Word: harmonization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Michigan won the toss. Tom Harmon caught the kickoff, ran the ball back to Michigan's 30-yard line. In three plays, he and Bob Westfall made first down. Westfall drove through left tackle for 20 yards to put the ball on Illinois's 34. Two more first downs and the ball was on Illinois's 12. Then, while Coach Zuppke's boys scrambled to cover Harmon, Little Dave Nelson scooted around right end on a double reverse, ran twelve yards for a touchdown...
Illinois took Harmon's kickoff but punted after two plays. From Michigan's 32, Harmon and Nelson advanced the ball to Illinois's 23. Then Harmon, on a lateral from Nelson, slithered around left end for 20 yards. On third down, Harmon cut back through right tackle for Michigan's second touchdown. The game was less than ten minutes...
Michigan rooters yelled till their cheeks cracked. This was the game they had been waiting for since last year, when Bob Zuppke's inspired Illinois beat Michigan, 16-to-7 This year's Tom Harmon is better than last year's. Toughened by a summer of lifeguarding the municipal beach of his home town, Gary, Ind. (and punting up & down the sand for at least an hour a day), Senior Harmon has been a one-man gang. Practically singlehanded, he mowed down California, Michigan State and Harvard, scoring a total of 69 points. It annoyed Illinois last...
Meanwhile, at Cambridge, Michigan's Tom Harmon, almost singlehanded, trounced Harvard, 26-to-0 (three touchdowns, two conversions, one pass that resulted in a touchdown). In the three games he has played this season, Harmon has tallied 69 points...
Sheldon Dietz was still nursing bruises incurred by Harmon and the "Gang" in last Saturday's tussle. Burgy Ayres as a result continued in the number one pivot post and may keep right on "continuing" there for the starting whistle tomorrow...