Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army's highly rated line was outcharged by underdog Navy (apparently nobody had given Navy sufficient credit for the hardening quality of its tough schedule, including such top opponents as Michigan, Notre Dame and California, which Army did not have to face). The Cadets' two prize running backs-Gil Stephenson and Bobby Stuart-earned no new medals; both were below par due to injuries. It took the wonderfully accurate passing arm of Quarterback Arnold Galiffa to keep the Cadets in the game. Two Galiffa passes set up two touchdowns, and Army went ahead at half time...
...this, you're loafing." This is where Butch Jordan conducts his daily classes in the very down-to-earth sport of wrestling and, from the looks of things, not many of his pupils are reading the sign. Jordan, a former Big Ten mat King and erstwhile captain of the Michigan wrestling team, opened official practice on the Monday after the Yale game, although several of his sweat-clothed charges were working out informally before then...
...Harvard. Only once a year did the mask of indifference drop-the weekend that Harvard met Yale. Then past Crimson heroes, old and out-of-shape, revisited Cambridge to talk do-or-die. This year, Harvard had imported Art Valpey (formerly one of Fritz Crisler's aides at Michigan), and the old order changed...
...Besides Michigan football tricks, Coach Art Valpey brought along some Michigan collegianism. All season long, the Harvard boys had whooped it up-and still had plenty left for Yale, the arch-enemy (Princeton, which has beaten both Harvard and Yale this season, came second...
...Pacific Coast Conference games. That left the Rose Bowl choice to the vote of all ten Pacific Coast Conference schools. This week they picked California. Its opponent: Northwestern, which is second best in the Big Nine. Under the strange terms of the Rose Bowl contract, Big Nine Champion Michigan, which played in the last Rose Bowl (and beat Southern California, 49-0), is ineligible to return for two more years...