Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Martin looks to frosh to boost Thinclad Wednesday, August 27, 1969 ho pes By PHIL HERTZ Last September Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes called his new sophomores the best bunch of newcomers he had ever seen in his years as grid mentor of the Buckeye in- stitution. Possibly the only regrets Hayes has about this group is that they couldn't have played varsity as frosh. But this year, for the first time, in all sports except football and basketball, freshmen will be able to represent their schools in varsity competition. One such sport is track and field. However, withthe new system going into effect this year, both incoming frosh and last season's first year men will flood the rubberized track on Ferry Field. Wolverine track coach Dave Martin welcomes the change, "The use of freshmen on the varsity level will make the Big Ten a much stronger aggregation. The conference should be better able to compete on the national level." The Michigan cindermen should be better able to compete also and improve on their third place finish in the 1969 version of the conference outdoor championships. In the Big Ten indoor meet Michigan racked up thirty-five points, thirty less than conference titlist Wisconsin and seven less than Indiana. The results were a trifle disappointing for Sol Es)pie: Returning in the sprints Martin. "I figured Wisconsin would capture the A dvrtsing Career.? The University of Michigan only offers classroom exposure to adver- tising (i.e. theory and prerequisites). Air r .trsgan a offers you EXPERIENCE in selling and servicing local advertisers, layout, design and copy writing, and promotions.I Stop by 420 Maynard St. Mon.-Fri., 1-4 P.M., and start your career title but I thought we'd be able to finish second," Two Wolverines, both seniors, captured in- dividual titles. Larry Midlam took the 70-yard low hurdles title in a record tying 7.6 seconds. Bob Wedge, who is also on the football team, captured the triple jump crown by leaping 48 feet. Another departee, captain Ron Kutsch- inski, the only Big Ten athlete on the U.S. Olympic track team, captured third in 1000- yard run with a Michigan record 2:07.9. In the NCAA indoor championships Michigan scored seven points, finishing eleventh in a field of 91 teams. Kansas won the title with 41 points. Michigan's points were due to a second place finish by Kutschinski in the 1000-yard run and a third place finish in the two mile relay. In addition to Kutschinski, Midlam and Wedge, the Wolverines will also lose sprinters George Hoey and Leon Grundstein and high jumper Gary Knickerbocker, a two-time Big Ten champion among others. Martin hopes that the two groups of new- comers can provide replacements. Martin listed Gene Brown, a 9.5 sprinter, Larry Wolfe, who has vaulted 16 feet 1% inches, Ken Hamilton, who ran the two mile in 8:56, and John Mann, who high jumped six' eight" during the past cam- paign, as key additions from last year's frosh squad. All but Mann surpassed or equaled varsity marks during the 1968-1969 season and Wolfe set a meet record at the Kentucky Relays while - - - - - - - - - he was competing as an unattached independent. Martin feels the new freshmen will also pro- vide a lift for the team. According to Coach Martin, "Three of the better boys are Eric Chapman, Tom Swan and Trevor Mathews. Chapman, from Willowdale, Ontario, has run the half mile in 1:51." Swan, from Princeton, Illinois, is a miler and Mathews from Brooklyn Boy's High is a quarter miler. Martin will also have a fine nucleus of re- turnees. Warren Bechard, runner-up to Wedge at the Big Ten meet, should be a threat in the triple jump. Other threats include Lorenzo Mont- gomery in the 440, Giulio Catallo in the shot put, Sol Espie in the sprints, distance runner Gary Gold, broad jumper Ira Russell, "pole vaulter Ron Shortt, miler Rick Storrey and middle distance runner Norm Cornwall, . who Martin called "the surprise of the year." Michigan track Coach Dave Martin wants you. If you have any interest at all in track, Mar- tin would like to come down and talk to him or assistant Jack Harvey and Ken Burnley at the Sports Building at the corner of Hoover and State. Martin said, "Someone will be down here during the entire orientation period and we' would like to speak to anyone with a track back ground. Too often athletes who can make the team don't come out because they did not receive an athletic scholarship. Several members of the team are not on scholarship." SA f!) Grapplers seek nightmare cure If youre CHICKEN Then don't join the DAILY BUSINESS STAFF (It takes guts to tolerate our staf - z. r +: By JOE MARKER Contributing Sports Editor With nightmarish memories of last year's Big Ten Wrestling Tournament behind them, Mich- igan's grapplers can look for- ward to a significant improve- ment next year. In that tourney Michigan could manage only a third-place tie with Northwestern, its worst finish in many years under coach Cliff Kean. However, help is on the way in the form of this year's fresh- man wrestling crop which edged out Michigan State to win the Michigan Freshman Wrestling Tournament last February. These first-year men will bol- ster a team that lost only two of last year's regulars through graduation. The toughest shoes to fill will be those of last year's captain and 177-pounder Pete Cornell, who capped his career with a runner-up finish in' the NCAA tournament after copping sec- ond place in the Big Tens. In his n a t io n a 1 championship match with Iowa State's Chuck Jean, Cornell led until well into the third period before bowing. He is joined in the graduation circle by 137-pounder Geoff Henson, who compiled a 10-3-1 record to aid the Wolverine cause. The other Wolverine who will be lost is Steve Rubin, who was injured most of last season. It was hoped that he would be granted another year of eligibil- ity, but that possibility prob- ably went out the window when he competed twice in early- season action. Ty Belknap, who as a fresh- man competed in the NCAA tournament in place of the in- jured Lou Hudson, is given a good chance to land a starting berth this year. His biggest problem is that he is trying to bust into the strongest part of the Michigan line-up, the lower weight classes. Join The Daily Sports Staff Belknap, who wrestled at 130 pounds as a freshman, will com- pete with Big Ten champion Lou Hudson, Tim Cech, and Mike Rubin. However he will be aided by the realignment of weight classes, which amounts to hav- ing four lower weight categories instead of three. Another Wolverine champ in the F r e sh m a n Tournament, Thurlon Harris, will probably start at either 177 or 190 pounds. He adds strength to the upper weight classes, which are anchored by Jesse Rawls, last year's Big Ten champion at 167 and third-place finisher in the nationals. Herb Sudduth at 145 attempts to crash the middle part of the Wolverine line-up, while sopho- mores-to-be Jim Thomas (190), George Surgent, Preston Henry, Jim Hagan, Mark King (134, Paul Paquin (142), Mark Ky- rias, and Brian Boyce, will bat- tle the veterans for the remain- ing starting posts, With last year's freshmen, along with veterans Tom Quinn t165), Lane Headrick (150), Jim Sanger (158), and Charles Reil- ly (150-158), ready to fill the line-up, the only real problem for the team remains at heavy- weight. Here, just as last year, there is no one being considered for tha spot. As assistant coach Rick Bay comments, "There just aren't any really good heavyweights to recruit." The hope is that someone from the football team might step in to fill the gap, as Pete Drelmann did early last year. Although at the moment first lace inrthehconference seems out of reach, the Wolverines might make it to the runner-up position. It appears that defend- ing champion Michigan State, with six of its seven Big Ten champions returning, has too much for the rest of the league. As Bay puts it, "State has to be the number one team right now. However, Iowa (runner-up last year) has been hit heavy by graduation, much harder than we, and Northwestern probably won't be as strong, so we might do all right against those teams." TV RENTALS No Deposit FREE service per month .eq.re IRequred and delivery CallT NEJAC TV R ENTA LS 662-5671 SERVING BIG 1O SCHOOLS SINCE 196 _N, ;, The