TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1945 THE MICHI CA N DA IIN PwtM Tlwlrt .T. E MLIN1.\i a Y I T7. 1 IA.11.A[IV LW!? 'rnm - 4urAJ rAWExa Michi an's Quarter acks idelined By Injuries 1946 aize and Blue Quintet To Open Season in Ten Days First Encounter with Central State College Regulars; Mullaney, Kell, Harder Return With the opening game at Central State Teacher's College only 10 days away, Michigan's basketball team is fast rounding into shape for the en- counter. Barclay Coaches This year's inaugural, the earliest in Wolverine history, necessitated an equally early practice schedule. Con- sequently, the squad has been work- ing out at Yost Field House under the direction of Assistant Coach Bill Bar- clay since early September. Several weeks of summer practice were sched- uled as well. Head coach Bennie Oosterbaan has not been able to take over the reins as yet, being busy until the end of the football season in his capacity as End Coach. Oosterbaan will assume command in late November. Two Dons Missing Michigan will miss the two Dons lost from last years squad, Lindquist and Lund, but among the lettermen returning are John Mullaney, Walt Kell, and Keith Harder, all regulars last year. Wolverine hopes are further bright- ened by the return of Dave Strack, letter winner in both '42-'43 and '43- '44 and honorary captain of the cage squad in his last year. Strack return- ed to the campus this summer after serving in the Marines. Heading the list of 21 aspirants Michigan State T6 Meet Great Lakes Sa turda y EAST LANSING, Nov. 5 -(/')- Michigan State College's football team, which came through the 14-7 victory over Missouri last week with- out a serious injury, rested today but prepared to plunge into practice Tuesday for Saturday's game here with Great Lakes. Coach Charley Bachman, well sat- isfied with his team's showing against Missouri, warned his Spartans that in Great Lakes they would be play- ing their toughest foe of the season since the Michigan game and cau- tioned them against over-confidence. Bachman said that State will con- tinue to make use of its ground game which improved markedly in the Mis- souri contest, although he indicated that passing will still play an impor- tant role in the M.S.C. offense. contesting for berths on the squad are Glenn Selbo, Bob Harrison, Martin Feinberg, Gordon Rosecrans, Bill Walton, Bob Hamilton, and Ray Lou- then. Walton, a Navy trainee, was WALT KELL . returning letterman a regular guard for DePauw of IndJi- ana last year. Feinberg is a junior, having played high school and ama- teur basketball in Cleveland before entering the service. Improvement Hoped For Both Oosterbaan and Barclay are hoping to improve upon last year's Conference record which showed Michigan in fifth place with five wins against seven losses. Not until De- cember 22 will the Wolverines begin Big Ten play when they open against Indiana. Following the Centrai State Teach- ers game the Maize and Blue meet Michigan State and Western Michi- gan here. Great Lakes and the Wol- verines clash at the training center, and Michigan then winds up the pre- Conference schedule here against Utah. Coach. Barclay is also trying to schedule a game for Nov. 23, but nothing is definite as yet. 26-0 Victory Keeps Team In Title Race Wolverines Must Fake Purdue and Ohio State By WALT KLEE Michigan's 26-0 rout of Minnesota kept the Wolverines in the thick of the chase for the Big Ten Crown, but at the same-time may have damaged Maize and Blue chances for the title. Indiana Must Lose If the Wolverines are to take un- disputed possession of the Crown, Fritz Crisler's charges must not only win their two remaining Conference games with Purdue and Ohio State, but either Minnesota or Purdue must take the measure of Bo McMillan's undefeated Hoosiers. With many of Michigan's title hopes resting on the outcome of the Indiana-Minnesota game in Minneap- olis next Saturday, the prospects of a Gopher victory look pretty black con- sidering the mauled condition in which Bernie Bierman's charges left the field last Saturday. Kulbitski Injured Vic Kulbitski, the Gopher fullback who resembles a battering ram, was removed from the game in the fourth period with a leg injury and he may not be able to play in next Saturday's tussle and certainly won't be in the pink of condition. His loss alone is a serious threat to Gopher power. Other Minnesota stalwarts such as Tom Cates, Bob Graiziger, Dick Van Dusen, Bob Carley, and Johnny West- rum, all members of the first string eleven, left the gridiron with at least minor injuries or bruises. At least two other ends and two tackles left the game in a banged-up condition. Hoosiers Have Edge Defeating a Bierman team in top condition would be quite a task for the Hoosiers. But the injuries to the Gophers probably will mean that In- diana will be given the edge in what would have been a close affair. Of course, many of the injuries may be minor and not serious enough to keep men out of action. Indiana has had two breathers the pa'st two weeks and will enter the fray primed for the task of keeping its undefeated record intact. And it must be remembered that McMillan has wanted a Big Ten Crown for many years. Illinois Meets Iowa The two other Conference games will have little effect on the leaders. Illinois and Iowa will face each other in search of their first league win. The other contest pits Northwestern against Wisconsin. Ohio State will visit Pittsburgh in a non-Conference game with the Pan- thers, and Purdue has an open date. Michigan will face Navy inBalti- more in a game second only to Army- Notre Dame on Saturday's grid slate. The outcome of this tussle will have much bearing on national standings, but no effect in the Vv estern Confer- ence. 