The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 13

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1934 THIRTEEN The Minneapolis Star. pirns' Casey to Resign, ROSE BOWL TILT OUT; CHAMPION ELEVEN HAILED Season Officially Over-Lund Star in Win Over Badgers juufiu owiays iruu nign uvur, juiynis uui lur uuutou i uius jwuy rM Lo a1 This is the start of Capt. Pug Lund's fiO-yard run for a touchdown at Madison Saturday. Lund is shifting into high gear as he swings across the field. Sheldon Bcise has made the start a good one by clearing out two tacklers with one powerful block.

Far out in front is Babe Le Voir, ready to mow down anyone else who had the audacity to impede the progress of the Gopher captain. It was one of the most perfectly-planned and beautiful runs of the entire season. M.A.C. Banquet Opens Brief Whirl of Partying for Gopher Gridders iSPOCT! be a pretty fair tackle or fullback Ml 4y eharles Short Entertainment Program Necessary to Save Boys, Says Director McCormick; Colorful Incidents Recounted as Gophers Celebrate National Championship. BY BERNARD SWANSON The University of Minnesota football team may be the acknowledged monarch of the gridiron world.

But it will have about the briefest entertainment program of any champion. That was the announcement from Frank McCormick, director of athletics, today as the Gophers prepared to turn in their equipment and become plain citizens once more. them while the truth of the matter was that he gained 64 yards net. He never played a more Inspired game than Saturday, when he gained 150 yards in 12 tries. One of the most disgraceful bits of conduct ever charged to a crowd was contributed by the Badger rooters the first time Lund was stretehed out on TF ANY ADDITIONAL PROOF were needed to establish the 1934 Minnesota football team as the greatest the school ever had and one that compares favorably with all of the outstanding elevens the game has known in modern gridiron history, the Gophers' decisive 34 to 0 triumph over a strong Wisconsin aggregation at Madison turned the trick.

The Maroon and Gold finished their season of sensational play by showing the same class that they have in every one of the eight brilliant performances of the schedule. "On the spot" in the finale which was to make or break them as not only Big Ten but also national champions, these able Gophers beat back some more real competition to finish the season undefeated. Saturday at Madison it was the same old Minnesota team doing business in the same old and effective way. It turned on the pressure early and settled the result in the first 10 minutes by scoring two touchdowns. Then they waited until the last 11 minutes to add 20 more.

From every standpoint, it was a perfect finish for a team that undoubtedly always will be regarded as the finest that ever wore the Maroon and Gold. Saturday they found that Dr. Spears had built up a strong defense for their running plays, yet the Gophers powdered through for two earned touchdowns by showing "their power early. Then in the last quarter, they resorted to trickery and accurate passing to get three more scores just to eliminate any worry Minnesotans might have developed when they saw their team's running attack stopped in the second and third quarter. The Gophers did everything against Wisconsin that a coach could ask of them.

Their line drove through all afternoon to stop the Spears running attack cold. They hurried and harassed the Badger passers so much that they were wild pitching all over the field. The Gophers' secondary defense was so alert that they intercepted seven out of 12 Harvard Rumor, Dawson Hinted I well "Bed" Dawson is being considered as possible Harvard head conch in case the rumored resignation of Kddie Casey is confirmed, it was learned through a United Tress sports bulletin from Cambridge, today. Dawson was reached, but he refused to discuss the subject, except In say (hat he had not been approached officially and could not nuike a statement of any kind. In however, reports that Casey had submitted his res-lunation were circulated freely.

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In the first place Minnesota hasn't received an official invitation although Californians indirectly are trying to sound out Minnesota au thorities on the matter. Elect Captain Tomorrow But no later than tomorrow, plans will go forward on the 1935 season. The new 1 Maroon and Gold captain will be chosen at a student convocation at 3:30 o'clock and the usual cus tom of Pug Lund handing the torch of leadership to his successor will be staged before the students and their friends. The captain election will be held despite the fact that there is some doubt as to whether the Conference faculty directors will decide that Bill Bevan and. Stan Kostka finished their intercollegiate competition with the impressive Wisconsin game.

The decision to choose the 1935 pilot indicated that Minnesota officials are fairly confident that the Conference will rule that a year of freshman competition in the Pacific coast loop will not cost Gopher players a year of varsity in the Big Ten. "We'll elect a captain tomorrow," Bierman said today. "If the boys choose someone that can't play next year, we'll have to go through with another vote after the Conference makes its interpretation. I'm in no position to know what action will be taken, but we are hopeful that it will be in our favor." Frank McCormick, athletic director, made a rather emphatic statement that there is no sense in talking about Minnesota in a Rose bowl game. No Invitation Received "No one at the university has received an official or unofficial invitation to send our championship team to Pasadena," McCormick stated.

