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Aksoeiate sports ditoir
EVERY YEAR about this time, football circles around the country hear
vague rumblings, mutterings, and a few epithets emanating from
the various headquarters of organizations sponsoring the post-season
bowl games.
These complaints, although scattered and not too vehement, concern
the alleged "superiority" of the Western Conference schools, which are not
permitted to play in any of the nation's post-season games. So far this
year, the air has been clear of these perennial charges; but we are expecting
the old bugaboo to pop up from some corner of the South or West any day
now.
As many fans know, Big Ten schools are prohibited from participation
in post-season games by a ruling of the Western Conference authorities.
Just as many fans, however, do not know the reasons behind the regulation.
They are manifold.
As Ralph Aigler, faculty representative from Michigan on the Western
Conference'board for many years, puts it, the principal reason for the
regulation is to re-emphasize the fact that any student in a Big Ten
school, no matter whether he plays football, baseball, or chess, is primarily
in that institution for academic, and not athletic, reasons.
If Michigan, say, were to play in the Rose Bowl some year, the scholastic
life of team members would be completely disrupted. Instead of lasting from
the middle of September to the last of November, the football season would
be prolonged by six weeks, until the New Year's Day classic took place.
DURING THIS PERIOD, the squad would have to keep in top physical
condition in order to maintain the high standards of the Conference
in the Jan. 1 game. It would have to observe the strict training rules which
hold during the regular season. And it would have to continue the daily
two hours of practice.
These activities require time-time that should be spent on preparation
for approaching midsemesters. As a school term wears on, the tempo of
classroom work is accelerated, and a student's application must also be
intensified.
Conditions for practices and training are not propitious. The month. of
December usually sees the first deep snow and the first freezing weather
of the year-weather that is certainly not the best from the point of view
of any athlete.
Fipally, the players would have to spend a valuable week of their time
in Pasadena or New Orleans or Miami, adapting to the warmer climate
and the playing conditions of the gridirons. This is not only impractical
academically, but would also interfere with the Christmas vacation schedules
of the Big Ten schools.
It would be well, then, for bowl authorities to look before they leap
forward with condemnations of Western Conference policies. If they did,
we feel that they would respect, rather than deride, the Big Ten schools
who have fine reputations in fields other than football fields.
Phys. Ed. Now
Centers About
Students Needs
Tests Reveal Fitness;
Sport May Be Chosen
By Men Who Qualify
By JEAN PETTIGREW
This year's physical education pro-
gram for men, Howard Leibee, PEM
director states, is centered around the
physical needs, interests, and desires
of each student rather than the strict
conditioning program of the last
three years.
The program, according to Lei-
bee, includes training in basic
motor fitness as well as the oppor-
tupity for experience in competi-
tive sports and the learning of
skills in sports and recreational
activities.
Early in the semester, all men were
given a physical fitness test to meas-
ure their agility, coordination, endur-
ance, and general strength of body.
The tests consisted of squat thrusts,
sit ups, a 60-yard maize run, pull ups,
and a half-mile run. To be eligible
for the sports program, a man had
to make 25 points out of a possible 50.
Men who did not amass the re-
quired number of points were put
in the conditioning program, where!
the major objective is to improve
their condition for the time when
they will take the tests again and
qualify for the sports program. At
mid-term, all men will be retested
and thereby be given the oppor-
tunity to choose a sport in which
to concentrate. In this way, it is
possible for a man to elect two
sports a term.
The men who did accumulate a
sufficient number of points in the
test were allowed to select a sport in
which they would receive instruction
in skills and strategy, a knowledge of
the rules, and an opportunity for
competition in that sport. The activ-
ities offered are basketball, gymnas-
tics, boxing, wrestling, badminton,
volleyball, track, weight lifting.
