ROSE BOWL EXTRA 4ft Dattp ROSE BOWL EXTRA Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXI, No. 76 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1951 EIGHT PAGES i1 *7 * * * * * * * * Bennie, Players Celebrate Con quest Sportswriters, Fans Invade Michigan Dressing Rooms * * * * # * * « Wolverines Bowl Kings ,Again, 1- By BILL CONNOLLY Special to The Daily PASADENA, Calif.--Michigan's die-hard gridiron greats earned 13 first-downs and 14 points in the second half of the 1951 Rose Bowl game to hand the Big Ten its fifth successive victory and the Paci- fic Coast Conference its sixth straight loss in the classic contest, by beating California, 14-6, last New Year's day. Contrary to its expectations, a nerve-shattered crowd of over 100,000 saw the Golden Bears pounded into submission by the Wol- verine defenders' vicious tackling, Don Dufek's devastating running-- which netted the two TD's-and Chuck Ortmann's accurate aerial attack. Dufek, who carried the ball 23 times from scrimmage-better than half of his team's running plays-netted 113 yards, for almost a five-yard average. By BOB SANDELL Associate Sports Editor PASADENA, Cal. - Even the wildest New Year's celebration wouldn't compare with the din of the Michigan dressing room just after the Wolverines had staged one of the most amazing come- backs of all times in the 37th an- nual Rose Bowl classic. Hordes of reporters, photogra- phers, and well-wishers jammed the tiny room to congratulate Bennie Oosterbaan and his coura- geous Blue-shirted gridders. The bedlam after the Ohio State game was nothing compared to this. * * * OOSTERBAAN was herded off into a separate room to meet the newspapermen. As after the Ohio game, however, Bennie appeared calm and would merely say that he was "as happy as a man could be and was proud of his boys." The greatest thrill of his life? "No," was his answer, "I have had quite a few of them in my day." He said Don Dufek had played as good a game as he has' ever seen a fullback play, and that the team turned in its best game of the season. * * * THE REPORTERS wanted to know what happened at half time, and what had caused the Wolver- Ines to explode in the final 30 minutes. Bennie replied by say- Ing that the "boys fired them- selves. Several of them talked a little, including Al Wahl." He praised the California team as a hard-driving, well- coached outfit and had a lot of praise for the trio of California backs that made things miser. able for the visitors in the first half. Somebody asked him about the California touchdown play that might have made Dufek a goat. Said Bennie, "Don runs better forward than backwards." * * * DUFEK, however, emerged the star of the contest. He was voted the most valuable by the West Coast writers. All of the Wolverines had praise for the Bear backfield and compared them favorably with those of Illinois and Army. Some thought they were thej best they had faced all year.t Ozzie Clark had this to say for the Los Angeles Herald and Ex- press: "California was a substan- tial team but on occasions they1 committed defensive mistakes1 which we deftly converted intoi scoring opportunities." The papert promptly labeled Ozzie as the clown of the squad. * .~,*,^ DUFEK and Ortmann got the big headlines, but as always there< were the unsung heroes. Tom ' Johnson played another whale of a gme ndwas prominent on many key tackles. Another lne- -. -.: :; man, Pete Kinyon, came in for . son. from a teammate, Al Jack- >N < . 4' Jackson claims Kinyon was .. .. . .>.,.