 The fourth game of the season was a 45 – 7 win over Yale. An Ann Arbor newspaper reported that Gerald R. Ford, former Michigan center then serving as a scout for Yale, “ tried to feed Hike a line. .. on how impossibly inferior ” Yale ’ s team would be. According to the report, Heikkinen, “ in his typically pungent manner, nipped Ford ’ s eulogies in the bud with some poignant remarks on who was trying to kid who and how. ”
