PAGE SIX THEjj MICHIGAN DAILY WE1)NLDAi, Si 'Iin'.1'iiw1. i;. %A _____ _ .. SPORTS SLANTS . . By Ed Whipple 1 '52 Grid Schedule Holds Some Rugged Opponents for Michigan MEN OF MICHIGAN! Sam's Store welcomes you to Ann Arbor WHY PAY MORE? kK * * * I'M WRITING my first column as Daily Sports Editor, just as you are probably perusing your first issue of The Daily. This must indicate a parallel, even if it's only you don't know what to expect and I don't know what to write. But there's a hole on page six, so here goes with some columnish comment aimed at explaining our sports department and inviting you to try out for it: On behalf of the sports staff, may I be the thirty-fourth person to welcome you to Michigan. We endeavor to make our sports report- Ing match the high quality of Michigan athletics. We offer direct coverage and crusty comment on all Michigan sports events, from Rose Bowl football to Intramural paddleball. For example, I had the privilege to cover on the spot last spring the National Collegiate Hockey Championships at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Although local news and related events take top priority on our sports page, through the Associated Press wire service we do carry the latest from around the nation. The reason for a priority on local copy is this: The Daily simply cannot com~pete with metropolitan morning papers on the basis of national sports coverage. Half a page (if we're lucky) of our news- paper is devoted to sports; it is useless to try to cram into half a page what The Detroit Free Press, for example, puts into three or four pages. Comments Welcomed WE MUST OFFER what the Free Press cannot-detailed, first-hand reports of all Michigan athletic doings, including intramurals and activity at other colleges. At the minimum, results of professional contests appear regularly in The Daily. And when something big happens in the world of sport, you may rest assured we carry the story no matter where it occurred. Into this category fall the World Series and Stanley Cup playoffs. "The Latest Deadline In The State" means just what it im- plies-that The Daily prints late stories ,no other morning paper in Michigan can print. Our Fairchild photo-engraver and a top- notch photography staff bring you up-to-the-minute pictures of athletic action. All-in-all, the sports staff makes a vital con- tribution to one of the best college newspapers in the United States. We like to think you will benefit by reading our pages; we know we will benefit from any and all comments from our readers. Nothing sharpens up an I-M reporter like a blast pointing out mistakes in his work; by the same token, there is no reward like a pat on the back for a good story, Your criticisms will be gratefully considered. Sports Staff Beckons PUTTING OUT A sports page takes manpower, so if you think you might make a sports writer, trot yourself over as soon as possible" to find out. An outside activity like newspaper work becomes more and more valuable as the- years go by. About all you need to fit into our staff is an interest in athletics. Used to be freshmen couldn't be in activities until their second semester, but now you can start at The Daily your first day of classes. Here's what's in it for you as a member of the sports staff: Instruction in writing copy, night-desk procedure, and page make. up; assignment to a beat, where you will cover Michigan sports events and write news stories and features; and a chance to work 1 up to night editorships and senior editorships (all paying jobs, by the way).j Well, space has run out, so congratulations on choosing a truly great school, and good luck to all of you (to coin a phrase) from all of us.9 MSC, Purdue, Illinois Head Stadium Slate By IVAN KAYE Michigan will open its 1952 football campaign at home on September 27 against the power- ful Spartans of Michigan State College. Michigan State is currently rid- ing the crest of a sixteen game winning streak and was consider- ed by many to be the best team in the land in 1951. Last year the Spart-- ..buried Michigan under a four touchdown avalanche, 25-0. UP AT East Lansing Coach Big- gie Munn has twenty-six return- ing lettermen from which to fash- ion his 1952 edition of the Green and White. The main problem will be the replacing of the graduated Al Dorow. New linebackers must: be found, but a telented freshman team will probably supply the needed material. The Spartans will enter Big Ten football com- petition beginning with the 1953 season. Michigan has a score to set- tle with Stanford. The Indians became the first coast team ever to beat the Maize and Blue when they turned in a 23-13 victory here in Ann Arbor last year. Stanford went on from the tri- umph over Michigan to win the Pacific Coast Conference Cham- pionship. Prospects arelean for a repeat however, since Coach Chuck Taylor has lost twenty-five