FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1942 TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TiHREE . ... s. a .... .a y Victory-Minded Wolverine Team Arrives- In Minneapolis i? (;ti -_ Statistics Show Maize And Blue WillMiss Power Of Bob Wiese E .1 By BOB SHOPOFF Michigan will enter tomorrow's tangle without one of its most potent backs when Bob Wiese is forced to watch the battle with Minnesota from the sidelines. Just how much the Wol- verines have depended on the husky sophomore in the first four games this season can plainly be seen by one glance at the -statistics covering those four tussles. Big Bob has been romping wild over the opponent's line this year with his line bucks and spinner plays. At this stage of the season Wiese leads the rest of Coach Fritz Crisler's ele- ven in the number of times he has carried the ball on rushing plays and also he has piled up the most yards rushing. The youngster from North Dakota has handled the ball 57 times to gain a total of 174 yards. It gives him an average of three yards gained every time he took a crack at the forward wall. Besides doing a major share of Michigan ground offensive, Wiese has had to add punting to his chores. The Wolverines have punted 20 times dur- ing the grid season, and Bob has han- dled 15 of these. Cliff Wise and Don Lund took over when Wiese was gut of the lineup. Bob has built up an average of 35.3 yards per punt with his kicking improving as each game passed. Paul White, who raced through Northwestern's team for two touch- downs last week, has the best rushing average on the squad. The "Whizzer" has picked up an average of 4.7 yards for 32 attempts. Crisler will probably count a great deal on Paul to supply some of the power which is lost by the injury of Wiese. Don Robinson and Bob Chappuis lead in the aerial department. Robby, lightweight halfback, has completed eight out of 18 attempted passes for a .445 percentage while Chappuis' passes have gained the most yardage -107. And believe it or not, Capt. George Ceithaml tops everybody in catching passes. Cy has grabbed eight while Elmer Madar follows with seven. Varsity Given Edge In Battle WithGophers Pre-Gagne Morale Highest Of Season; Minnesota Also Primed For Tilt The victory hungry Wolverine grid- ders-33 strong-pulled into Minne- apolis today, the object of their trip a battered old water jug. That may seem a long way to go for such a prize, and the efforts they'll put forth in the Minnesota Stad- ium tomorrow afternoon may seem mighty strenuous for the same. But let's explain why all the furor. Back in 1903 when Fielding Yost was newly installed in the coach's seat here and Willie Heston was mak- ing his name as the first of the Wol- verine gridiron immortals, the foot- ball team took a trip up to Minnesota to play the Gophers, a second rate team in those days. Hoping to keep his boys in the best physical and men- tal condition possible for the tilt, Yost carried along a brown jug of good Ann Arbor water. Michigan won the game, but before the team got out of Minneapolis some rabid and embit- tered Gopher rooter had spirited the Jug away. iECHCOMBR By BUD IENDEL Daily SportsEditor * * * * NOTICE Sophomores and second-s ter freshmen are invited to ti for basketball' managers' Basketball managers are au numerals and "M's". Those ested should report to praci Monday, Wednesday or Th evening at 7:15. Senior MA Fred Gips TC NRG semes- try out jobs. warded inter- tice on ursday Gophers, Look At This Power SHE IS YOURS >/ teau li/ut "Seven op ite a ding Seas Girl in a 11"x17" color portrait as pictured in the Octob issue of Esquire Magazine. Just come in and ask f your "SEVEN SEAS GIRL." Limited supply - come in today. mEflZTOGGER% 521 East Liberty Michigan Theatre Buildin A ,}iureOu What oufla'e ... THEN BUY THE BEST~ v Grp ,. . anager Part Of Tradition on Michigan didn't play Minnesota again till 1910, but by that time the ______story of the jug had gotten around until it became a sortgof tradition. From that time on the Little Brown Jug was considered the victory trophy for all Gopher-Wolverine games. For eight straight years the Wol- verines have taken it on the chin from the Gophers. But now, the emotional pitch built up in the Michigan play- ers is probably more intense than it has been in recent years. Minnesota has plenty to get excited about too. er Twice defeated after a three year record of no losses, and with the or prospect of one of their last vestiges of gridiron supremacy standing a good chance of being snatched away, George Hauser's husky lads will be in their top form of the season when they take the field tomorrow. Gophers Boast Of Stars Hauser has several men to be feared on his squad, men like Capt. Dick Wildung, All-American tackle last ig year, quarterback Bill Garnaas, Herm Frickey, the hard driving junior half- back who scored the Gopher touch- down that beat Michigan last year, and Bill Daley, the fullback who had a fine time battering the Wolverines last year for the better part of the game. Hauser has plenty of reserve material on hand too, probably hold- ing the edge over Michigan in that department. Crislernsent his charges through light limbering up drills before train time yesterday afternoon, and for the most part the Ann Arbor Gopher- hunters looked in excellent shape and good spirits for the trip. Bob Wiese, the injured fullback, will make the trip with the rest of the squad but it is unlikely that his sprained ankle will permit him to see any action. Don Lund, sophomore reserve full- back from Detroit, seems to have first call as the starting line-plunger. With Michigan roaring for a sound thumping of their ancient rivals, and with Minnesota battling desperately to pull their fast degenerating season out of the mire, the game should be a natural. As one Wolverine player put it, "I hope we can get a touchdown for each of those eight sad years." Service Tilt Moved WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-()-The Army-Navy football game, one of the annual classics of American sport, was shifted by President Roosevelt today from Philadelphia to Annapo- lis,'Md. The game, which usually draws up- ward of 100,000 spectators to Phila- delphia's Municipal Stadium late in November, was moved to the grounds of the United States Naval Academy because of war conditions-and only residents of Annapolis will be per- mitted to attend. White House officials said this was done to save gasoline and tires and other transportation facilities. Bucks Ready For 'Cats COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 22.