Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1940 — Page 30
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ FRIDAY, OCT. 11, 1940
4 Out of 5 Mystics Agree on Indiana Teams
They Say Purdue and the Irish| Stardom-Bound?
Will Win, but Turn Thumbs Down on Bo’s Aerial Addicts
Super Alone Likes Georgia Tech-Godley by Himself In Selecting lilinois Over Southern Cal
SPORTS By Eddie Ash
LOLLING ON the sidelines watching the white lirs, in other words, gridiron grits, punts and passes: Last year ie Ei the Illini held Southern California to one touchdown in the =" first half, then wilted in the heat. . . . Buf don’t think the Trojans are looking for a soft touch in that tussle at
Champaign tomorrow.
Por a spectacular battle in the football “big league,” the Georgia "Tech at Notre Dame tilt is recommended. . It probably will have r... everything in it. The Techites are a gang of jack rabbits hard “= to catch and they stress quick action scoring plays, just ‘like the Irish. Northwestern has gone scoreless against Ohio State the last three years . . . and is set to break that famine tomorrow. . .. That is another “game of the week.” : The Wildcats say their success depends on reserves. . -5... Bucks say the same thing. Fie Minnesota Coach Bierman will do some personal scouting at the :~Evanston attraction. . His Gophers are idle this week while - readying for the Bucks Oct. 19./ And on Nov. 2 they will meet the
Hoosiers, You See, Are. Blocking-Conscious
There is little dissension this week among The Times’ football experts on the outcome of games involving Indiana teams. In fact, the boys think as one on 13 of the 25 outstanding games in the nation. Beyond that, though, it’s every man for himself. Four fearless ones-—our own Eddie Ash, Coach Elmer Layden of Notre Dame, Bob Godley and Jerry Bronfield of NEA—think Mr. Layden’s Irish have the stuff to beat Georgia Tech, Henry Super of the United Press to the con-
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. Bierman is aiming to kill two birds with one look.
Illini Halfback Is a Surprise Package
John Worban, up from Chicago
Englewood High School, started
at left halfback for Illinois U., against Bradley Tech last Saturday in
the first organized football game in
which he’d ever played.
He never played football at Englewood, where he competed on
"the swimming team. ie Illinois.
Nor, did he go out for freshman football at
The first time Coach Bob Zuppke heard of the player was when
he showed up for spring practice last March. .
. He had played
some sandlot football and friends urged him to don a uniform and
-- take a whirl at the university brand. . . .
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And he's doing all right.
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AMERICA’S outstanding Negro college grid battle is to be
- staged under the lights in Soldiers’
Field, Chicago, tomorrow night.
. Wilberforce (Ohio) and Tuskegee (Alabama) are to meet in
"the Windy City for- the 10th time.
- .two schools started in 1928, at Tuskegee, Ala. . .
The series between the . Since that game,
" however, Soldiers’ Field has been the scene of competition, excepting 1932 and 1937, when no games were scheduled. To date, Wilberforce has won five times, Tuskegee three, and
two tilts were tied. . . Tuskegee
won last year, 12 to 6.
... Michigan vs. Harvard, First in 10 Years
I WHEN MICHIGAN goes to Cambridge, Mass., to meet Harvard tomorrow it will be the first meeting of these two teams in a decade. . It was in 1930 that Barry Wood, All-American quarterback led the last Crimson assault on the Michigan Stadium, only to be turned back in the final minutes of play by a one-point margin. Although the series is numerically small the fact that the first
game was played in 1881 marks this gridiron annals.
as one of the oldest rivalries in
Since 1881 the two teams have met on the football field but &ix
times, Harvard holding the all-time two for Michigan. .
:. draw.
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edge in wins with four against
. Never have these two teams played to a
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WHEN FRESHMAN grid players at the University of Washington, Seattle, were called out for drill this fall five candidates were
from. the Chicago area. . .
. That's a long way to go to play foot-
‘ball, but the scenery is wonderful in the Puget Sound districts. Largest grid turnout last Saturday was reported at Ann Arbor
despite the World Series counter-attraction at Detroit. .
