Show Big Bg Ten Ien Chief Sees Good Grid Season By Jy Charles Chamberlain CHICAGO Aug 6 UP Foot UP-Foot- Foot Football bail ball may be in the hands of pallbearers pallbearers pallbearers pall pall- bearers in some parts of the country country coun- coun try ry for the duration but in the Western Vestern conference where players have reported for summer practices the coffin corner still is isa isa isi a i gridiron term Major John L. L Griffith Big T Ten n commissioner of athletics said he heIs heis hes Is s delighted with the general picture picure pic- pic ture ure declaring that the games game's health is being watched by the best I doctors in the world world the the Amerian Amen Ameri- I can an public who insists it continue school chool officials who are supporting supporting support- support I ing ng it more than ever b because cause of Its ts training values s and military leaders who are chorusing send sends us s more of those football play- play ers rs Still Optimistic Major Griffith refuses to become be- be come ome alarmed over reports reports' that 89 colleges in the nation have abandoned football for the duration duration dura- dura tion ion and he estimates that more than 80 per cent of the colleges which competed in 1941 will have teams earns operating this fall Enrollment of service men with gridiron experience has made this possible In the Western conference conference confer- confer ence nce some schools have seen their outstanding men dispatched to other ther campuses as marine and navy avy students But what keeps the he gridiron future of 1943 stable In n this section is the fact that few ew of the stars escaped from the realms of the conference and willbe will willbe be je competing for teams which only a year ago they were playing against Already it is possible to name the he most important football alignment alignment alignment align align- ment of 1943 Its It's the Wisconsin- Wisconsin Michigan tilt Halfback Elroy Hirsch Quarterback Jack Wink and md Center Fred Negus who helped Wisconsin's best team in 30 years gain up runner-up honors last ast fall were shifted as service students to Michigan along with several promising freshmen Wolves olves Stronger The Wolverines also nabbed Minnesota's Minnesota's Min Mm- thunderous fullback Bill Daley They had men romping in n the summer drills which the Big Ten ina inaugurated this year With this his talent abetting such holdover material as Back Bob Wiese and Linemen Merv and Julius Franks Michigan I should have lave the strongest football unit In inthe inthe the he country Purdue had candidates the highest number in the conference while Ohio State the 1942 champion cham pion plan had only 38 and Illinois 30 Joe roe de Fillip Fordham center Tackle John Genis and Guard Alex Agase of Illinois were among those I winding up with the Boilermakers Ohio States State's roll call showed 32 freshmen who were 17 years old I among 60 turning out at Minnesota was the Gophers' Gophers fine quarterback ck Bill Garnaas who stayed on as a V 12 student and with on hand at Northwestern the Wildcats were assured of their greatest reserve strength in his his- tory Wisconsin typifying conditions of a school with no basic navy or marine unit lost 21 all 25 of its B sQuad members and 45 of its 48 freshmen |