-% 0 If I- ol /lJ -.:l WIT# WISCONSIN · OHIO STATE WILBUR E. SNYPP, Editor William A. Woodruff_ ____ Advertioing Manager John F. Hummel _________ Circulation Manager National Adverti1ing Representative Don Spencer Co., 271 Madison Ave., New York 16, N . Y, The University Presidents ------------------------- 4 Another first for Sinclair! From Sinclair Research comes a new The Athletic Directors ---------------------------- 5 The Head Football Coaches ----------------------- 6 super gasoline power-primed with ROCKET FUEL-the same mighty The Badger Football Staff ------------------------- 7 Students "\Velcotne AlUIDni ------------------------ 8 fuel used in Y-2 rockets! Command rocket power at the touch of The University of Wisconsin ---------------------- 9 The Buckeye·Badger Series ------------------------10 your toe ... super getaway ... high anti-knock ... Power up with Badger Brevities ----------------------------------11 Penalties and Signals -----------------------------12 POWER-X and feel the difference! In POWER-X, you also get ANTI­ Wi sconsin Players ______________________ 14, 18, 27, 32 Ohio State Players __________________ 16, 28, 30, 34, 36 STALLING, PR E- IG ITION CONT ROL and ANTI-RUST PROTECTION . New Playing Rules for 1954 -----------------------29 The Marching Band Progratn _____________________ 33 Ohio Stale Roster --------------------------------38 Stadium Infortnation -----------------------------39 The "\Visconsin Roster ----------------------------41 SINCLAIR Today~ Cover ------------------------------------42 POIIIIER·~ The New Super Fuel 3 The University Presidents The Athletic Directors DR. HOWARD L. BEVIS Ohio State University RICHARD C. LARKINS Ohio State University DR. E. B. FRED University of Wisconsin GUY SUNDT University of Wisconsin 4 5 The Badger Coaching Staff The Head Coaches W. W. (WOODY) HAYES Ohio State University LEFT TO RIGHT : George Lonphear, freshmen; Paul Shaw, ends; Fred Marsh, head scout; Ivy Williamson, head coach; Milt Bruhn, line; Bob O'Dell, backfield. I VY WILLIAMSON has established himself as as line coach with Williamson in 1949. the University of Wisconsin's most successful foot­ Paul A. Shaw, a 1938 graduate of Pittsburgh Uni­ ball coach in the modern era of the sport. He assumed versity, is the Badger end coach, and during his the position in the spring of 1949, coming to the tenure has turned out such fine ends a Robert "Red" Badger campus from Lafayette College, to succeed Wil on, Pat O'Donahue, Don Voss and Ron Locklin. Harry Stuhldreher and his record at Wi consin has Like Bruhn, he aided Williamson at Lafayette Col­ been the best since the day of John R. Richards in lege before coming to Wiscon in with him in 1949. the early 1920's. His Badger teams, which have won 21 Big Ten Robert O'Dell, the youngest of the Wi consin victories as against only seven defeats and four ties coaches at 32, was an All-American football player in five seasons, have always been in the thick of the at the University of Pennsylvania from which he conference race, and in 1952 shared the crown with graduated in 1943. Following service in the navy Purdue-the first in Badger annals since 1912. Ivy's 1943 to 1946, he served a an assistant coach at Yale Big Ten record is the best of any conference coach in 1946 and 1947, and at T emple University in 1948, during the past five years. before arriving on the Wisconsin scene as backfield coach in 1949. IVAN WILLIAMSON Williamson is a stickler for fundamentals and or­ Fred E. Marsh, a product of Bowling Green, Ohio. University of Wisconsin ganization and his teams are characterized by sound strategy and daring tactics in his outline for winning was the fourth assistant coach to join the Wisconsin football. He has introduced his version of the T-for­ staff in 1949, and he serves capably in the position mation to the Badger offense, and last year accom­ of junior varsity coach and head scout for the Badg­ plished the change from two-platoon to one-platoon er . football with relative ease. George Lanphear, the Wisconsin freshman coach, Line play, featuring sharp blocking and crisp tack­ is a 1938 Wisconsin graduate and has been associated ling, has been the main forte of Wisconsin teams with Wisconsin football since 1947. An energetic during Ivy's regime, and this aspect of the game has and congenial aid to Williamson's staff, George serv­ been ably handled by Milt Bruhn, a 1936 Minnesota ed as the head basketball coach and assistant football graduate. Bruhn was Ivy's assistant at Lafayette coach at Ripon College, before returning to the Badg­ College in 1947 and 1948, and came to Wisconsin er campus. 