1942 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE
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National
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Ray Courtright
Named Coach
Of Mat Squad
Replaces Clifford Keen;
Appointment Create
Father And Son Duo
With the announcement today,
that Ray Courtright would serve as
wrestling coach during the absence
of Lt. Clifford Keen who is on active
duty at the Navy Pre-Flight School
at the University of Georgia, the for-
tunes of the Michigan grapplers pas-
sed into the hands of a father and
son combination.
Director of Athletics, Fritz Criser,
appointed Ray to guide the destinies
of the Wolverine wrestlers in addition
to serving as varsity golf coach and
assisting with the freshman football
and basketball squads. Son Bill, who
is one of the country's outstanding
165-pounders, is captain of the team
this year.
The Courtrights have always been
in the limelight as far as sports are
concerned and this year will be no
exception. This father-son duo will
do anything but hurt the mat team,
for harmony between coach and cap-
tain is something to strive for in any
athletic squad, and this is especially
true in wrestling. One can just visu-
alize the Courtright household eating,
sleeping, and talking wrestling in
order to make the Maize and Blue
the best in the Conference.
When the elder Courtright came to
Michigan in the fall of 1927, he
brought with him a record as excep-
tional as any member of the coaching
staff can boast. He was graduated
from the University of Oklahoma af-
ter having earned 12 varsity letters in
four years as an undergraduate. Four
of these awards were won in baseball,
three "in football,. three in:.basketball,
and two in track. But this wasn't
enough for "Corky", as he is called by
his friends, because he won further
acclaim by being nominated All-
Southwestern halfback for two years
and; on the baseball' dianiond dis-
tinguished himself by. pitching- a no-
hit game against Missouri.-
After receiving his degree, Ray then
coached for a year at Tonkawa Prep
School in Oklahoma before spending
faur years as head coach of football,
basketball, and baseball at Pitts-
burgh Normal, Pittsburgh, Kansas.
"Corky" next became director of ath-
letics at the University of Nevada
where he again left a great record.
His basketball team won the Pacific
Coast crown the first year, while his
Midwest Gri
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 7.-(P)-Two
second-stringers, Dick Kelley and
Bob Sandberg,'will be in the starting
lineup for Minnesota against Illinois
Saturday.
Bill Garnaas and Herman Frickey
have come along nicely with their re-
spective injuries of late, but neither
is being counted on for much play at
Champaign. Kelley and Sandberg
have been in the No. 1 spots the en-
tire week while Frickey and Garnaas
have been confined to jogging.
The regulars, led by Bill Daley,
sharpened up their passing attack
again today. The Gophers will drill
again tomorrow before leaving for
Champaign.
* * .*
EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 7.-(P)-Jim
Fairchild, Northwestern sophomore
from Denver and John Winter, Evan-
ston junior, were moved up today as
first string substitutes for left half-
back Otto Graham with the disclos-
ure that Joe Scriba of Owosso, Mich.,
Graham's understudy, would be side-
lined with an injury at least 10 days.
Scriba hurt his shoulder in the Texas
game.
The Wildcats, who meet Purdue
Uf
In Local S'potliht
May H
Local Contest
Is Rated Best
Game Of Week
Jordan Named In Starting
Cadet Lineup; Michigan
Solves Seahawk Plays
inge
On
Michigan-Cadet
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I3LNCHICOM'BEB
Franks May Be Key To Victory
For Wolverines This Saturday
By BUD MENDEL
Daily Sports Editor
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Ray Courtright, pictured above,
was appointed head wrestling coach
to replace Cliff Keen, who joined
the Navy last spring. Courtright
has been with Michigan for 15
years. Below is "Butch" Jordan
pictured in wrestling togs when he
captained the Wolverine mat team.
Jordan returns to Ann Arbor Sat-
urday and will start at left tackle
for the Seahawk grid machine.
grid, teans won- 25 out of 30 games
diring ,his regime..
In 1924, five years later. he left
Neyada -to become chief. mentor of
the. football, basketball, and baseball
squads -at the Colorado School of
Mines. Then, saying adieu to the Ag-
gies, he came here 15 years ago, where
he further showed his ability in the
realm of athletics.
diron Angles
here 'Saturday, turned to defensive
exercises today.
* * *
GREAT LAKES, Ill., Oct. 7.-(A )-
Great.Lakes picked up added strength
for its game with Pittsburgh at Cleve-
land Saturday with the return today
of quarterback; Herman Schneidman
and fullback Steve Belichick. Both
were injured in the Sailors' opening
game two weeks ago at Michigan.
The squad engaged in its final heavy
workout of the week today.
* * *
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Oct. 7- (I)-An
attack of influenza will keep Bob Wil-
son, Illinois left guard, out of compe-
tition against Minnesota Saturday,
Coach Ray Eliot said today as he di-
rected the Illini through a defensive
scrimmage against freshmen using
Gopher plays. Eliot said Joe Pawlow-
ski, senior guard, would replace Wil-
son, a junior from Champaign.
