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Detroiters Ready
For Maccabiah

MIKE ROSENBAUM

Special to the jewish News

ack Gitler :s one of many recently graduat-
ed_ high school students making the transi-
tion to college life_ But he's one of the few
Nvho's also making an unusual athletic tran-
sition.
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For the past four years, Gitler has changed
sports with the seasons and earned the maximum
12 varsity letters at Berkley High School. He as
a four-year defensive starter on the football -team,
he wrestled for four varsity seasons and spent four
springs throwing the discus and shot put for the
ack squad.
: But that will change this fall, as Gitler will concen-
-•te solely on football at Western Michigan Universit-y,
ere he's earned a full athletic scholarship.
rkley football coach Tim Schafer believes that
s three-sport strategy helped him as a football

jack Gitler was an
all-star in three sports.

