TOURNAMENT OF ROSES EDITION LwAO ~Iat4b TOURNAMENT OF ROSES EDITION Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LVIII, No. 75 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS It 1 Stanford Trounced 49-0 by 'M' Eleven In First Bowl Tilt Rout by 1902 Point-a-Minute Team Causes Indians To Halt Game Early By PRES HOLMES, For the second time in Michigan's history, one of its football machines is participating in the New Year's Day Rose Bowl extrava- ganza. The first team to play there was Fielding H. Yost's fabulous point- a-minute aggregation of 1901. That team rolled up 501 points during the season while their '4'7 brothers reached a total of 345. Two Teams Similar There is still an amazing similarity between the two. Yost stated in January 1902. "The first three teams offered no real test to the offensive or defensive powers of the team, and our first real test was against Northwestern." His team beat the Wildcats by 29 points, one more than Coach Fritz Crisler's squad triumphed by this season. However, the '47 jug- gernaut defeated Indiana 35-0, while the '01 team had to settle for a 33-0 score. Michigan Visits Rose Bowl Again After 46 Years 1947 WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS . . . Bottom Row: Ed McNeill, LE; Bob Chappuis, LH; Howard Yerges, QB; Capt Bruce Hilkene, LT; Coach H. 0. "Fritz" Crisler; Bill Pritula, RT; Joe S obeleski, RG; Dom Tomasi, LG; Stu Wilkins, RG. Second row: Hank Fonke, RH; Dick Kempthorn, FB; Don Kuick, LH; Don Hers hberger, LE; Quent Sickels, RG; Jack Weisenburger FB; Pete Elliott, QB; Bump Elliott, RI1. Third row: Walt Teninga, LH; J. T. White, C; Kiesel, QB; John Ghindia, QB; Gene Derricotte, LH; Dan Dworsky, C; Bob Holloway, LE; Pete Dendrinos, ET; Jim Brie ske, C. Fourth row: Irv Wisniewski, RE; Lloyd Heneveld, LG; Dick Strauss, LG; John Maturo, RG; Don McClelland, RG; John Ander sen, LE; Bob Erbin, C; Kurt Kampe, RG; Alan Fitch, LG; Ralph Kohl, RT; Al Wistert, LT. Back row: Tom Petersen, FB; James At chison, RT; Chuck Lentz, LH; Jim Brieske, C. Chappuis, Elliott and Co. Favored To Rack Up Fourteenth Win in Row By JACK MARTIN It's been forty-six years since the first visit-forty-six years since the immortal Fielding H. Yost brought fourteen men from Michigan to the West Coast to make history-forty-six years since the Wolverines were the first guests in the first Rose Bowl. The New Year's Day carnival in sunny Pasadena has now be- come an annual show. It's come a long way since 1902, and in that tradition-packed history you'll find one name written more than any other-Southern California. The Trojans have accounted for nine of the pageant's chapters. Now-on January 1, 1948-the first guest and the inveterate host meet, the team'that helped start it and the team that carried it on. It's Michigan vs. Southern California. The champion, of the Western Conference and the champion of the Pacific Coast collide in the second edition of the current series promulgated by the post-season agreement reached by the two loops last year. One year ago Illinois trounced a favored UCLA team, b a ta. that will live in infamy on the West Coast. The cross-town neighbors of the Bruins are out to wipe out the memory of that afternoon. Although the Wolverines are ranked by the betting fraternity as anywhere from an 18 to 20 point favorite, the Trojans may well come through. They've had three weeks to recover from the Notre Dame tea party, and oesides the Southern California eleven is notor- - -< "The Ohio State game proved to Notre Dame's. Ranking over 11 Contested Wolverine Followers Challenge AP Polls One of the biggest gridiron de- bates in recent history has taken place this year as to whether Michigan or Notre Dame should wear the mythical national crown awarded each year by the Asso- ciated Press via its weekly poll. Although the final rankings ended with the Irish in first place. p there are many among the Wol- verine faithful who are pointing a lop-sided Rose Bowl score to confirm their convictions that the Maize and Blue should have wound up first. Michigan's undefeated gridiron team was never below second and x on several occasions overtook the Irish and held the first position. The final p oIl, conducted weekly by the Associated Press from the nation's leading spor s writers, found the Irish fir. t with 107 first place votes and 1410 total points to the Wol- verines 25 first place votes and 1289 total. 