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Pot Shots ich Take UM mm mm m.m mv bm mm jlip i sf Wa 000 to Joe Goes over for Second Touchdown Crisle irOut 38-6 am Ag irai Titans Find Victory Joe TFrigit to Square Grid Count 'Keep Score Down Is Minnesota's Cry SEASON RECORDS Elliotts Can Celebrate-Regardless of Outcome 'At. fit Leads Way ivith 3 TDs Kurkowski Scores on 80-Yard Jaunt MINNESOTA W-3 L-l 7 Washington 28 Nebraska 37 N'western 13 Illinois MICHIGAN W- L-0 AS Mich. State 49 Stanford 69 Pitt 49 'western B2J i-- I 1 I I 13 21 13 21 40 80 31 83 THE LINEUPS STATISTICS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA Grant Mann First downs Yards runhinc Yards passing Passes attempted Pusi Mmn leteii 18 ft47 10 11 2 1 fig Wldseth Jiomellinl Besnn Olhonoski Mealey Halenkamp Tbiele Bye Daurherty B. Elliott IT i-G Rfi RE QB FB Hilkena Tomasl While Wllkina Pritula Rifenhnrg Te rices Chappuls Elliott Weisenbnrger PatHtes mtereeptea Puntine Opp. fumbles recovered Yards penalised DETROIT (38) WWJ.

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WCCO. WICN. eager DCQCESNE (6) De Lonr Abraham Frits ghents Riley Caswell Squires Patrizlo Grejner Solner Simmons Finnin ii Rfi 1H Kelly Malinowtki Mriftht (iillooly Sundry Duchess II 38 6 6 Kaysserian Detroit Duquesne 13 Touchdowns Wright Detroit seorinr 3. Kurkowski, Haley, ivaysscrian. after touchdown O'Leary 1 placement Duquesne scorms.

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BY LYALL SMITII Free Press Sports Editor ANN ARBOR An overflow crowd of 86,000 fans will jam into Michigan Stadium to watch the undefeated-untied Wolverines take hurdle No. 5 on their way to a perfect football season. The weatherman predicts a clear and warm afternoon. The xperts predict a Michigan triumph. Coach Fritz Crisler warily predicts trouble from the burly Gopher forward wall.

Coach Ber-Trie Bierman frankly predicts he will be lucky to hold the score down. THE KICKOFF is at 2 p. and from that minute on, all predictions will cease as the teams from the rival Western Conference universities clash in the 38th game of a series which finds Michigan leading, 22 to 13, in Victories with two deadlocks. If comparative records mean starts, the Titans of the university of Detroit enjoyed a touch- Halfback Joe Wright (33), of Detroit, the one-yard stripe in the second quarter for the Titans sec-end mafker. End Frank Yacino (21) and Halfback Jo Duchess (40) grab him as he hits pay dirt.

Others the Sctte: Vince Sundry (10), of Duquesne, and End Arch Kelly, of Detroit. The Titans won, 38-6. down feast as they crusnea jju-quesne, 38 to 6, before 17,547 spectators at V-D Stadium. Hungry for victory, the Titans struck their first blow before the game was a minute old. From then on they were in complete command to hand a hapless Du Uini Taclde Purdue "jjniumT ft mm i lilnMrnifniltntwiir inin, liMnwrlTJ', aMMM BILL ELLIOTT PETE ELLIOTT CHALMERS ELLIOTT with Thoughts oil HARRY ELLIOTT quesne squad its fourth straight reverse.

to talk about than their namesakes In the Gopher backfield. T.TTTLE JOE WRIGHT, one of I rv, Titans' sDeed merchants, was Bowl Express Bears 'Overlook'' Boilermakers for Nov. Battle: Moss-DeMoss Duel Due entucky the lad who showea tne way i the banquet table. He raced around rieht end for 32 yards on the Titans' first play from scrim Michisan State Eleven mage to register the first toucn down. BY TOMMY DEVINE Free Press Staff Writer LAFAYETTE, Ind.

It is a dangerous practice for a football team to "look ahead," but that's what Illinois is doing as it faces own on anything, the high-flying Wol- verines will provide another scoring circus. In swamping Michigan State, Stanford, Pittsburgh and Northwestern, they have piled up 222 points while holding their combined opposition to 84. On 256 plays by land and air they have amassed 1,938 yards, and that's more than the proverbial country mile. To counter this bold display of the once-beaten Gophers have only a weak rebuttal. They have scored 85 points in four p-ames while yielding 80.

