THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1940 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Inspired Wolverine Gridders Leave For Minneapolis'
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HillBilly Wins
Touch Football
League Title
The Hill Billy touch football team,
shooting for its second straight In-
dependent championship, entered the
first-place playoffs yesterday as they
licked the Forestry Club, 6-0, to take
the "B" League title. Two passes
from Bill Coinbs, to Stan Kelly and
Don Nichols, brought the ball from
the 40 down to the one yard line
in the third quarter, from where
Alex August tossed a short pass to,
Kelly.for the score.
In the first of two Interfraternity
speedball first place playoff games,
Phi Kappa Psi eliminated Acacia,
11-8, as Bob Bellairs and Jim Gunn
split scoring 'honors with five and
three points respectively. John Paup
and Doug Jeffrey led the losers in
a second-half bid that fell short. Phi
Delta Theta also t advanced to the
second round in the same bracket
with a 5-3 win over Kappa Nu, with
Jack Meyer scoring three of the win-
ners' points.
Delta Tau Delta moved into second
round of the third-place playoffs in
a high-scoring contest by defeating
Theta Chi, 14-12. Nevin Jamieson
scored five for the winners, with
Francis Chamberlain adding four.
Theta Delta Chi forfeited to Phi Sig-
ma Kappa men.
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Gopher
Battering Ram
Bob Sweiger blasted over two of
Minnesota's touchdowns against
Northwestern last week and is ex-
pected to share the fullback duties
in the Gopher-Wolverine battle on
Saturday.
Instructor
Plea For
Issues
Greater
Wrestling Turnout
A plea for more men to turn out for
wrestling was issued yesterday by
Port Robertson, assistant wrestling
coach, who is in charge of wrestling
practice during the preliminary train-
ing this fall. Using Mr. Robertson's
own words, he wants "he-men" and
no "lollipops."
He stated that several candidates
started training at the beginning of
the practice sessions but have since
dropped out. Thus far the total num-
ber of fellows who have reported for
practice is far-below last year's turn-
out. There are about 20 freshmen
and 20 upperclassmen practicing at
the present time as compared with.
a total of 60 last year. All those in-
terested in wrestling are asked to
report to Mr. Robertson, who is
holding practice each afternoon on
the balcony at the Field House.
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Intramural
Angles
By Gene Gribbroek
The Intramural Department ice
hockey teams, the boys who fight it
out after the rest of the town has
gone to bed, are getting ready to
start their 12th year of competition
on November 25. There is room for
36 teams in the Fraternity, Inde-
pendent, Graduate, and Residence
Hall Leagues, and entries are coming
in fast.
Advance notices indicate a wide-
open race for the title being defended
by D.K.E. The biggest opening is
in the Independent League, and any-
one who has a team, or wants to
play on a team, should contact Chuck
Esler, manager in charge. All en-
tries must be made with him at the
Sports Building, together with entry
and stick fees. The department
furnishes sticks and goalie equipment
for the contests, which are held at
the Coliseum.
The Williams House Touch Foot-
ball team struggled up out of the
depths last week and finally scored
their first touchddwn in two years.
As if that weren't enough to startle
the onlookers, they went and scored
three more, piling up a 25-0 mar-
gin over Allen-Rumsey. Morris Bik-
hoff, former All-State basketball
guard at Flint Central High School,
went 95 yards for one of the scores.
The Residence Hall Bowling
League, fighting for the Michigan
Union Trophy, donated through
Union Manager Stanley Waltz, start-
ed its 1940-41 season last week.
Twelve squads rolled in the first
mght's action on the 33-game sche-
dule for the title won last year by
Michigan House.
The field of 64 entrants which
started in the All-Campus Tennis
Tournament last month has been
cut down to five as the event nears
the finals. Semi-final matches pair
Dick Peltier and Fred Wellington in
one bracket and Lloyd Gibbs with
the winner of the Alden Johnson-
Louis Telbizoff contest in the other.
Thesremaining matchesnpromise to
be plenty close.
Two other events, the All-Cam-
pus Twenty-One and Handball Sin-
gles Tournaments, are slated to be-
gin in the near future. The basket-
shooting affair will begin on No-
vember 18. All undergraduates not
members of varsity squads now
practicing are eligible to compete
for the gold medal won last year
by Walt Griesbach. The handball
event will open Nov. 26, with the
same eligibility requirements. Last
year's winner in the tourney as Jack
Greenstein.
