Tuesday, November 23, I937 {litailenge is 1 birong Trix-State Team to Get First Blows of Fighting Erich Forming the first opposition for the 1937~38 Techawks, the Milwau— kee Engineers will invade the 108th Engineers Armory for the cage opener on December 1. A strong team with a strong record is to afford heavy competition for the local boys who also boast one of the strongest teams of the smaller colleges in the middle west. Members of Tri-Slate Conference The Milwaukee Engineers are members of the Tri-state Inter- collegiate Conference. In the past three years, in which they have be- longed to the conference, they have won 18 games and lost 8. In these years they have ended up in second place, first place, and a tie for third. They held the championship two sea- sons ago. With this record in view, the Techawks can begin to ”see this po— tential victory as a real feather for their caps. Although the Milwaukee five has been raking in a 700 aver- age of games played, the Armour quintet has been hitting above the 500 mark, 588 for the past three years. The Techawks boast eight let< termcn, just double those of the team from the North. Probable Starting Lineup A starting line-up for the North- erners will probably consist of Niven— berg and Recs, as forwards; Bissell or Dorg, as center; and Captain Gutowski and Sharp or Kahlow as guards. ilwauiaee Engineers Techawk hive otter generations" l By Ray Brawn With a rather inauspicious ending for such a hectic schedule, the touch- hall tourney made its final bow last Friday afternoon. Amid a flurry of snow, before a few scattered specta- tors who braved the elements to see the game, the new champions of Armour the junior chemicals were crowned. >11 '1‘ it In their trek to the championship, the junior chems played a total of nine games, They won eight of these and had but one tie chalked up against them, and piled up a total of 112 points to their opponents meagre 19. m .1 s- For those who like to look a! sta— tistics, here are some of the outstand- ing one; of the tournament: The tourney was completed in six weeks. There were a total of forty-three games played. There were three scoreless tics. Five tie games were played. An- other five was brought in in the num- ber of forfeited games. The greatest shut out score was 30—0, made twice, once when the sen— ior mechs defeated the junior firc protects, and again when the senior fire protects let loose against the soph chems. The largest score turned in was ARMOUR TECH NEWS Delta Tau Delta Wins Fraternity Touchball Title Unleashing darting running plays, an inspired Delt aggregation ran over the Rho Delts, 12-0 last Tuesday for the fraternity championship. With the Delta showing deceptive passing and brilliant open field run— ning, abetted by hard blocking, the Rho Delts had difiiculty in stopping their drives. First Score on Fumble The first score came as a result of a fumble by Rothen‘berg. The Delta had puntcd, and as Rothenberg, caught the punt, Basile tagged him. Evidently the Rho Delt safety man by the senior chems when they de- feated the junior elects 36-6. fl‘ :1: w The Techawks will have a lineup on the order of O’Brien and Hoffman to the fore, Swanson in the center, and Henricksen and O’Connell in the guard positions. Wagner, Sheehan, Janicck, Kubicka and Schcrer also have starting chances. Lettermen of the invading squad include Captain William Gutowski, The finishing order of the teams who finished with averages of .500 or better is posted below: W. L 1’ Ch. E. ’39 . . Ch. E. ’38 . . M. E. .875 .7 15 .715 .600 .600 .500 .500 . T l 1 l l 2 l 0 0 NNNNNNNC Roy Nivenberg, Howard Seagrist, and Charles Arnold. Minor “E’s” are held by Arnold Kenther, Robert Sharp, and Willard Boeswetter. Cap— tain Gutowski and Nivenhcrg are all- conference selections. Tech Letterman Tech lettermen include covcaptains O’Connell and O’Brien; Sheehan, Wagner, Swanson, Henrickson, Jani- cck, and Kubicka. The Milwaukee boys have played Wheaten, Aurora, Lake Forest, an North Park colleges of the Chicago area. Of these four, Armour deals with the Wheaton and Lake Forest aggregations. Coach William Kaplan will lead the visitors against Coach Grant Sten— ger’s regiments. The Milwaukee basketeers will be in their uniforms of white silk shirts and red silk shorts. Fraternities 3am ‘ Cage Warfare Soon Having withdrawn from the bloody gridiron scenes of Ogden field, fra- ternities will resume their conflicts in the Armour cheese box after the holidays. The cage opener will be De- cember 3, with S.A.M. challenging the Phi Pi monopolizers who have held the title for nineteen years. The Delta who capped the touch- ball honors and who threatened the Phi Pi’s in the cage final last year, will be the chief rival contender for this year’s title. They play the Phi Kappa Sigma squad on the sixth. Rho Delta will meet Pi Kappa Phi by December 8, leaving Triangle and Theta Xi to play off the last of the Initial round. The Phi Pi’s won their consecutive title last year downed Delta Tau Delta, high scoring of Kubicka Phi Pi’s record from the nineteenth when they 22~16. The saved the threats of Saying goodbye to touchball for another year we move into the realm of the various other sports activities around the campus. 