THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950 THE MICHIGAN DAILY O THEsePOT By BILL CONNOLLY Daily Sports Editor EVERYTHING WENT RIGHT for Michigan football fans last Notre Dame was outfought for sixty minutes and judging from the saturation of Frank Leahy's crying towel, it looks as if they're still suffering from their first loss in forty games. The Spartan warriors of Michigan State spent the afternoon within a pigskin's throw of their own goal line and six times were chased across it. Minnesota and Illinis ,heretofore rated as the teams which blocked the tracks for the Rose Bowl Limited, provided a boon (although it may be shortlived) to the railroads operating between Ann Arbor and Pasadena, by losing to Nebraska and Wisconsin, re- spectively. As if'that didn't jar the typewriters of football writers around the nation sufficiently, games played tomorrow night and Saturday give promise of causing equal amounts of pencil-chewing among coaches, players, fans and newsmen alike. A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF THE WEEKEND AGENDA of Big Ten teams looks like this: Illinois wings westward to take on UCLA tomorrow night and it looks as if the Illini will be ready to go with a one-two punch that can floor the Bruins' 6-2-2-1 defense. With Dick Raklovits providing a middle-line threat and Johnny Karras on the outside, the Illini should be able to show that last week's loss to Wisconsin made them fighting mad. The bouncing Buckeyes of Ohio State open their Western Con- ftrence title defense when they take on a young Indiana team in Columbus. Vic Janowicz is expected to cut loose again but the Hoosiers will field an aggressive ball team-much scrappier tran the Pittsburgh eleven which was pulverized to the tune of 41-7 by the Bucks last week. Should Indiana take this one, they'll have nothing toworry about except the fact that they meet Notre Dame, Illinois, Mich- igan State and Michigan on the coming four Saturdays! Still chuckling over the success of his surprising Badger game which took Illinois for its life savings (a hoped-for clean Conference record in '50) last week, Wisconsin coach Ivan Williamson, hopes to settle once and for all the question: Does Iowa have a formidable ball team? The Hawkeyes opened their season with a surprising victory over a highly-rated Southern Cal. tea, but couldn't outguess lffiiana's quarterback Lou D'Achille last week as they lost 20-7. In his sophomore year of coaching the speedy Badgers, Williamson will be keeping one eye on next week's schedule which list Michigan vs. Wisconsin, in an Ann Arbor homecoming contest which may help decide the Rose Bowl bid. *' * * * - ROUNDING OUT THE BIG TEN SCHEDULE, the burrowing Go- phers of Minnesota' will try to dig their way out from underneath the debris caused by falling "good-bye Bernie" signs, as they crawl into Evanston to meet a rampaging Northwestern eleven. Thus far, the powerfully-rated Minnesota squad has suffered two disappointing losses-one each to Washington and Nebraska. Still strong enough to upset the Rose Bowl hopes of any Western Cnference school, Bernie Bierman's boys will be out to show the world that they can win the big ones, and help their coach liqui- date the Minneapolis chapter of the "Our Coach Lost, Let's Get Rid of Him" club. Northwestern, however, was impressive in winning over Iowa State and Navy earlier this season. The Wildcats are looking for the soft spot in the schedule that lists Minnesota, OSU, Michigan, Iowa, Michigan State, Purdue and Wisconsin in that order, but will have to work fast to plug the holes dug by the fightin'-mad Gophers. Playing an inter-sectional contest with Miami of Florida, the Boilermakers of Purdue are still rubbing their eyes after last week's jolting upset of the Irish. Stu Holcomb's strategy beat the Miami eleven 14-0 last year, but there's a possibility that beating Notre Dame is just too much for any team to handle. The Hurricanes are psychlogically set to blow into Lafayette and set the football world in a complete whirl by upsetting Purdue's heros of the tnidwest. Spirited Wolverines Drill fdr Cadets 'S. BLUES AND THE KNIGHTS: Blaik Expects Fired-Up Michigan Team Ortmann's Playing Key To 'M' Hopes for Victory WEST POINT, N. Y. - WA) - Army's coach Red Blaik expects Michigan to be fired to the gills for the game with the nation's No. 1 football team at Yankee Stadi- um Saturday. "They have every reason to be gunning for us," West Point's as- tute head tactician said yester- day, "and our being picked as the Backs Shine lin Initial FroshDrills With two weeks of practice in the lair of the Wolverine under their belts, Michigan's freshman squad, which has been touted as line-heavy and back-weak, show- ed indications of an opposite trend. Though there are no individual standouts this early in the sea- son, the backfield candidates on the yearling aggregation have been showing their heels to the defense more consistently than at any pre- vious time.