THE MICHIGAN DAILY s4TUR; Favored Over Spartons Today In Grid Opener , . - - Ann Arbor's Hope Makes Initial Start Capt. Archie Kodros will round out the line at center. All are lettermen. The Wolverine line will average 198 pounds and the backfield, with West- fall starting, will be 182.x Charley Bachman's troubles are a little more serious. Four of his linemen are ailing but for the last two years Bachman has had ailing line- men who have played an awful lot of -- football. This year it's center ROnald Alling, honorary captain for this game, with a bad leg; end Mike Kinek with a bad hand; tackle Alex Ketzko who will play with his hand in a cast, and tackle George Handler with a bad shoulder. Don't be surprised if they all ace action. State Starts Veteran Line At any rate, State will start a vet- eran, albeit its second line. Stan McRae and Helge Pearson, both con- Bob Westfall, Ann Arbor's cont] verted tackles, will probably start at will be in the starting backfield at the ends; Alex Ketzko, injured hand Harmon, Paul Kromer and Forest and all, and George Gargett at the opens its season against the Spartan tackles; Ed Abdo and Ed Pogor at the guards and Bill Batchelor at cen- ter will be the line. Only its tackles are first stringers and that's because much of Michigan's power is directed" at the tackles. IN l In the backfield, Bachman may start a sophomore for the first time. Even all-American Johnny Pingel was not good enough as a first-year man to start. The newcomer is 161-, pound Duane "Buck" Crosthwaite, There Comes A Time,... who kicked and passed State to its) last quarter victory over Wayne. Don When the Wolverines troop out up- Rossi will call the signals, Ed Pearce on the Stadium turf this afternoon will play right half and Paul Der- they'll be unwitting participants in a rickson will be the starting fullback. Professor Quiz program for which The visitors are considerably out- they themselves, newspapermen, and weighed. Their line averages ap- the football world have prepared the proximately 195 pounds and their questions And the main question is backfield an even 170. -how good are the Wolverines? Second Team Will Get Test For the 1939 Wolverines the The Wolverines appear to have only game means more than just the two weaknesses-reserve line trouble 34th renewal of an annual and pass defense. Both will be tested rivalry; it means that they will this afternoon. -Bachman probably beable to determine their own will shoot in his first line while Mich- strength and potentialities. Mich- igan has its reserves in. The second igan doesn't enter today's con- string line, from end to end, will be test with gay hilarity and bois- Joe Rogers, Reuben Kelto, Bill Mel- terous over-yconfidencebut it is a zow, Bob Ingalls, Fred Olds, George team thatis supremely confident Ostroot and Ed Czak. Five of these that it is good. But they, and 10.- are untested sophomores with Czak a 000 students, and 50,000,000 foot- junior and Olds the only letterman, ball fans are wondering - how in the backfield will be quarterback good? Walt Kitti, Dave Strong and Norm Call at the halves and Christy at full- The squad reported for practice back. Call has been moved up since Sept. 10. For two weeks they prac- Fred Trosko's ineligibility -was an- ticed twice a day and then, after nounced last Thursday and Kitti was school opened, they switched to a moved to the signal calling post a one-a-day schedule. Everyday they week ago. According to Crisler, "Kitti have practiced, worked on funda- is capable of working in a game." mentals, practiced plays, scrimmaged. State is expected to fill the air with But now they crave action; they passes with Crosthwaite and Jerry want fresh meat and if the Spartans Drake as the pitchers. While they are a tough diet then it will make the, have no end like Ole Nelson, McRae, digestion better. who also ,does the kicking, has shown much aptitude on the receiving end. Fritz Crisler put it this way =when asked whether or not his The probable started line-ups are: club was in shape. "We're as hard MSC Michigan now as we'll ever be. Bachman C MdcRae lENicholson says he needs two more weeks.C Ketzko LT Savilla What we need is a game. And Pogor LG Fritz maybe we'll get too much of a Batchelor C Kodros game today." Weber Finds Frosh Punter Cliff Wise, Kiski Graduate, Boots 55 And 60 Yards Coach Wally Weber sent his fresh- men gridders through their first;punt- ing drill yesterday and discovered he had in the person of Cliff Wise, one of the two Kiski graduates on the squad, a punter extraordinaire. Wise, who came to Michigan with the reputation of being quite a punter, sent long spirals 55 and 60 yards down the practice field, and drew not only the praise of Coach Weber but also that of Varsity Coach Mar- tineau who wanted "to sign him up." Hap Langstaff and Bob Ufer two of the fleet yearling backs showed flashes of mid-season form running back Wises' long boots. George Cei- thaml, rangy quarterback blocked like an Evashevski in protecting the tailbacks in this drill. 'Weber has started scrimmaging his squad and for the past few days has sent Coach Courtright's teams armed with Michigan State plays aganist his own outfits equipped with Michigan offensive formations. HIG H SCHOOL FOOTBALL Lansing Eastern 7, Jackson 0. Detroit Southeastern 13; Detroit Eastern 7. Battle Creek 20; Marshall 0. Spartan Field General Grid Spotlight Falls On De Correvant NEW YORK, Oct. 6.