T 11-L.M I C HsTirw A *N *.F StS X PAGE Michigan Squad Entrains For rucial Battle At Minne apolis Spirited Team Of ThirtyFour Set For Test Tackles To Bear Burden Of Halting Minnesota; Coaches Are Pessimistic (Continued from Page 1) plays while Crisler pointed out how each and every one of them could be stopped. If Michigan h6pes to beat Minne- sota Saturday, there are two specific things they must accomplish, accord- ing to the Coaching staff. Tackles Bear Attack Wally Weber indicated that the Wolverines would have to stop Minn- esota's powerful drives inside and out- side the tackles. This places the bur- den squarely on the shoulders of Al Wistert and Reuben Kelto, tackles and Captain Evashevski and Bob In- gallg, who are backing up the line. According to Weber, the line back- ers are supplementary tacklers. Their job is to diagnose the plays proper- ly, and come up fast to make the tackles after the tackles have stripped the interference. Franck Always Dangerous "We'll also have to stop George Franck," he said, by jumping him be- fore he gets started. "You remember what he did to us last year." Franck, who has run the 100 in 9.6 seconds, ran 59 yards for one (roplier ;oiiaths.r. Final Practice Almost P.revents Gridders From Making Train Ii - ~.. - --~ __ ___ don wirtchafter's /I DAILY DOUBLE _--, r By GERRY SCHAFLANDER It was getting dark down at Ferry Field around 5 p.m. yesterday. It was getting late too. for a squad that was scheduled to leave for Minneapolis at 5:2.5 p.m. There were so many last-minute details which needed ironing out that Crisler was reluctant to cull a halt to the pro- ceedings. The newspaper men hovering around were worried. They had to see Crisler and several of the players to gather enough material for "col- or" stories, before the group en- trained for Minnesota. At 5:10, with newspapermen and players both nearing nervous pros- tration, the Michigan mentor blew a sharp blast on his whistle, and the players dashed madly for the Field House. Upstairs to the dressing room they BOB BJORKLUND ... Co-Captain, Center Harmon In New Year Game Tom Harmon revealed yesterday that he had received and accepted an invitation to play with the East in the annual New Year's East-West football game in San Francisco. Coach Andy Kerr of Colgate tendered the invitation. touchdown and set up the other last fall in Minnesota's 20-7 vistory. The Michigan squad stayed over night in Chicago last night. They plan to work out at St. Paul this after- noon, and stay there over night. The team is confident. The coach- ing sta'ff is not. But, win, lose or draw, the student body will welcome the squad home Sunday night with a reception planned to be second to none in Michigan history. ran with their cleats beating a steady tattoo on the cement steps. Follow- ing closely behind were the cream of the sporting fraternity, the "Gen- tlemen of the Press." First they accosted Coach Crisler. "How do things look, Fritz?" they chorused in unison. "Not so good, he replied. "Did the week lay-off do the team much good?" was the next question.. "Naw. not much," retorted the Wolverine boss. ' "Hcw badly will Minnesota beat us, Coach?" asked one collegiate re.- porter. "Oh, about 14-0," Crisler soberly answered. With that the reporters left the informative coach and headed for the players' dressing room. It wasn't a peaceful scene. Ray Roberts, head trainer, was rounding up his tools of trade. Henry Hatch, in charge of equipment, was packing three trunks with football equip- ment, while three student managers dashed around pell-mell assisting him. A motley crew of athletes, in various and sundry forms of un- dress, was singing boisterously. It was 5:22. The train was pull- ing into the station and the players weren't dressed. The reporters didn't have their stories. Ray Roberts didn't have his medicinal supplies rounded up. Henry Hatch didn't have his football equipment in shape! Thevreporters dashed for Harmon and Evashevski.I "Do you think Michigan will win, Tom?" "Do you think you'll have a good day?" "How do you feel, Evy?" "How do Michigan's chances look?" Before the bewildered lads could answer, Crisler stepped in and told the players that they had three min- utes before the train pulled out. Thirty-four excited, half-dressed young men dashed down the stairs to the bus that was to/ransport them to the station. A police car with a howling siren led the way. That's the last we saw of the Michigan football team. We hear that the train was twenty minutes late. 9 A Contrast In Spirit.. . Hu'dreds of howling Wolverine followers had the Michigan Central depot. The band was playing. The cheerleaders, without any apparent excited Michigan voices into blast horns. jammied the mill irundm tr'otule, weret (ui'ning I 1 There was tension. There was color. Theim was noise. And the team, as it started on its way out of gay Ann Arbor, was impressed with the Wolverine spirit. Those gridiron warriors were keyed up by the encouragement. That was two years ago, The Wolverines had won two games. The Gopher battle was their third. A new coaching staff had been injected into the Michigan grid- iron empire. It's product was still an unknown quantity. But the Wolver- ines wanted to win badly that day. On the Saturday that followed, the rousing sendoff had its beneficial ef- fects. The inspired Wolverines, with the shouts of the railway station still in their ears, outplayed the Golden Horde, but lost in the end, 7-6. That was two years ago. Yesterday the Wolverines entrained for Minneapolis once again. Two more years had been added to the Gopher grasp on the Jug. Undefeated and untied, both teams are aiming for Western Conference titles, and per-, haps a national championship. All in all, the Wolverines are having their struggle of the year tomorrow. At 5:30, 34 Michigan football players stepped on to the Twilight Limited as a porter, seven Ann Arbor high school students who hap- pened to be walking by, and three wives of the coaches stood on the plat- form below, whispering and shivering in the chilled autumn breezes. There was little noise, except that