Word: michigan
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Princeton pioneered in the field, Spurts of expansion this Fall at Michigan's Survey Research Center under Francis Likert and at Chicago's National Opinion Research Center (formerly the Donver Poll) are the climax of the preliminary gestures of Cantril and his associates for the past decade. After Gallup's first national poll in 1936 proved that the Literary Digest was wrong, the Cantril concept of small sampling polls as against mass surveys, now utterly beyond question, began to take shape in the development of the spot-check method...
Before the war, IC4A meets generally rotated between the Stadium and Penn's Franklin Field. The IC4A embraces colleges on the Eastern Seaboard as far south as the Carolinas and westward to Pittsburgh, although there are some non-sectional members. Strongest of these are Michigan State and the University of Southern California, which hasn't come east for the past few meets...
...last year's 44-college meet at Franklin Field. Michigan State was second and the Crimson and Penn State tied for third. Varsity javelin thrower Don Thimble won his event and will be back on the firing line this spring. Trimble, along with weightman Sam Felton, loom as definite Olympic possibilities...
...also couldn't help but know, as does everyone at Ann Arbor, that this Saturday is the crucial one for Bob Chappuis and his fellow specialists on Michigan's team. They face Illinois, unbeaten until last week, and anxious to unseat a championship-bound Michigan as they...
...knew better than Chappuis and his mates that from now on they would have to point for every game, for so long as they were unbeaten, every team was pointing for them. Michigan's team was decidedly superstitious about their winning ways. At training table, no one would think of changing his seating order. In the locker room, players remembered which teammate had helped pull their jerseys down over their shoulder pads before the first game of the season, and made sure that the same man did it every game. The squad's biggest superstition: by unspoken agreement...