TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949 T IE MICHIGAN DAILY 'AGE TH FM III1 y AR hM soLE by pres holmes, sports co-editor i pIS YEAR'S RACE for the coveted Western Conference football crown and coincidentally the Rose Bowl bid has developed into one of the wackiest and most unpredictable the Followers of Old King Football have' ever seen. Last September it was all figured out. Michigan would win .the Conference title, and Minnesota would go to the Rose Bowl if they could get by Ohio State. It was as simple as that. As the season has progressed the dopesters have been taking a beating. In the fourth week Michigan lost to Northwestern while Min- nesota whipped Ohio State. The Wolverines were literally dropped out of the running and the blue ribbon given to Minnesota as well as the Rose Bowl bid, unofficially, of course. At that point the experts were half right. The following week, however, they suffered a slight jar when Michigan dumped Minnesota. There still was a chance that the Goph- ers would get the nod, however, and represent the Conference in the post season classic. That chance disappeared last Saturday when Purdue, looking for its first win of the season, upset the hapless Gophers 13-7. Who, then, will go to the Rose Bowl? Ohio State has only lost one game, but they have yet to meet Illinois and Michigan. Illinois will be out to beat the Buckeyes since they have only lost one Confer- ence contest and are eligible to get the Rose Bowl bid again. If Ohio State beats Illinois, and Michigan, in turn tops Ohio State both the Buckeyes and Illini will have two Conference losses. THIS WOULD GIVE Iowa, which has lost only one game, a good shot at the title and Bowl bid, and begin to make this race sound like an old Abbott and Costello routine which started something like, "Who's on first?" Iowa's biggest hurdle is Minnesota, this Saturday, and the Goph- ers are just liable to be out for revenge that day. At the same time many experts are saying that Minnesota has split open at the seams and Iowa will hand the Gophers their third loss in a row. h As the agreement with the West Coast was originally con- ceived the Western Conference could appoint anyone they felt de- served the honor. That would be a good out for them this season, but the agreement was changed last May to read that a represent- .ative from the Conference must play in the Rose Bowl. It would seem that the safest thing to say, then, would be that the team which finishes closest to the top of he Conference ladder, and is eligible for the honor (anyone except Michigan or Northwestern), will go, but in a race as daffy as this year's anything can happen. Anybody got a two-headed coin. ALTROUGH IT SEEMS like the football season has just started training for the winter sports is already underway. Bill Upthe- grove, a breast-stroker on Matt Mann's swimming team, claims that Mann has been feeding the boys fish heads and rice ever since the Japanese walked off with a flock of new records in the NAAU meet last August. -Daily-Lmnanian UP AND AT 'EM-Leo Koceski, speedy Wolverine halfback, shouts encouragement to end Bob Holloway, foreground, and other team- mates about to enter the game at Champaign last Saturday. Koceski, who was unable to play because of an injury received during practice, was most anxious to enter the Wolverine-Illinois contest late in the final quarter. Radio broadcasters commented on the halfback's eager entreaties to Coach Bennie Oosterbaan, who, because of Koceski's injury, refused to let him see action in the battle. Spartans Aim for Notre Dame With Special Practice Sessions Fritz Denies Coach Rift At UsofM Fritz Crisler's vigorous spiking of a printed rumor saying that there was friction in the Univer- sity of Michigan athletic de- partment highlighted yesterday's meeting of the Chicago Herald- American Quarterback Club held at the Windy City. Crisler went even further with his views on the football situa- tion by suggesting a drastic rem- edy for the dishonesty and cheat- ing which violate the so called "purity" of inter-collegiatecath- letics. CRISLER'S comment on Michi- gan coaching friction referred to an item yesterday by Tribune Sports Editor Arch Ward in his S P O R 0 KT S BOB SANDELL, Night Editor column. Ward quoted a Washing- ton sports writer as saying: "There's friction at Michigan, where Athletic Director Fritz Cris- ler is the only non-Michigan man in the football coaching set-up." Crisply ,retorted Crisler: "I have permanently retired from coashing. I know of no dissen- sion at Michigan, unless it hap- pened since I left Ann Arbor last weekend. If it came up, it came up Sunday. I haven't been back yet." Crisler, who two years ago be- stowed the Michigan coaching job on Benny Oosterbaan, was pessi- mistic in his views on pure ama- teurism in athletics. "Maybe we should go to the paid player basis in athletics, if that is the way to eliminate dis- honesty and cheating. If our 'noble experiment' in