Minnesota at Michigan

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  Evening star, October 23, 1949, page 39

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  0rtmann Stars In Wolverines Upset Victory Defect Puts Dent In Gophers’ Hopes For NotionuI Title : ANN ARBOR. Mich, Oct. o. Halfback Chuck Ortmann led a rejuvenated Michigan football team to a smashing 14–⁠7 win over powerful Minnesota today. The blond star from Mil waukee, almost single handed, blasted possible national cham pionship hopes of the unbeaten Minnesota squad that had been favored to beat Michigan, take the Big Ten title and go on to the Rose Bowl. Ortmann passed with a rare accuracy and ran with a shift ness that bewildered the Mime sofa defenses. He reeled off 115 of Michigan’s total ground gain Of 1875 yards and completed 8 of II passes for 90 of Michigan’s 102 aerial yards while the sellout crowd of 97,239 homecoming fans screamed their approval. Keeps Foe Keeling. The kid who suffered concussion two weeks ago when Army snapped Michigan’s 25-game win ming streak and played with little spark when Michigan lost to Northwestern last week, kept the Minnesota team on its heels for most of the afternoon. The victory. Michigan’s seventh in a row over Minnesota. put the Wolverines back in the Big Ten race. Minnesota now has a 2–⁠1 conference record against Michigan’s IL. Ortmann scored Michigan’s first touchdown With brilliant 10-yard run midway in the first perics. Wally TIE ninga. Michigan’s hard-working utility back from Chicago, punched out the second touchdown in the final 13 seconds of the second period. Harry Allis converted both touchdowns. :. Score on Fumble. 41Ak OAA4y n4A1A4COtbd OWL e SoAklAV in the third period when Ortmann had trouble with a low pass from center on the Michigan four-yard line. The ball rolled into the end zone where Art Erdling Minnesota end, fell On IL. Gordon Soltau converted. BY bounding back from the defeats by Army and Northwestern with a ferocity unseen in its ranks thus far this year. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan’s team shattered a myth that was building around the Minnesota squad. Dominating practically every phase of the game, with the exception of the momentary misplay that gave the visitors their score, the Michigan squad was (Caa NHTCIJTG GANy no~a . 0N

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  The globe-independent, Hagerstown, Md., October 27, 1949, page 1 (results column)

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  BEHIND HOME PLATE Smithsburg took the measure of Williamsport on the Williamsport Diamond on Sunday afternoon to throw the play-off for the champion ship of the Washington County Base ball League into tie, each team now having won two games. The final game of the series will be played on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock on the Smithsburg diamond. Congratulations to the Sandy Hook team in the Washington County Independent Baseball League on winning the play-off championship, when they defeated the Antietams on Sunday afternoon by a score of GO. In the regular season, Ante tam finished on top, with Sandy Hook in second place. If ever team should have won a football game, that team was the Maroon and Gray squad of the Hagerstown High School, who lost real heartbreaker to the Martins burg Bulldogs on the Martinsburg gridiron on Friday night. Not only did Mel Henry’s boys have the edge in every department throughout the game, but they also scored two touch downs, only to have them both call ed back. In the second quarter, the Hubs put on an 84-yard sustained drive, with halfback Johnny Raymer sprint ing the last Is yards for the touch down, only to have it nullified when the officials called a 15-yard holding penalty against the Hagerstown team Then in the fourth quarter, with just three minutes to go, fullback Pete Ridgely intercepted Martins burg pass on the Hagerstown 40 yard line and raced 60 yards down the east sidelines to score. But once again the officials detected an in fraction of the rules, this time cali ing 15Nard clipping penalty against Hagerstown. And so, instead of winning the game as they could easily have done by score of at least 14–⁠7, they lost it by score of 70, their two points coming on an automatic safety in the second period when the Martins burg kicker, trying to punt out with the ball resting practically on the goal line, stepped out of the end zone when getting his kick away. Depite the fact that the Hubs lost, they played what was by far their best game since the season opened. The crazy pattern of college foot ball weaved some new designs on Saturday afternoon, with four of the previously unbeaten teams being knocked from their pedestals. AS far as l am concerned, the biggest upset of the day was Louis lana States win over North Carolina In a. night game, when the North Carolinians and their great “Choo Choo” Justice were stopped cold by an inspired Louisiana State team, who won by score of 1877. Another terrific upset was South ern Methodist’s win over unbeaten Kentucky by the Iopsided score of POT. When it was announced that Doak Walker, the star of the South ern Methodist team, would definitely not play, it looked as if any possible chance of the Southern Methodist boys had of winning was gone out the window, but they uncorked rookie by the name of Kyle Rote to take Walkers place, and he did a magnificent job, as the score testifies. Then the twice-defeated Michigan team knocked Minnesota from the unbeaten ranks by a score of 14–⁠7 for what could at least be termed a mild upset, and the fourth team to topple from the unbeaten ranks was Pittsburgh, who lost to IN diana by lopsided score of 48–⁠14. And that is all the more remarkable when you consider that Indiana had been beaten in its last eleven starts. And finally, it is worth noting that all of these four teams who were hitherto unbeaten and lost on Sat urday, lost on their home gridirons. Notre Dame did not play, and 81 course Army playing it’s ridiculous High School, schedule, had an easy time with Columbia. s@‘Es ~ Deer Season Dec. $40 g.e.A Ernest Vaughn, head of Maryland’s

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  The Daily Alaska empire, October 24, 1949, page 3 (results column)

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  NINE TEAMS IN RUNNING IN FOOTBALL Nine teams held the thinning line of major unbeaten-untied col lege football forces today, but the casualty rate is getting terrific. The season may be lucky to squeeze through with as many per- feet elevens as last year when Michigan, California and Clemson alone closed out with spotless escutcheons. California and Clem- son fell later in bowl games. Notre Dame and Army, the coun- try’s two top-ranking powers, ap- pear good bets to survive the last six weeks of wrangling without mishap and fourth-place Oklahoma may extend it’s string. But the other untarnished teams California, Cornell, Baylor, Penn sylvania, Boston U, and Virginia have rough seass ahead. FOUR TEAMS TUMBLE Four teams with nothing but big, fat victories took a tumble Satur- day in the most violent reversal Of form this season. North Carolina, Minnesota, Ken lucky and Pittsburgh went down with a thump that jared budding towl hopes. North Carolina was stunned by Louisiana State in a night game at Baton Rouge, 13–⁠7. The Tar Heels brilliant All America star Charley (Choo Choo) Justice, was held with tight rein by stubborn defensive play. MINNESOTA TRIMMED Minnesota’s Gophers, already eye ing the Rose Bowl, were trimmed by Michigans defending national champions who bounded back from two straight defeats on the strong play of Chuck Ortmann to win 14–⁠7. Bear Bryant’s Kentucky, riding g five-game winning streak, lost U Southern Methodist, 20–⁠7, witt Kyle Rote furnishing the SMC spark in the absence of flu-ridder Doak Walker. Pittsburgh, with its supporters beginning to dream of return te that old position of prestige, slip ped up against fired-up Indiana team. which broke an 11-game los ing streak to prevail, 48–⁠14.

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Michigan leads 78–⁠26–⁠3 in 107 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.