. The
Michigan-Michigan State game drew 65,438. Al Blozie, 240-pound tackle at Georgetown University, is called
the “human whale,” but he is not
the largest man on the squad.
. . . Ross Sorce, also a tackle, weighs 295.
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A SIX-DAY BIKE race starts in Montreal Sunday night. . . . But without Gustav Kilian, Heinz Vopel and Ewald Wissel of
Germany; and Cesar Moretti of Italy.
cyclists have deemed it advisable to
. German and Italian stay out of Canada. . . . How-
ever, they will race in Chicago Nov. 3 to 9, and against Canadian
riders.
Torchy Pedan, Canada, teamed up with Cesar Moretti and won a recent six-day grind in Washington, D. C.
“Ohio State and
Notre Dame
Are Wary of Underdogs
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondznt CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—Two of the Midwest's four candidates for national football honors run into bristling underdogs bent on upsets tomorrow in the top games of a week-end series splashed with possibili-
ties and intersectional color. Ohio State’s Big Ten chamnbions,
"" who protected their perfect record
by a matter of just 19 seconds against Purdue last wesk, travel to Northwestern somewhat apprehensive of Northwestern's running power down the middle. Nctre - Dame, playing at home, .- faces an even more difficult assignment—Georgia Tech, a slick group of ball-handlers second to none with an aerial sting in 140-pound Johnny Bosch, who last year did more damage than any other back _ Notre Dame met al! season long.
-~ . That includes Iowa’s wonder boy, = Nile Kinnick, who scored the touch-
"“down that beat the Irish. Minnesota \Idle
A third national contender, Michigan, ventures forth in more intersectional competition, this time on the east coast. After running riot :. at California, Michigan and its «Tommy Harmon are heavy favorites to romp at Harvard. Minnesota, fourth member of the Midwest’s big four, is idle. Illinois completes the intersectional program at Champaign against Southern California’s twicetied Rose Bowl champions; Indiaua plays at Nebraska, Purdue travels --to Michigan State, and Wisconsin . plays a Big Ten game at Iowa. The Western Conference nas made a brilliant start in games against outside opposition—10 victories in 11 games—but the average may fall this week. Nebraska
~--gnd Southern California both are
favored over member teams. Michigan and Purdue figure strongly enough to give the Conference an even break.
Taking No Chances
Although most of the serious gaining against Ohio State has been %.. by passing, Northwestern probably a will concentrate on a ground attack powered by Fullback Don Clawson and the open field running—if they reach open field—of Bill Decorrevont and Ollie (Red) Hahnenstein. Ohio State is taking no chances on reports that Northwestern lacks re- ! serve linemen to withstand the
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pounding of fresh men the Bucs can pour in. Much of this week, Coach Francis Schmidt has worked with his own passers, Don Scott, Jim Sexton and Jack Graf. Passing .is Illinois’ only weapon against Southern California’s defensive power. Of three successful passers against Bradley Tech last week, little Jimmy Easterbrook, a junior who almost decided to call it quits before the opener, appears to be the best threat. George Bernhardt, converted guard counted on at fullback, will not play because of a broken hand. Sophomorc Myron ‘Pfeifer will start at his position. Iowa may abandon its search for a new man to take over Kinnick’s left halfback spot and shoot a veteran backfield at Wisconsin’s surprising Badgers. Fullback Bill Green, an experienced power runner, has been worked at left half and he may start there Saturday, giving Iowa a well-grounded set including Quarterback Al Coupee, Halfbacks Green and Bill Gallagher and Fullback Ray Murphy.
De Pauw, Rose
Risk Records
TOMORROW'S COLLEGE CARD Georgia Tech at Notre Dame, Indiana at Nebraska. Purdue at Michigan State. Xavier at Butler. Franklin at DePauw. Evansville at Rose Poly. Earlham at Wabash. Manchester at Central Normal. Hanover at Illinois College. Louisville at St. Joseph's. Valpe at Luther (Iowa). .
Illinois Normal at Indiana State.
