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...were invited to do so by the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald Tribune and i So other newspapers throughout the U. S., a total of 8,348,797 football addicts this summer voted for a coaching staff and squad to meet two professional teams in September for charity. Bernie Bierman of Minnesota was chosen head coach by 3,872,251 votes, a plurality of more than a million over Notre Dame's Elmer Layden who ran second. Among players graduated from college last June, Flalfback Jay Berwanger of Chicago had the strongest hold on football's electorate...
...Chicago's Soldier Field last week, the first big football crowd of the year-76,000-watched Coach Bierman's All-Stars open the season against the Detroit Lions, National Football League champions. The All-Stars gained 184 yd. to the Lions 128, made 9 first downs to 5. Outplayed throughout most of the game, the Lions, vying for the honor of professional football and their owner, Radioman George A. Richards, rallied heroically in the last quarter, tied the score, 7-10-7. In New York, bookmakers made the All-Star team, about one-third of whom will...
...first downs to its opponents' 37. A "power team" of the first magnitude, Minnesota had gained by rushes the astounding total of 2,418 yd., while holding its opponents to a paltry 533. But not even that yardage figure gave a full-sized picture of Coach Bernie Bierman's jerseyed juggernaut. To prevent overconfidence and to dishearten and weaken its rivals, Minnesota has adopted the stratagem of giving the ball to its opponents during the first half by consistently kicking on second down. Not until the second half does the Bierman team open up with its prodigious line...
Coach Bernie Bierman of Minnesota allowed his team to give up the stratagem of kicking on second down through the first half, making no effort to score until the second. Result: a crushing victory over Indiana, 30-to-0, in which Minnesota scored twice in the first quarter, outrushed its opponents...
...Minnesota, Coach Crisler was replaced this year by Bernard William ("Bernie") Bierman, who started coaching at Butte, Montana, High School in 1920, and worked up gradually till he turned out two Tulane teams that won Southern Conference Championships in 1930 and 1931. A Bierman legend: he has never shed a tear, shouted, raged or dropped a player from his squad. During the half, he reads to his squad from a small sheet of paper on which he has noted their mistakes. He played at Minnesota in 1916; he uses the Minnesota shift, invented by Dr. Henry Williams, with guards moving...