"We aren't expecting offe although I have a hunch that efforts are being made in an indirect way to sound us out through newspaper channels. However, I do not believe that there is a chance in the world of accepting for the Conference directors are strongly opposed to post-season games' of any kind. Our 'organiza tion doesn meet until Dec. 8 in Chicago. If we took favorable action at that time, it would be too late to get us into this year's Rose bowl event." Gopher rooters today were pointing to their team's sensational scoring accomplishments to prove that the Bierman boys really deserved the ti tle of the best In the land.

The fig ures show that Minnesota' piled up 270 points in eight games as against 38 for their rivals. Iowa and Chicago were the only Conference teams that scored on Minnesota and they could not do it with running plays. The Hawkeyes counted twice on passes and the Maroons on an intercepted toss. Today the Minnesota players were busy" clearing the decks for a lot of concentrated studying. They would like to go to the Rose bowl, but understand pretty well that it can't be done.

For a few days, they'll have to be content with recalling their feats at Madison Saturday when they played a bang-up game to beat their oldest and keenest rivals by a most decisive score and by turning loose one of their best offensive shows. The Gophers started out early to prove to the dubious Badgers that their press agents hadn't billed them wrong when they said they had a lot of power. They turned loose their steam roller in the first 10 minutes and counted twice with Lund getting both of the tallies through some of the hardest running he has ever shown and behind clean cut blocking. LeVoir Intercepts LeVoir started things as usual by intercepting a Wisconsin pass on his own 37-yard line. Lund and Al- fonse and a penalty moved the ball to midfield.

Then after the Badgers had stopped Lund and Alfonse for a total loss of five yards, Julie went' to work. He steppel off 19 yards on on one of his cutbacks. Pug added 20 more in three plays. Beise bucked for a first down on the 13. Then came a five-yard Wisconsin penalty to be followed by Alfonse's march to the two-yard line from where Lund went over with plenty to spare.

Before the Minnesota rooters had gotten over that thrill, Pug Lund was loose again for his longest run of the year a 60-yard dash around his own right end for a touchdown He had beautiful blocking on that play as his mates cut down one Badger after another, but he had plenty of speed and drives into his i- battered legs to get over the final stripe. The Gophers then lost some of their offensive drive and it wasn't until the fourth quarter that they re sumed their scoring. George Roscoe furnished the punch that led to the third touchdown. His 29 yard smash through Wisconsin's left side put the ball on the 12 yard line. George added four more on his next try.

Clarkson was stopped. Then came the Bevan-LeVoir fake kick that was something to see. Bevan got in kicking position. LeVoir took the ball and then raced around the Badger left end for 12 yards and a touchdown. Wisconsin was completely fooled on that play and Babe had only one man to beat at the goal line.

Proffitt's interception of another wild Wisconsin pass led to the fourth score, also on a trick. On the 27 yard line, Roscoe dropped back and tossed a perfect pass to Dick Smith on the goal line and he went over. LeVoir: kicked goal. Only a few. seconds la ter, LeVoir grabbed another Spears pass on the Wisconsin 41 yard line.

passes, the uophers blocking was remarkable, especially on Lund's 60-yard dash for his second touchdown. Minnesota lost its spark plug and great back, Pug Lund, early in the play. Yet George Roscoe stepped into his shoes and did a bang up job all the way. The Gophers played without their smart signal caller, Glenn Seidel, but Babe LeVoir and Sheldon Beise handled the assignment shrewdly. The Gophers put a tackle, Dick Smith, at an end and he promptly captured two passes that accounted for touchdowns.

The Gophers were more versatile in their swan Kostka, Clarkson and Bevan Call on Spears, Remind Him of a Team Three doughty Gophers weren't convinced that Dr. Clarence Sjears was convinced that Minnesota had quite a football team. So they decided to look up the pudgy doctor and get his personal reactions. After quite a search, they did find him. They asked how it felt to look at a really good football team, and the doctor did not appreciate the good humor at all.

