NDA'Y, NOVEMBER 7, 1954
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PAGE SEVEN
'Football Record Shows Ups and Downs
By PHIL DOUGLIS
and confusion reigned. When forced Michigan to withdraw for to take charge of football, his win by the identical score, but
Y young Irv Pond wheeled police restored law and order the 10 long years. name-Fielding Yost. that's another story.
arply, and started "up the final score was posted-Michi- Seven All-Americans graced the By Nov. 25, 1905, Michigan had
ith his eyes bent on the goal gan-7, Racine-2. TNDER such early coaches as Michigan mater in this era men piled up 2,841 points to its oppo-
That Michigan - Racine game, Murphy, Barbour, McCauley, such as the immortal Willie Hes- nen 40 during that 55 game
zagging his way through the played before only 500 spectators Ferbert and Lea, Maize and Blue ton, the fabled Ge Shulz andspan.
,mg players, the gent in knee in Chicago's old White Stocking teams compiled an average reN-
ue tton-down jersey and Park was the first of 427 victories ord through the 1880's and the Joh y Maulsh, Stan Wells, JN A MOVE usat shocked the
. maize and blue hat, to follow. Gay '90's, but it was not until the Jim Craig and Al Benbrook. xsporting world, Michigan in 1907
ea at the goal when a de- The Ann Arbor campus has pro- turn of the century that the pow- Included in that remgn of vic- suddenly withdrew from the Big
of wildeyed spectators poured duced 13 antmous All-Amen- erhouse football, which made Ann tory wa a 49-0 victo over Stan- Ten.
I the rickety stands and cans. Eighteen times the snarling Arbor the grid capital of Ameri- ford in the first Rose Bowl game The Michigan authorities claim-
d his way. Wolverine has ruled the Western ca, was born. in history back in 1901. Little ed that the Big Ten was trying to
wildered, Pond kept on go- Conference, and would have an In 1901, an unknown profes- did observers realize that 47 years force Yost to quit, sanctioning
and despite the milling even better Big Ten mark if mys- sional coach from down in West later Michigan would once again only alumni of the respective con-
rowds he crossed the goal line, terious circumstances had not Virginia arrived in Ann Arbor return to the Arroyo Seco and ference schools as football coaches.
Yst was not a Michigan graduate.
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1119 SOUTH UNIVERSITY ANN ARBOR n with a1
sons '51.
tunes ha
ebb since
ever, 15-
ball pla
,toughest
Wolverines would not fire
'eatest asset. Instead they
w from the Conference.
22, with Yost still at the
the second great era of
ne football was underway
had 10 famed All-Amer-
luring this era, and Mich-
ocketed to Western Con-
e titles in 1922, '23, '25 and
me of the greatest ends of
ne, and now coach of
;an's Wolverines, ennie
baan, caught the passes of
amed Bennie Friedman.
came to the end of the
a coach in order to devote
me to the Athletic Direc-
and in 1927 and '28 Tad
n picked up the reins held
ously by Yost since 1901
the exception of a brief
ion in 1924). Wieman's
were rather mediocre and
for Otto Ponsnerening and
Oostrbaain, thins were
to Michigans usual stan-
This eramrikd thei; .iliopen-
ihe Michigin hium, the
coliegc;o nedsAna in the
-0 '~d{1. ion ictoy ove
ato oult th0 old ded-
jinx, and with tle arrival
ch Harry Kipkec on the
1929 a new j iggernaught
tie making.
hiS AMic liait ashr
sir ve ry roor very ltpon.
ch All-Americans as Harry
n, Francis Wi) frt. May-
lorrison and Chuck Ber-
ie Wolvrins: s rolled to Big
es in 190, '31, '"2 and '33.
g 31, losing one, and tie-
e, Kipke's early teams were
e "Champions of the West"
he next four years Mich-
on only ten aones while
2 The great depression of
-thirties was a depression
ways than one from the
oe standpoint.
left his coaching job for
)mfortable positions which
d a Regent's post, and an
e slot in a national soft
rm. He left the gate open
of the most remarkable
ce Yost-present Athletic
r Herbert 0. (Fritz) Cris-
Crisler came three more
n titles, and the fourth
ra of Michigan football
Twelve All-Americans
Crisler teams, and from
he Wolverines, along with
nd Notre Dame, were the
the nation.
Yost before him, Crisler
ching to become Athletic
and in 1948 Bennie Oos-
on the Maize and Blue
g staffs for many years,
er as mentor. Oosterbaan
y led the Maize and Blue
er undefeated season and
championship in 1948,
1949 and 1950 guided the
nes to Big Ten titles.
he first three years of
sterbaan regime the Wol-
won 20, lost five, and
o, taking three Confer-
les and a Rose Bowl vie-
'51 along with them.
the coming of the 50's
n teams no longer could
ed "Champions of the
Not that the Wolverines
ayed poor football, but
15-12 mark for the sea-
'52, and '53 gridiron for-
aye reached their lowest
e the daye of Kipke. How-
-12 is still winning foot-
yed against some of the
teams in the nation