WENESUAY, OCTOBER $, 1941 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PACE THREE Wolverine Gridders Prepare To Meet Panther Challenge . 9 Gopher Fans Fear Michigan y' 0 Urban Odson Ailing y IAL WILSON Daily Sports Editor Record Frosh Squad Reports .At Ferry Field 125 Yearling Gridders Answer Weber's Call; Guards, Tackled Weak By KEV JONES The largest freshman football squad in Michigan's history is now working out on Ferry Field. However, in spite of his 125 yearlings, coach Wally Weber is not overjoyed at the prospect. With only five days of practice be- hind them the frosh have not done enough to show their real stuff, but if first appearances mean anything * * HAVE SOME SPORTS HASH FOR BREAKFAST THIS MORNING: Word is seeping out of the great Northwest that the Minneapolis citizenry expects Michigan to extend most their Minnesota team this fail . . . in a poll conducted by the Star-Journal, fans were asked: "What team do you think will prove the toughest for the Gophers to handle this year?"- - 60 per cent gave the nod to the Wolverines, while 20 per cent favored Wis- consin . . not represented in the voting were four Gopher opponents, Iowa, Illinois, Pitt and Nebraska. * * Also from the camp of the Western Conference grid champions comes a tip that the huge jjrban Odson, 245-pound All-America tackle, is not in the best of condition . . . Odson, so the story goes, has a weak knee which bothers him mentally gs much as physically . . . he's worry- ing about his p'articular/injury and holding back . . . any athlete who does that may crumble, * * * N THE LATEST ISSUE of a popular weekly national magazine there is featured A story by gridiron scout Bert Stanley . . one of the top-flight independent scouts, Stanley relates how he covers big games, draws up 30- page reports on the respective teams, and peddles them to other schools for a nice profit . Head Coach Fritz Crisler has had two offers from Stan- ley already this season, he said yesterday . . . one to cover the Minnesota- Washington game two weeks ago and the other on the Ohio State-Southern California clash last Saturday .. . Fritz, however, sent Ernie McCoy, assistant coach from his own Wolverine staff, to watch the Gophers in action on the coast, and decided that there would be plenty of other oppor- tunities to scout the Buckeyes. Ernie, incidentally, sat next to Stanley at the West Coast encounter in the press box . and says that Stanley was sending his stuff that day to four big institutions . . . among them was Notthwestern, seeking information on the Gophers;. last year Stanley scouted the Wolver- ines once for Harvard . . . but the Crimson found it took more than diagrams to turn back the Maize and Blue.., * * * * SOPHOMORE PAUL WHITE, who was injured in the Michigan State battle, is wearing the old special pad on his shoulder that Forest Eva- shevski used last year . . . . he will have his own by Friday . . . belated credit should go to sophomore guard Julius Franks for partially blocking that kick in the Iowa game . . Dr. Eddie Anderson, Hawkeye coach, was disappointed over the small turnout of 29,000 . . "Back in Iowa City," he declared, "Michigan would have attracted at least 50,000 fans. I certainly wish the Wolverines could come out there." Mention of Evy and his shoulder pad reminds us that he initiated his college coaching career successfuly Saturday . . . his Hamilton Col- lege gridmen trounced R.P.I., 21-0 . . . incidentally, a Babyland Bulletin, a la Winchell and Fidler . Evy and his wife,the former Ruth Brown, expect a young Evashevski in January. * * * * PITT IS BRINGING its 135 piece R.O.T.C. band to the Panther-Michigan tilt Saturday in the Stadium . . yesterday morning arrangements were completed to have the game aired coast-to-coast over 180 stations by the Mutual Broadcasting System . . this snakes a perfect record for nation-wide hookups for all of the Wolverines' home game this seasontra.e. both CBS and NBC will carry the Minnesota epic and NBC has contracted for the final Ohio State encounter . . . identification cards are necessary for student admittance in the final three home games. Blazing Hap Stickle, Pittsburgh track star, and Al Thomas, Wolver- ine senior dashman, met on the cinderpaths last Winter . and they . may meet again on the gridiron Saturday . . for both are reserve half- backs . . . Charlie Decker, former Wolverine pole vault ace who smashed the Field House mark last winter, is laid up in his Elyria, O., home still suffering from a compound fracture of his leg incurred in an accident last spring. Referee Mike Layden, who worked the Mihigan-Iowa clash here Satur- day, knows all at out this "eye for an eye and oth for a tooth" type of grid action . . . soppomore tailback Tommy Kuzma trotted over Ito Mike at one stage of the game and lisped coyly, "Hol thith, pleath" . . . in Mike's hand was a tooth. *; * * * An interesting experiment is being tried by Congress, Independent Men's Association . . . the athletic chairmen, Lou Fogel and Dick Orli- koff, are forming six-man touch football teams and leagues . . . backed 100 per cent by the Intramural department . . . this is a fins project, designed to give all independent men an opportunity to participate in athletic activity . . and it