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Or the 215-hp 67 Pontiac Le Mans/Ride the Wide-Track Winning Streak COVER CONTENTS FEATURES THE FOUR HORSEMENare a Salute To Seniors 5 J. traditional symbol of Notre 25 Years a President 6-7 Dame's great past. Today, they Notre Dame's LOBUND 9 College Football Week Showdown 11 are being driven by Spartacles, Cage Opener Just 12 Days Away . 13 riding in the chariot of Apollo, Spartan Managers 15 God of the Sun, on the daily TV Brings Fan to Game . 23 firey trip across the sky. Students Aid Intramural Program 25 Spring Sports Not Forgotten 37 Great Day for ithe Irishman . .. 38-39 Spartan Marching Band 53 Falcone Leads Final Program 55 DEPARTMENTS Hot Off the Gridiron 3 STAFF Stadium Information and Diagram 28 Big Ten At a Glance . 33 Team Records .. 43 FRED STABLEY,Editor Spartan Yardstick .... .. 51 NICK VISTA,Assistant Editor Quarter Century Review 54 JERRYFISCHER,Managing Editor Coaches' Records 57 Meet the Spartans JAMES HUSTON, Business Mgr. 58 Future Schedules . 60 LYMANFRIMODIG,Advertising Mgr. BARBARABROWN,Art Director SQUAD LISTS AND PICTURES Michigan State Staff and Players .... 17-21 Michigan State Alphabetical Roster 27 Lineups and NumericalRosters " 30-31 ~1-L Notre Dame Alphabetical Roster 34 Notre Dame Staff and Players .47-49 - . National Advertising Representatives Published by MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Spencer Advertising Company 271 Madison Avenue, New York City Department of Information Services Our aerial attack is unbeatable In the central Great Lakes area, -nobody covers sports Gifford. Regular reports on skiing, bowling, golf and boat- quite like WJR does. ing conditions. And year-round broadcasts of major sports Bob Reynolds brings you play-by-play action of all Detroit events, amateur and professional. Lions and Michigan State games. ' Count on WJR to keep you in touch with the sports action. Plus: all Tiger games. Two complete 15-minute sportscasts Tune us in when you can't make it to the game. It's the daily. Evening CBS reports by Phil Rizzuto and Frank next best thing to being here. VVJ CBS 2 Old Rivals Meet' In Biggest Game It's the game of the year, decade, back to their conference candidacy century or history of college football. was a too-small stadium (26,000 / Take your choice. capacity) . Yet when the Spartan / The winner will get a beat-up old leaders sought to schedule' Big Ten " megaphone th a t teams in Spartan Stadium so .that: OFF was put up for an enlargement program could be ~ ".._ the series back in justified, they met a stone wall. It \ ../ ). ' 1949 by the De- seemed a hopeless impasse until Notre ...\~.-' TH E troit alumni clubs Dame agreed on home-and-home play \ of both schools. starting in 1948. The stadium was ' ..., ABC-TV will enlarged to 51,000 by that season beam the action and. a year later Big Ten membership to a good portion was attained. of the country as It also should be acknowledged a regional "Game thatthe results of the modern Notre of the Week" in Dame series have done more to pro-~~~~=====~~~~~!!!!!!=~ the NCAA tele- ject Michigan State into the national VISIon series. The part which isn't football limelight than anything else. By FRED STABLEY, MSU Sports Editor getting it is screaming bloody murder. State has won 12 of the 16, many 'of Everyone else has experted the them classic battles which have be- game. You might as well, too. Here come part of college football's legend. Spartan Potpourri are some comparative statistics to One of the greatest of these was last The Spartan Stadium record at- help stimulate your thinking: year's epic defensive struggle at South tendance of 78,833 set against Mich- Team rushing - Notre Dame has Bend which State won 12-3 to com- igan earlier this season probably won't ' gone 226.7 yards per game and al- plete a .10-0 regular season. lowed 75.6, while Statehas gone 240.3 Actually, Notre Dame is the oldest be topped today.' But. the' record and permitted 47. gridiron 'rival on State's, schedule. press throng of 553 recorded in the Team passing - The I r ish have The Irish' and Spartans (then. the same 'game will be 'broken easily. netted 178.2 per try and permitted Michigan Aggies) first played foot- O~er 225 newsmen have, signed .in: . 99.8. State has hit for 12204 and ball in 1897. Michigan came on the for the game. These, plus radio and allowed 161.1. schedule a year later. TV personnel, photographers, tele- Individual rushing - Nick Eddy phone and Western Union people, tops Notre Dame with 498 yards press box staff and others will add up on 67 carries for a 7 A-yard average to 650-700 people. It could be the and seven TDs. Clint Jones heads biggest press count at any game in State with 771 yards, a 5.1 average and six TDs. college football history. Individual passing-Notre Dame's The annual Spartan Football Bust Terry Hanratty has hit on 77 of 143 will be held Tuesday evening, Nov. for 1,221 yards and eight TDs. He's 29, in the Civic Center in downtown had ten intercepted. State's Jimmy Lansing. Several thousand people are Raye has clicked on 55 of 103 for expected. Sportscaster Curt Gowdy 968 yards and ten TDs. He's had will be master of ceremonies. Tickets six intercepted. C. JONES LEE at $10 each may be obtained by phon- Pass receiving-ND's Jim Seymour Scored against Irish last year ing Lansing 353-2958 or dropping has snared 37 for 712 yards and six into office 220, Jenison Field House. TDs. State's Gene Washington has The Harlem Globetrotters, with caught 22 for 554 yards and seven American League triple crown win- TDs. ner Frank Robinson as an added at- SEASON'S RECORDS traction, will appear in Jenison Field THANK YOU, NOTRE DAME House on Tuesday, Nov. 22. The Past favors will count for little in MICHIGAN STATE NOTRE DAME Michigan State Varsity Club is spon- the heat of today's football action, 28 N. C. State _10 26 Purdue __ 14 soring the event for the benefit of the but Spartan fans should at least be 42 Penn State _ 8 35 Northwestern _ 7 Ralph Young Scholarship Fund. aware of the considerable debt Mich- 26 Illinois 10 35 Army 0 Tickets may be purchased at Para- igan State owes Notre Dame. 20 Michigan __ 7 32 North Carolina_O mount News Center, Jenison Gym It was Notre Dame which extended 11 Ohio State __ 8 38 Oklahoma _~ 0 a helping hand right after World War 41 Purdue __ '_ 20 31 Navy 7 Ticket office or any Varsity club 22 Northwestern _ 0 II which aided materially in State's 40 Pittsburgh _~ 0 member. The prices are $1 for stu- 56 Iowa 7 64 Duke 0 gaining admission into the Big Ten. dents, $2 general admission' and $3 37 Indiana 19 - Michigan State- for reserved seats. Show time is Michigan State officials were told - Notre Dame - So. California- by Big. 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Take a football pro- gram for instance-does your printer have the presses and equipment, plus craftsmen with know-how, to get the job done and delivered at the stadium gates game after game, year after year? Speaker-Hines & Thomas does. You call the play and we'll take it from therel Speaker-Hines & Thomas, Inc. 315 N. Grand Avenue Lansing PRINTERS 2600 Cochrane Avenue LITHOGRAPHERS Detroit Est. 1884 4 By NICK VISTA MSU Assistant Sports Editor NE OF THE GREAT senior classes O in Michigan State football his- tory winds up collegiate eligibility here today, and fittingly bows out in a battle for the national championship.