Show the Raven Crisler Says Michigan tan Just Cant Can't Play Irish By Charles Charle Einstein CHICAGO Oct 26 They INS INS They asked Fritz Crisler when his school was going to play Notre Dame in football and the University of Michigan athletic director told them in a polite way ay He didn't say never but he approximated it ii at least least the way football lifetimes come and go What hat Crisler did say at the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Herald-American's Herald Quarterback Quarterback Quarter Quarter- back club meeting Monday is that Michigan is booked solid through the 1952 season The reason he didn't say 1953 or 1954 or maybe 1975 was that Michigan l is booking only ahead to 52 at this point What Crisler actually said in between telling some funny stories was this Michigan by western conference conference conference confer confer- ence legislation can play only nine games in a season Six of these games also by conference rule must be against conference n en ts That leaves three ence games for us each We Ve feel impelled to play one of these games against Michigan State each year ear Due to great concentrations of Michigan alumni both hoth on the east and west coasts Michigan has scheduled one eastern opponent and one far western opponent for each season through 1952 Theres There's your our nine games We couldn't fit Notre Dame in in and and I might say we dont don't have a particularly large number of alumni in South Bend md Ind Ind The way Crisler told it it it was as common sense and little or nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing else Six conference games plus the one you have to pIa play against Michigan 1 State Stale plus the theone theone theone one for the eastern fans plus the theone theone one for the western fans equals nine and nine is all you ou can play He didn't to be sure touch on ih the possibility of taking that game say for the eastern fans and makIng making making mak mak- ing it Michigan 1 vs Notre Dame at Yankee stadium New York Eastern fans might go for that Of Or course there is always oS the business about big conferences like the Big Nine not wanting to take football off the college campus not wanting it to get out of hand That maybe is wh why hy Illinois played Army at Yankee stadium last year ear and Michigan 1 played Army there in 1945 19 Or maybe the Rose bowl Notre Noire Dame of course is party to no such schedule limitations as asIs asis asis is Michigan 1 The Irish manage to show up east and west at frequent intervals inter and seem to be pleasing their alumni Furthermore there is no i reason eason to suspect Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy didn't mean what he said a year ago Notre Dame will vill play Michigan anywhere at any place an any time |