Two Minnesota plays were halted be fore Roscoe once more dripped back almost to mid-field and put another fine pass into Dick Smith's hands. The end-tackle was stopped on the two yard line, but the hard-driving Whitman Rork fought his way over in one try. Dallera intercepted another pass just before the game ended. There were stars and stars for the Gophers, but Lund, Roscoe and Bevan stood out over the field although Larson, Tenner, Bengtson and Wid-seth weren't far behind. Minnesota's passing from center was the best of the season from both Svendsen and Bruhn played well throughout.

The Badgers had, only one scoring chance. That was when Christianson blocked Roscoe's kick and recovered on the Gophers' 22 yard line. However, two plays later, Svendsen intercepted a Wisconsin aerial attempt and Roscoe then got away a great kick that drove the Badgers deep in their own territory where they stayed for the rest of the day. NINE BOUTS ON M.A.G. PROGRAM Gopher Gridders Lat Steak and Then Watch 4-Round Matches Henry Schaft and the Ace of Spades, Minneapolis welterweights, will mix in the headliner, a four round match, at the Minneapolis Athletic club, at the annual Minnesota football party tonight.

A bout between Barney McLaughlin of Min neapolis and Ario Soldati, Chicago boy, should furnish some excitement in another feature. The complete boxing card follows: Henry Schaft, Minneapolis, vs. Ace of. Spades, Minneapolis, four rounds at 175 pounds. Barney McLaughlin, Minneapolis, vs.

Ario Soldati, Chicago, four rounds. Russ Schulz, -dinneapolis, vs. Cliff! Dalen, St. Paul, four rounds at 175 pounds. Vern Trickle, Albert Lea, vs.

Charles Lightheart, Minneaoplis. four rounds, heavyweights. Jimmy Collins, Minneapolis, vs. Stan Christy, Minneapolis, four rounds at 147 pounds. Gene Connolly, Minneapolis, vs.

Harold Segal, Minneapolis, four rounds at 127 pounds. Bud Glover, Minneapolis, vs. Jimmy Gould, St. Paul, four rounds at 137 pounds. Johnny Simpson, Minneapolis, vs.

Earl Mason, Albert Lea, four rounds at 160 pounds. Battling Ginsberg, Minneapolis, vs, Popeye Nolan, Minneapolis, four rounds at 112 pounds. Lund Wants to Spend Year as Bierman Aid May Turn to Business The future of Pug Lund, his brilliant career as a college football player now ended, is undecided, he revealed today as he prepared to return to classes. Lund had just about decided on a coaching career but it won't be Augus-tana college of Rockford, 111., he insisted. He wants to spend a year with Biermarras one of his aides before he enters coaching However, Lund declared that he already had been made a couple pretty fair business propositions which may be even more attrac tive than coaching.

And another thing, he will not play professional football. "Not on your life," he added, emphatically. Jblmson BEVAN some more evidence of what Lund three years. He gave it a remark' action, the offense slowed down. He rooters haven't seen from one of three couldn't be improved upon as I song than in any other game this year.

They came pretty close to playing flawless football for four quarters. They made their running game click when they turned it loose. They completed passes when they took to the air. They became tricky when the Badgers thought they had 'em stopped. And defensively, they smothered the offense of one of these days.

George Svendsen and Babe LeVoir are the unquestioned clown princes of the Gopher squad. When the team reached the station, they hurried outside the Milwaukee depot gates und, waving banners, yelled: "Oh boy, there's the team! Give 'cm a hand!" They refused to admit that tliey were serving as prompters to stir up the populace or that they meant "hand out." In the dining car en route home a couple of girls did some Informal interviewing of Bill Bevan. He reckoned as how didn't mind If they hit me on the head or In the fuce, but when they start hitting me In the body, then I get sore." The biggest single kick (he players got out of tli game was the expression on Tacctti's face when Babe Le Voir scored that touchdown. The plan of the Gophers whs to let him through and block the place kick. He tore through all right, but by that time Babe had spun around and was racing for the goal line.

One of the best plays of the game was that first place kick of Bill Be-van's. Le Voir fumbled the ball momentarily from center but got It to the ground somehow. It looked as though Bill made a drop kick with the falling ball, and It Just sneaked over the cross bar. The Gophers certainly were all for a Lund field day. When Pug finished that 60-yard run for a touchdown, the Gophers fairly smothered him with their hugs and back slapping.

Even the dogs go for Pug Lund. A police dog marched onto the field after the Gophers' second touchdown and Insisted on making friends with Pug while the game was going on. Finally he was shooed off, but It took a lot of convincing. The last two years Gophers were famous for their quick kicks and used that weapon repeatedly. Sat urday was the only time that kick was brought into play this season, but it made up for a whole season full of them.

