SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1951 T HE ,MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TI4REt Reynolds Hurls No-Hitter; Ya n ksli nchPennant Y * * * * * * * * * * * * Wolverines, MSC Tan * * * * * * Conference Teams Open Grid Season Illini Play UCLA; Bucks Test SMU CHICAGO-)-The Big Ten launches its 1951 football cam- paign today with a nine-game ' schedule almost completely devoid of the traditional opening "brea- ther." No fewer than four Conference contenders are rated underdogs in their inaugurals. These include Minnesota, against Washington at Minneapolis; Indiana at Notre Dame; Purdue, against Texas at Lafayette; and Michigan, against Michigan State, at Ann Arbor. A * * * TROUBLE MAY be lurking for Illinois, against UCLA, at Cham- paign; Ohio State, versus South- ern Methodist, at Columbus; and Northwestern, clashing with Colo- rado at Evanston. The form sheet promises fair- ly easy going only for Wisconsin against Marquette at Madison and Iowa, host to Kansas State. Ohio State, under new coach Woody Hayes, has been rated by Conference coaches as the No. 1 championship contender. The Buckeyes, however, may have their hands full again facing the Mustangs who smothered them with passes last season for a 32- 27 win. Purdue's Dale Samuels may be able to pass Purdue's uncer- tain Boilermakers to a tumbling of Texas, though the Longhorns are fresh from a 7-6 win over powerful Kentucky, Indiana's fine Hoosier team, plagued by a back-breaking schedule, may pay the price if it goes all-out against unseasoned, but spirited Notre Dame. In- diana later must face Michigan, Ohio State, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan State. ILLINOIS has one of its tough- est opening foes in years against UCLA. The Illini will have a fine attack if sophomore Tommy O'Connell can handle the throt- tle at quarterback. Wes Fesler, who switched from Ohio State-where the howl of the grandstand wolves got him down-to Minnesota, will have a relaxed Gopher team, but the talent may be lacking to spill jaunty Wash- ington. WELCOME STUDENTS! Try a Collegiate, Personality Hair Style .. Today! At your service: 9 Barbers No Waiting The Dascola Barbers Liberty near State gle HereToday - -: (Continued from Page 1) (Cniudfo-ae1 uled for two-way duty to anchor ' I the Michigan forward wall when kSonny' Grandelius, at left half- the Spartans have the ball. Bernie back, and Vince Pisano, veteran Pederson will join him at tackle. take Bnson ewing. s d dt Russ Osterman and Bob Ding- Wayne Benson is scheduled to man are the defending guards, start at fullback and he has an and Wolverine linebackers will equally able substitute in Dick be Roger Zatkoff and Ted Topor, both standouts in that assign- Up front on offense will be ment. Captain Carey at left end, prob- A variety of backs may see ac- ably the most formidable scoring tion on pass defense but Howell threat on his team, and his and Dave Tinkham should mon- I brother Bill at right end. opolize the secondary with Perrv Dodgers Lose to Phils, Share Lead With Giants Jones' Clutch Hit in Ninth Breaks Deadtock; Teams All Even With Two Games To Play t I' Don Coleman and Mary McFad den are the starting tackles, an the combination of Dean Garne s and Frank Kapral will plug up holes at guard. The pivot man wi] be Dick Tamburo. BOTH TEAMS are rated high defensively, with Johnson sched - in the safety slot. SET TO GO for State is a com- r plete defensive platoon which held p Oregon scoreless last week. The likely candidates are ends Ed Luke and Orlando Mazza, tackles Bill I Horrell and Pete Knezevich and guards Dick Kuh and Frank Kush.I -' Linebackers are Bill Hughes and Ed Timmerman with Ray 1 Vogt and Art Ingram slated for the secondary. Jimmy Ellis, AL DOROW . . . passing ace VINCE PISANO . . . driving runner NEB' ANGLES DISCU SSED: Colleges Consider Grid De-Emphasis I r 4 I By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORSl-(MP)-College cam- puses across the nation rumbled today with talk of deemphasizing football, but there was no stampede to get into the act. For every institution wanting to cut down this multi-million-dollar Saturday afternoon giant, there were three preferring to keep their high-salaried coaches, subsidizing halfbacks and vast arenas. *, * * THIS WAS indicated in a cross- country poll by the Associated Press which asked the big time colleges the simple question: What are you doing to deemphasize football? Forty of them replied, "No- thing." Thirteen advocated changes designed to return the sport to a strictly simon-pure basis, with no proselyting, no spring train- ing and no post-season games. At least two dozen others de- clined to view it as a national prob- lem and said, in effect: "Our prac- tices are clean. We aren't over- emphasizing. So we see no need to change." THIS WAS particularly true in the case of the Ivy League, where the sport was born in 1869, and the Western Conference (Big Ten), which long has professed its pur- ity in the conduct of athletics. Meanwhile, however, college organizations, rocked by a series of scandals, called for an "end to undesirable trends in athlet- ics," and a few institutions read- ily obeyed. William and Mary's faculty, de- claring