- (A)- Coach Paul Brown put his undefeated, untied Ohio State gridmen through a "polishing up" workout against Northwestern formations today and said 36 players would entrain for the game at Evanston, Ill., Saturday. IF YOU BELIEVE in superstition, then you better place a bet on Minnesota in tomorrow's Wolverine- Gopher clash. For Michigan won't have the bene- fit of a Friday good-luck lunch which has become a part and parcel of every Wolverine game this season. Every Friday, at the stroke of noon, four large, athletic-looking men enter a downtown restaurant. They march to a table off by itself in a corner, pull out four chairs and sit down for an hour of strategy talk and four often-neglected meals. They're the members of Michigan's coaching staff, Fritz Crisler, Big- gie Munn, Earl Martineau and Ben- nie Oosterbaan, and until today they were as regular as Ann Arbor, sunshine, once a week, in this pop- ular downtown eatery. They always take the same table, and they always sit at the same chairs at that table. But today, the table and chairs will be vacant. The Wol- verine coaches will be in Minneapolis when the noon whistle blows, and superstition will have to be forgotten. IT'S A FUNNY THING, and it seems strange after seeing it the other way for so many years, but Michigan is a definite favorite for the victory wreath tomorrow. It's the first time in too many years that the Wolver- ines will have entered the annual classic as the pre-game choice, but don't let that favorite business fool you. Three times in the last four years Michigan has been the underdog, and three times it has outplayed, outgamed and outfought the Golden Gophers, but it couldn't outscore them. Tomorrow, the Wolverines will be the betting entry, and they too many be outplayed, outgamed and outfought. But that is ques- tionable, and the main considera- tion comes in the scoring depart- ment anyway. Games are still won by the larger point total, as Minne- sota has so convincingly proved these past eight years, and Michi- gan is favored on that account only. BUT IF ANY TEAM in the nation is equipped to upset the dope, Min- nesota is the team. Even the writers in their own city have sold the Go- phers short and have established the Wolverines as the favorite. If the Norsemen read the papers and believe everything they see there, then Mich- igan will win without any trouble. But the Norsemen are very doubting lads, and they don't believe half of what they read in the papers, which means that Michigan will have its hands full of the roaring Golden Ava- lanche. In their locker room, the Gophers have plastered huge signs bearing the terrifying inscription, "Kill the Wolves". In their practice sessions, they have worked almost solely on their untested passing attack, and only because Michigan has showed itself a weak team in the department of aerial defense. The Gophers, to tell the truth, think themselves a' better football aggregation than the Wolverines, and they don't relish the underdog role that has been assigned them. If you'll remember, Minnesota came within a scant yard of whip- ping the Iowa Seahawks, the only team to boast of a victory over Michigan. Minnesota had the ball on the Seahawk one yard line, first and goal to go, when Bill Daley, who had carried it there for the Gophers, fumbled. That was the old ball game, 7-6, and a heartbroken Minnesota team didn't recover in time to stave off a rushing gang of Illinois gridders the next week. But it's ready now, which can only mean trouble for Michigan. On the season record, in games won and lost, Michigan should be favored. But when the little things are taken into consideration, it would be far safer to call it a toss-up. The Gophers are just as determined to keep that Little Brown Jug as the Wolverines are to win it back, and it boils down to a ferocious contest between two evenly-matched squads. MICHIGAN will depend on its stur- dy line, the "Seven Oak Posts", to hurl back the vaunted Gopher run- ning attack. It will count on its bril- liant backfield to riddle the Minne- sota defense with deception and speed. The Gophers will stake their all on wave after wave of power, and possibly a new aerial offensive. They'll toss their own great line, dot- ted with great and near-great players, against the rock-ribbed Wolverine forward wall. And they'll match Michigan in courage, for there has never been a Minnesota team which is lacking in that vital requisite. So there it is. The Wolverine is favored to feast on Gopher meat, and the Gopher refuses to believe it. Which leaves the issue squarely up to the Wolverine. Tomorrow he gets his chance to convince the Gopher, and there's only on con- vincer he can use-better football. Clemson Wins, 18-6 COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 22.-(P)- Clemson College's Tigers defeated South Carolina's Gamecocks 18-6 to- day by breaking a first half deadlock with third and fourth period touch- downs. An alert Clemson team nullified a second period South Carolina lead set up by Ken Roskie's scoring smash from the two, when Red Stacey a few minutes later stepped over from the seven with Marion Butler's pass. The Tigers stepped up their passing attack in the third and took a 12-6 lead, and Butler clinched the victory with a 54-yard touchdown jaunt as the final period opened. SCULPTURED HAIR Styles are new - different - suave - shaped - blended - The Natural Way. Try one! 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