TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY I by Paul Greenberg Novem ber mmommoommomm moommo . Games . . * To T est Gridde rs . * * yELLOW MUMS, SILVER FLASKS and plaid foot-warmers are in style again. Traditionally a part of the football scene, they have begun to take their annual fall spot in store window displays across the nation-making it all quite obvious that the big pigskin parade is on its way. But the real keen, deep-dyed grid fan saw the season com- ing a good ways back. He analyzed the 1953 schedule at the end of last season's cam- paign, figured the rough spots for his favorite team, analyzed what graduation would cost and then settled back to watch what happened in otger sports. Relaxing, watching the Yankees and Dodgers run away with the big league baseball races the football fanatic almost didn't realize what time it was until the avalanche of late-August football-prognosticating magazines hit the local newsstand. Baseball, tennis, golf, the entire remains of the athletic cal- ender were swept into the background - King Football had returned. And it was in this very same manner that we were jolted back into the swing of the annual fall madness. It was Street and Smith's picture-crammed grid publication that snapped us out of our baseball kick. Navy's patriotically-named guard "Ike" Eisenhauer rates as cover boy for the Football Pictorial Yearbook, with a truly rugged grimace for the photographer. But under the red cover came revelations galore -and plenty for the Michigan grid enthusiast. . * * * * . An Old Friend Appears .. . WHO SHOULD BE ENTRUSTED with rating the entire Mid-West but that denizen of the areas press coops, Tommy Devine-known in local circle and olverine wooer extroadinaire. Uncle Tommy figured Michigan for a stprtling seventh. Startling because in other national polls, the Wolverines were ranked 12th and 15th-trailing only Mich- igan State and Ohio State of the Western Conference. It's natural that MSC and OSU draw one-two rating considering their great power and depth and the superlative coaching of Messrs. Biggie Munn and Woody Hayes. The Buckeyes have an entire line that could be All-American, plus some fine backs in T-master Johnny Borton, and soph halts Howard (Hopalong) Cassady and Jerry Hark- rader. Up in Spartanville they're working on a 24-game winning streak and they have a potent outfit that could well go undefeated and take the Conference crown in its first year of Big Ten grid competition. Munn's complaints about two-way football fall sour when you take a glance at the list of his 21 returning lettermen-each good enough to make a les fortunate mentors mouth water. But Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin present four different stories. The Illini rated as universal number one confer- ence choice last year and they cracked under the burden of their press notices and some early season injuries--now with merely a shadow of the squad they had last year (losses including the Tommy O'Connell-Rex Smith passing combination), it seems cred- ulous that they be rated as one of the real rugged units in the Big Ten. Purdue too is minus a "big" passing combo-graduation having claimed Dale Samuels and All-American end Bernie Flowers, and this seems to leave the Boilermakers from Lafayette just about punch- less on offensive although they still are strong in the line. * C * * That Giel's here Again. .*, GIELOSOTA IS JUST THAT-the Gophers had a one man club last year and rumor has it that no great new talent - aded the Minneapolis campus. No matter how great brother Pa .ad he sure is fabulous, the Big Ten isn't going to be pushed aroui o y repu- tations the way Kazmaier shover around the Ivy Loop. Wisconsin, to be remembered as the Western Conference repre- sentative that LOST in the Rose Bowl, doesn't have the team it had last season-Alan "the Horse" Ameche is still crushing bones, but leg injuries to the Badgers ex-Michiganite quarterback Jim Haluska and potential All-American end Don Voss have dampened the scene on the shores of Lake Mendota. That Badger line doesn't exactly frighten opposing ball carriers either. Everybody agrees that Iowa, Indiana and Northwestern will trail the pack-but as for Michigan, well let's look at the Wolve- rines. The Maize and Blue lost some hard-to-replace guys like Ben Pederson, Lowell Perry, Bob Timm and Roger Zatkoff, but some good reserves have appeared and if it weren't for the football fac- tory at East Lansing and one of the strongest squads that Colum- bus Ohio has seen in a long time, the Wolverines would probably rate as logical choice for the number one spot. The eternal question marks are there to be sure, this year locating themselves at quarterback and linebacker. The pivotal figure here is a stocky Akron, Ohio sophomore Lou Baldacci who is first in line for the signal-calling role and for one of the linebacking spots-Bal- dacci has size and plently of ability, but should he fall short of the mark Bill McKinley, another sophomore, junior Duncan McDonald and senior Ray Kenaga will all be around to fill the breech.I Nobody Back to Lineback .o. ACTUALLY THIS IS the first season that the Wolverines find them- selves without at least one experienced linebacker-there had al- ways been one holdover to show the other man the ropes-extending in a line that included Dan Dworsky, Dick Kempthorn, Tony Momsen, Roger Zatkoff, Ted Topor and Laurie LeClaire. But when Zatkoff and LeClaire left, there was nobody. Right now it looks like Baldacci and center Dick O'Shaugh- nessy and if they don't work John Morrow, Dick Balshizer and McKinley shape up as other possibilities. Aside from the two so- called "sore" spots the team looks good and solid--the pass defense is slightly improved over last season, the line strong from end to end