Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1941 — Page 9

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"JOE WILLIAMS SAYS—

NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The Big Ten team, the in‘vincible team gets knocked off in what is conveniently dismissed as an upset and the familiar explanations, quite . often proper and plausible, Sollow.

(A) The invincibles were overconfident.

(B) They

were emotionally spent. (C) They had an off day. (D) The breaks were against them, and $0 on and so on. It must be comforting to be a follower of a team like

the They

tion.

sure

Minnesota = Gophers. seldom have any need

for the single wing alibi or the split buck explana-

They just keep on

_ winning. - We wouldn’t know for

but it is our impres-

sion the Gophers come pret-

ty close to playing the best football in the country year “after

year. It may not be

the most interesting or ex-

\v citing football but there is _ ample evidence to support

the- claim it is powerfully

- effective. -

I a NEW YORKERS WHO GOT

. their first gander at the Harmon- . less Michigan team in its smash-

ing win over Columbia last Satur-

. day came away from the game _ completely sold. Here was a foot-

ball teanm:! And then the thought

* inevitably occurred to them:

What kind of a team must Min-

nesota to beat

be if it was good enough Michigan?

The truth is that was a very

‘ close game and Michigan could . Just as the boys on Broadway say, ‘They

‘easily have won it but as

paid off on Grant.” That's one of

the

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“They

their

WE on the

ues of Minnesota teams: ually win the hard, tough,

es even if the statistics.

gainst them. have a way of making n breaks. The winning

~ entry in any field of sport iskes a habit, i of doing just that.

HAVE CHECKED BACK ‘Gophers’ records, back to season and we find that

a more consistent record ent a more attractive fig-

ure picture but this would not

take in

arbitral

football

prove

to account the calibre of jon. We wouldn't make the ry statement that the best

is played in the Big Ten.

thing, there’s no way to.

t. For another, we need

in the South and South- .| This is the one thing you y for football in the Big : Nobody ever has fo apolo-

play

i mystery. Material coaching. Still, Minnesota has no. monopoly on these items. There are gagod coaches and good material {in every ‘section of the country. adition may have something to do with it. For more than thirty years Minnesota has always| had better. than -creditable teams. A large part of the answer we suspect lies in the feeling the natives have for the university, You seldom: find Minnesota youngsters playing on other teams; they all aspire to making their letter in their home state. Year after year you will find the Minnesota squad is practically 100 per cent native. Gophers haven’t been beaten since 1939. They have won in a row. They have only e left to play, Wisconsin, beaten four times. It

Prospectively, they face succession. Obviously it is one of the great teams of the year. Bernie Bierman has done another splendid coaching job.

2 » 2 E IS A TENDENCY to scoff at coaches who are blessed with an abundance of material. People will say, “who couldn’t win with that kind of material?” They used say that about Rockne at Notre [Dame and Sutherland at Pittsburgh, They are now saying that about Bierman. But the tipoff, the clincher is when you find yourself in a discussion of standout coaches these names always come up. The men who know football, the other coaches and. athletic directors and veteran critics, have nothing but respect for these illustrious coaching names.

Another for Melio CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 18 (U-. PJ). —Former light-heavyweight champion Melio Bettina of Beacon, N, Y., registered his 27th straight victory since joining the heavyweight class by defeating Jim Bivins of Cleve. land in an uninterestin round bout last night at the Cleveland ‘Arena.

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He Feels Free After Showing Against Ohio

By STEVE SNIDER : United Press Stalf Correspondent. CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—Robert OC. Zuppke, a master at timing upsets, stunned the University of Illinois trustees today by announcing

coach with only one game remaining to complete his 29th full season. As the trustees -assembled for what had been scheduled as a rou-

authorized a former Illinois football star to submit his resignation to President Arthur Cutts Willard Zup will direct the Illinois team for the last time at Northwestern Saturday.

Mills Moves Up

CHICAGO, Nov. 18 (U, P), —The University of Illinois trustees, stunned by the sur prise resignation of Head Faotball Coach Bob. Zuppke, today appointed: Douglas R. Mills as permanent athletic director: but reco ended he give up his football duties. Zuppke was believed to have favored Mills as his successor | but the trustees apparently | cleared the way for appointment of another coach after | official notice of Zup’s resigna$lon is received.

his resignation as head football}.

tine session, the .62-year-old coach! .

| = Bab Zuppke . . . goes back to the aris.