Mr. Leibee, PEM official, has
announced the names of the men
who have achieved highest scores
on the fbitness tests. They are, with
37 points, Norman Thomas, Ole
Lyngclip, Gerald Ier; with 36
points, Severino Kennedy; with 35
points, Ralph Worsey; and with 34
,,points, James Reading, Frank Gar-
funkel.
The average boy does 28 squat
thrusts in one minute, 26 sit ups in
one minute, maize run in 14.9 sec.,
6.3 pull ups, half -mile in 3.5. Top men
in the individual tests were Chuck
Lewis, 43 squat thrusts; Everet Ellin,
45 sit ups; Lewis Siegel, maize run in
13 sec.; Jacob Margolis, 18 pull ups;
Al Grinius, half-mile in 2:18.
Cage Team Improving
Says Coach Oosterbaan
Addiaion of Footr ail MeCl s rgthens qiiad
For Saiiirday's Clash widh Western Michigan
ALL-AMERICANS?-It isn't often that you find two All-American
candidates for the same position on the same team, but Navy's pair of
ends, Dick Duden (left) and Leon Bramlett, may do just that. Both
turned in fine games against Army last week and have been consistent
performers at the flanks all season.
Pueksters EXpected To Face First
Stiff Test in Tilt with Owen Sound
With two victories behind them, in
as many starts, Michigan's basketball
crew is priming itself for their next
test, Western Michigan, slated for
Saturday on the Yost Field House
court.
Team Play Stressed.
Bennie Oosterbaan and Bill Bar-
clay, the Wolverines' head and assist-
ant cage coaches, concentrated on
developing smoother team play among
the probable starters, in yesterday's
drill session, while the reserve men
practiced fundamentals individually.
A short scrimmage wound up the
day's workout.
Oosterbaan declined to comment
definitely on Saturday's starting line-
up, explaining that "The men are all
coming along steadily and improving
at such a rate that it is impossible to
definitely name the top five.
Probable Starters
"However," he continued, "you can
count on seeing last week's starters
in action again for a considerable
part of the Bronco game." On the
basis of this information, Wolverine
fans can expect to watch John Mul-
laney, Bob Harrison, Glen Selbo,Dave
Strack, and Walt Kell take on West-
ern's Brown and Gold aggregation,
Saturday night.
Harrison and Mullaney handle for-
ward slots and will probably be sup-
plemented by Keith Harder, Bill Bak-
er, and Jack Dietrich. In addition to
Strack and Kell, the guard berths
will most likely be filled, at one time
Navy Finishes
Third in Poll
Tabulators Mistake
Advances Alabama
NEW YORK, Dec. 4-(A')-Ala-
bama, not Navy, finished second to
Army in the final Associated Press
poll to determine the country's top
ten football teams, a re-check of the
116 votes cast showed today.
A Tabulator's error on the lone first
place vote for Alabama sent the mid-
shipmen into the runnerup slot with
the Crimson Tide in theird place. A.
re-count today furnished the follow-
ing results: Army 1,159, Alabama 942,
Navy 941.
or another during the tilt, by Bill
Walton, Pete Elliot, and Bill Gregor.
Football Players Primed
Elliott, along with Len Ford, has
been weeded out from among the 14
football men who are out for the
team and have earned positions on
the regular squad. The other twelve
ex-gridders are still being put through
their paces preparatory to being
permanently assigned to Coach Oos-
terbaan.
Ford's 6 ft. 5 in. height is expected
to come in handy later on this season,
when the former end has had a
chance to whip himself into varsity
basketball form. Elliot, according to
Oosterbaan, is coming along steadily,
and will probably see more action
than last week, in the Bronco clash.
Sporting News'
All-A mericans
Army Dominates Poll;
Big Ten Places Two
ST. LOUIS, Decfl 4-W)-Army's
spectacular touchdown twins, Felix
(Doc) Blanchard and Glenn (Junior)
Davis, dominated balloting on the
Sporting News' 1945 All-American
Football Team, selected by a poll of
163 sports writers and sportcasters.
