:4 ° PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1951 I . M' arching Band To Play To day 11 I I * * * * *b * Art Plus Precision Mark 'U' Bandsmen By LEONARD GREENBAUM The half-time shows have changed West coast football fans will see from squad drills mixed with un- the nation's best college band this related formations to the present afternoon when the Michigan thematic musical pageants. Mili- Marching Band takes to the field tar'marches have been replaced at the Tournament of Roses. with hit tunes such as "Bali Hai"~ Led by Prof. William D. Revel- and "Alexander's Ragtime Band." li, the band will display the pre- Today the Michigan Band is cision marching, the snap forma- organized to provide entertain- tions and the musical technique ment through a combination of that has brought it nation-wide good musicianship, good march- fame and acclamation. ing and good showmanship. * * * Besides the huge formations co- DURING THE past few years vering the gridiron, the band also the band has experienced a tran- performs several dance numbers in sition from a military organiza- I which the bandsmen move up the tion to an entertainment troupe. field while performing dance steps. MICHIGAN ... /rom your aIer' in 4d~entic Co/4e ]a ao4 -A /Or over three DOBBS HATS JOHNSTON & MURPHY SHOES decae. ENGLISH IMPORTS BURBERRY COATS 11 I i. 4 Statistical Method Puts OSU on Top. By GEORGE FLINT When Ohio State's ill-fated Buckeyes ran rings around a helpless Iowa team, 83-21, this fall, Wes Fesler's boys immediate- ly rose to the heights of the hypo- thetical national football rank- ings. BUT TO THE statistician, that gridiron merry-go-round was far from a prediction of things to come, as one of radio's foremost rumor-carriers labels his oracular productions. Comparative scores as a method of ranking football teams are strictly last year's model, according to a sport- loving mathematics expert, Prof. Harry Carver of the Literary College. Just take a look at this season's Western Conference standings as worked out by one * * * THE 135-MAN group uses a 200- step per minute pace for entrances and later relaxes to approximately 160 steps per minute for forma- tions. Inaddition to the season long practices, the band has been re- hearsing for the afternoon's s h o w at Occidental College, Glendale, their home while on the coast. The trip to Pasadena was made possible through the Buick Divi- sion of General Motors. While en- route to California on a modern streamliner the band stopped at Alberquerque, New Mexico, where it paraded through the streets of the desert oasis. * * * FURTHER STOPS will be made on the swing home at Fresno, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Wichi- ta, Kansas. In several of the ci- ties the band will not only par- ade, but will also display its fam- ous formations. The trip to the Rose Bowl comes as a fitting climax to one State St. at Campus 41 Adams Ave. East Ann Arbor Detroit 4. I1 I A. IL THE MAI * * * 4 of the most successful seasons the Marching Band has ever had. Besides being the subject of a Life Magazine article, the band also received plaudits from the New York newspapers following the Army game in Yankee Stad- ium. Writers on the metropolitan papers called the band "one of the finest college musical organiza- tions in the country" and "the best that has ever played in Yan- kee Stadium." RCHING BAND IN A TRADITIONAL FORMATION AT THE "U" STADIUM * * * * * * t*. * * FOR THE New York show, it! presented a pageant depicting a' visitor's impression of the "big ci- ty." One of the most unusual per- formances of the season came at the Ohio State game at Co- lumbus. The rivalry, between the two bands is not even exceeded by that between the football teams. In the midst of swirling blizzard, accompanied by 45 mile per hour winds, Michigan won a 9-3 victory and the trip to the Rose Bowl. At half-time, despite the freezing temperature and though often hid- den from the spectators by the heavy snow, the band went through its formations. * *. * AS A NIGHT-CAP to the OSU game, the band traveling on busses started back to Ann Arbor during the height of the storm. Snow drifts, poor visibility, icy roads and mechanical difficulties forced them to stop over in a small Ohio town.I Restaurants and homes were op- ened to the tired bandsmen who encamped where they could for the night. The team efforts put forth by the students and the long hours of