Evening star., 1948-11-07
Army Crushes Stanford; Michigan Routs Navy
Wolverines Triumph,
IS 10 0, as Middies
Lose 12th Straight
By the Assoeioted Press

Michigan's prize sophomore, tall
Chuck Ortmann, passed and ran the
Wolverines to their 2lst straight
football triumph today, an easy $50
win over undermined Navy, which
now has lost - games in a row.
Ortmann, all-round Milwaukee
product who stepped into the shoes
OF the graduated All-American Bob
Chappuis, staged one of his finest
performances before the third
straight sellout throng of 1898 fans
IN Michigan Stadium. He con-
nected on one 48-yard touchdown
pass to Michigan's brilliant End
Dick Rifenburg, plunged across for
another Wolverine score and stood
out as the best running back on the
field.
Navy, blanked for the first time
in seven games this year, couldn't
mobilize anything in the way of
sustained attack. The Middies
made only eight first downs to Mich
igan's % and never penetrated any
deeper than the Michigan 3S.
Michigan, using a total of 43
players, scored in every period after
parading Al yards for a touchdown
the first time the Wolverines got
the ball.
Michigan Piles up Score.
Ortmann smashed over for that
one and Fullback Tom Peterson
sliced 10 yards off tackle for a Sec
ond period score, Gaping a 7S-yard
parade. Michigan scored twice IN
the third, on a one-yard buck by
Halfback Walt Teninga and on an
18-yard pass from former Navy
back Bob Van Summern to Rifen-
burg, who caught the ball in the
end zone, stepped out of bounds and
fumbled. But officials ruled he had
possession of the ball before he
crossed the sideline.
Rifenburg then caught Ortmann's
arching 48-yard pitch early in the
fourth period for his seventh touch
down in seven games.
Harry Allis, Michigan's steady
place-kicker, converted all five extra
points to run his season record to
% conversions in rs attempts.
Michigan smashed for 231 yards
on the ground and lis more by air
in its most decisive victory since
the Wolverines smothered Purdue,
40 to 0, in their Big Nine opener.
Ortmann personally accounted for
1872 yards of Michigans gains, 90
of it on four pass competitions in IL
efforts. He gained 83 yards running,
but was thrown for Al yards in
losses fading to pass and finished
with a rushing net of ~ yards.
Hawkins Leads Navy Attacks.
His soph running mate at half
back gained 66 yards in 10 rushes
and Peterson peeled of 78 yards in
IT attempts.
Fullback Bill Hawkins led the
Navy backs with 26 yards net, a
yard more than Halfback Bill Pow
ers. and there wasn't another Navy
back who ran for more than nine
yards net.
Michigan's victory was revenge for
a 33-tc-7 sWamping the Middies
handed the Wolverines the last time
they met in 1945.
Left end-Frasier, Carson. Ridderhof.
Left tacke-Renneman. Emerson.
Left guard-SchiwecE. Weir.
Center-La wrence. Parsons.
Right guard-R. Hunt Cooper, Mande-
vile.
Right tacklenKeelsr: J. Hunt.
Right end-Ryan. Wilson McElroy.
Quarterback - Horne, Baysinger, Sin
clair
Left halfback-Williams Arnold. Earl.
Right halfback-Green, Powers
Fullback-Hswkins, McCully, Banner
man, MarQuardt.
MICHIGAN.
Left end-McNeill, Rifenbure. Suther-
land, HershberEer. Hess.
Left tackle-Wistert, soboleski, Atchi-
Left euard-Heneveld, Tomasi, jackson.
Center-Dworsky. Erben. Farrer. Kreas-
Rishs euard-sickels. wilkins. Mcclel-
Right tackle-Allis, Kohl. wahl, ohlen-
Right end-ciark, wisnie wski. Hollway.
Quarterback-Elliott. Bartlett, Ghindia,
Palmer, small.
Left halfback-Derricotte, ortmann,
LeptZ.
Right halfback-Teninga, Koceski. Sou
chek, Van Summern.
Fullback-Kempthorn, Peterson, STRAIT
fon, Olfek.
Navy " 0 O O 90
Michigan TIA 7-35
Touchdowns-Ortmann. Peterson. Te-
ninga. Rifenburg .. Points after touch
down-Allis (placements).
Statistics.
Navy. Mich.
First downs 90
Yards gained rushing (net 10 23l
Forward passes attempted Is Is
Forward passes completed 6
Yards by forward passing 46 115
Forward passes intercepted 0 9
Yards runback of inter-
cepted passes o 49