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...nation's top football teams, Michigan emerged from last week's scrimmaging soundest in wind & limb. In fact, it looked as if Coach Fritz Crisler's men could get a better battle by playing their own second team than they could from anyone they had faced so far. The Michiganders embarrassed poor Pittsburgh, 69 to 0. In its first three games, Michigan has scored 173 points to 13 for its opponents...
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...
...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...
Said Michigan's cagey Fritz Crisler, who had more luck halting Army's two super-dupers than most coaches: "Can they murder you, and in such different ways...
Theme with Variations. Converts to the T have concocted all kinds of pet variations and exclusive trademarks. Columbia's Lou Little has a "split T," Michigan's Fritz Crisler an "unbalanced T," Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa a "part-time T." The Boston (professional) Yanks call theirs the Q.T. Washington's Coach Ralph ("Pest") Welch, who took on a T with man-in-motion last year, this year dropped the man-in-motion, spread his linemen (see diagram) for a basic off-tackle slice, scrambled this formation with the old Notre Dame box style of offense...