'I Say, Heathfiff,I No Booting Now!' MANCHESTER, Engiand, Nov. 5. (I)-Britain's (soccer) football play- ers handed down an ultimatum to club owners today in which they threatened to strike after Nov. 17 un- ess demands for increased wa e ,.re SPOUT s NEWV+ VIEWS + COMMENT By BILL MULLENI)ORE, Sports Editor ,. IHE STORY of Michigan's 26-0 victory over Minnesota last Saturday may be simply told. The Wolverines ran better, passed better, blocked better, and tackled better than their opponents, and when a team excels in those four basic departments it is a pretty sure bet to win. But, while the reasons for the Michigan victory may be simple, the reasons for the poor Minnesota showing are a little more obscure. We fully expected to see a real battle Saturday. We figured that Michigan would have to be just about as good as it was to win. But we also had visions of a top-notch Gopher eleven putting up a tremendous battle. Those visions very definitely did not materialize. In the locker rooms after the game, in the comments of various press bex authorities from Minneapolis and elsewhere, in talks with some of the Michigan players, and in just plain rumors we have heard a gcdi many theories designed to explain Minnesota's ineptitude. None of them, to our way of thinking, is the right one. We heard, for instance, that there was dissension on the Minnesota squad. We heard that the Gouhers had taken such a bad physical beating from Ohio State the revious week that they had not been able to recover. We heard that they were not mentally "up." We heard that they were over-confident. And we heard a lot of others, too numerous to mention. Our own explanation involves no such excursions into the misty realms of psychology. For our money, Michigan was just the better team with hetler b,:0 players-and more of them. And that phrase "more of them" is the key to the situation, if our theory is correct. The first, two men at every position on this 1945 Michigan squad are, with a very few exceptions, just about equal in ability. That means that Coach Crisler can substitute freely, keeping fresh men in the lineup all the time, without materially'Veakening his combination on the field. (RISLER has been quick to take advantage of this most fortunate wind- fall. He has formed an offensive and a defensive line, alternating the two as the ball changes hands. He has switched his backfield men at fre- quent intervals. Except for the center, quarterback, and fullback, no Michi- gan player is in the game much more than two periods in toto. The result has been that the Wolverines have just plain worn down the opposition in the closing stages of the game. A. good fresh man will beat a good tired man, and the same, in general, amplies to a team. ciisler has becn very careful ) see that Michigan is always represented en the fir 1? by men who are both good and fresh. No one who saw the fourth quarter of the Michigan-Minnesota fracas can derry that the Gophers were a thoroughly tired bunch. After almost every play, at least one Minnesotan had to be taken from the field. Michi- gan, on the other hand, seemed to have plenty left. It had enough, at any rate, to score three timss in the final period, where it had had trouble scor- ing once in the first three. Just about the same thing happened in the Illinois game last week. The Wolverines were held in check for three quarters, but exploded for a trio of touchdowns in the fourth for a 19-0 victory. Just as did the Gophers, the Illini seemed to wilt visibly as the game progressed. Maybe those two games were just coincidences, in which case our theory is probably all wet. But we don't think so. In fact, we wouldn't be at all surprised to see a repetition of the same pattern in future contests. Ponsetto, Yerges, Robinson Possibilities Include Artley, By BILL MULLENDORE verted Daily Sports Editor which h Anybody here play quarterback? to run That's the question Michigan foot- Navy, ball coach Fritz Crisler was asking They. the world yesterday, and well he The p might. For right now the occupant by the of the quarterback position in Sat- Artley, urday's tussle with Navy at Balti- Georgia, more, Md., is one huge question mark. seasond Three Down has not As things stand now, neither Joe He was Ponsetto, regular signal-caller, How- ard Yerges, Ponsetto's understudy, in 1942, nor Don Robinson, the most likely Hutter, third string choice, will be available Dor, ei for duty against the Middies. Daty, t Ponsetto, who did not see any ac- come al tion at all in last Saturday's 26-0 the brew triumph over Minnesota, will be out few mu for the remainder of the season, it Doty ha was learned yesterday. An operation If the may besnecessary to remedy an ankle may tur injury suffered in the Illinois game, while so Crisler said. was sen Yerges' Ankle Injured the Min Yerges, who filled in so capably for ler and Ponsetto in the Gopher tilt, also has only th been sidelined by an ankle injury. perience The final word has not been spoken job. regarding his ability to play Satur- As a day, but Crisler was inclined to be comb th dubious.-*L sity squ And Robinson, the boy who tossed overlook the two long passes for lichigan's at thisc fourth touchdown, is also out for the to who, season, with ahknee injury. Robin- starting son, who saw his first action of the off time year Saturday after receiving a ser- vice discharge, had shown great The promise in his new quarterbacking Michi role.held a Not Much Choice sityP That leaves Crisler with a miscel- Mann laneous collection of third and fourth dates. stringers, newcomers, and men con- Crisler Searches Squad For Substitute Gridder Incapacitated; Hutter, Doty from other positions from ae must select a quarterback s team against undefeated roblem may possibly be solved return to the squad of Jim 185-pounder from Savannah, , who saw some action last at quarter. Artley has just ischarged from service and had much time to practice a member of the Duke squad but did not win a letter. Doty May clay ther George Hutter or Harold Gird and fourth string signal- respectively, may be able to ong fast enough to step into ach. Hutter has seen only a ,utes' action all season, and s not played at all. ese two sources fail, Crisler n to big Dan Dworsky, erst- econd string fullback, who .t in to back up the line in nesota game. A vicious tack- a hard blocker, Dworsky lacks e football sense born of ex- to be a "natural" for the final resort, Crisler plans to he ranks of the Junior Var- uad, just in cave something ked earlier may turn up. But, date, it is anybody's guess as or what, will appear in the quarterback position at kick- Saturday. first meeting of the 1945-46 gan swimming squad will be t 5 p. m. today in the Var- ool, Swimming Coach Matt has announced. All candi- for the team should report. (I' . , d New tryouts for the sports staff who have not signed the sheet on the sports bulletin beard, but who expressed preference for sports ex- perience at the editorial tryout meeting yesterday, are requested to register their names, addresses, and phone numbers on the sports bulletin board anytime today. 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