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L.S./M.F.T.- Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobac~o COPR ,, THE AMERI CAN TOBA C CO COMPANY 3 Michigan State Officials This is Mic/Jig(/n Sf(/fe College Michigan State Agricultural College became the Spartans of Michigan College was a rel­ State College. atively small uni­ Michigan State is proud of its heritage, and service to versity before the people of Michigan has remained the guiding phil­ World War II, but osophy of the institution since its founding as the "state it stands today as college." The 15,000 students in the college classrooms are the eleventh larg­ but part of the broad service philosophy of Michigan est institution of State College; a program which extends in all directions higher education to spread scientific knowledge to the far corners of in the nation. Not the state. only does it have Through the agricultural experiment station, the co­ the student body, operative extension service and the continuing education but it has the edu­ service, an additional 100,000 Michigan residents each cational philoso­ year are given assistance and training by the college. phy, breadth of Today, students have a choice of approximately 70 cur­ curriculum, facul­ ricula, with 58 of these offering graduate degrees. Among ty and physical the courses available are agriculture, home economics, facilities to match. hotel administration, chemistry, physics, engineering, Here are some medical technology, nw·sing, police administration, busi­ little-known facts ness, art, pre-medicine and pre-law. The administration about Michigan of these courses is divided into eight main schools. They State College. En­ are: agriculture, home economics, engineering, veterinary rollment of stu­ medicine, graduate studies, science and arts, business and dents reached a public service, and the Basic college, a two-year program post-war peak of of general education. 16,243 during the Although the school is in every way a university, officials fall quarter of of Michigan State prefer to keep the term "college" to 1949. In the fall avoid confusion with their sister Big Ten member, the term of 1950, en­ University of Michigan. rollment stood at An important factor in Michigan State's growth has approximately 15,- been the dynamic leadership of President John A. Han­ 000. Total faculty, nah. He has served the college since his graduation in including teach­ 1923, when he became an extension specialist. He was ing, research and named secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, gov­ extension, numbers erning body of the college, in 1935, and president in 1941. over 2,000. Physi­ President Hannah is also recognized as one of the na­ cal facilities on tion's top educational leaders, having served as president the Spartan cam­ of the American Association of Land Grant Colleges and pus have grown Universities during 1949, and as chairman of the organi­ tremendously since zation's executive committee in 1950. the end of the In the field of sports, Michigan State's record demands World War II respect. Not only has the East Lansing school one of the through a vast best athletic plants in the nation, but Spartan sports building program. teams have consistently provided better-than-average In the field of competition for the nation's top teams. Michigan State inter -collegiate engages in intercollegiate competition in 13 major sports. athletics, all-around performance of Spartan teams ranks Macklin Field Stadium has a seating capacity of more with the best in the nation. The Western Conference than 50,000. Jenison Fieldhouse, largest non-commercial voiced its approval of MSC's athletic prowess when it building in the state of Michigan, provides approximately voted in May, 1949, to accept Michigan State as a member 13.000 seats for basketball games, in addition to housing of the Big Ten. athletic offices and training facilities for other sports. The institution has come a Jong way since 1855, when The 1950 football team ranked eighth in the nation, de­ it was founded as Michigan Agricultural College, first of feating Michigan, Notre Dame, Minnesota, Indiana, Wil­ its type in the nation. Carved out of the pines in Michi­ liam and Mary, Marquette, Pittsburgh and Oregon State, gan's lower peninsula on the outskirts