* * *
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 7- (P)--Ohio
State University's gridders had their
first drill today in meeting offensive
plays of Southern California's Tro-
jans who come here Saturday. Most
of the session was spent in mastering
a defense.
* * *
EAST LANSING, Oct. 7- (1p)-
Michigan State's Spartans will be
seeking more than their sixth victory
over Wayne University in as many
games here Saturday.
The contest well might be the crux
of the Spartan campaign. State fol-
lowers accepted the Michigan defeat
last Saturday as inevitable, but even
the most loyal were disappointed in
State's woefully weak offensive show-
ing.
Is it too early in the new grid sea-
son to pick the National Champs?
Well, maybe, but the football fans of1
Michigan are likely to see the 1942
champion decided right here in Ann
Arbor this Saturday.
There is no doubt that the coming
battle between the under-manned,
fighting Michigan team and the pow-
erful Iowa Seahawk squad is the
game of the week. Perhaps it will
turn out to be the game of the year.
With the top teams falling faster
than four-ton bombs, the mythical
National champ may be the winner
of the tangle in Ann Arbor Saturday.
Take a look at the three week old
record. Minnesota has already drop-
ped one to the Seahawks, and the
Golden Gophers were champs for the
last two years. Northwestern lost one
and then the Wildcats did an about
face to conquer Texas. The East is
lacking any outstanding teams and
in the South several of the favorites
have been defeated. The Far West has
yet to show' any powerful squads. In
the Service league, Great Lakes was
toppled by Michigan.
Based on the schedule of the two
games, both Michigan and Iowa Pre-
Flight face the top teams of the na-
tion as the Wolverines have ten op-
ponents on this year's card and, the
Seahawks play 12 foes. If one of these
two squads can go undefeated, the
sportswriters of the nation are likely
to give that team the nod for the
championship.
"Butch" Jordan, who played with
the Wolverines of 1939 and 1940, was
named as starting left tackle today.
Jordan has improved rapidly in three
games this season and has well
earned his berth. Tliis brings the total
of -former Wolverine stars in the
starting lineup to two as Forrest Eva-
shevski will play quarterback and act
as captain of the Cadets.
According to Ernie McCoy, who has
seen the Seahawks in their last two
games, one word describes the Cadets
-TOUGH. McCoy went on to say
that they have plenty of experience
behind them as most of the players
are graduates of Big Ten schools
where they saw a lot of service.
The Michigan coach cited a few
figures which proved his statement
that the Cadets were tough. In three
games they have rolled over Kansas,
Northwestern, and Minnesota. No
team in the country can match that.
In winning those, Bernie Bierman's
squad has used both power and passes
to turn the trick. They have com-
pleted 18 out of 36 aerials onathe last
two tussles while holding their own
on pass defense.
McCoy's feelings are echoed by the
rest of the coaches, and Fritz Crisler
and the entire squad' know that they
have an uphill fight on their hands.
But they also know that the Sea-
hawks can be scored on as both
Northwestern and Minnesota crossed
the double line against them.
Yesterday Head Coach Crisler gave
the squad a look at some of the Ca-
dets' plays as they were run off by
the third team. The first eleven wast-
ed no time in doping the plays out.
Crisler hasn't uncovered any new men
yet that he can throw into the line
to relieve his starting forward wall.
Most of the men on the first line face
nearly 60 minutes of play again this
Saturday.
Tom Kuzma donned his pads for
the first time since his injury, but he
did not take part in any of the rough
scrimmage. The blond junior has
looked good on the throwing end of
passes this week and it might be that
Crisler is holding him as an ace in the
hole.
All eligible sophomores and sec-
ond-semester freshmen desiring to
become a member of the Sports
Staff are invited to report at the
Sports Desk of the Daily Wednes-
day afternoon at 3:30 p.m. There
is a large possibility that men on
the staff will be forced to leave
school due to the draft, and wo-
men are cordially invited to be-
come members.
Bud Hendel, Sports Editor
B IG-TIME FOOTBALL will move in on Ann Arbor Saturday in what ist
certain to be the outstanding home fray of the year, what is definitelyI
the top tilt of the week, and what may be the greatest game of the wholes
season.
Th e Iowa Naval Cadets, currently rated the number one collegiate-serv-r
ice team in the nation, and the mighty mites from Michigan will tangle here
Saturday, and if you've been suffering with a weak heart of an incurablet
neurosis, we advise you to stay away and keep your radio tuned to somek
nice, sane jitterbug band. You'll keep on suffering, but you won't give up the
ghost.
If ever a game was a natural, this is it. The men from Iowa City, I
former pros and topflight college stars, pitted against the men from I
Michigan, a gang of hard-fighting college boys who have been out- 1
weighed both times they have taken the field this year. Today they're
running one-two in the national rankings. Saturday night just one of
the two will be running, the other will be an also-ran.
MICHIGAN, one of the few unbeaten, untied, unscored on squads still at
large in major competition, has its. job cut out for it. The Wolverines
will be outmanned, outweighed, but you can make a safe bet now that they
won't be outfought.
