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Michigan relied almost entirely on fundamentals. Its blocking was savage, yet exercise, its running hard, its quarterbacking shrewd. The Wolverines dropped the kick-lateral series, concentrating on the power running of fullback Don Dufek and to passing--from the double wing--of Chuck Ortmann...
Occasionally, Michigan switched to razzie-dazzle. Once, when Dufek was racing down field, he stopped in front of the Cal safety man and flipped a backward pass is Ortmann, who had trailed the play. Dufek bumped the safety man, and Ortmann sined five more yards. It was on a similar play that Harvard's Chuck Roche scored twice against Dartmouth...
...From the start of the game, when Ortmann (first string tailback) was kicked between the eyes by Army halfback Gill Stephenson to other plays when Erben and Farrar were put out of commission the same way by the same halfback, Army was obviously out to cripple their opponents, Professor Hobbs claimed...
...second play of the game, Michigan's spinning fullback gave the ball to a halfback who smacked Army's line for two yards. When the players unpiled, blond, 188-lb. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan's passing ace, was lugged off on a stretcher. That was the first omen of calamity. Then it seemed as though the big stadium had begun falling...
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