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Coach Biggie Munn of Michigan State, whose football team has not lost a game since the fall of 1950, is a methodical man. On the wall of the Spartans' dressing room at East Lansing hangs a statement on Munn fundamentals which the team rereads before every home game: "Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do. [Signed] Biggie." Before every game, Coach Munn also calls his squad together for silent prayer. No one is supposed to pray for victory, but last week, with Michigan State trailing...
Ponies & Heavyweights. As the Texas Christian players picked themselves off the turf after the Spartans' 19-point explosion, they might well have asked the old question: "What happened?" What happened essentially was that T.C.U. ran head-on into the Biggie Munn method: throw in plenty of fresh, first-class players. Munn uses a fast, "pony" backfield to run the enemy ragged, then bowls them over with hard-charging heavyweights. Even in the new era of limited substitutions (which Munn, an old friend of two platoons, deplores), Michigan State uses 35 or 40 almost equally proficient men a game...
Where does all this manpower come from? Much of it is home-grown Michigan talent, attracted by State's winning ways, a $3,500,000 athletic plant* and a big and diversified college (enrollment: 14,600). Some of Munn's best players have been mined from the football-rich hills of Pennsylvania, but even Michigan State's most envious detractors admit that the Spartans beat the bushes for talent no more fervently than a lot of other colleges...
Embarrassment of Riches. Biggie Munn himself, some ten pounds heavier than when he was a burly (5 ft. 9 in., 220 Ibs.) All-America guard at Minnesota two decades ago, is the magnet that draws much of the talent. Like most coaches, he drives his players hard in two-hour daily drills, but when drills are over, he does what few coaches ever have time for: he sits down to have dinner at the players' training table, gets to know his men off the field as well as on. Above all, Munn harps on the importance of loyalty...
Died. Frank Munn, 58, Bronx-born tenor, "The Golden Voice of Radio" during the '30s and early '40s; of a heart attack; in New York City. A policeman's son, he learned to sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio's Palmolive Hour, he became a nationwide favorite. In 1931 he dropped the pseudonym, and, never appearing on stage or screen, became star soloist on NBC's weekly Album of Familiar Music, Waltz Time...