an ambitious sports pro- gram was "obscuring and corrupt- ing" the purposes of the university, set up four committees to control athletics and other facets of cam- pus life. Under the new setup sports took a secondary role. W&M's DRASTIC action follow- ed a sports scandal in which the department of athletics was ac- cused of tampering with the re- cords of high school athletes to make them eligible. Football coach R. N. McCray and basketball coach Barney Wilson resigned. Dr. John E. Pomfret, president, later follow- ed suit. There have been numerous other moves toward deemphasis, but no general trend in that di- rection. Commissioners of the country's ten major athletic conferences, meeting in Colorado Springs this past summer, urged curtailment of sports schedules and preservation of institutional control of athletics. THE EXECUTIVE Council of the¢ National Collegiate Athletic As- sociation, the colleges' parent body, came out for a 12-point reform program patterned largely after the ill-fated "Sanity Code," which was killed in Dallas last winter. Arch Ward, sports' editor of the Chicago Tribune, said the colleges should rotate their head coaches from year to year. This would keep any one from build- ing up a powerful machine and would discourage high-pressure recruiting.1 Notre Dame immediately en- dorsed this plan although Lloyd Jordan of Harvard, president of The All-Campus tennis tour- nament scheduled to begin to- morrow has been postponed to I allow more entries. Sign up t at the I-M Building now.k -_Dave Edwards ; the American Football Coaches As- sociation, said, "This is a problem we need to attack from the inside out, not from the inside in." * * * MOST OF THE other coaches termed the Ward Plan unworkable. It called for standardized salaries1 among top coaches, bonuses for outstanding performances and ro- tation of coaching talent within1 geographical areas. These many moves aimed atz cleaning up football came in the1 wake of one of the most turbulent years in the history of campus ath- letics. Here are a few of the things that happened: 1. A series of basketball scan- dals broke and kept popping like delayed-action firecrackers, en- veloping the top teams and top players in the United States. 2. West Point's mighty foot- ball team was wiped out by an "exam-cribbing" scandal which Congressmen termed the result of too much emphasis on the game. 3. Thirty-one small colleges had to quit football altogether. They couldn't keep pace in the era of two-platoons and televis- ion. 4. Half a hundred head foot- ball coaches left their jobs at the end of the last season, many of them as the result of "win-or- lose" alumni pressure. Such fix- tures as Bernie Bierman of Min- nesota, Blair Cherry of Texas and Jeff Cravath of Southern California went into other pro- fessions. The president of Purdue Univer- sity, Frederick L. Hovde, a former Minnesota quarterback, suggests long term contracts and faculty status for coaches. His own. Stu Holcomb, has just been given a ten-year extension of his working agreement. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Wilbur Johns of UCLA, a member of the NCAA council, feels there must be reduced emphasis on college sports but that it must be done on a na- tional scale rather than by the in- stitutions individually. "We are agreeable to curbing the free substitution rule and modifying spring practice where letternen are excluded," he said. A different note was sounded by Virgil M. Hancher, president of the University of Iowa, who said Iowa plans no changes. "WE DO NOT think we have had over-emphasis on the college sport," Hancher said. "In fact, many of our fans do not believe we have emphasized football enough." Other Big Ten schools expres- sed a similar attitude. "We have never permitted athletics to run hog-wild," said Nathan Fein- singer, former chairman of Wis- consin's Athletic Board. "We feel sports has its place among sam- pus activities." Most of the Ivy League also is standing firm on its purity but, if anything, emphasis there is creep- ing in rather than out. hero of his team's opening day conquest, will get the call at safety. The series of games between the schools stretches over 53 years and; Michigan holds a big edge, having won 33, lost seven and tied three. PASSING is expected to be the vital element in today's battle. Dorow will be aiming at his f a- vorite targeteCarey, as wellsasfa variety of other capable receivers. Willie Thrower is the second flight passer.I No one knows just what to expect in the way of aerial dis- play from Michigan. Just about everyone in the backfield can hurl the ball, but Putich and Oldham are in key positions for the task. Freshman quarterback Duncan McDonald may get a chance to launch a few before the final gun sounds. Both squads are at a high peakI physically with the exception of ALLIE REYNOLDS ... second no-hitter Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK - (P) - The Newj York Yankees swamped the Bos- ton Red Sox twice yesterday to clinch their 18th American League pennant in 30 years, but the feat almost escaped notice as Allie Reynolds, the fire-baller from Ok- lahoma, spun his second no-hit game of the season inthe opener. jNever before in the American League and only once before in the history of the Major Leagues had a hurler pitched no-hit games twice in a single campaign. The wild scene in the Bombers' dress- ing room after the big Indian whomped the Hose, 8 to 0, even eclipsed the tumult of the "vic- tory celebration" which followed Vic Raschi's 11 to 3 triumph in the decider. THE TRIUMPHS boosted the Yanks' lead to 312 games over second-place Cleveland and elim- inated the Indians from the race. The Yanks have three games to play and the Indians two. The victories also clinched second place for Cleveland. A crowd of 39,038 which had paid its way in to watch the champions sew up their third straight flag got double its mon.