of the engine up ahead. There was little color except for the gaudy socks of the gridders and a red babushka that one of the high school lassies wore. There was no band, except for the one around Crisler's hat. If the fighting Wolverines' hearts were filled with joy and excite- ment as they pulled out of town last eve, it was because the porter an- nounced that dinner was being served "dinah cah reah" as soon as the lads stepped on the train. There was no other reason. All in all, it was a sendoff you'd expect Chicago to give its six- man grid squad when it travels to Podunk. But for Michigan, with its mighty football team and a supposedly out- standing Wolverine spirit, the whole thing was an outrageous disgrace. Evidently the Michigan team is too good for you to worry about. Evi- dently the Wolverines have nothing to fear this weekend. Well, if you think so, neighbor, there is a place for you along side Milo Sukup in University Hospital today. He's been bothered with noggin trouble too. If the Wolverines lose, you might blame a great sendoff that loyal Michigan gave its men of the gridiron. You might blame the cheers and shouts that weren't. Blame yourself, anyway, and not the Wolverines. They were hoping to set off for Minneapolis with Michigan spirit in ther ears, and all they got was the whistling Ann Arbor wind. It's too late to do anythng about the matter now. The damage is done. But remember that the Wolverines are returning from their bat- tle Sunday afternoon. If they come back with the jug, they deserve the greetings of every loyal Michigan fan. If they tie the Gophers, it was still a task well done. And if the Wolverines should lose, they still need your support. Two tough games, Northwestern and Ohio remain on the schedule. A down-heart- ed squad can never win games like that. We must not let this bunch get downhearted. Win, lose or draw, we've got a meeting outside the Michigan Central depot, 2:32 p.m. Sunday. -U EVERYTHI NG YOU EVER WANTED IN A COAT! f ( Con ference Football Camps MINNEAPOLIS-Al)-The Minne- sota football squad TIursday wound up its hard practice for the Michi- gan _ame. Kicking was a feature POf .he drill. The Gophers spent much time on the opposition's kickoffs. Some of the kickoffs were poorly han- dled and drew the wrath 'of Coach Bernie Bierman. Several players turned their attention to place kick- ing and Gordon Paschka and Joe Mernik booted the ball between the uprights from the 25-yard line. ** * COLUMBUS, O.--UP)-Ohio State University's Freshman team rolled up 13 points in the last half of the an- nual Frosh-Varsity game Thursday but was nosed out -0 to 13. Follow- ing the game the Buckeyes began a four-day vacation, starting prac- tice again next Tuesday for the game with Illinois at Urbana Nov. 16. t BOB PAFFRATHI . . Blocking Quarterback Lloyd Defeats Chica go House Olcott Gain Stars As First Place Victors Title I In the Residence Hall touch foot- ball games yesterday, Lloyd House won the first place playoffs as they whipped Chicago House 13-6. Dud- ley Olcott scored both touchdowns for the winners with Bob Wise play- ing a bang-up game, on the line. Carleton McNicholas and John Page starred for the losers. Morton Hunter scored a touchdown and Duane Pagel kicked the extra point to give Michigan a 7-0 vic- tory over Allen-Rumsey in a second place playoff contest. Rowland McLaughlin with three points and Jim Martin with two paced Theta Xi to an 8-5 win over Beta Theta Pi in a fraternity speed- ball game. In an Independent touch football battle, Congress, aided by Norman Andersen's accurate toe, edged Linc- oln, 7-6. Dick Shuey put over the touchdown for the winners, while Bob Chapman notched two safeties and Bern Levinson another for Linc- oln's points. X ... Speedy Halfback MANHATTAN SHIRTS ON THE CAMPUS . . qt .. . Rogers Men's Wear I 07 South University Avenue U I JOE MERNIK Wolverine Trophy Case Yearns For Famous 'Little Brown Jug' Get a Freshman start in a Graduate Shirt- University fashions come and go, but The Duke of Manhattan'goes on forever, wherever and whenever well-dressed men foregather. Its brilliant white broad- cloth has lent lustre to thousands of erudite wardrobes, from freshman to faculty, from Yale to Stanford, from September to June. With your favorite Manhattan By BUD HENDEL It's been a long time-such a long time. For six long years now loyal Mich- igan supporters have not had the op- portunity to feast their eyes on that precious possession-that symbol of football supremacy between the Golden Gophers of Minnesota and the fighting Wolverines of Michigan, the "Little Brown Jug." But this year has to be different. 'Everyone is counting on Fritz Cris- ler's valiant band of gridiron war- riors to bring home the bacon. It means more now than it ever did. - Longest Consecutive String That victory string that Minnesota has run up against the Maize and Blue is the longest consecutive num- ber of wins that any modern Wolver- me opponent has ever compiled against the Michigan gridders. It was back in 1932, on a frost- bitten day in Minneapolis that Mich- igan last recorded a grid triumph ever the Gophers. Harry Newman, All-American Michigan quarterback, won for us that day with a perfect field goal. Since that 3-0 win the SWolverines have tied the Norsemen once, in 1933, and have tasted the bitter salt of defeat six times in a row. That must be remedied this var. back a revival of glorious victory tradition, symbolized in the, "Jug." Once more will Michigan students and grads be able to hold their heads high and point to that tradition- steeped prize with pride-once more will Michigan reign supreme. Victory For Yost And still more. The "Grand Old Man" is retiring. Fielding H. Yost will see his last Wolverine-Gopher game in an official capacity tomor- row in Minneapolis. Not enough can be said to amply repay him for the great work he has done in estab- ishing "Meechegan" as the athletic power it is. The return of the "Little Brown Jug" can help Yost end his career in a blaze of glory. It's up to the team-they'll win-they must. What the Well - Dressed I i j ~ .-'-.Y>