Up front the Maize and Blue will sport a great line, possibly the best
line that Coach Fritz Crisler and line coach Biggie Munn have ever pro-
duced. In the two games to date, against Great Lakes and Michigan State,
Michigan's forward wall has allowed a net gain of only 73 yards along the
ground while keeping the goal-line untouched. The Sailors, who rushed for
233 yards against Iowa last week, could only break through the tough
Wolverine line for 89, while the Spartans didn't even manage to gain a
yard at Michigan's expense, settling for a minus 16 yards on the ground.
That is what we call excellent line play. Key men on this great
Michigan line are the four men from left tackle through right guard
-Al Wistert, Julie Franks, Merv Pregulman and Bob Kolesar. But don't
discount the other three men, Phil Sharpe, Elmer Madar and Bill
Pritula. The first four are veterans as far as starting games goes, while
the last three were great big question marks when the season opened.
But they've proved well enough that they belong.
UT THERE IS A CATCH to this glowing description of' the ability of
this Michigan. team tQ play the game 'the way it should be played up
front. That catch d'omes in discussing the matter of reserve strength. The
Wolverines are weak in line reserves this year,'a factor which is not uncom-
mon for Michigan teams. The seven men who start may have to play the
whole game, and if an injury strikes any one of them, the damage may
prove too much for the speedy Michigan attack to offset.
Like all Bernie Bierman teams, the Cadets will rely on a strong running
offensive for the greater part of their yardage. They'll smash off-tackle,
sweep the ends and bullet through the guards, and it will be up to this
Michigan line to stop them. If the boys on this iron forward wall can do
that, Michigan can win.
MICHIGAN WILL STICK to the same brand of offense it has used
thus far, with a.few new plays thrown in to fool the Seahawks.
It will be tricky and it will be fast. It will be equally divided in chances
for success between the ground and the air, with probably the aerial
division proving more successful against the bruising Cadets.
Tom Kuzma, Maize and Blue ace of last year, will probably sit this one
out the same as he has the past two weeks. His injured knee is practically
fully healed, but he hasn't been able to do any contact work and he's prob-
ably not in game shape. Crisler, with seven contests remaining after this
one, is leary of re-injuring his star ball-carrier, even though Kuzma's speed
and power would stand the Wolverines in good stead Saturday.
By DON SWANINGER4
Upon the broad shoulders of Julius
Franks, Negro guard from Ham-
tramck, may well rest the outcome of
Michigan's coming grid clash with
the highly touted Iowa Cadets.
Franks, who is playing his second
year as a Wolverine guard, so far
this season has averaged close to
sixty minutes in both the Great Lakes
and Michigan State games, and has
spent most of that time in his oppo-
nent's backfield knocking down am-
bitious ball carriers. After Franks
once hits them, most of the oppo-
nent's backs strangely lose their am-
bition. Franks tackles that hard.
Franks hates to miss a tackle.
When he does miss, one sees the com-
petitive fire that lies within his 187
pound frame. In. anger he pounds
the ground in disgust almost as hard
as he pounds the opposing line. It is
sometimes almost a pleasure to watch
Franks miss a tackle. To this oppos-
ing coaches will no doubt agree.
Franks is one of the big reasons
why Michigan State went backward
instead of forward last Saturday in
BASKETBALL PRACTICE
Varsity basketball practice will
start Monday, Oct. 12 at 7:30. p.m..
in the Intramural Building. All
eligible men are urgedto attend.
The Daseola
"Keep A-head of
Barbers
Your Hair"
Between State and Mich. Theatre
Ill'__
Battle
the matter of yards gained through
rushing. With all their efforts the
best the Spartan backs could do was
amass a grand total of minus 16
yards through the Wolverines' for-
ward wall. They made three first
downs all afternoon, and those were
made possible through passes, not
runs.
Franks is the second Negro in
Michigan's history to earn a major
letter in football. The other was
Willie Ward who snagged passes for
the Wolverines at his end position
about a decade ago. If Franks can
snag the Seahawk backs like Ward
used to catch passes, Michigan should
have little to worry about this Satur-
day. Judging from past season play,
the odds are that he will.
Personality Styles
are distinctively for University
men who value their appearance
and social standing. Thousands
have been pleased with our scalp
treatments and facials. Our ad-
vice is free.'- Tonsorial Queries
Invited.
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. Michigan will bank all on a fast-charging
line and a dazzling offsen. Opposing this, the Cadets will rely on raw
power and weight, molded into a smooth, well-functioning attack.
DRIFTWOOD AND SPLINTERS: Your columnist was talking to
Coach Fritz Crisler yesterday . .. remarked the Bencheomber, "I
see that Bierman has lost two men from his starting line." .. . Crisler
broke into a sly chuckle, followed by a look of resignation ... "Yes," he
said, "but he's got so many more good linemen that it won't make any
difference." . . . then he hustled out to the field, still shaking his head
over the depth among the Seahawks.
Dive bombers from nearby Selfridge Field will zoom over the field and
put on a pre-game exhibition of stunt flying . .. between halves, the Michi-
gan band will share honors with a crack Navy outfit ..
BOB SIIOPOFF, Sports Night Editor
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