SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Snow, Indiana Pass Defense .,rP<> ith th e OLVERI[NES by BOB SANDELL Associate Sports Editor THE WOLVERINES are apparently headed for their worst gridiron campaign in 13 years or more, but we don't think that detracts anything from a couple of outstanding individual achievements. There isn't much need to mention one of them. It's the accom- plishments and game after game consistency of Michigan's really great fullback, Don Dufek. He is getting his share of the praise and credit and well he deserves it. But there is somebody else who is having just as big a year and certainly isn't getting the same recogni- tion. WE'RE TALKING about a big, husky 210 pound lineman who does as his position indicates, he tackles. He is doing a pretty fair job of it, too. So good that we think he will be an All-American some day. If you haven't guessed by now, the gentleman under discussion is Tom Johnson, easily the standout of the Michigan line this fall. Tom has done the unusual this year. Unlike most of the Wolverines he has stayed clear of any serious injury and as a result has become one of the most valuable members of the team as well as cne of the foremost. Against Illinois he went nearly the whole distance, off(nsively and defensively. That's quite a stunt in this era of tiro platoon football, when the tempo of the game is so much more than it used to be. Tom was up to old tricks last Saturday too., He pulled down one of the speedy Illini backs, not from in front, but from BEHIND. He started that neat little maneuver in the Army game and has pulled it regularly since then, although not quite as spectacularly. It was in the second period in that heartbreaker with the Cadets. They were roaring down the field trying to tie the score. Either Al Pollard or Vie Pollock, we can't remember which, broke loose from about the 30 yard line and looked as if he was on his way to the Wolverine goal line. From out of nowhere came Johnson to haul down the fleeing halfback in the vicinity of the ten yard line. Army eventually scored anyway but the fact that a big lumbering tackle could actually catch up to a halfback, a fast one at that, left quite an impression on anybody that saw the game. Tom held his own against the rugged Cadet linemen too. In fact, Jack Blott, the Wolverine line coach, thinks Johnson is probably the best tackle in the Conference and certainly the best that he has seen this year. BLOTT ALSO THINKS that Johnson is better offensively than defensively, although the two team system dictates that he be used exclusively on defense. Tom says that he would rather be in there when the other team has the ball, but that is probably because he has had more experience in this respect. Tom's improvement since he~was a freshman has been noth- ing short of sensational. Although he was an "all-Stater" at Muskegon Heights, he reported to Wally Weber at about 230 pounds and appeared to be too slow to be a good Big Ten lineman. Since then Tom has shed about 20 pounds of that excess beef and it has made a world of difference. He's a quiet, modest individual, the kind that is always trying to improve himself. He attributes a great deal of his success to the coaching, but Bennie Oosterbaan says that more than anything it's hisfine attitude that he has for the game and toward everything. As to pulling down halfbacks from behind Tom says he is just lucky. The Michigan State setback was probably a bitter pill for Tom to take. He and "Sonny" Grandelus, the Spartan ace, were teammates on their high school squad in Muskegon. This summer Grandelius kiddingly told Tom that he was coming his way every time he got the ball. Tom says he must have, meaning that he had plenty of respect for the Spartan speedster after trying to bring him to the turf for a good share of 60 minutes. All-American possibilities for Johnson are rather slim this year. You have to be on a winning team to get noticed by the experts, and any of the Wolverines are going to have a hard time getting themselves on the "dream team." That includes Charlie Ortmann and Al Wahl who both had the necessary pre-season buildup. Tom, however, has another year of eligibility left. With continued improvement and a better '51 season for the team he is going to be a hard one to keep off that coveted list of the nation's best. AND NO ROUND ROBIN: Top Grid Clubs Lack Stature Of Former National Champs 4) * * * s Threaten llichigan. SCALPING PARTY: Hatchet Falls on Tribe Chief Boudreau Koceski Still Injured; Don Peterson Out (Continued from Page 1) ORTMANN, throwing to receiv- ers which must be rated as in- ferior to the Anderson, Robertson, Gene Gedman, Don Luft combina- tion fielded by the Hoosiers, has amassed 462 yards, a mark that would have been considerably higher had he not missed two games due to injuries and played at partial strength in another. Rifle - armed, D'Achille has gained 883 yards in the air, 599 of them against Iowa, Ohio State and Illinois. In the. ground-gained-by-plow- ing department, Dufek, spinning from the Wolverines' single-wing fullback slot, has rolled for 377 yards. Robertson, who runs out of the left-half slot in Indiana's T- formation, has picked up 380 yards. * * * HOWEVER, the Michigan run- ner has carried 107 times, for an average of 3.52. Robertson's 5.4 average was figured on the basis of only 71 attempts to move with the ball. Significantly enough, the