,w... THURSDAY~,JANUARY 1, 1I948 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SWildcats First Big Nine Team To Feel M Power Wolverine Grid Machine Rolls To 49-21 Triumph Six Michigan Players Scored Touchdowns As Precision Attack Baffles Enemy Eleven By DICK KRAUS EVANST ON, Ill., Oct. 18--Michigan made an auspicious Big Nine debut at Dyche Stadium, overpowering a good Northwestern eleven, 49-21, in a ball game that was strictly "good hit, no field." The vaunted Wolverine attack was in high gear all afternoon, but the Wildcats, paced by hard-running Art Murakowski punched through the heretofore impregnable Michigan defenses with unex- pected consistency. A two-touchdown Michigan scoring splurge in the opening period put the Wolverines out in front to --- Da ily-Lm ani an C'MERE YOU-W verine fullback Jack Weisenberger seems to be having little trouble tearing him- self away from Northwestern guard Vince Di Franscesea who apparently wants the shirt off Jack's back. Pete Elliott (45) is the gent on the right who has 'turned around after the hand off to Weisenburger to see how things are going. THEY LIKED 'W TOO: Grid quad Dazzles Skeptical Scribes They were skeptical up in the press box at Dyche Stadium, skep- tical right up until the second time Michigan got the ball, then they were converts, real believers in the' legend of Fritz Crisler's offensive magic. There was a tacit reserve in all the the Chicago writers' advances on the Michigan - Northlwestern game, a sort of "big scores, but who did they play" attitude. The attitude was not at all evident in the cover stories. Tom Siler, of the Sun, wrote, "Finesse, speed, power, decep- tion--you name it-Michigan had it in burying the North- western Wildcats under an ava- lanche." Then there was Jim Enright of COME To'. . ALO'RADY'S IRRB I ISHOP 1110 SOUTH UNIVERSITY Sfor tha personalied haircut. We have everything you need to maintain a neat-looking appear- ance. We are always ready to help you with your hair problems. -rc > < )---><->:<->c<- > c - -> the Chicago Herald - American: "The whole Wolverines looked the part of a perfect football machine. Their ball - handling functioned with precision, their backs fre- quently catching the Wildcats off guard to a point where they didn't realize who had the ball. Michi- gan's decoys and hidden-ball ex- perts worked behind seemingly complete mystery. Its ball carriers' rushed goalward with poise and finesse, plus power." And Wilfred Smith, the dean of them all, the Chicago Trib- une's top football reporter, said, "Michigan presented the fastest, best coordinated attack we have ever seen in Western Conference football. . . . On this October afternoon, the Wolverines with- out :doubt equaled any exhibi- tion of Fielding Yost's point-a- minute teams at the turn of the century." But the all-seeing Mr. Smith also saw what will make for a very uncomfortable week of practice sessions for Crisler's charges, a whole gridiron full of Michigan defensive lapses. "Defense?" Smith went on to say, "well the best defense is a good offense. Technically, how- ever, Michigan's defenders were amazingly inept at times. North- western fans 'rightly may believe that the Wildcats could have scor- ed three times in the first 15 min- utes. Northwestern had 292 yards gained by rushing ... many games have been won with less exertion." ......DO YOU KNOW that in the first football game Mich- igan ever played, the Wolver- ines defeated Racine on May 20, 1879 by the score of 7-2. stay. A brilliant 54-yard punt re- turn by Gene Derricotte took the ball to the Wildcat 10 yard line and on the first Michigan play from scrimmage, Bump Elliott t leggedit off tackle on a reverse to score. Bump Gets Loose The very next time Michigan got the ball it happened again. Bump Elliott after returning a punt from his own 17-yard line to the 46, took off for 34 yards on the reverse. Jack Weisenburger cracked center for ten and Little Hank Fonde cut off tackle to score. Brieske, who had a perfect day, converted and Michigan led 14-0, and without the use of a single forward pass. Michigan rolled to four touch- downs in the first half and All- American candidate Bob Chappuis atttempted only five passes, com- pleting two to Bob Mann for 50 yards. The ground attack spear- headed by Weisenburger and El- liott rolled up 238 yards. Mann Scores Mann contributed 51 of those yards on the play of the day, a touchdown jaunt through a brok- en field off a perfectly executed end around to account for Mich- igan's fourth touchdown. Meanwhile the Wildcats refused to play dead, their big line, slug- gish on defense all afternoon, charged Michigan off its feet, opening gaping holes for Mura- kowski and Frank Aschenbrenner. A 47-yard touchdown drive cul- minated by a seven yard Mura- kowski explosion, temporarily shaved Michigan's margin to 14-7. March 80 Yards The precision of Michigan's, at- tack again became evident as the Wolverines staged an 80-yard touchdown march, rolling offsthe distance in 12 plays, the final of which was a four-yard buck by Tom Peterson for the score. The Wolverines asserted them- selves again in the second half as they racked up three more touch- downs and then knocked off for the day. Third Stringers Yield Two Northwestern's last two scores, came against the third stringers, one on a 49-yard drive that ended suddenly as Murakowski blasted off tackle, and got a beautiful block from Halfback Julie Siegle, and cut back 24 yards to tally. He scored again a few moments later after Joe Zuravleff came up with an interception of a bobbled pass and returned, it to Michigan's 20, to set up his third touchdown, Jim Farrar converted three times to equal Brieske's perfect percent- age. Daily-Lmanlan FLYING LOW-That's exactly the technique Bump Elliott, Michigan's brilliant all-around wing- back, employs here as he zooms into Northwestern's Jules Siegle. Coming up fast to help Elliott are Wolverines Len Ford (87), Ralph Kohl (76), Al Wistert (11), and Quent Sickels (61). Crisler's Record Against 'Cats Still Unmarred Never in Fritz Crisler's 10-year regime as head coach of the Wol- verines has he seen his boys taste a Northwestern defeat. But on two occasions the Wild- cats knocked the Wolverines out of the running for the Big Nine crown by playing to deadlocks. In 1946. the 14-14 tie which came one week after Michigan's all-out struggle against Army's powerhouse enabled Illinois to re- lax in the throne-room of thet Western Conference. And in 1938, Crisler's first year in Ann Arbor. a scoreless battle 1 T HE between the two schools forced the Wolverine coach to settle for sec- ond place in the Big Nine with a record of five wins, one setback, and the tie. 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