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THURSDAY, OCT&BER 28, 1948 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE
TALKING SHOP:
National Sports Scribes
Rate Wolverines as Tops
By BUD WIEDENTHAL
(Daily Associate Sports Editor)
According to many of our breth-
ren sports scribes throughout this
wide nation there'srno doubt about
our Wolverines.
They're the tops.
Gene Kessler, who is one of
Chicago's best, says of the Maize
and Blue in the windy city's Sun-
Times . . . .
"It's no longer a question of
which team deserves the na-
tion's' No. 1 collegiate football
rating, but whether Michigan's
champion Wolverines are up to'
their Rose Bowl par."
We'd like to agree with you-
you may very well be right-since
you've seen the best of them you're
certainly as well qualified as any-
one else to pass judgement.
But here in the Minneapolis
Star is the master himself, Bernie
Bierman. He has some ideas on
the matter..
"On defense I feel that they
are stronger than last year and
Chuck Ortmann is a better
passer than Bob Chappuis. But
,I don't think their offensive
game on the whole is as good as
last year's."
Of course, Bernie may be a lit-
tle prejudiced, but he has a right
to his opinion..
Let us not try and resolve this
thing but instead move East to
the Cleveland Plain Dealer where
John Deitrich spouts forth on the
matter.
"Michigan is closer to invinci-
bility than at any time since the
early years of 'Hurry-up Yost'."
There aren't many who will
deny that, John, except per-
haps, Mr. Oosterbaan whose task
it is to convince his boys that
they are not unbeatable. It's us-
ually the invincibles that are
upset, you know.
Mr. Dietrich goes on to say that
the "big bad wolves" are now a
football team as national in char-
acter as is Notre Dame. Only seven
of the 24 men that saw action
against Minnesota were from the
state of Michigan.
He gives out with a long, drawn
out explanation of this phenome-
non that boil down to this.
Michigan's athletic program is
regarded as clean and wholesome
as any in the country, but they
have a big powerful alumni that
is constantly on the prowl from
coast to coast.
When they find a boy athe-
letically and scholastically qual-
ified they try to persuade him to
go to Michigan. He is promised a
good education in a fine school.
And then too, when he fi~nishes
his academic pursuits he can be
almost certain of finding a good
job in his chosen vocation.
This does the trick, he says,
and has provided for the Maize
and Blue a winning combination
for years.
We've never heard it put quite
that way before, but if that's what
makes Big Nine and Rose Bowl
champs, we're not complaining
about it.
SPORTS
ROG GOELZ, Night Editor
Back Injury
SidelineEn
For OSU Tilt
Nursing multiple injuries, in-
cluding a badly bruised pride,
Michigan's lightweights went thru
a light contact drill yesterday in
preparation for their home opener
against Ohio State here a week
from Saturday.
The most serious injury suffered
in last week's disappointing defeat
at the hands of Illinois was, of
course, the cracked vertebra which
will put starting end and ace
punter Frank Whitehouse out for
the season.
But Jere Ogle who turned in a
60-minute performance Saturday
turned up with a broken nose and
quarterback George Sipp whose
passing sparked the Wolverines to
their lone touchdown is nursing a
twisted ankle.
* * *
SEVERAL OTHER minor in-
juries also bobbed up to add to
Cliff Keen'swoes but the major
problem facing the Wolverine
mentor now is finding not one but
two replacements for the injured
Whitehouse.
Johnny Picard took over for
Whitehouse at end Saturday and
teamed up with Pat Costa to turn
in a fine job on an otherwise
gloomy day for Michigan.
MORE DIFFICULT however will
be the search for a kicker capable
of getting the distance Whitehouse
got on his punts. Jerry Burns, who
has shown great promise in prac-
tice sessions, has the inside track
for the job but his booting Sat-
urday left something to be desired.
But while Picard rates the nod
on his showing against the Illini
he will find plenty of competition,
in the persons of Gordy Smith
and Stan Emerling.
f;
Michigan Boasts Large Edge
In Long Conference Rivalry
In their 33 meetings with Illinois on the football field, Michigan
elevens havehad much the better of the series, emerging on top 23
times with no ties.
The Illinis however, have had their moments, and although these
have been few and far between, they have been enough to show that
Illinois is a team that can't be taken too lightly no matter how heavily
favored the Wolverines might be.
To see this, Michigan grid fans just have to look back to
1946 when the Wolverines were a two touchdown favorite, but
when the final gun had sounded the Maize and Blue gridders found
themselves on the short end of a 13-9 score.
The 1924 game was one that neither Wolverine nor Illinois old
timers will forget. That was the day that Red Grange ran wild over
the hapless Michigan eleven, scoring on the opening kickoff and three
more times in the first period, the Wheaton Iceman personally ac-
counted for all six of Illinois's touchdowns in their 39-14 triumph.
