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Wolverines Replace Irish as Nation's Top Team

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Rose Bowl Champions
Gain 226-119 Margin



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part, while the 357 who sent in
ballots for the post-season show-
down is the largest ever to take
part in such an AP voting. In the
regular season's final poll, Notre
Dame had 107 first place votes
and Michigan 25.
Of the 54 scribes who saw both
teams play, most of those on the
Notre Dame bandwagon said the
great Irish line, plus Johnny Lu-
jack, gave Coach Frank Leahy's
club superiority.
Jim Levandusky of the Wau-
kegan (Ill.) News-Sun contended
"Michigan's offensive line would
never budge that Irish forward
wall."
Among the others who saw
both teams play were Paul Zim-
merman,, Los Angcles Times,
who picked Michigan "on
greater speed and elusiveness in
the backfield," and Dick An-
derson, Evansville, Ind., Press,
who declared "Michigan prob-
ably had the greitest aggrega-
tion of football players ever as-
-sembled on one college campus."
Admitting it would be a "great
battle," Ten Tenny of the Fort
Wayne (Ind.) News - Sentinel
claimed Lujack would give the
Irish the edge "if their first team
line was able to stay in there most
of the game."
Several echoed the opinion of
Jack Senn, Toledo (Ohio) Times,
who felt "Notre Dame was never
really tested, much less outplayed
as Michigan was by Minnesota."
But from Fort Wayne, Ind.,
nt far from the Irish campus
at South Bend, Bob Reed of the
Journal-Gazette called Michi-
gan better thlanced with better
reserves. "Michigan could lose
Chappuis and still go," he de-
cared. "Notre Dame was doubt-
ful without Lujack."
Other supporters of Coach Fritz
Crisler's Wolverines dwelt upon
Michigan's offense, not sparing
the superlatives.
"I believe Michigan is the great-
est offensive team I have ever
seen," said Jerry Jurgens of the'
Davenport (Iowa) Daily Times,
while C. J. Anderson, San Bernar-
dino (Calif.) Sun, contended
Michigan had "too much speed
and deception."
Michigan ball handling camei
in for praise from Dan W. Scism i
of the Evansville, (Ind.) Cour-
ier, and Russ Kiesele, Moline

(Ill.) Dispatch. Both termed it
"magic."
"Michigan much faster, more
deceptive and. thrice as heavy in
reserves," offered Roscoe D. Ben-
nett, Grand Rapids, (Mich.)
Press; Eddie West, Santa Ana
(Calif.) Register said "Michigan
better in all departments;" and
Bob Laraway, Joliet (Ill.) Herald-
News, said Notre Dame was "in-
dividually great," but "Michigan
best all-around team in nation."
"Michigan's victory over South-
ern California by such a- wide
margin" was cited by Robert E.
Hooey, Ohio State Journal at Co-
lumbus, while H. Guy Moats of
the Pontiac, (Mich.) Press said
"I'll take Michigan (by two touch-
downs) any day over Notre
Dame."
Michigan was called best
"since the Four Horsemen" by
John W. Rice, Houghton
(Mich.) Mining-Gazette, who
added: "They depend upon pre-
cision, speed and teamwork,
while the Irish depend upon Lu-
jack plus brute strength."
Among those who saw nothing
to choose between either club
were Lloyd Larson of the Mil-
waukee Sentinel, Pat Harmon of
the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette.
.and Howard Martin, Chicago.
.Tribune. .. ,
"Only a football game could de-
cide Michigan-Notre Dame super-
iority . . . saw both teams and
it's still a standoff," said Martin.
"Nothing to choose between two
teams, suggest naming them co-
champions," wrote Larson. "I
think both teams far outdistanced
other college football units of the
season, and see no fair way to
distinguish between them," Har-
mon said.
Allison Danzig of the New York
Times, who saw Notre Dame, se-
lected Michigan "because of their
outstanding attack, combining
both speed and deception," but
Laurence Leonard of the Rich-
mond (Va.) News-Leader chose
the Irish. "From all reports Notre
Dame not even tested during sea-
son, softened Southern California
up for Michigan."
"I still don't thing Notre Dame
unloaded with its full power," said
Harold Harrison of the Indianap-
olis Star in voting for the Irish.
The Macon (Ga.) News sports
editor, Hank Drane, chose Mich-
igan on the basis of the Southern
California comparison, then add-
ed: "Both teams would have a
busy day beating Texas."

