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...points, better than any other major college team in the U. S. And in the Big Ten (Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...
Michigan's Fritz Crisler and his 1940 Wolverine football machine make their Harvard debut on Soldiers Field on Oct. 12. The Sophomore football crop at Ann Arbor was far above average last fall, and by 1940 these lads will be shooting for mythical national honors. Year in and year out, the Big Ten produces some of the best football in the land, and in 1940 the rejuvenated Wolves will be as burly as any of their conference rivals...
...Yale Bowl, Fritz Crisler's Michigan team, which had lost to Minnesota in the last five minutes of play the week before, turned the tables by snatching the game from Ducky Pond's surprisingly scrappy Yale eleven five minutes before the final gun. Thus, with a 15-10-13 victory Michigan avenged the trouncing Yale handed her the last time they...
Among the 58,000 spectators who filled Minnesota's Memorial Stadium, Bernie Bierman's team was the favorite. Defending champion of the Big Ten, it had beaten Washington, Nebraska and Purdue this season. Fritz Crisler's green but speedy team had beaten Michigan State 14-to-0 and Chicago...
Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some...