The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
M Prepares
for Big Clash
With Buckeyes
Sellout Crowd
Will See
FinoI Come
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. /

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. l9
-(A1- Still nursing a thin hope
of capturing the Big Ten foot
ball championship after thump-
ing Purdue u to l3, the UNI
versity of Michigan Wolverines
went TO work today preparing
Tor their Saturday Seliout bat
tie here with Ohio State, game
that winds up the Conference
season.
Either Michigan or Ohio State.
each beaten once in the Confer
ence, can grab the championship
outright If Purdue upsets In
diana the same day at Bloom
ington.
The second $4,000 crowd of
the season in Michigan Stadium
is certain to watch the Wolv-
crime Buckeye battle. All of the
85, 1872 seats were sold two weeks
ago, indicating the crowd will
be precisely the same as that
which watched Michigan beat
Minnesota rs to here Nov. 8.
Morning rain kept the crowd
down to 0,lQ0 tor the Michi-
gan Purdue game but didn' t
dampen the brilliance of fresh
man Halfback Pete Elliott of the
Wolverines, who had hand in
every Michigan score.
Elliott, 18-year-old Blooming
ton, ILL.,, brother of Chalmer
(Bumps) Elliott who started for
the Boilermakers a year ago,
pitched two touchdown passes
to Halfback Bob Nussbaumer
and and to End Art Renner, div
ing through tackle from the one
yard line for the other Wolv-
crime score.
ElliOtt's two passes to Nuss-
banner, one of them covering so
yards and the other 54, account
ed for two first half Michigan
touchdoWns and h p ID the
Wolverines to 20-7 halftime
lead.
The first touchdown pass came
on the fifth play Michigan ran
after getting the ball for the
first time. NuSsbaumer raced be-
hind the Purdue defense, gath
cred the ball in on the 1O-yard
line and scored easily.
After Purdue marched 72
yards to lose the ball on downs
on the Michigan one-foot line,
the Wolverines got their ground
attack rolling and drove 50
yards to send Elliott slicing
through from the one for the
second touchdown.
A Michigan tumble on the 20
yard line set up Purdue's first
score, Fullback Ed Cody carry
ing five straight times to hit pay
dirt from the one-yard line.
Two plays later Michigan
scored again on Elliotts 54-yard
pass to Nussbaumer.
Art Renner's interception of a
pass broke up third period
Purdue threat after the Boiler
makers had punched to the
Michigan II.
Purdue wouldn't quit, how
ever. Early in the fourth period
Dave Shaw dived over from the
Michigan one-yard line TO cli-
max 58-yard drive and trim
Michigan's lead to 20-13.
Two minutes later the Boiler
max s lost touchdown chance
when penalty nullified Shaw's
interception of Michigan pass
that put Purdue on the Michi-
gan IA.
Elliotts 20-yard pass to Rem
ner out the Wolverines in Pur-
due territory and Nussbaumer
spearhcaded a drive TO the Boil
ermak n 10-yard line, where
Elliott threw to Renner in the
end zone for the final touch
down. George Chiames complet-
ed the scoring with his third
conversion in four attempts.
With Elliott completing four
of five passes for 1874 yards,
Michigans only statistical ad-
vantas, was in the air, where
the Wolverines travelled 149
y Ids on five completions in
eight pitches. Purdue's freshman
Quarterback Bob DeMoss COM
pleted nine Of Is passes for 81
yards.
The Boilermakers made 13
first downs to Michigan's 10 and
gained 173 yards rushing to the
Wolverines 145.