THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PORT FOR MUSCLES:
Olm Contesting for Heavyweight
On Coach Cliff Keen's Mat Squad
Wrestlers Rest Awhile-
Intra-Squad Battles On
.For StartingPositions
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By ALLEN SINAI "I was out of shape because I
"You have to love wrestling in didn't expect to wrestle, and may-
order to stick at it because it's be that accounts for my showing
such a tough sport," states Fred last spring when I only won one
Olm, one of this year's candidates match," says Olm.
for top heavyweight position on Zervas Toughest
coach Cliff Keen's mat team. He is quick to add that Zervas
Olm was comparing two sports, was the toughest man he ever
Wrestling and football, as far as wrestled, with Ken Maidlow of
deriving physical good goes. Michigan State running a close
"I'm inclined to agree with seod
him," said Keen. "More muscles Olnd attended Niles High School
come into play when you wrestle." in Niles, Michigan, where he
Olm, a junior in the School of played quite a bit of football.
Education, has played football and "I had originally played basket-
wrestled while at Michigan. ball in a school in New York," he
Wrestling Main Activity says, "but one day the Niles High
His major contribution to the line coach told me to go out for
Wolverine sports scene has been wrestling and I've been doing it
in 'wrestling, where he has grap- ever since."r
pled as a heavyweight since his In his senior high school year,
freshman year. Olm won 16 consecutive matches,
Due to scholastic difficulties, only to finally be beaten by a boy
however, he was unable to wrestle named John Baum, who now
the first semester of his sopho- wrestles for MSU and whom Olm
more year, but was forced back may meet later this year.
into action when Keen's heavy- As a Michigan freshman, Olm
weight star, Steve Zervas, was de- won the District AAU heavyweight
clared ineligible. title in Greco-Roman and free-
style wrestling. This grappling was
done under
As far as
prefers to
knows.
Olympic rules.
specific holds go. Olm
use everything he
Used Special Hold
"I used to use a special pin hold
in high school, but since I got up
here I found that the boys are
too big to use any specific hold
on.
Coaching wrestling is Olm's
eventual goal. However, in the
immediate future, he is only wor-
ried about making Michigan's mat
team.
"I think we might have a tre-
mendous year as everyone has to
fight for a position," Olm stated.
By DAVE LYON
Michigan's wrestling team, now
returning from an eastern swing
during which it performed capably
against Cornell and Rutgers-two
of the best squads in the East-
ncw take a three-week break from
dual-meet activity.
And although Coach Cliff Keen
used the same eight men in the
various weight divisions in both
meets during the weekend, that
does not mean that the same
eight men will wrestle against
tough Pittsburgh, Jan. 3.
Sophs to Spare
This competition for front-line
posts is accentuated by the fact
that, with the exception of three
lettermen, the squad consists of
sophomores who have been high
school standouts."
Two of the three veterans are
juniors, the lone senior is Captain
Larry Murray.
And none of the veterans, on
the basis of their performances,
can yet be compared with such
recent Wolverine greats as Max
Pearson, Jack Marchello, and
Mike Rodriguez. So the perform-
ance of sophomores will largely
determine the team's fortunes this
season.
About the only weight class
where there appears to be no com-
petition is at 123 lbs., where junior
Mike Hoyles, with one year's ex-
perience behind him, should do an
able job.
Murray and soph Ambrose Wil-
banks are expected to contest for
the 130-lb. berth. The captain will contest eithe
compiled a 6-2-1 dual-meet record Port Huron at 1
as a 13-pounder last season, but of Ypsilanti at 17
he has moved to the 130-lb. slot, mores, end Fink
vacated by the graduation of school champ.
er Ted Ludwig of
167 or Karl Fink
77. All are sopho-
is a former high
Pearson, tnree-time Big Ten
champ.
Expected to battle for the 137-
lb post are sophomores Wilf rid
Hildebrandt of Toledo and JimWI
Agnew of La Grange, Ill. Both Men's IOO/ Wool a'nnel
have had highly successful wrest-
ling careers. /nA*'
The two top contenders for the
147-lb. position are sophs James
Blaker of Park Ridge, Ill, and Bob
Dwyer of Pontiac. Blaker is a
former Illinois state high school
titlist. Free cuff alterations
Two more sophs, Don Corriere
and Dick Fronczak, are contend- vy an regulr styles
ing for the 157-lb. slot. Corriere Assorted colors
wrestled as a prep at Hill School
in Pottstown, Pa., the school where
Pearson attended. Fronczak was SAI
~ ~~~~ASa Michigan state champion while &."' ..*\:z'12E.WsigoSt
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