last two Indiana wins against Michi- gan came as the result of effi- cient passing as the Hoosiers re- corded their only two consecu- tive victories of the 17 game se- ries in 1944-45. In beating the Hoosiers 13 times, and loosing only four contests, the Wolverines have scored 416 points to 66 for Indiana since the series inauguration in 1900. Two -t housand cheer leaders from more than 210 high schools throughout the state will be on hand to encourage an expected 70,- 000 spectators. <" -- CLEVELAND -UP)- The Cleve- land Indians yesterday hired Al Lopez as manager for the next two baseball seasons and fired Lou Boudreau, Tribe pilot-shortstop for the past nine years. The announcement, a surprise to everyone including Boudreau, con- tained a statement that the In- dians hope soon to complete a deal placing Boudreau in another Ma- jor League managerial job. * * * EXCEPT FOR three National League clubs-St. Louis, Brooklyn and Pittsburgh-all the major League teams are set for pilots in 1951. Fred Saigh, President of the St. Louis Cardinals, denied Bou- dreau ever was under considera- tion for the job there. And Wal- ter O'Malley, President of the Dodgers, said "we have h very high opinion of Boudreau, but we have not contacted him." That leaves Pittsburgh, where Branch Rickey, new boss of the Pirates, has called Buc Manager Billy Meyer into a conference for Monday. Meyer's contract has an- other year to run, and Rickey re- fused to say whether or not he would serve it with the club which finished in last place last season. FOR THE 42-year-old Lopez, a Major League catcher for 19 years, the Cleveland job is his first as managing a big league team. He piloted the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association since 1948, winning the pennant that year. Nossalary terms were disclosed, but Lopez will get "the highest salary ever paid to a non-play ing Cleveland manager," the Tribe announced. Roger Peckinpaugh, whom Bou- dreau, as a "boy manager" of 24 succeeded before the 1942 season, was the last non-playing Tribe manager. That led to guesses Lo- pez probably signed for around $35,000 a year. BOUDREAU was reported to' have earned from $60,000 to $65,- 000 as player-manager during the past two seasons. Tribe President Ellis Ryan and General Manager Hank Greenberg agreed that Lopez had been the only man they considered to suc- ceed Boudreau. Since last season ended, they said, they had not talked to Boudreau about renewing his contract. U U Hoosier Half-Back Bobby Robertson Badger's Face Favored OSU;t Mighty MSC' Battles Minnesota t* e /I l ime! COLUMBUS -(P)- If ever a team had an incentive to upset a favored foe, Wisconsin has it in today's clash with Ohio State's big, bruising Bucks. A Wisconsin win isn't probable, the guessperts say, but should the Badgers out-point Ohio they would (1) practically clinch a Rose Bowl bid, (2) wrap up at least a share of the Western Conference Cham- pionship, and (3) knock the Bucks out of their ranking as the coun- try's No. 2 team. EAST LANSING-(AP)-The ter- rier-like Spartans of Michigan State college rip into a bulldog-like Minnesota football team here to- day, before a capacity crowd of 50,100 fans. The Spartans, favored by 20 points over their visitors, are in search of their seventh victory in eight starts. Minnesota has five defeats and one tie in six games. *The Gophers, however, will out- weigh the home team by as much as 20 pounds per man in the line. A COMPLETE TEAM: AT YOUR SERVICE at the NEW IMPROVED Line-Ups 11 I Let's Get Aboard!I / INDIANA Pos. Anderson ... LE Kovatch (C) LT Georgeakis .. LG Dolan ....... C Thomas ... RG, Bosak ...... RT Luft ....... RE D'Achille ... QB Robertson .. LH Gedman .... R H Dozier ...... FB MICHIGAN Perry .i. Johnson Kinyon ....Kreager .Kelsey W.. ahl (C) ... ....Allis ......Putich ... Ortmann .... Straffon .... Dufek Bus Going to J. D. Miller's Cafeteria Leaves Bus. Ad. Bldg.-12:01 P.M. Leaves Engine Arch-12:05 P.M. Eat Lunch at J. D. Miller's And hop return bus at 12:45 P.M. DI E R BEL I I #if9A4f rxpemiefced Cookin9 ta(( CARL SOPER MRS. BESSIE MILLER SAM4 MATSON ROY PERRIN NEW YORK-()--Barring a post-season round robin playoff among Army, Ohio State, Oklaho- ma, Ketucky, California and Texas -which seems unlikely-there will be no National College Football Champion this year of the stature of last season's Notre Dame team. Ohio State, evidently a truly great outfit, might have won clean- cut recognition as 1950's best if it had not gotten the last-quarter shakes and dropped its wild open- er to Southern Methodist by 32-27. Army, with perhaps as mighty a team as that of the war years, isn't --through no fault of its own -playing a schedule of the caliber demanded by the fans. Oklahoma, winner of a record 27 straight, meets only rival of national ranking, Texas, which it nosed out 14-13. Kentucky with its eight straight victories, will not play a ranking power until it tac- kles Tennessee in its finale. Cali- fornia's unbeaten Bears have feasted exclusively on West Coast neighbors except for Penn, which Army walloped by a wider margin last week. And nothing on today's schedule promises to boost materially any team's claim to the National Crown. However, at Berkeley, Cali- fornia's unbeaten Golden Bears can virtually sew up a bid to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day with a victory over UCLA. 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