FTD , EC. 11, 1942 iri A T is RAGE THMM . ~i -d1TflVi~t t 1 V(Sy 1 fL 1. l 1V s %X ifl LW i BENCHCOMDEB %fBy BUD MENDEL Daiy Sports Editor COLLIER'S All-American team was announced today. It was brought to the public eye with little of the flurry of advance publicity that usually marks the All-American issue of the popular magazine. In fact, there isn't even mention of it on the cover. The so-called official All-American, drawn up by the dean of Amer- ican sportswriters, Grantland Rice, after a polling of ten representative sports. editors all over the country, this Collier's team honors a great Michigan guard and ignores a great Michigan tackle.. Julie Franks, junior Wolverine guard, was named by Rice to a first team post on the mythical squad. Al Wistert, senior tackle, was listed as an also-ran behind Minnesota's Dick Wildung and Army's Bob Olds. The race for the guard positions was close, and in the final bal- loting Franks and Lynn Houston of Ohuio State were selected. We have no argument with this. We like it. We think Franks deserved it, and we're glad to see him receive his just reward. BUT we can't help wondering about Wistert. In every game on the tough Wolverine schedule Wistert was a top-notch lineman, most of the time the outstanding lineman on the field. Yet, he was overlooked in favor of Wildung and Olds. Maybe the Collier's All-American Board can see something unap- parent to a novice like the Benchcomber. There is no doubt that the gentlemen on the Board are better qualified through years of experi- ence to pick an All-American team. Still and all, we can't fathom the failure to select Wistert. He has been named on practically every other mythical team, named without any hesitation. He was considered the best tackle on the field in every Michigan, game during the season. In our book, Al Wistert is an All-American, just as much so as any man selected on the Collier's team. We make this contention without any fear of national circulation dropping because two men are named from the same school or because too many men are picked from the same sector. A strong suspicion lurks that the Collier's honor team is ehosen with these thoughts in mind. STILL on the subject of All-American teams, Newsweek Magazine has both Wistert and Franks in its first team lineup. This leaves only one more major All-Americah to be released, the Associated Press. It will be published in this paper tomorrow morning, which is one way of putting in a plug for the circulation department. Come to think of it, these All-American teams don't ring too true. Quite frankly, we're willing to wager that there are football players in this nation, performing for colleges, who will outplay any man on the Collieir's team or any other All-American squad. As one Detroit columnist pointed out, there are only two men, Sid Luck- man and Sammy Baugh, who were collegiate All-Americans playing in the Pro Football championship tussle between the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Bears this Sunday. The fellows who were undergraduate unknowns smear the All-Stars like so much butter in a frying pan. And what does that prove? Just that a typewriter athlete can't make one fellow a better football player than anybody else by calling him an All-American. COURTRIGHT GETS SOME HELP: Wrestling 'Outlook Improves Paul Keen Joins Coaching Staff Track Meet Date Changed Michigan's inter-class track meet, originally scheduled for tomorrow af-j ternoon at Yost Field House, has been held over until Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. Shift in the date of the battle for class honors was made by Varsity Coach Ken Doherty in order to give spectators a better chance to attend. "I feel that this meet will provide as many interesting and exciting races and events as any we had last season,' Coach Doherty asserted,1 "and it's the kind of affair that ap- peals to the fans." A total of 139 athletes have already qualified and a number of additional trackmen were expected to join that group after special trials this after- noon and tomorrow. The freshman class holds an edge in number of men qualified for the finals with 60, followed by the sopho- mores and juniors with 31 apiece, and the seniors with 17. Additional trials are expected to bring the num- ber of competing athletes to about 150. % __._ Wolverines To Face Strong Marquette Quintet By BOB SHOPOFF Michigan's quintet will swing into action again Saturday when they meet the strong five from Marquette University at the Yost Field House. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's squad will be seeking their second victory of the young season as they copped the opening tilt from Michigan State, 36 to 31, in a thrilling overtime battle.' Saturday night will bring a much tougher team into the Field House for the Wolverines' opponents as the Hilltoppers boast of a scrappy squad which lacks individual brilliance, but relies on speed and precision team- work to challenge its foes. Varsity Shows Pight In their meeting with State, the Wolverines met a weak quintet as the Spartans made many errors and missed plenty of scoring chances. But Oosterbaan's five had the fight and fire in it to outlast its rival. The main difficulty of the Varsity was that they were nervous since severalsof the players were seeing action in their first college game. With the spirit and! ability of these new courtmen, Michi- Ray Kuffel, who was high scorer for the Hilltoppers last year. Kuffel will match his play against that of Capt. Jim Mandler as they both hold down the pivot positions on the respective squad. Battle of Centers The Marquette center :,ill yrield one inch in height to the Michigan cap- but nothing else. He is a main-t sta inthelinupbecuseof isout- saknderTthehbaskh is battle of centers should be the bright the ame hichappears to t spot of the game which appears to be "tp notch tilt. Coach Bill Chandler, who ndas pi- loted the Hilltoppers over twelve sea. }": sons, has eight lettermen for a nu- cleus of his team. Others besides Kuf- fel are Bob Pierce, George Collentine, and Al Skat at forwards; Bob Rosen- ,?. dahl at center, and Bill Chandler, Jr., k 1t }Burt Bril and Jerry Schudrowitz at S. ,'the guard spots. Bill, Jr. is the son of the coach. Last year he was a forward - - KsH FL ersbut his father shifted him to guard ..tops Hilltoppers at the start of this year. Completing the starting lineup for gan should improve with each game. the Marquette team will probably Heading the Marquette roster is find Kivisto and Skat at the forwards, Bril and Schudrowitz at guards and Kuffel at center. This gives an all veteran quintet. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan at pres- ent is uncertain who will start at the forward positions Saturday. .ne starter is definite and that is big BEb Wiese, who starred in th opening tilt as he collected 11 points. The other spot is the two-way battle be- tween Harold Anderson, a sophomore, and Ralph Gibert, a veteran of last year's games and starter in the State fray. Both will see action. Varsity Improves Oo-terbaan said yesterday that the quad has shown signs of improve- Xnent during this week's drill, but .heir play has been spotty. Special attention has been given to develop- ing shooting accuracy and team play this week and the results have satis- ied the Wolverine coach. 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Paul Keen, as anyone who has seen him working out with the matmen will testify, is a walking encyclopedia of grappling techniques. For concrete proof of his abilities is the fact that he coached at Oklahoma University for 12 years, producing one National Championship team and 12 individual titlists during his tenure there. Versatile Athlete Like Coach Courtright. Keen was a versatile athlete, winning nine letters in football, basketball, and track. He is attending Michigan on a leave of absence from Oklahoma U. and is taking graduate work. Fortunately Coach Keen expects to be here for the rest of the year, although his leave of absence prohibits him from coaching in anything other than an advisory. capacity. Reasons number two and three to bring joy in the Wolverine camp are a pair of very classy 121 pounders, Larry Loftus and Bob McDonald. They are probably the best new men on the team, and Coach Courtright's orly complaint is that they both wrestle at the same weight. 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