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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942
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'Every Man On Campus'
Is Slogan Of Physical
Education Department
Doherty To Head
Instructors Group
By BART JENKS
'Every man on campus' is the new)
slogan of the Physical Education
Dept. with the recent adoption of a
new ruling requiring all male stu-
dents to enroll in PEM as a prerequi-
site for graduation.
Thus the physical conditioning
program which last summer had an
enrollment of 1800 men registered
under the Selective Service Act of
1940 has been expanded to include an
expected male enrollment of nearly
6,000.
No Exemptions
Like last semester's program, at-
tendance will be required three times
a week for periods of one and one
half hours with no exemtions but
those students out for varsity and
freshman sports. All freshmen must
register for PEM before going out for
any sport.
That the results of this summer's
work in PEM were satisfactory are
shown in statistics compiled from
comparisons of tests given at the be-
ginning and the end of the course.
For example, the average improve-
ment in the number of pushups was
32%, in chinnings 38%, and time on
the 440 yd. run, 26%. There were even
small improvements in the time for
the 60 yd. dash (7.1%), in the verti-
cal jump (6.3%), and in the strength.
of grip, (3%).
Comparative Times
One of the most striking examples
of what PEM did this summer is
shown in the comparative times of a
group of 50 who were tested in the
mile at the beginning of the term and
those of all PEM students for the mile
plus the tough obstacle course at the
end of the term. Incredible as it
seems, the latter group cut an aver-
age of one minute and 30 seconds
from the average time of the first
group, despite the added obstacle.
Further research showed that thos&
students rated as slender at the be-
ginning of the term gained an aver-
age of 2% pounds during the term
and that those in the heavy group
lost 5% pounds.
PEM Grads O. K. For Army
The results on the tests indicated
that on the whle the University
compared favorably with other uni-
versities in the country and that the
objective of the program, toughening
men for the hard Army life, was
achieved. If any graduate of the PEM
course just concluded were to go into
the Army now he would find himself
far ahead of the average man enter-
ing the Army. The importance of this
is easily seen if one considers that
these college graduates are the best
officer material in the Army and con-
sequently must be physically strong
enough to lead their men in the field.
A program similar to that of this
summer is being drafted for the com-
ing semester by a committee com-
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Bruising Blocker Will Lead Wolverines
MERV PREGULMAN
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For two years the Wolverines' dependable signal-chIler, deadly
blocker and sturdy line-backer, big George Ceithaml will climax his
football career this fall by leading Michigan's gridiron warriors in the
toughest schedule in their history. Ceithaml was a 60-minute man last
season and Coach Fritz Crisler is banking on him to play a main role
in the Maize and Blue destinies again this year.
Criser Stresses Conditioning
As Aim Of Wartime Athletics
The University of Michigan is conducting its athletic and physical
training programs this year entirely in the interests of our nation's war
effort. Complete emphasis is on the physical development of students
so that when they are called to arms they will be better fitted to per-
form the duties ahead of them and thus be of even greater service to
their country.
Our job is to toughen bodies and develop a flaming competitive
spirit in young men who from childhood have been taught the virtues
of peace while our enemies have schooled their youth solely in an atti-
tude of the nobility of war. At Michigan an intensive physical condi-
tioning program in which thousands of students are required to devote
four and one-half hours under trained leaders each week to hardening
activities has been placed in operation as a means of accomplishing
this purpose.
Competitive athletics long have been recognized as an excellent
training and proving ground for our fighting men and today more men
than ever are benefiting from such activity. As Superintendent of the
United States Military Academy at West Point General Douglas Mac-
Arthur declared, "On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds
which, in other years on other fields will bear the fruits of victory." No
greater tribute to the value of competitive athletics has ever been paid.
No sport is more important in a competitive program than football.
Not only does it require its participants to be in the best of physical
condition, but it also enables our colleges and universities to carry out
their expanded war-time physical training programs for all students as
much of the cost of these programs will be defrayed by football re-
ceipts. Thus, while our gridiron remain "fields of friendly strife," they
will permit the sowing this year of added seeds of victory among men
destined to triumph in history's greatest conflict.
H. 0. CRISLER
Director of Athletics
New Ticket
Sale Planned
For Students
Ducats To .Be Distributed
According To Class
For Football Tilts
Michigan students will finally be
assured of good seats for footbal
games this fall. The reason is that for
the first time the tickets will be dis-
'tributed with the idea of satisfying
the students first, and their friends
afterwards.