deserves full cooperation . . . men may sign for competition individually or in groups as teams at the Congress offices jn the Union or at the Intramural Sports Building. Gus Sharemet, ace freestyler whose real first name is Constantine, con- stantly receives advertising propaganda from a Detroit Beauty Operators' School . . . addressed to *"Miss Constantine Sharemet." this year's squad will not be up to the high standard set by last year's freshmen. Keen Faces Problem Particularly noticeable is the lack of centers and guards. Line coach Cliff Keen is faced with the problem of finding a pair of guards to follow in the large footsteps of Merv Pregul- man and Julius Franks, and a center to hold up the middle of the line when Bob Ingalls and Ted Kennedy graduate. With Ray Courtright and Howard Mehaffey putting the backs through their paces, Ray Fisher working with the ends, and Keen coaching the linemen, coach Weber has already be- gun light scrimmage using running plays only. This gives the staff a ( chance to see the yearlings who show promise before they start using more complicated plays. Learning Names Tough The greatest trouble so far en- countered by the coaches has been that of learning the names of all the frosh. With such a large group out for the squad the job is a hard one, but then mentors are hopeful of knowing them all by the time play begins speeding up. Practicing their specialties are both the passers and the punters, in prep- aration for the real work of the sea- son. However, so far no one has been outstanding. Coach Weber expects that about 65 of the present squad will answer the roll call at the end of the fall, and says that if 15 of them make good on the Varsity by the end of their college career there will be no com- plaint about this crop of yearlings. Some of the boys on the-squad are getting into big time football already as many of the freshmen scrimmaged against the Varsity during the week. Inside Story Crisler Works Lon Nova's Mmm Why Yanks Varsity In Stiff NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-:-T, New York State Athletic Commission Areeatest Practice Drill today ordered one fighte puse held up and suspended two mana fo six months and a trainer for 60 d ys NEW YORK.Oct.7.Pittsburh Feature Brace as aftermaths of Past night'slFreddi the inside story of how the New York ICochrane-L w Jenkins fight Yankees have become the greatest Of Triple Threat Backs Garden and last week's heavyweight dynasty in baseball, winning five In Dutton And Steiler title bout between Joe Louis and Ldu world championships in six years and Ito A d___ Nova. getting primed for more. The Commission ruled: Thousands of fans saw the Ian- By BOB STAHL 1-Ray Carlen, manager of Nova, kees win on the field, but only al The Wolverine gridders have any- suspended for six months. and Ray handful of sports writers and close thing but a pushover in store for A ecel, Nova's trainer, for 60 days, for friends saw them win off the field. them when they meet the Univeriy instructing Lou to hold back in the And the groundwork for pennants is of Pittsburgh Panthers on the Michi- early rounds and fight a defesiv laid indoors. gan Stadium turf Saturday. Ibattle against Louis. Carlen and Arecl The Yanks were the baseball According to the statistics of thc champions of the world last night Pitt-Purdue contest last week. th and the town was their's for the Panthers, even though they were cn taking. Instead they had a quiet little ""'' the losing^ end of a family farewell at a downtown hotel. 6-0 score, piled up B l nk The players and their wives sat as many yards from in groups of six or eight around I scrimmage as the tables, eating, drinking and talking. Boilermakers and it Joe Gordon, the areal second base was only the breaks VARSITY BASKETBALL man who was the hero of the series, which gave Purdue All eligible men report for varsity had his coat off. Johnny Sturm and the game. basketball practice Monday. Oct. 13, some of the other bachelors had a The first time the at the Sports Building at 7:30 p.m. stag table in a corner. President Ed Panthers had pos- Bennie Oosterbaan, Barrow, manager Joe McCarthy and session of the ball, Basketball Coach some scribes sat in another corner.' )they marched 78 r In these serene surroundings we ( e yards without a BASKETBALL MANAGERS found out why the Yankees are Bob Westfall stop clean down to All sophomores interested in trying champions, the one-foot line where only a des- out for positions- as basketball man- "You know, baseball is a romance," perately fighting Purdue line with its agers should report on Monday, Oct. philosophized McCarthy. back to the wall was finally able to r13 to the Sports Building at 7:30 p.m. "You can't buy this with money. turn them aside. B. Wallace, Manager You have to feel something inside Ernie McCoy, Wolverine assistant *4* you to appreciate the world cham- football coach who scouted the Pitt- BOXING CLASSES pionship the way we do. Purdue tilt, brought back stories of All students interested in instruc- "Baseball is my life. I love it. I a brace of triple-threat! Panther tions in boxing should report next would want to be in it if I didn't make backs, Bill Dutton and Jack Stetler veek at 4-6 p.m. in the Sports Build- a dime. It's