Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...
Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia a week from Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...
Football is like any other production: the curtain doesn't go up before a lot of preliminary groundwork. The above action sequence, taken by CRIMSON photographers Pete Mazur and Jack Levy during last spring's practice, shows Art Valpey's squad learning the ABC's the newly-installed Michigan single wing...
Sights like the above, where Howie Houston is delivering the key block, may be common in the Stadium this fall. Valpey, who said Howie could have played first-string for Michigan last fall, plans to use the 195-pound tackle as a running guard on offense this year. A 22-year-old Junior, Houston has been included in several preseason all-American listings...
Wide-open football has been a relative stranger to the Harvard grid scene. But once the fundamentals of the single-wing are learned, and precision has been acquired, the type of football magic which made Michigan a great drawing card can be expected in the Stadium...