The Interfraternity Speedball
teams, with the regular season's play
behind them, are starting their play-
off battles this week. Pairings in the
first round of the champiorship
playoffs bring together Phi Kappa
Psi and Acacia, Theta Xi and Beta
Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma and Sigma
Phi Epsilon, and Kappa Nu and Phi
Delta Theta. Sigma Chi, defending
champions, have been eliminated,
and will compete for the second-
place championship.
The volleyball loop, behind sche-
dule, will stage a special card of
games Saturday afternoon. A radio'
will bring the play-by-play account
of the Michigan-Minnesota game to
the players.
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DAILY DOUBLE
Tornado To Has His Say...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: It's time for the grid stars to take control of the Double
again tcday. Wt- got ahold of the Ace, himself. Tom tells us that he wrote this bit
while scampering for a two yard gain against the freshmen yesterday. He wanted
to collabcrate with Margot, but when we objected to news about marriages, after-
noon tea" and such, he had to go ahead and do it all by himself.)
By TOM HARMON
I imaginc that I am the luckiest individual in the world today and
with Thanksgiving a mere two weeks away, I think that I should tell you
a few of the reasons why I am the chosen son of the chosen son. Let us
look into the past, a few scant years ago.
The time is the fall of 1937 and a rawboned freshman is looking on
as the Varsity prepares for the opening game with Michigan State. Suddenly
a man taps this freshman on the shoulder and says, "Tom, I wantyou to
meet three boys who will be playing with you the next three years." The
voice was that of the fireball of Michigan's freshmen, Wally Weber. The
names of Paul Kromer, Howard Mehaf fey, and Jack Meyer, were speeled
off in the usual Weber fashion.
There were four of us starting together and all hoping for success.
We had great things planned after we beat the Varsity the first time
we met and with "Evy" there, it seemed that the day would not be far
off when we would be wearing gold footballs, emblematic of the con-
ference championship.
With the approach of football weather came Coach Crisler and his new
assistants. At this time our group had swelled to include Ed Frutig, Ralph
Fritz, Milo Sukup, and Joe Rogers. Our first season was well on its way
and we were still in the undefeated column when tragedy
struck the first of the group of four. It happened in the
tale game and "The Jeep" was on the receiving end of a
drastic blow.
Good old kind hearted "Mac," the fightin'est heart
that ever wore the Maize and Blue of Michigan. He
.played out the season and has never played another
game since. The season went on and the team came
along fine, we dropped only one ball game and that was
because I had fumbled at Minnesota.
We tied Northwestern with the history-making
g . line stand and then came our traditional rivals,
Ohio State. We lined up for the kick-off and as I
looked down the line I saw the "Keg", good ole Jack,
Tom Harmon his face was filled with anxiety as he knew that in
that Buckeye stadium somewhere, the Meyer family and all of his Ohio
friends were watching him. The ball boomed down the field and Jack
was racing to make the first tackle. As he shifted to his leg to crush
the runner his leg buckled and his knee was shot.
This accident was the second of the bad breaks to the group of four and
if Jack Meyer had been at Illinois on the fatal day to give some relief to
"Iron Evy" we mightnot have lost the ball game. This ended our sophomore
year and also the careers of Mehaffey and Meyer, two of the greatest to
ever play for Michigan.
Then came our junior year. The first game against Michigan State
proved to be the third strike against the "fatal four." Paul Kromer was're-
turning a punt when a terrific tackle snapped his knee. A fighting heart
and courage that runs second to none made Paul Kromer return this year
so that- he might be of some help to the Michigan team. We battled on
through the season and in the Illinois game "Evy" cracked his ankle. The
ole jinx seemed that it had the cards stacked against us.
We lost to Illinois and Minnesota because Evy was not with us.
After defeating Penn in a great battle we returned to ineet the great
Ohio team. The pressure was off and the boys knew that they could
win. Evy was back but Eddie Frutig, the boy who gives the ole grads
an idea of how "Oostie" looked, was lost for the game. We started slow
and were losing when'the true courage of the Michigan gang came to
life and victory was snatched from the closing seconds. We finished
third even though we had beaten the two top teams. Two years had
passed and still no gold ball.
Now comes the senior year. I don't know how to explain it but when
you are playing your last game the ole sentiment burns deep. Gone are
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