Michigan at Navy

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  Detroit evening times, Michigan, November 11, 1945, page 15

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  Middies Cash In on Breaks Wolverines Yield 3 tbs in I’d Half igan’s young football team was hit by everything but heavy shells from Adm. William r. HalSey’s fleet here this afternoon as Navy turned five breaks into FIVE touch downs 10 defeat the Wolverines, 33 to 7. Among those in the crowd OF SO ia was the heroic admiral himself, and perhaps il was his presence that inspired Nays football representatives 10 start doing things the way our country’s future admirals are sup Used TO do them. Trhe Wolverines had won the admiration Of everyone. including the yipplng, yelling corps of Mid shipmen by their tremendous sec ond period surge after trailing by l3 points. TIRED, HEART-STcK But at the end Of the game, when the Navy band from Annapoils played the national anthem, and the great multitude stood in silence. il was tired, heart sickened bunch OF kids who walked from the field Two fumbles. one blocked kick. one poor kick. and one intercepted pass were the breaks that went against Michigan and went 10 Navy. The Navy attack. which has been sputtering and suffering all season. finally clicked and they made good every break. Nays scoring went like this: DIN the first quarter, Pete Elliott. with the ball on Michigan’s 30. took a lateral from Dan DWorsky, at quarterback. Elliott fumbled as he went wide TO his left. and there was race between the Michigan back and Dick Duden, Navy end. for the ball. Duden touched j, before IL went out Of bounds and Navy took over on MichiGans 2l Tony MiniSi passed 10 Leon Bramlett, the other Navy end for the score and Jack Currence kicked goal. PASS TO ANOTHER C2) The second Navy touch down came on the first play Of the second quarter. Just before the first period ended. Jack Weiscnburger had kicked poorly and the ball went out on MicniganS 81. Scott and Jenkins pounded 10 the Il, and Bruce Smith. taking the place of Hunchy LprenSchcmeyer az quarterback the revamped Navy backfield. 10 Scott for IL yards and a touchdown. 90 Break No. 3 and another Navy touchdown came midway in the third quarter. Newbold Smith. Navy tackle, blocked Weisenburgers kick and Navy had the ball on MichiganS l3. The Middies tried the old Statue OF Liberty play with Smith handling the ball Ia the fleet MiniSi. and he went around end for 13 yards and score. (4l In less than minute, Nelcn intercepted EllOtt pass and returned TO Michigan’S IS. Bartos broke off tackle for “a yards and TOUCHDOWN. TUMBLE COSTLY 50 The last touchdown resuited after Pete Elliott took Kelly’s punt, gave it 10 Fonde on a reverse. and a tumble was recovered by Duden on Michigan’s 40. When the S-yard line had been reached. Smith passed TO Williams for a touchdown. SO Michigan made the breaks and Navy took advantage of them That’s what wins football games and the Navy team of today had one coming. Michigan’s touch down was scored by Jack Weisenburger IN that torrid second quarter, when Continued on Page Three)

