T u er,15,194THE MICHIGAN DAILY F.AGE THREE Statistics Reveal Success Of PEM Conditioning Program --=- .-. _ {, L Touch Football Starts Monday I-M Department To Have Full Year Plus PEM Planning on a full year's calendar despite the new PEM program, the Intramural Department will official- ly open its season's 5 activities next Monday with three touch football games in the Residence Hall league. In the games, which begin at 4:15, Fletcher Hall, last year's all-around dormitory champs, will tangle with Tyler House; Greene House will meet up with Prescott House, and Hinsdale will try to stop the ROTC boys from the Barracks. Other games will be scheduled for later dates. The fraternity speedball and inde- pendent touch football seasons will also open within two weeks. Team en- tries in these leagues are now being taken at the office in the Intramural Building. The only event cancelled this year by the Intramural Department was the fall all-campus tennis tourna- ment. Because the Intramural Build- ing gym is in constant use by PEM activities, not enough courts are avail- able for tennis. All the other events usually sponsored will be run off as usual, barring unforeseen complica- tions. V .ihe EENCHCOMBER By BUD HENDEL T Daily Sports Editor * * * , ONLY METHUSALEH could re- member when the Western Con- ference football teams were more evenly bunched or better balanced than they are today. That the Con- ference is once again the leading sec- tor of the nation insofar as gridiron talent is concerned goes without say- ing, as witness the latest national rankings, wherein three Conference crews were placed in the first ten with Ohio State being ranked number one team from coast to coast. Never before has the Big Ten talent been so plentiful and so widespread. Usually Minnesota dominates the en- tire scene, with Michigan pressing hard followed by Ohio State and Northwestern. And usually, except for Michigan and Minnesota, there were no Conference teams who rank among the select group of the na- tion's ten best. Yet this year a marked change is noticeable. Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, North- -. Y,.. .. Stitt :4 :<:K :':%i;r";; 'fr 'my _ 3 Yhat to aIIfor for all! HE best-looking shirts for fall are our new Arrow shirts. You'll fall head over Cheels for 'em. In addition to being handsomely designed, in good- looking colors, they've got the latest Arrow Collars,. the neat "Mitoga" figure- fit and the Sanforized label - your guarantee of less than 1% fabric shrink- r age! Come and see our :,/ Arrow selection today. $2.25. Harmonizing Ar- row Ties, $1, up. 1 t Y k/' western and Iowa have all shown that they are dangerous, that they are capable of hard, heads-up foot- ball. The title fight isn't just be- tween Michigan and the Gophers from Minneapolis. Not one team can be discounted, and any Con- ference aggregation that comes through the season without a de- feat in Conference competition can rightfully set up a loud claim to the national collegiate title. North- western, Minnesota and Indiana have all suffered losses at the hands of Conference rivals, but not without a tough battle in games so close that a break in their favors couldn't have changed the out- comes. LL OF WHICH brings us to Satur- day's clash between Michigan and Northwestern. Michigan lost to the Iowa Seahawks last week by the score of 26-14: Northwestern fell be- fore the same Seahawks by the count of 20-12. Comparative scores mean little, if anything, yet the Wildcats couldn't have been a slow-moving outfit to hold the Cadets to an eight point victory. Coach Lynn Waldorf's charges have lost to both the Sea- hawks and Purdue, but they also beat Texas, the pre-season choice for the outstanding team of the year. In Otto Graham, the swift, swivel- hipped halfback from Waukegan, the Wildcats have a daring runner, a supreme passer and a better than good punter. He's a coach's dream all rolled up in one man, and he'll give Michigan a busy afternoon. But Graham won't be the only outstanding halfback on the field Saturday afternoon. The Maize and Blue has its ace ready for ac- tion, and it's fast action that he can give. Tom Kuzma is ready to go, and the tricky Wolverine attack which was built around him will go with him. He hasn't played a minute this sea- son, due to a knee injury incurred two days before the openinggame with Great Lakes, and he'll be out to make up for lost time. As a sopho- more he was nothing less than sen- sational, and before he was injured this fall he looked better than ever. Tom Kuzma will start Saturday, and Michigan will be at full strength for the first time this season. NORTHWESTERN will be mad, plain downright mad, when they come to Ann Arbor. The boys from Evanston are still smarting from that Purdue defeat, and they'll be deter- mined to take it out at Michigan's expense. And they've waited a year to pay back last year's Michigan vic- tory. The Wolverines, on the other hand, will he slightly tired from the Seahawk affair. Minnesota lost to the Seahawks, and then was so sap- ped of its strength last week that they fell before the plucky band from Illinois. The Wolverines are favored for this one, however, and rightly so. They still have the one essential thing that a great foot- ball team needs, and that's fight. And until. it's proved differently, Michigan must be rated as a great college team. In any case, that bag of wind, more commonly known as the pigskin, is in for a considerable amount of agitation during this Saturday's homecoming party. r i ti ) S S+ S1, Y~t a Pert hirts with ~ipe 6tripes Arrow's new fall shirts (of which we have recently got- ten a goodly supply) are our choice for the handsomest of the season. We won't tell you about them here; so you t gotta come in and see them. Students Make Improvements In Every Test Four Thousand Men Are Enrolled In Fall Course Of PhysicalConditioning By HARVEY FRANK A summer of groaning and sweat- ing through the University of Michi- gan's physical hardening program produced an average over-all gain of 20 per cent in the ability and endur- ance of 1141 male students, according to an