DePauw and Rose Poly get a chance tomorrow to jump out ahead of Butler in the Indiana College
Conference football race—or maybe |
to lose ground to the Bulldogs. The three are tied now with one victory apiece. While Butler steps out of the league to engage Xavier, DePauw tackles the Franklin eleven at Greencastle and Rose Poly entertains Evansville at Terre Haute. DePauw’s Tigers will be at full strength for the Grizzlies and have been warned their foes may surprise. Franklin has been attempting
to construct a strong defense against |.
DePauw’s attack.
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By J. E. O'BRIEN
Somebody told us the McMillin Hoosiers in a week had become blocking, tackling and running fools. And being the sort not to discount any rumor—idle or at work —we went to Union Station to get a verification from these same Hoosiers entraining for Nebraska. Let us tell you now, friends, that this somebody knew something. The Hoosiers swept through the Illinois street entrance, routed a contingent of Chicago-bound CCC boys, upset 12 tired travelers from Toledo and] left the train caller speechless.
Hal Starts Hurling
Two backs and a pair of ends hard to identify in their brown worsted suits with no numbers held out all the three-letter redcaps while Hurling Hal Hursh pitched Gladstone and overnight bags through the open baggage-car door. Meanwhile, the second stringers— just to loosen up a few kinks—ran through a dummy drill under the train shed. With third down and Track 10 to go, Ray Dumke ordered an off-tackle smash and the boys ran the. ball completely off Indianapolis Union Railway property. id stuff,” growled Frank Smith, Eddie Rucinski, Al Sabol and Tiny Trimble, all lion-like linemen. “Watch us.” And they were all set to shove the Monon’s. northbound Hoosier all the way to White River until the conductor waved a red lantern in their clean-shaven faces. Said he had two schoolteachers aboard who got sick riding backward.
Look at Me, Bo!
There must have been some reason for this activity that had brought more football than the usual sleeper into a railroad station. Bo McMillin cught to know. But Bo didn’t know unless it was that he wouldn't name his starting backfield until Saturday morning and maybe the boys wanted to show their stuff before being confined to a private car. The only member of the 36-man traveling squad not participating in this rail-and-tie scrimmage was Tuffy Brooks, who twisted an ankle in practice this week. Tuffy was to have been left at Bloomington, but the university doc said he might be ready to go by Saturday. The others showed few scars from their battle of a week ago with Texas and indicated it would take some hefty dining car waiters to keep them from making gains against the evening T-bones and trimmings.
St. Mary’ s 11 On the Road
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Oct. 11 (U. P.).—A team that probably is the nation’s fanciest and highest scoring football machine was off on a 12,000-mile trip in a doubledecked bus today. When “Uncle Mose” Simms, the [cdach, sends his team, the St. Mary's College, Saintly Serpents on the gridiron against North Dakota in Fargo tomorrow, it will march in columns of four to whatever tune the host band chooses to play. Patriotic Uncle Mose hopes it will be “Stars and Stripes Forever.” After the martial exhibition, someone tossed a red, white and blue football into the air, and the quarterback warms up the squad with signals like these: “21-42-18—God Bless America— 95-11-22—Land of the Free— - Hike.” The patriotic theme is eliminated from the signal calling when the Serpents get down to business. But they play in scarlet silk pants with white and. blue decorations. Their jerseys are white, with a whole firmament of blue stars on the front. Thus far, the Serpents have scored 178 points in three games— 100 last Sunday against the Fort Sam Houston team. The 52-passenger double-decked bus is a combined traveling dormitory and classroom. Before they get back to play Oklahoma City University in the homecoming, the Serpents will have played in Fargo, at New Manchester, N. H. against St. Anselm, and at Brooklyn against Long Island University.
until train time, Bo revealed the secret of the Hoosiers’ attack against the Cornhuskers. “We're going to run plays this time. Maybe |: we ‘won’t gain but we’ll still run. And I can tell you that we're going to—" The scream of a whistle on .some sassy switch engine cut off the vital
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The Cornhuskers can be no tougher than this, say four I. U. linemen as they attempt to throw a Monon. The men against steel are (left to right) Tiny Trimble, Al Sabol, Eddie Ruscinski and
Bo’men Sweep Through Union Station Like a Movie Star Looking for a Reporter
words of Colonel Bo’s statement as the train snorted out to :Chicago. Just several hours before that, Coach Matty Bell, an old McMillin sidekick, had herded his wild Mustangs from S. M. U. through the same train gates for a workout on Butler’s turf. They were on their way to Pittsburgh to argue with the Panthers.
