The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-10-19
TODAY'S
SPORT
PARADE
By HENRY McLEMoRE
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limited Press Staff Correspondent

(Un1beQ TT6SS SbdA OOAACSP~~A~r
New York, Oct. 19.-CUP)-To my
way of thinking (and I wouldn't
advise you to adopt it even on the
advice of a physician the pest
football game in the country today
will be played in Ann Arbof between
Robert Zuppke and Tom Harmon.
The battle is booked as one M
volying the Illinois and Michigan
teams, but that doesn't mean any
thing. The real contest, the one
that will pack the drama, VIII De
between zuppkie, that canny,
scheming, proud old cuss who
coaches Illinois, and Harmon. tne
brilliant, young, inspired back OF the
wolverines.
They met a year ago this time and
Zuppke was the winner. Aroused oy
the, talk that Harmon was better
back than Grange ever was, ana
that when he met Illinois ne Woulo
prove it, Zuppkie, who has been
around football since the girls wore
chrysanthemumS and the halfbacKS
had haircuts to match, determined
tot stop terrific Tom. He took a
ragamufin team and welded it into
a fighting, hustling, last-dltch unit
with but one aina-shackle Harmon
Zuppke had figured, and rightly,
thtt stopping Harmon would accom-
plish two things-stop the talk OF
Miehigan's mighty runner being
better than Grange, and enable
Illinois to lick Michigan.
Superman
How another year has rolleo
around and Harmon Is again the
Sensation of football. His blazing
r,,rs from coast to coast have caus-
ed the critics to speak Of him as
not only a super Grange, but a
super Jim Thorpe, runner with
out an equal in the history OF 1oot-
ball. And once again Illinois plays
Michigan.
II Harmon is hH1nan (and / ina
eine he is, despite the tendency OF
some of his supporters to credit him
with divine powers, particularly on
off tackle slarts) he remembers
Zuppke and Illinois and 1888. he
must recall, and none too pleasant
ly. how he was stopped as II ne
were lust another halfback, ana
how Illinois rolled over Michigan
team that was supposed to win by
two three or four touchdowns.
And. remember, and being human,
he must have made a few plans OF
his own. Plans calling for revenge
on zuppke and the Him, plans IN
volving long runs and lots OF them.
Touchdown runs that would con-
vince old Zuppke that there was
more to his ability than a cord Of
newspaper clippings.
Psychologist
You can rest assured that Zuppke
knows what Harmon would like to
do to the Illinois team. OF all the
men coaching boys in football, none
is so keen a student of psychology
as Zup. What has Zup figured out
for this game today? What sort
of a defense has he set for Harmon?
Nobody knows but Zup and his
bows, but you can bet all you have
that it will be as good one as
can be figured out by the human
brain. There isn't coach in the
business who can set better de-
Tense than Zuppke, and there isn't
a coach in the business who is more
dangerous on one particular day.
IT'S hard to picture Illinois lick
ing Michigan today. The Wolver-
ines lightly, they'll be shooting from
the start. The wolverines may run
wild, but still I'd like to be out
there at Ann Arbor. For a little
while at least, the duel between the
old fellow and the young man should
provide the top football drama OF
the day.