°tl rn To Brighten Michigan 's Grid P rospects By DICK KRAUS There'll be plenty of reinforce- ments on the football front this fall for Coach "Fritz" Crisler's 1945 "Baby Wehrmacht," which featured six 17 year olds in the starting line- up that piled up seven victories as against three losses to tap teams in the nation, Army, Navy, and Indiana. In fact, if Crisier chose, he could field an all-ex-GI eleven come next September. He could even play a squad of dischargees made up en- tirely of returnees from the 1942, '43, and '44 aggregations. Vet Backfield Passible F'or a backfield Crisier could choose from Ralph Chubb, right half, Gene Derricote, and Bill Culligan; who shared tailback duties in 1944, Paul White, '42, and '43 right half, Bob Chappuis, Bob Vernier, and Don Boor, left half, quarterback and full back on the '42 squad and Bob Wiese, last of Michigan's great spin- ning fullbacks, who carried the mail in '42 and '43. Up front, returninig servicemen in- clude a trig of top flight ends, Bruce Hilkene and Jack Petosky, 'of the '43 squad, and Elmer Madar. Madar and tackle Bill Pritula who is also re- turning are the last of the "Seven Oak Posts" of 1942. For center line duty other available ex-GI's include Walt Freihofer, 142, Frank Kern, Quentin Sickels, and George Krager, who all played in '43 and George Burg, '44-. A miscellaneous but very handy returning item, is the educated toe of "Automatic Jim Brieske. Brieske booted field goals and extra points wit monotonous regularity back in '41, and '42. But tough as this demobilized power-pack threatens to be, there's a host of other rugged footballers among the record shattering turnout, which is expected to hit the 154 mark, who will have plenty to say about the top spots in Crisler's plans. Last Year's Frosh Back First, there's the remnants of Michigan's freshman-studded '45 out- fit, the same hopped-up youngsters who played Blanchard, Davis and Co., off its feet for a full thirty min- utes to give the mighty West Point- ers the biggest scare of the season. Frosh Acquire Polish Last year's ferocious frosh will bring the added polish of ten tough games plus a little more maturity into the pre-season battle for starting positions. Tony Momsen will have another crack at heavy duty from the pivot spot. At the ends Lennie Ford, the pass-grabbing 6 ft. 5 in. Negro, and Ed McNeill are good bets to see a lot of action. McNeill was shifted to quarterback during Spring practice, but with the return of Joe Ponsetto and Howard Yerges he may be re- turned to the end position. Weisenberg, Renner Return Jack Weisenberger, who can play left half or fullback, and Captain Art Renner, end, were two of the few veterans on last year's eleven, and both are back for another season's activity. To make Crisler's selecting joky even more difficult a, crop of new candi- dates blossomed out of Spring prac- tice. A quintet of promising tackles caught the eyes of the coaching staff and will come in for a lot of scrutiny before the season opener against In- diana rolls around. They include, Bob Ballou, who won the ,Chicago Alumni trophy awarded to the player show- ing the most° improvement in Spring practice, Jack Carpenter, Dick Brown, and Elmer Phillips. Best of the new backfield prospects on the basis of Spring showings are Allen Traugott, and Mike Yedinak a couple of hard hitting backs. There's talent aplenty for Crisler to chose from, but the football fields of the Nation are all producing a bumper crop of pigskinners, and only the long Saturday afternoons next Fall will tell just how high up in the national scene Michigan's football talent harvest will rate. BLOWT ,..new line coach OOSTERBAAN . .. number 1 football aide CRISLER . .. looks over 1946 candidates SUPPLEMENT S VOL. LVI, No. 349' ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1946 yarm Bacttle Tops Sever Home- ame ec O zzie Cowles Appointed Crisler Lauds _ Indiana Cham N ewv Basketball Coach- E.d of Early S Season on Sep Grid Practice Dartmouth Mentor 4 Wolverines To Play Only R places Oosterbaan r., Big Nine Imposes Five CahW t instO Osborne B. (Ozzie) Cowles, former -Week Workout Limit Dartmouth basketball coach, 'became B LSGOG yDC RU ns th leatest aner 1 tto theMichignh.Fo e ir s tmei hesum KBg o_. re r when= he arrived to replace Bennme - sy, Wolverines will tangle with seven of tro Oosterbaan as the Wolverine head- H. O. "Frit" Crisler and his paestems aetpce em n te no cage mentor. N welcome the change with open arms. e elnicuigWs on' nic On I Oosterbaan, newly named chief Atog ttn httesm ibe Cadets complete with Davis and ih v>k rdh th otbl mer practice sessions during the war s aachr state coco qayears were 'valuable mn conditioning cnsin is now in the position of Number frsmnt aeth lc fmr The Autumn monarch's followers nhe Ong aid to Head Coach H. O. Crisler eprecdpaesCilrblee in the Mid-West will have their