Matty confessed he was surprised that Texas defeated the McMillincoached Indianas last Saturday. “I haven't heard much about that game—just saw the account in last Sunday’s paper, but Texas must have been good.
“Down in the Southwest we're not slighting those Longhorns. They're second in my book to the Texas Aggies. And we play ‘em on consecutive Saturdays.” But Mr. Bell had more worries at hand than that. Foster Elder, whom he described as “my No. 1 quarterback,” was injured in an auto accident just before the Mustangs left and didn’t make the trip. Clinton McClain and Bill Thomas, two other S. M. U. backs shaken up in the same crash, flew here to join the team and took part in yesterday’s workout. And now if Matty would forget his own troubles for a minute and help Bo think of his—what about the Hoosiers the rest of the season? “Don’t worry about Bo,” he comBinge: “Bo can take care of himself.” :
Rocket Grid Rhinies Top Silent Hoosiers
Broad Ripple High School’s freshmen team today boasted its first victory of the season—a 12-9 triumph over the Silent Hoosiers. The Rocket rhinies scored their touchdowns against the Silents yesterday on a long run and a pass. A touchdown drive and a safety gave the losers their nine points.
trary. That's the way all five feel about Purdue against
Michigan State.
But could Bo McMillin and his Hoosiers make these five wotel {
men sick—oh, boy? eye.
Every one of ‘em says Nebraska without batting
Neither is anybody willing to quarrel when the gang says Ohio State over Northwestern, Missouri over Kansas State, Michigan over Harvard, Pennsylvania over Yale, Cornell over Army, Fordham. over Tulane, Columbia over Dartmouth, Mississippi over Georgia, Texas .over
Oklahoma, Washington over Oregon
and Texas A. & M. over U. C. L. A-
Messrs. Layden and Godley take the week's prize for stubbornness. There’s nobody to agree with Elmer when he says Navy will beat Penn-
sylvania.
And Mr. Dodley votes by himself on Illinois over U. S. C,,
Pitt over S. M. U, and Stanford over Santa Clara.
Our Prof. Ash plays Badger and
picks Wisconsin over Iowa, but no-
body will second him. Brondfield is all alone on North Carolina and
California. The family is split wide-open on Tech-Holy Cross encounters.
Ash— Notre Dame Purdue Nebraska Ohio State U.S.C. Wisconsin Missouri Michigan S. M. U. Princeton Penn Duquesne Cornell Fordham Columbia NY U Holy Cross T.C. U. Auburn Mississippi Texas
Layden— Notre Dame Purdue Nebraska Ohio State U.S.C Iowa Missouri - Michigan S. M. U. Navy Penn Duquesne Cornell Fordham Columbia Syracuse Carnegie T. T.C. U. Auburn Mississippi Texas : Washington Washington Santa Clara Santa Clara Texas A. & M. Texas A.&M. Wash. State Wash. State
Purdue Illinois
Iowa
Penn
Cornell
Auburn
Texas
Godley— Notre Dame
Nebraska Ohio State
Missouri Michigan Pittsburgh Princeton
Fordham Columbia, N.Y. 1. Holy Cross T.C. U.
Mississippi
Washington Stanford Texas A.&M. Texas A.&M. Wash. State.
the N. Y. U.-Syracuse and Carnegie
Brondfield— Notre Dame Purdue Nebraska Ohio State U. Ss. C. ~ Iowa Missouri MicHigan S. M. U. Princeton
Super— ‘Georgia Tech Purdue Nebraska Ohio State U.S. C. Iowa Missouri "Michigan S. M. U. Princeton
Duquesne
Cornell Fordham Colurabia, Syracuse Carnegie T.
