- __ .T Tll - I .CH _IG A _ D A I-L--Y __- --____--. __---- . . .... ........ _ . .. Missouri Kainsas . 20 Illinois 0I 46j Nebraska .......13 Texas Christian . 21 S. Methodist.... 21 Purdue .0 Oklahoma....... 7 Rice...........0 Baylor......... 0 Indiana . 7 Princeton. .... . 6 Navy ......... Chicago . . . . . . . t 28 PenncState....10 .0 Pitt .........0 Fighting Michigan Eleven Whips Favored Buckeyes, 21-14 8,00 Fans See Tr osko Make Didng Score Flint Halfback Goes Over On Fake Field Goal Play; Harmon Leads Attack (Contiuedd from Page 1) him deep in the end zone as Harmon was caught out of position. Scott threw the ball while falling and Ralph Fritz, who turned in his best game, was draped around him like a necklace. Maag converted. Maag kicked off out of bounds and theia Michigan started to move-but not for long. A pass, Harmon to lvashevski picked up 28 yards and a first down on the Ohio 37. Suddenly trouble struck again as Jim Hallibrin intercepted another Trosko pass, ran it back 15 yards and then lateralled to Scott who followed his teammate's example by running it some more. It took Joe Savilla, who evaded three blbgkers, to stop him on the 20. A pss and a running play failed but ttie Buckeyes were not to be denied. Scott, a 210-pound pain in the neck tothe Wolverines all afternoon, fad- ed leaped into the air and tossed a beautiful pass to Bob Clair in the end zone. The Buck end practically caught Trosko in his arms too but hc .did get the ball. Just to show hi versatility, Scott converted. It lced like a runaway. with no one execting Francis Schmidt to hold the reins. Mut here Michigan showed a fight and a spirit that has been lacking all year. It clawed and it scrapped. It mae its own breaks. And it finally triumphed. It was a Michigan team the't had been heralded at the sea- s n's outset as great-and it showed the truth in the whipping of an Ohio State team that never gave up, It took 10 minutes after the second Ohio tally for Michigan to score but: it did it by marching 56 yards on foui, plays. Harmon hit Rogers with a bullet pass on the Ohio 44 and the rangy end who runs the hurdles in the spring went to the seven where Scott tripped him. On a quarterback. snepk, Evie lost one but Harmon went to the five off tackle. Then he passed to the "Gang" in the end zone for the first score and it presaged what was to come. The first real Michigan break came in the third quarter when Savila hit' Zadworney so hard on the Ohio 30 that the ball popped out of his hands and rolled up to the 35 where Fritz recovered. In two plays Michigan had tied the score. The first was Harmon to Rogers again and that brought the ball to the 16. Then came the fake buck and successful lateral that brought the score to 13- 14 and 80,000 fans two years closer to. insanity. Harmon's successful conversion brought them four years closer as it tied the score. ,Iarmon Catches Strausbaukh The next Michigan break came 40 seconds later. Zadworney had run Harmon's kick-off back to the 27 and on the first play, Strausbaugh went around his weak-side end, ran betveen Evie and Westfall and went all the way to the Michigan 14 be- fore . Harmon, coming all the viay across from his defensive right half- back position, overtook him and forced him out of bounds. This as no break but Hallabrin's fumble on toe next play was. specially when1 Rogers recovered on the 11. And a iaiggs, Net Champ, In Exhibition Here Michigan tennis fans will have a chance to compare the Wolverine varsity netters with the best in ama- teur tennis when Bobby Riggs, holder of the Wimbledon and American singles titles appears in an exhibi- tidn match on the I-M indoor court at 8 p.m. next Tuesday, Nov. 28. Riggs will show his stuff in the feature match against Tokey Hansen, of Detroit, and then team up with Michigan Captain Sam Durst in a doubles match against Hansen and Jim Tobin, number one man on the Wolverine squad. few seconds later, anoter Ohio knock was interrupted when Kodros in- tercepted a Scott pass on the Wol- verine 18. And then, with six short minutes remaining, the Wolverines got their last break-and this one broke Ohio. Westfall recovered a Strausbaugh fumble on the Michigan 37 and with redemption 63 yards away the Wol- verines began to move. Westfall got five off tackle and Harmon skirted his right end to the enemy 47. A back-in-motion penalty set them back but a Harmon to Czak pass and a Westfall plunge brought them a first down on the 29. There were now three minutes remaining, Evie Snatches Pass- On third down Harmon threw a looping pass down the right sideline and Evashevski leaped higher than Strausbaugh to make a remarkable catch on the six. It was a first down -glory but six yards away but trouble was threatening. Evie was injured on the play and Michigan was penalized five yards for too many times out. But Michigan continued to move- only it was in the wrong direction. Czak, on a difficult try, dropped Har- mon's pass in the end zone and then Harmon, while attempting to pass, was smeared way back on the 23. Then, the Hammer, trying to circle his own left, end. was run out of bounds and the Wolverines whothad been accused of being without a fight- ing spirit, were in the darkest of holes on fourth down. Bob Ingalls replaced Evashevski at quarterback axnd it was obvious that he had in- structions to place kick. It was ob- vious-too obvious, as Trosko, faked holding the ball and then followed his blockers for the score with 50 seconds remaining. l e had to go all the way since Michigan had put the ball in play on the six. It vas a brilliant finish to a medi- ocre season. And even Ohio couldn't complain. They had backed into the, Conference championship as Iowa tied Northwestenm. MICHIGAN-OHIO STATISTICS O. M First downs ............11 11 Yards gained rushing Net................172 119 Forward pass attempte . .13 20 Forward' passes completed...........5 12 Yards by forward pass- . ing ..... .......36 146 Yards lost attempted forward passes .......2 12 Forward passes ntercepted by.................4 2 Yards gained, runback of lit. passes .........79 8 Punting average (from scrimmage).........44 41 Total yards, all kicks returned .......86 94 Opponents' fumbles re- covered. ...............1 4 Yards lost by penalties ..0 20{ All-Ameican Back Shows Shiftiness I IN THIS CORNER By MEL FINEBERIG -Daily Photo by Merriman This was one of the several occasions on which Tom Harmon, sur- rounded by several Buckeye tacklers, wriggled loose and went for valu- able yardage in the stirring second half. Fullback Bob Westfall can be seen in the backgrouud . Trosko, Wolverines' Forgotten M anli, BUrsts Into Limelig ht Agai In Aain, Out Again.. It's a pleasure to be wrong for the first time this year. We don't mean it's the first time we've been wrong. But this time we enjoyed it. At that we were pretty well off. We thought that if Ohio State scored first then Michigan couldn't come back. It looks as though the Buckeyes have a grudge against is. Not only did they score first but they also scored sec- ond. Still Michigan won. And in the end, so did we. The season now ends on the same note on which it began- Michigan is the best team in the Conference. As someone said in the locker room after the game, the best team in the Big Ten just beat the champions of the Big Ten. A cursory glance at the standings. The Wolverines beat the winners and whipped the runners-up. It's a short life. Esco Sarkinnen appeared to be riveted to the ground. He just would not be moved. Only once did Mich- igan turn his end and even then it wasn't because he had been blocked out. He was feinted inside by Tom Harmon who then shot around him for 20 yards in the third period. As we think back, however, we recall him being fooled once again. It was- n't a very important play though. Nothing much came of it. It was only Fred Trosko's touchdown run from the fake placekick. * * * * Francis Schmidt, Ohio State coach, wasn't the most affable Sweet Victory man in the world after the game. He sat on a bench in the Buck- eye locker room and could be. heard mourfnully, but hopefully chanting "Go, Go Northwestern" from the picture of the same name. Luckily enough, North- western went far enough to tie Iowa and thus allow the Bucks to rejoice in the fruits of an un- disputed Conference crown, their first since 1920 That was some solace, at any rate. Schmidt was pretty much con- vinced that the loss of Jim Lang- hurst, varsity fullback, was the rea- son for yesterday's loss. Hallabrin's supposed to be pretty good but he and the ball weren't very good friends yesterday. Every time they'd meet, it'd seem as though either Jim or the ball objected to the company. So they parted on four occassions. After the game, Fritz Crisler ad- mitted that he might have done Eva- shevski an injustice by yanking him in the last minute to send Bob Ingalls in with instructions to pull the fake kick. When he came out, the One- Man-Gang said that that was the play he was going to call and from the job of signal-calling he had done. there is every reason to believe he would have selected it. Michigan has been practicing that play ,since the week before the Minnesota game but this was the first chance it had to' use it. ** * * Ingalls, who,,wants to be a center and who plays quarter- back only to be in the game, had his own explanation of how the play was called. "The