The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-09
FRANCK PICKS COPHERS FOR BIG
TITLE; DRAFT no THREAT IN WEST
AhAmerica Back Pre-
diets Minnesota's Cap
tain Smith In For Great
Season


Minnesofa's All-America Back
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. eMid-
west football win have Its great
teams in 194l despite the loss Of
q few stars BY the draft.
IN the Big Ten itself, Bernie
Bierman's Gophers seem ready
to ride the tide again. Captain
Bruce Smith win be one Of the
seasons really great backs and q
sophomore half from Montana
Herman Frickey, will do all
right at right half when Smith
moves over to be jack of all
trades. Two giant tackles, Cd
son and Wildung, will be the line
mainstays.
1t won't be easy picking for
Minnesota, though. Michigan
will be in the midst of the bat
tie as usual. The Wolverines lose
Harmon and Evashevski. but
Westfall will be there and he is
one of the midwest's best full.
backs and tough no matter who
is in the backfield. He is UNI
doubtedly the best spinning full
back in the country. Their line
is led by Wistert, equally as good
as his famous brother was few
years back.
Then there's Northwestern, al
ways tough in anybody's league
Waldorf and Ingwersen will no
doubt put together a good team.
They will have a good line, with
tackle ALT Bauman, and so many
good backs it is useless to Try to
name them. OF course, there is
their captain, Paul Soper, Bill
DeCorrevont and Clawson to
mention a few.
a change in the coaching
staff at Ohio State may be the
spark that viii bring Out a
great Buckeye squad. Their
STARS may be some fellows you
and / never heard of. Yet there
are some veteran men no coach
could afford to leave off his
squad. To me. Ohio State is
the dark horse Of the Western
conference.
Indiana will be stronger IL
linois, with internal trouble fin
ally settled, will start to move
up soon-but not this year I'M
less Zuppke finds d couple of
Red Oranges. His fine is tough
and I'll bet that he will give
Minnesota a good battle. Ger
tainly they will point for this
game. Remember what they did
to Michigan in 1899?
Iowa and Purdue will ride
the lower end of the scale again.
but this league doesn't have any
weak sisters and any of the low
er raters may sock any of the
top notchers and rum away with
the championship. The Big Tens
just like that.
And there's Wisconsin about
due under Harry Stuldreher.
After a bad start last year, he
got a bunch Of sophomores to-
gether for a fast finish.
Now those fellows all have
years experience and they will
be mighty tough If that quar-
terbaclx problem can be
Strengthened out. They have an
exceptionally fine end in Sch
riner. They have group of
good backs that might blossom
into greatness. They lose
good guard. Embich. and
great back in Paskvar. But
those who are back will let
you know you have been in q
ball game and the squad as
whole Is one Of the hardest
biting outfits in the loop.
Elsewhere in the Midwest,
Notre Dame may come booming
back after that change in coach
ing staffs. Certainly never count
out the Irish. Their leader will
be Juzwich, back with ALI
America class. They have the
material and their new coach,
Leahy, likes to win and needs to
win to make good at Notre
Dame.
Franck is making his debut
as a Professional footballer