Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born That Way. When Chappuis fades back to pass, he is a slow-motion study in coolness and concentration. To anxious Michigan rooters, it seems an agonizingly long time before he throws. Crisler, after 25 years of coaching (at Chicago, Minnesota, Princeton and Michigan), places Chappuis on the same lofty pedestal with deadeye Benny Friedman, a Michigan immortal of the 19203. Says Fritz: "You can't get much better than that...
...Michigan's first five games, Specialist Chappuis was on the field less than one-third of the time, but of the 27 passes he threw, 19 were complete-five of them for touchdowns...
...Crisler System. The intricate system that Chappuis fits into at Michigan is designed by a man who likes to construct puzzles. At 48, greying Herbert Orin ("Fritz") Crisler has the easy, competent air of a skilled physician (he once studied medicine at the University of Chicago). An ardent admirer of Robert E. Lee's battle strategy, he tries to imitate it: feinting at one point, hitting another...
...Crisler player has to have savvy: a brainless muscleman couldn't remember all Crisler's complex plays. Michigan's current squad is scholastically above the general student average at Ann Arbor. Crisler's system is built around nine basic delayed hits and the same number of "quick hits." But all 18 can be run from seven different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total...
...Lord." Coach Crisler is known at Michigan as "The Lord." The boys say that it never rains in Ann Arbor before 6 p.m., when football practice is over; Crisler won't let it. He seldom bawls anybody out, but when he does, it takes. Sample: "Confound it, if you want to be sensational, bounce the ball, turn a somersault, then pick...