'I he Wolverines were never more than 160 points behind the top ranked Notre Dame eleven and three times topped them by mar- gins up to 250 points. As expected, the Irish started out in the premier spot, capturing the October 8 poll, but the Wol- verines grabbed the next week's selection polling 93 first place tal- lies to only 23 for Notre Dame and outpointing them 1258 to '1103. Michigan continued its dom- inance in the October 22 poll. grabbing 147 number one votes to but 21 for the South Bend- ers. In total points, the Maize and Blue' scored 1790 to their rival's 1553. Then came the Minnesota game and the Wolverines slipped into second where they stayed for three weeks, slowly making up the gap until the November 19 poll, when they once more took the lead. On the previous week-end, be a hard one. We could score but 21 points against them, although there was no doubt i tithe minds of all who saw the game that Michigan's team was superior." Most people would attribute that statement to H. O. Crisler after this year's tussle with the Buck- eyes, but F. H. Yost said it 46 years ago in his resume of the 1901 season. Whitney Isn't Impressed As great as this team was Cas- per Whitney, who was selecting All-Americans before anyone ever heard of Walter Camp or Grant- land Rice, was not impressed. He listed one N4ichigan man, Neil Snow, on his 1901 All-Ameri- can squad, and placed Michigan third in the nation behind Har- vard and Yale. He conceded that Michigan "has a strong, heavy line and a good beckfield; but in tle handling of the kicks, and in highly developed team play, they are quite a bit inferior to the eastern teams." Whitney from East Casper Whitney was from the East. The original sponsors of the now-famous Tournament of Roses were not highly- enthused either. The following is quoted from the Michigan Daily-News in December 1901. "All arrangements have been made for the trip to California. The expenses, amounting to about $4000, for the trip are guaranteed. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association at first kicked on paying expenses for more than three days on the coast, but Mich- igan hung out for six days, and a telegram was received yesterday acquiescing in all demands." The Athletic Association had to shell out $750 to pay for the extra three players, however. These ar- rangements pertained only to the starting eleven. Forty-six years seem to have made a difference. Today it cost at least $1000 per man to bring the squad to Pasadena, and no one seems to be complaining except the people who can't get tickets. The Rose Bowl game itself was a veritable track meet. Neil Snow, the All-American choice, scored five touchdowns, (they counted five points apiece then) in a game which did not even go the regula- tion distance. "In the gathering dusk with ten Ann A rborites Flock to Bowl 1,300 Go West for Tournament of Roses An estimated 1,300 students, faculty and staff members will be on hand to cheer the Wolverines to victory when they meet South- ern Cal in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day. Ticket Manager Don Weir re- ports that 1,300 members of the] University community applied forI Pasadena pasteboards and re-I ceived stubs entitling them to pick up the tickets on the West Coast. Most of the applicants were stu- dents with few faculty and staff members planning to make the trek. The majority, of those going West poured into the land of the proverbial- sunshine via the two special trains run exclusively for the Tournament of Roses clientele. The "El Capitan" left Chicago on December a7 and will return right after the game. Cost of said trip is slightly over $100. The Chi- cago Northwestern is also run- ning a special on the same dates. Here's flow KM' Solved TicketRiddle ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 10- (AI)-When powerful Michigan be- gan preparations for the Rose Bowl bid against Southern Cali- fornia, the Wolverines' hard- pressed ticket office set up a for- mula for distribution of Michi- gan's limited allotment of ducats for the New Year's Day grid clas- sic. Sixty numbers were drawn from a group numbered one to 100 to designate lucky applicants west of the Rocky Mountains and 40 were drawn similarly to designate the lucky Eastern applicants. Under an arbitary decision by the University that distribution ratio was established for the al- lotment of possibly 9,000 or 10,000 tickets. Michigan's allotment was split in the same ratio, and, starting with the first number drawn and continued additions of 100, the tickets were alloted to the appli- cations bearing the same number. Thus, 54, the first number drawn, and 154, 254, 354, 454, and See TICKETS, Page 2 HowThey Fintished Western Conf erence CONFERENCE GAMES ALL GAMES Teams MICHIGAN Wisconsin Purdue ..... Illinois'..... Minnesota Iowa ....... Indiana Northwestern Ohio State . . W. L. T. Pts. Op. 6 0 3 2 3 3 . . . .. .. . ...3 3 . .. .. .. .. . .2 3 ..... . .. ..2 3 2 4 ,. . . . . . . . .. 