Show ID hurry u up yost Is st still f wearing the same old will rogers grin the man who came to ann arbor as head coach with willie heston 40 years ago today as a s athletic director looks at tom harmon 1 one 0 n e of the greatest running backs of 0 f all time forty years year ago wolverine supporters chanting rhe yellow and the blue looked upon willie heston as the nonpareil today the sport loving city of detroit cant believe that heston was another barmon baridon idon As long as both belong to michigan football history yost merely grins 1 what about an all time michigan backfield he asks with benny friedman ledman Fr at quarter heston and harmon at the halves and johnny garrels at full what other all time coll college gi backfield could ever equal the that t bunch name one the closest we could think of included thorpe calac guyon and hudson or mt mi pleasant at carlisle or gipp Savo lill dl eichenlaub and carideo or donals of notre dame not overlooking over boking marty marly brill the michigan collection still leads the harmon case when you get right down to the facts in the case tommy harmon of michigan has already proved his place in the football roundup in the 21 or more games of his career he has been a star at almost every start they have checked him and there as bob did a year ago but dont forget that even 0 2 TOM HARMON the brilliant red grange knew games where he failed to pick up two first downs I 1 saw one against nebraska football has known too many great backs to offer you any complete list it had bad known some even before the days of snake ames at princeton one of the best around 1889 heston eckersall thorpe coy mahan tryon gipp nevers grange N joesting stevens dutch clarke white and a long list of others have led the parade at one time or another dont believe for a second that all had nothing but big b g days they have all known dark days on one or more occasions grange stopped I 1 still recall the day when I 1 traveled with our town frank craven the football loving actor to urbana to see red grange run against nebraska which had a tackle by the name of weir a pound hurdler that day we failed to see the famous redhead cross the scrimmage line frank reagan made over yards against princeton but only six aal yal yards ds at ball carrying against michigan fritz P pollard ird at brown was a star back but colgate stopped him colder than two dead mackerel N no 0 one can keep running running for ever the there re were few backs the equals of f eddie mahan the harvard scythe but cornell arrested his march at the line of scrimmage one afternoon there Is abig a big argument now under way from berkeley to cambridge meaning the pacific and the atlantic as to where lip rmon belongs in thi the galaxy of stars many of them will tell you evashevski made him harmon will say so self made back evashevski Is one of the best blocking backs of this generation A grand football player but he make tommy harmon harmon made harmon when evashevski went out in the perm penn game and his substitute entered harmon picked up even more aroun ground d great backs make themselves not their blockers who can certainly help butane but the main job Is still up to the outstanding ball carrier given any sort of a chance to get in motion the point Is that harmon has been a star since his first game a star t from his first game lu in 1938 to his last charge against pennsylvania when he rangild ran wild against california starting his last college season scoring 28 23 points they all said the golden bear was only a fuzzy kitten but the golden bear came back to beat st marys the team that beat fordham and to hold hol d washington to a 70 76 7 0 6 decision after t r washington had bad played minnesota practically to a standstill I 1 so california must have had a few good football players on the field |