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ichigan Gridders Drill For
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FT! A Letter To The Editor
Phi Psi, Sigma Nu ShowTh i is
Power;ChampinshipThose Illinois U psetters
Power; Championship
At Stake Next Week By HAL WILSON
By BART JENKS . Daily Sports Editor
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That? Another Smith!
Next Indians" Manager
Report Ha Ger er
DETROIT, Oct. 29-(UP)-The De-
troit Free Press said tonight it had
learned on good authority that Char-
ley Gehringer would become man-
ager of the Cleveland Indians as suc-
cessor to Roger Peckinpaugh.
Earlier today it was reported the
Tigers had offered Gehringer a
player's contract for 1942, but that
it had been rejected.
I /C BLACKOUT HERE-
Illinois Hit By Injuries; Crisler Seeks
Regular End In Sharpe Or Smeja
By MYRON DANN
If Rip Van Winkle had awakened
from his long sleep yesterday after-
noon and sauntered down to Ferry
Field, he would have thought that;
the Michigan football team was prac-
ticing for the annual Minnesota
game instead of for a mediocre Illini
eleven.
But somebody should have told the
story book character that Fritz Cris-
ler isn't taking any chances as long
as sly Bob Zuppke is coaching the
opposing team.
With this thought in mind, Crisler
sent his grid team through one of
the stiffest scrimmages of/the season.
There was plenty of pepper during
practice and observers knew that
Michigan was still very much in the
Big Ten race.
Remembers 1939 Upset
The Wolverine mentor remembers
the 1939 meeting between these two
teams when a powerful Michigan
team was upset by an underdog, but
cleverly coached Illini eleven.
The records show that Illinois had
all the breaks that afternoon with
the Orange and Blue intercepting
three passes, while recovering five
fumbles. No matter how they gained
their victory, they still got credit for
the win, so Crisler is keeping the
Wolverines on their toes.
For more than two hours the Mich-
igan coaches drilled the Varsity on a
defense .for Illinois' T-formation.
Crisler pointed out the need for em-
phasis on defense when he said, "We
have to remodel our defense to try to
stop the 'T' formation plays, the
basic defense is the same but we have
to teach our men a lot. of new as-
signments.
Smeja, Sharp Work At End
Phil Sharpe and Rudy Smeja
worked out in the end position as
Crisler tried to decide injured Joe
Rogers' successor.
Illinois is still severely handicapped
GOLF CLUB CLOSES
The University Golf Course will
close for the-season Sunday, Nov.
1. Everyone who has clubs in stor-
age must remove them before that
date.
-H T. Rogers, Manager
because of the injuries it sustained
in the Notre Dame game last Satur-
day. Joe Pawlowski, Illinois guard,
will be definitely out of this week's
game because of a neck hemorrhage.
Bob Wilson, who, according to Wally
Weber, is one of the best linesmen
teams will be fighting it out for the
championships in seven fraternity
speedball leagues.
Two teams, Phi Kappa Psi and
Sigma Nu. have taken their league
championships with records of three
games won and no defeats. League
leaders inother brackets in the order
of their strength based on previous
games are Phi Delta Theta, a real
powerhouse team, Delta Tau Delta,
a team with a strong varied attack,
Acacia, and Sigma Chi. In two lea-
gues there is a deadlock for first
place; Theta Delta Chi and Chi Phi
are paired in league five and Sigma
Alpha Mu and Kappa Sigma are
fighting it out in league seven. This
leaves only one league in which the
fight is still wide open, both the
league leaders, Sigma Phi Epsilon
and Lambda Chi Alpha having played
and won only one game.
As things stand right now, last
year's allround champion, Phi Delta
Theta, is the favorite to win but could
easily be upset by any of the other
eleven teams mentioned.
