THURSDTAY, OCT 2, 1942 THE MICHIGAN .DAILY FAGE. ThR1EC Varsity Leaves For Minnesota Today In New Quest For Little Brown Jug ENVCHCOMDEB "Little Brown Jug how we'd love to have you." That's a variation from the old jingle, but as far as any loyal Michi- gan gridiron fan is concerned it's much closer to the truth. For the past eight years, Wolverine football squads have been thirsting for a husky vic- tory swig from the historic piece of crockery, but in vain have they hoped and tried, because for eight years, the glittering Gophers have proved just too tough or too tricky or too what- ever it is that enables one team to build up a jinx over another. This year, however, Michigan stands in better position to capture the Jug than in any of the past eight seasons. Reasons are obvious to any close follower of the two clubs, but let's take time to enumerate a few. 1. On the basis of their perfor- mance in the past four games, Michi- gan's first string line is probably the best forward wall aggregation in the country, and that includes better than Minnesota's. Backfield Strong 2. Michigan has also one of the finest, if not the finest running and passing attacks shown this season, and a galaxy of backfield reserves and regulars who have. proved they can score against any major team you want to throw up against them. , 3. And according to many observ- ers, the most important point, Minne- sota no longer has Bernie Bierman at the gridiron helm. This doesn't mean to cast aspersions on the ability of the present Gopher mentor, Dr. George Hauser, former line coach, but there are few coaches like Bierman in the football world, and fewer still are the equally capable men to re- place them. All we need say to sup- port this point is look at the Gopher record this year which sports losses to the Iowa Cadets and Illinois. 33' To Make Trip Thirty-three Michigan gridders will leave Ann Arbor tomorrow morning for parts North in quest of Gopher pelts, and it won't be just an ordi- nary hunting trip. The Wolverines will be seeking revenge, cold revenge for those humiliating eight straight losses and revenge for the times in which it was just that perennial lone loss to the Gophers which knocked them out of the Big Ten title race. Those players making the trip are: Ends-Phil Sharpe, Rudy Smeja, Elmer Madar, Chuck Kennedy, Cliff Myll; Tackles-Al Wistert, Bill Pri- tula, Bill Baldwin, Jack Karwales, Vince Secontine, Bob Derleth; Guards -Bob Kolesar, Julius Franks, Walt Freihofer, Ralph Amstutz, Angelo Trogan; Centers-Mervin Pregulman, THE ATHLETIC PUBLICITY De- partment at Minnesota is some- what nettled. Fred Delano, Michigan Athletic Publicity Director, blew into Minneapolis the other day, but before he arrived he sent a terse wire to Tom Steward, the Gopher Public Relations boss, and this little announcement has caused annoyance, irritation and a lot of talk in the camp of the Norse- men. Wired Delano: "Will be in town tomorrow and plan to hold a press conference with the idea of explain- ing, in advance, just what we're going' to do to you Saturday." The mighty Gophers were taken aback by this show of confidence on the part of Delano, representing, as he does, a team which hasn't managed to come out first against Minnesota in nine years. Publicitor Steward didn't say whether or not Delano signed "regards" or "no re- gards", but he did say that he didn't see any reason for Minnesota's{ victory streak over the Wolverines to stop at eight straight. ON PAPER this tilt stacks upas the top game of the week, even bigger than the Illinois-Notre Dame strug- gle. The reason is clear and simple. The Michigan-Minnesota rivalry is too strong, too colorful to be shoved into the background by any other gridiron fray. Every year it is a game Jim Brieske, Phil Mooney; Quarter- backs-George Ceithaml, Bob Vernier, George Kiesel; Halfbacks-Tom Kuz- ma, Don Robinson, Bob Chappuis, Frank Wardley, Paul White, Cliff Wise, Warren Yaap; Fullbacks-Bob Wiese, Don Lund, Don Boor, Bob Stenberg. ... ~r By BUD HENDEL Daily Sports Editor * * * * -I. of national importance, and every year it matches two teams of prac- tically equal strength with spirit and a nearly ferocious will to win. Over the span of the last four years, no two teams in the nation could be rated above the Wolverines and Gophers. And over that period the Gophers hold slight edge on the Wolverines because they have won this important yearly battle, and they weren't always favored. On the season record, Michigan should finally accomplish its aim this Saturday. The Maize and Blue, with its great roster of backfield stars and its sturdy line of the "Seven Oak Posts", should break the Minnesota jinx with a hard, decisive victory. But football games are not won on past records. The Gophers have just broken even in four contests this season, losing to the Iowa Sea- hawks and to the surprising band from Illinois. But in neither game was the outcome without question until the final moments. A break in another direction in, both defeats would have kept the Gopher string of victories alive. And don't forget that Minnesota hasn't been at .full strength since its season, opener with Pitt. Last week, three of the first team backfield sat on the bench while their teammates rolled over Nebraska. The three were Bill Daley, Herm Frickey, and Bill Gar- naas, and all three will be ready for the Wolverines Saturday. NEVERTHELESS, Michigan is primed for this game. It's the high point of the Wolverine campaign, and a victory over the Gophers will come as the feast after the famine. New plays have been introduced to the Michigan attack, and the old ones have been given a thorough polishing. From Coach Fritz Crisler down, this is the game of the year. Statistically speaking, the two foes are on an even par. Michigan get9 the nod in the matter of defense, and the Gophers have an advantage in the offense department, according to the latest figures. All these figures can be tossed to the wind Saturday. This is Michigan's greatest chance to win possession of the Little Brown Jug, which has come to be emblematic of Midwestern gridiron supremacy, and only better football on the field of Minneapolis' Memorial Stadium, not a group of jumbled numbers, will turn the trick. 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