Free Them Unbooked; Tear Gas Used Freely Five thousand students last night prolonged ,a pep rally into a two-hour stampede through Ann Arbor streets as local police used tear gas and fire hoses to force the mob from one street fire to another toward Ferry Field. At least. two students were taken into custody by police and later re- leased. Police would not reveal their names. They were not booked. Gas was releasedrat least 15 times. An expectant crowd of upperclass- men and townspeople lined State Street and North University Ave. at 9 p.m. waiting for the end of the Hill Auditorium pep-rally, where a football short was shown "through courtesy of the Michigan Theatre" in an effort to forestall a repetition of last year's attack on the theatre's facade. contingent, However, should Dan Smnick supplant Vince Valek in the Wolverine starting line, as is likely, the local's average will be boosted to 198. 'The backfield presents a peculiar situati6n in that two sets of backs are at Crisler's disposal for starting use, One set-Meyer, Harmon, Pu- ruc1ker, and Hook-average 186% pounds while the other-Evashevski, Kromer, Trosko, and Phillips-av- (Cotinued on Page 3) LONDON, Sept. 30 -(AP)- Prime Minister Chamberlain today brought back from Munich what he called "peace with honor . . . peace for our time." To cheering crowds and an approv- ing Monarch he reported two accomp- lishments. Summed up, his words in two (Continued on Page 2) i sq rlwrr ui niaip 'i iib M ii ii Si" Lr r r i i r Most Of These Wolverines Will Start Against Michigan State Today' 6,000 Ask Free Show The 6,000 students who jammed Hill Auditorium to hear Coach Fritz Crisler and Jimmy Sabo of tle al- umni club of Gary, Id., poured out of the hall and waited aimlessly at the corner of State Street and North University for the traditional cry, "Free Show at the Michigan!" Finding the theatre closed after the 7 p.m. show, (the Majestic was closed all evening), the crowd stam- peded down Liberty in response to new shouts of "Free beer at the Pret- zel Bell." Again disappointed, the leaders started a fire at the corner of Main and Liberty, which attract- ed a mob that packed Liberty street for a full block campus-ward. Police Armed A dozen policemen, aried with tear gas equipment and billy clubs, pushed the crowd back to the side- walks and then released the sweet, stinging fumes, which aided by an easterly wind drove the students hel- ter-skelter up Liberty toward the campus. Fires sprang up simultaneously at Division and Maynard on Liberty Street. Repeated barrages of tear gas, accompanied by cries of "here comes the cops," continued the pre- BACHMAN INTERVIEW, Contacted by The Daily last night, Michigan State coach Charley Bac man followed Fritz Crisler's suit witha lusty complaint: "Say we don't know what to expect up here," he told The Daily. "Ii taught the boys everything I know and we're prepared for anything, but wish I knew what was coming." "We've left nothing undone in preparing for this game, and we've check all the records, but still it's awfully short notice." "Yessir," he continued, "it's a real rush order. No time. Too much teach. No scouting reports." "It's plenty tough," he wailed. Won't those Michigan sophomores help the State cause. Crack und fire? "I don't know," he said. "All I know about your boys is what I read the papers. Course I'd heard of Harmon and I knew of him. Everyone ha But the rest are all strange to me. They may crack under fire." Speaking to Crisler and Bachman clearly indicated that both m Avould prefer this game later in the season. Both agreed that the gaa was too big for this time of year and vehemeritly stated that their tear were not ready yet. "That's an awful big crowd for this early in the year," said Bacheua "And it's going to be some game." How about the famous "weak" sisters-the State tackles. "Say," he asserted, ."they didn't look so bad against Wayne did the Yet, Wayne isn't Michigan and we may have trouble at that position." "We're ready," Bachman said, "and I hear Michigan is too. All then left to do is play the game." "Had a real pep rally up her tonight," he continued. "Biggest era ever. Four to five thousand. Lotta spirit." As to his squad's condtion: "They're fit," he said. "There are a few injuries but not serious enoul s ;. ," ... r : ... s ' _: ,. . ..: . . ,. . ; .