Leahy Lauds
'M' Gridders
Wrishes Sch ools Co ld
Have Mei in Season
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 6-(/P)
-Football Coach Frank Leahy of
Notre Dame prai ed Michigan un-
;tintinaly t ay in commenting on
the Associated Press poll wh
designat.d the RosT Bowl Cham-
pion Wolverines a a 2 to 1 na-
tional choice over the also-un-
beaten Irish. but had th mean-
ingful afterthought:
"Isn't it a shame that the two
teams couldn't have met-as a
treat, say, for 85.000 fans in Michi-{
gan Stadium who would see the
football game of the century. Tle
outcome even might prove sec-
ondary."
If there was any chagrin over
the reversed derision by the na-
tion's sports writers, who last
Dec. 8 voted Natre Dame the
top team and Michigan second,
soft-spoken Leahy kept it bur-
ied dop under his Wolverine
paean.
Asked his opinion of the rela-
tive merits of Michigan and Notre
Dame, Leahy diplomatically re-
plied:
"It doesn't make any differ-
ence whether Michigan 'or No-
tre Dame won the poll. I guess
all the Notre Daime fans will
look upon the Fighting Irish as
the No. 1 team and all the
Michigan fans will look upon
the Wolverines as the No. 1
team."
Leahy declined comment on the
likely outcome if Notre Dane
again met Southern California,
the mutual opponent whose 49-0
pasting by Michigan in the Rose
Bowl last Thursday precipitated
the landslide vote for the Wolver-
ines. Notre Dame defeated South-
ern California, 38-7, on Dec. 6.
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FINALE ... Wolverine end Dick Rifenburg reaches high for pass from Quarterback Howie Yerges.
Rifenburg gathered the ball in on the seven yard line and waltzed into the end zone for Michigan's
seventh and final touchdown against USC in Thurrsday's Rose Bowl game.
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Sportswriters on the West
Coast had a field day on January
2 when they let all their inhibi-
tions wane and tried to salve
their readers' feelings with some
clever writing in praise of "Michi-
gan's Magicians."
Paul Zimmerman of the Los
Angeles Timesminsertedhthese
gems in his column. He said, "At
the present readiig, the best
clause in that five-year pact is the
one that will keep both Illinois
and Michigan from returning next
year."
He added the comment that
"Someone complained after the
game that it was too bad Chicago
gave up football. . . Too bad, for
the Coast Conference that is."
Worse Than Expected
Braven Dyer, one of the finest
on the coast, summed it up like
this. "Well, it wasn't as bad as we
expected, it was worse. The aca-
demic bigwigs of the Pacific Coast
Conference who perpetrated this
unholy union with the Big Nine a
year ago should be made to line
up on the Rose Bowl turf next
January and pay for their per-
fidy."
Dyer added another comment to
his string, when he said "If this
keeps up first thing you know the
marriage (PCC-Western Confer-
ence Alliance) ain't going to last
much longer. The bride's apt to
sue us for nonsupport."
Dispairing Trojans
Jack Clowser of the Cleveland

Another scribe stated that the
debacle between Southern Cali-
fornia and Michigan will go down
in history as the most macabre
spectacle since the Christians were
fed to the lions.
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Red Smith of the New York
Herald Tribune lauded the Wol-
verine performance by saying that
they "Racked up touchdowns with
a sort of well-bred ennui, as the
Wolverines won by their custom-
ary Rose Bowl score from a
Southern California team that
had nothing but tickets to get in."
One anonymous was said after
the game that "USC lost the toss
and got steadily worse." While an-
other asked "What ever became of
the guy who wrote that SC would
win 21 to 20."
But the sparkling comments

weren't confined only to these.
Michigan players also took a hand
in the parade. Jim Brieske, when
asked after the game whether he
was nervous thinking about kick-
ing the seventh point-after-
touchdown (which equalled Mich-
igan's 1902 mark) said, "Naw, I'm
not supposed to think-just keep
my head down and swing my leg."
Bob Chappuis was heard mut-
tering to himself after the game
"That Michigan hasn't got any
better in 46 years. We won in 1902
by 49-0 and couldn't do any bet-
ter this year."
Trojan football might have tak-
en a tremendous blow and Michi-
gan might have risen to great
heights, but one thing is certain,
the scribes had a great time let-
ting their readers know that
Michigan had triumphed, 49-0.

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