grid- Te and the, added responsibility makes that under normal conditions it is iron appetites stimulated' in the sea- season it mpossile to. work with ,both foot-- o h nJuyndAgsfrth son opener, Sept. 28, which will pit e h ball and basketball.grdrstgeenghbnftu f Michigan against Bo McMilln's de- fnl At Dartmouth.. Years lxe iers of Indiana. Michigan will be out be . the past eight Years and during that B<:eth.a.BgTn ue lmt to avenge tw straight losses to Bo's an 18- tiehas produced no less than sevens s efgred rthe t rBTen rulks limi-ore "Po, gr'lBoys Ivy League championship teams; the tI Z.snsopnr hs l em Iowa Here Oct. 5 ls terwsascdpac-OZZIE COWLES . . . utstanding started off on an equal footing. Butx" The following Saturday, Oct. 5, Uinder his direction the Indians Ivy League mentor, was appointed with the uncertainty of player m&- Iowa will invade Ann Arbor with a have won 74 of 92 games for a 8- this month to succeed Bennie 00st- terial and the introduction of a reg- :.- e.:th....m:.s t fetur ne year percentage of .804. They drop- erbaan as head basketball coach for ular summer term, the Conference mre than one of last years regu- ped only three contests on the e the Universit fMcia.rules were relaxed; and in 19 43 a ;ar; in te 3':rt"n:"ineup. court during the whole period. four-week summer practice session For the football world at large Oct. H His Dartmouth fives have been in- was allowed._ 12 will mark one of the season's out- This to participate in three NCAA fo t 'a r an'this extra time alloted for football THE BATTLE'S VERDICT-Shown here is one of Michigan Stadium's standing games of the year-Army- D basketball c h am pi on sh ip tourna-. practice was needed to condition the 'gant score-boards, which has for 19 years recorded the triumphant Michigan. A freshman-studded Wol- ments, the only cage outfit in the * 17 and 18 year-old freshmen, upon elation-or defeated dejection--of Michigan's football warriors and verine squad gave arl Blaik's Jug- nation to receive such honor. ! l ey Sh fe whom many schools depended to car- their followers. The big question of '46 is how many points will be flash- gernaut its closest scare last season Cowles was born in Brown's Valley, ry on their gridiron campaigns. ed after ',cia'adhwfwatr'iio. and this' year's remiatch should be "Tt Min, 6yer ao -fersarigIn rd S f~t fG Many ;ootball candidates were al- even closer. least t h ih schooelrathletics there hering- so drawn fmrom the Navy and Mareine After Army a 'breather would be 8 athle came a outstanding athletic in three- trainees stationed on campus. As FOR 67 YEA RS: in order, but Michigan's schedule s3 vic sportsBatnCarlesoneCollnge.sHeacad students the gridders had to take makers didn't look at it that way46, srsatCrenCoeg.Hca-backfield coach and Art Valpey ele- part in' th PEM program anyway, and Crisler'smnme ap a- ru nedsaveraging 16points pr tg ame agetw aiHad och nd te irgtme couldestabe spent Outstanding Record Com piled dr's Nothwestern aggregBtion th cryomur oito uing s ser geasn.hsgiio tf o Prtc e ale By M ichigan Football Team s toghand tis season should prove M FstCchnJbThrstfth gnztinr-In 1944 and 1945 summer football Young and Illini Here -son "His first coaching job was at Ro- mains as it was last Spring. Jack Wolve football team won the state chaim- rest "Butch" Jordan as assistant, even earlier. Coaches could never be its first football game in history, least five games were played. And Michigan will get the opportunity to Of th uinship, and his initial basketball and Ernie McCoy will 'act as chief sure of the player material from dawning a stubborn Racine College since that year Maize and Blue teams decide whether West Coast fans of on th ;quad reached the state semi-finals. scout and coach both backs and ends one day to the next and more time eee,7t have had eleven undefeated seasons, last year were right or wrong in tout-Idi After a Year at "Iowa State College in practice. which dadto eformedthrounda With that initial victory as an in- seven of them unmarred by even a ing Budy Young a the bebaki and B phe returned to Carleton to coach Oosterbaan was shifted to the small nucleus of returning letter- spiring precedent, Wolverine grid- 1'i n ro ihwa rmsst e n baktalfor six years, his last three backfield from his original position men. iron teams have marched through 67 1932 Last Perfect Year in RAynEArbo'swinhshtIpriois to Or squads being midwest conference as end coach. An All-America flanker With the end of the war-time years of football history, writing a The last such perfect unbeaten, beRyElo' ietIlni'em aver champions. His: Carleton fives lost for Michigan for three years, 1925- emergency and the return to a regu- record book which is the envy of col- untied year was 1932, when the Wol- After five successive home games, setba nlforgms:267,h caetteWlviejrtw smsersholya,,tetelgstruhutheain.Ftr-eiesaedtteBgTnadN-Mcian