1942 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE UREE National Crown 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 Eih I3LNCHICOM'BEB Franks May Be Key To Victory For Wolverines This Saturday By BUD MENDEL Daily Sports Editor 1 i 7 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 ALU.WOO0L SUITS t . 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