Evening star., 1952-01-08


accorded such sbe Benners Par Wade Lauricea and
Kazmaier among others. 80
But in every with the glamour boys, Dorow than
held his and what's more do many things
than fact versatility may be any great help
to him. insofar pro ambitions concerned because the
suspicion that in these times the chiefly seeking
specialists.
DOROW HARDLY qualities as a specialist unless it can
be speciazes everything passes catches
passes punts placements and defends He
has proved equally adept calling plays from the and single
wing In the Senior Bowl he started defense because
the North had Fred Benners of Southern Methodist and
Johnny Coatta of Wisconsin When Benners was
hurt early Dorow took as haback on oense sharing
the passing job with Quarterback Coatta When the after
the Spartan from Lansing had passed for
touchdown and had intercepted two passes one OF which
back 81 yards for another aas) s2o
Before this game AL had been of the Standouts in the
EastWest Shrine contest in San Francisco by his East
team 54 Dorow Dick Kazmaer of Princeton and Vic Jano
wcz put spectacular show on muddy field and With
slippery ball. First Dorow pitched to Kazmaier, then they
switched Kazaier pitching and Dorow catching AL shared
i've passes without miss On of his catches he out
two defenders the end They voted
the most valuable players in that order
couldn't say isn't winning player. He hasn't
been loser since Maryland beat Michigan State in 1885,
Spartans swept the rest that e all last
and in both postseason Dorow the winning side
There was a day early october when it looked as if
Michigan States string about Ohio State
had the spartans 2O10 period but at this point
caught fire. passed for touchdown and caught
a27-yard aerial for the score that won 24-2o
THERE other notable afternoon for the
22-year-old Spartan in November when Michigan State
cpshed Notre Dame 350 completed II of II
for 2 yards including two for touchdowns For team that's
essentially he completed GA of ia passes for
Be yards nine touchdownS during the regular He
caught only four but significantly three were Tor
touchdownS 80
~ Dorow INLAY City Mich Flint, had been
troversal figure until the Notr game This is by adm
sion Staby Michigan State publicity director who
There two schools of thought Dorow Half OF our
fans thought he was great and the other half felt the
coaches to have him at quarterback The anti
Dorows felt he too errac and bit the conceed side
"The coaches didn't think he too conceed. They
liked quarterback who had confidence in himself and Doow
has that He's pretty good aaround athlete running the
440 the track and being of the best Softba pitch
in the Midwest Anyway the fans divided until the
Notre game, whenShe called what H. G. Sasnger the
veteran sports editor of the Detroit News, described the
perfect quarterback job Sanger wrote that he hadn't
to match it Benny Friedman at his peak, back
IN the 192Os."
DOROWS DETRACTORS maintained that Michigan State
had winning less in spite of the young mans
quarterbacing Then after Notre Dame they shut up
Stabley relates T guess another thing they suddenly rezize
that Dorow while errac at times, when the
chips down. We've got 15game winning streak and
Dorow the quarterback In Add the two pot
games and his personal winning streak II row
Another why Dorow has been overlooked Stabey
with logic because Michigan State had two
standouts 1949 Fr there Lynn Chandnois
Sonny Grandeus both great runners he points out
"Dorow only sophomore in Chandnois big and still
pretty trial Grandelus the big wheel"
stabley suggests that Michigan State coaches got
chucke pro ratings Senior Bowl players
mention of the guy they really want most meaning Dorow
It's happened before" 52s,>4ts q 81.