WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE _____________________________________________ Grange Stopped In '25 As'M' Revenges Loss By PHIL DOUGLISI Revenge was Michigan's byword: that gray, rainy 24th day of Oc- tober back in 1925. The Wolverines were in Cham- paign, Illinois, to meet the rugged lhini of Bob Zuppke, featuring Red Grange, who the year before had cut Michigan to shreds by scoring five touchdowns and, throwing for a sixth. FIELDING Yost's Wolverines were back in the same stadium one year later, and 68,000 fans strained forward in their seats, waiting for Grange to do it all over again. But this Michigan team remembered the 39-14 de- bacledof the season before, and was determined to gain revenge. Two new faces were in the Wol- verine lineup this time, a quarter- back called Friedman, and an end they called Oosterbaan. Just as it will be this Satur- day, Illinois held its homecom- ing that day, and despite the soggy weather, every seat was filled as Michigan took the kick- off, and then bogged down in the mud. Illonois took over, and the fans gasped when they saw Grange playing at quarterback instead of ' halfback, as Zuppke tried to wreck Yost's carefully planned defense. * * * FROM THE first Illini play, the fans knew that this game was to be a different story from the year before, as the redhead headed for end, then cut in at tackle, and was slammed down hard by the rookie Oosterbaan, the same Oos- terbaan who leads Michigan into Memorial Stadium this Saturday. Zuppke wrinkled his brow a moment, and sent in instructions for Grange to try the outside, but this didn't work either, as Michigan smashed him to the turf again and again. Michigan was also hampered by the rain, as the Illini defense proved very strong. Thus Yost reached into his bag of tricks for a play that Harry Iipke had pull- SPORTS JIM DYGERT Night Editor ed three years earlier at Ohio State for a crucial touchdown. * 'I WITH ONLY three minutes left in the half, Michigan used this play, a razzle-dazzle left end sweep, rolling to the Illinois 18. But Michigan attack then stalled in the mud, so Benny Friedman dropped back to the 25, and boot- ed a perfect field goal to give the Maize and Blue a 3-0 halftime lead. The stunned Champaign faithful doubted if this upstart team from Ann Arbor could hold the vaunted Grange during the second half but they were wrong. Grange hammered the Michigan line all through the second half in vain, until Zuppke finally re- moved him from the game. The "Wheaton Iceman" had car- ried the ball 25 times for a paltry total of 55 yards, a bit over 2 yards per try. His longest run was a mere 14 yards, a far cry- from the previous year, when Grange rolled 95 yards on just the first kickoff alone. The game moved toward the close, and in desperation Zup or- dered a passing barrage. But Michigan rose to the occasion, and led by the interceptions of "Bo" Molenda, the Orange and Blue were stymied. The final gun sounded, and Michigan had done the near im- possible. It had stopped Red Grange, beating Illinois, 3-0, to gain revenge for the humiliation of the year before. The strains of the "Victors" echoed over a stun- ned partisan crowd, and 10,000 Michigan fans - headed happily back to Ann Arbor, having seen a game long to be remembered. Phi Delts Nip Delts ToWin Playoff Tilt By DON LINDMAN A few feet, a few seconds, and a single point spelled the difference as Phi Delta Theta edged past Delta Tau Delta, 7-6, in a frater- nity intramural football playoff game yesterday. Most of the action was packed into the last five minutes of each half in the first place semi-final contest. * * * IN THE CLOSING minutes of the first half the Delts marched 45' yards to take a 6-0 lead. Lee Mur-, phy hit Al Price with a pass on the Phi Delt five-yard line to set up the score. Three plays later Max Daniels flipped a behind-the-line pass to Price, who pitched the pig- skin into the arms of Ed Bassett in the end zone. The Phi Delts took the Delt kickoff with only 30 seconds re- maining and hit paydirt one play later. ,Russ Swaney tossed a game tying touchdown pass to John Buck and then hit Andy Samosuk inches across the goal- line for the extra point, which proved to be the margin of vic- tory. Both teams fell only a few feet short of scoring during the last five minutes of the contest. The Delts stopped the Phi Delts on the one-yard line when a Swaney pass was intercepted. Gaining control of the ball with only ten seconds remaining, Price fired a 30-yard desperation pass to Dick Gess, who was stopped one yard short of victory as the game ended. Hockey Squad Sharpens Skates for Coming Slate By HANLEY GURWIN Uniforms, skates, sticks, pucks, miles and miles of tape, as well as a million and one other bits of paraphernalia came out of stor- Michigan Grid. Squad Drills For Illini Tilt By JIM DYGERT Michigan's once-beaten football squad began preparations yester- day for the first of its last three games which comprise as tough a remaining schedule as any on the pigskin scene. Following Coach Bennie Ooster- baan's grid philosophy of "taking them one at a time," the Wolver- ines drilled against the plays that Illinois is expected to use in Sat- urday's clash. THE MAIN problem that receiv- ed its deserved attention at Ferry Field was that of setting up a de- fense to stop the Illini's sophomore speedsters, J. C. Caroline and Mickey Bates. Breaking up the Illinois passing attack with its effective pass patterns at the same time renders the problem even more difficult. Last year, Tommy O'Connell's passes toward the sideline which his ends grabbed just before stepping out of bounds proved to be the big factor in the Illini victory, This type of pass is an extremely hard play to halt. Realizing this, Oosterbaan had his fifth string mixing these pass- es with Illinois' favorite running thrusts in an effort