SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY "AGE F'E'E SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE _. Iowa-Minnesota Game Heads Big Ten Schedule Today's Game May Decide Rose Bowl Representative Seldom Seen Kids Triumph In I-M Independent League I . SPORT SHORTS by the Associated Press By The Associated Press By BOB BOLTON The smell of roses hangs heavyJ over Minneaoplis today as the once-beaten Iowa Hawkeyes clash with Minnesota in what has been billed as the Big Ten "game of the year." This key battle heads a full five-game slate of Conference ac- tion. In other contests, Purdue faces Michigan State, Northwes- C . ..f. RICH BORSTAD .. . back in action tern meets Wisconsin, Indiana goes against Ohio State and Illi- nois takes on Michigan. For both the Gophers and the Hawkeyes, today's contest is a "must" if they hope to represent the Big Teri in Pasadena or possi- bly gain at least a share of the Conference title. The way the picture stacks up if Iowa loses they will stand at 3-2 in the Conference with Ohio State remaining to be dealt with. On the other hand, a Minne- sota loss would put the Gophers in a similar position with a Big Ten mark of 3-1-1 and Michigan State looming ominously on the horizon. To beat Minnesota the Hawk- eyes must overcome two big prob- lems. First they must shake off the mental frustration of last week's hea'rtbreaking defeat by Michigan and then they must overcome the injury situation. Iowa Backfield Plagued The Iowa backfield has been especially hard-hit by casualties. Halfback Bill Happel, the team's leading ground-gainer, is suffer- ing from a charley horse and may not play, while left half Kevin Furlong is out for the year with a broken jaw. Two other halfbacks, Don Dobrino and Del Kloewer, are also on the injury list. In the Gopher camp, the physi- cal outlook is quite a bit better. Although starting halfback Ken Bombardier is still out with a shoulder separation, Rich Borstad, hard-hitting fullback, has recov- ered from a leg injury and will return to action against the Hawk- eyes. Outside of this important game and the Michigan-Illinois clash there are notany other key con- tests in the Conference. OSU, Indiana Clash Down in Columbus, Ohio State seeks to extend its Big Ten victory streak to 17 as they take on a stumbling Indiana squad. The Hoosiers appear to grow weaker as the season progresses and last week they just managed to squeak out a 19-13 victory over Marquette, a team that figured to be no more than a breather. Another giant - versus - dwarf game will be played at East Lan- sing as once-beaten Michigan State takes on a soft touch in Purdue. To date, the Boilermakers have compiled a 2-2-2 record. Northwestern's Wildcats, who last week all but upset vaunted Ohio State, face an easier task this week against Wisconsin. The Badgers stand at 1-4-.1 for the season and don't seem to get any better as the year progresses. By ART ROSENBAUM Tempers flared as the Seldom I, Seen Kids outfought the Eagle Hawkers, 20-0, yesterday at South Ferry Field to gain a berth in the , finals of the independent league's first-place intramural football playoffs. The Kids took the opening kick- off and, led by the passing and running of Jack Watson, drove to a touchdown, with the final yard-, age coming on a pass from Watson of midfield on the fourth set of downs, giving the decision to the Tigercats. In the fourth-place playoffs, Bacteriology beat Mickey Mouse 6-0 when Herb Wagemaker took an intercepted pass 15 yards for the only score of the game. Gom- berg's Older had an easy time of it as they trounced an under- manned Wesleyan team, consisting of four players, 27-0. to Dick Papp. CORRECTION: Watson also passed for two more Chi Psi qualified for the 'B' touchdowns and both extra points., finals by beating Chi Phi, 26-0, The game was marked by hot not the reverse, as reported in tempers and flying fists as two yesterday's Daily. players were ejected from the 4- game and more than 100 yards of penalties given out. MAY SWEEP EVENT MILT CAMPBELL ... decathlon hopeful BOWL BOUND? - Iowa coach Forest Evashevski confers with his co-captains, Dick Deasy (73) and Don Suchy (55), about today's Minnesota game. If the Hawkeyes can rebound from last week's loss to Michigan, they will have a good chance for a Rose-Bowl bid. MSU Tops Conference On Offense, Defense Statistics released by the West- en Conference Service Bureau this week