athletics has failed, maybe we should go the other way. "But it would have to be with our eyes wide open. We would be in direct competition with the pro- fessionals. There would have to be a ceiling on player subsidies. And if we do go that way, we would have the greatest centrali- zation of athletic power in his- tory. Institutions with money would corner all the athletes. Hun- dreds of small colleges would sim- ply have to drop athletics." It looks like the Wolverines won't have a breather this week either. After six crucial games, four of them classed as the "game of the week," Bennie Oosterbaan and his rejuvenated Michiganders could rightfully expect an easy one to come along. * * * BUT PURDUE'S Boilermakers don't appear to be in the pushover category any longer after their stunning upset of Minnesota's once powerful Gophers last Saturday. The Boilermakers had won only one contest going into the battle with the Northmen and that was an unimpressive 14- 7 conquest of little Miami Uni- versity of Ohio. They had been trounced by Notre Dame and handily beaten by Northwestern, Illinois and Iowa in Conference competition. The Boilermakers, paced by halfback Harry Szulborski and Quarterback Ken Gorgal appeared to have found themselves, even An important meeting for members of Phi Epsilon Kappa will be held at 7:30 tonight in Waterman Gymnasium. Attend- ance is urgently requested. -Bob Hollway. though Minnesota undoubtedly suffered a big letdown after the Wolverine defeat. * * * IT ALL ADDS UP to the fact that Michigan will be facing a revitalized football squad this weekend who will also .be seeking some sort of revenge for the 40-0 licking of last season. Purdue No Pushover for 'M' The Wolverines appeared to have come out of the Illinois contest with no serious injuries. Don Dufek should be ready to go Saturday and the mishap to Heneveld was a recurrence of an old knee injury. Probably the main feature of ~hL Saturday's tussle with the Illir was the fine showing by the Peter son brothers. Don and Tom. Ton is a familiar figure in the Wol. verine picture, but Don is a soph omore" who appears to be a cap. able replacement for the still dis abled Leo Koceski. I. 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Generally those who did SopRunner Paces Field, Harriers Lose Although a Michigan cross- country squad was defeated last Saturday in the Wolverines' first meet in almost twenty years, Don McEwen, sensational Wolverine sophomore, led the field across the finish line in the rugged four mile race. The Maize and Blue team, run- ning the hill and dale course in Champaign before the Wolverine- Illini game last weekend, was de- feated by the score of 21-35. BUT MEWEN'S performance was magnificent. In winning, he ran the Illinois ace, Vic Twomey into the ground, beating him by a substantial margin of 300 yards. In two seasons' competition in a Maize and Blue uniform, McEwen has never been beaten. Last year as a freshman, he ran away from the rest of the field and was the first one in from daily cross-country workouts of two, three and four miles. Even last year he was beating everyone including track coach Don Can- ham's best varsity runners. AND THIS YEAR, it's the same story. No one has passed him yet, and Twomey, who was 300 yards behind last Saturday, is one of the few runners he competes against who even sees him cross the finish line. Twomey has long been rated as one of the Big Ten's out- standing distance runners. Last year, in the Conference cross- country finals, he was second only to Wisconsin's great Don Gehrmann. By beating Twomey so decisive- ly, McEwen has definitely listed himself among the great distance runners in the Big Ten. With three years of competition ahead of him, he should do much to bol- ster the prospects of Wolverine cinder teams. much work the previous Saturday are allowed to report in sweat clothes and then go in after jogging around the field and lim- bering up a little. ALTHOUGH the regulars were spared from scrimmage, Munn started right in rehearsing plays and prepping his squad about what they can expect from Notre Dame. Despite the nine touchdown 62-14 defeat of Temple Satur- day the coaches were not en- tirely satisfied. He pointed out that the Spartans fumbled three times to allow the ball to go over to the visitors-a fault that could be fatal against a team like Notre Dame. They also were not entirely sat- isfied with the pass defense as Temple made nine completions in 2'0 tries, good for 92 yards. Bell for Dropping Extra Point Score DALLAS - UP) - Coach Matty Bell of Southern Methodist, whose team beat Texas, 7-6, Saturday, said yesterday he still thinks the point.after touchdown should be legislated out of football. Bell advocated abolishing the extra point try several years ago but says he couldn't get any sup- port on the National Rules Com- mittee of which he now is a mem- ber. "It isn't fair," he declared. 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