- (P)-The World Series, in two games, has pro- duced rookie stars in Charley Keller and Buck McCormick. Tomorrow football sends four standout sopho- mores into action and, as luck and the schedule-makers would have it, pairs them off in two of the day's principal battles. At Evanston, 11., it will be North- western against Oklahoma, and Bill, De Correvont against Jack Jacobs. At the Polo Grounds in New York, it will be Fordham and Blackie Blumen- stock against Alabama and Jimmy; Nelson. All but De Correvont already have had their varsity baptism. Therefore it will be De Correvont, the mostI highly-touted schoolboy player ever, who will draw most of the attention -and, according to reports from the Northwestern camp, the 185-pound halfback is ready to live up to his ad- vance notices. COLLEGE FOOTBALL . Denison 21, Ohio Northern' 12. Howard Payne 13, Tex. Wesleyan 0. Emblem Comes To Life As Wolverine Arrives Michigan finally has a real, live Wolverine. A living, breathing specimen of Michigan's famed athletic symbol ar- rived at the athletic offices yesterday, from whence it was hastily removed to a cage behind the University mu- seum, where the little fellow rested comfortably last night. A delighted Fielding H. Yost de- scribed the new mascot over the telephone last night as being "a 40- pound animal-looks a little like a bear. We've never been able to get a live one before," he chuckled glee- fully, and added that the donor pre- ferred to remain anonymous for the present. According to Mr. Yost, the wol- verine will be on display at the sta- dium between halves Richman 'Brothers Clothes at $22.50 H. W. McCOMB Phone 8633 806 Granger ribution to the Wolverine grid squad, the fullback post, along with Tom Evashevski :today when Michigan. s at the Stadium. CoachCharley Bachman has nominated Don Rossi to4a match strategy with Forest Evashevski at the quarterback position .in today's game. Rossi, captain of the box- ing team at Michigan State last year, is expected to add the spark needed by an inexperienced Spar- t:n backfield. Kansas. Beats Marquete, 3-0 In CIose Til Ii1 H!IS COR NER By MEL FINEBElRG "Be a good worrier." There have been coaches with the nation'b top teams who could out-Cassandra Cas- sandra. In fact, half of a coach's job (and we use the word job advisedly) is not to let the alumni know how good his team is. Then, too, Oct. 7 may not be the Wolverines' day. Or State might be hot. But underneath that furrowed brow we'll bet Crisler is thinking pretty happily about the club he's got. His "charm" backfield of Tom Harmon, Paul Krower, Forest Evashevski and Bob West- fall, Ed Christy or Bob Zimmer- man would make any mentor shivver with joy. His colorful and powerful first string line with Ed Frutig and John Nichol- son at the ends, Bill Smith and Joe Savilla at the tackles, Ralph Fritz and Milo Sukup at the guards and Archie Kodros at center are aspirants for a line coache's headache. Yes, it's a pretty fine 'club that Crisler has under one banner. It may be the nation's best. That's one reason why today's game is so important to the Wolverines. It'll be a barometer for the coming season. It'll be an indication of whether or not the line reserves can stand up (and we think they've come far enough since to beginning of the season to stand up). In short, the State game will tell everybody, from Crisler tp Bennie Oosterbaan's year- old son, just what they want to know -how good is Michigan.......... Try Try Again ... Last week, in the midst of stun- ning gridiron upsets, This Corner stood firm and correctly selected an amazing number of winners. Other of the reporters in Ann Ar- bor fretted and fumed while we went blithely on our merry or- acular way. But no one ever accused of us of censorship. We'll give them their chance to match pick against pick. (Some of them belong with a pick and shovel). -So, on page 7 we have the selections of today's games from all the sports reporters (pseudo :and otherwise) in Ann Arbor. If the best .man wins we won't gloat. i Add touching sights: Second- string Horace Tinker, arm in sling, standing in front of the Union at 7:15 last night as the band started to march down to the pep meeting at the Field House. Said Tinker: "I never thought Id be here to see them march to a pep meeting." The training table at the Union was strangely deserted last night with only the injured and the fourth- stringers eating there. Thirty of them had gone to Barton Hills "to rest." * ** * Gov. Luren Dickenson will be here for the game today because football "isn't brutal." All we have to say is that Harmon and Kromer had better not go through their usual procedure of 'having their. jersies ripped. The Governor might think it indecent. And the boy scouts better not come in shorts. Shocking, shock- ing. - MILWAUKEE, Oct.6.-)-A 16- yard field goal by Jim Brock, half- back, after his team had driven more than 50 yards downfield, gave Kansas State a 3*to 0 victory over Marquette before a crowd of 15,000 here tonight. Melvin Seelye, brilliant Kansas State back, led the Wildcat attack, passing and running for substantial gains in the drive that paid off. Marquette slipped up on several scoring chances earlier in the game. l At one time the Milwaukeeans drove from their own 10 to the Kansas State 5 on a series of passes by Jim- my Richardson and a fine open field run by Harry Leysenaar of 24 yards, but the State line held when backed up to its own goal and blocked a field goal attempt. Seelye started. the last period drive that brought a score when he passed down on the 50. Elmer Nieman .then to Brock for 12 yards and a first passed to Seelye for a 16-yard gain. Seelye broke loose over left tackle for 22 yards, from the 30 to the eight. Three plays failed to gain at that point and on fourth down, after a penaltynBrock's kick from placement with Seelye holding the ball, was good. Marquette made a desperate last- minute :attempt, after Bill Phillips ran the kickoff back to Kansas State's 26. A pass from Richardson to Phillips made it a first down on the 15. The Milwaukeeans drove to the 10 but there lost the :ball on downs. .IL E'SQUIRE 'Barbers Between State and Michigan Theatre. Workm anship and Service is the idea- Sanitation is the Law. To the casual observer it would appear that Crisler is worried about this one. Well, perhaps he is. Rule one in the coach's handbook reads Sox-, DOM. D. DASCOLA, Student Barber at Mich. 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