Michigan at Chicago

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  Evening star, October 26, 1939, page 48

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  From the Press Box Wolverines Held Back In $50 Chicago Win NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (N.A.NA.). AS I understand Imperative T. 81 has just arrived from Ann Arbor, Mich, by gondola, with full report Michigan did not shut the gates of mercy on Chicago last Saturday when she nosed out the Maroons by IS to O. In other words, the barbecue was not premeditated. Michigan pulled her punches all the way through, going so far at one point as to call for field goal on second down with Chicaeo’s end zone (the busiest crossroads in America) just ahead. Mr., Tom Harmon, the famous Wolverine all-everything was just planning to retrieve a gold inlay which he had dropped in the end zone the last time he was there when the signal-caller nudged him in the ribs You will kick field goal on this play” said the quarterback Il beg pardon?’ said Mr.. Harmon, startled “A field goal With the foot. Good for three points if successful” Il know all about field goals” said Mr.. Harmon coldly, but I was thinking of making another touch down this time. I want to recover my gold inlay Delays Moking Touchdown For Three Minutes “Coach’s orders” said the signal caller. I’VE will settle for so per cent” Thus it was that Mr.. Harmon, the all-everything, had to wait three minutes before he got into the end zone again. Meanwhile he kicked the field goal so tactfully requested by Herbert Orin Crisler. through whose veins the milk of human kindness trickles, in lieu of the more conventional hemoglobin. Even so. Michigan Settered par for the course. Par is 81, established a couple of weeks ago by Harvard In scoring IS points, Michigan also stepped up the beat of her famous old point minute teams of the nrSt ten years OF the century. According to my figures IS points is nearly point-and-a half a minute. And the Wolverines were pulling their punches, at that. 1t was not always thus with the mild men of the midway, the foot ball players of the University of Chicago. The time was when these fellows were sometimes accused of shutting the gates of mercy them selves. Before the amateur disease bit them, and culture reared its ugly head on the loop, Chicago was a killer. The records show that she punished Monmouth College by a score of l08 to in l03. AS recently as 1919, old man Stagg looked the other way while his murderers whaled Great Lakes by 122 to O..

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Michigan leads 19–⁠7 in 26 meetings.