4 THE MICHIGAN DAILY q"ATTt'WnAV YL'Pi["!Y.""wvlm 4A tinrrr QA TT A 7.. .Y H 1 UKloax, Irr UETVIBER IQ, 1955 I el I Wisconsin, Purdue Face Tests I MSU Meets Illini; Hoosiers Favorites at Northwestern 4 A m By The Associated Press t -- - f_ _ 1 FREDDIE BAER, Michigan fullback (30), rambles for a long gain in a scene from last year's battle for the Little Brown Jug at Ann Arbor, in which the Wolverines romped to a resounding 34-0 Home- coming victory over Minnesota. Although wary of the possibility of an upset, Bennie Oosterbaan's crew is hoping for a repeat performance this afternoon at Minneapolis. Televised Battle To Draw- Packed House at Minnesota (Continued from page 1) of Bob McNamara, All - American halfback. But the Wolverines took a dif- ferent view. They capitalized on the lack of Minnesota responsive- ness and spirit and passed their way to an easy 34-0 victory while the Gophers stood idly by, watch- ing their championship hopes go down the drain. The Gophers will be greatly concerned with Michigan's single- wing attack, the same one that fooled them last year. They can well remember the losses, their only ones, to Wisconsin and Mi- chigan, with both teams fielding a strong single-wing passing of- fense. Because of the many injuries to the Gopher squad, Warmath will have to rely mostly on his sopho- more replacements. Rich Borstad, a. promising second-year fullback, has been the mainstay of the Min- nesota attack. Filling in for the injured Yackel, Bornstad became the running star of the team, gaining well over 200 yards on the ground against Northwestern and Illinois. Moving into the starting left- half spot for the Gophers will be Dick McNamara, younger brother of the All-American, and one of the fastest runners on the squad. Sophs Stand Out Sophomores Jon Jelacic, right end, and Bob Shultz, right half, have proven their worth to the Minnesota fans. They were forc- ed into action because of the in- jury-laden squad and have been standouts as a pass receiver and open field runner, respectively. Despite Minnesota's poor record, the Wolverines are going to be up against some of the stiffest com- petition they have seen this sea- son. The Gophers, who have lost to Washington (30-0), Purdue (7-6) and Illinois (21-13) with only an 18-7 win over Northwest- ern, have one of the youngest teams in the conference. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan pointed out that Minnesota dominated the play in last week's loss to Illinois. Oosterbaan added, "They can strike fast and hard and we know that they'll be very high for this one." Michigan's strength will be limited. In the backfield, starting quarterback Jim Maddock is han- dicapped with a bruised hip, and will share his duties with Jim Van Pelt. Tony Branoff and Terry Barr are in goad physical shape at the halfbacks with Jim Pace, who has been getting in a lot of work at practice this week, ready to spell them. The line will be the same as last week, with the big question still the starting center. No one knows whether Jim Bates is fully recovered from his leg injury to start. If not, either Jerry Goebel or John Peckham will handle the center duties. At the guards, Dick Hill and Captain Ed Meads will start, with Jim Orwig and Al Sig- man filling the tackles. The ends will be Tom Maentz and Mike Rotunno, with Charlie Brooks spelling them. Maentz will do most of the kicking after he / 60 m OSU Ace Dies ANN ARBOR (MP)-Dick Hilin-. ski, a tackle on Ohio State's Rose Bowl champion football team last year, was killed last night when a car in which he was riding missed a curve and he was thrown out.. The accident occurred about 15 miles northeast of Ann Ar- bor. Washtenaw sheriff's officers said Hilinski was carrying a varsity card from Ohio State. His companion, Sylvester J. Blake, carried an Army regis- tration certificate for the car listing Columbus, Ohio, as his home town. Blake was taken to an Ann Arbor hospital where preliminary reports indicated his condition was not critical. The officers said the car missed the curve at a high rate of speed, skidded 195 feet along the shoulder, plowed 300 feet through a field and across an intersecting road, then came to rest 20 feet into a second field. Hilinski was thrown 45 feet from the car. Hilinski's home was in Euclid, Ohio. Hilinski had been helping on the Ohio State coaching staff. He still had two years of work ahead of him in graduate work at the medical school. He spent his freshman year at Notre Dame and played foot- ball for Ohio State in his junior and senior years. Hilinski, 24, an all Big-Ten tackle last year, and Blake were on their way to Fenton, Mich., where they were to be in the wedding party Saturday of a friend. NFL Leaders Face Tough Foes Sunday By The Associated Press The deadlocked eastern and western conferences of the Nation- al Football League can be un- scrambled Sunday when all 12' teams see action. Pittsburgh and Cleveland, tied for the top rung in the eastern section with three victories and one defeat each, face strong oppo- sition in the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers, respectively. Lions Face Rams In other games, Detroit is at Los Angeles, the Chicago Bears are at San Francisco, Washington is at Baltimnore and Philadelphia' plays the Cardinals at Chicago. The Browns, with the advantage of a home field, rule a seven-point favorite over the Packers who are: in a triple tie with Baltimore and Los Angeles for first place in the' western conference. Each has a 3-1 record. A week ago, a sodden Saturday produced the biggest wave of up- sets the college football season has seen. Four teams were knocked out of top-ten rankings and favorites toppled on all sides. A half dozen or so prominent winners of these games Saturday join a dwindling group of teams with still unsmirched records in an effort to restore some sort of order to the 1955 season while the losers sought to get back on the right side. The losers posed some of the biggest questions in the national football guessing game. They in- cluded Notre Dame, a team that has finished in the first ten cften- er than any other in the 20-year history of the Associated Press poll; Wisconsin and Washington, still top contenders for their con- ference titles and for the Rose Bowl, and Georgia Tech, the early favorites in the Southeastern Con- ference. Irish May Rebound It's a matter of record that when a high-flying team is beaten once, its likely to tumble again the next week. And today Notre Dame, whipped by Michigan State, en- counters Purdue, which got a great, lift last week by tieing Iowa on, Len Dawson's last-play pass. Michigan State clipped an 11.