}} largely responsible for the huge holes that Dufek repeatedly . found in the right side of the ,;,: line. "He was knocking All- :.:' American Les Richter all over :;::.. the place," Al adds. Jackson's. own role in the victory, howevr, ,?. was nothing to be sneezed at. '<:" The age old screen pass and a slick defense played a big role in 'N"\<;,t. the victory. When the Wolverines ,. had to make yardage, the Ort- . -> . . mann to Dufek heave always \f- worked and that included a vitalf third and seven play on the first touchdown march. Michigan used a tight 6-2-2-1\ most of the time, but shifted *' +. along the line after Cal came out of the huddle. They were fooled a N few times in the first half, but the Wolverines learned from their -courtesy The Los Angeles Times mistakes and improved. The Bears- didn't. MICHIGAN FULLBACK DON DUFEK (30) HITS CAL GOAL-LINE TO KNOT THE SCORE 6-ALL IN THE 1951 ROSE BOWL GAME { 112 TO 6! Michigan Makes It Three for Three Rose Bowl Champs OFFENSE ORTMANN'S PASSING was equally brilliant. He set up the Michigan touch-downs by completing 15 of 19 passes, 13 of the comple- tions coming in the Michigan- dominated second half. The Wolverine wingback's passes were rifled into the hands of ends Lowell Perry, Harry Allis and Fred Pickard, quarterback Bill Putich and the dependable Dufek, to rattle the California defense which yielded 146 yards to Ortmann's right arm. * * * A TALLY of first downs tells the story. In the first half, it was Cali- fornia-10, Michigan two. But in that period, the Wolverines ran only 11 plays from scrimmage, and were in possession of the ball for little more than five of the thirty minutes. * * * ALL OF THIS ran completely in reverse of the experts' pre- game predictions; for it was writ- ten that Michigan's only hopes for victory rested on an early game offensive spree, California's reserve strength being expected to tell the tale in the last quarter. It was late in the second quarter, however, that the Golden Bears began to tarnish, when the brutal tackling of the Wolverines, sparked by Al Wahl and Tom Johnson, began to weaken the power of the ef- fective Cal running attack. The three Bears heretofore known as the "Terrible Trio"- Johnny Olszewski, Jim Monachi- no and Pete Schabarum-gained 123 yards in' the first half as the P C C representatives decidedly outdistanced the Wolverines. THEY SCORED early in the second period. With the Bears in possession of the ball on the Michigan 39, following the only interception of one of Ortmann's 19 passes, quarterback John Marinos fak- ed a handoff 4nd dropped back to pass. He lofted the ball down to the Michigan 10, into the hands of end Bob Cummings, who was tackled in the end zone by Dufek, putting Cal ahead, 6-0. All-American Linebacker Les Richter's conversion attempt was wide, ending the afternoon's scor- ing for the Bears. * * * MICHIGAN scored the game- winning touchdown on an 80. yard march which began when the Wolverines took possession of the ball on their own 20, with just 12 minutes and 21 seconds left in the ball game. Six minutes and six first downs later, Dufek drove for four yards on four plays to tie up the score. Allis booted home the winning point with a perfect conversion, as the public address system re- ported that 5:30 playing time remained in the contest. MICHIGAN--and Dufek again -put the game on ice later in the final act when Cal gambled on a fourth-down pass and- lost the ball on their own 10-yard stripe. The Wolverines' crashing fullback picked up three yards through the right side, and then neatly outraced the flank- .er on that same side for the final touchdown of the game. Allis again booted home the extra point, By JIM PARKER Three Rose Bowl gamesr-Mich- igan 112, opponents 6! It's an impressive record that the Wolverines have posted in the annual New Year's Day classic, a record that now includes a vic- tory in the first game of the Rose Bowl series, a spectacular triumph in the most recent Pasadena ex- travaganza, with another great win in 1948 sandwiched in