Evening star., 1935-01-10
THE SPORTZIGHT
CridirOn Reverses Good for Michigan
and Makes Others Happy, kipke Ayers.
BY GRANTLAND RICE

we'd pack the stadium and we'd run
up as high a score as we were able.
Anybody would, guess.
IntervieWer-Why was Michigan
down and out this season?
Kipke-Material, mostly. We had
lost about all our 1888 team. which
was about the best ever had.
you can't replace men like
Wistert at tackle and Bernard
at center by swapping your fin
gers.
"In the State of Michigan, too,
things are tougher than they are
in other Big Ten States. To get into
Ann Arbor from a State high school
you have to be in the upper third
of your class and be recommended
by the principal
THAT doesn't sound so tough, but
it eliminates hundreds of star ath-
letes, who can't get the o. K. of
their superiors or the marks of the
Is hours of accredited work, including
foreign languages, which you must
have to get into Michigan. If you
come from out-State, Michigan re-
quires college boards.
interviewer Is It different else
where in the Big Ten?
Kipke-In Ohio, for instance, all
you have to do is graduate and you
are automatically eligible for the State
university. OF course, you are likely
to be kicked out, as about 60 per cent
of the freshmen are. But, at least,
the material is there
l should say that Ohio has
the best material, on the whole,
Of any of the Big Ten schools,
year in and year out.
interviewer - Who else gets con-
sistently good material?
Kipke - Purdue, Minnesota, Iowa
and usually Illinois, although North
western and Chicago cut into Zuppke' s
| supply.
Interviewer-How have the darling
alumni been this season?
Kipke-Darling.
Interviewer-I'll bet they have.
| Kipke-They have, really. I have
a stack of letters as high as you are
from Michigan alumni everywhere
sympathizing with the situation.
expected a thousand COM
plants and l got not q single
one.
INSTRUMENTATION do you account
for it?
Kipke-I think the fact that we won
four years in row had something to
do with it. Then, Michigan men un-
derStand each other.
Interviewer-They felt it was due,
this losing streak?
Kipke-Exactly. They began to as
sumo some of the blame themselves,
too. In the years We won I had very
little information on good players
coming up in Michigan high schools.
We usually had enough mate
rial, anyway, so it didn't make
any difference.
This year almost every letter told
us of great tackle or second New
man somewhere in the State who
should go to his own university and
help her win some games.
4llIOl N4ChCA -DO yOu IIllllh llldl WILL
make much difference?
Kipke-Au the difference in the
world. We will have an improved
team next season Git certainly can't be
Worse), and pretty fair team in 1886,
I think. Still haven't asreal first
rate back on my squad, and I could
use Friedman or a Newman or q
Herman Everhardus right now.
Interviewer-You could have used a
whole team this season.
Kipke-I would have traded
my team, even Stephen, with
Bernie Bierman for his second
Minnesota team.
Interviewer-Is Minnesota likely to
repeat?
Kipke-Bierman is in a great spot
He is smart and he has material. !
think Minnesota always will be dam
gerouS from now on. No more of
those dumb Swede" teams from Min
neapolis that you can lick, to 6, in
the last minute of play. You're lucky
if you can score on the Gophers now.
MISUNDERSTANDING else to watch
in 1885 in the Western Conference?
Kipke-Chicago, because she has
Berwanger. the best back in the Big
Ten this year; Illinois, because Zup
has Lindberg, who can speak foot ball
language; Ohio State, because Francis
Schmidt is smart and will have 10 of
II regulars back, and maybe Michi-
gan. Don't ever count Michigan out
of any foot ball game. Glad I saw
you.
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