100%

Scanned image of the page. Keyboard directions: use + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrow keys to pan inside the viewer.

Page Options

Download this Issue

Share

Something wrong?

Something wrong with this page? Report problem.

Rights / Permissions

This collection, digitized in collaboration with the Michigan Daily and the Board for Student Publications, contains materials that are protected by copyright law. Access to these materials is provided for non-profit educational and research purposes. If you use an item from this collection, it is your responsibility to consider the work's copyright status and obtain any required permission.

November 23, 1958 - Image 7

Resource type:
Text
Publication:

Disclaimer: Computer generated plain text may have errors. Read more about this.

A Long and Glorious Football Tradition
Is Now in the Popular and Capable Hands of
x UMP' ELi-ALIOTT
By JIM BiAGH
'THE SETTING couldn't have Bump Elliott was home again- ing. He is 33, but could pass for
been nicer. It was an early and home to stay. Even the solid- a junior halfback on most any
September evening in 1957 at Fer- est of Oosterbaan supporters knew team.
ry Field and the handsome blond Bump had been brought home to
roach eas lobbing a football to his be the next head coach at Michi- [HE REAL key to Elliott's sue-
six-year-old youigster who field- gan the blond was just too good cesses - past, present and fu-
ed the passes with marked enthu- to be an assistant at any school. tore - is a smiling fare and un-
siasm. The sun was readying it- rivaled personality. After only a
self for its usual dip over Michi- TODAY, two football seasons lat-
gan Stadium - the same place er, Bump becomes the youngest few minutes with him these magic
where the young father had head football coach in the Uni- traits become evident.
earned laurels as a college foot- versity's history. Several freshman gridders came
ball hero only a decade before. Sure, his duties do not official- to the University mainly because
No, the setting couldn't have ly begin until Jan. 1, but this is of their admiration for this man.
been nicer. only a joke in the athletic depart- In fact, one yearling fullback told
It answered so many questions: ment's minutes. "My planning metropolitan papers last spring
there was the All-American glam- starts Nov. 23," he has been that the reason he was coming
our boy who came back to coach maintaining since his appoint- here was Bump Elliott.
his alma mater, the family man, ment was announced. Until today Now that Bump is head coach,
the tutor who can create enthusi- he had been too concerned with the personality asset should be
asm in routine work, and the Sta- the Ohio State game. an even greater aid to Michigan
dium which he now had to "re- Bump's real name is Chalmers recruiting.
build" as a backfield coach to the William Elliott '- but he's called His personality, unlike many
legendary Bennie Oosterbaan. that as often as the "Babe" was belonging to greedy recruiters and
called George Herman Ruth. In win-at-all-cost coaches, is one of
fact, there are at least a dozen sincerity and kindness. It is a re-
Ji enagh, a ng e of Bump's players woh cannot flection of all that Bump has
on the spors staff of The pronounce is first name, and a learned on and off the playing
Michigan Daily, has been a dozen more who cannot spell his field before as well as during his
football nanager for three last correctly. To them he has al- undergraduate days, and presently
seasons. ways been "Bump.," with his own family.
His appearance, too, is deceiv- (concluded on Next Page)

THE TIME IS HERE--Bump Elliott has taken over the head
coaching duties from Bennie Oosterbaan. Elliott was appointed
two weeks ago upon the resignation of Oosterbaan and becomes
the twelfth head coach in the University's gridiron history.

It's Christmas
atD

OWNTOWN

( t
l
vivo

/ r'i\ 4 ' 'J I f ,
- / .' 4 _- } Y

""5
'.5"

for loungin or sleE
Ideal gifts, these colorful, cozy P.J.'s. Yo
giving them almost as much as wearing th
self. Come in and do your Christmas shopp
for a wide choice of colors, sizes, and styl

1'1
p -'n
u'Il love
em your-
ing now
es.
P.J.'s . ..be-ruffled 9
ned flannels in no-
See Red, petal

ROARING TWENTIES . . . o
chemise Baby Doll with a flapper
flounce of pleats, and matching
panties. S-M-L Red or 5'
Aqua print on white.

STORYBOOK I
and lace-adorr
iron Feathaire

pink and yellow, frosted with
white Cluny-type lace. $
10-16,

LINGERIE-SECOND FLOOR

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23

Page Seven

Back to Top

© 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan