Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25
M Teams Take
Three Big Ten
Titles in 40

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basketball games with Pittsburgh
and Princeton. December IS and
80. remaining as the years last
two contests, University OF Michl-
gan athletic teams are ready 70
drop the curtain on year IN
which the Wolverines have won
"A dual engagements while losing
4S and tying 2 for won and lost
average OF .632
In Western Conference compe-
tition the Wolverines won three
championships, finished 5 c c o n d
four times and fourth, fifth and
sixth only once each.
The conference championships
were won by the swimming and
track teams, the latter taking
both the indoor and cute door
crowns. II was the seventh sue
ceSsive year Michigan had won
the indoor track championship of
the Big Ten and the fourth year
in a row the Wolverines had
taken the outdoor crown.
NATATORS LEAD WAY
MichieanS swimmers will close
1910 with r record of 10 victories
in 10 dual meets. Besides the Big
Ten title they also are defending
national intercollegiate champions
for the eleventh time in IA years
and are National A. A. u. indoor
title holders as well, The record
of the swimming team in winning
these three major championships
and all of its dual meets in 1910
stands as the best performance
by any Wolverine team for the
year.
One other Michigan team was
unbeaten in dual competition dur
ing 1910 but could not escape one
tie. The golf team engaged in u
dual meets and won Il of them,
the tie coming in the final meet.
In the conference meet Michigan's
golfers finished second, nine strokes
behind the title-winning Illinois
aggregation. They also took third
place in the Southern Intercolle-
giate meet held at Athens, Ca,
last April.
The next ranking Michigan team
during the year, judging on won
and lost average basis, was the
football eleven which won seven of
its eight games and went down to
defeat by single point in the
only game II did drop. The VOL
verines finished second in the Big
Ten gridiron standings behind
Minnesota, the one team to defeat
Michigan.
LOST ONLY ONE MEET
Besides winning the conference
indoor and outdoor championships,
the Wolverine track team won
four of its five indoor and outdoor
dual meets in 1910. The only team
to beat Michigan was Pittsburgh
which triumphed 81 TO Ga. The
trackmen also won a triangular
meet early in the year from Michi-
gan State and Michigan Normal,
won the Butler Relays for the
seventh consecutive year, won the
Indiana Relays and finished eighth
in the National Intercollegiate.
In tennis last Spring the VOL
verines also performed capably,
winning IL matches and losing
five. At the completion Of this
schedule they finished fourth in
the Big Ten meet.
Michigan's 1910 wrestling team
was one of the best in the history
of the university ana won six
meets while losing only two. The
grapplers then took second place
in the conference meet, losing the
championship to Indiana by a
single point. and in the National
intercollegiate Michigan finished
third behind Oklahoma A. g. NJ.
and Indiana.
The Michigan basketball team
finished sixth in the Big Ten
standings at the close Of last sea-
sons schedule. the lowest any
Wolverine aggregation finished in
the conference during the year.
In only two sports in 1910 did
Michigan have less than a 500
average-baseball and hockey. On
the diamond the Wolverines won
10 and lost II through the entire
season. In conference play, how
ever, Michigan won seven and lost
five TO finish in fifth place.
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