It came right after George Svendsen had Intercepted a Wisconsin pass following the block Ing of Roscoe's kick and recovery by tne Hadgers near the Minnesota goal Roscoe promptly got off a quick kick witn tne wind that started on the Minnesota 15-yard line and ended up on Wisconsin eight. The Gophers were slowed down considerably by the enforced URe of mud cleats. As a result quick pivot mg and other treacherous turns were out of the question. The Gophers had high praise for the Wisconsin line, declaring that it compared with the Pittsburgh front wall as the best of the year. On the way home the Gophers voted on the best player they faced this year, and Berwanger won the nomination.

Some of the other Gophers were bit slow In getting down under punts because of the comparatively heavy footing, but not so Phil Bengtson. Phil was down the field like a shot. He must be a pretty fair "mudder." Andy Rahn was host to the Gophers in a little get-together in his car and was pronounced a chamilon himself. The boys rated the trip home the most enjoyable thev ever had. And what do you suppose Kostka, Le Voir, George Svendsen and Trainer Barry Mains did Sunday? They all went out horseback riding In the early evening, riding boots and all.

'Wonder Girl' Loses Match to Harrington The 'wonder girl" from Pennsvl- van la, Ruth McGinnis, who is ap- nearing at the Minneapolis Becrea- tion, lost her first start Sunday when she was nosed out, 100 to 99 bv George Harrington. Miss McGinnis is appearing on the "Better Billiards Program" of the National Billiard Association. Monday night at 7:15 o'clock, she will meet the city champion, John Turnbull, at the a team that played far better ball than the score indicates. If any ordinary lover of college football ever forgets the class this Minnesota gang showed this year, his memory will have to be pretty short it it it And a grand eleven like this one will be deprived of the opportunity to play in the Rose Bowl. it it it NO QUESTION ABOUT LUND NOW "The boys are too far behind in their studies and too tired to engage in a pretentious entertainment program," said McCormick.

"We don't like to be mean about it and want our great kids to have all the fun and honor possible' But we are forced to take that step to protect them." And so there will be only the three parties which have become an annual part of every post-season program. The first one, and the oldest, steak dinner and boxing show, start. things off tonight, the boys will be dined and toasted a' the St. Paul Athletic club. Then next Tuesday, Chris Legcros, another old-timer in this entertainment business and one who dined the boys for several years without even making public announcement of it, will have them at his 'Rainbow cafe at Hennepin and Lake'next Tuesday.

There will be one unofficial addition. The boys will be the informal guests of Bill Bloedell, football manager last year, at a victory dance at the Curtis hotel Wednesday night. And that will be all. That 1931 Minnesota football squad of Fritz Crisler's always had been rated as consisting of the best all-around group of boys in the modern days of Gopher football, but even that gang cannot compare with this year's rostor. It is doubtful if there ever was a team with more spirit, more good natured individuals, or more agreeable than the Gophers of 1934.

They are not only 1934 national football champions; they are the best bunch of kids we ever have seen. Dr. Clarence Spears and Eddie Lynch, former Minnesota coaches, rated the Gophers as the best they have seen this year, but they refused to go Into descriptive handsprings over their accomplishments after the game. Spears thought his own Pacetti was the best man on the field and that Butch Larson was the best Gopher. Both he and Lynch were plenty tickled over stopping Stan Kostka.

Capt. Pug Lund got a reception every step of the way out of the Badger field house. A huge crowd milled around the door and fairly ruined Pug with their adulation. But his biggest reception came when he finally got over to his boyhood "all American" sweetheart, Margaret Griffiths 'Waukesha, Wis. He was greeiea wun a.

suiauii lucll wmb iicttiu over most of the field house, with pardonable literary license, and he received another from his prospective mother-in-law. But today things will be all changed for Lund. He gets his first shot at practice teaching at Univer sity high school in a history class. In other words he'll have to spend the next three days teaching history instead of teaching Badgers. Wolverines and a few others.

The Wisconsin officials eer-. tainly didn't waste any time In taking that 34-to-0 tally off the scoreboard. Before Phil Brain could point his camera at the numerals, the score was off. There should be a locomotive for one Royal Ziemer, the crystal bailer of THE STAR. He hit the score right on the head, and against his old pal Spears, too.

