Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, when they play each other, both Michigan and Northwestern fans will know a little more about which of their teams is championship bound...
Dewey: 29 states with 350 electoral votes (needed to win: 266). California (25), Colorado (6), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (28), Indiana (13), Iowa (10), Kansas (8), Maine (5), Maryland (8), Massachusetts (16), Michigan (19), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), New York (47), North Dakota (4), Ohio (25), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (35), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (12), Utah (4), Vermont (3), Washington (8), West Virginia (8), Wisconsin (12), Wyoming...
...other big wheel, Michigan, had been turning slowly ,so far this season. It had a new coach, old Michigan Immortal Bennie Oosterbaan, as well as a few players left over from last year's Rose Bowl champions. Michigan barely got past Michigan State (13-7) in its first game, but picked up some momentum against Oregon (14-0), and last week crushed Purdue...
...much good. Dies and Thomas were both-much more interested in activities to the left, and with one or two exceptions, so was the rest of the committee. In the fall and winter of the first year, they attacked Harry Bridges, Frances Perkins, Frank Murphy (then governor of Michigan), Harold Ickes, and other notables. Father Coughlin, Gerald L. K. Smith, and patriots of that kidney were somehow unnoticed. George Sylvester Viereck, who was chummier with Hitler than Lanny Budd, skipped away without any damage whatsoever...
Offense is still the basis of the Michigan system, and Harvard will need plenty of it to outscore the Black Knights, who have a few tricks up their own braided sleeves. Gone is the bone-crusing line that spearheaded the forays of Davis and Blanchard, but Colonel Earl Blaik has lost none of his touch with the quick-opening...