Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arbor, Mich., which had come to regard itself as the capital of the college football world,* found it hard to take the Army team seriously. Local opinion was that West Point had been incautious, if not downright foolhardy, in scheduling a game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the massacre...
...second play of the game, Michigan's spinning fullback gave the ball to a halfback who smacked Army's line for two yards. When the players unpiled, blond, 188-lb. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan's passing ace, was lugged off on a stretcher. That was the first omen of calamity. Then it seemed as though the big stadium had begun falling...
...Plays to Pay Dirt. From its 11-yd. line a few minutes later, grim, white-jerseyed Army began to march. Quarterback Arnold ("The Pope") Galiffa took a knowing look at Michigan's four-man line and tried his pony backfield (Fischl, Cain and Kuckhahn) off the flanks. Michigan's defense, rated the most ingenious in collegiate football, spread out; Galiffa hit the center with a new play (called a "Galiffa keep") designed especially for Michigan. He deftly mixed in three completed passes. In ten plays, Army had a touchdown. At halftime the Cadets had a 14-0 lead...
...eleven months Coach Earl Blaik of Army had been obsessed with one thought: beat Michigan. His scouts had charted Michigan's last two games of 1948 and brought their G-2 reports to headquarters atop the gym at West Point. Movies of two previous Army-Michigan games (in 1945-46) were not enough for the campaign that Blaik planned. He rounded up newsreels of Michigan playing other teams and spent much of the winter studying them in slow-motion with his staff of assistants...
...Princeton 18 6 6 2--27 Dartmouth 0 0 21 6--27 Colgate 0 6 7 0--13 Columbia 0 0 0 7--7 Penn 7 0 13 7--27 Duquesne 13 13 0 14--40 Holy Cross 7 7 0 0--14 Northwestern 0 7 7 7--21 Michigan 0 7 6 7--30 Minnesota 7 7 0 13--27 Ohiot State 0 0 0 0--0 Tulane 0 0 7 0--7 Notre Dame 27 0 7 6--46 Navy 6 0 0 7--13 Wisconsin 7 31 0 20--48 Missouri 13 7 0 7--27 Illinois...