1; t it Last Wednesday, when the wrest— lers stepped into action they really showed some fast working, chalking up seven pins out of eight matches for a. 35 to 5 win. We hope they keep it up, and are looking forward to seeing them in action here in the near future. a e t: Although they were prepared to open their home schedule against De— Kalb here this week, the meet has been called ofi' so that we will have to be patient for a few more weeks. ‘4) VS ’3 From a look at the number of en- tries tnrned in for the boxing and wrestling tourney, it seems that en- thusiasm has been rather mild. We hope, however, that the reason was the touchball tourney, and that now that the latter has moved out of the picture, the entries will start flow— ing in. Come on fellows, let’s make it bigger and better than last year’s! 5F 3% ¥ Tennis has, it looks like, moved definitely out of the picture now that old man winter has come to the fore. While the prolonged spring—like weather still favored us we had hopes of the tourney reaching a conclusion, _______.__..__.——— next high, Scherer, a Delta freshman. This year the Phi Pi five will have to score hard for their “score” of vic- tories. It will be a twenty year rec— ord if they manage to down all those rivals who are out to break up the Phi Pi monopoly. 1.000 t was shocked at the sudden appear— ance of Basile because he dropped the ball, which Basile immediately recov— ered. With the hall now in possession of the Bolts on the three yard line, the Delta pushed the ball over on a run by Engelthaler. The Rho Delts seemed to luck co- ordination in both running and passing, while the Delts’ pass defense was nigh perfect. After exchange of punts, of which the Dclts received the advantage, the Delta again found themselves within scoring dis— tance. An off track run by Engel- thalcr aided by the ferocious block- ing by McIntyre, brought the ball up to the 10 yd. marker. From there a short pass to Laise was good for another six points. Dells Show Strength The Delta showed their superiority and their right to the fraternity touchhall title by their smashing style of play. End runs by Engel- thaler and Luise aided by the block- ing‘ of McIntyre were greatly re- sponsible for the Delt stamina. Meanwhile the heavy Delt defense broke up the serious threats of Roth— enberg and Scidenberg, fleet Basile nipping many a Rho Delt play in the bud. In the second half the Rho Delta came back with a vengeance, with Rothenberg making several long runs. But the Delts tightened up their defensive belts. and as the day was growing short, with semi-dark- ness setting in, the Rho Dclts found themselves holding the short end of a 12-0 score. Strong Track Team to Resume Practice With all of last year’s men back and several new men added, the track team is billed to start its indoor sea- son soon. Practice will be held as usual at the University of Chicago Field House. Dick Vandekieft, a major letter winner last year, should be back in great condition after his knee operation. With Bingham and Dunbar in the sprints, Ryan in the quarter-mile Finnegan and Deuter in the half, Rothenberg in the hurdles, and Faust for the distance runs, the team will be well—balanced in the track events. Dixon, in the pole vaule. Vandekieft tossing- the shot, and Simeon high— jumping will bring more points in the field events. There will be a meeting before the start of practice, at which any new men who intend to come out will be welcomed by Coach Root. but now we guess that they’ll just have to file away the brackets and wait for next spring to come along. 1%: a: a; The new method of choosing the intramural athletic manager is a de- cided improvement for that depart- ment. In past years men were selected and went to work only with records to work by, but by this new method, the man chosen will be thoroughly acquainted with his job and will, therefore, be able to cope much bet. ter with its problems. It as We haven’t been able to find out any date yet but a track meeting is almost sure to be called for sometime this week. ,, r» * Wrestlers when with 35—5 Win Win Seven. Out of Eight Against Morton Armour's grapplers made a very auspicious beginning of their met season by downing with considerable ease the Morton Junior College team, 35-5, and also winning both of, the exhibition bouts. Armour‘s representatives clearly demonstrated their superiority by winning seven out of the eight bouts of the meet, bowing only to their opponents in the 125 pound division. The victors started out strongly and finished up the same way. In the first bout of. the evening, the first of two exhibition bouts, Rupek in the 135 pound class pinned Pos- vic in a strenuous 5 minutes and 28 seconds. Kubik, 165. wound up the exhibitions by pinning Best in the short time of 1:23. Adelson Wino Willi Pin In the first of the eight main bouts of the evening, Adelson gave Armour its initial five points by overcoming his man in 