* THE MAIN weakness in the play of the Weber-coached backs has been a tendency toward sloppy ball-handling.' Unfamiliarity with the intri- cacies of the Michigan version of the single-wing, coupled with inexperience in the use of the T-formation, accounts for the early-season fumblitis. Weber's line candidates are not big and rangy, in general. A num- ber of first-year men, however, are the small but spirited kind which have in the past been made into good Michigan-type guards. * * * WITH SOME schooling in fun- damentals still necessary, the freshman squad has nevertheless been stressing actual scrimmage work more strongly than during the first week and one-half. These scrimmages have en- abled the voluble Weber to give his, charges more experience in the Wolverine offense. Though the play has been rough but ragged so far, there are indi- cations that the yearling crew is coming along, and will be able to fill in adequately on next year's graduation-riddled varsity. top team in the country has poured on more fuel. just "WE KNOW they will be 'up' for this one. The psychological advantage is all with them." Blaik said he felt the news- paperand radio experts erred in picking his Black Knights first this week in the Associated. Press poll. "I'm afraid we were picked on what we have done in the past rather than what we are doing this year or what we can be ex- pected to do in the future," he said. "WE DON'T FEEL we are as far advanced as we were a year ago. We don't feel we are as good a club. We have a bunch of youngsters who haven't really been tested yet." The Army coach declared that scouting reports, on the other hand, indicate Michigan is a much better team than the out- fit that Army socked, 21-7, last year at Ann Arbor. "They tell us that Charlie Ort- mann is ready to play against us. That is bad news because he is a terrific back-and he has some fine pass receivers in Lowell Per- ry, Harry Allis and Leo Koceski." * * * "ORTMANN is a valuable man," Blaik added. "We don't have any- body to compare with him." The Army taskmaster said Michigan was "caught short" by Michigan State in the first game and hasn't really opened up yet. "There's no doubt they'll open up on us. They have never beaten us, you know." Last year Army broke a 25-game Michigan winning streak. The Cadets also spoiled Wolverine sea- sons in 1945 and 1946. * * * "I FIGURE they'll throw their best game of the season at us," Blaik said in rebuttal. "It's a, hump game for us, too." Michigan, after a loss toyMichi- gan State and a victory over Dartmouth, is rated 18th in the AP poll. Army won easily over Colgate, 28-0, and Penn State, 41-7. Asked if he'd concede Army Is the No. 1 team in the country if the Cadets beat the Wolverines Saturday, Blaik replied cautious- ly: "If they beat Michigan I'll concede they're a good team." Don't Forget Just in case you missed the story on the front page, be it known that the Michigan foot- ball team is scheduled to board busses at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in front of the Union. A rousing send-off rally, sponsored by the varsity com- mittee of the Student Legisla- ture, is expected to draw one of th aleregst crowds in Michi- gan history. Last year, the entire Cadet Corps turned out to send the Army team here-and the Black Knights ended Michi- gan's 25-game winning streak by beating the Wolverines, 21-7. Wings Begin Puck Season With 3-2 Win DETROIT - (IP) -The Detroit Red Wings took up where they left off last season as they nipped the New York Rangers, 3 to 2, last night in the opening game of the National Hockey League season. The Detroiters just nipped the New Yorkers in the Stanley Cup finals last season and had a scrap on their hands all the way last night before 11,321 fans. Michigan underwent another ri- gorous scrimmage yesterday in preparation for what the pre-sea- son dopesters termed the "game of the year.", Although Michigan's heretofore grid fortunes may have tended to alter the prognosticators' super- Jative phrase, the Wolverine camp at Ferry Field was alive yesterday with the encouraging shouts of football players and coaches. * * * THE HEAVILY laden skies and the soggy turf cast no influence on the spirited group of Wolver- ines as Coach Bennie Oosterbaan sent his charges through extensive pass-defense, rushing, and passing scrimmages. For the second successive day Chuck Ortmann became "one of the boys" as the Michigan all- around star exhibited the same bull-headed confidence and de- terminism in the drills as his teammates. With his ankle fully taped, Ort- mann showed no traces of a limp during the practice and he moved about with grace and effective- ness. THE PROBABILITY of Ort- mann's playing against Army this Saturday is almost certain. The only question is for how long? The Wolverines are not a one- man team but they rarely dis- play peak offensive efficiency without the services of Ortmann. The most notable evidence of this fact was shown in last years Army clash. Playing without the injured Ortmann, Michigan was able to complete only 3 of 26 passes. ALTHOUGH Charlie is destined to see limited service, the able U passing of quarterback Bill Putich and halfback Don Peterson to- gether with the steady improve- ment of glue-fingered end Lowell Perry may set the cadets right back on their heels. Leo Koceski continued to be the rock in the Wolverine back- field yesterday, shining in both offensive and defensive maneu- vers. The 170 pound mighty- mite's off-tackle reverse re- mains one of the Wolverine's key plays while his punting s picking up rapidly. The par-excellence line play of Roger Zatkoff reminisces shades of last seasons great Dick Kemp- thorn while fullback Don Dufek has lost none of his drive crack- ing the enemies forward wall., Nothing certain can be pre- dicted for this Saturday's clash with Earl Blaik's Cadets except that Michigan will be "up" for the game. Sooner Star Tops Weekly LinemaiiPoll, NEW YORK-(AP)-Tackle .Tim Weatherall of the unbeaten and untied Oklahoma Sooners is the,. college football lineman of the week.' He gained the honor on the vicious blocking and tackling that sparked a last-minute Oklahoma drive against Texas A & M. Okla- homa won 34-28. THE 6 FT.-4 INCH, 220-pound Weatherall had left the game only a few minutes earlier, sobbing when he missed a try for the extra point that would have tied the score at 28-28. 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