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...wall of a canyon. But then, just 1,500 yards short of the airstrip, it crashed, churned 300 feet up a sage-covered slope, exploded and disintegrated. Nobody survived; nobody could have. Among those who died: Jack Guenther, managing editor of Look; Pro Footballer Jeff Burkett, Chicago Cardinals' halfback; Gerard B. Lambert Jr., scion of a famed drug dynasty (see MILESTONES...
Only two players (Halfback "Bump" Elliott and Fullback Jack Weisenburger) play on both. Thus, in effect, Crisler's first team consists of 20 men. Whenever Michigan's defensive team regains the ball, Crisler orders: "Offense unit, up and out," and nine men pour onto the field at once...
...line averaged 201 Ibs., outweighing Michigan's line 19 Ibs. per man. All afternoon they smashed into Michigan's pony backfield, frequently upsetting Crisler's delicately timed plays. Outrushed on the ground, Michigan could well be thankful for its prize specialist, 6 ft., 182 Ib. Halfback Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy-us†). He is Crisler's triggerman. His job is to throw the forward passes, and there is no one in 1947 collegiate football who does it better. In the Minnesota game, it was his flat, sure, 35-yd. throw to Bump Elliott that gave...
...matter how far ahead they are, Michigan players always manage to look half undressed-their blue jerseys and yellow pants ripped and torn. Crisler has a reason for that too: once he lost a game at Princeton when an opposing player grabbed his halfback by the sleeve and brought him down. Now Crisler uniforms his teams in flimsy zephyr cloth so rippable that Harmon once used up 20 jerseys in one season...
...performance of some of the Jayvee players as they ran over Suffolk Junior College, 4 to 0, earlier this week, they plan to field approximately the same team as opened against M.I.T. The single change is that Gus Seamans will play in place of captain Hunt Mavor at left halfback...