Sport: The Case for Michigan

After Michigan scored its sixth touchdown, Coach Fritz Crisler sent his fancy first-stringers back into the game. This was no spare-the-enemy contest, or a save-yourself-for-next Saturday spirit; this was the season's end, and it was mayhem with a motive. So people thought Notre Dame was 1947's team of the year, did they? Crisler was out to set the record straight—by beating Southern California worse than Notre Dame had (38 to 7). On grass sprayed with paint to look even greener (for this was in Southern California), the Rose Bowl slaughter continued before 93,000...

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