They Purdue in a Headline Big Nine Dauie neie tu. Michigan Before the half ended, he had added two more. Joe went over from the one-yard line early in the second period to climax a 64-yard drive and shortly before the half ended he scampered 14 Two other conference games are on tne buueuuc. 1 2 DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday. Oct.

25. 1947 Bad News tT tangles ith Northwester enteruua rtnncPS Notre Dame. Wisconsin faces MOMENT OF GLORY uutsiae league rauna, iu" Marquette and Ohio State meets riusouigu. Wildcats Peril String for Indiana Illinois, mc and Rose Bowl titlist, is the cur yards for his third touchdown. Though it was evident that Head Coach Charley Baer had no intention of massacring the Dukes, the Titans added another touchdown in the third period when Jack Kurkowski returned a punt Ace Scorer Danny Boy Staggers Bell, but Loses Verdict 'have run and passed their way to 1,143 yards, and that's 795 less than the Wolverines can claim.

rent Big Nine leader witn wo victories. The Dlini show far more concern over their date Nov. 1 with Michigan than they do over the immediate assignment against 3 Wildcat Linemen Get Off Casualty List Comeback Appears Doomed at 3 Games Turns Tide 80 yards. Purdue. BY BOB IATSHAW Tn the other 10-rounder, Irish SEASON RECORDS Jimmv Sanders.

142, or warren, WHILE NOT eligible for an Free Press Staff Writer EVANSTON, 111. Coach Alvin KENTrCKT THEY POSTED two more in ivnt Joev terrier. i--. oi BY JAMES ZERILLI O'Neill Bell won undisputed claim to Paradise Valley's welterweight championship by outpunch- other Bowl trip, Illinois coum 1 (Bo) McMillin will bring his "pore the fourth, Bill Haley going over from the 16-yard line to climax a Cleveland. The victory was Sanders' 32nd in 44 professional starts MSC W-3 E-l 0 Michigan 7 Miss.

State 51 Wash. State 20 Iowa State 0 John Wilson Gives Lapeer 14-0 Edge BY HAL SCHRAM Free Press Staff Writer rocket into contention tor tne national championship with a V-4 11 7 Mississippi 20 Cincinnati 21 Xavier 2 (iroreia 14 Vanderbllt 55 7 7 lil boys" from Indiana university to Dyche Stadium Saturday after 92-yard march and Mike Kaysser ian makine erood from the two. ing Danny Boy Williams in a 10- WHAT'S MORE, they were defeated, 40 to 13, by Illinois one week ago in the first stiff test of the young team Bierman has collected from the Minnesota hinterlands. Crisler, onetime Gopher coach, Is just one victory away from breaking even against Minnesota in his 10-year reign as head man of the Wolverine grid triumph over the Wolverines. 21 The gate grossed 55.6ou.48.

OTHER RESULTS: rounder at Olympia. Jack O'Learv. who does the Ti noon seeking his firsU1947 West- 62 88 48 nnwF.STER Lapeer's John pm Conference victory over tans' placekicking, had an off night with only two conversions in Wilson, the State's leading school Harold Vincent, 146, of Detroit, THE LINEUPS' MICH. STATE KENTUCKY Northwestern. knocked out Dave Bruce, 142, of Seneel It was listed as a grudge the two fought all the way as if they were sincerely mad at each other.

IF, Hney boy scorer, dueled it out wim Clyde Wilson, of Rochester, before To date the Hoosiers have lost Pittsburgh in the third round. Tonv Manos. 14731. of Detroit one and tied one in Big Nine com six attempts. The Dukes had some consolation when they rallied to register a touchdown in the waning minutes.

Volser I- Baedon MeCurry Mason 5 5 Balee KrpstM 0 won from Roger Ford, 152, of De Illinois turned in a brilliant performance a week ago to trim Minnesota, 40 to 13. In that contest Perry Moss, the Illini quarterback, had a perfect passing record with seven straight completions. Moss wil meet one of his strongest rivals for conference passing honors in the game here, Purdue's Bob DeMoss. Moss has all the best of tha terini Preston Khortemvre Yarntis Griffin W. Jones Blanria Phelps FarriS netition.

and word from North- 3,000 fans here naay mgni. John led his Panthers to a 14-0 victory, but had. to share honors with Plvde in a' heated offensive Ii the end, it was the stronger Bell's in-fighting that turned the Hp. lost his first five games to troit, in four rounds. Art Swiden.

175. of Pittsburgh western's grid camp doesn't make Minnosnta after comine to Ann tide. Bo's task any simpler. outDunched Rango Harris, 170, of (Juerre I. Chandnols struggle.