reveal that Michigan State ranks tops in the Confer- ence "on paper," both offensive- ly and defensively. In four Big Ten contests, the Spartans have the best average, 27 pts. per game, while limiting their opponents to a mere 6.5. Ohio State, in three games, has yielded only 2.6 pts. on the aver- age, but other figures must be taken into consideration. For instance, the Spartans have an average yield of but 239.7 yds. per game to each opponent in Conference competition, by far the best record. This comes out to 3.6 yds. per play. Michigan has the highest first- downs-per-game average, 19.0. The Spartans are leaders in an- other category, perhaps not as impressive as the others. They top the Conference with an average of 7.7 penalties a Saturday, 1.2 more than Northwestern. Wisconsin is tied with the Lan- sing, eleven in another somewhat dubious Big Ten first, having fumbled an average of 3.5 times. However, they lost the ball on only 1.7 of those occasions, while State lost possession 2.7 times. Best passing team in the Big Ten is Purdue, mainly because of the accuracy of its quarterback, Len Dawson. The Boilermakers have attempted 20.7 per game, mist in the Conference, and com- pleted the most, 12.5. Last year's runners-up, the Evan's Scholars, also moved into the finals, coming from behind to best the Allen-Rumsey Ghosts, 13-7, in a seesaw game that saw the lead twice change hands.. Trailing in the second half byl one point, the Scholars drove to the Ghosts' ten-yard line on a 40-yard pass to end Dick Gates. From there, Tony Drabik tossed a short pass to Mat Shadeck for the winning score. Earlier in the game, The Schol- ars had seen a six-point lead van- ish when Wallyish when Wally Prince threw =a touchdown pass and extra point to end Weldon Jones. The Old Married Men had to go into overtime to down Fisheries, 6-0, in the second-place playoffs. On Fisheries last set of downs, Jerry Clark picked off an erring Fishery pass and sped 20 yards for an OMM TD to break the scoreless tie. In the third-place playoffs, the Tigercats edged the Pill Pushers, 7-6, in overtime. The Tigercats drew first blood as Arnold Sarya raced around end in a reverse, but failed to convert the extra point. The Pill Pushers knotted the score on a pass from Jerry Veldman to Norm Thompson but the extra- point attempt was foiled. Neither team could b r e a k through and overtime was neces- sary. It was pitch black when a Pill-Pusher back was caught short U.S. Olympians Appear To Be Strong in Hurdles By AL JONES (This is the third in a series of four articles about track and field events in the 1956 Olympic Games. This ar- ticle discusses the hurdles, steeple- chase and decathlon.) The United States' monopoly in world track circles is certainly ex- posed when one considers the Olympic hurdles competition that will take place later this month in Melbourne, Australia. A clean sweep seems to be in order in the 110-meter high hurdles, with Americans Jack Da- All members of the Michi- gan Soccer Club should report to the Stadium field by 9:30 a.m. today for the game with Eastern Michigan College. -John Hunting, Manager vis of the Navy, Lee Calhoun of North Carolina and Joel Shankle of Duke all turning in better times than the best foreigners. Davis and Calhoun should stage a very tight race for the gold med- al, since they tied in the tryouts. Another Davis, Glenn of Ohio State, appears to. be the man to beat in the 400-meter low hurdles. The decathlon competition is usually considered the cream of the Olympic track competition. Again this year the United States has the possibility of sweeping the field. With the retirement of the great Bob Mathias, another phenomen- al competitor has appeared in the person of Rafer Johnson, a sophq- more at UCLA. He has done the impossible already by eclipsing Mathias' point-total record of 7,- 887 with a new standard of 7,985. Behind Johnson stands Milt Campbell, who ran second to Ma- thias in 1952, and Rev. Bob Rich- ards the great pole-vaulter. Rus- sia is entering Vasiliy Kuznetsov, a very capable decathlon man who poses a definite threat to second place, but should come nowhere near Johnson. Horace Ashenfelter was the sen- sation fo the 1952 Olympics when he bested a very imposing class of competitors in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. He wasn't expected to place then, and isn't again this year, but he could turn the tide of upset