TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1 9 5THTHE MICHIGAN DAILY Sisinyak Moves to Center Slot 4I TILLOTSON IN ITALY: 'M' Cager Plays Abroad -Daily-Robert Kanner WELCOMES FRESHMEN-New freshman grid coach Don Dufek welcomes his new group of freshman football players. Yesterday's get-together "was the first official practice session for the yearlings. They are asseml led in the baseball stands at Ferry Field where Dufek gave them preliminary instructions. Fullback Switches To Fill Vacancy; Injuries to Byers, Syring Cause Change By HAL APPLEBAUM v Fullback Gene Sisinyak has al- ways been in the background on Michigan's football scene and now for the first time he may have a chance to step into the limelight, but this time as a center. For two years Sisinyak has been a reserve fullback. Playing less than 200 minutes in the last two years his future looked bleak at the start of practice sessions this season. Moved to Center Until last Saturday he had been running as fourth string fullback but then first string center Dick Syring was injured in a scrim- mage and the Wolverines were left with only two available cen- ters, Bill Dickey and Bill Mac- Phee. Yesterday, Sisinyak took his first lessons in the art of playing center from Coach Jack Blott. If he can master his new position in less than one week he will see c o n s i d e r ab l e 'action against Southern California on Saturday. Head Coach Bennie Oosterbaa said of the move, "We will mainly try to use Sisinyak at the defen- sive center post which is lineback- er. As a fullback Sisinyak played linebacker too, the only difference is that he will play on the other side of the line. We don't know who we will use on offense. We hope Syring will recover from his injury enough to see limited serv- ice." Syring Injured Syring, winner of the Morton Trophy last spring, suffered a painful hip bruise in last Satur- day's scrimmage. Team physician Dr. Albert Coxon and trainer Jim Hunt were pessimistic on his chances of returning to action by Saturday. Both agreed, however, that he would be fully recovered for the Michigan State game Oct. 4. Jim Dickey took Syring's place in the first string line-up today while Sisinyak broke in with the fourth string. Dickey will in all probability 'get the starting as- signment come Saturday. New Lineup Today's first team line-up con- sisted of Gary Prahst left end, Don Deskins, left tackle, Jerry Marciniak, left guard, Alex Cal- I lahan and Mike Fillichio alter- nating at right guard, Dickey,. center, Bob Ptacek, quarterback, John Herrnstein, fullback, Brad Myers, left halfback and Fred Julian, right half. The entire squad participated in a two-hour practice session which featured defensive work, running of offensive patterns and a briefing on the Southern Cali- fornia squad. Southern California, who upset Oregon State Friday by the re- sounding score of 21-0 will be a rugged opponent according to scout-Coach Matt Patanelli who attended that game. He said they have a rugged line and improved speed and they played without the aid of the top running threat speedster Angelo Coia who was side-lined with a. knee injury. Last year the Wolverines also opened the season against South- ern California and defeated them at Los Angeles 16-6. Patanelli said that the Trojans are very much improved and should give Michi- gan a tough battle. This game will give Michigan fans a chance to see the new rule changes in effect for the first time. By FRED KATZ Pete Tillotson, former Michi- ganabasketball center and cap- tain, left over the weekend for Belgium with the touring Italian National team, according to a postcard received by Wolverine cage coach Bill Perigo. Elected captain and most valu- able member of Michigan's 1957- 58 squad, the 6'6" Tillotson is the only American playing for the Italian team. Tallest Mari The big red-headed ex-Wolver- ine stands three inches taller than the team average of 6'3" but is playing forward instead of the pivot position he played last year. The forward post is not strange to Tillotson, since he played there his sophomore and junior years when Ron Kramer (remember him?) was at center. Star Center Tillotson moved to the pivot last year and emerged as the Wolver- ines' leading scorer with an 18.8 points average per game. The stalwart from Ludington, Mich., finished sixth in Big Ten scoring with one-tenth point below his season's average. Tillotson will remain in Italy for the next ten months in con- Independent 1mM eams To Organize The I-M department announces a meeting for all those interested in organizing teams in the inde- pendent league. The meeting will be tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Sports Build- ing. Anyone who plans to have a team in the independent touch{ football competition, or who is or- ganizing a team for any inde- pendent action throughout the year should attend. The independent league is open to all male students, with the particular objective of offering a chance for those who are not in residence halls or fraternities to compete. Junction with a training program in the import-export business. On the card postmarked Flor- ence, Italy, Tillotson wrote: "The Italians and Europeans are excel- lent floormen but not very ac- curate shooters." This remark conforms pretty much with the usual conception of basketball as it is played abroad. European ball relies pre- dominantly on team speed and tricky handling, with the set shot being used more widely than the jump shot. The latter has always been a Tillotson specialty. I 'PETE TILLOTSON ..plays in Italy ":J :.. ._:_.- : . .- . ;"$.".,,;. V V V V- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -V - V n...?.VS. V:: VVV WV V.?r. V V :VV"W WV V."V.7Z4 '% Y W.V.V.V TV 1W - - _. . - - - - - , . : s..T T W. 4, 4.a GRID SELECTIONS THIS WEEK'S GAMES Camelet BrothersSport Jackets South. Calif. at MICH. (score) U.C.L.A. at Illinois T.C;U. at Iowa Southern Methodist at Ohio St. Wash. St. at Northwestern Minnesota at Washington Nebraska at Purdue West Virginia at Oklahoma Kansas State at Colorado California at Michigan State South Carolina at Army Colgate at Cornell Wm. and Mary at Navy Penn St. at Penn Holy Cross at Pittsburgh Tennessee at Auburn Mississippi St. at Florida Clemson at North Carolina Duke at Virginia Rice at Stanford Once again The Michigan Daily will give its readers a chance to test their merit as prognosticators. Every week The Daily will print 20 of the top college football games throughout the nation and the readers will compete for free tickets to local movie houses. 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