be- tween. Back in 1902 Fielding H. Yost, in his first year as coach at Mich- igan, took a Maize and Blue team -an iron-man crew twelve strong -to the innaugural game of what is now the Rose Bowl post season classic series. * THAT 1901 Michigan squad was a gridiron gollath-a team that had run roughshod over ten op- ponents during the season, piling up an amazing total of 501 points to its opponents 0! So it was on New Years Day 1902 that this mighty Wolverine eleven, playing without the sub- stitution of its only reserve, blasted Stanford University's Indians all over the gridiron until the Stanford captain ap- proached Michigan's H. S.' Weeks in the fourth quarter, asking that the game be called off at that point. Weeks was agreeable and the yame ended Michigan 49, Stan- ford 0-and with nine minutes yet to play in the regulation con- test. * * * , 45 YEARS LATER Michigan had another great football team. Fritz Crisler was at the reigns of the Wolverine 1947 team that had amazed the football world with a spectacular offense that had claimed nine straight victims over the season and had won the West- ern Conference title as well as the right to represent the Big Ten in 'the 34th Rose Bowl game. Not to be outdone by their 1902 predecessors, the 1947 Wol- verines- made New Year's Day, 1948, a black one for Southern California Trojans, dumping the Californians by the same 49-0 score. Michigan's "Mad Magicians" all but rewrote the record book in that rout of the Trojans' Pacific Coast Conference Champions, set- ting nine modern Rose Bowl rec- ords in the process. The defeat was the worst that Southern Cal had suffered in 60 years. So impressive was the Wolver- ines' victory that a post season poll by the Associated Press rated Michigan the top team ii) the land, supplanting the poll results at the end of the regular season which had placed Notre Dame in the first position. PLAYER Lowell Perry (85) Al Wahl (72) Al Jackson (64) Carl Kreager (56) Tom Kelsey (65) John Hess (79) Fred Pickard (89) Bill Putich (24) Leo Koceski (18) Charles Ortmann (49) 'Don Dufek (30) PLAYER Harrly Allis (88) Tom Johnson (76) Pete Kinyon (68) Tony Momsen (59) Dick McWilliams (69) Dick Strozewski (62)' Ozzie Clark (86) Ted Topor (27) Don Oldham (14) Tom Witherspoon (16) Roger Zatkoff (70) WI'T. 178 217 195 220 190 195 180 165 165 190 185 WT. 190 205 195 200 248 200 200 215 166 178 208 6-0 6-3 6-0 6-4 6-2 6-2 5-11 5-9 5-10 6-11 5-11 RE RT RG C LG LT LE QB RH LH FB Leslie Popp (83) Robert Timm (67) Ralph Stribe (75) John Padjen (58) Jim Wolter (66) Bill Ohlenroth (77) Russ Osterman (80) Pete Palmer (28) Wes Bradford (19) Don Peterson (46) Russ Rescorla (35) HT. Pos. PLAYER WT. 180 185 198 180 190 205 170 190 155 175 180 HT. 6-1 5-11 6-0 5-9 6-0 6-1 5-11 5-11 5-6 5-10 6-0 DEFENSE HT. 6-0 6-2 6-0 6-2 6-3 6-0 6-1 6-0 5-8 5-11 6-5 Pos. RE RT RG C LG LT LE QB RH LH FB PLAYER Bud Reeme (82) B. Bartholomew (73) Don Dugger (61) Dick Farrer (55) John Powers (60) Ben Pederson (78) Merritt Green (84) Jerry Burns (25) Ralph Straffon (32) Dave Tinkham (37) Laurence LeClaire (39) WT. HT 195 6-2 198 6-3 174 5-10 195 6-0 175 5-11 215 6-2 175 6-0 155 5-8 188 5-8 170 5-10 190 6-0 TEAM STATISTICS: (first half in parentheses) MI Net Yardage from Rushing (60 145 Yards Gained from Forward Passes (5 146 Total Net Yardage (65 29. Number Penalties Against ( Yards Lost from Penalties (20 20 Total First Downs . ( 15 5) 16 5) 31 2) I) ?) (69) 69 (192) 244 (2) 6 (10) 50 (10) 12 4 35.75 2 CH CALIF. 0) (123) 5 175 Number of Punts 2 Average Length of Punts 32. Number of Fumbles 2 Number of own Fumbles Recovered 0 5 0 , w _ ~x x s=. :..: _' i ':'. =, .-m,,..e '°'. ,,_ _ ^ "'. ,._..... u? ' w,>. ,.x,. ,o,. ,: ,. .. , .. fi t ~"" "';'' ,.: a,..., .*-°N <,: x .. _ a x- ..';" .'_; ? : :r x , ? .