rehearsal and planning with Prof. Revelli and assistant direct- or Jack Lee have paid off through- out the season. When high strutting drum ma- jor Dick Smith leads the band on- to the gridiron their "Hail to the Victors" won't have a hollow ring. i such method: Comparative Scores Team Points Ohio State 33.41 Illinois 22.57 Michigan 22.30 Wisconsin 19.09 N'western 12.60 Minnesota 10.53: Indiana 6.90 Iowa 1.20 Purdue 0.00 Official Standings Team Pet. Michigan .750 Ohio State .714 Wisconsin .714 Illinois .667 N'western .500 Iowa .333 Minnesota .250 Purdue .200 Indiana .200 RAH-RAH GAINS STRONGHOLD: Wolverine Club Boosts Campus Spirit By BOB SOLT Drumming up strong student support for the championship Michigan grid teams, despite even frigid weather and underdog odds, is the job of the 40 students com- prising the co-educational Wol- verine Club. > : .a Since the Maize and Blue foot- ballers play a tough season's schedule in which every game is a critical game this booster club is kept busy preparing for the Sat- urday afternoon battles in the University's 97,000 stadium. I With the lowest team as the basis, it will be seen that no Big Ten grid squad finished in the same position by the comparative score method except for North- FOR THE WEATHER-WISE * THE BRUISER Plump self, buttressed by stormwelt, over a strong Weatherproof sole- this year 'round oxford defies the elements: Taylored from Golden Chestnut for .. . WANTY & RE -L DOWNTOWN ..210 South Main--Phone 2-5102 / western. Purdue, the cellar-dwell- * * t* er, was tied with Indiana in the lOOPERATING with the cheer- official conference rankings. leaders, the club plans colorful, ofclc n rinteresting features. One of their PROF. CARVER'S mathematics activities during the past season of statistics class also worked out was a 1620 blue and and yellow the 1950 standings by the more, flash card display. Coated with efficient and strictly modern least- a metallic lustre, the cards form errors method. a continual pattern during the Following an intricate mathe- two hours of football. matical procedure, which will The club worked a combined be omitted--advisably, from this total of 800 hours per week to corner -- this system gives plan the display, mimeograph weight to a victory over a bet- instruction sheets, and trans- ter team. Conversely, a lower port the cards to and from the numerical value accrues to an stadium. eleven for a loss to a poorer For home-games, the club spon- team. sors Friday night pep rallies that If you grope your way through include special speakers, bands, the intricacies of those revela- torches, bonfires and entertain- tions, another complication may ment. * be introduced. AND FOR THOSE students wishing to travel with the team to MICHIGAN STATE, which will away games, Wolverine Club trips enter actual conference competi- at reduced rates are arranged tion, played three Big Ten teams These trips include transporta- this year. If the Spartans are in- tion and hotel reservations, plus cluded in the ratings, the com- information on Michigan social- parative standings look like this: get-togethers in the town where Least Errors System Pts. the away game is being played. (with The latest such enterprise by Team Points MSC) the club is the chartered all- Michigan State 1.616 student streamliner to the west Michigan 1.334 1.234 coast and back for the Michigan- Ohio State 1.221 1.202 California clash and the other Illinois 1.205- 1.182 New Year's day festivities in Wisconsin 1.193 1.170 Pasadena. Northwestern .883 .856 The club's activities however, Iowa .364 .361 are not limited to the football Indiana .227 .266. season but are continued Purdue .000 .000 throughout the school year. The various statistics found * * above may be used to prove that DURING THE CAGE season, Illinois or Michigan State or the club provides half-time enter- Michigan should be playing foot- tainment for basketball fans. An ball in the Rose Bowl this Janu- additional project is the recording ary 1st. of interesting campus events of Funny thing, though-science the school year, enabling students or no science-it's the Wolverines 'to purchase an album of memories who'll be Pasadena bound De- they can listen to long after cember 18th. graduation. r J. H. COUSINS BANDSMEN AND CACTUS, 19471 MEMOIRS .. . "'""" A. 4A, -11, ,A, . I a To Our Michigan Team - Health, Ambition, and Strength 0 f Photo-Jack Bergstrom Ul I III El I II III R 11