Saturday, March 10, 1945

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Why We ostnNaessddy
To Buckteeth s<For V-Bali
Mighty Mites of Michigan Navy, Marines Sigm \lph
Couldn't Cope With Mu Dates Continu From
Unfavorable Weather List On Page Twen1y- ne
When you dear reader, havet; NAVY V-52: Gloria ler,
finished this magnificent tome, Kalamazoo. Mich.: Ge_ Cs-
you shall know the full story of ey. Kalanazoo, Mits thy
why we, The mighty Wolverines, i
2 -Rimert, Jackson, Mica. .wa
succumbed to 'dem bums' of Ohioyt
State. It is one of the most orn-k «s Wilson, Plymouth. Mp rIyn
ery, deceitful episodes in the an- Blake, Audrey Johns -- ncy
nals of Michigan history. . Marsh, Bowling Greer. C. rley
Raining Like Mad '- Dorf, Dutroit; Lois HE IEst
The mighty mites of Michigan Lansing; Peggy Past P eit;
took to the field of the Buckteeth _Nancy Hubbard, ie . hi
on a cold damp day in November. Eley Daiton, Dearborn: C rdne
-it was raining like mad (even the Verschoor, Lois Bock,:s.I;a, bar-
weather had been fixed for this NATIVE RUBBER BOUNCE - Papuan natives on a New Guinea rubber plantation now under lotte Anne Mueller, B. t En-
game) and all the people in the Australian army control carry buckets of liquid latex to factory for processing. The latex goes to sing, Kalamazoo, Mich. Alice
stands were anxious to see what make robber boats to carry 'em to VS-all Next year. Maybe. The group models the formal attire Sesuare, Evelyn Lu Anice
they have always called a football they rill wesi tar this yea' Ate'-the-Eubber-Iarvest Bill Whittengton, Detroit; Say-
game. This is an exercise where lor, Detroit; Joan S--'- Ibhevy
twenty odd (you know- queer) __Chase, Md.; Pat Blake. 5 nsing--
men run out on'the field and then ham, Mich.; Shirlee Ieens--.
proceed to bash one another's berg, Dorothy Nan Pee ;e lelen
brains out. To this reporter it Smith, Miriam Clingima na.ie
was all very silly, and as it was I Nester, Barbara Jean Las t-er-
was, waiting for the 6:11 train. onica Bezenavh, Det s' bealn
But nonetheless, them Buckteeth Englebrett, Nebraska; ''ricn B.
btat us; I don't know what the Pecsenye, Susanna Pe. ; Idivian
score was, but I do know that the By 1ANK MANTHO Haplan, Shirley Troyan, at B'ez-
referee must have been on their Sner, Phyllis Babcock., ibr,
side. .,ySotsEio Mac ssac, Detroit; Mwk set zer,
It was a very exciting game the Marilyn Rock, Phyllis s-a't-, !e-
man next to me kept telling me. troit.
He would intersperse his loud "Names, Numbers, and salaries Harvard, Yale and Princeton of gan last fall, who, when he had SIGMA ALPHA MU- tshirley
yells with flailing arms and hearty of all players!" That's what the the Ivy League, leaves me in expended all of his energy in a Gowritz '44, Lynn Sperhei '47,
snorts until I was quite discon- football hawker screams in the doubt as to the merits of such a rough scrimmage, could not be Shirley Levin '45, Edith tSrauter
certed. The Crosseyes had a guy stands nowadays. Gridiron sub- practice since the aforementioned induced to move a muscle for love '45, Joy Altman '46, Betty tifrable
named Hornuts or some such sidy has far exceeded the point teams' grid fortunes have sim- or money. '49, Louise Rosensweig '46, Sonnie
name, and every few minutes I of notoriety and has now become mered down considerably. How- The recent use of helicopters in Hiller '45, Nina Kalfus '41, Ellen
would hear a loud yell from the so prevalent, that a young toddler ever, Bernie Bierman, head foot- planting fish in puddles inacces- Arden, Detroit, Margy Loi Office
crowd and look up from my Es- lists his ambitions for later life in ball coach at the University of sible to tank, wagon and airplane, '48, Mary Fisher '46, lO iMty Wino-
quire to see this Warpath going this order: fireman, policeman, Minnesota, has just returned to and descend within a few feet of kur '44.
down the field. It was very silly soldier, cowboy, and a "$1,000 a his alma mater from the Marine likely waterfalls and pools for the
because no one was near him and game" football player. Corps. At Minnesota, Bierman gentle release of a tubful or two
there wasn't anything to be afraid Up until this point the subject turned in five national champion- of speckled beauties, leads me to
of, but he was a coward and kept of subsIdy has been hushed ip ship teams and also produced six believe that Bierman could make
running. and spoken of only in the yellow Big Ten championships, and the use of such a device to explore
Dirty Playing tabloids, and from behind locked size of his players on these cham- the wilds of Minnesota, and in
Anyway, these guys won the doors. However, since the war pionship outfits brought out the this manner, he could not only
game and we all went home. The has taken most of the available old question of subsidization on bring back the brawny farm boys,
dopes across the field were yelling talent and provided such indi- many occasions. but their plows and all other ac-
something about sending some viduals with a place of employ- It has been stated that when couterments necessary.
boys across the field, come on ment for the duration, subsidiza- the old maestro ran short of ex-
Ohio State. It all was very foolish tion of any and all persons with perienced players, he would tour
because the field was a sea of mud robust figures has been the case some of the adjacent farms, and
and everyone would have gotten rather than the exception. on the pretext of looking for some
very wet if they had gone on the We, here in the Mid-West destination nearby, he would ask
field. (with the exception of two Big the biggest farm boys to point
The Buckteeth appeared very :Ten teams, Ohio State and Min- out said place. If these farm boys
happy and our boys were all for- nesota), are absolutely free from would inadvertently pick up the
lorn. What confuses me is why the so-called football scholar- plow and point out their direction
the referee kept wiping the ball ships, but in the East, especially to Bierman, the "Silver Fox"
with a dirty towel and putting it in the aristocratic Ivy League, would turn away in disgust. How-
down in the mud again, even the football coaches them- ever, if the farm boys would pick
(If an Ohio State man who's selves are paid, up the plaw and horses at the
bigger than we are reads this, we This new innovation of paying same time, while they were busily
were only kidding.) their coaches by such teams as engaged in an explanation of the
directions, Bierman would sign
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Then there is the subtle form
of subsidization used by Bier-
man, who would so tire out his
star . players that they could
hardly move. Whereupon, he
would approach them and make
a small wager of x500 that they
couldn't muster up enough ener-
gy to jump over one of the white
markers on the football field.
Much to the amazement of Bier-
man, he always managed to lose
these wagers, but to show what
a good sport he was, he never
failed to have the money with
him and would fork it over im-
mediately.
The catch to this type of psy-
chology would be Milan Lazetich,
All-American tackle from Michi-
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