5:36. Morton tied the meet up by virtue of Vosen’s leg pin of McDaniel in the remarkably short time of 15 seconds. From then on it was all Armour. Captain Dunne, at 132, after but- tling on quite even terms with Brez‘ inski during the early part of: the match showed more endurance and was able to achieve his victory in 5:28. In the 145 pound division Hanna and Andrews grappled with each other, with Hanna finally man. euvering his opponent into position and pinning his shoulders in 5:14 for Armour-’5 third victory. l Nigrelli Wins in 5:23 Nigrclli, 155 poundcr encountered some stubborn opposition in Hamm but was able to add another victory to Armour’s growing string of vic- tories in subduing him in 5:23. Maxant, 165, had the advantage over anusky all the way and was able to pin his opponent in 3:2. Tullgren continued the good work of hastening the end of the meet by pinning Siml in the 175 pound class in' 3:37. McIntyre ended the bouts in a blaze of glory for Armour by making: short work of Menecek, pin- ning him to the floor in the excep— tional time of 48 seconds, Thus the Armour wrestlers showed too much power for their opponents and by taking seven out of the eight bouts were victorious, 35-5 in their initial meat of the season. «SENIOR SCHMIERS, BROTHER JUNIORS WIN SEMIFINALS The semi-finals of this year’s touch— ball tournament saw the elimination of the senior fire protects on Wed— nesday by the junior chemicals, and Thursday the ousting of last year’s runners-up, the senior mechanicals by the senior chemicals. Junior Chemo Oust Actuarials The junior chemicals, undefeated champs of the tournament, took the fire protects to the tune of 15-0, con~ fining all of their scoring to the first half. Rothenberg, kicking for the juniors, got off a nice high punt deep into senior territory, from where it was run back to midfield. A pass, two running plays, and a kick wound up the downs for the seniors. The juniors could do no better, but a kick by Rothenberg gave them a distinct advantage when it rolled out of bounds on the seniors’ two yard line. This advantage was converted into points when Ryan of the juniors, on the next play, tagged Arends be- hind his own goal for a safety. The free kick of the sear s was carried back beautifully by Know. Juniors Score Again The next play saw another score for the juniors accomplished by one of the neatrst plays of the entire ltournament. Rothenberg, fading [back as to pass, side-stepped the in- rushing seniors, and with Ryan blocking commenced a dash down the left side of the field. He then tagged to the right side and when almost tagged, lateraled to Moon- leski who ran over the goal with both Fencing once more is having a re- Ryan and Rothenberg new block« vival, one that we hope will be per- manent this time. The men are prac- ticing‘ diligently in the gym each week and showing indications of sustained effort which is all that the sport is in need of to keep going. ng‘. With one play left to the half the juniors again scored on a pass from Rothenberg to Kruse, who was sur- rounded by opponents. The extra point was scored in the same manner Look for Three Juniors to Help Sports Manager Although the junior intramural sports manager advertisement was included in last week’s issue 01' the News, only one enterprising junior took advantage of the opportunity offered. A bid for next year’s posin tion as intramural manager is pos- sible only through this action. The applications are to be present- ed by juniors who are not on varsity teams, and who are interested in sports. Three juniors will be select» ed by Chclgren to assist, and from these three will come the successor to Chelgren next year. Wrestling Tourney Tums ini'erciass According to managers Basile and DeBoo, the intramural wrestling and boxing tourney will be converted to an interclass affair. This was the decision made at the end of last week when twelve wrestlers and about six boxers put in their independent entries. The intcrclass innovation to the run—oil's is reason to believe that more entries will be pushed through by clans interests. The tourney will be staged a week or two before the Christmas holidays, two weeks later than the original date set. o... {,2- mcui 5“" Boxers and wrestlers will repre- sent their respective classes and will complete only with other entries of their class. The linols will include battles in both the mat and ring di~ visions between the winners in each class. The qualifications for entry were specifically stated late last week. All students are eligible who have not battled for points in an intercollegiate meet on the Armour squad. This re— striction excludes men who have staged only exhibition bouts for the Armour meets, allowing such artists to enter. M vonly there were a few less opponents surrounding the pass receiver. By the time of the second half both teams were so cold that they couldn’t score, as in the case of the fire protects; or they didn’t have any desire to, an seemed to he the case of the juniors. Senior Chemo Shut Out Macho Playing on a field covered with the first snow of the year, the senior chemicals trampled the senior mechanicals beneath their feet as they marched on to a 12-0 victory. Both of the scores were made in the ast five minutes of the first half, old man winter coming to the fore and freezing the hands of the players to uch an extent that passing and re‘ cciving an icy ball other than early 11 the game was an impossibility. Conditions were too hard for either team to work the ball from out of their own territory into a scoring position in four plays. Both of the chemical touchdown plays were preceded by pass inter- ceptions by Kubik comparatively close to the goal line. The chemi- cals successfully completed one of their renowned razzle-dazzlc rc- verses to make their first score. Kuv bik received the ball from center, cut to the right and gave the ball to Marshall who, hesitating as if to ‘pass, confused the mechanicals suffi- ciently to gain that precious second needed to break into a run and cover the distance to the goal. The chem- icals failed to convert the extra point. Meclis Weak on Blocking For, perhaps, the first time during the tournament the mechanicals were noticeably weak on blocking. Time after time the chemicals broke through tagging the mech passer before he had rid himself of the ball or causing: a fluke pass. O’Connell of the chems pulled a scewy play from out of his bag of tricks that height— ened the morning entertainment; a play that caused much ‘controversy’ them a touchdown. the other hand were of the oppo~ site viewpoint, and after the consid- eration the refs agreed with them. Undaunted by this decision of the ruling body, the chemicals proceeded Page Three lladcioated; Win Touchhall Title Smash Senior Team boil in Final Game 0n Snow SCORE IN THREE PLAYS ’Mid a flurry of snow, Ruck Island soot and arguments, the junior chem- icals wrestled the school touchball title from their senior blood kin (l to 0 to wind up the long drawn out departmental touchball tourney. It took just three plays to do it, the first three of the game, after which the game resolved itself into a death struggle between the contenders, and an even more grim and grueling con— test between the scattered spectators and the raging elements. Opening Kick Short Rothenberg‘s opening kick went just ten yards when Adeszko covered it, technically giving the hall to the juniors.“‘ (Ed. notc.~—asterisks shall be used hence to denote prolonged ar‘ guements). Rothcnburg then heaved a long pass to Adeszko, and inter. ‘Ii'ercucc was ruled on the play.“ The ball on the senior ten yard stripe, Adcszko took the pass from center and shot it into a milling mass of schmicrs in the end zone. A few sec- onds later Rothenburg came out of the huddle mentioned, holding the ball. Score, juniors 6, seniors 0. The attempt to convert was only an at- tempt, thc score remaining the same. The first senior offensive on Green’s reverse turned into an inter- cepted pass. The juniors lost ground on several would be running plays and finally kicked to mid—field. The seniors again took to the air, and again Adeszko intercepted. Dunne's energetic rushing broke up several ’39 plays, and Green returned their kick from midfield into enemy terri- Lory. Seniors Threaten A real ‘38 scoring threat came midway in the first period. The senior schmicr motors who would rather freeze than work in juice lab, brushed the frost from their noses when Green ran 15 yards and a pass to Marshall on the 3 yard line was ruled good on interference."‘* O’Con- nell strategy (a center plunge) netted a yard. The snow fell heavier on senior hopes when Kubik’s touch— down pass wafted into the end zone instead of the receiver‘s arms. A last attempt to tie up the game by half time was upset when Kuhik slipped and fell, losing the ball on downs on the 9 yard line. The second period saw no spectac- ular play, but there was a lot of hard blocking. After losing ground on successive plays, Rothenberg un- leashed a beautiful pass to Lyckberg for a clean 30 yards. On the final down Rothenbei-g passed into Dear- born street. The seniors gained 20 yards on a run and a pass, after which Marshall puntcd beautifully offside on the '39 two and one—half yard line. Juniors Move to Safety The juniors promptly retaliated, and through passes to Kruse and Lyckberg moved the ball to safety. Green heaved a nice pass to Dunne. but trying to hold a pigskin that felt like a bowling ball, in cold hands on a field that resembled a skating rink was too much for Jimmy (and any- body clse.) The last five minutes of play saw two evenly matched teams, neither threatening to score. W between the teams, and no end of embarrnscment for the refs. The ball was short centered from the one yard line to O’Connel who with his arms outstcnded, holding the ball, fell across the goal line at the same time that he was tagged. The chem)? cals maintained that the position of the ball at the time of tagging de» tel-mined the soot where the ball should lie. This would have given The mechs, on to score on the next play. This ended the scoring and also anything worthy of comment for the duration of the game.