- ey's worth as Reynolds, scoring his 17th decision of the year, permitted only four Red Sox to reach first base on passes and choked them off right there. He gave the bemused Sox nothing remotely resembling a safety. The righthander's other no- hitter this season was pitched against his old teammates, the Cleveland Indians, on July 12 at Cleveland. The only other hurler to notch a pair in the same cam- paign was Johnny Vander Meer, the storied lefthander who pitch- ed two in succession for Cincinnati back in 1938. * * * WHEN ASKED by reporters about his remarkable feat, the big Indian was nonchalant. "I knew it all the time," Rey- nolds said with a slow grin. "How could I help it," he add- ed. "The scoreboard was right there." Was he upset by the dropping of Ted Williams' foul by Yogi Berra in the ninth inning, a fumble which prolonged the agony for the breathless fans? "NO," he said simply. "I was just afraid I had steppld on Yogi's hand. I asked him and he said I didn't. I saw the wind blowing the ball toward the field." Someone asked Allie if the game was any different from the no- hitter he pitched at Cleveland. Again Allie gave a slow grin, re- plying: "They were just the same; they didn't get any hits in either of them." PHILADELPHIA -U')- Willie Jones lashed out a ninth inning single to score speedy Richie Ash- burn from second and give the Pillies a 4 to 3 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers last night in the first game of their final three- game series. The defeat dropped Brooklyn into a tie with the idle New York Giants for the National League lead with two games left for each club. ANDY SEMINICK'S home run with one on base in the eighth had tied the score for the Phillies as Carl Erskine failed to hold a three-run lead. The Dodgers, playing cau- tiously after losing a similar lead in Boston Thursday, got all their runs off Karl Drews in the six innings he pitched. Last night's defeat finally re- duced Brooklyn's once-huge lead to nothing. At one stage this sea- son they had a 13% game margin, only to see the onrushing Giants catch up. A chilled crowd of 18,895 cheered when Seminick came through in the eighth with his eleventh homer of the season and his first in a month and a half. Gran Hamner, who had drawn the third walk off Ers- kine, scored ahead of him and made it a ball game. * * * ASHBURN opened the home half of the ninth with a Texas-league Single down the left field foul line. Dick Sisler advanced him with a sacrifice and Bill Nicholson was given an intentional pass. Then Jones, who had connected for a rousing double his first time at bat, slashed a single into left cen- ter and Ashburn slid home well in front of Andy Pafko's throw for the winning run. W L Pet. New York Cleveland Boston Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Washington St. Louis 95 92 87 80 72 68 61 51 56 60 64 72 80 83 90 101 .629 .605 .576 .526 .474 .450 .404 .336 GB 8 27 34 44 fa Michigan's traditional battle with Michigan State this aft- ernoon will be carried over the following stations in and 1 I I i i I I YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 8-11, Boston 0-3 Chicago 6-4, St. Louis 2-3.. Philadelphia at Washington, postponed. Only games scheduled. TODAY'S GAMES Boston at New York (2) Detroit at Cleveland Chicago at St. Louis Philadelphia at Washington (N) T * E NATIONAL LEAGUE around A n n Arbor: WJR, WWJ, Detroit; WPAG, WUOM, Ann Arbor; WKMH, Dearborn. Michigan State's senior - tackle, I Jack Morgan, who broke his leg in practice last Monday. * * * THE WOLVERINES' role of un- derdogs is in direct contrast with the situation they found them- selves in a year ago. State's 14-7 upset victory broke the spell of Michigan invincibility in that con- test, and the Spartans will be es- pecially anxious to make it two in a row for the first time since the 1934-37 era when they swept four' straight. Punting in today's game will more than likely be handled by two specialists, Bill Billings of Michigan and Tom Yewcic of the, Spartans. Bob Carey does State's placeI kicking and Russ Rescorla handles conversions for the Wolverines. Brooklyn New York St. Louis Boston Philadelphia Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago W L 94 58 94 58 79 72 76 76 73 79 67 85 63 89 61 90 Pct. .618 .618 .523 .500 .480 .441 .414 .404 GB 14'/; 18 21 27 31 32% YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 3. Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 3. Only games scheduled. 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