WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950 0 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Grid Critics Give Belated Praise to Wolverines By BOB ROSENMAN At long last, Michigan's 1950 Wolverines are getting some nation-k wide recognition for their gridiron efforts. From many sections of the country comes praise for Michigan's unexpected comeback-a comeback which saw them win the Big Ten; championship after losing two of their first three games to MichiganI State and Army. * * * * BY WINNING their last three games, including that never-to- be-forgotten 9-3 triumph over Ohio State, the Wolverines retained the crown they shared jointly with those same Buckeyes last season. Not since 1945 have the Wolverines failed to win the title outright or share it with another Big Ten school. But, after losses to the Spartans, Army, Illinois, and a tie with impotent Minnesota, who would have given the Wolverines a chance to win anything except "Big Ten flop of the year?" But with assists from Illinois, who knocked Ohio State from the unbeaten ranks, and Northwestern, who ruined the Illini's Bowl and title aspirations, the Wolverines, won their 8th undisputed Conference championship, setting many experts wondering on just how good the Wolverines are. These are but a few of the compliments paid the Michigan foot- ball eleven by men prominent in football circles: * * * * ARCH WARD, founder of the College All-Star football game and sports editor of the Chicago Tribune: "A salute to Bennie Oosterbaan and his Michigan Wolverines.... The manner in which they came from behind to win the Western Conference championship and par- ticularly the poise with which they met their severest challenge amid almost unbelievable conditions at Columbus leaves no doubt of their right to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl." IVY WILLIAMSON, head football coach, Wisconsin: "On the day we played them, Michigan was the best team we faced all season." (The Badgers also played OSU, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.) KENNETH U. "TUG" WILSON, Commissioner of the Western Conference: "The Wolverines aren't deep, but they have good punt- ing, running, and passing, and a good line. I still contend that had Michigan .been in first-class physical condition, it would have beaten Army." * * * * LYNN "PAPPY" WALDORF, head football coach, California: "It is a typical Michigan team. It is tough, strong, and hard-hitting. We will be up against a powreful opponent in the Rose Bowl." DAVIS WALSH, a Midwest sprotswriter: "In Michigan, the West- ern Conference came up with the right team to send to the Rose Bowl as official conference deputy and champion. A team that finally got its health back after hiding its light under a bushel of surgical gauze because of early-season injuries ... a team whose offensive equipment is sounder than Ohio's or Illinois'." CHUCK PURVIS, football scout, Illinois: "California's pass de- fense can be penetrated. Michigan has the man who can pass and it may stop California's running power." On the other side of the ledger, however, comes the voice of James Doyle of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who said recently: "There was a record-wrecking number of punts in that late, la- mented Michigan -Ohio State football game-45 by recount- but it still wasn't FOOTBALL." Perhaps, but Michigan' line broke through the vaunted Buckeye forward wall, held the Ohioans to a mere 16 yards rushing and walk- ed off with the win, the Conference championship and a trip to Pasa- dena to boot. No Trouble at All! YES--make your Christmas gifts personal. Get personalized Yuletide presents. STATIONERY PAPER NAPKINS PLAYING CARDS MATCHESa Still time to order those personalized Christmas cards. RAMSAYoCANFIELD 119 East Liberty - across from the P-Bell -i DETROIT AUTO CLUB FIRST: Michigan Hockey Squad Will Tackle Rugged Schedule in NCAA League When Michigan's 1950-51 hock- ey team opens their season against the Detroit Auto Club Friday night, they will be embark- ing on one of the toughest sche- dules ever set before a college sex- tet. During the course of the season, the Wolverines will again face Colorado College, winner of the NCAA hockey championship last year. EVERY YEAR two eastern and two western schools are awarded berths in the 4-team playoffs at Colorado Springs, the teams being chosen on the basis of their sea- son record. In the playoffs, each western school faces an eastern school, the two winners playing for the NCAA crown, the two losers for third and fourth place. During the year, the Wolver- ines had walloped Colorado Col- lege twice,-11-1 and 5-1, with Neil Celley notching 5 goals in the two _games. AFTER MICHIGAN had fin- ished their season with a 22-3 record to gain one western berth, the Tigers of Colorado edged North Dakota to gain the other position. Boston University and Boston College completed the pairings. But the Boston University Terriers squeezed by the Wol- verines, 4-3 as Colorado Col- lege beat Boston College to gain the finals. Then Colorado Col- lege blasted Boston University, 13-4, to win the title. In the third place playoffs, Mi- chigan, led by two great perform- ances by Gil Burford, who scored 5 goals, and sophomore Earl Keyes, who made 3 goals and 2 assists, soundly trounced Boston College, 10-6. v of competing in Colorado Col- lege's place, will also face the ; rebuilding Wolverines twice. Besides meeting three of the nation's finest clubs, the Wolver- ines also play several of Canada's finest puck aggregations. * * THE UNIVERSITY of Montreal and the University of Toronto will play two-game series at the Mich- igan Coliseum to head an im- pressive home schedule. Both the Carabins and the Blues split two engagements each with the Michi- gan puckmen last year. Other highlights of the 26- game schedule include t w o games with Michigan State's Spartans, who only last season entered hockey competition for the first time. The Wolverines topped MSC, 17-1, last year and set three records in that one game. By winning, they won their 21st game of the season, an all-time high. Gil Burford scored two goals and had one assist to break the all-time individual scoring rec- ord of 61, set by Gordie McMillan. Burford's three points gave him a total of 64. The other record was for the most goals in one. game, 17, topping by one the pre- vious high of 16, set against Sar- nia. * * * THE WOLVERINES also play their perennial rivals, Michigan Tech, in the final two games of the season. Princeton and Min- nesota are also repeaters from a year ago, though Michigan had little trouble with either last sea- son. Newcomers to the schedule are the Detroit Auto Club, Wes- tern Ontario, Denver Univer- sity, and North Dakota. One of the brightest features of this year's schedule is that all of the home games will be played while school is in session with the exception of one game with West- ern Ontario. This will give stu- dents a fine opportunity to see the Wolverine puckmen in action. 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