The selections: Robert Ravens-
berg, Indiana, left end; George Sa-
vitsky, Pennsylvania, left tackle;
John Green, Army, Left Guard;
Vaughn Mancha, Alabama, Center;
Warren Amling, Ohio State, Right
Guard; DeWitt Coulter, A)Ud
Bight Tackle; Richard Duden,
Navy, Right End; and backs, Blan-
chard, Davis, Bob Fenimore of Ok-
lahoma A. and M., Harry Gilmer,
of Alabama, and herman Wede-
meyer, St. Mary's.
Coast League in Majors
COLUMBIA, O., Dec. 4-(A')-The
Pacific Coast League voted today to
become a Major League beginning
with a 1946 season, subject to ap-
proval of Baseball Commissioner A. B.
Chandler, president of the two cur-
rent major leagues and minors' or-
ganization.'
Offense Pleases Heyliger;
Squad Drills on Defense
"Owen Sound should give us our
first real test of the season," predict-
ed Vic Heyliger, commenting on the
Wolverines next hockey foe, whom
they will encounter Saturday eve-
"If we beat the Mohawks, we
will know that we have a pretty
fair club. But we've still got lots
of work to do first." Although ad-
mitting Michigan's young aggrega-
tion looked good on offense, Hey-
liger pointed out a flaw in the
Varsity's defensive play. The de-
fense must give the goalie better
protection than he was receiving
last Saturday.
The Owen Sound Mohawks will
bring a much older team to Ann Ar-
bor than did the Windsor Spitfires.
They are a member of the Ontario
Senior A Hockey League this year,
but have not yet played any league
games. The Mohawks started the sea-
son auspiciously, however, winning
their first game against Toronto Ma-
her's a week ago Friday.
Coached by Buddy Marakle, three
times scoring champion of the Inter-
national League, the Mohawks will
have two full teams ready for duty.
in the Mahers contest four for-
wards copped scoring honors. They
include Jimmy Boddy, who centers
the first line and speedy wingmen,
Freddy Smith, Ab Bowen and
"Fuzz's Foster. Biodily, Bowen and
Smith will probably be the starting
line for the Mohawks Saturday.
Foster, MacDonald and Cecil Shears
form a second line.
The Mohawks also have four rug-
ged defensemen in Tom Pollock, Vic
Bishop, Harry Kazarian and Art Hay-
ward. Pollock and Bishop are the
starting combination. Don Suther-
land is slated to start the game in the
nets for Owen Sound.
I-M Cagers
Started League
Tilts Last Night
Intramural basketball games will
continue this week with the Indepen-
dent teams meeting Wednesday-night
and the fraternities clashing Thurs-
day night.
Four games in the Independent
League will be played Wednesday
night at 8 p.m. They are: Rangers vs
Ships Company, Junior Birdmen vs
Poontangers, Watched Dogs vs Sem-
per Five, Engineers vs D.D.T.'s. More
teams are needed in this group and
entries are still open.
The fraternity loops will open
Thursday night at 7 p.m. with the
following games: Theta Chi vs Sigma
Phi Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta vs
Alpha Tau Omega. Four games will
be played at 8 p.m.: Delta Kappa Ep-
silon vs Sigma Chi, Zeta Psi vs Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha vs
Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Alpha Mu vs
Phi Delta Theta.
The professional fraternities will
not play until the beginning of the
year.
Results of last night's games were:
Class A
Allen Rumsey 29, Tyler House 25
Lockwood 38, Baldwin 9
Class B
Fletcher Hall 32, Allen Rumsey 11
Greene House 37, Wenley House 13
Breslin in East-West Tilt
LANSING, Dec. 4 -(P)- Jacweir
Breslin, captain of the Michigan
State College football team, received
a telegraphic invitation today to par-
ticipate in the East-West All-Star
football game to be played in San
Francisco on New Year's Day. Bres-
lin was a member of the East squad a
year ago.
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