r , 4,14TE MICHIGAN DAILY Texas Awarded First Place In NationalFootball Ran PAGE 7 n EE kings . ,_ _ _ _ ._ PORTFOLIO 0 Travels Of Ye Ed DIn An Old Tub a By HAL WILSON 47- '. Daily Sports Editor 11 f r a r WEEKEND DIARY OF THE TRIP TO CHAMPAIGN: Plenty of triple class3 cutsinvolved in every athletic trip . . . but this one was worth it, down to the last drop of rain . . . started out in a drizzle Friday afternoon with trackmen Bob Ufer and Chuck Pinney and wrestler Chip Warrick. Our automobile, which would have made even Henry Ford shudder, wasj of uncertain vintage . . . it made the journey more thrilling than the gameE itself . . . with candles for headlights we felt our way down through the Indiana downpour like a canoe in the ocean . J . Chip had promised us:, (1) beautiful blind dates, and (2) a night's lodging in his home'town, fair1 Indianapolis . . . we got (2). High point of the trip down was when Ufer, whose greatest claim for draft exemption lies in a clause called nearsightedness, tried to pass1 on the right a car parked on the right side of the street with headlights1 shining toward us . . . he failed . . . in Fort Wayne we stopped to ring doorbells, it being Hallowe'en . . . in four other towns we stopped to push.the car, it having a dead battery. , BUT PATIENCE is its own virtue, so we pulled into Indianapolis to take full advantage of (2), and moan over the lack of (1) . . . then next morning we crippled the 130 miles across Indiana into Champaign, and junked the car at a service garage, whose mechanic became wide-eyed when Ufer said he was Tom Harmon in town to broadcast the game . . . to clinch the point Bob took off his glasses, bared his M sweater and called attention to his nose. Harmon, incidentally, dominated the fraternity, sorority homecoming decorations at Illinois . . . they were pretty much standardized, with such stuff as "No Harmon-y this year," "de-Harmonized," etc., . . . best of the decorations, however, was that gracing one fraternity which had gigantic likenesses of Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Superman . . . "What the hell does this have to do with Homecoming?", the caption wanted to know. Illinois' horseshoe Memorial Stadium filled slowly before game time . . . a bitter wind whipping across the stands held down the crowd, which hit only 30,000 despite all the celebration, and the fact it was the Illini's biggest home game of the season . . . the field was a little soggy before the game began, indicating that Zuppke hadn't bothered to have it covered by a tarpaulin. NATIONAL DEFENSE received a plug when four cannons boomed a 21-gun salute to Illinois' Gov. Dwight Green, who showed up to dedicate the new colonial-style University Union . . . Illinois' band was magnificent a regular 175 piece outfit was supplemented by the second marching band of 125 men . . it was the only collegiate band I ever saw that equals Michi- gan's crack organization. Last year when the Illini invaded Michigan for the game, they were keyed to stop Harmon . . . and Westfall ran wild through the middle . . Saturday the Zuppkemen had their attention focused on Westy . . . and Ceithaml, who field generaled a fine game, drove them deep into their own territory with Kuzma around end repeatedly . . . then when the Orange and Blue defense spread, Westy started blasting . . . and it was all over . . Paul White played great ball, too, as did every other member of the team . . in the line Pregulman and Kelto especially caught attention in the press box. The Illinois backs were fine, also . . . behind any other line, they would really go places . . . Don Griffin is a hard-driving sophomore who turned in a great performance, while Jimmy Smith and Liz Astroth were very adequate . . . Illinois' line, however, was helpless before the powerful Wolverine forwards, who moved them almost at will . . . White played 60 minutes, although he was removed from the game three times . . . when Davie Nelson came in to hold the ball for Bill Melzow's placements, Paul trotted to the sidelines, returning for the kickoff --- time was out for placements. THEN AFTER THE GAME a short wait for Ufer who was spotting for Bob Elson of WGN, Chicago, and back to a fraternity house to write my story . . . every five minutes some fellow would duck into the room and offer a beer . . . every ten minutes I would refuse . . . then finally to Western Union to file and to the service garage to ransom back the car "Thanks, Mr. Harmon," the mechanic declared.u And off we went in a cloud of oil . . . tried without success in Kanka- kee, Ill., to call up last year's track captain, Don Canham, who coaches there in the local high school now . . . no further interruptions of consequence until we decided to detour over to Calumet City, Ill., Reno of the Midwest . . . this peaceful little hamlet nestling 'among the steel mills of the Chicago, Gary area gained