TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1953
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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13-9 Winner
Over Adams
Hayden Marches
To 6-0Triumph
By PHIL JACOBUS
A smooth-working Gomberg
House football team rolled to an
impressive 20-7 victory over de-
fending champion, M i c h i g a n
House, in the opening round of the
* intramural league yesterday.
Lou Megeysi sparked the red-
shirted South Quadders with his
(passing as three of his tosses went
for touchdowns.
Early in the first half Megeysi
threw a five yard pass to John
Cioupak and then his Earl Kauff-
man for the extra point. After
Michigan had, tied the score 7-7
on a 40 yard pass from Ray Tam
'to Fred Aengst, Megeysi again
connected for a score, this time to
Jim McClurg. McClurg also caught
the extra point.
S* S*
IN THE second half, the Gom-
berg sharpshooter found Earl
Kauffman in the end zone with
There will be an important
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--Gene Knutson
Scribes Select Baldacci,
Dunn Players-of-Week
SIX EXTRA-POINTS MISSED:
Glaring Weaknesses Still Evident Despite 50-0 Win
Sophomore quarterback Lou Bal-
dacci of Michigan and Washing-
ton's scatback Bobby Dunn were
named Players-of-the-week in a'
press box poll of sports-writers last
Saturday.
Baldacci, who more than lived
up to pre-season notices, made
an auspicious debut as Ted To-
por's successor. Capably handling
the tough blocking chores expect-
ed of a single-wing quarterback,
the husky field general was also a
.standout on defense, from both
the linebacker and defensive half-
back posts.
* * *
PROVING himself no slouch in
the ground-gaining department
either, Baldacci caught two of Ted
Kress' throws for 21 yards and
six points. Despite a taped-up
thumb, he attempted four passes,
completing one to end Gene Knut-
son good for 33 yards.
A big question mark before
' the season opened, although
impressive in practice sessions,
Baldacci's performance against
the Huskies should serve as a
warning to other Big Ten grid
squads.
Dunn was the standout on a
mediocre Washington team, al-
though in the game for only a
few minutes. The fans remember
him for his thrilling run-back of
a kickoff down the sidelines for 67
yards before Baldacci knocked him
out of bounds.
LOU BALDACCI-Chosen play-
er-of-the-week for his fine de-
fensive and offensive perform-
ance in Michigan's rout of
Washington.
Tulane, Iowa, Next Foes on Michigan Grid
Card, Test Ranking Teams Before Bowing
By IVAN N. KAYE
Daily Sports Editor
Almost forgotten in the excite-
ment of the varsity's eight touch-
down victory over Washington last
Saturday were several , glaring
weaknesses which should be the
subject of a great deal of this
week's practice time.
Only two extra points were
made, a fact which has little bear-
ing on a game in which a team
scores eight times, but which
could be of crucial importance lat-
er in the season when the big
games ai% played against Michigan
State and Ohio State.
** *
MICHIGAN'S punting average
was a feeble 27.6 yards on five at-
tempts. A good kicking game has
always been one of the corner-
stones of Michigan football, in
fact, there was once a time when
the punt was the Wolverines' best
offensive weapon. Some more de-
pendable punting will be a neces-
sity if Michigan is to cope success-
fully with the rugged late season
schedule.i
Both teams came out of Sat-
urday's action with the usual
assortment of cuts and bruises,
but no serious injuries were re-
ported.
We talked with the Huskies'
team physician' Dr. John Geehan
after the game, and the good doc-
tor, who quarterbacked three
Washington teams during the
roaring twenties, was of the opin-
ion that Michigan was just about
the sharpest opening day club
that he had ever seen. He pointed
out, however, as did Athletic Pub-
licity Director Bert Rose, that
Washington was really not 50
points worse than Michigan.
DR. GEEHAN, who was kept
busy ten days ago when halfbacks
Mike Monroe and Bill Albrecht
suffered broken bones in the game
againstColorado, felt that even
with both in the lineup, Michigan
would still have been far out of
Washington's class. "It would cer-
tainly have been a better contest
though," he reflected.
