FRIDAY, JANUARY 5,1968 THE VANDALS, AND THE Howard Kohn Sports 1967: That Was TheYear That.. We all remember most of the top sports stories of the year. For instance, Princeton (La.) High topping C. H. Iron of Benton (La.), 182-21 after holding a 97-6 halftime lead. Dick Radatz, former Boston Red Sox firearm, putting in a relief performance for Tacoma, Wash., in the Pacific Coast League and walking six straight batters while throwing three wild pitches. Ten-year-old Beverly Klass shooting an 88 in the Dallas Civitan Open before being ruled ineligible for professional tournaments. And Joe Palooka becoming the first white heavyweight boxer to regain his title when he decisioned Basher Bray. But the real stories of the year were in the forgotten words of some of our most beloved sports people. Don't you remember when .... Dave Strack said, "We'll get better before we get worse." Jethro Pugh, Dallas Cowboy middle guard, said, "If we stopped them twice we can do it again." 4 Jim Lonborg, on the sunny ski slopes of northern California, said, "Watch this, I can do a double somersault." Joe Schmidt, Detroit Lion coach, said, "If there's one thing I want to impress upon you-don't fumble the ball against the Vikings." Parnelli Jones, Indianapolis race driver, said, "Here's your six bucks. Just give me the ball bearing." Forest Evashevski said, "What alumni group?" Herb Elliott, distance runner said, "Jim Ryun will probably not have enough drive to break all the world records." Duffy Daugherty, "Most teams don't win the Big Ten three times in a row. But then we're not most teams." Bump Elliott said, "This team is inexperienced and we'll beI lucky to win half our games." Cassius Clay's draft board said, "Just because you've given up your wife, your home and your career for your religion, we don't feel you qualify as a conscientious objector." Al Kaline said, "Take that, you crummy batrack, and that, and that ..." Eddie Stanky said, "Of course we'll bounce back, we've bounced back before." The Boston Bruins said, "Which brawl?" NCAA basketball rules officials said, "The no-dunk rule was not aimed at one individual player." Bobby Ussery, winning jockey in the Kentucky Derby, said, "Me? Ride a 30-1 Shot?" Mayo Smith, Detroit Tiger manager, said, "Of course I'm not upset with Denny McLain just because he kicked his television set and broke his toe and can't pitch in our last series when we have to play *four games in two days and have only three starters." Johnny Pont, Indiana coach, said, "We could be a darkhorse con- tender." Baseball's All-Stars said, "This should be a slugging contest. Look at all the power hitters." Murray Warmath, Minnesota coach, said, "I suppose they're going to use that silly rule about who went last to decide who's going to the # Rose Bowl." It wasn't sticks and stones all over, but John Coatta, head football coach of Wisconsin's winless Badgers, would probably just as soon forget his foot-long words: "We'll be all right once we get one win under our belts." Happy New Year! T1IE MIICI1AN DAILY PAGE THREE . . . ........................ . . . ... . . . .. ...... . .. .... ....... . ....... 1Vaten e sotAgainst Illinois By BOB LEES The Michigan wrestling team, fresh from a runner-up spot in last year's NCAA meet and picked by the Wrestling News to finish tops in the nation this year, starts the season off with a bang this weekend. Beginning at 3:00 this after- noon, the Wolverine grapplers open their dual meet season by playing host to the matmen from Illinois in the new Events Build- ing. And, before that structure gets a chance to recover from the shock of falling bodies, fast-rising Indiana follows tomorrow to in- vade Wolverine territory at 2:00 with the performaice in general. A fifth-place finish with all those top-flight schools looks good on paper, but we felt we weren't up to our capability." Yet both Bay and wrestling coach Cliff Keen agree that the Wolverine squad had a lot of things working against them when they took to the mats. "For one thing, this was our first meet of the year," declares Keen. "Some of those schools, like Indiana and Michigan State, already had four or five meets under their belts. This was our first taste of com- petition, and we just weren't tuned up right." p.m. "Not only that," concurs Bay; Worried "for the three weeks prior to the It is the Indiana squad, how- tournament we had no organized ever, that the Wolverines are ap- practices. And Pete Cornell, forI prehensive about, and with good example, had been injured two reason. The Hoosiers, listed as a weeks before the tourney. His potential top ten