to organize a defense that could cope with both. * -*- ALTHOUGH the squad ran through a short offensive work- out with emphasis on the aerial game, the larger part of the af- ternoon was spent on defensive practice. The linemen were put through a long session on the tackling dummies as line coach Jack Blott attempted to sharpen this all-important phase of the, defense. Special stress was put on the linebacking posts during the non-contact defensive drill. The performance of the linebackers could well have the largest bear- ing on the outcome of Saturday's battle against the unbeaten Illini. Encouraging along this line was 2000H ELENT REPALIDOW URGNT...R EPA IR QUIKY age Sunday as the doors of the Hill Street Coliseum opened to mark the beginning of another hockey season at Michigan. Vic Heyliger's NCAA champions took the ice yesterday for their first workout of the long cham- paign, which will not end until next March. Daily practice ses- sions will be held each week-day afternoon right up to the opening game of the season against McGill University here in Ann Arbor on December 4. * * * THE WOLVERINE puck squad, co-champions of the Midwest Col- legiate Hockey League along with Minnesota, will play a 23 game schedule, including 16 league con- tests, four non-conference tilts, and three exhibition games. Besides the annual game here with the Detroit Red Wings, the Maize and Blue puckmen will play a home and home series with the Windsor Spitfires of the International Hockey League to close out the season in March. In addition to McGill, the Michigan team plays hosts to To- ronto, Michigan State, Denver, Colorado, and the Gophers of Min- nesota. The Wolverines journey to tangle with North Dakota, Michi- gan State, Minnesota and Michi- gan Tech on foreign ice. MISSING from last year's championship squad are Johnny Matchefts, sparkplug center and captain of the team. Alex "Herky" McClellan, All-American defense- man and standout of the Wolver- ine rear guard, flashy right wing Ron Martinson, and defenseman Reg Shave, To plug the hole left by the ab- sence of McClellan and Shave, Captain-elect Jim Haas and Bert Dunn. both of whom played up- front last year, will be brought back to the defensive positions. Playing defense is no new role for Haas, who was chosen to the NCAA playoff All-Star playoff team as a defenseman back in the 1951-52 season. Here is the complete schedule for the 1953-54 season: Dec. 4--McGill University Here Dec. 5-McGill University Here Dec. 11-Toronto Here Dec. 12-Toronto Here Dec. 18-North Dakota U. Away Dec. 19-North Dakota U. Away Jan. 5 -Detroit Red Wings Here Jan. 8-Michigan state College Away Jan. 9-Michigan state College Here Jan. 15-Minnesota Away Jan. 16-Minnesota Away Feb. 5-Michigan Tech Away Feb. 6-Michigan "Techi Away Feb. 8-Denver Home Feb. 9-Denver HoaCe Feb. 12-Colorado College Here Feb. 13-Colorado tCollege Here Feb. 19-Michigan State College Away Feb. 20-Michigan State College Here Feb. 26-Minnesota Here Feb. 27-Minnesota Here March 5-Windsor Spitfires Away March 6-Windsor Spitfires Here "J .1 }' ;+ 1. f Gale winds ripped through Alabama and Georgia last spring. de- stroying 500 homes, leaving 2000 homeless, killing and injuring 382. Thousands of telephones were out of order-hundreds of poles damaged and destroyed. Communications hpd to be restored quickly. They were! Here's how: 1. Engineering teams rushed to the stricken area. In hours, they determined material and men needed to restore service. 2. Based on these reports, equipment--as far off as Chicago and New York- began rolling toward the area. 3. Telephone crews arrived from as for away as Atlanta and Bir- mingham--engineering and accounting forces, construction, cable testing and repair teams. 4. Red Cross, hospital and other essential installations were rushed. 5. The public was informed of progress by daily newspaper and radio releases. Result: in 3 days, Columbus, Georgia-which suffered 10 million dollars property damage-had half its out-of-order telephones work- ing and Long Distance service nearly normal. In another 3 days substantially all service had been restored. Planning and co-ordination among many telephone people with a variety of skills made this quick recovery possible. it illustrates vividly the teamwork typical of Bell System men and women. There's room on this team for a wide range of college graduates- business and liberal arts, as well as engineering. Plan for your future by getting details now about job opportunities in the Bell System. Your Placement Officer has them. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM - i Baseball Fans To See Return Of Sacrifice Fly Rule in 1954 NEW YORK-(A')-The sacrifice fly returned to baseball yesterday after an absence of more than a dozen years as the National Play- ing Rules Committee decided to give credit to a batsman who hits a long ball to bring in a run. The restoration of the sacrifice fly, restored once for a one-year period in 1939 and then dropped again, was the principal action taken at a two-day meeting of the committee, representing the ma- jor and minor leagues. * .C $ OTHER actions required players to take their gloves and other equipment off the field between innings, and rejected a suggestion to bring back the spitball. It was the first meeting of the committee in more than two years. Joe Cronin, the Boston Red Sox general manager who proposed restoration of the sacrifice fly, ar- gued that "a batter deserves credit when he deliberately hits the ball against the fence to score a run." Under the 1954 rule, a sacrifice can be credited only, on a fly ball which permits a runner to score. from third base. ' Irish Wideni Leach i AP Grid Vote By The Associated Press Notre Dame has strengthened its hold on the No. 1 rating in the weekly Associated Press poll. 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