Washington's line coach John
Baker is the very same Johny
Baker (Southern California class
of 1932) who made football his-
tory at Notre Dame Stadium in
South Bend in the late autumn
of 1931 by kicking a 33-yard
fieldgoal in the last five seconds
to beat the Irish, 16-14, and
snap a 26-game winning streak
Notre Dame had thundered
through the 1929 and 1930 seasons
undefeated and untied under the
coaching genious of the immortal
Knute Rockne. Even after his trag-
ic death in the spring of 1931, the
Irish continued to roll unbeaten.
Baker's dramatic placement end-
ed the streak, however, and sent
DID YOU KNOW.. . that dur-
ing the four years that Willie
Heston played football for Mich-
igan he played in 44 games, scor-
ing the incredible total of 93
touchdowns and averaging two
and, one-half per game.
Notre Dame into a football hibbr-
nation from which it did not
emerge until Frank Leahey arrived
on the South Bend campus in 1941.
COACH BENNIE Oosterbaan
used 37 players in Saturday's ac-
tion, while Washington's John
Cherberg sent in 28 men.
The game gave somewhat the
appearance of the old platoon
type of football, especially from
Ir-
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the Michigan side as the coaches
used a large number of substitutes
in an attempt to hold 'the score
to reasonable proportions.
Those who condemned the new
rule on the basis that it would
limit the number of boys who
would play, could not point to
Saturday's game and make that
statement. Michigan would have
used just about the same number
of men under last year's rules.
Wekcome All
another of his tosses to com-
-plete the scoring. The extra point
attempt was batted down.
Cooley, which looms as the
East Quad power this year, had
a more difficult time downing
Adams 13-9. The winners scor-
ed first on a pass, Don McEvoy
to Ben Yount. Nick Franko then
picked off a stray Cooley aeriaY
and raced for an Adams touch-
down. Cooley won the game in
the second half when Ron Wei-
chert passed to Norm Kiel for
the score.
+Ivan Kushen led the blue shirts
of Allen-Rumsey to an easy 13-0
win over Winchell as he fired two
touchdown passes, one to Jack
DeCue and the other to Don Ham-
ochek. DeCue also caught the ex-
tra point. All of the scoring was
done in the first half.
t. s " *
HAYDEN HOUSE took the sec-
ond half kick-off and marched
straight down the field to score
the only touchdown in its 6-0 con-
guest of Greene. The score came
on a pass from Bob Luecke to
McCullough. Hayden's line did a
magnificent job in holding the
Greene House offense in check
throughout the game.
Huber defeated Van Tyne 14-6
by scoring in each half. Bill
Booth passed to Jim Crawford
for their first touchdown in the
initial period, and to Dorrance
McCullen for the extra point. In
the second half, Bruce Wisniew-
ski tossed to Jim Rowland for
"the other score. The Van Tyne
touchdown came on a pass from
John Hoos to Pat Abbott.
In another game Reeves pushed
over two scores in the second
;alf to defeat Kelsey House. Sam
Gewercer passed for both the
touchdowns, one went to Tom
Cleveland and the other, a screen
pass, went Ed Pavlik.
In the remaining games, Scott
tefeated Hinsdale 6-0 as Paul
Throbald scored the onlystouch-
down and Taylor downed Strauss
House, the second place team from
last year by the same 6-0 scores
een Larken scored the only tally
of the game.
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By DAVE BAAD
Tulane and Forest Evashevski's
Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan's next
two 1953 football opponents went
down to defkeat during last Sat-
urday afternoon's pigskin action.
Both teams, however, were im-
pressive as they suffered 16-14 and
21-7 defeats respectively to Geor-
gia and Michigan State. Tulane
considerably dependent on the
speed of its halfbacks, encountered
weather trouble during its Athens,
Georgia engagement,
* $ *
THE CONTINUAL raining turn-
ed the Green Wave to a passing
attack and quarterbacks, Pete
Clement and Ray Weidenbacher,
almost delivered a victory, each
tossing a touchdown pass. A first
quarter field goal swung the
Southeastern Conference contest
to the Bulldogs.,
Michigan State capitalized on
two first period Iowa mistakes
to build an insurmountable 14-0
lead and went on to capture the
21-7 verdict.
The Hawkeyes played the Spar-
tans on even terms during the last
three periods, narrowing the mar-
gin to 14-7 in the third period.
Iowa demonstrated defensive
potency, preventing Michig an
State from producing a continual
touchdown march of over 50 yards
all afternoon.
