Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field, organization reaches a precise, military perfection. Squads of specialists, drilling on separate fields and concentrating on detailed battle plans hatched by the commander in chief, can point for and defeat a stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik can be found at his desk as early as 8 a.m. and as late as mid night. Oklahoma's shrewd...
...settle. They meet tough Santa Clara, the team that spoiled their other wise perfect season last year. Notre Dame's Leahy, after studying the films, will tell his players exactly how many errors they committed against North Carolina (by Leahy's count they committed 88 in beating Michigan State the week before), and pound them into readiness for Iowa...
Although its varsity runs from the T formation, the Blue jayvees employ the single-wing for a couple of reasons. In the first place, junior varsity coach Gib Holgate, being an old Michigan man, is duly fond of the Wolverine-type offense. In the second place, the jayvees polish a single-wing attack all season so they can show the varsity a complete Harvard repertoire during the last week of the season...
...Holgate has attempted to install too much of the Michigan system too quickly. As a result, his offense is often sluggish and poorly executed. However, Yale does have a fine passer in McCandless, and he constitutes the Blue's most potent offensive threat. Princeton had little difficulty going through the defensive line last week...
...public, has a wide understanding himself. He worked his way through the University of Chicago, but after two years in law school, dropped out in favor of selling-first ice cream, then securities. Later, he started Detroit's H. A. McDonald Creamery Co., built it into one of Michigan's biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined SEC). Still a salesman, McDonald's first step as SEC boss last week was to call in his division chiefs and tell...