Thursday, March 'I 3, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Thursday, March 13, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH lcers prepare for NCAA's r IFY4IUM11UST lEAVE... I 00 Jim Forrester Hey, Abraham Lincoln, you forgot a few people John Maclnnes, hockey coach at Michigan Tech, may be the most unusual man in sports-he's not colorful. He doesn't smoke big black phallic symbols and wave them under your nose. He doesn't yell and jump around during games. Any anger he may feel is kept away from the public. He just watches his men play and will occasionally tell them about something they could be doing better. And he doesn't fool himself about the purpose and direction of intercollegiate athletics. "Let's not'kid ourselves, we're professionals." This, of course, is nothing new. There is nothing wrong with professionalism, but it is an uncommon occurance that anyone in the amateur sports world will admit the hypocrisy of modern ama- teurism. The Michigan Tech squad plays like professionals. They, prac- tice hard and practice to be exact. Almost every one of them is from ,Canada and many are on some kind of scholarship. Believe it or not, fans, when an athlete signs that letter of intent he is :really becoming a professional. An athletic scholarship Is nothing more than payment for services rendered. The difference, though, between college professionals and pro- fessional professionals is that the collegian works cheap. One basket- ball player called his remuneration, "Coolie wages." NCAA scholarships (of the legal kind) provide only for the necessities of life-room, board, tuition and fees, books and about $15 per month "laundry money". For a Michigan athlete, an in- stater, the Grand Total is less than .$1700. On a per hour basis this is about 60 cents. But beyond his services on the field or the court, the collegian ! gives up more of his freedom than any professional. His coach can tell him where to eat and live, what to eat and pretty much what to do: off the field as well as on it. At many schools athletes live in slecial dorms and eat special food. Now most people may think steak every night ain't bad. Special treatment, plenty of help with school work (honest as well as dishonest), and a nice place to live. Yup, real nice . . . if a person, likes being dumped on all the time. LOCAL FOOTBALL' FANATIC and new grid coach Glenn "Bo" Schembechler has been honest about what he wants to do with football at Michigan. He wants to win. There are many philosophies of the attitude with which a sport should be played. All of them boil down to "I wanna win real bad". Schembechler works his players hard and has informed them that freshmen and sophomores will live in the dormitories next year. Eventually he hopes to have all his players living in South Quad. Next fall the football training table will be served in one of the dining rooms in South Quad. This, of couse has offended a few people in the athletic depart- ment and quite a few more outsiders. But the players are withholding judgement. "We'll just have to wait and see if all this bullshit pays off," said one athlete. This is insightful into the players. It shows what they care about is winning also. And it shows that they will put up with most of the crap thrown at'them., MANY ARE LOOKING toward the pros. A good collegiate per- formance means money. No college competition, unless the athlete plays baseball or has developed his abilities at an abnormally rapid rate, means none of that sweet professional green. A Wolverine junior, after . his last game of the season, said, "Well, I've got one more year to do something around this place." This kind of thinking is nice if the athlete has plenty of ability and has been producing at a consistent rate. But for many players next year may never come. At. its recent rules conclave, in reaction to black athlete pro- tests around the country, the NCAA passed what can be described as an insubordination rule. It was enacted to keep players playing. But its effects could be something else. The extreme example Is the athlete with long hair being forced into a barbershop as the ax of losing his grant-in-aid looms over his neck. There are a lot of safe-guards in the rule so that a coach disgusted with the performance, attitute or color 'of one of his players cannot pull the green rug. But at an institution where an athlete is a thing that either wins or does not, loop holes will be found and "student athletes" unfairly bounced. It is inevitable. Giving what are commonly called "athletic scholarships" has turned the student athlete into a piece of property. Rules made to protect the athlete actually put him in indentured servitude with a four year sentence to serve. THE ATHLETE CAN get out by quitting the team, but as said before, no college, no 'pros. The other hook holding the athlete is the chance for an education. But this too is a sham. At many schools, athletic academic coun- selors funnel players into Physical Education. There