of Lansing, this while losing in an upset victory to Maryland. Michigan institution has a tradition in agricultural teaching and State's boxers, undefeated in dual competition, copped extension work that can boast no equal, for it blazed the third place in the 1950 NCAA tournament, following sec­ trail for the land-grant movement which was to follow in ond place ratings in 1948 and 1949. the 1860's. These institutions drew upon the graduates, Spartan swimmers lost but one match, to perenially educational innovations and intellectual philosophy de­ strong Ohio State, while winning nine meets. The base­ veloped at MSC. ball team had a 19-9 record and the cross-country squad In the 1920's, the East Lansing college, boasting an en­ won the NCAA crown, after having copped the NCAA, rollment of nearlv 3,000 students, began to flex its muscles ICAA and NAAU contests in 1948. In all other sports, in­ and prepare for bigger and better things. After curricula cluding several having predominately sophomore squads, in liberal arts and applied science were added in 1921 and Michigan State always proved a formidable foe in spite 1925, it was natural that in 1925, the Aggies of Michigan of won and lost records. 4 5 OHIO STATE FOOTBALL STAFF Thirty-nine years ago, it was­ Michigan State 35, Ohio State 20 . Front Here are members of the 1912 Ohio State foatball squad, the only Bu<keye gridders to fa<e a Mi<higan State eleven prior to today assist· row, left to right: lester Dorst, George Troutman (minor league baseball <Ommissioner); E. R. Godfrey, assistant othleti< director and Geib, ant Ohio State football <oa<h; Art Raymond, Mouri<e Briggs, Don Barri<klow, captain; Earl Maxwell, Jomes M<Clure, Lee Ryon, Joy Shofor, Charles Swartzbaugh, Second row: King Brody, trainer; George Hoskins, manager; Grant Word, Dove Derivan, Arthur Jones, Ralph row: Hugh Walker, Irving Geissmon, Clovis Holliday, Howard Fritz, Honus Graf, Paul Jones, Ed Morrissey, Jo<k Richorc:ls, head coach. Bock , Sol L. W. St. John, athletic dire<lor; Louis Pickrel, Boyd Cherry, R. l . Fetterson, Earl Smith, Percy Radcliff, Henry Feldswich, Art Kiefer Yossenoff, Howard Neff, Byron Stover. N EARLY 39 years ago-Thanksgiving Day, favorite could, in some way, stop the fierce Nov. 28, 1912-0hio State and Michigan onslaught of the Michigan State backs. State, then known as Michigan Agricultural Col­ "Fumbles played a big part in the fourth lege, clashed in a memorable football game on quarter scoring. When the final whistle old Ohio field. sounded, the 300 student supporters of the visi­ Ohio State moved into a 20-7 lead at half-time tors rushed onto the field and carried their and the score remained this way until the final victorious team to the gym on their shoulders." period when the Spartans, le.cl by Fullback Lineu p Julian, scored 28 points and won going away, The Pos. Ohio State 20 35 to 20. ~lichigan A.C. 3.5 That game, like today's, was a non-conference Miller LE Cherry meeting. Ohio State was not admitted to Big Hutton LT Barricklow Ten membership until the 1913 season. Michi­ Campbell LG Kiefer gan State, now a member of the Conference Chamberlain C Maxwell does not figme in the official football race fcCurdy RC Giessman until 1953. Gifford RT Ravmond The Ohio State Lantern, student dailv, in re­ Gorenfloe TIE ·stover porting the game of 1912, said in part:-:_ Gauthier QB 1cClure " ... the game was a spectacular one and per­ Riblet I,H Briggs haps the best from the spectators' point of view Servis RH Ryan of any that has been played here this season. Julian FB Graf ... It was the final period which put the crimp SCORE BY PERIODS: in the hope of the 3,000 Ohio State supporters Michigan A.C. 0 7 0 28-35 who sat shivering in the stands, wishing theiT Ohio State ... 13 7 0 0-20 6 7 TELLINGS The TODA Y'S HALF-TIME MUSIC Quality ./ Ice Cream T HE Ohio State ni\·ersity band devotes the after­ band swings into "Listen to the Music of the Ocarina'·. noon show today to a presentation of music from the forming a huge ocarina on the field. 245 E. Town St. AD. 2171 Broadway musical "Call 1Ie ~1faclam." A musical inh·oduction announces "It is a Lovely As a cl.rum roll opens the half-time ceremony, there Day Today" and figuxes of a boy and girl appear on is the flash of brass and spat and the Ohio Bugle the gridiron.