In the past, each student was per-
mitted to buy three tickets adjacent
to his own for his friends. Since du-
cats are distributed according to
class, the seniors would go down and
buy themselves three tickets and by
the time lower classmen got around
to their share, they found themselves
hovering around the end zones. Mich-
igan was the only school in the entire
Big Ten that used such a system, and
the students did not like the arrange-
ment at all.
New Distribution
Under the new plan, tickets will be
distributed according to class, and
students will still be permitted to
purchase three additional tickets, but
they will not be adjacent to the ticket
from the student coupon book.
The reason for the change can be
explained by the conduct of the stu-
dents before the Minnesota and Ohio
State game. Everyone wanted three
tickets, and it was apparent that the
tickets were not all for friends. Most
of you can no doubt recall' very easily
the mixups that the ticket situation
for those games caused.
Another change in favor of the stu-
dents is the adding of a whole sec-
tion of seats along the forty yard
line. Last year, the students were giv-
en only a block in this vicinity which
neversgot beyond a few fortunate
seniors.
All the changes have been made
possible by various campus groups
which acted through George Ceithaml
and Norman Call, student members
of the Board in Control of Intercol-
legiate Athletics. The proposal was
unanimously accepted by the board,
and the entire plan reads as follows:
1-"All students be permitted to
purchase at the regular price three
additional tickets.
2-These additional tickets shall
not be alloted adjacent to the ticket
received in exchange for the student
coupon.
3-That the student tickets be al-
loted in the West stand, starting near
the forty yard line and continuing
north toward the end of the field.
4-That student tickets be alloted
in order of class preference, and that
where two or more students of dif-
ferent classes desire adjacent seats,
that the tickets be allotted in order of
the lowest class.
5-A student desiring to purchase
enly one additional ticket and wishes
to have this ticket adjacent to his
student ticket, will be alloted the
tickets at the end of the student sec-
tion."
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Green And White
M entor To Start
SophsInLineup
Loss Of Arena At Center Is Bachman's
Biggest Problem; Backs Also Create
Question Mark In Game With Varsity
3-Michigan State at
10-Iowa Cadets at
17-Northwestern at
24-Michigan at Min-
31-Illinois at Michi-
November 7-Harvard at Mich-
igan.
November
Notre Dame.
November
Ohio State.
November
14-Michigan at
21-Michigan at
28-Iowa at Michi-
By JACK FLAGLER
It looks like the sophomores will
have their day when grid Coach
Charley Bachman brings his Michi-
gan State College team down to Ann
Arbor to meet the Wolverines this
Saturday. The Spartans have only
nine men back of those who saw ac-
tion against Michigan last year, and
only one of that crew was in action
the majority of the time, Dick Man-
grum, a tackle who played for 47
minutes. Outside of Mangrum, Bach-
man. hasn't another man that can be
called a full fledged veteran.
The biggest loss from last year's
outfit is pivotman Tony Arena, one
of the outstanding centers of the
Midwest. Arena saw so much action
last year that no other center pros-
pects were able to get any experience.
Howard Beyer, a junior from Mus-
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kegon, is first in line for the job on
a total playing time basis, but he
will be closely pressed by sophomores
Ernest Keckinen and Austin Miller,
and another junior, Bill Munroe.
Conner Looks Good
Of all the sophomore white hot
hopes, none blazes more fiercely at
present than one Alger Conner,
weight 220, who has the Spartan grid
experts agog with his work at left
tackle. Advance reports have it that
Conner is as fast as the ends and the
best man on the squad on defense.
Conner's rise is somewhat of a suc-
cess story. The husky kid has had to
struggle through two summer schools
to become eligible to give his all for
the Green and White, but the wait
hasn't hurt his size and skill any,
evidently.
The other tackle post seems to be
pretty well covered by the lone vet-
eran, Dick Mangrum, but outside of
these two the men are greener than
their game uniforms. Bachman has
'{arry Huber and Robert Thomas,
two second year men from Detroit to
back up Conner, but their worth is
still in the question mark stage.
End Situation Healthier
The end situation is a little more
healthy. T'hree lettermen are return-
ing for flank duty,. Bob McNeill of
Tucson, Ariz., Roy Fraleigh of Detroit,
and Glenn Deibert of Pontiac. A
plethora of sophomores is ready to
press these boys for their jobs; Ken
Balge, Vincent Mroz, Bernard Ros-
kopp, and Fenwick Crane.
While Bachman has plenty of work
on his .hands to develop the other
linemen, his biggest gray hair pro-
ducer will probably be the guard spot.
Advance notices give mention of only
two probable candidates for the start-
ing game. One is the versatile lad
from Grand Rapids South High
School, Lou Brand, who showed a lot
of promise last year at quarterback,
but who was switched to guard in the
spring. Brand will very likely stay at
the guard post what with the short-
age and all this season. The other
probable starter is Don LeClair. who
got in six whole minutes against
Michigan last fall. But this leaves
much too much to be desired for
Coach Charley who has his hands full
with all kinds of other problems this
year.