The triumph was Lapeer's sixth straight of the season Moseley For a while in the seventh round, it looked as if the 2,650 Bienkhorn Detroit, in a iive-rounaer, joe Jim Gilooley, a rangy back, intercepted a pass and raced 37 Klckoff. t. m. I ujt Hpnrlprsnn. 135.

of Detroit, won CnetrniO. WCAR and its fourth rri-uouniy uii' fans were eoing to be treated to ii l. r.c ins nt I vards to the Titan 36. WILDCAT COACH Bob Voigts from Sam Masterian, 140, of Pitts ference play. riSriW Vs.ini FUR (Grand said that both his regular guards passing arguments for four games burgh, in a six-rounder.

With Gilooley alternating his line smashes with passes to Albert an upset. DURING THAT period, Wil Ranids). WKBZ (Muskegon). Larry (Fatso) Day and Jerry Arbor. Then, the pendulum swung the other way.

Starting with a 49- triumph in 1943, the Wolverines won four in a row from the Northmen. ROUND FOR the Rose Bowl as Big Nine representatives, the Wolverines are paced by a dozen backs rf whom Halfbacks Bob Chappuis JOHN SET UP Lapeer's first Carle, would be back In action SEASON RECORDS ILLINOIS PURDUE W-3 X-l w-3 BY MARSHALL DANN after being out a week witn in- i i. Saturday's Games BujacWs 697 liams cracked Bell with five long-range rights to the head. The blows not only caused Bell to stop pitt it Vif-eonsin touchdown by throwing two successive passes to End Ralph June midway in the third period. Wil juries.

Tne Diggest single xactui Free Press Staff riter EAST LANSING A Ken 35 Iowa To Army in stopping tne opposition nas oeen renter Alex Sarkesian and he Via Air Lanes 40 Minnesota 13 61 Boston C. tucky team that is sniffing the to shake the cobwebs out or nis head but also momentarily halted Paces to son got a first down on tne Kocn-ester 11, from where Bernie Castle 25 105 81 89 heavy sugar of the Sugar Bowl THE LINEUPS his attack. and Bump Elliott and Fullback Jack Weisenburger are the chief Pima. This trio has collected 949 crashed over for the score. piRnrE ILLINOIS appears due to end Michigan State's winning streak Pin Triumph ZatkofI Agase yards and scored 78 points as a wrenn 1 Levant I unit.

Then Bell resumed his steady tattooing of his foe's body. He landed enough times to convince Judges Johnny Weber and Joe Lenahan that he had a noticeable edge at the finish. Fred Buiack posted a 697 series Sieeert Cunz Owens Heck O'Reilly Murray Carnachl Horvath Barbolak Maloney HcMoks Szulhorskl Adams Agnew (Detroit time.) QB LH FB m. to pace, league-leading to a John came back In the fourth period to recover a Rochester fumble on the Falcon 23-yard line. After getting a first down on the 12, Wilson again handed the ball to Castle, who broke over center to score.

John added both extra points on plunges. may play against the Hoosiers. He has been working out with the squad during the week, with a special protective covering on his broken arm. Voigts indicated Sarkesian would see 'some action Saturday. The husky pivotman is rated as about 50 per cent of the Wildcats' defense, operating from a linebacker's post against both running and passing plays.

The Wildcats are trying to for Football shutout victory over uemxeweiu, 2 p.m. Michigan vs. Minnesota, WJR, WWJ. 2 p.m. Michigan State vs.

Kentucky, WJLB. 1:45 p.m. Army vs. Columbia, MBS and WKMH. Alabama vs.

Georgia, NBC. 2:45 p.m. Notre Dame vs. Iowa, CBS, ABC-WXYZ and CKLW. 5:15 p.

m. Southern California vs. California, CBS. (To follow Notre Dame game.) Moss Dnfelmeier F.ddleman The Spartans have made a surprising comeback since their rout by Michigan to produce two upset triumphs and one expected victory. Now they face the toughest of five hurdles left on the schedule.

3209-2928, in the Greater Detroit Steeer Referee Lou Handler thought 3 AU-Star' Classic at Olympic Rec reation. Game time: Williams' long range warfare had HIGH SCHOOL Centerline 19 South Lake this season. The Illinois quarter offset Bell's short cnops ana cauea Buiack rolled 235, Z53 ana ziw Clyde, on the other hand, kept Rochester in the game until the it a draw. back has completed or ou tosses for a gain of 323 yards. KOEPPLINGER.

