Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when football coaches like Frank Leahy and Fritz Crisler have teams like their 1947 Notre Dame and Michigan machines, will they never come out and say, "I'm going to win this game."? Because morale, that intangible something which even the best coach has only slight control over, figures in the final score of virtually every game...
...Michigan and Alabama are not even in the running, according to the Williamson dope sheet. They rank nineteenth and twentieth, respectively...
...hailed "the emergence of Harvard as a topflight team. Entering the contest an unknown factor to most observers, the Crimson ran on its repertoire of plays with a thoroughness and efficiency sufficient to rock the Lions in the first half and then carried out its assignments of newly installed Michigan style of attack so well that it left a determined Columbia eleven for short of a cherished victory...
...roses to TIME, Sept. 13, for its classic "The Water of Arsoli." It should be read with Henry Van Dyke's beautiful story, The Source. Red roses to TIME for its illuminating, lightning-streak last sentence on the burial of Zhdanov. And a bunch of fresh Michigan ragweed for your cut of the unsuspecting Mary Pickford...
This is not to detract a whit from the coaching or the Crisler system that sprung Crimson runners around end time and time again for long gains; the "Michigan efficiency" is probably the key to the season as a whole. But the key to Saturday's score was more nearly found by Red Smith in his Herald Tribune story...