In the dorm Residence Halls touch
football league, the Williams House
steamroller and a heavy, hard-charg-
ing Winchell House team have al-
ready won their sectional titles while'
Prescott House and Fletcher Hall,
who played a scoreless tie on Tues-
day, are still tied for' first in their
section. As of today it stacks up as
Williams House, with a strong back-
field and good blacking, the favorite
followed by Winchell House, which
depends on accurate passing and a
heavy line, then Prescott House with
its star passer Altese and finally the
fast, deceptive Fletcher Hall which is
the dark horse in the race.
INTENTIONS were to write a nice,
long column this morning dealing
with the disturbing, although infre-
quent tendency of the Illinois foot-
ball team to rise up in its wrath and
sweat sox of a Saturday afternoon
and proceed to dump a highly rated,
favored big name opponent.
But a couple of gentlemen, an
old Michigan fan from Illinois and
one of Uncle Sam's reliable post-
men, combined their talents to
spare me of this task. The letter
reads:
"ANN ARBOR PEOPLE have a
great habit of seriously misjudg-
ing the University of Illinois football
team every two years. As I have ob-
served this mistake so many times
in the past, I feel that this is one
week when I am qualified to give
advice. I don't think the newspapers
can over-do their job of warning
PHIL SHARPE
in the Conference, has a sprained knee
but should be ready to take his place
in the lineup -in the next day or two.
Wolverine victories in Champaign
have been none too plentiful during
the last ten years. The last Michigan
win was way back in 1931 when Har-
ry Kipke coached the team.
The Varsity will leave for Cham-
paign Friday morning at 8:30 a.m.
and will arrive in the Illini camp
early enough for a short workout
that same afternoon.
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By JACK FLAGLER
One of the main reasons Michi-;
gan's football stock looks like a good
thing for the next two years is a tall,
husky sophomore back who hails
from River Rouge.
In his first season of varsity com-
petition, Paul White has shown up;
as, one of the most promising back-
field prospects Michigan has seen in
recent years, so much so that they're
talking hopefully of another "Paul
and Tom'" combine gracing Confer-
ence gridirons for the Wolverines
again.
Of course the folks back in Rouge
could have told you all about what a
name Paul was going to make for
himself in college ball.
"Greatest all around athlete ever
to come out of River Rouge High
School," is the honor they conferred
on him when he left. Besides his
outstanding record of three years
competition plus All-State honors in
football, he made an All-State squad
in basketball while sparkplugging his
team to the Regional championship;
was state champ in the thigh hurdles
and played outfield for the Twin
Valley Baseball Champs in 1939.
"I always wanted to come up here
to play football," White declared the
other day, "but the one who really
got me started was Ed Frutig."
Frutig, All-American end last year,
is another one of River Rouge High's
athletic contributions to Michigan.
In the Michigan State game, Paul
was a standout with his running and
passing until a sprained shoulder
forced him to the sidelines for the
next two weeks, but he was back
again for the other three games. His
shoulder is pretty Well healed now,
and he should be working at top form
for the Illinois contest.
White had tough luck with in-
juries in spring practice too, when
he was benched with a sprained ankle.
But the toughest break he's probably
run into this year was when he start-
ed into the clear after making a
beautiful catch of an already ;blocked
pass in the Minnesota game, then
slipped and fell. It looked like a
sure touchdown, but fate slipped one
over on Paul once more.
"Who looked good on Minnesota?
Well, there were a lot of 'em," said
Paul, "but I guess Bruce Smith was
standout when he was in. Wildung
was tough in the line.
"Odson? Well, maybe it was be-
cause he had a bum leg, but I thought
he was far from the best man in their
line."
Paul believes that team morale is
at a high pitch despite the Minne-
sota defeat, but doesn't underesti-
mate the Illini, after their upset over
us two years ago.
On the field, the rugged, good-
looking halfback moves fast and with
a lot of deception drives hard at his
tacklers. He is one of the most com-
petent passers on the squad and his
defensive worth has been definitely
proved, especially in the State and
Minnesota games.