No. 2 team in MSC WAS nicked to lose this Dearborn Utica Birmingham Hamtramck DeMoss record is 22 completions 27 Ecorse 24 Warren 18 E. Detroit 61 Northern 7 Frazer the Iood. kept right on the leaders nnf before the season opened. That Bell weighed 153 2, -Williams 149 Vi.

in 49 attempts for 235 yards. get last Saturday's 49-21 defeat at heels with a three-point victory closing minutes with his clashing off -tackle smashes. John's two extra points brought his season scorinc total to 103 choice has been strengthened by the hands of Micniran, ana me over Edwin, 2943-2850. what Kentucky has done me best wav to forget would De to Keego H'rbor 19 Clawson Pepsi took a pair from Wilson, Tutsie, the Dukes moved to the fivp.vard line. Ted Bukowski meantime.

Grand Blanc 7 turn loose Fullback Art iviuraKow. noints in six games. Hockey Standings NATIONAL LEAGUE 2977-2969; Westloff grabbed two finally scored from the one. STqshrdlu oaocmfwyp oamoam Perry 1 Renton H'rbor 7 ski and Halfback Frank Ascnen brenner for an upset triumph. Li GFGAPts.

JUST HOW much Detroit was DETROIT After losing their opener to Mississippi, Coach Paul Bryant's Wildcats have rolled to four straight triumphs. The last two were over top-ranking foes, Georgia and Vanderbilt. 7-10 Split Simple for Ford Bowler Beecher St. Paul Hammond Greenville Van Dyke Lapeer Corunna tackson Eastland Trenton 20 19 12 14 74. 13 6 19 Boston Toronto from Sufferin, 2963-2846; stron won two from Andrew, 2981-2844; Falcon gained two from Gasket, 2872-2834; Paris won two from Helin, 2883-2811, and Fife grabbed two from Coke, 2958-2883.

Lions Roar 0 0 1 2 2 PURDUE RATES as one of the surprise teams of the current Big Nine season. The Boilermakers finished in the cellar a year ago when they failed to win a conference game. They were consigned to last place an all the preseason predictions this seaso. Under the direction of Stu Holcomb, serving his first season at Purdue, the team has developed rapidly. After losing its conference opener to Wis 4 2 5 7 7 8 8 6 5 4 6 4 1 .0 1 0 0 0 Last Ball Costs Bowler 300 Game Landervou.

of the Ford New York Montreal Chicago Thev boosted the Wildcats into Material Control League, con in command is shown by the statistics. The Titans made 16 first downs to the Dukes eight and gained 547 yards by rushing to the Dukes' 103. They completed only two passes for a gain of 10 yards, but this was an occasion when the ground game was more than enough to 14th ulace tne national ranwuga, Walter Kaller. of the St. Anne's ripsn td rriPi SDarcan surKe verted the 7-10 split at Warren Bowl.

He banked the No. 7 pin r-rent weeks. Kentucky may be SATURDAY'S GAMES Boston at Montreal. Chicago at Toronto. SUNDAY'S GAMES team, rolled a 299 game during Friday's session of the Holy Name League at Fort Boulevard Recreation.

He was tapped on f-vnrpd hv as much as three WASHINGTON (TP) The Washington Lions shut out the Springfield Indians, 6 to 0, in an American Hockey League game off the sideboard, and it caromed across the alley to knock off the touchdowns. St. John's Madison Rochester Durand Kalamazoo Lake Shore Plymouth Highland Pk. Pershing Holt Pontiac Hillsdale Muskegon Grand Haven Marshall Bellevue Melvindale Ferndale Brown City Almont Peck Ann Arbor No. 10.

Montreal at Detroit. assure victory, the 10-pin in the last frame before 2,683 spectators. Chicago at Boston. MICIHGAN STATE is counting on the fact that Kentucky, wrapped prrKMa THROUGH THE PINES OR READING BETWEEN THE LINES Grosse Polnte 7 Lincoln Park 26 Mason So Saginaw 12 E. Lansing 6 Rockford.

Ill 13 M'k'g'n Hgts. 13 BC Lakeview 19 BC St. Philip 20 GR Central 33 Port Huron 28 Deckervlile S3 Armada 13 Marlette 6 Lans. Eastern 26 up in the bowl busmess, is more concerned with the coming Ala bama and Tennessee games. Bia-Game Hunter X-9 Can't Track Down Football Lions consin, Purdue came back to upset Ohio State, 24 to 20.

