FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE S(VEN wolverines 41- Leave oday To Challen ge Illinois M' Gridders To Workout At Illinois By DAVE BAAD Michigan's football team went through its last heavy practice session yesterday in preparation for tomorrow's Big Ten show- down meeting with Illinois. The Wolverines' 38-man travel- ing squad leaves the Michigan Union this morning at 11:00. As for the Minnesota game, the team will travel by plane from Willow 'Run airport. * * * THE WOLVERINES plan to ar- rive in Champaign in time for a workout at Illinois' Memorial Stadium this afternoon. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan spent considerable time yester- day sharpening his defensive combination for the Ilini's tricky split-T and spread for- mation offensive plays. The usual combination of John Morrow and Dick Balzhiser at the linebacker slots, Tony Branoff and Lou Baldacci at the halves, and Ted Kress at safety defended against Illinois' passing plays as executed by Michigan's fourth and fifth stringers. Bill McKinley imi- tated clever quarterback, Elry Fal- kenstein. * * * IN AN ATTEMPT to overcome the Wolverines' blocking weakness on extra point conversions, line coach Jack Blott spent consider- able time reviewing his forward wall's blocking assignments. Last weekend, Pennsylvania blocked three of Michigan's kicks from placement and hurried Baldacci's conversion attempt following the other touchdown. A missed extra point could prove disastrous tomorrow in the event of a close tussle with Illinois. Duncan McDonald, Branoff and Baldacci did the converting. * * * OOSTERBAAN also sent his of- fensive combination through a. brisk signal drill. He mixed up his backfields during the practice using the first three strings in var- ious arangements. Linebacker Jim Bates who has been out all season with a bro- ken hand, is now wearing only a light cast and has been taking part in practice this week. The traveling squad: Ends - Gene Knutson, George Dutter, Thad Stanford, Bob Topp, John Veselenak, Gerry Williams; Tack- les-Jim Balog, Don Bennent, Ron Geyer, Bill Kolesar, Ed Meads, Dick Strozewski, Art Walker; Guards-Dick Beison, Ted Cachey, Don Dugger, Ron Williams, Jim Fox, Chuck Ritter; Centers - John Morrow, Dick O'Shaughnessy (captain), John Peckham, Don Drake. Quarterbacks - Baldacci, Ray Kepaga, McDonald, McKin- jey; Halfbacks - Branoff, Dan Cline, George Corey, Ed Hickey, Stan Knickerbocker, Kress, Tom Hendricks; Fullbacks-Fred Baer, Balzhiser, Bob Hurley, Earl John- son. 'Red' Grange Sees Practice AtFerry Field Back in 1924, Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost spent a complete week trying to perfect a defense for an Illini ghost, who his team was going to meet that coming Saturday at Champaign. The man who was paid so much attention to 29 years ago showed up at Ferry Field Wednesday as Coach Bennie Oosterbaan was re- hearsing his charges in defensive tactics aimed at stopping the two sensational sophomores in the Illi- nois lineup, J. (C. Caroline and Mickey Bates. The man was Har- 'ld 'Red' Grange, the ghost who single handed stopped Michigan in 1924. THE OLD Red Head didn't come as a representative of the Illini, however. This was a business call as he wanted a few pictur'es of Oosterbaan and some of the Wol- verines for his pre-game television program before the Michigan- Michigan State game a week from Saturday at East Lansing. Grange was embarrassed at ar- riving at such an inconvenient time but left before practice start- ed. Before he left Red told Oos- terbaan that both Caroline and Bates were extremely fast and dif- ficult to bring down but he added, however, "they could be stopped and that Illinois might be a much x over-rated team." Michigan Conference Hopes Bleacher To Bowl Marks PRO HOOP PREVIEW: Jolted by Illinois Immortal TrailofMichiganArenas NBA Looks For 4, --- rward to Banner Year cattle Recalls By PHIL DOUGLIS In the year 1893 the University The Legendary Perf By MARVIN SIEGEL Bob Zuppke, his coach at Illi- nois, called him "the Soundless Rocket" and the awed press of his day dubbed him "the Gallop- ing Ghost," but either moniker fitted Red Grange to the letter October 18, 1924 when he almost single-handedly dismembered a well-schooled Michigan eleven, 39-14. It was a confident and determ- ined Michigan team that stormed out onto the turf at Urbana that day. Undefeated in two years, the Wolverines were forced to share the Big Nine crown with this same Illini aggregation the previous season, and now the Maize and Blue were ready to reassert their claim as