"MMMMON PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JANUAR'Y' 6, 1968 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JANUARY 8,1968 FRATERNITY Cagers Ope Conference Scramble Purdue BatI Indiana to 1 tles OSU; )efend Title Indiana (6-3), and Iowa (5-4) at Northwestern (5-4) tonight. Indiana fared better than the other defending co-champion, Michigan State, in non-loop play, but both ended outside campaign- ing with three straight setbacks. Last season, Indiana and Mich- igan State shared the Big Ten title at 10-4. The Hoosiers repre- sented the conference in NCAA tourney play and succumbed to Virginia Tech 79-70 in their first Mideast Regional start. The title traffic may be terrific this season with as many as four or five top contenders-and you name them-liable to be still alive when the campaign ends March 9.- Many Contenders It's difficult to count out a single entry, except possibly Min- nesota whose defending scoring champion, Tom Kondla, is shoot- ing at a modest 16.7 pace com- pared with his title-winning 28.31 last season. Still, the Gophers' feeble 3-7 tuneup record includes setbacks by such national powerhouses as I JOE FRANKLIN CHUCK NAGLE BIG TEN SWIMMING: Hoosiers Favored To Retain Crown Rudy, Wolverines Meet Bothersome Badgers By BILL LEVIS Michigan's brusied and battered cagers open their Big Ten season today as a television attraction. The Wolverines, who have lost to four of the top rated teams in the country this season, tackle Wisconsin in Madison at 4:15 p.m. (EST) in the Big Ten Game of the Week to be televised locally on Channel 4. The Badgers, who boast one of the top non-conference records at 6-3, are led by a trio of 6'5" gunners who give Wisconsin an awesome frontline. Although they are not big, forwards Joe Franklin and Chuck Nagle along with center Jim Johnson have guided the Badgers to a non-conference record second only to Ohio State. Michigan coach Dave Strack especially fears the balanced scor- ing of the three standouts. "Nagle is a tough shooter and Franklin is consistently good. And that Johnson is really coming along." String Bean Franklin Franklin, a string bean shooter, at 170, has been the nemesis of the opposition all season. The senior, who led Wisconsin in re- bounding the past two years, has turned into quite a shooter this season. He has increased his average seven points to 21.6 this year, making almost 54 per cent of his attempts. On the boards, Franklin continues to pull down rebounds at a rapid rate. Wisconsin coach John Erickson, who has been pleasantly surprised with Franklin's performance, said "Joe has had a great year thus far. He is one of the best players in Wisconsin history and is cur- rently averaging 16 rebounds per game. In the Quaker City Tourna- ment last week, he led in rebounding with 50 in three games, pulling i-down 20 in one contest." t- d Frankline, who also won an all-tournament berth, scored 63 n points in Philadelphia Unfortunately the Badgers were only able ne to win one of the games in the City of Brotherly Love losing to both Temple and Duquense after beating Pennsylvania in the opener 86-67. n- At the other forward spot Erickson will start hotshot Nagle ls who led Wisconsin in scoring last season with a 19.3 average. The 'ly junior, who is scoring about three points less per game this year, has rd not started as fast as last year according to Erickson. nd The man who has made the biggest difference in the Wisconsin m- attack this season has to be Johnson, according to his coach. John- in son, who got off to a slow start last year, has started like a house on fire this time around. The junior, who gives away quite a bit of to height at center, still has managed to sting the nets for a 19-point op average. .f RICK MOUNT CHICAGO (P-The Big Ten's 63rd conference basketball season begins today with a full slate for a field which took its lumps all the way down the line in outside tuneup competition. A featured opener on the five- game program sends Rick Mount- paced Purdue to Ohio State to- night against a Buckeye club which had the best record, 6-2, in the somewhat stinging pre- championship Big Ten fling. The Big Ten has a current 48-, 41 non-conference record. Purdue Has Classa Purdue appeared the class of t h e conference by startling mighty UCLA before a dramatic 73-71 opening loss to Lew Alcin- dor & Co., but injuries eventually slowed the Boilermakers to 5-4 warmup mark. Today's first league round also includes Michigan State (4-4) at Illinois (4-5) and the regionally televised Michigan (4-5) at Wis- consin (6-3) tilt as afternoon en- counters, and Minnesota (3-7) at UCLA and Houston, plus Drake, Kansas State and Utah State. Iowa Will Challenge Iowa's invasion of Northwestern pits two teams still in the jelling stage even with stellar kingpins in Hawkeye Sammy Williams and Wildcat Terry Gamber. In the Los Angeles Classic, Iowa got a real