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 172 120 108 130 110 79 50 83 47 40 96 101 88 108 136 90 141 99 W. 9 5 5 5 6 3 5 3 2 L. 0 3 4 3 3 5 3 6 6 T. 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Pts. Op. 345 53 171 156 205 130 204 102 174 127 145 179 156 102 129 196 60 150 Pacific Coast CONFERENCE GAMES ALL GAMES Teams W SOUTHERN CAL. ......6 California .............5 Oregon. .......... U.C.L.A... ........4. Montana.............2 Oregon State . ....... .. Washington ............2 Wash. State ............2 Idaho ........... ..... I.. Stanford ..............0 . L. T. Pts. Op. 0 1 1 2 4 ,5 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 147 20 135 84 94 49 124 39 48 72 92 123 67 86 45 101 32 111 53.152 W. 7 9 7 5 5 5 3 3 4 0 L. 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 4 9 T. Pts. Op. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 193 275 174 172 157 171 99 93 92 73 65 111 121 80 145 136 99 149 138 214 iously a team that saves its great-' est game- for the Rose classic. On the other hand, Michigan has one of the most crushing offensives devised by a modern football coach. Fritz Crisler has adhered stubbornly to the classic single-wing in these days of the quick-thrusting "T." What makes the Wolverine mias- ter-mind's system work, how- ever, is his sense of seasoning. Added to the single-wing is just a dash of "T" here and a dash there until finally the final brew is an incomprehensible dish Michigan opponents can't swal- low. But it won't be Crisler who wins the Pasadena run for the roses- or Southern Cal's Jeff Cravath. They'll look on from the bench. It'll be Bob Chappuis and Don Doll and Paul Cleary and Bob Mann and some sub back who breaks away for a TD jaunt. It'll be the lines, a big, fast Trojan line against a small, fast Wolverine- line. If pounds forward wall is tops. It averages are the criteria, the California 210 pounds from flank to flank. Michigan's offensive unit pushes the scales to an avenage 183. The Trojans have two All- Americans up front-John Fer- raro and Cleary. End Cleary, and his mate, Tolman, will be up against some competition, how- ever. Mann and Lennie Ford have or Soboleski Pritula ......RT.... or Kohl Rifenburg . . RE .,. or McNeill Yerges....Q B... or P. Elliott Hendren Cleary Murphy Michigan Mann. or Ford Hilkene .. or Wistert Tomasi.-. or Sickels LT..... Ferraro .LG ....McCall Probable StartingLine-ups J. T. White , .- . .. McCormick or Dworsky Wilkins .....RG.....McCall USC Tolman Chappuis . .. LH ... McCardle or Derricotte C. Elliott . ... R f... ..... Doll Weisenburger FB... Lillywhite : Bowl Tickets Ready Dec. *30 To prevent congestion in Pasa- downtown Los Angeles. dena, Ticket Manager Don Weir As previouisly announced the announces that tickets may be se- tickets will also be distributed cured Dec. 30 at the Edison Build- Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 at the Hunting- ing, Grand Ave. and Fifth St. in ton Hotel in Pasadena. WIT'HO(T A PASS? Yost's 1901 Outfit Rolled 'Mile a Game' both been mentioned on several, second and third-string "All" squads. Teamed with Ferraro at tackle is Hendren, who's even bigger than the All-American and who was named to the All-Coast eleven. He didn't operate against Notre Dame, but he'll be ready for. Crisler's crew. Captain Bruce Hilkene and Bill Pritula are Mich- igan's offensive taclles. Guard is probably Southern Cal's greatest weak spot. There's Don Clark, a fine blocker, a good tackler, but the Wolver- ine's Dom. Tomas, Stu Wilkins. etc., should open up quite % few holes for Chappuis et al. Center Walt McCormack wasn't too strong for the Trojans at the beginning of the year, but he's one of the most improved players on the Coast. He was outstanding against the Irish. Michigan is strong in the middle, with J. T. White, Dan Dworsky, Jim Brieske, the automatic splitter of uprights. Southern Cal has at least eight good backs to match against the Wolverines superla- _ The name Fielding H. Yost is now practically synonymous with point-a-minute football since his first Michigan team in 1901 rolled up 501 points in the course of the season. He himself admitted that "dur- ing the season there have been a number of remarkable occur- rences. The team has carried the ball over five miles; in the Buf- ff,1,- fatfn l flr, if . wn, v a.',pi cago, Beloit and Iowa) the op- ponents made first downs only seven times. Four teams never had possession of the ball in Michigan territory, and but two teams were inside of Michigan's thirty-yard line." Some people might get the idea that the Michigan team consisted of a group of giants weighing well over 200 pounds each. Let's -.t_-1-f 6S''9i........... V. rJ n1" < . :.