His action, presented through Harold Pogue of Decatur, Ill, came as such a surprise in: view of the excellent showing of the Illini against Ohio State last week that Willard was uncertain what procedure could be followed at today’s session. If all red -tape is eliminated, the trustees may be per-

to accept the resignation. It was the second time the colorful little Dutchman had resigned. In 1938, he brought an anti-Zuppke faction into the open by quitting, only to have the trustees refuse] WHanimously to accept his resignaon. Alumni pressure continued despite this victory, however, and this spring, during a shakeup in which Doug Mills replaced Wendell S. Wilson as athletic director, Zup

tion. - After the Ohio Game

Time after time during the bitter controversy over his retention, Zup repeated’ he never would quit, that they’d have ‘to throw him out. He doesn’t ‘believe he is leaving as a quitter now. “My boys played a wonderful game - against Ohio State last week,” Zuppke said by telephone from his farm home near Champaign. “I've been thinking about resigning for a long time and when someone asked me about it after we lost the Michigan game I said no because the timing wasn’t right. “I believe. it, is after the way they

to 7, but I'm not a quitter because it was a wonderful game.” Zuppke said he had no plans for the future other than farming his land and devoting a lot. of time to his painting. Before he turned to coaching to “keep from starving,” Zup ‘considered his future lay in his talent with oils and canvas. won conference championships in 1914, 1918, 1919, 1927 and ‘1928 and shared the championship in 1915 and 1923.

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Kautsky Star

Johnny Sines

The Indianapolis Kautsky’s professional basketball team open their season at Cathedral High School Sunday afternoon . and Johnny Sines will be in. there at forward again. Working with the former Purdue great will be one of the finest offensive squads Kautsky has yet produced. Other members of the 1941 team are Jewell Young (Purdue), Johnny Townsend | (Michigan), Mark Ertel (Notre Dame), Bob Dro and Ken Gunning (Indiana), and Bob Dietz, Scott Armstrong and Frank Baird (Butler). The team is back in the National League this year and will

, open with a four-game series with

the Harlem Globe Trotters. The first:-local game will be Sunday at 3:15 p.m

i Nominated for

Sullivan Awar PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18 (U. P.). — The ' nation’s highest athletic the Sullivan Memorial Award—will go to one of seven athletes, including one| woman, who were nominated by the amateur athletic union of the United States.|The nominees were chosen at the closing sessions of the AAU’s 53d annual convention. | Lawrence Di Benedettio of New Orleans was! unanimously re-elected national

president.

‘Three track and field stars, two

| swimmers, a handball player and

a golfer ‘were nominated. They were: Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, Wash., National Amateur Golf Champion; Leslie MacMitchell, New York University runner; William Br , Louisiana State University jumper; Cornelius ‘Warmerdam. of the San Francisco Olynipic Club, holder of the world’s pole-vault, record; ‘Earl Clark, Ohio

{State University diver, and. Joseph

P. Platak, handball: champion from|an the Lake Shore Athletic Club in Chicago. li Nancy Merki, Portland, Swimmer, was the lone woman

Nominee selection will be made by 8 hon national : tribunal. . The Niagara ‘association receive the union’s award for the A. A. chapter ch

City Champions of Technical Receive Athletic Awards

The city champions of Tech High School have their awards today. Twenty varsity gridmen, members of the first unbeaten Green eleven in Tech history, received major athletic awards yesterday afternoon in.

Gold T pins, the second major award in a sport, were given to John Rainey, Jack Hanna, Dale Burries, James Meyers and Robert Hennigar.

.| Volk, John Dobkins and Eugene

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Green sweaters blazed with a big white T were awarded Keith Hanna, Frank Owings, Johh Gra. ham, James Stahley, John Whitesell, Robert Meyer, Robert Johnson, William Straton, Wayne Arbuckle, Ernest Medcalfe, Jack Morton and Bruce Frazier. Green block T's on white sweat. ers, signifying the second monogram in a different sport, were given Bill

Newland. Service letters went to Conrad Byran, Arwin Curran, Man. son Ballard and Jack Hummerickhouse. These boys had been on the varsity two years without receiving a major award. Varsity players to get T. H. §.

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Bulldogs Begin {Net Practice

Paul D. “Tony” Hinkle has startled in all over again.

