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DETROIT TIMES, OCTOBER 30,1941 PAGE 37 Crisler Fears Fumbles May Beat as in ’39 Wildcats' Spirit FIVE OF 800 WHO'LL HUNT PHEASANT AT PELEE ISLAND 6 Bobbles Aided High in Workout Illinois in Upset, tSy. Ktr& HtuApl For Minnesota Coach Recalls Eagles Quit Pro Basketball League But May Use Gophers' Reputation Zuppke's Passing Here Best Olympia for a Few Big Games Fails to Awe Lads Attack Called Michigan Face RAMBLlNG:—Detroit’s basketball Eagles have resigned at Northwestern Will from the National Basketball League! Time* Staff ( orrnpondrnl professional world’s Jim Hughey, owner of the local club, lal*rnatlonal N>«*» Nrnlr* Wtra ANN ARBOR, Oct. 30.-Fritz champions, was forced to withdraw his team from the circuit EVANSTON. 111.. Oct. 30.—1 t Cri.slor, Michigan football coach, because there is no suitable place available in Detroit to play. was a drab day in Evanston but is worried about something that “We will barnstorm this season,” Hughey explained. there was nothing drab about happened two years ago. Not that “Dutch Dehnert will come back as coach. He has free reign in Northwestern s optimistic Wild- the Michigan mentor is the type booking the club. There is a chance we can get Olympia for a cats as they prepared for their last of man who digs things up out few dates. We’ll try and bring outstanding teams here on those home workout in pre|>aration for of the past to complain about. occasions.” Minnesota Saturday. Far from it. He’s just afraid that There must be a wee bit of Scotch strain in the Harvards. Yesterday the Wildcats snap|>ed history will repeat. into their formations with a crisp- They have scored only seven points all season, but they certainly There is a firm basis for Cris- over Dartmouth and ness which made Coach Lynn made the seven points go a long way. A win Waldorf forget all about the hard ler’s perturbed state of mind. His a scoreless tie with Navy has caused most eastern experts to cold which has bothered him all 1 team has a date with Bob credit Coach Dick Harlow with one of the outstanding coaching week. Waldorf held heavy work Zuppke’s Illinois team this Satur- to a minimum, however, and indi- jobs of the season. day at Champaign, 111. And Fritz » that the drill today would ______ cated be even lighter to avoid any chance can’t forget what happened in the Watch Those Red Wings This Year of additional injuries to his squad. Illinois back yard during the 1939 SAMARZIA OfT season. Those who know best about such things think this may be Tony sustained a Michigan fans will remember Samarzia. who riding one of Jack Adams’ greatest Red Wing teams. ligament injury in the Ohio State, that the Wolverines were game, is delinitcly out of the high that year with a record of Gopher affair, bu* work of Ray four victories and no defeats be- V’incent and Leon Cook in the .*gr. &' * juL fore they ran into Zuppke’s team. vacated right tackle slot brought The game was considered a assurance to the coaches thai breather, a chance to warm up will have plenty of for the Minnesota contest the fol- Minnesota swm trouble trying to penetrate that lowing week. There didn’t I oM r" r^NI^BL be any Michigan rtrlt* of The Northwestern time. The* Ito doubt that veteran Cook seemed to be com- would win. pletely recovered from the injury U. OF M. FUMBLES which sidelined him for the Michi- Savoldi trying pro football again, this time with thj gan and Ohio State pastes. DOCK But they didn’t win. They took is DR. J. C. TAPERT, DETROIT; TOMMY BRIDGES; W. L. WEBSTER, WINDSOR, AT KINGSVILLE, ONT., a 16-7 beating from a club that nton Harbor-St. Joseph, Mich., semi-pros. Center Don Johnson was still «Joe favoring an injured shoulder, but didn’t show anything in any other me, far more fortunate than game Football players, believe are expected to be ready to perform that season. It was the baseball players when it comes to ducking criticism after “boner’’ with his old-time efficiency by P«*lee Island Bailie upset of the year and there was plays. Saturday afternoon. Otto Graham, one thing to which the defeat the sophomore passing sensation, could be attributed. Take Bill Garnaas, the Minnesota quarterback, for instance. factor, according is to guard in to Pheasants, Though It That to Cris- (And due wear a nose the 800 Hunters Out Shoot most any team in the country would like to take him not game because of,a recurrence of ler. was the tendency of his backs only for instance, but FOR KEEPS). Anyway, you’ll remember