- SAT TTIRDAY, AUGU$T 11,: 4945 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE ~4TURDAY, AUGUST 11; 1945 PAGE THREE SPORTS NEWS + VIEWS + COMMENT By BILL MULLENDORE, Sports Editor Notes from the Big Ten . THE 1945 football season will be the 50th for the Western Conference. Chicago won the first championship in 1896. . . . The University of Michigan has won the most number of championships, 14, despite having dropped out of the Conference from 1908 to 1917. . . . Minnesota has 13 titles and Illinois eight. . . . Indiana has never won a championship, and is the only member of the loop never to have cashed in. . . . In addition to leading in total numbers, the Wolverines also are the only team to have won the championship four times running. . . . Michigan did it twice, first during the years 1901-04 when Fielding H. Yost's "point-a-minute" teams were tearing up the gridiron, and later from 1930-33, during Harry, Kipke's tenure. . . . Michigan won its first championship under J. R. Duffy in 1898. . . . Yost bxought home eight more, Kipke four, and H. O. Crisler, the present mentor, has one.j Actually, there is no official Western Conference football chain- pionship., although a move is afoot to have one instituted. The onlyj title now awarded in football is the so-called "newspaper championship," figured on a percentage basis. A suggestion has been initiated to name an official champion through a vote of the competing coaches at the close of each season. Every coach would rate the nine compet- ing teams in order, and the winner would be decided on a point basis. BOB HANZLIK, starting tackle on Michigan's 1943 eleven. will make an appearance in the local stadium Nov. 3, but he won't be in a Maize and Blue uniform. Hanzlik is now at the University of Minnesota where Coach Bernie Bierman has been attracted by his aggressive play at guard. The burly 190-pound lineman played at Michigan as a Marine trainee, but has since received a discharge and is enrolled at Minnesota as a civilian. Oct. 27, the day when Michigan will journey to Champaign to meet the University of Illinois, has been designated as homecoming day by the Illini. . . . Dave McMillan was recently reappointed head basketball coach at Minnesota. He has held the post for 15 years . . . High school students and servicemen. are admitted to Illinois home j football games for a special price of 60 cents . . . . Johnny Tavener, Indiana's All-American center of last year who made his presence more than a little felt in the Hoosier 20-0 conquest of Michigan last year, has gone into the high senool coacaing business. Down at Iowa, where they take their basketball so seriously, the Hawkeye cagers will open practice Oct. 9. The Iowans will be defending Big Ten champs when the season opens, and will be able to floor practically the same team that won the title last year while losing only one game. Iowa, incidentally has a new football coach this fall in the person of Clem Crowe. He succeeds Elmer (Slip) Madigan. . . .. Minnesota's starting eleven could include ten war veterans. At least that many are leading candidates for first string berths._ GOING, Gone ! Controlling Interest in Browns Is Sold to St. Louis Businessman Grid Practice For Summer To End Today Workout To Stress Defensive Tactics. Michigan's 1945 football team will bring the present summer practice session to a close this afternoon at 2:30 (EWT) when it will engage in its second intra-squad scrimmage at the stadium. Last week the Blue, or varsity' squad, soundly walloped the White (Junior Varsity) team 66-0 in the first of these contests. After today's game the squad will rest until Aug- ust 27 when fall practice will begin. Head Coach "Fritg" Crisler, who was absent last Saturday. will be on hand today and will take charge of af- fairs, assisted by Coaches Munn, Oos- terbaan, Martineau, and Valpey. During the first five weeks, offen- sive tactics and speed, with refer- ence to the linemen, were thekey- notes of the practice drills. For the past week, the emphasis has switch- ed to defensive drills. Crisler noted that every department of the team needed polishing and that practice in tackling was especially lacking. How- ever, he also commented on the line ASSOCIATED PRESS P~i uURENWS I i i team spirit that has been displayed. game Lineups Starting assignments have not been made as yet and the competition for them is keener than it has ever been. 'Todays lineups will be the same as those of last Saturday's games, with the possibility of a few last minute changes being made by Crisler in the Blues' teams. Don Hershberger, Ed McNeill, Ed Bahlow, or Ed Brunsting will be at end; George Johnson, Bob Callahan, Al Wahl, Jim Rehberger, or Gene Hin- ton at tackle; Dom Tomasi, Joe So- boleski, John Lintol, or Stu Wilkins at the guard posts; and Harold Watts or Anton Momsen will fill in the cen- ter position. Ponsetto at Quarter In the backfield Joe Ponsetto and Howard Yerges will alternate at quarterback. Walt Teninga andPete Elliot will be at left half, Warren Bentz and Hank Fonde at right half, and Jim Foltz and George Chiames will play fullback. The White squad will have John Carroll at left end, Stan Kuick at left tackle, Jack Smith at left guard, Bob Swanson at center, and Cecil Freihofer, right guard; Bob Johnson, right tackle; and Ed Grenkoski will be at right end. Howard Doty will start at quarterback, Wes Mueller and Len Dovalovski will be at the half- back spots, and Dick Davis will play fullback. 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Muckerman, a vice-president of. the Browns, was elevated to the pres- Rookie Hurler Beats Tigers, Benton., 9-0 DETROIT, Aug. 10 -W)- Randy IHeflin, 25-year-old rookie righthand- er, handcuffed the first place Detroit Tigers with four hits today as the Boston Red Sox batted Al Benton out of the box for the first time this sea- Mon with a seven-run outburst in the sixth inning for a 9-0 victory. Heflin, notching his first victory after five defeats, scattered the Tig- ers' four singles and fanned five men while walking only two. idency at a Board of Directors' meet- ing after which Barnes announced sale of his stock to Muckerman who now holds shares representing 56 percent of the total, or the controll=- ing interest. "I went into baseball, not as a business enterprise, but to give Wt. Louis an American League pennant," Barnes said "and now that the Browns have won it and the club's financialhposition is favorable I feel my purpose has been accomplished." 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