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...loss of Tom Harmon and Forrest Evashevski-was written off as a pushover for Coach Bernie Bierman's gigantic Gophers, favorites to win the mythical 1941 football championship of the U.S. as they did the 1940. But last week Michigan's omens improved: Michigan outsmarted Northwestern (14-to-7). More important for the superstitious, its victory was won with brilliant touchdown passes of a sophomore named Tom Kuzma, who comes from Tom Harmon's home town of Gary, Ind., and plays in Harmon's old tailback position...
...both Michigan and Minnesota will take the field at Ann Arbor with their slates clean. Besides highly-touted Northwestern, which had rolled up 92 points in its first two games, Michigan has beaten Michigan State (19-to-7), Iowa (6-to-0), Pittsburgh (40-to-0). Minnesota's three victims are Washington (14-to-6), Illinois (34-to-6) and Pittsburgh (39-to-0). If the Gophers beat Michigan (as they have for the past eight years), they still have Northwestern, Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin to tackle...
Guerrillas said this last week of what had been one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. Novgorod means New Town, but Russia boasts few that are older. In the Ninth Century the New Town already exercised supremacy over the other towns of Russia's northwestern lake district. By the 13th Century, the place called itself "Sovereign Great Novgorod" and its Kremlin was already about as old as any structure in the U.S. is now. The Kremlin's newer stone walls were begun in 1302. Through the years the city accumulated hundreds of priceless relics, such...
Leader of this reaction is Dr. Charles Anderson Aldrich of Northwestern University Medical School, a modest, kindly man who turned to pediatrics after his three children broke all the textbook rules. In Boston last week, he aired his fatherly ideas at the eleventh annual convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Bits of Aldrich wisdom...
...Conference and (according to an Associated Press poll) the mythical U.S. championship. This year's team should be as good or better. With the University of Washington already out of the way (14-to-6, last fortnight), Minnesota has seven more to go: Illinois, Pittsburgh, Michigan. Northwestern, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin...