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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan's cagey Coach Fritz Crisler was weary of denying that his boys were twice as fast and slicker than a riverboat gambler. To newsmen he confessed sarcastically: "Sure, everyone's a star around here." A few days later, with bands blaring and the first hint of autumn in the air, Crisler's boys took poor Michigan State apart...
...powerhouse Notre Dame (which has still to play its first game) looked like the teams to watch in 1947. Notre Dame had its veteran quarterback, Johnny Lujack, and a Texas-born Irishman, Coy McGee; Michigan had Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy us), who is the best passer, says cautious Coach Crisler, he has seen in 16 years...
When this has been said, little remains to the Kopp system except hard work-lots of it. But for all his theory, any coach-and Kopp is no exception-must still depend on his material and its performance in play. So for the 1947 line is largely untested, but Kopp nevertheless holds out great hopes for it. "If we show good line work in the B.U. game, we will probably be able to hold our own later. We do, in fact, hold high hopes for this squad. They have come along very well, and have cooperated splendidly...
Following graduation, Kopp left the gridiron for three years, returning to the gridiron only in 1937 to assume a coaching job at Northeastern. He stayed with the Huskies three years, but when his friend and former coach at Western Maryland, Skip Stahley, went to Brown as head coach, Kopp went to Providence with him. This job he held until 1942, when he was called from the reserves into the army as a lieutenant...
Like the Varsity, the Freshmen soccer team heads for foreign ground this afternoon, taking off for Tabor Academy to open its season. Nobody' on the Crimson coaching staff knew anything about Tabor, but Poley Guyda, Freshman coach, thought his Freshman team was "better than the average of the last few years...