Pug Lund was a badly hurt kid when the Badgers went to work on his ribs with their knees. But even after the second time he took a physical beating and was forced out of play, he begged to go back in. Pug got his biggest kick out of piling up the yardage he did, espe cially that 60-yard sprint. Wisconsin supporters and Madison as well as Milwaukee papers made much of the fact that he had been held to a net loss In the first two Karnes against the field. The Badger supporters gave a mighty cheer.

And when he being helped off the field by a Minnesota trainer, several Wisconsin rooters along the sidelines taunted him with charges of being a cream puff. That was mighty unfair when one realizes that in three years of the hardest kind of competition, it was the only time he had been forced to leave a game because of injuries. Stan Kostka once decided to take matters into his own hands. He went for ChriHtianson, big Wisconsin tackle, hut Babe Voir, his room mate, Interceded and pulled him back into the Gopher huddle. Dick Smllh perhaps got the big gest kick of anybody after scoring that one touchdown and Just missing another.

After the game, his room mate, George Rennix, came up to him and asked to shake hands. "Who are you?" was Dick's amusing and haughty answer. In the dressing room Dick Smith good naturedly offered to give Butch Larson some instructions on how touchdown passes should be caught and charged that Butch was not "elusive or tall enough." Pizer, Wisconsin reserve center, kept taunting Dale Rennebohm "So, you're a Rose bowl center, eh?" He was. After the game. Doc Spears' old Minneapolis Athletic club cronies.

Harry Baerber and George Lang-worthy, called on him in his stadium quarters. Doc says he will be up- to Minneapolis after Christmas for the express purpose of beating Harry, self-styled expert, In bridge. Perhaps the biggest kick the Minnesota fans got out of the ball game was the trick stuff worked on the Badgers. Instead of a bunch of "dumb Swedes," Doc Spears must have thought he was playing Michi gan at Its best all over again Frank McCormick insists that the Gophers of 1934 are the most re. markable gang of boys he has seen.

"You Just can't get those kids over ly excited," he declared. "When they came in the dressing room, they might have been excused if they tore the place down. But they acted calm and collected, after the first outburst, of course, so that you never would have known that they Just finished a national championship." Billy Bloedel, as part of a victory promise, agreed to smoke a big black cigar fully a foot long and almost two inches in diameter. It was a question of which would go out first. Bill, who was student manager last year, or the cigar.

But Bill finished the seegar Just before the team hit Minneapolis. Mrs. George Hauser was doubly happy because that rich victory came on her birthday, Mrs. Bernie Bierman had a new experience going home. She had the opportunity of seeing her husband directly after a game on another, field.

Usually she did not see him until the next day, but the end of the season and a ride home on the team train changed that. And with her was the mascot of the team, Billy Bierman, and a-coming football hero If a physique means anything. With that foundation, he ought to DUG LUND only spent about 20 minutes in actual competition Satur- day, but if he didn't do enough things during that short spell to prove that he's an All American beyond any argument, there simply isn't any justice. He'll always be an All American to his Minnesota boosters whether the critics recognize him as such or not. Playing his last game before a home state crowd that for three seasons has refused to give him his dues as one grand all around performer, Pug showed the folks something Saturday.

With every Badger hounding him every time he moved, Pug settled the issue single handed in the first 10 minutes. He scored two touchdowns in hurry by some of the hardest running he has ever shown. He drova viciously to gain a good share of the ground on the first scoring march of 63 yards. He was even more brilliant in his 60-yard dash for the second touchdown. True he had marvelous blocking on the latter run, but he did plenty on his own hook.

Lund gained approximately 144 yards on the 12 times he carried the ball. That's a pretty fair answer to those folks in Wisconsin who up until last Saturday refused to recognize class such as only Lund has shown for three sensational years of college play. The Wisconsin game furnished has meant to Minnesota teams for able punch. Once he was out of probably would have set up a yardage record that would have stood for all time if he hadn't been injured twice and finally forced to leave the play for good. Pug Lunds don't show up in college football very often.

it it Babe LeVoir just figures he has had an off day when he doesn't intercept at least one pass through 60 minutes or less. it it it ROSCOE'S PASSING A TREAT MEXT TO LUND'S brilliant running Saturday, George Roscoe was the standout performer in the Minnesota backfield. He did some passing the like of which Gopher their teams for many, many years. He threw six passes all afternoor; and every one was right to the mark. Figures show he only com pleted three of them, but the other far as accuracy was concerned, Even with Lund and others through with the college game, it's pretty comforting to know that Roscoe will be around next fall to kick, pass and run as he did in the season's closer.

George had one kick blocked Saturday and came close to losing some others, but he (Continued on page 14).