PAGE SIX TME MICItIGAN DAIJLT TuEaUAY, SEPTEMBER, 27, 1955 1 __ESXTk ~I~nGNDiAikD~,SPEBR2,15 SPORTS JOHN HILLYER Night Editor VP', Rated Second in Pvatton I I rh Asslociated Pre Maryland Tops, Georgia Tech Third; Wolverines Get Most First-Place Votes as5 Poll UNION T B Y 0. SMOKERS Sept. 28 4:00 P.M. or Sept. 29 7:15 P.M. Room 3-S, Union { By The Associated Press Maryland, conqueror of top- ranked' UCLA, barely beat out Michigan Monday for No. 1 place in the Associated Press college football poll. In handing the Pacific Coast champions their first shutout in 40 games, 7-0, Jim Tatum's Ter- rapins rocketed from fifth to first in the weekly standings on a thumping vote from 135 of the nation's sports writers and broad- casters. Although Michigan received the most firstlplace votes, 48 to 45,1 Maryland gained enough all-roundI voting strength to head the list Ohio State, No. 8; Southern Cali- with 1,113 points. Michigan, 42-7 fornia, No. 9; and Texas Christ- winner over Missouri in its debut, ian, No. 10. drew 1,032 points. Of these. Notre Dame. Army and Points are awarded on the basis Texas Christian are newcomers, of ten for a first place vote, nine rooting out Pittsburgh, Mississippi for second and on down the line. and Navy because of impressive Standings Shuffled opening performances. The first full Saturday of games The top teams with first place seo shuffled the standings that votes and won-lost records in par- only one position in the top ten- entheses and points based on 10 Southern Cal at ninth-remained for a first place vote, 9 for second, stationary. etc.: JIM VAN PELT .. punts well Behind Maryland and Michigan, in order; came Georgia Tech, No. 3; Notre Dame, No. 4; Oklahoma, I No. 5; Army, No. 6; UCt:A, No. 7; ... r- I S T O R E* H O U RS D A IL Y 9 TO 5: 3 0 N%~EJ ~I& s. 11 Points 1. Maryland (45) (2-0) 1,113 .2 Michigan (48) (1-0) 1,032 3. Georgia Tech (11) (2-0) 701 4. Notre Dame (3) (1-0) 671 5. Oklahoma (12) 1-0) 622 .6 (1) (1-0) 437 7. UCLA (1-1) 358 8. Ohio State (1) (1-0) 299 6. Army2(1) (1-0) 437 (2-0) 269 10. Texas Christian (3) (2-0) 229 11. Rice (1-0) 208 12. Pittsburgh (1) (2-0) 200 (2-0) 14. Iowa (1) (1-0) 141 15. Navy (1) (1-0) 125 16. Duke (1-0) 82 17. Wisconsin (1-0) 59 18. Penn State (1) (1-0) 53 19. Washington (1) (2-0) 50 20. Baylor (2-0) 49 PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Pittsburgh Steelers 14, Chicago Cardinals 7. Bruised Ribs Fail To Stop State Halfback Punts .Boom 'As Gridders Eye MS Michigan's nationally - ranked football team, fresh from its 42-7 walloping of Missouri, commenced practice yesterday in preparation for thisSaturday's contest with 1Michigan State. While end Ron Kramer, sopho- morepassingsensation Jim Van Pelt and halfback Mike Shatusky were booming 40 and 50-yard punts, the linemen were engrossed in a 30-man touch football game with coaches Bob Holloway and Pete Kinyon. More Serious Business After a half-hour of this, the coaches got down to more serious business and put the backfield through its pass plays while the linemen"ent over their defensive Isignals. . Tony Branoff, who reportedly incurred a "charley horse" in the game, certainly did not seem hampered by it today as he ran through his paces. TONY BRANOFF shines despite injury T u fi '41on ... WITH PHIL DOUGLIS Daily Sports Editor NE DOWN-eight to go." The Monday morning quarterbacks were in rare form yesterday-as usual. It was a good start to a promising season-and the drugstore cowboys were wearing rose colored glasses. They were everywhere- in classrooms, lecture halls, libraries, bookshops, streetcorners- wherever you have people. The topic was the same, wherever you went. Michigan's impressive 42-7 rout of Missouri's game but under- manned Tigers left little room for improvement-or so it seemed to Michigan's legions of fans all over the nation. Even opponents were talking in superlatives over Michigan's furious six-touchdown onslaught led by a giant figure in blue with a golden "eighty-seven" splashed across his massive chest. A Report to Ponder ... A CREW OF Michigan State scouts were