and there isn't a finer balanced backfield anywhere than the Baldacci-Ted Kress-Dick Balshizer-Tony Branoff unit. All can pass and run, Branoff and Baldacci both rate as good punters and if Kress can learn to hold onto the pigskin and Baldacci can come through in the style that his coaches know he's capable of, they'll all have to "watch out for the Wolverines." Varsity mill Play Six Big Ten Teams By IVAN N. KAYE Daily Sports Editor Michigan's 1953 football sched- ule is one of extreme contrasts. The beginning, with four con- secutive home games against aver- age competition, offers an excel- lent opportunity for the coaches to bring the team along to its proper peak. THIS PEAK will have to be reached before mid-season, how- ever, because starting with the Minnesotahgame andrcontinuing through the last four weeks of the campaign, the varsity will face Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan State and Ohio State. Those last two games should present the greatest challenges to the winning of a conference championship. Both the Spar- tans and Buckeyes are rated as top choices to win the Big Ten title. Playing them on successive Saturdays will be the supreme test of the 1953 Michigan team. The University of Washington, playing its first season under new coach John Cherberg, will open the season at the Stadium on Sep- tember 26. The Huskies have car- ried on football relations with Minnesota and Illinois in the past, but this marks their first appear- ance on the Michigan schedule. * * * T ULANE will follow Washing- ton into the Stadium, and will furnish ichigan's first Southern football opposition since 1934. The Green Wave gave the great Georgia Tech team one of its toughest games last year, and is expected to be much improved in 1953. Forest Evashevski will bring his Iowa team into Ann Arbor on October 10 to open the BigI Ten season for the Wolverines. Evashevski, who gained fame as the blocking back for Tom Har-# mon on the Michigan teams just before World War II, has been rebuilding the run-down Hawk- eye grid machine. Iowa while not a contender for the title is always capable of playing at least one standout game in a season. Last year the game was against Ohio State and the Hawkeyes pulled the upset of the year with an 8-0 victory. Northwestern will present an improved team and will be Mich,- igan's fourth straight home op- ponent on October 17. The Wild- cat still smarting from last year's 48-14 drubbing handed them by the Wolverines will be out for re-! venge. The last time (1951) Coach Bob Voights brought a team into Michigan Stadium it upset the Maize and Blue 6-0. * * * WHEN MICHIGAN journeys to Minneapolis to face the Minnesota' Gophers it will mark the 50th an- niversary of the first "Little Brown Jug" game. The Wolverines have held the famed trophy since 1943, and Minnesota, with All-America tailback Paul Giel carrying its hopes for a championship, should be primed to take it back. This is the first away game for the var- sity, which in itself stamps the contest as the first major test of the season. Minnesota is consid- ered a definite th reat in the race for the coveted "Championship of the West." The Homecoming game will be very successful, winning 25 of the games, but in the last three sea- sons, Illinois has fashioned vic- tories. A veteran line will make the Illini tough again this season, but they do not appear to have enough scoring power to carry them through to the title. The gradua- tion of the great aerial duo of passer 'Im O'Connell and end Rex Smith seems to have deprived Illinois of its offense. * * * EAST LANSING'S Macklin Field will be the scene of one of the key games of the Big Ten schedule when on the 14th of November, the two great intra-state rivals Michigan and Michigan State clash on the gridiron. Biggie Munn's Sartans are as good as last year's national champions, and the only question mark about 1953 is the strength of their opposition. Michigan and Ohio State are both improved and will have to be de- feated on successive weekends if the Spartans are to win a title in their first conference football sea- son. - Michigan will conclude the season against its traditional foe Ohio State in Ann Arbor. Last year, as a partisan crowd of 80,000 roared its approval in the big, double-decked horse- shoe at Columbus, the Buckeyes ruined Michigan's title dreams with a stunning 27-7 defeat. Coach Woody Hayess Bucks were probably the strongest team in the conference at the end of the season, but because of early reversals at the hands of Pur- due and Iowa, they were denied the championship. Ohio State has one of the best lines in the nation, a superb passer in quarterback John Borton, and a great broken field runner in Howard "Hopalong" Cassidy. The line is the key to Ohio's high pre- season rating, and there is a good chance that more than one of its members will be on the All-Amer- ica team. An overall view of the Michigan schedule shows it to be made to order for bringing a team along to its proper peak, but the con- clusion is so difficult that it -re- mains to be seen whether any team, no matter how highly keyed, can weather the late-season storm. BENNIE OOSTERBAAN DICK O'SHAUGHNESSY . . .season number six . . . leads Wolverines * * * , * * with the University of Pennsyl- vania on the final day of Octo- ber. The Quakers, once a regu- lar entry on the Michigan sched- ule, are making their first ap- pearance against the Maize and Blue since 1944, at which time they were demolished by one of Fritz Crisler's wartime teams, 41-19. Penn is engaging some top-drawer gridiron opposition this autumn, what with Ohio STUDENT LAMPS at 115 W. Liberty-Near Main State, California and Notre Dame lining up against the boys from Franklin Field. 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