Evening star., 1942-10-10
Michigan Coach
Tries 10 Crack
Biernan Jinx -.
Tosses One Of Finest
Wolverine EIevens
| Against Seohowks
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN, =
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer. =
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Notre
Dame, with amateur coaches and
well-wishers at every whistle stop.
goes into its make or break contest
with Stanford today minus its req
ular boss and Michigan's Fritz
Crisler is out to break his own per-
sonal jinx in a battle with 1t Col.
Bernie Bierman's Iowa Seahawks in
pair of the days better football
games.
While Frank Leahy Is in
Rochester clinic trying to devise a I,
defense for the microbes, his Irish
eleven seeks its first victory since
the in stallation of the T formation
with Stanford as the victim. Thirty
thousand spectators are expected at
South Bend. ..-
At the same time, Crisler will be
sending one of Michigan's better
teams against the Bierman Sea-
hawks in the hope that for the first
time he will out-master mind the
gray-haired marine. Not even dur
ing the era of the famed Tommy
Harmon was Crisler ever able to
defeat Bierman-coached team.
Those struggles share the spot
light with such others as Southern
California's invasion of Ohio State;
the meeting of Wisconsin and Mos
souri,, both unbeaten, at Madison:
Mississippi and Georgia in South
east Conference affair; Rice and
Tulane at New Orleans; Oklahoma
and Texas at Dallas, and the Santa
Clara California tussle on the coast.
Boston U. in Rare Shape.
In the East the Boston Eagles,
with "a of Coach Denny Myers IS
players in tiptop shape, are primed
to avenge the surprise drubbing
Clemson administered a year ago
and Princeton and Navy will enter
tain $4,000 in New York's Yankee
Stadium.
Fordham's line has been patched
in an effort to hold back the North
Carolina ball carriers and Columbia
and Paul Governali entertain Brown
and Bob Margarita Neither Brown
nor Columbia has been defeated this
season.
At New Haven, Conn, Mrs. H. H.
Odell of Sioux City, Iowa, will be m
the stands as Yale, coached by her
son HOWE, mixes with Pennsyl-
vania, on which another son, Rob-
ert, is the star halfback.
There's action all over Dixie but
much of the Southern Conference
interest will be at Cambridge, Mass,
where William and Mary, already
conqueror of Navy on Harvey John
sons placement, takes on green
Harvard squad.
In strictly home affairs Wake
Forest and Fur1nan mix, Davidson
and Virginia Poly tangle and George
Washington and The Citadel are
rivals. Two Of the, most powerful
offensive minded clubs in the coun-
try, Vanderbilt and Kentucky, are
opponents in a Southeastern loop
spectacle. In the same circuit,
Louisiana, State tests Mississippi
State, 194l champions.
Minnesota Meets Illinois.
Minnesota, its winning streak stop
ped last Saturday, moves against IL
linois, which hasn't lost since Ray
Eliot took charge. Purdue, beaten
in every outing this season, seems
destined to suffer again, this time
with Northwestern the victor.
Kansas, with its first touchdown
of 1912 yet to come, is at Texas
Christian while it's sister institution,
Kansas State, makes the long journey
to Pittsburgh and Duquesne.
Other than the California-Santa
Clara game there's little action along
the West Coast with Oregon State,
Conference and Rose Bowl cham
pion, taking on twice-beaten UCLA.
In last nights prelude to today's
activities, Temple was held to a
surprising 7-to-7 tie by Bucknell,
Syracuse subdued Western Reserve,
13 to 0, and Drake upset St. Louis,
10 to 9, in Missouri Valley Con-
ference game.
The Bucknell- Temple deadlock
was the sixth in the series. Temple
counted in the third but Bucknell,
getting only three first downs to Is
for Temple, registered with six min
utes to go. On the attempted con-.
version for the tying point, Johnny
Paar fumbled but Elting johnson.
recovered and ran across for the
vital marker.
Syracuse got its first marker on
65-yard pass-run play while Drake,
held ScoreleGS in the first half,
counted twice in the final sessions
on long runs. Einor johnson re-.
turned the second-half kickoff "a
yards and just before the gun Joe
Saggoine Whizzed So yards after
intercepting a pass. ga