Last week the Boilermakers trounced Boston 62 to 7. A Detroit high school product, Harry Szulborski qf Pershing, is the outstanding back on the Purdue squad. Szulborski is the Big Nine's top ground gainer with 180 yards for 28 running plays. INDIANA, A DISTINCT disappointment through the early portion of the season, is favored to gain its first conference triumph at the expense of Northwestern. The Hoosiers tied Wisconsin and "Trying to find out from the that one of the DSR's buses comes BY BOB LATSHAW it's all a dirtv plot to ruin my you.

I meet a nice ouncn oi iuj.s who also have gotten up early to Lions' front office is like trying to get some information out of the atomic bomb plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. They give me that around about dawn ana wnisKS the players away all dressed for practice. Where do the players go tail it over to the park and I I find that It's all locked up tight. The fellows who manicure the grounds haven't seen the Lions for several days. Then I go to all the ball parks watch them guys work out.

Out Anxious to see how Coach Biggie Munn's Spartan outfit stacks up against first-class opposition, a crowd of more than 26,000 fans is expected to jam Macklin Field to capacity. Reserved seats were sold out in mid-week, but athletic officials state that general admission bleacher seats will available until kickoff time. COLLEGE 15 Mich. Normal 6 Bethel 88 Duquesne reputation as the best football spy in the country!" That was the complaint of X-9, who shuffled into the office crest nobody knows. Belle Isle-in-the-mornmg routine side of a flock of cars belonging to the players, there ain't a sign of the squad.

6 7 RTTT THERE'S one fellow who THEN I HAPPEN to be I know of without seeing tne knows whv the Uons aflen't where Sft start asking 'questions. 0 fallen after a week's lauure trying to catch up with the Detroit team. skulking among the trees, plan- 13 Central Mich. 25 Newberry 6 Vtllanova lost to Iowa. Northwestern has thev're supposed to be.

ie teiis me Hillsdale Baker Detroit Youngstown Highpoint Boston Coll. Miami Rollins WUmington Georgetown 0 Pretty soon I'm able to find out nine dire things for Coacn uus Lions. dropped its two starts to Minnesota and Michigan. Dorais and his anti-espionage tac 7 12 that the coacnes aoni line, work on some of their secret defenses against the Bears, Rams Notre Dame, rated second to "HERE I AM. admittedly the 28 Washington 13 Presbyterian 12 Marietta 25 NYU.

13 Canisius AGAINST a bieeer and more Michigan in the national rankings. Super Snoop of football," X-9 said and such with hundreds of people tics when I spot the team not at Belle Isle at all. By the time I get to the spot the team, the station wagon, the coaches everybody is 6 0 7 is a heavy avonte over lowa. i ne modestly, "and I can't even ima looking on. other Big Nine teams, Ohio State Scranton thftsft hi? nro euvs on a mue experienced line, State can expect trouble in developing its running attack led Jay George Guerre.

Indications are that the Spar and Wisconsin, should have com Lebanon VaL 27 Hofstra Heidelberg 37 Wittenberg 13 "It seems that there's a rumor that some of the clubs might stoop to scouting these trick maneuvers. paratively easy times with Fit? and Marquette. Pitt now has lost 9 itioravian Albright tans will rely more on passing "So I go DacK tne next aay. wait from early in the morning, until late, and the guys don't show up at all there either. place like Belle Isle." Then he launched a tirade at us because we had mentioned in the paper that the Lions were working out in public at Belle Isle.

25 Adrian 21 Davis Elkins 24 straight contests to western Conference teams. with the T-formation quarterback, Bob Krestel, on the throwing end. 19 Earlham 0 '1 tell vou, it isn't so much the "Another fellow, who followed the bus one morning, says I can tm tr a certain field a few miles defense as it is a plot to make me Small Fry 7 Grd. Rpds. JC 21 Mohawk Alma W.

Liberty Xnd. Central. Olivet Ithaca Chattanooga Central XJrake Gridder Dies look bad. How can I tell you tne and I can see these behe 19 Dayton 13 "Against my better judgment I get up in the middle of the night to be at Belle Isle at 9:30 a. m.

inside stuff about the club if can't even see the outside stuff? KANSAS CITY (3)- Duane The Wayne-University of Detroit freshman football, teams will meet at 10 m. Saturday at U. of D. Stadium. 38 William Penn IS Okla.

A Creamer. 16. Smith Center, moths work out if I don't mind peeking through and around trees and stuff. So I take the tip wad high "If this keeps up, my reputation for the Lions' practice. S7 Wittenberg 13 will be ruined." Jleidelberg died in a hospital here of a head injury suffered-in a high, school PBOFESSIONALi nTTT WHAT happens? Til tell football game Oct 10.

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