analytical report by Dr. Byron C. Hughes of the School of Education. According to the report, released yesterday, the average age of the 1141 students was 21.6 years. The youngest was 17, the oldest 34, with 91 per cent between 19 and 25. Tests given both at the beginning and the end of the course included trials in the 60-yard dash, the 440- yard run, the broad jump, vertical jump, the gripping power of both hands, pull-ups, and push-ups. Gains In All Events There was an average improvement of 26 per cent in the 440-yard dash, 34 per cent in the push-ups and pull- ups, two per cent in the 60-yard dash, 19 per cent in the vertical jump, and one per cent for the standing broad jump. In the right hand grip the av- erage improvement was 21 per cent; and for the left grip, 20 per cent. Individual figures provide examples of the improvement made. At the be- ginning of the program the greatest number of pull-ups for one person was 24. This had been jumped to 48 for the best record 16 weeks later. On push-ups the number was raised from 48 to 84. In track events the slowest time for the 440 at the first of the summer was two minutes and 10 seconds; at the end it was cut to one minute and 37 seconds. At the beginning of the semester 20 per cent of the students couldn't pass the swimming test requiring Educated Toe.. .. Want a good $64 question for your parlor games: How about, "Who's Michigan's leading scorer this season?" Nope, it's not Don Robinson, Bob Wiese or Paul White. Smiling Jim Brieske of Harbor Beach, Mich., holds thedistinc- tion. He's the Wolverine place- kick specialist and in three games has booted a field goal and four extra points for a seven-point total. Michigan's six touchdowns this season have been compiled by six different individuals. Bob Wiese, Elmer Madar, Paul White, Don Robinson, Frank Wardley and Warren Yaap. them to remain afloat five minutes an swim 100 yards while doing so. At the end of the semester there wasn't a non-swimmer in the entire group. The tests revealed that every stu- dent had benefited by the course, in- stead of a mere few, in most athletics. Also, in comparing ROTC students who were on a three hour a week basis, and the students who worked out four and one-half hours a week, it was discovered that the ROTC stu- dents improved only 69 per cent as much as the others. Students Favor Program Among other things, the survey shows that a favorable attitude to- ward the course by the students is a prime requisite. During the summer semester there were never less than 70 per cent of the students in favor of the program. Another point clearly illustrated is that the average Uni- versity male, left to his own devices, cannot keep himself in good physical condition. This fall more than 4000 Michigan men are enrolled in "Muscles 31" which has been made compulsory for undergraduate and graduate stu- dents. Governali Tops Nation's Backs CHICAGO, Oct. 14.- (A)- Colum- bia's Paul Governali is long on pass- ing and short on rushing-but he doesn't have to worry about his ground game. The crinkly-haired Li- ons star has been throwing a football virtually as far as anyone else propels it by running and passing combined. The American Football Statistical Bureau reported today that Governali had gained 74 yards by rushing and 603 by passing in three games for a total advance of 677 yards-by far the best offensive showing in the na- tion. In fact only two players have sur- passed Governali's passing yardage thvoah their 11i5hine and eial e21 f- If all eyes are glued on two players when Michigan meets Northwestern next week-end it's a ten-to-one bet that they will be on two of the best sophomore backs in the nation last year-the Wolverines' Tom Kuzma and Northwestern's Otto Graham. For Kuzma, injured the last day of practice before the Great Lakes game this fall, it will be his first action of the season and he will certainly have plenty of opportunity to continue his personal feud, started in last year's game, with Graham. In that game, one of the hardest fought of the year, Michigan barely edged out the Wildcats, 14-7, with Kuzma and Graham featuring in all three touchdowns. Otto Sparks' NU Attack It was Graham who almost single- handedly in the second period passed and ran the Wildcats from the Wol- verine 37 yard line into scoring posi- tion on the two and then plunged over on fourth down for the lone Wildcat score. That Graham's efforts weren't confined to this one spree is attested to by his better than six yard per try rushing average for the whole afternoon. Kuzma, however, went Graham one better by firing a touchdown pass to Whitey Fraumann in the first period and then, after Graham had tied the score with his touchdown plunge, by heaving a twenty-three yard pass, good for an overall gain of 47 yards and a touchdown, to end Joe Rogers. To top these off Tom got slightly the better of the statistics in his duel with Graham. Michigan Favored This year, however, the story may be different. The Wildcats are rated as the underdogs and as an added in- centive they have that Michigan jinx which has stopped them for the last three years to shoot at. With Graham now a full-time player and with two fine ends in Bob Motl and Bud. Hasse for him to fire his passes at, he might very well be able to score the winning points which have eluded the Wild- cats for so long. Kuzma will spot his rival the ex- perience of three games when he fin- ally trots out on the field Saturday Goebel Brewing and whether he will be at his best in events nereafter. Stuaents may and heter e wll b athisbes in obtain their cards by calling for his first start remains to be seen. This them at the Dean of Students Of- will depend upon a nber of factors fice, Room 4, University Hall, be- not the least of which is the question ginning today. of whether his knee is as yet as good Students who are entitled to the as new. $2.75 refund for the Great Lakes Testing Kuzma and his teammates Naval Training Station game on yesterday was a stiff defensive drill Sept. 26 may call for the refund against Northwestern plays. 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