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 11, 1945, page 11

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  Tar Heels Defeat William & Mary, 60 Alert Navy Team Downs Michigan, 33–⁠7 Penn Topples Columbia From Indicated Ranks PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10. -tR- j.: Columbia’s fancy dan football :, Lions were toppled from the ma : tons undefeated ranks today by :. shifty Penn outfit that has been : beaten only by Navy. “. Outmanned and overpowered BY horde OF enemy material, the I’m. z derdog Lions scored the first time :: they got their hands on the ball with = Gene Rossides passing Penn dizzy, = but after that never had chance and the Quakers rolled to 1927 II victory to end Colurbia’s winning Y run at six straight, for the enter : tainment of some $4,000 fans in , Franklin Field. i Behind 10 in the first six minutes. of play after Rossides heaved for :, 6 for 63-yards and the touchdown. :” the Quakers started to 60. George !, Savitsky, a great tackle and ball = hawk, broke through three times /, to recover two fumbles and block q :. kick, and each time the Quakers =, capitalized on the break to roll up . a 20–⁠7 haf-time lead. = Cashing in on these opportunities, as well as couple of other assorted chances, Bob Evans, who learn-sy ed his aerial technique as a Ga bomber gunner over Europe during a the war, completed eight out of 16’ overhead tries for 116 yards. Three y of his pitches chalked up the first half tallies and fourth produced ~ fourth touchdown early in the thirdS quarter, before he bowed out for theo day. Three of the touchdownxta throws went to his special battery mate, Frank jenkins. & With the Columbia line firing against the ponderous charges of ! the Penn forwards as the game wore on, the Quakers rolled up 167 yards rushing to a net Of IA for Columbia, although the Lions “outsailed their rivals throughout the air, 166 to 1923 Columbia went 81 yards wit, the opening kickoff for the only Lion score with RosSldeS tossing to Lou Iusserow out on the flank for the 4 final seven yards. Then Evans took the mound. He pitched four yards to jenkins with ! fifteen seconds to 60 in the first quarter and Is yards more to the It’s pound end in the first minute and half of the second chapter toput Penn in front. Topping off S., yard parade, Bob next threw to II year old Carmen Falcone for seven yards and the third Quaker touch.s down of the half. Early in the third period, after Falcone had inter-, cepted pass on the Lion “a to set table for the party, Evans heaved his high hard one to jenkins on thes five who dashed over. 4 In the last play of the third peri~ cd, Evans again tossed twenty yards to jenkins on the Penn 43, from where sub scat back Bob Deu,, Der raced around his own right end on reverse and scampered ST. yards for the final tally. )

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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., November 13, 1945, page 1

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  M Plagued by Injuries ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. Is -lP)-Tony Momsen, UNIVERSE ty Of Michigan center candidate, will have his dreams come true as far as football is concerned when he assumes the starting pivot spot against the Purdue Boilermakers here Saturday IN the Wolverines neXt-to- the-last game Of the season. A product of Toledo. o.. IT, year-old Momsen is slated TO step into the forward wall slot recently vacated by letterman Harold Watts, Navy trainee, who has been transferred to the Glcnview. H.. Naval Air Sta ton for further training. II know I’ve got an awful tough job to do” Momsen said, especially since Watts play has been so good all season. But I’ve watched him pretty close and ] learned’a lot in the Navy game although I was only an defense” Momsen isn’t far wrong in his prediction about having tough Job to do. for after the Wolverines tangle with fast moving Purdue Saturday, they meet an other Big Ten Conference team, Ohio State, the following week. Michigan’s backfield seems slated to see a new combination also for Crisler suggested yesterday he may transfer fullback Jack Weisenburger back to his former tailback spot in order to make up for the expected abb sence of let half Walt Tteninga, injured in the battle with Navy which Michigan lost 33 to 7. With quarterback Capt. Joe Ponsetto lost to the Wolverines for the season, the tailback positon Is Michigan’s best passing spot

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, November 13, 1945, page 12

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  Druggist Dunphy, discussing the Army Michigan game of October 13 last, told of box seat he had for the game. When he finally arrived at his fourth tier box, he looked up, and remarked: “The only thing HIGHER was the AMERICAN FLAGW AS quarterbacks and passers, and the men who first handle the ball in the Army TT” formation, there is little to choose between Tucker and Walterhouse, ard latter missing but one of seven kicks for point after touchdown. When the Navy’s 33–⁠7 win over Michigan became known, the forthcoming Arny-Navy game in Philadelphia, Dec. 1 (sAme day as Yale Harvard at New HaVen) gen. erated new interest. Yet, when Navy could score but points against Notre Dame, compared to Army’s A8, how are you going to figure the out come of the service classic, poten- tially the best game of the year, not excepting the Rose Bowl test at Pasadena, whatever that may show.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Michigan leads 12–⁠5–⁠1 in 18 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.