squad by the match in the opening round was Wrestling News, finished sixth in his first time on the mats since the Midlands Tournament, held then, and it showed." over Christmas vacation in La- Only four Wolverine wrestlers Grange, Ill. But they were only placed in the tourney, and none two points behind the fifth-place grabbed a position higher than team-the Wolverines. third. But Bay says that "we had Forty teams were entered in the some pleasant surprises along the LaGrange event, and over 400 way. Some boys disappointed us, wrestlers took part. The fifth- but some did a lot better than we place Michigan finish equalled the thought." Michigan ended up Wolverines' effort in the same with two third-place finishers tourney last year, but as assistant and two in the fourth position. grappling coach Rick Bay put Ron Scherer, wrestling at 115 it, "We were frankly disappointed pounds, took a third place by pin- ni)g Eastern Michgan's Dale Kestel. IHis only loss was to the Midland's defending champ, Dave Keller of Toledo, on a referee's decision. But Scherer wasn't through Iwith surprises: earlier this week he transferred to an Ohio school. "We were kind of counting on him for tournament points in his weight," says Bay ruefully. At 123 pounds, however, the tables were reversed. Steve Rubin, a transer student himself from Ohio State who, under NCAA rules sat 0out his sophomore year, grabbed a fourth place after los- ing two matches. In the semi- finals, he was decisioned by In- diana State's Ted Parker, who finished fourth in a strong NCAA 123 field last year, while the con- solation finals saw a win by In- diana's Don Barnard. Another Lou Hudson Lou Hudson, a powerful sopho- more, also took a fourth place in his specialty, the 130 class. "He wrestled well," praises Bay, "but had the misfortune to run into Michigan State's Don Behm inI the semifinals. Yet his 9-4 loss there was closer than the score indicates." In the consolation fi- nals, Hudson lost 7-3 to Indiana's Tim McCall, runner-up to Behm in the Big Ten. The other Woherine to place was senior 152-pounder Fred Stehman, matches. One of Hanson's victor- to be in shape for the weekend ies, incidently, was by default over meets. Steve Bay. brother of Michigan's As of yesterday. challenge assistant coachI matches were still being held in a While the fifth-place perforn- few weights to determine starting ance was somewhat disappointing, assignments. The lineup has been Bay admits that "we didn't make pretty well determined by now. a concerted effort for the team howveor. and the Wolverine: title. We were more interested in should present the following start- giving as many boys as possible a ers against the Illini and the chance to participate in actual Hoosiers (where two names are competition." Actually only two- mentioned, the wrestlers will prob- thirds of the squad was present ably split starting assignment.si: at LaGrange. Eight boys partici- At 123 pounds will be juniors pated in the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., In- Rubin or Bob Noel. vitational, and star heavyweight At 130 pounds will be Hudson. Dave Porter was fresh from the At 137 pounds will be Henson. North-South football game. At 145 pounds will be sopho- At the Wilkes-Barre tourney mores Jim Sanger or Lane Head- only one Michigan grappler took a rick. place, as senior 177-pounder At 152 pounds will be Stehnan. Wayne Wentz took fourth in his At 160 pounds will be senior weight. Junior Geoff Henson, Wayne Hanson. wrestling at 137 pounds, won a At 167 pounds will be senior Bil couple of matches, but was elimi- Waterman. nated before the semis and did not At 177 pounds will be Cornel, wrestle back. a junior, or Wentz. BOB LOFFREDO who took a third after losing 3-1 to Iowa's State's Don Martin on a third-period takedown in the semifinals, Wrestling back, he de- feated Bob Loffredo from Illinois, whom Bay terms "their best boy," on a referee's decision in the con- solation finals. Other bright spots for Michigan followers were the performances of 160-pounders John Hellner, a sophomore, and Wayne Hanson, a senior, both of whom won two Out of Shape In general, both coaches felt that lack of proper conditioning, more than anything else, was the downfall of the squad as a whole. "In several instances," Bay recalls, "our boys had quick early leads,. only to run out of gas in the end." Somewhat worried at this turn of events, the coaches have had the team in practice all week in order At heavyweight will be Porter, captain of this year's squad or sophomore Pete Drehmann. 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