nation-wide publicity with a spread last year in a picture magazine . . ratio of bars and night clubs to families is one to one . . the main street is a continuous display of brilliant neon lights . inside the floor 'shows out-burlesque burlesque. The other three fellows, however, are athletes and thus good little boys . . I was on an expense account and thus a good little boy . . . after three riotous hours of being good little boys we moved on back to Ann Arbor . . drove all night and arrived in Ann Arbor Sunday morn- ing in a downpour. Varsity Squad Ironmen scoff At Old-Tiners By MYRON DANN Old timers have been complaining I for years now, "That they just ain't makin' 60-minute, football players any more." And with the advent of the un- limited substitution rule this year the younger grandstand coaches jumped on the bandwagon along wtih the greybeards by saying, "Fans won't see sensational backs like we had last year play the whole game because the coaches will want to rest them every chance they get." . But Fritz Crisler, and the 1941 Wolverine football team have appar- ently knocked this theory as high as the proverbial kite. Not only have some of this year's Varsity played as much as Michigan's Tom Harmon (Wolverine "iron man" of last year) but they are in an excellent position to break his record. Harmon Led Last Year Last year Harmon played a total of 433 minutes for an average of 54 minutes per game. Tom was followed closely for "strong man honors" by Ed Frutig who played about 53 min- utes per game or 423 minutes for the whole season.I These figures don't seem quite so impressive because of the presence of one George Ceithaml in today's Wolverine backfield. In the 'six games Ceithaml has appeared in so far this season he has played an av- erage of 56.5 minutes per garhe for a total of 339 minutes. Forest Eva- shevski, last season's signal caller, played an average of 13 minutes less in each game than has Ceithaml so far this season. 180 Cohsecutive Minutes The Wolverine quarterback is bound to play more than 94 minutes in Michigan's games against Colum- bia and Ohio State so breaking Har- mon's record of 433 minutes should be an easy task. In the last three games Ceithaml has played 180 con- secutive minutes. . Al Wistert, burly Michigan tackle, was leading his team in this depart- ment up to last Saturday but when he was put out of the Illinois game he lost 12 minutes and fell behind Ceithaml. Wistert's 330 minutes in six games gives him an average of 55 minutes per game which also bet- ters Harmon's record. Yost Comments When Fielding H. Yost was asked how the players of today compared to the immortals of yesteryear he said, "The boys this year are seeing just as much action as the fellows did way back in 1905. My boys played about nine tenths of the game and I guess they're doing the same today." Tom Kuzma, who is supposed to be Harmon's successor, still has a lot of playing time to make up to approach his. predecessor's mark. Kuzma is averaging about 40 minutes a game which may not be close to Harmon's senior year record but is far better tan the "Ace's" playing time during his sophomore season. In r ie s 5 F1u 011 By BUD HENDEL formation employed so successfully Ed Frutig, great pass-snagging end by the Bear under the tutelage of Minnesota Tops Wildcats of last year's Wolverine gridiron ma- owner-coach'George Halas. . chine, dropped in on Ann Arbor town Frutig said that the Packer meth-I But Drops To Second,-' for a surprise visit yesterday and while od merely consisted of beating the Navy Climbs To Sixth here gave his interpretation of how Bears to the punch in charging ere avehis ntepreatio ofhowacross the scrimmage line, and burst- the Green Bay Packers beat the ing in on the Chicago backfield be- NEW YORK, Nov. 3-UP-The highly touted Chicago Bears in their fore Sid Luckman and Co. were set. University of Texas football team, professional pigskin clash last Sun- Cause Chicago Fumbles which got into high gear for the day. And the reason that this system opening game of its season and hasn't The lormer Maize and Blue star worked so well against the vaunted been throttled down since, todayhh Bears can be traced to the fact the rolled into first place in the Associa- is wearing the colors of the Packers T formation involves a wide spread these days, so is well informed as to! backfield and a lot of quick behind Michigan Slips To Eighth Spot Ed Frutig, Ex-Wolverine Star, Relates Views On Bear Upset: ted Press football ranking poll. In Front By 37 Points The scoring machine which Coach Dana Bible has perfected in the fifth year of his five-year plan ran a close second to Minnesota the first l two weeks of the poll. A week ago the Longhorns moved up on even terms, and in this fourth weekly rank- ing went out in front by 37 points. Of the 121 football experts throughout the country who took part in the voting, 73 made the