* * *
FOUR of the other six squads on
the Wolverine schedule annexed
victories this last weekend. The
only two non-winners were Min-
nesota, defeated by powerful
Southern California, 17-7, and Il-
linois, tied by Nebraska, 21-21.
Northwestern, sparked by 190
pound halfback Hoyt Israels,
breezed to an easy 35-0 triumph
over Iowa State in its grid open-
er at Evanston.
Israels, exclusively a defensive
operator for the Wildcats during
the past two years, blossomed into
a star as a two way performer. He
scored two touchdowns with gal-
lops of 44 and 24 yards respective-
ly.
PENNSYLVANIA, Michigan's
homecoming opposition, .playing
one of its toughest schedules in
years, opened its season with a
narrow 13-7 win against Vander-
bilt.
The Red and Blue, completely
outplayed in the first half, came
marches in the final thirty min-
utes. Penn's defense was out-
standing, completely blanying
Bill Krietemeyer, the Commo-.
dores' sensational sophomore
passer, in the completion de-
partment.
Ohio State and Michigan State,
the final two teams on the Michi-
gan slate and expected to be a pair
of the touchest, both netted Big
Ten victories.
* * *
OHIO POWERED to a 23-0 at
,ialftime and waltzed in the rest
of the way. Halfback Bobby Wat-
son grabbed a touchdown pass and
ran nine yards for another to lead
the Buckeye scoring.
DID YOU KNOW ...that dur-
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was a Varsity sport Wolverine
teams had a .750 percentage. They
won 21, while losing only seven of
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FINAL STANDINGS 1953
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Cleveland ..92 62
Chicago ....89 65
Boston .....84 69
Washington 76 76
Detroit.....60 94
Philadelphia 59 95
St. Louis ... .54 100
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Milwaukee ..92
St. Louis ....83
Philadelphia 83
New York ...70
Cincinnati . .68
Chicago ... .65
Pittsburgh . .50
49
62
71
71
84
86
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104
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.539
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A record breaking field goal and
a riot highlighted the National
Professional Football League's first
day of activity..
Bert Rechichar booted the field
goal, a 56-yarder, as he sparked
the Baltimore Colts to a 13-9 up-
set victory over the Chicago Bears.
The former All-American from
Tennessee also intercepted a Chi-
cago pass and ran it back 30 yards
for Baltimore's only touchdown
and then capped his performance
by killing off the Bears last drive
with another interception.
THE RIOT occurred at San
Francisco where the Philadelphia
Eagles were beaten 31-21 by the
San Francisco 49'ers. The fracas
began when 49er Charley Powell
and Al Pollard of the Eagles be-
gan swinging.
Police and fans rushed onto
the field and it was some time
before play could continue. As
for the game itself, Y. A. Tittle
quarterbacked San Francisco to
victory, scoring himself in the
opening quarter and throwing
touchdown passes in the first,
third, and fourth periods.
The world champion Detroit
Lions got off on the right foot in
defense of its title by rolling over
the Steelers from Pittsburgh, 38-
21. Doak Walker racked up 14,
points for the Lions, six of them
coming on a sensational diving
catch in the end zone of a pass
thrown by Bob Hoernschmeyer.
* * s
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dirt passes and set up two more
scores with long aerials to Cloyce
Box. Jim Finks passed for two of
the Steeler's touchdowns while
Ted Marchibroda found the range
for the third.
The Cleveland Browns, last
year's eastern division champs
breezed past the Green Bay
Packers by a 27-0 count. Two
familiar names were once again
in the limelight as the Browns'
Lou Groza and Otto Graham
stole the show.
Groza kicked two field goals
besides converting after each of
Cleveland's three touchdowns
while Graham connected on 18
of 24 passes and scored twice
himself.
* * *
IN THE REMAINING contests,
the Los Angeles Rams defeated
the New York Giants, 21-7 and
the Washington Redskins beat the
Chicago Cardinals, 24-13. Norm
Van Brocklin hit Tom Fears and
Elroy Hirsch for scores to lead
the Rams to victory against a
stubborn Giant defense.
The Redskins took advantage
of two fumbles and a 15-yard pen-
alty against Card coach Joe Sty-
dahar to score their upset win.
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