Fordham Columbia N.Y. U. Carnegie T. N. Carolina
Mississippi Texas Washington Santa Clara
Mississippi Texas Washington Santa Clara Texas A.&M.
California Wash. State.
Football
GAMES SCHEDULED
TODAY
Anderson at Tech. Shortridge at Lafayette Jefferson. Broad Ripple at West Lafayette (night). Manual at Southport (night). Elwood vs. Cathedral at Butler Bowl (night). Westfield at Warren Central. Plainfield at Ben Davis,
TOMORROW
Howe Military Academy at Rark. Crispus Attucks at Gary Roosevelt.
RESULTS
COLLEGES
Youngstown, 44; Westminster, 0. St. Francis, 46; Potomac State, 0
HIGH SCHOOLS
Horace Mann (Gary), 20; Hammond
Tech, 6.
Cage Call Issued At Ben Davis
Coach Herman T. Hinshaw, who guided Lapel into the state finals last season, has issued the first call for basketball at Ben Davis High School, where he now is employed.
Returning veterans are Roy Pierson, Jess Moore, Bob Seeman, Boris Chaleff, Howard Record, Wilmer Buis and Don Honea. The Ben Davis schedule:
Nov. 15—At Center Grove; Nov. 20— Zionsville; Nov. 29—Decatur Central; Nov. 30—at Cannelton; Dec. 6—at. Franklin Township; Dec. 7—Manual; Dec. 13—at Warren Central; Dec. 14—Speedway; Dec. 20—at t Huntingburg; Jan. 3—Greenfield; Jan. 4—South Bend; Jan. 10—Brownsburg; Jan, 16, 17, 18—county tournament: Jan. 22—at Plainfield; Jan. 24—Noblesville; Jan. 31—at Southport; Feb. 1—New Angusta: Feb. 8—at Decatur Central; Feb. 14—a*
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Hammer Henry
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‘NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (U. P)). — Former Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong enters Medical Arts Hospital Sunday for an operation to remove cartilage and scar tissue from both brows to prevent easy cuts and swellings in future battles. After the operation, Armsstrong will rest at Hot Springs, Ark., until time to begin training for his return title bout with Fritzie Zivic, at Madison Square Garden, Jan. 17. Negotiations
are under way Hammer Henry
{for a 15-round
bout at the Garden in December between Arturo Godoy and Tony|R Galento of Orange, N. J. This would be Galento's first bout since he was knocked out by Max Baer in July.
75 Expected in Table Meet
Entries are pouring in fast and by 10 p. m. today about 75 players wera expected to be in the field for the ninth annual Indianapolis Open Table Tennis tournament starting tomorrow at Jimmy McClure's Club. Tops among the late ones to fill
out blanks was Don MacCrossen of Milwaukee, Kentucky state and Southern champion. And among the local stars entered were Randle Willis, veterans’ title-holder of the tourney; his son, Major Willis, and Charles Dorsey. The two-day tournament will mark the “big time” debut of Dorothy Elkin, a 17-year-old Shortridge High School lass who McClure believes is headed for big things in the sport. Dorothy already has won the Shortridge girls’ title for- the last three years. Although Sally "Green, national women’s title-holder from Indianapolis, has not entered as yet, Dorothy can expect plenty of rough-going from Mary Baumbach, of South Bend, ranked among the first 10 girl players in the country. Also from South Bend is John Varga, a speedy though heavy (225 pounds), player who came to the
from Budapest, Hungary. (John used to be a schoolmate of Victor Barna, Hungary's world champion, and so he should have picked up at least a few pointers on the game). Carrying the Indiana and Illinois state veterans’ titles, Lieut. Bill Heichlen will come here from Chicago where he is stationed in the regular Army. Entries close at 10 o'clock tonight and they may be made by calling Jimmy MecClure’s (LI-0190), or may be filed at the club, 20 Virginia Ave.
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