URBAN ODSON BUTCH LEVY CAPT. BRUCE SMITH GENE FLICK BOB F'ITCH CAPT. BOB WESTFALL I TOM KUZMA VOL. LH. No. 24 ANN ARBOR, MICH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS; REUBEN KELTO 0I 6,000 Yell For Revenge At Pep Rally Victory-Hungry Fans Jam Field House To Cheer Bloodthirsty Wolverines Anticipated Trouble Fails To Materialize With dedfening "roll 'em up's" and yea Michigan's," nearly 6,000 lusty voices in Yost Field House last night convinced Tom Harmon-who doubt- ed-Fritz Crisler-who hoped-and the student body-who already knew -that every Michigan student is sol- idly behind a fighting Wolverine team which today is out to cut a seven-year Gopher victory string. Victory-hungry fans fulfilled with tremendous cheers Coach Crisler's hope that "no -one at the rally is afraid of the Minnesota game." But ITom Harmon struck a more A bright, sunny and rather cool Saturday was forecast by the offi- cia' United States Weather Bu- reau late last night. A tempera- ture of 60 degrees was expected. serious note. He told students that "if you let the team down when they really need a boost, you're the big- gest bunch of rats that ever lived." Tom Harmon meant it. And the students understood and cheered. Though the rally was one of the biggest in University history, none of the violence of years past was noted. Local theatres, however, anticipated trouble and locked their doors. Police encountered little difficulty although pranksters lifted up a small automobile and deposited it in a pre- carious position on the steps of Alum- ni Memorial Hall. The fever pitch had calmed down by 2 a.m. Football Souvenir Regular international, national and campus news will be found on pages two and three. Is Anything Wrong Here?--NO! Capacity Crowd To SeeThriller Nation's Top-Ranking Football Contest May Decide Conference Crown By HAL WILSON (Daily sports Editor) At 2 p.m. today Michigan gridiron prestige goes on the block. For seven consecutive years Wolverine football teams have pitted their might against that of Minnesota. And for seven consecutive years they have been turned back with depressing, almost humiliating regular- ity, Twice since 1933 the Wolverines have out-fought, out-ga.pd and out-played heavier, favored Golden Gopher grid machines-but the result was the same. In a few short hours Head Coach Fritz Crisler will again throw his grimly determined squad against the Giants from the North, rated by football experts as the greatest of Minnesota's invincible string of jugger- nauts which have virtually ruled the nation's gridirons the past decade. Few games have ever carried more significance, more heart-throbs, more downright drama and emotion than this one in the Stadium this afternoon. Unquestionably the outstanding clash of the week and the season, it will be aired coast to coast over three national hook-ups, NBC, CBS, and MBS, by Bill Stern, Ted Husing and Joe Gentile. A guaranteed capacity and Stadium record crowd of 87,000 tension-charged home- coming fans will jam into the bulging bowl. At stake will be football's most famous trophy, the Little Brown Jug, emblematic of Minnesota-Michigan gridiron supremacy. But even more vital, the crucial clash will almost certainly decide the Western Conference title. And a national championship may be hinging on the S ---_--4 utcome of the bitterly-fought strug- The Brown Jug Mystery Probable Starting Lineups MINNESOTA Judd Ringer, Bob Fitch .................. Ends Urban Odson, Dick Wildug .... .........Tackles! Helge Pukema, Butch , Levy ................ Guards Gene Flick. .... ........Center Bill Garnaas.......Quarterback Bruce Smith, Bob Sweiger ........... Halfbacks Bill Daley ....... . Fullback MICHIGAN Joe Rogers, Harlan Fraumann .............. Ends Al Wistert, Reubenr Kelto.................Tackles Bob Kolesar, Merv Pregulman ............ Guards Bob Ingalls .............Center George Ceithaml .. Quarterback Tom Kuzma, Tippy Lockard ...........Halfbacks Bob Westfall .......... Fullback gle. Both teams are undefeated. Their records are almost identical. They have played a common opponent in Pittsburgh's purged Panthers. Michigan crushed Pitt, 40-0. A week later the Gophers sprayed their grid- iron might for only 40 minutes, but crushed the Panthers, 39-0. Both teams have faced one very tough opponent. Minnesota shoved a fine Washington outfit all over the field before winning, 14-6. Michigan outsmarted and outfought a powerful Northwestern eleven, 14-7, last week. The Gophers' other triumph was over a weak Illinois team, 34-6, while the Wolverines have also edged out Iowa, 6-0, and decisively whipped Michigan State, 19-7. There is little to choose between the two on the records. But on the basis of reserves, a ;dynamite-laden backfield combination and a bulky 206-pound forward wall, plus the cold fact that most of these same lads were good enough to win a national championship last year, Minnesota has been 'installed a slight 8-5 pre- (Continued on Page 6) By TOM THUMB The campus was agog L early this, morning with the startling news- which started in a whispering cam- paign and ended in a tornado of ru- mors-that the Little Brown Jug, famous trophy of Michigan-Minne- sota rivalry, had been mutilated. The jug, upon which are inscribed the scores of all of the 'M'-'M' clashes since the first classic ii 1905, was be- lieved to have been defaced during transit from Minneapolis to Ann Ar- bor, where the Wolverines plan to keep the trophy for the first time in seven years. In the space provided on the jug for the 1941 score, an amateur prognosticator has inscribed a large "120" for Michigan and a prophetic "0" for Minnesota. Minnesota -team and officials had been watching the jug closely all night, and everyone is at a loss to explain how the incident occurred. The "spirit writing" theory has been discredited. A late flash from the Associated Press states that the "handwriting on the jug," as it is now being known, (See GOING MY WAY, Page 4) TIPPY LOCKARD > .. 'Vi n . S '%V{ S .. .71111 .. z :,