_. Saturday afternoon his ‘current football work ended, and with the 1>ad’s Day banquet which followed

| jhe packed away his practice mole-

skins until next fall.

noon in a warm-up suit in the Butler fieldhouse, whipping into shape a ‘basketball squad which must be

ready by Dec. 6.

Thus the time schedule begins anew. ‘Yesterday afternoon. the official

, | basketball season for the Bulldog |encampment opened with the first

drill in the fieldhouse. For the past few weeks several of the candidates

{for this year’s squad have been con-

ditioning themselves during the afternoons.

Now, with the grid season ended, Coach Hinkle has begun supervision of the boys. Twenty-four netters

‘|were at the initial session yester-

day, and a few more are expected

‘Ito turn out later in the week.

‘Four’ Lettermen”

One of the toughest schedules ever assigned the Hinklemen is on | tap for the coming hardwood sea(son. The first game will be on the

| evening of Dec. 6 in the fieldhouse against Franklin, and the last con-

test will be at Notre Dame, Feb. 24. The topnotchers on the card are ithe home-and-home tilts with Pur- | due’s Boilermakers, Notre Dame, Michigan State and ‘Margeutte’ Oregon State and Pittsburgh constitute the West and East of the card. A new feature to the schedule has been added, pending the approval of these games by the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference. Chanute Station desire to play the Bulldogs. Seven conference games will give the Bulldogs plenty to do in circuit competition with defense of their league title at stake. Four returning lettermen will lead the race for starting berths. Two of these will act as co-captains during the season as elected at the end of last year’s net campaign. They are Wilbur Schumacher, senigr forward from Louisville, Ky., and Elwood “Woody” Norris, senior forward from Washington, Ind. The other two lettermen, both of them juniors, are Fred Hunckler, guard from Jeffersonville, Ind., and Jin Deputy, guard from Seymour, In

Coach Hinkle’s main task prior to the opener is to find replacements for those players lost by graduation. Those missed will be Captain Boh Dietz, Jim McCray, Lyle Neat, Bill Hamilton, Lester Combs, Harold “Red” Braden, and Jack Clayton.

EYES EXAMINED

pins were William Barron, James Byers, John Kennedy, Ralph LaGrotto, William Mead, George Moore, William Mullenholtz, Robert Patterson, John Peterson, Joel Sharp, Donald Roller, George Souvenir and William Wagner. Three players were given A. T. Si. awards as first athletic honors. They were Malcolm Bradway, Edward Strain and. James Warrenburg. Members of the reserve team, who received T. H. 8. acorn buttons, were Doriald Armous, Robert Binder, Reginald Bowers, John Brannon, Robert Evans, John Fontaine, Snowden Gillespie, Arthur Kern, John Markovich, Jack Means, Lafe McCall, Edwin McLean, Edward Moore, Rolert Orem, Peter Poolous, Kenneth Poihast, Robert Raasch, Frank Springer, William Schenck, James Scott and Claire Shawver. Reserves winning A. T. 8. pins were Harry Delks, John Jordan, Ralph Raasch, William Shuck and Robert Straubas

The followi freshman players ”“ ceived A. T 8 Duard | Bitlarg Bop “Barrick Bon: andrews, s u; liam Cha ha William E. Beavers. bid

. Craig, 3 Charles Cuirtls,” alg, Logronte

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Kenneth Weaver vester Wieneke, liam Wonder:

Irish Seeking Rockne Season

game is important as a gauge of the Ram ability to rebqund after that Pittsburgh upheaval. Fordham isn’t out of the Bowl picture yet, and a big score against the Gaels cou d help matters greatly. Alabama-Vanderbilt — Bowl bids and the Southeastern title may well] § be at stake in this one. The Crimi son Tide and Vanderbilt both have been beaten once but have fine records nevertheless. Bama ‘ ix the favorite and appears to be in high gear now that post-season possibilities again are in store. Michigan-Ohio State — These once-beaten midland power-houses will settle the right to second place in the Big Ten—or to a title tie: should Wisconsin upset Minnesota. Neither can accept Bowl invitations but sectional pride guarantees a

slam-bang battle. A Slign edge to the Wolverines, t

Reds’ Attendance Drops in 1941 CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 18 (U. E.). —Powel Crosley Jr.; president of the board of directors of the Sinflanati

Reds, reported today that the Reds played: 4 to a road and ‘home. attend

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KNOXVILLE, Nov. 17.—Maj. Bob Neyland, now in active service, will

season if the national emergency permiis.

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