again. COLUMBUS, Ohio (IP)-Indiana University's athletic director de- clared yesterday "It would be silly to say we have much of a chance But the Bucks, three-touchdown favorites and guning for their 17th straight Big Ten victory, had a hunch Frank Allen, sports, direc- tor for the Hoosier school, might be trying to lull them into a feel- ing of security in hopes of manu- facturing an upset. Allen told, a luncheon group, "We hope to give you a good game, but that's about the best we can do against a team of Ohio's cal- iber. It would be silly to say we have much of a chance." With his tongue in his cheek, Allen went on: "We have about 160 high schools playing football in Indiana. Ohio has about 800. So it figures you get more talent here - and you must have talent. "And we don't pay as much - the reason being we don't have as much to pay with. At least we haven't been caught. We liketo come to Ohio State to play, be- cause it means up to $80,000 dif- ference, with the huge crowds you draw here." * * * Bowl Berth Beckons NEW ORLEANS - The Sugar Bowl made it plain yesterday it is after the winner of the Georgia Tech-Tennessee football game to- day for the annual New Orleans game Jan. 1. A delegation headed by Paul E. DeBlanc of the New Orleans Mid- winter Sports Association, sponsor of the Sugar Bowl, will be among the 40,000 expected for today's game. "Sure we'll be after the winner of this game, because it will be the nation's number one team," DeBlanc said. He added it is too early to dis- cuss an opponent should the Tech- Tennessee winner accept the Su- gar Bowl bid. He said, however, Texas Chris- tian, Rice, Baylor or Southern Methodist of the Southwest Con- ference "would make a game worth going miles to see." AUSTRALIAN PREVIEW: Olympic Sports Carnival To Be Held MELBOURNE 'oP)-Politics andv international tensions, which have plagued the Olympic games for weeks, will take a breather today when leading athletes move to the countryside army camp at Puckapunyal for a giant pre- Olympic track carnival which may produce a four-minute mile. It is the first full-scale preview of the Olympic games but some of the lustre will be missing be- cause of the absence of the strong US and Russian teams. American track forces, which are expected to dominate the games starting Nov. 22, arrived late yesterday in two planes. Russians 'Not Ready The Russians decided to forego the meet because they said they were not ready. Headlining the full program of events is an invitation mile fea- turing Australians Jim Bailey and Merv Lincoln, England's Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher and New Zealander Murray Halbert. The cinder track at Puckapun- yal is said to be lightning fast and likely to produce an excellent time. Bailey, who beat world record holder John Landy in a race in the United States, is the favorite. Landy, recovering from a heel injury, will not run. However, he announced Thursday he plans to compete for both the Olympic 1,500 and 5,000 meters. This, for the average Austral- ian, takes some of the edge off of the bitterness generated by fighting in Europe and the Neart East and the recurring withdraw- als, last of which is little Switzer-t land. Five Entries Withdraw t Previously, Holland, Communist China, Egypt, Spain and Iraq pulled out of the games and such countries as Denmark, Norway and Luxembourg were reported wavering on the edge of a similar decision. In Chicago, the International Olympic Committee president said yesterday Spain will recon- sider its withdraway from the Olympic Games today and that he has asked other qutting coun- tries to get back into the big Mel- bourne show. However, Rafael Hernandez Co- ronado, secretary of the Spanish sports delegation, said in Madrid his country still intends to boycott the games because of Russian participation. He said the decision was a government decision and would not be changed. Chancellor Informs Brundage Avery Brundage, IOC chief, said he was informed by OttoJ Mayer, IOC chancellor, of Spain's decision to re-study its announced intention of skipping the games. Mayer's office is at Lausanne, Switzerland. Brundage, who will leave for Melbourne tomorrow, in a state- ment: "The Olympic Games are con- tests between individuals and not between nations. We hope that those who have withdrawn from the Melbourne games will recon- sider. Spain has reconsidered." 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