THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 13, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 13, 1952 PAGE THREE Wolverines repare for Crucial Test with Purdue Michigan Pass Defense Returns to Full Strength Coach Bennie Oosterbaan sent the Wolverine varsity through a full-scale defensive scrimmage yesterday as Michigan continued x its preparations designed to halt Saturday's onslaught of league- leading Purdue, the Big Ten's highest scoring aggregation. Major attention was focused on pass defense, a thorn in Michigan's side all year, as the junior varsity ran through Boilermaker plays in .Bulletin NEW YORK - (P) - Bobby Shantz, the diminuitive Phila- delphia Athletics pitching star was selected last night as the Most Valuable Player in the American League for 1952 $ Shantz, who won 24 and lost 7 for the A's last season re- ceived 16 out of a possible 24 first place votes to lead Allie Reynolds and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees by a comfortable margin. the contact drill. In quarterback Dale Sampels, who has completed 47 passes in 76 tries, the Maize and Blue will be facing the confer- ence's top hurler. * * * WITH HALFBACK Tom Wither- spoon back in action, after miss- ing the Cornell game because of a leg injury, Wolverine defensive backs will all be available for the "stop Samuels" maneuvers. Oosterbaan and his staff did not neglect rushing defense, however, for Michigan scout Don Robinson warns that tailback Philip Klezek and fullback Max Schmaling are a couple ball- carriers who will bear watching. Klezek, the leading Purdue ground-gainer last season, will be ready to go against the Wolver- ines after missing four games with an injury and playing only a few minutes last week against Min- nesota. * * * PACED BY Schmaling, the Boil- ermakers have chalked up a rush- ing average of 4.75 yards per play, the best average in the Big Ten. The Wolverine gridders wound up yesterday's workouts with a lengthy blocking and tackling drill. Both Purdue and Michigan are "up" for Saturday's vital clash, with the Wolverines in the best physical shape they've been in all season. Purdue will be pointing for its first victory over the Maize and Blue in Ann Arbor. The only two Boilermaker triumphs in the series between the schools were at La- fayette. I-M Scores VOLLEYBALL Beta Theta Pi 6, Kappa Sigma 0 Chi Psi 3, Phi Sigma Delta 3 Zeta Psi 3, Phi Kappa Psi 3 Alpha Tau Omega 6, Theta Psi 0 Delta Tau Delta 5, Delta Chi 1 Sigma Chi 6, Trigon 0 Phi Gamma Delta 4, Delta Up- silon 2 Psi Upsilon 4, Alpha Delta Phi 2 Sigma Phi Epsilon 6, Alpha Sig- ma Phi 0 Phi Kappa Tau 6, Delta Kappa Epsilon 0 Sigma Nu 6, Acacia 0 Sigma Alpha Mu 6, Tau Kappa Epsilon 0 PADDLEBALL Lester Co-op 2, Hawaiians 1 'M' Displays Best Defense In Loop Play CHICAGO-(P)-With the Big Ten title possibly at stake, Pur- due charges into Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday in a foot- ball battle between the confer- ence's highest scoring team and one which has allowed the fewest points. Official league statistics releas- ed yesterday showed pace-setting Purdue (3-0-1) leading all confer- ence teams in scoring with a 29- point average and Michigan (3-1-0) top in protecting its goal line with a yield of only 12.3 points per game. * * * THE WOLVERNES, on the basis of also surrendering the few- est yards per play, 3.82, rank as the loop's strongest defensive team although Wisconsin (3-1-0) has allowed opponents 25 fewer yards per game than Michigan at 233.5. On a comparative grading system, Wisconsin's Badgers, still very much in the cham- pionship running, lead offen- sively. They have outgained second- ranked Purdue, 410 yards to 378 per game, and are tied with the Boilermakers in yards rushing per play at 4.57. Purdue, however, has the highest yardage per play by an eye-lash margin of 5.22 to 5.21 over the Badgers. Ohio State (3-2-0) wrested third defensive spot from Purdue last week on the basis of the league's second best pass defense record, topped only by Illinois' yield of 96.6 per game. Dallas Texans To Play Lions DespiteFoldup DETROIT - (R) - The Detroit Lions will get to play their two games with the Dallas Texans this season, despite the foldup of the Dallas franchise yesterday. That word came from General Manager Nick Kerbawy of the Lions. Kerbawy said