undisputed "Champions of the West." THIS WAS a doubly significant day for the Orange and Blue for it marked the first game played in their magnificent new red- bricked Memorial Stadium. Michigan's strategy was to kick off to the elusive redhead from Wheaton, Illinois and then maul him, which would dash I- lini hopes of any Grange fire- works. To the delight of an as- sembled throng of upwards of 67,000, Captain Herb Steger booted to Grange who promptly swivel-hipped his way ninety- five yards through the bewil- dered Wolverines for a touch- down. Illinois' great fullback Earl Britton converted and the Illini led 7-0. After an exchange of punts, Grange ripped through Michigan's right side, reversed his field when he reached open pastures and whisked seventy-five yards with his second tally. Michigan, famed for its point-a-minute teams, found the position reversed as Zuppke's charges increased their margin to 14-0. * * * AGAIN THE Wolverines failed to advance and punted to-the Orange and Blue. Again the Gal- loping Ghost smashed through Michigan's right flank, this time in a spectacular sixty yard romp for his third six-pointer. Illinois now moved twenty points ahead of the demoralized Michigan squad. Moments later, the Illini re- covered a Wolverine fumble near mid-field. Once more the Whea- ton Iceman skirted right end and scampered forty-five yards, practically unmolested, for an- other score.After Britton con. verted to make it 27-0, Grange was replaced. In ten minutes the Galloping Ghost had handled the ball eight times for 303 yards and four touchdowns, a fantastic average of over thirty-seven yards per carry. WITH GRANGE on the Illini bench, Michigan hit pay dirt in the second quarter via a Steger buck and the half ended with the Maize and Blue trailing 27-7. Any Wolverine illusions that Grange had slowed up were soon disspelled in the third quarter, when the redhead passed and ran Illinois to its fifth score. Grange (who else?) powered ten yards with the tally, his and Illinois' fifth. The Orange and Blue led 33-7 at the end of the period. Early in the last quarter, the ormance of Red Grange of Michigan constructed a small, rickety wooden stand, upon which spectators could sit to view a game Soundless Rocket concluded per- they called football. haps the greatest individual per- This little bleacher, located on 2 formance football has ever seen by rifling a nineteen yard aerial to end Leonard for a TD and a Illi- ni lead of 39-7. r * *l THE FINAL Wolverine tally the spot where Waterman Gym now stands, was Michigan's first stadium, the first step in a build- ing program that was to eventual- ly produce the biggest college own- ed bowl in the land. came when Tod Rockwell sneaked * * * over from the Illini six inch line. HOWEVER, even this meagre All in all, Grange played forty- offering was an improvement over one minutes and rushed for 402 the previous football "stadium," yards and five touchdowns, while for prior to 1893, Michigan fans completing six passes for sixty- viewed their teams from horse- tour yards and one score. drawn carriages pulled up along Michigan can take consolation North University. in the fact that in three All- The game of football was American years at Illinois, the growing in popularity however, Galloping Ghost gained over two so Michigan soon had to en- miles and racked up thirty-one large this little stand to a grand- touchdowns against such other stand seating all of 800 people. Roaring Twenties powerhouses as The faithful flocked to Ann Ar- Chicago, Northwestern and Ohio bor in increasing numbers to State. view the popular flying wedge I TI GRID SELECTIONS i combats, and in 1904 the mid- west was astounded when 13,- 500 paid admissions jammed the tiny arena to see Michigan meet Chicago. The situation now became in- tolergble, so the football battle ground was moved to the site of Ferry Field in 1907, and seven years later two huge concrete stands were erected. But the game' still grew, and so did its follow- ing, thus in 1926 wooden bleachers were constructed at the ends of I Ferry Field, making it into a bowl seating nearly 45,000. * * * BUT EVEN this wasn't ample, I so the present Michigan Stadium" was planned, the biggest college. bowl in the land. A huge tract of land was pur- chased, a swamp called "Lake Tillotson." An army, of work- ers, steam shovels, trucks and conveyers moved into the swamp, and worked day and night dur- ing that summer of 1926, trans- forming "Lake Tillotson" into a galling hole in the ground. "Sidewalk supervisors" shook their heads, and said that it couldn't be