a grand game and some- by name, who can pass, kick, and run wetherpm.ndyhednrsdayilr times the spirit of it overwhelms with the best of them, and they are ing either Monday, Wednesday, or you." expected to cause the Michigan team Fridayy Marty Lvaoski, "I have a great bunch of kids. They plenty of trouble before Saturday's Boxing Coach all get along together. No trouble- game is over. makers. I don't let them play cards In a two-hour-practice session yes- :Y or dice. When you travel with us terday, Coach Crisler put his first DAILY SPORTS TRYOUTS you'd think they were a bunch of team through its paces in a signal All eligible sophomores and second angels. But they have that spirit. drill against the freshmen and wound semester freshmen who are interested They all want to play baseball and up the day with a sparkling scrim in trying out for the Daily sports when they go out on that field they mage battle. The Wolverine back- staff should report to the Student play for all it is worth, play hard." field, with Capt. Bob Westfall, Tom Publications Building any afternoon -_Kuzma, Don Robinson and Al Thomas or evening ,this week. doingmost of the ball-carrying, dis- -Hal Wilson, Sports Editor Purple Fains May $eedon played plenty of powerful running Nation's Best Games and gave evidence of being in top I-M FOOTBALL ----_shape for the Pitt game. . Entries for the Independent foot- EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 7.--UP)- Line-coach Munn,- in a surprise ball league must be in by Thursday, Northwestern's Dyche 'Stadium, scene move, shifted sophomore Walt Frie- Oct. 9. of one of the best home schedules hofer from his end position over to Earl N. Riskey, Asst. Director in the Western Conference, may pro- one of the guard posts with the of Intramural Sports duce two of the best individual grid football-loving plebe showing up very duels of the year. . . . On Oct. 18 well in the new role. 'M' CLUB NOTICE Michigan opposes Northwestern on Paul White, who suffered a should- There will be an important meeting the Dyche turf, and this game should er injury in the Michigan State tilt of all 'M' Clubu members this Thurs- see a brilliant skirmish between which kept him out of the Iowa day at 8 p.m. in the Union. Northwestein's Alf Bauman and game, was still unable to take part -Gus Sharemet, President Michigan's Al Wistert, two tackles of in yesterday's scrimmage and it all-America caliber . . On Nov. 15 locked doubtful as to whether o otFOOTBALL MANAGERS Notre Dame comes in with Angelo the doctors would okay his playingFOTALMNGR Dertelli. against the Panthers. All eligible sophomores and second semester freshmen who are inter- iger Suspended ilso were reprimanded for refusing to heed the referee's warnings to stop using grease on Nova. I- Brown On The Spot. Proluces Winnting Team By MYRON DANN At the start of the 1941-42 grid season no otheriplayer or coach occu- pied a more precarious position than Paul Brown, Ohio State mentor. The "downtown bankers club" of Columbus wanted a winning Buckeye squad or they were willing to change' coaches again. Because Brown was an ex-high school coach from Massil- lon, the high school coaches of the nation expected a victorious eleven so as to prove that high school coaches were as good as college coaches. On top of all this Brown had the many normal difficulties that beset any coach at a new University. The most optimistic of Brown's >riends said "give Paul two years at hio State and he will have a win- I ning ball club." They felt he needed more than one year so he could have a chance to train his boys as soon as they reached the freshman squad. But Brown is fooling his friends and satisfying the high school coaches and the downtown bankers club; he has produced a winning ball club his first year with Ohio State. Two w nning ball teams. It also takes ma- terial and the breaks to win games and Brown can't supply this so, if the Buckeyes drop a few it won't be Brown's fault. Right now Brown is the toast of the Buckeye fans, the downtown bankers are singing his praises and he has the pleasure of coaching a winning ball club. But next week this may be all changed. What will actually happen however cnly time alone wail tell but we can say now that Paul Brown has left the imprint of his personality on the Ohio State campus. Tom Walsh Predicts Galleries Of 50,0001 CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-('--Predict- ing pro golf will be attracting single- day galleries of 50,000 within a few years, Tom Walsh announced today his retirement as president of the professional golfers association, effec- tive next month when his successor will be named at the annual meetin here. "With more thought given to fans, our sport soon will be matching and surpassing baseball and football crowds,' he said. "I think all players should be numbered to help the spec- tators spot their favorites. PAUL BROWN weeks ago the Buckeyes whipped a highly touted Missouri eleven 12 to 7, and Mast week his boys squashed Southern California 33 to 0. The one thing that sports writers who wit- nessed the contests agree upon is that Ohio State is well coached. Buckeye fans must realize how- ver that coaching is not the only element involved in the production of F N >'~~ I