an old nasal ailment, but it was, Would Be Easier to Club Them to fumble at crucial stages of the own not expected to hamper tossing garnet Bill intercepted a Kuzma pass behind his goal line. All he his % and running. By GEORGE E. VAN w* j “We fumbled six times in had to do was stand still and it was a touchback. The ball would that game,” the Wolverine Waldorf announced that Dick Orni-Hualm have been taken out to Minnesota’s 20 and turned over to the Eidlitz, the leader points out, Mand five of best of Wildcat, PELEE ISLAND. Ont., Oct. 30. Captain Flowerday's Pelec Island Gophers. kickers, would start at quarter- English these were recovered by Illi- thickly covered Emporium, where the old nois. You can’t do and Instead, Gamas tried to run the ball out and barely got back against Minnesota as a re- —This island was army officer, a veteran of cam- that his impressive showing pheasants today as more than win games.” to the 4. Minnesota then had the dangerous job of kicking ward for with paigns in India, holds forth, of- back in the Ohio State game. He will its There was something more • 800 hunters stumbled over fered a much better vantage point or running the ball from this point. replace Don Krueger. concrete than the Illinois jinx gorse-covered moors in the first of to view the bombardment. Besides worrying Fritz, As it turned out, the Gophers got out of danger. But had it damp cold. In however. A CHEERFUL UNDERDOG the two-day hunt. wasn't so and by Captain the gent guilty would have annual warming. fumble Bob Westfall this same play happened in baseball In so thick was the pheasant fact it was attempted The knowledge that they will be tact. strange thing the l on an reverse cost his been tabbed a Snodgrass, a Mcrkle, a John Miljus or maybe even silly to It’s a but TLjm rated the underdog at the kickoff crop, it seemed rather the who team a chance to tie Minnesota Mickey Owen. “careless” hunter comes back Saturday a Saturday made no impression on early with his “hag” (five are al- last and he doesn’t ,thc relish cheerful Wildcat*. In the fleet lowed each day) is regarded as the idea of its happening pgnifl, , • ,place, they have found themeelvee • being not very sporting. It sort eve Trouble for Anderson at lowa jin that sjjot on the of the of stamps one as a novice Pelee PASS DEFENSE Gopher game for the last six years, Island pheasant hunter. said that Dr. Eddie Anderson is having his troubles in and yet have managed to re& k What’s more there have been Tis b VETERANS* TACTICS carload lots at lowa. Rumor has it some of his assistants may be even in those contests. a goodly number of fumbles dur- * Secondly, Northwestern always ing the Michigan practice sessions exploded off the premises. The so-called veterans go out plays one of its best games against bang lately. There were fewer yester- Dr. Jock Sutherland calls the present Fordham and away all morning, chas- Here’s a tip: Minnesota. Close followers of the ing the birds all over the island. day than in several days, the first team the best Jim Crowley has coached at that institution. (Who Wildcats, pointing to the squad's They then come back for lunch team erring only once, and Crifi- to so much be- picks Purdue to upset them Saturday?) improved showing against Ohio nonhunter see shot and go out again in the afternoon. ler hopes this state of affairs State, expect year ing fired into the air tnot to men- continues. Gary. Ind.. certainly comes up with some tough football this to be no This is the sporting way to go exception to that rule. , tion the resultant racket created about getting your bag for the Aside from fumbling, pass de- babies. You know all about Tom Harmon and Tom Kuzma. But thereby.) fense is Michigan’s biggest worry pop day. have you heard about Bob Johnson, who played with Kuzma in It appeared just as easy to Despite this, many hunters were this week and the Wolverine has played 60 minutes in the bird over with the butt end of early making coaching staff is concentrating on high school? He’s a Purdue center and Manhattan Center gun. back after the 8 the this phase of the game. * four straight games. (Note to Michigan alumni in Gary: How a. m. start. But pheasants weren’t This hunt, as far as can be “Illinois is probably the best did he get away?) learned, is the biggest pheasant- passing team well to Trip | North face this There is a sellout for the Bear-Packer game at Wrigley Field Ace Miss chasing affair in America.

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