they can be easily kept eligible and on the field. There is nothing wrong with P.E., if that's the player's bag. Unfortunately, many athletes never get to look into any other. Michigan is not as bad as other schools in this respect. Though many players are slid into P.E., they are required to take a certain number of hours in the Literary College. If a player is lucky, he'll get a course he has to expend some of his brain power in. But he could get a Doc Losh. An athlete goes to school, then, so he can compete in intercol- legiate athletics. Though the reverse, the athlete competing so that he can go to school, is still professionalism, the player would at least get something in returnfor the work he does. And even with curriculum often geared to the professional ath- lete, many never get their degrees. In the National Football League 50.4 per cent of the players do not hold a college degree. Knowing collegians are professionals makes the pseudo-righteous throw up their hands. But that the athlete is exploited makes the fairminded throw up. The collegian is a professional, allright. Negroes were professional slaves, too. SUNDAY-MARCH 23, 1969 - 8:00 P.M. - FORD AUDITORIUM CLANCY BROTHERS AND TOMMYNMAKEM "Minstrels of the Emerald Isle" TICKETS. f$5.50'4.50-3 50-2.50. Available at: Ford Auditorium, Grinnell's, all. L. Hudson stores, Wayne State University, Univer- sity of Detroit. Mail orders should include self-addressed, stamped. envelope. Student discount $1.00 at each price level on tickets purchased at Wayne State University or University of Detroit. GsU G ) X 0 1;;;;;? ,-1 o CI ,4/ 4C ff mo1144 (o,44/ Pioneers out to retain title By PETER KENT The top two WCHA teams, Michigan Tech and Denver, will be put to the final test this week- end in the NCAA finals at Colo- rado Springs., Denver, defending n a t i o n a 1 champions, will open tonight against Harvard. The Pioneers should have the upper hand, being used to the high altitude and hav- ing the 'home" rink advantage, being 60 miles from Denver. Denver proved to be very strong throughout the season, finishing: one half game behind Tech with a 14-6-0 record. Their tough sched- ule included games against the! American, Canadian, and Czecho- slovakian Nationals. Their offense is sparked by wing George Morrison, Sophomore of the Year in the WCHA as well as leading scorer, finishing with 39 points. Michigan Tech will be playing tomorrow night against Cornell, the pride of the East. Although the eastern teams are considered in- ferior to western competition, Cor- nell's 27-1 record cannot be over- looked. Michigan Tech is known for the size and effectiveness of their de- fense. Gordon McRae, junior goalie, yielded an average of 2.87 goals per game in league competi- tion. Defenseman John Grisdale tied a Tech record by scoring seven goals during the regular sea- son. The Huskies, riding a six-game Winning streak, will continue their usual game plan, looking for a defensive battle. This strategy en- abled Tech play outstanding hockey for the last half of the season, and surge late in the sea- son from third place to the title. Senior Al Karlander, All-Star forward, paced his team to their playoff victories, including two EMU jarred from NAJA KANSAS CITY (MP) - Eastern New Mexico ousted fifth-seeded Eastern Michigan 77-69 yesterday to move into theN quarter-finals of the NAIA basketball tournament. Larry Vanzant's 25-foot jump shot at the first half buzzer gave Eastern New Mexico a 27-26 lead at intermission. Except for a 35- all tie, Eastern New Mexico led the rest of the way. John Irwin, the tournament's second leading scorer in the first round with 37 points, led the win- ners with 20. Earl Higgins had 18 for the Hurons. In other games, Monmouth, N.J.. college ran up the highest score of the tournament in defeating Asheville-Biltmnore, N.C., 115-81. Elizabeth City, N.C., tate defeated Southwestern Oklahoma State 88- 81, and Central Washington shocked second-seeded Howard Payne of Brownwood, Tex., 96-74. SCORES NAIA Eastern New Mexico 77, Eastern Michigan 69 Central Washington 96, Howard Payne 74 Southwest Missouri 92, Montclair State 76 American 80, San Francisco75 Monmouth, N.J., 115, Asheville- Biltmore, N.C., 81 Elizabeth City, N.C., 88, Southwestern Oklahoma 81 Washburn, Kan., 74, Fairmont State W.Va., 72 Maryland State 85, Stout, Wis, State 83 o.t. NBA Boston 126, Philadelphia 117 Baltimore 111, 'New York 110 Atlanta 109, Chicago 99 dailyt sports NIGHT EDITOR: BILL DINNER goals Saturday night. He finisned third in the league in scoring. The format of the playoffs does have one big problem. History nas proven that anything can.happen in a one-game series. Friday night was evidence to this as Colorado College, who finished with a .222 percentage (seventh place), up- ended third-ranked North Dakota, 5-4. Cornell, the 1967 national cham- pions, is the only eastern team to take the national honors since 1964. when Rensalare Polytechnic Institute won. Last year Cornell entered the national with only one loss all season, just like this year. How- ever, many were surprised to find that it was Denver versus North Dakota in the championship game. Unless Cornell and Harvard can muster up something extra special, it looks like there may be another western play-off Saturday night. 