Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crisler player has to have savvy: a brainless muscleman couldn't remember all Crisler's complex plays. Michigan's current squad is scholastically above the general student average at Ann Arbor. Crisler's system is built around nine basic delayed hits and the same number of "quick hits." But all 18 can be run from seven different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total...
...Lord." Coach Crisler is known at Michigan as "The Lord." The boys say that it never rains in Ann Arbor before 6 p.m., when football practice is over; Crisler won't let it. He seldom bawls anybody out, but when he does, it takes. Sample: "Confound it, if you want to be sensational, bounce the ball, turn a somersault, then pick...
...pushed up the sleeves of his shirt and looked out over the crowd in the brush arbor. "I feel the power acomin' on. Thank you, Jesus, I feel the 'nointing!" He plunged his hands into the box and brought out two giant rattlers. A woman near him screamed, "Thank you, Jesus," and became rigid. A young girl cried out, "Hit's the power," and began shouting unintelligibly. Women moaned and reeled. In the hot night, the guitars thrummed...
Died. General Anton Ivanovich Denikin. 74, peasant-born onetime Imperial Russian Army officer, who in 1919 led his White troops in a drive through southern Russia to near victory over the Reds; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...take them to Ann Arbor to see the University of Michigan campus. Tom Dewey, '23, hoped that some day 15-year-old Tom Jr. would also go to Michigan. When newsmen asked Tom Jr. what he thought of the university, he snapped: "No comment." Tom Sr. spoke to his son in private. Later Tom Jr. announced that he thought the university was "wonderful." Dewey made no bones about wishing he had left the boys at home. "They got too much attention," he said sadly, "and much of the good work Mrs. Dewey and I put in on them...