Commissioner Bert Bell of the National Football League has assured him by phone that the games would be played. * * * THE GAMES are important to the Lions, who will rank as heavy favorites to win both. The Lions are in a first place tie in the Western Division with the San Francisco 49ers, who have already played their pair of games with Dallas. The 49ers won both games. Kerbawy said the Texans, sched- uled to play here this Sunday, wouldtarrive by plane Friday even- ing. HAIRSTYLING TO PLEASE YOU cut, blended, shaped to your features-Today! - 8 Haircutters - , By DICK LEWIS Dale Samuels started a trend. The pint-sized Purdue quarter- back engineered a 28-14 upset of Notre Dame two years ago to snap a 29-game Irish unbeaten string. Since that time, Notre Dame vic- tories have been the exception rather than the rule. THAT MEMORABLE afternoon of October 7, 1950, also marked the beginning of a trend in Purdue football. It inaugurated the Sam- uels era, the passing-est in Boil- ermaker annals. All of the fireworks began when an unheralded 5-9, 165- pound passer out of Chicago was given the job of directing the Purdue attack against Frank Leahy's amazing Irish, who were 20-point favorites in the scrap. Samuels stunned the partisan South Bend faithful with an aer- ial display that vaulted the La- fayette eleven to a 21-0 lead mid- way through the third quarter. NOTRE DAME roared back with two tallies, but when the chips were down early in the final stan- za, the gifted Boilermaker signal- caller lofted a 56-yard paydirt heave to Mike Maccioli, thereby clinching the first Irish setback at home since 1942. That, undoubtedly, was the most dramatic pass thrown by the 21-year-old T-formation master in his three-year career. It was one of 26 TD throws that Samuelsnhas come up with over a period of 25 contests in the Goldand Black uniform. In addition, Coach Stu Hol- combe's pride and joy has connect- ed on 235 of 476 tosses for 2,913 yards (over a mile and a half) and a lofty average of .494. This rep- resents one touchdown for every nine passes completed. * * * DAZZLING DALE also presents a potent scoring threat for the Western Conference leaders,.lHe has converted 53 of 67 extra points and bulled his way to four touch- downs during his sparkling Boiler- tenure. Last season, Samuels proved that he was a force to be reckoned with on the ground as well as in the air lanes. On 50 rushes he net- ted 146 yards for a 2.9 average. * * CURRENTLY, Samuels ranks tenth in the nation in passing with 80 completions in 145 flips for 890 yards, nine touchdowns, and an accurate .552 percentage. Only four of his heaves have been in- tercepted. Sampels' 1952 Big Ten record is even more amazing. The lea- gue's leading passer has hit for 47 of 67 for 568 yards, seven touchdowns, and a gaudy .618 figure. A quick glance at the following totals will indicate why the Wol- verine coaching staff has empha- sized pass defense in the Maize and Blue drills this past week. PLAYING in the season's open- er against Penn State, the Boiler- maker bomber was successful on 14 of 28 for 130 yards. Facing Iowa, he hit ten receivers on 16 attempts for 143 yards. Against Rose Bowl champion Il- linois. Samuels spotted 12 of 12 for 179 yards and four touchdowns. 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EAST LANSING-(P)---There's the makings of a new and exclu- sive fraternity in the Michigan State football squad this year. That's the "We never lost to Notre Dame Club." ALL SENIORS on the squad, with the sole exception of tackle Joe Klein, have no idea what it's like to lose to the Irish. Klein, who was out a year because of a back injury, was around in 1949 when Michigan State lost 34-21. As far as the Irish are concern- ed, the rest of the squad has mem- ories only of the 36-33 victory in 1950 and the 35-0 runaway a year ago. * * * IF THEY can win this one, the seniors will be able to identify their team as the one that never lost to Notre Dame. Coach Biggie Munn's Spartans also will be shooting for another distinction--that of being the first team in history to beat a squad coached by Frank Leahy three years in a row. The last time any outfit downed Notre Dame three straight was during the 1930's when Pittsburgh was the football power of the coun- try. 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