'Harvard, Cornell highlight battle for NCAA Ice honors By STU STEIN After destroying the E a s t e r n Seaboard competition with a blazing flurry of hockey strength, the Big Red of Cornell and Har- vard's Crimson are going to meet so me resistance in Colorado 'Springs. In the Hockey semi-. finals tonight, powerful Denver could well extinguish Harvard's, title aspirations, while Michigan Tech and Cornell battle on Fri- day for a championship berth. The Big Red, winner of t h e NCAA crown in 1967, approach the contest with 27 season killings against one setback, while Har- vard knocked off 24 opponents in 28 outings. However, a number of factors could check the progress of both Ivy League ice squads de-{ spite their strength. Cornell's effectiveness will in- deed be impaired, by the loss of star forward John Hughes, who has a broken arm. Concerning the condition of the veteran stand- out, Big Red coach Ned Lard- ner commented, "Hughes' injury puts a kink in our sail. He was our key player." The different styles of hockey employed by Western squads 'could also act as a deterrent. "Tech and the other Western Teams," remarked Yale mentor Dick Gagliardi "are big and strong, tend to hit a lot and are generally faster than the Eastern teams. The Eastern conference is more conservative." Lardner, too, is unsure about his team's fortunes. "I don't know how we'll do" he stated. "Tech has been skating tremendously and Denver has talent to burn." However, Cornell's excellent of- fensive and defensive strength need not be degraded. An imperm- eable defense is synonymous with Big Red goalee, Ken Dryden. Harvard, Cornell's season long rival, felt the sting of the two time All American goal tender. "We could have beaten Cornell, but we couldn't get it (puck) by Dryden," commented Harvard coach Cooney Weiland. "'d like to see a better goalie in Color- ado." The presence of All Amer- ican defenseman Bruce' Pattison, also insures a quick clearance of the puck from the Big Red zone. Unlike Cornell, Harvard's path of advance will be riddled with a few more obstacles, the most in- surmountable of which is the Denver squad. Denver Coach Murray Armstrong feels that his team is just as strong as last year's NCAA champs. "In fact", he commented, "this may be our strongest tournament in years." Concerning Harvard, coach Cooney Weiland said: "Our team has a lot of depth, we're in real good shape, and we won't give up. We had some difficulties early in the year because of our five soph- omores, but we've come along real well." Joe Cavanagh, one of the scor- ing leaders in the Eastern circuit, along with Dan DeMichele ard Steve Owen spearhead Harvard's most potent line. Harvard's main problem, how- ever, over the. course of the sea- son, was defense. 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Copi MICHIGAN TECH GOALIE GORDON McRAE pulls in a shot by Doug Galbraith (7) in Saturday night's clash at the Coliseum. The 7-4 victory over the Wolverines enabled Tech to advance to the NCAA finals in Colorado Springs, which start tonight. Tech' is counting on McRae and their strong defense to carry them past Cornell tomorrow night. AMERICAN CULTURE 'STUDENT ORGANIZATION Lunch at NSTA Representative To Discuss Summer Jobs Abroad GUILD HOUSE r DISCUSSION: Ramparts Magazine: Social Changes in American Culture MISS DIANE SKELLY, representative of the U.S. National Student Travel Association (NSTA), in New York, will be on the Ann Arbor campus THURSDAY, MARCH 13, to discuss NSTA's program for jobs abroad. Miss Skelly, a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, heads the Exchange Visitor Program, through which students can obtain special permits for summer jobs in Aus- tralia, England, Ireland, or New Zealand. Interested students may visit the International Center,.603 E. Madison between 10 A.M.-3:30 P.M. and 7-10 P.M. on Thurs- 'day, where Miss Skelly will discuss the program informally and answer questions. She will also have available brochures and information on other NSTA services, such as student travel guidebooks and tours. The National Student Travel Association is a non-profit organization and the only official student travel bureau in the United States. 11 III $10 NAC T NEJAC TV R ENTA LS:662-5671 SERVING BIG 10 SCHOOLS SINCE 1961 w I with the ST. PATRICK'S DANCE "Hour of the Wolf" DOOR _PRIZE! DISCOUNT! I Each Dance Ticket entitles you to 331i/3 % discount off list. price of any record purchase made after March 14, 1969 at Sylvania Solid State STEREO PHONOGRAPH with GARRARD Changer DATE: March 14, 1969-Friday TIME: 9-1 PLACE: Newman Center, 331 Thompson ADMISSION: $1.50 DISCOUNT RECORD STORES, 300 S. 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