Power, precision, and a keen foot-
ball sense-that's Paul White. And
he's got two more years to use them
for the Maize and Blue.
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Northwestern Hopes Rest
On EarlyOffensive
EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 29.-(/P)-
Break fast and hang on to the finish!
The 6,000 fans scheduled to jam
Minnesota's Memorial Stadium Sat-
urday should be on hand for the
opening kickoff of Northwestern's
battle with the Golden Gophers. For
it's an open secret on the Wildcat
campus that Northwestern will open
up quickly, bidding for a lead to off-
set Minesota's superior line replace-
ments and staying power.
On that early bid apparently rests
Northwestern's biggest chance of de-
railing a Minnesota gridiro express
now headed for another Big Ten
championship and a claim to the na-
tional title.- On that bid rests North-
western's chance for a victory which
would make the Wildcats favorites to
take the Western Conference crown.
Physically, Northwestern will be in
good condition for the scrap. Every
Wildcat regular, with the exception
of sophomore right tackle Tony Sa-
marzia, is expected to be ready. Sa-
marzia's place wil be filled by Ray
Vincent, also a first year lineman,
and the veteran Leon Cook.
FRESHMAN CAGERS
All freshman basketball players
who are interested in trying out
for the frosh cage team are re-
quested to report at 7:30 p.m. be-
ginning November 3 at Waterman
Gymnasium. Bring your own
equipment.
-Ray Fisher,
Freshman Basketball Coach
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the team every day now and Saturday
about what they are sure to face in
Champaign,
"If you'll remember that Illinois
usually wins it's biggest hcme game
(they didn't last year) and then
look at their schedule, you'll have
no doubt when the party is to come
off. The team must realize that
Illinois plays a piker's game, and
that hence their strength lies in
their weakness; they let the other
team defeat itself by overconfi-
dence.
"LLINOIS did not play well at Ann
Arbor last year, and they have
not played well this year, so far, but
that is only part of the plan. Most
people believe that they'd deliberately
play uninspired football in one game
in order to improve their chances of
winning another one later, but Mr.
Zuppke himself admitted that two
years ago. You'll remember his re-
marks about putting all his eggs in
one basket, etc.
"I don't need to remind you that
some of Michigan's greatest teams
of the past have fallen into this
trap (1924, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939)
The 1933 and 1937 teams managed
to pull through. Illinois is likely to
defeat Minnesota next year and
Michigan two years from now, but
this year, with sufficient warning,
I think our team can pull through.
Let's get the idea across!"
-Old Michigan Fan from Illinois
COACH FRITZ CRISLER recalled
that Illinois upset of 1939 at prac-
tice yesterday. Voted by experts as
the number one grid upset of the
season, the battle that year saw the
hopped-up Illini hang a 16-7 defeat
on the championship-bound Wolver-
ines.
"You know," Fritz reminisced,
"our errors in that game cost us
a total of 320 yards. We fumbled
six times and the alert Illini re-
covered five of them. Three of our
passes were intercepted." Figuring
that Michigan could have kicked
eight times if they had retained
possession of the ball, and that the
Wolverine punter could have aver-
aged 40 yards per try, that makes
the tremendous total of 320 yards
lost by mishaps.
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One of the men that will greet
the Michigan Wolverines at Cham-
paign Saturday is Jim Smith, Illini
halfback. A ruring mate of Liz
Astroth, Smith is an open field
runner who can use both his head
and his feet. If Jimmy can do any
way near as well as did his name-
sake from Minnesota (Bruce) he
will keep the Michigan eleven on
their toes all day.
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ILLINOIS has scored in every gam
thus far this season, including th
Notre Dame and Minnesota clashe
.. ,they are undefeated on their hom
field this season . . . Michigan's blan
in the scoring column last Saturda
was only the second shutout for Cris
ler's club since Fritz came here froi
Princeton . . . the first was the score
less tie in 1938 against Northwesterx
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