2017 is the 75th anniversary of Ohio State's first national championship season. To honor the achievement, this series will post articles from the Columbus Citizen Journal on the day they ran in 1942.

In Today's Paper:

• Don Hawk gives the weight disparities and starting lineups.
• Getchell illustrates how the game against the Iowa Seahawks might get confusing.
• Lew Byrer picks the Buckeyes to win, but doesn't.
• Peterson picks the Seahawks.
• Carlings is promoting hard working Americans to drink its beer.

The Ohio State gridiron team bucked a high wind last night as it took a holiday workout for the game Saturday with the Iowa City Naval Pre-Flight Cadets.

Manned by a group of former professional, All-American, All-Big Ten and collegiate stars, the Cadets rate as the one team in the country with the best personnel from the top of the lineup to the bottom through the first three or four teams.

The sailors, coached by Bernie Bierman, veteran of Big Ten campaigns during which his Minnesota teams won six conference championships in eight years, will be in the finest physical condition for this game.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers visited Iowa City for a tussle with the Cadets last week and were blasted almost out of the stadium by (a) 46-0 score, worst defeat for the Cornhuskers in football history.

Five full teams were in operation for that game for the Seahawks with the result that the regulars were given just enough work to keep them in good condition but not enough to risk getting hurt.

Great Running Team

Bierman's team is the most powerful running team the Bucks have had to face this year. The outstanding personnel plus the Bierman system which always produces a good running attack make this a fact. The squad has won seven of the eight games it has played so far this season with only a 28-0 loss to Notre Dame to mar its record.

The Seahawks are due early this evening and will then retire to their hotel to remain until game time Saturday.

Meanwhile, preparation for the coming tilt reached the final stages Thursday with a review of both the offense and the defense in the Buckeye camp. The Buck team worked to perfect a good running attack to throw against a five-man line and at the same time prepared its aerial attack to cope with the seven-man forward wall since Coach Paul Brown is expecting to face both against the Seahawks.

Spirit has been running high in the Buck camp all week and workouts have progressed with snap and dash enough to convince observers that the Bucks will not be beaten before they step out on the field Saturday. The players know that a victory over the Seahawks would be a real feather in their individual and collective caps and will be out to play this game for all it's worth.

Big Weight Margin

In fact, spirit is just about the only advantage that the Bucks will have over the Seahawks when the records are examined. The Seahawks will carry a weight advantage of 21 pounds per man on the line and an average of 16 pounds per man in the backfield. Ohio State will be giving up years and years in age and experience. The Seahawks have just as fine a record for the season as do the Bucks. But the Ohio State team will have the advantage probably in speed and certainly in team spirit and will to win.

"If the Seahawks come here with blood in their eyes," Brown worried after his holiday lunch yesterday, "they'll best us because they're better. The players are keying themselves up to knock us off while we're on top of the league and will be out to show us how to play the game."

The Buckeye crippled list will be just about the same as it was last week. Tommy James may be in condition that he could be used for running or for throwing short passes, but his arm is no condition to play effective football, particularly not on pass defense.

Bill Sedor, substitute left end, will still be on the bench nursing the twisted knee that has kept him out of action for several weeks.

Possible Starting Lineups

OHIO STATE	POSITION	SEAHAWKS
DON STEINBERG	LE	ANTIL (MIN.)
BILL WILLIS	LT	REAM (OSU)
HAL DEAN	LG	FLICK (MIN.)
BILL VICKROY	C	SVENDSNEN (MIN.)
LIN HOUSTON	RG	GAGE (WIS.)
CHARLES CSURI	RT	SCHULTZ (MIN.)
BOB SHAW	RE	KUTNER (TEX.)
GEORGE LYNN	QB	EVASHEVSKI (MICH.)
PAUL SARRINGHAUS	LH	FISCHER (OSU)
LES HORVATH	RH	LANGHURST (OSU)
GENE FEKETE	FB	JANKOWSKI (WIS.)

"It's a toss-up", Lt. Col. Bernie Bierman, coach of the Iowa Seahawks said of tomorrow's game with Ohio State in Columbus as he loaded his Cadets aboard a train bound for the Buckeye capital.

The Hawks are due in Columbus early this evening.

The cadet squad will include four full teams and the party contains 47 men.

Writing sports in Columbus since 1918, your correspondent has never predicted Ohio State football defeat.

So he's predicting that Ohio State will win from Bernie Bierman's Iowa Seahawks tomorrow by one point.

But he's crossing his fingers, playing a hunch, going against his idea of the possibilities.

In the first place Ohio State was high against Michigan last Saturday in winning 21-7. The Bucks won a grand victory but took a tough physical and mental bruising in doing it. It's hard to get a team back to it's peak one week after a game at it's (sic) peak. Paul Brown may do it. If he does this observer will hail him as the No. 1 miracle man of football.

Dr. Jack Wilce, who coached Ohio State football from 1913 through 1928, used to explain it this way.

"When a team is keyed up its players call upon an excessive supply of adrenalin (sic), a powerful heart stimulant. The glands which produce adrenalin only produce so much over a given period of time. If too much is produced over one period there'll be a deficiency for some time to come."

Reducing that to a sport page language it goes like this:

"If you're too hot today you may not be so hot tomorrow or next week."

Ohio State was plenty hot last week against Michigan. I'm not expecting Ohio State to be that hot against Bernie Bierman's Iowa Preflight Cadets tomorrow.

I'm still predicting an Ohio State victory, by one point...!

Toughest Foes Yet

For several reasons the pre-game sale for the Buck-Seahawk game hasn't been so hot. 

Lack of tradition, the Fort Knox showing, last Saturday's weather, the anti-climax after the Michigan game, the fact that Ohio State has already won the Western Conference title, the Seahawk loss to Notre Dame are a few of the reasons.

But in this observer's opinion the Bucks will be facing the toughest opposition they've found all season tomorrow.

The records for the season give Ohio State a better than even chance to win. Ohio has played nine games winning eight, losing one. The Seahawks have played eight, winning seven, losing one.

Reasons for Worry

The reasons a lot of us are so apprehensive about this Seahawk game are:

No. 1---Bernie Bierman, the Seahawk coach, one of the greatest in the business, a canny veteran who can produce a great team and key it to a high pitch.

No. 2---The Seahawk lineup which includes, in addition to Dick Fisher, Jimmy Langhurst and Charlie Ream, former Ohio State stars, as formidable an aggregation of great players as has ever been gathered by any gridiron outfit except the Chicago Bears.

No. 3---The fact that the Hawks will be striving for three things---to overcome the sting of the 28-0 Notre Dame defeat, to defeat the Western Conference champions, to make it possible for them to win from two conference champions in a row by defeating Ohio State tomorrow and the Big Six champions the following week when they meet Missouri.

No. 4---The Bucks are bruised and battered after a marvelous campaign which brought them the Western Conference championship.

So I'm very much worried about it all. But I'm still predicting an Ohio State victory---by one point.

Is it me, or is Mr. Byrer not sold on his prediction that Ohio State will win this game?

The last roundup of football selections for 1942 just when things were looking up (last week 25 right, 11 wrong, average .695):

Army over Navy---But the sailors, playing before an exclusive Annapolis group, might well take it.

Boston College over Holycross (sic)---This is the game crusaders always point for, but pointing won't be enough this time.

Georgia over Georgia Tech---On a hunch that Sinkwich will be out to sink 'em to keep Bowl hopes alive.

Notre Dame over Southern California---The Irish hold the edge but records mean nothing in this one.

Iowa Cadets over Ohio State---This is one the Seahawks are pointing for.

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