credit should all come to me," he said. "I'm a great quarterback. No one ever heard of the play be- fore. I just made it up in the huddle. Football takes brains." Trosko said, after the run, that it was the fastest he's run since he's been in high school. For the first time since the Yale game, Michigan showed the brand of football of which it was capable. Even through the abomination of desolation we have maintained that current edition of the Wolverines is a great football machine. Two set- backs hadn't turned us from this be- lief and now while it's late, it's not never. Crisler said after the game that "it was a great team that played today." * ** For the first time this season every man on the club played at the peak. With the possible exceptions of Har- mon and Trosko, this- club was at its height. Joe Rogers played his head off and Ed Czak and John Nicholson were right there too. Joe Savilla, Bill Smith and Reuben Kelto were in there all the time at the tackles and Ralph Fritz and Milo Sukup played bang-up games at the guards. About Kodros, Westfall and Evashevski little more can be added. Kody never made a mistake on offense and in line- backing was always at the right spot. Westfall, on defense as well as of- fese, shone and Evashevski was great. When a smarter signal caller comes along they ought to erect a monument to him. Every one of the toichdown plays was masterfully set up. And those passes he caught .. What can we say? *a * * * When we say Harmon wasn't at his peak it is only because we compared him to the Harmon of last week's Penn game. "Oh death where is thy sting? We can die 'cause we've seen everything" after the Hammer's ex- hibition against the Quakers. Har- mon was an All-American again yes- terday, a great player again-just as he's been in every game this year. * * * 4 You could tell the football :ason was over-Crisler embraced Harmon in the dressing room'. By HERM EPSTEIN The 'Forgotten Man' of the Michi- gan football team roared back into the public eye yesterday afternoon on one brief dramatic play. Freddie Trosko, the middleweight speed merchant from Flint ended his career in a manner that would test the imagination of the most receptive football fan, when he went over for a touchdown on a fake field goal at- The eyes of 80,227 fans were fo-, cused on one man at the beginning of that moment, and he was All- American Tom Harmon. Crouching in front of him, unnoticed, Was Tros- ko, unnoticed, most important of all, by the Buckeyes. And when he took the ball from Capt. Archie Ko- dros and ran untouched across the1 goal .line for the winning score with less than a minute to go, Dame Poetic Justice experienced a rejuvenation, Star In 1937. . Two years ago little Fred was the. key man of the Michigan team. He was the triple-threat around whom all plays revolved, and he came through in spleidid fashion. His toe kicked home two 7-6 wins for a vic- tory-hungry Wolverine. He did the punting, the passing and the running. No one would have suggested that he wouldn't be Michigan's starting tail- back last fall. But fate intervened in the person of Paul Kromer, just as fast, slightly bigger, with a wee edge in punting, and a minute edge in passing ability. So, when Kromer teamed with Tom Harmon to form the 'Touchdown Twins,' Trosko was relegated to the status of substitute. All year long he sat on the bench, waiting patiently for a call to 'get in there' where he longed to be. Fred Gets Break And then came this, his final year, and the season began with Fred still sub for Kromer. An injury to Kro- mer pushed Trosko into the starting position, but everyone knew he was just a sub. Kromer came back, and Freddie went back to the bench. An- other injury stopped Kromer, and Freddie was in there again, but in his eagerness, he fumbled three times in the ill-starred Illinois game. The cry went up: "You see, if Kromer had been in there . . .!" But, the coaches knew Trosko's worth, and the fleet senior started and played most of the Penn game. Still the fans ignored him. Kramer was still hurt, they said. And all this past week when Freddie was in the first backfield, they thought it a trick. And it was a trick-the slickest trick Fritz Crisler has pulled since he came to Michigan. He knew Trosko had everything, and in this the big- gest game of the year, with his team the underdog, Crisler called on senior Fred Trosko to take the burden off Tom Harmon's shoulders. All afternoon he blocked, tackled, 'knocked down passes, and slowly the fans realized that Fred Trosko was playing the best game of his career at the time when it was most needed. 1 , A Ohio State 14 Pos. 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