done. They were al- most right, for cave-ins, water- problems, and a freezing winter nearly stymied production plans. But Fielding Yost wouldn't give up, and the following spring the cement was poured into a hole out of which 240,000 square yards of dirt had been removed. * * * . WITH THE addition of 440 tons of reinforcing steel, drainage de- vices, other refinements, the sta- dium was ready, and in 1927, Michigan blasted Ohio Wesleyan, 33-0, in the first game played in the new stadium. On October 22, 1927, a throng of nearly 90,000 packed the bowl; from rim to rim to view the dedi- cation game, a game which saw! Michigan whip Ohio State, 21-0. The feared dedication jinx failed to come off and the birth of the huge million dollar arena was a success. 1949 saw the Michigan Stadium reach its peak, as a steel rim of 10,000 seats was added on to the top of the bowl, upping the capa-! city to the present 97,000. This was the culmination of the trail that had begun 56 years before on the corner of North and East University, a trail progressing from the battered bleacher to the briming bowl. I By DICK FLAXMAN Looking forward to the coming 1953-54 National Basketball As- sociation season the situation looks very encouraging .as all teams have shown vast improvement. All the squads seem to have strengthened themselves with new acquisitions plus the reliable re- turnees from the preceeding cam- paign. * * * IN THE Western division Min- neapolis has their terrible trio in George Mikan, Jim Pollard, and Vern Mikkelson, plus Clyde Lovel- lete whom they signed during the winter. Rounding out their start- ining five is Slater Martin, the sharpshooter from Texas. Fort Wayne has added to its powerhouse by drafting Jack Molanis of Columbia to combine with Larry Faust, Fred Scollard, Don Meineke and Frank Brian as their scoring punch. Milwaukee will be much improv- ed by the addition of Bob Hoebregs who will combine with Jack Nich- ols and Stan Miasak to make them a threat in the conference. * * * ROCHESTER, though it will lose. Jack Coleman because of re- tirement still has the "Bobbsey twins" in Bob Wanzer and Bob Davies to help Arnie Risen lead them to as good a season as last year. Looking at the Eastern divi- sion we find the New York Knickerbockers standing pat ex- cept for Jim Baechtold whom they acquired from Baltimore. Harry Gallatin, Vince Boryla, Sweetwater Clifton, Carl Braun and Dick McGuire will open for the Knicks. In Boston the Celtics have done little to strengthen themselves as they still have Bob Cousey, Ed Mc- Cauley and Bill Sharman to pro- vide their scoring punch. * * * THE SYRACUSE Nationals have troubles since their coach Al Cervi has retired from playing and will devote his full time to coaching the Nats. Adolph Schayes is the mainstay of the squad, always be- ing among the top ten scorers and rebounders in the league. The surprise of the year may be the Philadelphia Warriors LATE HOCKEY SCORES *Boston 4, Chicago 2 Montreal 4, New York 2 -- - -- - - - - - - ------------- "PHOTOGRAPHIC HEADQUARTERS" I who have obtained Zeke Zaw- oluck from the defunct Indian- apolis Olympians, and Ernie Beck, former star of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Along with these two they have Neil Johnson who led the league in scoring last year. In Baltimore, Clair Bee's charg- ers have improved the club by a trade with the Knicks, getting Max Zaslofski. Max, always a good scorer, may provide the punch the - - Bullets need so badly. Also drafted by Baltimore was Ray Felix, ex- Long Island University star, who has great potentialities and coach Bee expects help from him. AS HAS BEEN shown the league has been sharpened considerably and should provide fine basketball for the fans. However, only time will tell as to the finish and all one can do is cheer our team on to victory. /' 'i i 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. GAMES OF THE (Consensus (62-20) selections MICHIGAN at Illinois Indiana at MINNESOTA IOWA at Purdue MSC at Ohio State WISCONSIN at Northwestern OKLAHOMA at Missouri LSU at Tennessee 15. Georgia at FL WEEK appear in capitals) 8. MISS. STATE at Tulane 9. Stanford at USC 10. SMU at Texas A & M 11. Arkansas at RICE 12. AUBURN at Miami 13. BAYLOR at Texas 14. DUKE at Navy GORIDA "'Photography is a business wth us - Not a Sideline" Calkins-Fletcher Drug. Co. SELECTIONS DAVE LIVINGSTON (65-18-.783)-Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, LSU, Mississippi State, USC, SMU, Auburn, Baylor, Duke, Florida MSC, Rice, 324 So. State 818 So. 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