fit ;' 1 JL: . .... .... .... . .. . _ l-M: s. y-- olverme s0 To Face -9-0 -iia -Blutukuy 1: - S 7akinyt/e eC'un t By DAVE LOEWENBERG Associate Sports Editor BIG TEN cage coaches are already beginning to rack their brains in an effort to figure out a way of stopping Iowa's high-geared scoringj machine. THE HAWKEYES are undefeated in five games and have amassed 376 points to 192 for their adversaries. This top-heavy record shows victories over such stalwarts as Notre Dame (by 17 points), Denver (by 23), and Nebraska (by 16). Even more important than this is the statement by the genial Iowa mentor, "Pops" Hanison, "that his team has still not reached its potential scoring peak." IOWA goes after number six this week against Michigan State prepara- tory to their Big Ten opener against Minnesota the following week. fHIEF COG in the Iowa attack is sophomore Dick Ives. Last yearj as a freshman Ives captured the Big Ten scoring crown with 208 points and his 327 points in 18 games established a new lawkeye scor- ing mark. Against the lowly Maroons, Ives' 43 points set an all-time conference high for a single game. Ives again leads the scoring race with 84 points in five games to date.. IVES IS particularly adept at shooting with either hand and his scoring prowess makes him almost a one-man team. However, this year Ives will have adequate support from a pair of brothers, Clayton and Herbert Wilkinson, each a former star on University of Utah squads. Co-captains Jack Spencer and Ned Postels complete the Iowa starting five. ONE POINT in the last 70 seconds of the final game of the campaign cost Iowa a share of the Conference title last year. Ives sparked the Hawkeyes last year along with Dave Danner who is now is service, but with Ives going full blast and a new brothe- combination to boot, look out for the team on the other side of the Mississippi. A LITTLE post mortem on the Michigan-Wyoming game, which. the Wolverines won, 38-33. One of Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's chief problems this year has been a lack of height, but in defeating the Wyoming quintet which averaged 6.'4" and included a 6'9" center, the question of whether Michigan can cope with a big team is not as obscure as before. INCIDENTALLY, if you're a believer in comparative scores, give Michi- gan the nod over Ohio in the game tomorrow. Ohio and Wyoming both lost to Kentucky by four points, while the Wolverines topped the cowboys by five. 'M WINS OPENER:o New Years Da Grid lassics Lively 1with 1Enchatinlg Atics Tomorrow Nght Quintet To Oppose Ohio InConference Oene j Hoopsters Defeat Wyoming Cagers, 38-33; Vie with Bucks for Eighth Straight Victory By BILL MULLENDORE Victors in seven straight contests topped off by an impressive 38-33 triumph over Wyoming last Saturday, Michigan's cagers swing into Western Conference action tomorrow night against a highly-rated Ohio State quintet, defending Big Ten titlists. The Wolverines had little difficulty in polishing off the tall but inex- perienced Wyoming five to run their victory string to seven. Paced by guard Walt Kell's 21-point scoring spree, Michigan took command during the first three-quarters of the game and then withstood a last-minute Cowboy rush to protect the winning margin. Despite the victory over the towering Wyoming five, however, the Wolverines will enter the Ohio State fracas as definite underdogs. Coach H. G. Olsen's five, composed entirely of veterans from the squad which dropped only two of 12 Big Ten tilts last sea on while grabbing the cham- pionship, is just as tall as the Cowboy quintet and has the advantage of collegiate experience. ican quarter- Four of the five starters in the'- Calif., for the Buckeye lineup, which averages a wyominf xtededthe Ti it o IIORVATH DRILLS WITH EAST SQUAD-With Leslie Horvath, Ohio State All-Amer back on hand, the East All-Star football team begins a week of preparation in Santa Clara, r East-West game. Left to right: nesota and Horvath. Bob Kelly and Frank Dancewicz of Notre Dame, Vie Kublitski, Min- Kell Is Leading BL Point Getter O IGHT FUTURE: Wolverine Track Squad has Nucleus of Seven Lettermen Wolverine F-ve Harder Is Second In Team Scoring Scoring 21 points against the Uni- versity of Wyoming cagers Saturday night, Walter Kell, Michigan guard, boosted his seven-game total to 56 points to take the lead in the indi- vidual scoring race for the Wolver- ines. Kell, who has registered 23 field goals and ten free throws this sea- son, is closely followe in the stand- ings by Keith Harder, who held the lead until Saturday's game. Harder trails the Kankakee, Ill., boy by just two points and has scored the same number of field goals as Kell. Otherwise, the scoring is evenly distributed among the regulars, with John Mullaney in the third spot with 42 points, followed by Ted Berce with 38 and Don Lindquist with 30. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's charges have scored 277 points so far, an av- erage of 39.5 per game. The individual scoring follows: I E Early indications are that the University of Michigan track squad with seven lettermen back as al nucleus again will have a greater portion of its strength concentrated in the distance and middle distance events. Ledby the Hume twins, Ross, 1945 captain and Bob, who led the team last season and Richard Barnard, letterman from Williamsville, N.Y., the Wolverines will be strong in the mile and the 880-yard run. Coach Ken Doherty is planning to move the Humes down to the 880-yard event and Barnard to the quarter mile to better balance the team strength. Bob Hume has done 4:14.9 indoors for the mile and Ross has covered the indoor mile in 4:15.9. Both are capable of running a fast half mile, while Doherty believes that Barnard, whose half mile indoor mark is 1:57.5, can run a creditable 440. To keep Wolverine strength up tot par in the longer events, Doherty is1 counting on Archie Parsons, civiliant transfer from New York University and the return of Walter Fairservice, both in the mile, and upon the show- ing of Freshman Bob Thomason