Tex- ans first choice, and one other split his ballot between Texas and Minne- sota. Longhorns Hit Peak Texas hit probably its peak of the year against Southern Methodist Sat- urday, when Bible's boys won 34-0. That gave them a total of 230 points for six games, an average of a frac- tion over 38 per game. On defense they are nobody's pushover, either, for they have allowed only 27 points while beating Colorado, Louisiana State, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Rice and S.M.U. Minnesota slipped from the top af- ter scoring what was perhaps the Gophers' most creditable victory-an 8-7 conquest of Northwestern. The next three places in the week's tabulation went to holdovers from a week ago--Fordham, Duke, and Tex- as A. and M. Penn and Vanderbilt Dropped out of the first ten and almost out of sight because of their first losses were Penn and Vander- bilt. Navy moved up from 11th place to sixth on its well-won victory over Penn. Michigan moved down from sev- enth to eighth and Northwestern from ninth to 10th, while Stanford climbed into the select group in ninth position. Urbanek Sets New Mark In PentathlonCompetition Scoring 4,342 points in five events, Robert Urbanek took top honors in the fall pentathlon competition of the Michigan varsity track squad andbbroke the 1940 record of 4,238 set by Al Thomas, football and track star. Trailing Urbanek were Dave Mat- thews, Bob Segtla and Bob Tillson, all of whom topped the old record. Urbanek chinner the bar 31 times; did 45 pushups; tossed a 12-pound shot 37 feet, eight inches; standing broadjumped nine feet,' three inches; and ran 660 yards in 1:32.8. Michigan Has I Open Weekend the mechanics of football which tum- bled the Bears from the lofty pin- nacle of pigskin supremacy. -Packers Stop T Formation According to Frutig, the Green Bay aggregation was just too much for the Windy City boys, although the Chicago outfit is supposedly the best in the nation. And the big reason that thensmall Wisconsin town's rep- resentative in the gridiron wars was able to accomplish the seemingly im- possible was that Curly Lambeau, the Green Bay coach, doped out a simple method of stopping the famous T Intramural Results *** What was probably the weirdest, most thrill-packed speedball game of the year was played yesterday when Chi Phi downed Theta Delta Chi, 6-5, in two overtime periods. Indicative of the play was Clarke Egeler's great catch for the losers with two seconds left to play which sent the game into overtime. But the slightly more aggressive Chi Phi's were not to be denied and matched this feat when with one sec- ond left to play in the second over- time, as street lights pierced the darkness, Bill Schust booted home the winning point. For the winners Ralph Gibert was a tower on offense while Jack Flagler played a standout game for the losers. The loss eliminated the Theta Delts in the championship race. Inathe other game of the day, pow- erful Delta Tau Delta beat Theta Xi, 5-1, in a closer struggle than the score would indicate. Gordon Spoon- er, Dean Thomas, and Bud Chamber- lain led the Delt attack while Theta Xi's Ray Gauthier continued the fine play he has shown all year. M CLUB NOTICE All "M" Club members please contact Gus Sharemet immediate- ly. He has tickets to be distributed for sale to the annual dance Saturday night at the League. -- Gerry Schaf lander the line passing. With the Packers inl on top of the Chicago backs, they hadj little time to accomplish theirman- euvers which resulted in an apnor- mally large number of fumbles. The success of the Green Bay lads can be seen in that the high-geared Chi- cago juggernaut was held to a net gain of 31 yards on running plays during the first half. Feiver Plays In Pro Ball The popular ex-Wolverine de- bunked a commonrbelief that pro teams employ a greater number of plays than the college outfits. In fact, Ed claimed that the Packers use fewer offensive maneuvers than the Michigan teams on which he played. When speaking about Don Hutson, the National League star flanker, Fru- tig was all superlatives. Hutson, in Ed's opinion, is the fastest, man on the Packer squad and when he runs downfield for a pass there is not a secondary man in the league who can stop him. That's Don Hutson, the man Ed Frutig has to beat out for a starting post. NTolverines Rest Yesterday After Illinois Clash Except for a group of promising frosh yearlings on the south side, Ferry Field was comparatively quiet yesterday as varsity coaches and players alike took advantage of an open week in thesschedule. The schedule makers were very kind in giving the Wolverines an open 'date, for they have just come through a tough six-game starter. But thus far -Michigan has been very fortunate. With the exception of some minor bruises and a couple of sprained ankles, once-beaten Michigan is still raring to go. 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