Inexperienced Backfield
Those problems include figuring
out the best form of attack which an
energetic but not too experienced
backfield should use behind a heavy
but also green forward wall. Bach-
man has plenty of heady timber to
call the plays once the offensive is
decided on. Three lettermen are
scrapping for the starting quarter-
back role, with the edge going to Bill
Milliken, former Senn High ace in
Chicago. Milliken will get plenty of
pressure from Duane Fulman of Flint
and Glenn Johnson of Grosse Ile,
both juniors. The aforementioned all-
around Lou Brand can be used at this
spot too if injury or tornado does one
of these three signal callers in.
The halfback posts don't make like
the still waters/either, in fact, after
the first two men, there is a wide
open field for a conglomerate bunch
of sophomores to make their name
on, but so far they haven't been ring.
ing the bell with any degree of noise.
The two probable starters are Walt
Pawlowski and Dick Kieppe. Kieppe
saw only seven minutes' service
against the Wolverines last year,
while Pawlowski hasn't got much
more to offer than stout heart and
promise.
Weak At Full
That brings us down to the full-
back position and we look around
almost in vain for some likely line-
buster. The same situation occurs
here as at the halfback posts . .. a
crew of unknowns trying hard to
reach the top and with not too much
success, with the one notable excep-
tion of Jimmy Ripmaster, a sopho-
more, who according to latest dis-
patches from the Spartan front is
wreaking havoc, as they say, on the
reserve lines in scrimmage.
Need we say more about State's
chances for the year. The nicest
thing to do, in r 6spect to the vener-
able mentor, Charley Bachman, is to
call the outfit a question mark with
lots of latent promise.
Michigan To Get
Assistant Trainer
Coach Lyle Bennett, athletic di-
rector of Hastings High School, who
resigned this summer to take a posi-
tion on the physical education staff
of the University, will be assistant
trainer for the Michigan athlet'ic
teams.
Coach Bennett was assistant coach
THE BENCHCOMBER ..by Bud Hendel
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JULIUS FRANKS
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AND SO another football season comes to Ann Arbor-a
season that promises to be a far cry from any within the
memory of any student, grad or undergrad, on the Michigan
campus.
It will be a season packed with thrills, loaded with excite-
ment, roaring cheers and silent tension. It will have its wild
moments of exultation that come with victory, and possibly,
its gloomy ones of despair that go hand in hand with defeat.
But, in any case, it will be different.
IN THE FIRST PLACE, the crowds won't be the same.
They'll still cheer and they'll still groan, but not as much
as they have heretofore. They'll still pour into the mammoth
Stadium atop the hill, and come gulping forth out of the in-
numerable exits some two hours later. They'll rush and stam-
pede the same as ever, but there won't be as many people in
largest bowl in the Midwest-seating 85,000- will likely play
to no more than 50,00(f fans at any one home game this year.
STILL ANOTHER REASON for the difference between this
season and others is the schedule. The Wolverines play
ten games this season, seven at home and three away. Add to
that the calibre of the ten opponents and you have one of the
toughest, if not the Toughest, schedule of any big-time grid
aggregation in the nation. Every one of the Maize and Blue
foes will present a major array of talent, packed to the hilt
with power, speed and strategy.
Take a look at what Coach Fritz Crisler and his gridders
are up against. You saw Great Lakes in the season opener
here last Saturday-not a very easy opener-not the breather
that most schools card for their curtain-raisers. This Satur-
day Michigan State will move into town, followed in succes-
sion by the Iowa Naval Cadets, who need no introduction if
closely you'll notice there isn't one open date, not one breath-
ing spell, not one really soft touch.
BUT THERE IS ONE RESPECT where this football season
won't be any different than any other. That's in the
quality and quantity of the Michigan spirit, that same Michi-
gan spirit that has been lauded since the first days of Fielding
H. Yost. This Michigan team isn't deep in reserve material,
it isn't too heavy-but it's fast and it's full of fighting
strength. Come what may, you can be sure that the eleven
men on the gridiron in the Maize and Blue uniforms will be,
employing every available ounce of energy and every drop of
effort to give you, and Michigan, victory.
At its helm are two great leaders, Coach Fritz Crisler and
Captain George Ceithaml. Crisler needs no introduction. His
ability has never been questioned. His leadership leaves no
doubt. He is one of the best coaches in the land, and one of
the outstanding sportsmen connected with athletics.
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