of1 Asbury Park, N.J., and Ross Willard, Ashland, Ore. Two lettermen, Charles Birdsall and George Vetter, also are available for the two-mile and the 880, respec- tively. Additional lettermen on the squad include Julian Witherspoon, sophomore, who prepped at Detroit Northern and has covered the in- door 60-yard dash in :06.4 and Richard Forestel, who finishedI fourth in the conference indoor 440-yard event last winter. cool 6 ft. 4 in. in height, are mem- bers of last winter's first team, and the fifth man is a letter winner of two years' ago. At forwards are Don Grate, an all-Conferenced performer, and Jack Dugger, the same pair that led the way to the title in 1943-44. The center position is held down by towering Arnie Risen,6 ft. 9 in. of backboard dynamite who was named to more than one All-Amer- ican at the close of last season. At one guard is Paul Huston, an- other veteran, and at the other is James Sims, the only new face in the lineup. Sims was a member of the 1942-43 starting five. In addition, the Buckeyes are well- stocked with reserve talent. For- ward Rodney Caudill, center Bill Pfeiffer, and guard Warren Amling, -all capable, experienced players- lead the parade in this department. Despite the apparentdedgeen- joyed by Ohio State, there are several bright spots in the other- wise gloomy picture. One is the eligibility of center Dick Rifen- burg, who saw his first action against Wyoming. Wolverine coach Bennie Oosterbaan characterized the lanky Saginaw athlete as a "fine prospect" but in need of ex- perience and polish. Another ray of hope was cast when S~yL111111s tRLG11k V..,,,tts.6. V&±L. * LyU 1 Kentucky before going down, 50-46. nosed out Ohio State, 50-48 in over- time. But on the other side of the The Kentuckians had previously ledger the Bucks boast an impres- sive win over Utah, a, contender for national honors last year. They also decisively trounced Michigan State, 53-31. A third factor in Michigan's chan- ces centers around the steady im- provement of the Wolverine squad in the seven games played to date. Coach Oosterbaan's charges, have displayed a lot of spirit and have played an aggressive, heads-up brand of ball which has payed off in the win column. Nevertheless, Ohio State will take the floor in the favorite role, owing to the experience and height of the squad. The Bucks downed Michi- gan twice last season, 53-49 and 53- 39. BUcks Beat Spartans EAST LANSING, Mich. Dec. 28 (4F) -Ohio State University's experienc- ed basketball team tonight defeated Michigan State college 67 to 31 for its second win of the season over the Spartans and their third victory in four starts. By FRITZ HOWELL Associated Press Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 28-Some en- chanting antics have enlivened Am- erica's New Year's Day grid clas- sics, but the one the fans will never forget is California Roy Riegels' wrong-way run in the Rose Bowl. A decade and a half have passed into pigskin history since the Gold- en Bears' star center snagged a Georgia Tech fumble and raced 74 yards toward his own goal-in- stead 6f toward Tech's-before be- ing dragged down of the one-yard line by teammate Benny Lom. On the next play Lom's attempted punt from the end zone was blocked for a safety, and the two points gave Georgia Tech an 8-7 victory. Riegels, heart-broken over the "Corrigan"I run, came back the next year to captain the Bears and play outstanding ball. In explaining the wrong-way incident, Riegels said: "After picking up the fumble some- body shoved me and I bounced right off into a tackler. In pivoting to get away from him, I completely lost my bearings." Many oddities cropped up( in Bowl Games both before and after that historic Riegels incident of 1929, and new ones are expected in next Monday's frays. Among Rose Bowls high spots were: 1902-Michigan's Neal Snow scored five touchdowns in opening classic, Wolves won 49-0, and the Bowl fold- ed until 1916; 1925-Stanford's Ernie Meyers gained more yards than the four horsemen combined, but Elmer Layden scored three touchdowns and Notre Dame won 27-10; 1935-Ala- bama set one-period scoring record with 22 in second stanza against Stanford as Dixie Howell completed 10 of 13 passes, the majority to Don Hutson; 1939-Southern Cal came up with outstanding last-minute win over DFuke, 7-3, as Doyle Nave, re- serve quarterback, completed four straight passes, the last to Al Kreu- ger for a touchdown; 1943-injured Frankie Sinkwich of Georgia went in to score winning touchdown against Ucla after Charley Trippi had car- ried the ball into scoring position. The Sugar Bowl's biggest od- dity came in the 1935 inaugural when Temple lost to Tulane, 20-14., The winning touchdown came in i AN IMPORTANT I WEEK-END i SUGGESTION FLOWERS will add that cer- tain festival touch to this im- hortant I~ek-ed - - . 4thatwill the last period when Mintz of Tu- lane threw a pass near the Temple goal. The ball would have fallen hazmlessly in the end zone, but Mowry, Temple back, batted it straight into the arms of end Har- dy of Tulane for the game-wreck- ing touchdown. The Orange Bowl has offered: 1937 -Duquesne eked out a 13-12 win over Mississippi State in the last three minutes on a 70-yard pass from Boyd Brumbaugh to Ernie Hefferle. Brumbaugh couldn't throw a pass that far, but just as he cocked his right arm he was spun by his left arm by Fred Walters, opposing end. The added momentum, and a favor-' able wind, did the trick; 1939-Ten- nessee Bowden Wyatt's attempted placement for extra point against Oklahoma hit the Vol center in the stern, bounded back into Wyatt's arms, and he circled end for the point; 1941-Billy Jefferson of Mis- sissippi State caught his :wn punt against Georgetown. The kick went almost straight up, hit the ground several yards in front of the kicker, took a crazy hop and spun back into Jefferson's arms like a Yo-Yo. II Player G Walter Kell ...... Keith Harder,... . John Mullaney .... Ted Berce ...... . Don Lindquist. Bill Gregor....... Don Lund....... 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