With these notable exceptions, the Orange and Blue have had to
take a back seat to the Wolverines. Michigan won the first game 12-5
in 1898 and then swept on to four more in a row. Because the Wolver-
Poll Names.
Billy Meyer
Year'sPilot
NEW YORK - (A) - Billy
Meyer, freshman pilot of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, is the Major
Leagues' manager of the year."
Meyer, who led the Pirates to a
surprising fourth-place finish in
the National League pennant race,
nosed out Billy Southworth of the
flag winning Boston Braves for
the honor. Meyer received 89
votes to Southworth's 87.
The two National League lead-
ers dominated the poll. No other
pilot received more than 20 votes.
Lou Boudreau, brilliant player-
manager of the world champion
Cleveland Indians, finished third
in the balloting with 20. Joe Mc-
Carthy, manager of the Boston
Red Sox, and Meyer's old side-
kick, was fourth with 18 votes.
Other managers to draw votes
were Bucky Harris, since released
by the New York Yankees, 3;
Steve O'Neill, Detroit, Burt Shot-
ton, Brooklyn, Connie Mack, Phil-
adelphia, one each.
JV's Furnish Blueprint
For Wolverine Victory
Set For 34th Meeting With Illinois
By PRES HOLMES
Maybe it's my new glasses, but
I'd swear I was seeing double last
Saturday.
Upon reading the account of the
Minnesota tussle, I was impressed
with the fact that the Wolverines
were forced to come from behind
in order to wind up on top.
* * *
SOMEBODY, I suspected,
slipped in a piece of carbon paper
for as a perused the story concern-
ing the Michigan-Michigan State
"B" team game the fact again was
mentioned, quite emphatically,
that the Jayvees too were forced
to overcome a lead to win their
game.
The Jayvee team appeared to be
working under a variation of the
"like father-like son" theory, but
as is usually the case, they out-
did their elders in gaining their
victory.
The varsity was behind twice,
7-0 and 14-13. A one-point or one-
touchdown deficit can be mighty
big, that cannot be denied, but 19
points, if you are going to look at
it in this light, is an even more
formidable barrier-psycholog
ly as well as physically.
TRAILING BY THREE to
downs and an extra point,
Jayvees went into the second
and tore the field apart. The
score came when the Jayvees
deep into State territory o
series of punt exchanges.
Next they marched 54 yar
paydirt, while the final ma
was set up on a long pass
and the ball finally carried
from the five.
But it would all have bee
vain if three importantX
hadn't been perfectly exec
The man of the hour was Hal:
who successfully convertedi
each Wolverine score, to ma
21-19 at the final .gun.
Truly living up to their norn
junior varsity, the "B" team
lowed the pattern set for the a
noon by their big brothers-
even added a little to the1
print.
Don't wait, buy the Ensia
before it's too late.
M ' Sailors
Down Foes
SRegatta
Completely swamping the oppo-
sition's fleets, the Michigan Sail-
ing Club paced a field of twelve
competing schools to capture the
coveted Michigan State Invita-
tional Trophy.
Manning the helm for the Wol-
verine sailors were Ray Kaufman
and Renate Oppenheimer. Gene
O'Connor and Lucy Leebot com-
pleted the ship's complement.
In the two day Michigan State
Invitational Regatta staged at
Whitmore Lake, competition was
narrowed down on Saturday as a
result of. mediocre sailing condi-
tions. A steady breeze on Sunday,
however, delivered the proof of
the pudding as the Michigan crew
squeezed out a close second place
Notre Dame crew.
ines dropped out of the Western
Conference, the Illini were forced
to wait until 1919 for their first
victory when they crushed Michi-
gan 29-7.
The two teams battle on pret-
ty even terms until 1929, when
the Illini shutout the Wolver-
ines 14-0. Michigan took over
the reins then and rolled to four
straight including a 35-0 vic-
tory in 1931 and a 32-0 triumph
'the following season.
Here the Illini got hot and put
on their longest winning streak of
the rivalry, a three game skein.
But they had to use the foot in
football to do it, winning all three
on kicks, one an extra point and
the other two on field goals.
Michigan came back for two
more in 1937 and 1938, but the
next year, the Illinois eleven
pulled another one of their up-
sets, downing a heavily favored
Tom Harmon led eleven 16-7.
From then on, with the excep-
tion of 1946, its been all Michi-
gan, the Wolverines piling up a six
game streak, winning four times
on shutouts.
Its another season fow, and al-
though the experts are picking the
Wolverines to extend their 19
game winning streak.
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