- game Notre Dame string last Sat- urday. The lats previous Irish de- feat was by Purdue last season, 27-14, with Dawson throwing four touchdown passes. The three pay-] off aerials the sharp Purdue quarterback came after he had1 been handicapped in earlier games by a broken wrist. Wisconsin, sharing the Big Ten] "M' All-Time Game Scoring Mlark Has Anniversary Today By JIM VOGT lead with Michigan but trounced by Southern California, runs into Ohio State, upset victim of Duke last week. Washington, beaten by Baylor, meets a Stanford team whose only major victory was over Ohio State. Georgia Tech, tumb- led by still-unbeaten Auburn, faces a comparatively soft one against Florida State. Two of the surprise winners, Baylor and Texas A. & M., collide with the Southwest Conference lead at stake. Michigan State meets fast-moving Illinois in what figures to be the top game of the Big Ten slate. Duke, which vault- ed into fifth place in The Associ- ated Press rankings after last week's victory, encounters a poten- tially troublesome Pittsburgh team. Southern California, back in the first ten rankings, doesn't look for serious difficulties with California, and Auburn, now the Southeastern leader,expects a breeze against little Furman. Colorado, Oklahoma Clash Among the ranking powers there is only one game bringing together two undefeated and untied teams. They are third-ranked Oklahoma and 14th-rated Colorado, rivals for the Big Seven championship which Oklahomg always has won during Bud Wilkinson's tenure as coach. Maryland, No. 2, faces another of last week's unset winners, Syra- cuse, in the East's best game. Navy, No. 4 behind Oklahoma, meets Pennsylvania, loser of 13 straight, while West Virginia, No..8, faces Penn State. Other major Midwest games today include Iowa State-Kan- sas State, Kansas-Southern Meth- odist, Missouri-Nebraska and Northwestern-Indiana. w .T a 4 "Varsity Scores 130 Points on West Virginia." Thus the Michigan Daily re- corded the highest scoring foot- ball game in Michigan's history on October 22, 1904-exactly fifty- one years ago today. It should have been a proud day for the Wolverines, but another score appeared in the wally; a score that took the edge off the feat. Five hundred miles away the University of Minnesota was setting its own scoring record by trouncing Grinnell, 146-0. For the Golden Gophers it was the high point in an undefeated season that featured a tie for the Western Conference crown. Michigan saw its record score take a place along .ide the many other accomplishments of Fielding Yost's fabulous point-a-minute teams. Wolverines Devastating West Virginia had lost only one game of six before that fateful afternoon at Ferry Field-and that a close one to powerhouse Penn State. But in its first-and last- game against Michigan, it never even got a first down. The Wolv- erines were never held for downs. ed West Virginia's goal line 22 times, while the visitors failed to The boys from Ann Arbor cross- score. For one of these goals, a Michigan man carried the ball two yards across the goal line with two West Virginia players hanging on his legs. Of the Wolverines' touchdowns, Joe Curtis, 215-pound tackle, scor- ed six. Curtis also managed to find time to cash in on 19 of 20 extra point attempts for a total of forty-nine points. "His work was easily the feature of the game," commented the Michigan Daily. Fred Norcross executed some beautiful broken-field running on kick returns, on which he scored two of his five touchdowns. Heston, Schultz Scoreless Only two of Michigan's starting eleven failed to score. One was Captain Willie Heston, a two-year All-American playing his last season for the Maize and Blue. The other was Adolph "Germany" Schultz, a 215-pound center, who later became the first linebacker in football history. One West Virginia player typi- fied the game: "Once they kicked off to us and got the ball before we did and made a touchdown be- fore we even got our hands on the pigskin," he marvelled. All this without the benefit of a forward pass, and in the era of the five point touchdown! I showed he could do so Northwestern game. well in the BIG TEN STANDINGS MICHIGAN .................... Wisconsin ................... Ohio State ................ Michigan State ............. Illinois ....................... Purdue ........................ Iowa....... ... .......... Minnesota ................ Indiana .................. Northwestern .............. W 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 a 0 L 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 T 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .500 .500 .333 .000 .000 a -1 Michigan, Wisconsin Squads Best in Conference 'On Paper OCT.I29 COMING SUNDAY . A TEEN-AGE GIRL WAS MURDERED and they were all on trial! Michigan and Wisconsin, win- ners of two Big Ten games apiece, also share statistical leadership in Conference grid play to date. The Badgers rank first in. of-j fense, although by the barest mar- gin over Illinois. The opportunist Wolverines, whose offensive per- formances rank them no better than a tie for ninth place, stand first on defense, although its rank there is challenged by the sturdy defensive performances of Michi- gan State. The Spartans have given up fewer yards than the Wolverines, 170 yards to 194, but they allowed opponents 13.5 points a game, which is not better than fifth, whereas Michigan has a wide mar- gin in that department by allow- ing only 4.5 points a game. i Billy 3-N ay7 C 11 Jean Anouilh's THIEVES' CARNIVAL Dial NO 2-2513 ENDING TONIGHT TICKETS at 3-WEEK ENGAGEMENT ..r " °4 9CP^h ..::.!}l.,!:...v d_.'dESwA. "" - i. .. S. '. .,y. " ;.: y'-:": i .. { s , i