lettermen, including Bill McColl and Gary Kerkorian. The offense will be built around the running of fullback Bob Mathias, the 01- ympic Decathalon champion. * *i * THE THIRD opponent this fall will be the Indiana Hoosiers, who will be playing their first season under new coach Bernie Crim- mins. The offense will be centered around the passing of veteran quarterback Lou D'Achille and the running of fullback Gene Gedman. While no one is booming In- diana for the conference title, the Hoosiers are capable of up- setting any team as their per- formance last year against Ohio State indicates. Indiana also came within a few minutes of upset- ing heavily favored Michigan BIGGIE MUNN . ., another powerhouse? * * 0, State in last season's game against the Spartans. MICHIGAN will invade the lair of the Northwestern Wildcats on October 18 to do battle with the team which has been tagged by the pre-season experts as the dark horse of the conference football race. Coach Bob Voights has a core of twenty-eight lettermen in- cluding quarterback Bob Bur- son, fullback Chuck Hren and end Norm Krakseth. An indication of how things will go at Dyche Stadium may be gleaned from the observation that Northwestern beat Michigan last ear and the Wildcats are defin- itely stronger this season. What no orne will venture to say at this date is how much stronger is Michigan of 1952 than the Wol- verine squad of a year ago. There- in lies the outcome. THE GOLDEN Gophers of Min- nesota will appear here in Ann Arbor for the second successive time under a shift in the home- and-home schedule between the two schools. Michigan will jour- ney to Minneapolis in 1953 and every odd numbered year there- after. ..When the two "M's" clash on October 25 the famed "Little Brown Jug" will again be up for grabs.iThe supporters of Ski-U- Mah view with great alarm the ten-year hold which the Maize and Brue has fastened on the stor- ied crock. Minnesota will again bring its one-man-team, Paul Giel into Michigan Stadium. Giel broke eight team offense records last year and smashed the Conference record for total offense with 1,473 yards. He is the first top-flight passer the Gophers have had since Bernie Bierman's brightest days back in 1940-41. * , *, MINNESOTA will be primed for an upset when they oppose the Wolverines, and if last year's game i3 any indication, this game should be a real thriller. Michigan will face Illinois on the first November at the Stad- ium in the one game which in largest measure will determine the outcome of the Conference season for the Wolverines. Illinois is the team to beat in 1952. With twenty-one seasoned veterans returning from last year's undefeated Rose Bowl Champions, Coach Ray Eliot's crew is going to be mighty tough to de-throne. * * * DEFENSE was the key to suc- cess for the Orange and Blue last season. The Illini held Michigan, Ohio State, Northwestern and In- diana scoreless. Wis(*onsin got ten points and Iowa managed two tcuchdowns while absorbing a 40-13 drubbing. Illini linebackers Chuck Boer- jo, Ellie Popa and Joe Cole were prime factors in that enviable defensive record. Tough as it was to make yardage against Illinois on the ground, it was much tougher to pass against such stalwart halfbacks as Al Bros- ky, Herb Neathery and Stan Wallace. All is not rosy on the Cham- paign campus however since Coach Eliot must come up with a suc- cessor to the graduated All-Amer- ican Johny Karras. The burden will probably fall on halfback Clarence DeMoss, a 178 pound sophomore who saw some action last year. ASIDE FROM DeMoss, the back- field is set to go with Tommy O'Connell at quarterback, Pete Bachouros at left halfback andj All-America candidate Bill Tate at fullback. The big replacement problem is at the linebackers. However, with a talented crop of fresh- men Eliot should be able to fill these pressing vacancies. Michigan will get a decided break in the schedule because while the Maize and Blue will play Minnesota the week before the Illinois contest, the Illini must tangle with top-contender Purdue. THE TUSSLE with the Boiler- makers will undoubtedly take something out of the defending champions. Michigan won't have a picnic against the Gophers, but Minnesota in 1952 should be a much weaker team than Stu Hol- comb's Purdue. Cornell will follow Illinois in- to Ann Arbor to give Michigan a welcome respite from the rigors of Big Ten competition. The Ivy-Leaguers were suppos- ed to roll over and play dead when the Wolverines invaded Ithaca last aumumn. The Maize and Blue had lost to Illinois by a touchdown the preceeding week, but the high cal- iber of their play had made them solid favorites to beat the Big Red. * * * CORNELL WAS dead during the first half, but after the intermis- sion the Ithacans put on a fur- ious three-touchdown rally that swept them to victory. 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