6 7 ,,,,,,, .............. .............. ,,,, Students Welcome Alumni The University of Wisconsin N OW in it econd century, located on a ha been famou for it great teachers. Daniel growing central campu at Madi on and in nine and orum in chemi try: \Vitte and Perlman exten ion center around the tate, the ni­ in economics, \ hite and Hughes in Engli h: versity of Wi con in ha an enrollment of more Curti. Knapland, and Reynold in hi tory: than 15,000 and a teaching staff of 1,700. gard and 1acKendrick in cla ic : Kolb and Presided over by cienti t-Educator Edwin ewell in rural sociology: and Hougen and Broun Fred and prizing a spirit of public erv­ Mar hall in e1wineering are only a few on the ice, the univer ity today has been called "one long Ii t of stimulating Badger profe sor . of the great world centers of higher education .'' A a ho t to its tudent , the W provide Although a ingle tate land-grant in titution dormitorie , a Union, pecial medical care, under one board of regents, the Univer ity of cot!n. eling and advi ing, loan and cholar hip . Wisconsin i actually a combination of 10 dif­ relig1ou cent r . lectures and convocation , ferent major college , schools, and division . and a tremendou variety of activitie - athletic, each a large as the average Am rican col lege. mu ical, dramatic, arti tic, and ocial. On few other campu e in the country can be . Read but a few page of a cientific journal found such a breadth of teaching, research, and 111 almost any field and you \\"ill find the report public ervice a can be found in the niver it,· of \ i con in worker , because the \V i one of Wisconsin' College of Letter and cience. of the world' great center of re earch. Q-176 Agriculture, and Engineering, it chool of penicillin, dicumarol, warfarin. nicotinic aciJ. Medicine, Law, Education, Commerce. Gradu­ hio-h-producing farm crop and live tock trains. ate Study, and Pharmacy, and it Exten 1011 rural land zoning, social ecurity, atomic rc- Division. earch-the e ar only a few of the things that ince its founding on February 5, 1 -1-9. the have emerged from Badger labs in recent years. Univer ity of Wi consin has become famou · n "enormou contribution" is the way ex­ for its "Wi con in Idea." "The ' Idea" tand · pert de cribe the tate-wide program of the for public service and off-campu exten ion. Univer ity. t pre ent, 26 division of the U\V Members of the general homecoming committee, seate from left to right, are as follows: Harvey Minton, publicity; Audriene Dale, queens; Jack Spengler, 9eneral chairman; " Chic" Wahoff, rally; Harley Miller. dance; Joan Frankenberger, secretary. Absent typified by the logan that "the boundarie of are devoted to public ervice and adult educa­ from the picture are " Chuck" Petree, house decoratio ns, and Steve Lytle, art. the campu are the boundarie of the tate." tion. In many way they profoundly influence The "Idea" al o tand for academic freedom the live of people through health, busine . in ­ -"that continual and fearle ifting and win­ clu try, ao-riculture, and governmental relation,;. nowing by which alone the truth may he Along with cientific developments, the fine found." art are not neglected, for \ Vi con in pioneered wELCOME H ME! ituated on th hores of Lake Mendota. with it artist in re idence and it rural art COMING queen and her court will be intro­ "Gone forever the oft June night ...." but wi~h . ivy-covered old halls and striking ne\\" and drama program. we can't forget the old friend hip and place duced, having been named in a popular election buildings, the \V ha what a British vi itor In one public ervice area alone-adult edu­ that were and alway wi ll be OHIO TA TE. imilar to tho e held annually ince OHIO ha called a " ublime" campu . Ob ervatory cation conference - the niversity erve more ince 1882, OHIO TATE ALUM1 I and T TE was admitted to the \ Ve tern Confer­ Hill, Willow Drive, the view of the tate api­ than 1,500,000 citizen each year. ence in 1912. undergraduates have met annually to renew tol from Lincoln Terrace, the Memorial nion. ince the fir t ommencement in 1 54, the our HOMECOMI G tradition. Today, once n hand for the 15th straight year is Clancy a~d 1uir } noll are among the famous Badger I aac, '39 fo rmer cheerleader, to I ea d the ·niver ity of \Vi con in has conferred more more, we meet old friend and vi it tho e old v1 tas. than 103,000 degree . and again a many tu­ familiar places. OHIO TATE cheering ection. Clancy wa Wi con in tudent come from every tate clent have attended \ i con in for a eme ter La t evening, at the tadium, thou and the originator of the Block ' " cheering sec­ in the nion, the Di trict of Columbia and from or more. Many are now world-famous. gathered for the traditional bonfire ral ly and tion.