perhaps the most im- pressed of all. They knew their football-and what they saw they did not like-for next week their lads would presumably face the same kind of treatment. "Terrific poise-tremendous depth- over-all strength-good line play-lots of speed-good quarterback- ing-and most of all-Ron Kramer." This was the report they are taking back to Duffy Daugherty-to look at and ponder over. Don Faurot-master of the split-T-and Saturday the user of a sliding-T, was also impressed. "It's Miehigan all the way" this year he intoned-and with Kr'amer in there-who can stop them?" Newspapers throughout the nation boomed Michigan yesterday as the best team to come out of Ann Arbor since the fabulous '48 squad. It should come as no surprise either to find Michigan either at, or near, the top of the weekly press football polls. Despite all of this hoopla and hollering this observer still feels that all concerned should settle back and be a little objective about this thing. On the basis of Saturday's game alone-it is hard not to be tremendously optimistic. Michigan displayed more versatility in one day than it did most of last season. Forty-one players entered the fray. Ron Kramer scored 23 points (he made 31 all last season). Jim Van Pelt and Jim Maddock' passed with accuracy. Jim Pace and Tom Hendricks wheeled through the Tiger line with ease. Not Satisfied-Yet... THE WOLVERINES used sheer numbers to crack Old Missou-. and opened the flood gates with a deadly aerial barrage. Yet Oosterbaan was still not fully satisfied. "A coach is never satisfied," he said after the game. He was pleased with many individuals-Kramer, Van Pelt, Hen- dricks, to name a few. Yet there were still lots of mistakes made- mistakes in judgment-and in ball handling. But the overall picture was still definitely a good one. We can obviously see that Michigan's team is a mighty fine one this season. No one will dispute that. However, it is our belief that the caliber of opposition from now on in is almost equal to our own- at this stage of the game. Answer on the Field ... CAN MICHIGAN cope with this opposition? Obviously this question can only be answered in the big bowl on Stadium Boulevard- the Minnesota .Memorial Stadium in Minneapolis, and in the big gridiron palace at Champaign. Mchigan will still have the advantage in every one of these games. It has everything-passing, running, kicking, defense, and tremendous reserve power. If one phase bogs down, another is sure to make up for it. It looks like a big year for Bennie's Boys-any way you look at it. The "experts" are convinced Michigan has a "powerhouse." All the team has to. do now is to live up to it-and we have a hunch that they will. MICHIGAN'S STORE ,40 11 * Sun tan slacks, best grade $4.50 Haggar slacks, all-wool flannel $12.95 Your choice of 12 outstanding makes, sport coats including Ivy League and standard models $29.50 up of I ARROW and VAN HEUSEN shirts and sport shirts $3.95 up TAYLOR MADE shoes in the popular cordovan and Scotch grain leathers. At nationally advertised prices. Pork pie and Tyrolean hats, charcoal shades, from $5.50 BEST VALUES FOR BUDGET BUYERS EAST LANSING, Mich., Sept. 26 (AP)-Michigan State star left half- back Clarence Peaks was limited to light workouts today as a re- sult of bruised ribs suffered Sat- urday in the Spartans' Big Ten football season opener with In- diana. Dr. James S. Feurig, Team Phy- sician, assured Coach D u f f y Daugherty, however, Peaks will e ready to play against arch- rival Michigan Saturday. Outside of Peaks the rest of 1 -I T 1 I MSUJ Tough Any ideas that theWolverines would be in for an easy game against MSU were quickly squelch- ed when State, sparked by sopho- mores, put on a convincing per- formance in their triumph over Indiana Saturday. I STATE S T R E E T AT L i BE RTY the first two squads reported for light drills today in good shape. Daugherty planned a night ses- sion to hear backfield coach Bert Smith's scout report on the Mi- chgan-Missouri game. (1 U Sw EN S aiii .d i li- I I Sign up for I. 1956 Graduation Picture Appoinments Now! .I .