oesnoMneals, rw He coached River Falls, Wis., Col- coaching heirarchy in 1938. Western Conference, has begun to ing the 1946 season, Michigan has an tional Championships. The following on Nov. 2, to attempt to retan pos- thos lege basketball for three years before Valpey was formerly assistant reinstate its athletic rules. Although all-time gridiron record of 375 wins, season Michigan was also undefeated, session of the 'Little Brown Jug,' in beat going to Dartmouth in 1937. During scout, and was also a varsity football freshmen are still eligible to roam 108 losses, and 21 ties, a .776 average but Minnesota' fought them to a 0-0 the traditional battle with the Gold- the p the war he served 221/ months in 'M' man in 1935-36-37. He played un- the gridiron this fall, the return of for a total of 504 contests. deadlock. en Gophers of Minnesota mar the Navy as a lieutenant. He is mar- der Coach Oosterbaan. Butch Jor-. so many veterans to school will make In compiling their average the Wol- The record book also shows that "B" Team To Play The ried, with one son, who served in the dan was a guard on the Michigan it difficult for 17 and 18 year-olds to verines have only finished on the de- the Maize and Blue hold an all-time The Ann Arbor front will not be ers w Army, and one daughter. 1938-39 elevens break into the line-up. ficit side of the win-lose ledger five (Continued on Page 5 entirely devoid of action that week D-DAY NEARS FOR 'OPERATION PIGSKIN': UPPLEMENT PRICE FIVE CENTS edue ups ope t. 28th Two Road Games;1 iio State' Away uch .as the newly' organized ames taig pac rdyaf4 Nov. 9, the Wolverines wil meet gan State in- the annual intr- clash and 'on Nov. 15, Wis- 's Badgers' will come to tvm season's home fiale. Varsity Will end the nine game at Columbus, Ohio, i the cn ags may do much to deide the Conference standings The last 4uckeye-Wolverino games have hrillers with Ohio pulling out 14 win in 1944, and Michigan! ing a 7-3 last quater triumph, ear. [ome Lovers anrlg 45-46. By CLARK BAKER ieres no place like home. At hats the opinion of Michigans ;es who ought to know. Out of stories in 10- sports during 145- 2 were scored on the home ids and only the Maize and tennis team showed any par- sobviousexample ofhMichi iby the basketball record. The urine Gagers chalked up a, sea-' Lark of 12 wins and seven losses. e dozen triumphs, nine came e Field House court where only'. na was able to top the Maize lue warriors and then only af- iovertime period. take the hockey team with an all record of 17 victories, seven cks and one tie. Vic Heyiger's fashioned an even dozen of e wins on home ice and were en only three times here. Yet ucksters barely eked out a .500 k on their 10 road trips. eWolverine wrestlers and golf- ere unbeatable at home, yet (Continued on Page 5) western Conference Ready for Explosive 1946 GrIedirol n Year By JACK MARTIN A seething volcano on the verge of eruption is the best des- cription that can be applied to the Western Conference football situation as the 1946 season draws near. Reports trickling out of the various Big Nine publicity camps every day reveal mere and more names of stars which have dominated gridiron circles for the past five years and are now being released en masse by the armed forces. Reading the ex- pected rosters of-next fall's elevens is like looking at a list of All- Americans. has been spirited away. The Raven was drafted last month by the Army, while his fellow wingman has signed a professional con- tract with baseball's Cincinnati Reds. Reserve end Tom Schwartz is also in khaki. Two men have returned to Bo McMillin's lair, however, who may go a long way in filling up the big hole at the flanks. Ted Hasapes, a regular end on the Hoosier's 1941-2 elevens, will be back, along with "Pooney" Carter, who was a stand-out frosh prospect in 1942. Coach Ray Elliot' is planning a title-gunning squad at Cham- paign. He'll have a near-perfect duo of half-backs in Young and Patterson, who worked together in 1944. Both are as fast as a lightning bolt, and with Patterson out in front blasting a clear path-way, Young can out-maneuver practically any pair of ends in the country. In addition Elliot has Rykovich on hand again, who was the spark plug .of Notre Dame's Irish during the war years as a Ma- rine trainee. The only thing the Illini need in the backfield is an outstanding amarter. shanski, Bob Rennebohxn, and Farnham Johnson, ;a trio of out- standing Biankers, guards -Johnny Gallagher and Bob Dean, and backs Earl Maves arnd Wally Dreyer. Also expected back are Jug Girard, Bradger 1944 great, Jimmy Regan and Frank Granitz at the halfs, and quarter Ashley An- derson. Fourteen lettermen from championship squads of 1942 and 1944 are making Coach Paul Bixler beam with anticipation as Ohio State awaits the coming season. There are a total of 36 re- turning letter winners.