baptism of fire playing three successive overtimes. The Hawkeyes beat sixth-rank- ed Tennessee 64-59 in one over- time. They lost to strong Wyom- ing 94-97 in two overtimes and then took third place with an 80-77 overtime shading of St. Louis. Illinois could be a conference sleeper. The scandal-stung Illini yielded an average of only 62.7 points with sharp defensive tac- tics against a string of strong non-loop foes, including second- ranked Houston. VE T NDLY BOOKSTORE AA A ULIH ANN ARBOR'S FR IE By ROBIN WRIGHT If Indiana's swimming coach Doc Counsilman's prediction about the number of absences at today's Big Ten Swimming Relays due to flu would stay true all season, Michigan could win the Big Ten title, or at least keep coach Gus Stager's record of never placing lower than second in the Big Ten true. But the Indiana boys will no doubt recover, and will no doubt Win the Big Ten title again this year. Their diving alone, being seriously challanged only by Mich- igan, makes it impossible for them to place below first this year and next year. The three outstanding divers include two juniors and a sophomore, Jim Henry, one of the top divers in the country. Counsilman considers their best event to be the breast-stroke. Their key swimmer is Dave Per- kowski, who placed second behind Michigan's Paul Scheerer in the Big Ten last year. The credentials of the boys swimming Indiana's "not quite as hot" event - backstroke - swum by Charles Hickcox and Bill Utley, include two Pan-American championships and an NCAA title. "They should be a threat this season to any Big Ten opponent." Indiana's distance swimmers and sprinters are established winners. Bob Windle was a member of the team that set the NCAA 800 Yard Freestyle Relay record last sea- son and also was an Olympic swimmer in the 1500 meter event. Bill Brurell, a sophomore sprinter, placed first in the Big Ten fresh- man events last year. Although Michigan has only a small chance to beat out Indiana for the Big Ten title, Counsilman considers us his main threat. Michigan coach Gus Stager ex- plains the dilemma of this year's team, "Although our graduation losses are unusually heavy this year, and our whole team is an unkown quantity, the squad's at- titude is terrific. They are spiri ed and willing to work. We kno we're strong in the butterfly, am that in the breastroke we ha a problem." Only two of the returning swin mers made the 1967 NCAA fina Both are juniors and butterf specialists. Tom Arusoo took thi in the Big Ten 200 yard event ar fourth in the NCAA, while tean mate Lee, Bisbee was eighth the nationals. The sophomores are the key the 1968 team. One of Stager's t men is Juan Bello, who swin just about everything, but willl concentrating on distance fre style. Bob Harmony, a high scho All-American, along with B Kircher have been leading t sophomore sprinters, but Harmon has been recently side-track with a case of double pneumon and will not see action for t first part of the season. The bright lights of this year team are rounded out by dive: Captain Fred Brown and juni Jay Meaden. Both placed in t top ten in the 1967 NCAA of and three meter events. Michigan State is the only oth team with any real strength the cori'ference this year. For time they were considered equ or better then Michigan's tea on the basis of a strong freshm, team. But due to heavy grade ai graduation losses this year t race will not be as close betwe the two Michigan schools. ms be. e- ~ol ob he ny ed ja, he r's rs, or he one ier in a al m an nd he en 6 t.v.vn.:::.".v.".v.:s."n:::.::..nn":{.:.:s :.v{.v?:":?""":"<}..tk:?:::................. ... ....... ttiv;:"::,r -::<:y :C. MICHIGAN PO S. WISCONSIN (20) Bob Sullivan F Chuck Nagle (11) (45) Rudy Tomianovich F Joe Franklin (25) (40) Dennis Stewart C Jim Johnson (35) (24) Jim Pitts G Mike Carlin (20) (44) Ken Maxey G Mel Reddick (10) Erickson said, "That like all the Badgers, Johnson is not big and strong. We like to think that we make up for our lack of size with our quickness." And in the backcourt Erickson has two fast quards in Mike Carlin and Mel Reddick, who are both averaging around nine point. M a game. Reddick, who was one of the few bright spots in the most dismal Wisconsin football season in history, has just recently broke into the starting lineup. The sophomore, who led the freshmen team with a 28-point average last year "was slow coming around because he missed our fundamental drills," Erickson reported. "Like most players who miss h some practice, Mel has been either really good or really bad. He's a dynamic player and has lots of possibilities." Carlin, while not a big scorer, is a steady guard and excellent floor leader, according to Erickson. 2 Regular Season Losses The Wolverines beat the Badgers in the Los Angles Classic last year but lost twice to Wisconsin during the regular season. 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