TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY - E . , AGUST24, 965 vlE xvUIaN JI.AIIX PANE By BOB CARN In Big Ten wrestling be the year of great exp Predictions will be m ful than foreigi policy the nine Big Ten chall appear much more than usual about knock pion Michigan off its th seat at the top of the Silenced for the pas sons, the Al Lopezes of t Conference will, once calling for the fall of kees" from Ann Arbor. It's understandable. Graduation Los First, the Wolverine tion loss-eight lette possibly the worst it Their closest competito other hand, were hit mild losses; and now at schools can rightly b contenders. And finally ics will, ay-four straig just too much to hope f This is the year wh gan's good thing comes -as all good things do. But this reporter is b come March 5, a soft-s lahoman named Cliff pick up the big silver c ed the Big Ten chamT off a place in his trophy place it beside thirteen like it. Keen, Michigan's co 1925, has had just too n W res tilers EY tice in winning for his conference Deitrick , 1966 will counterparts. Joe Ar 6ctation. 50 Point Margin Dave P ore plenti- Granted, Michigan wrestlers de Kt critics, and may not pile up another record 88 d engers will point score and take all but three aheadc optimistic individual titles as they did in '65; In th sing cham- but remember, they've got 50 fivesom ree-season points to play with-that's how vidualI Big Ten. far back the "runner-up" was in the t two sea- last March. he Western And with a group of juniors place fi again be and seniors, a solid sophomore pionshii the "Yan- crop-and most of all that Okla- As a homan himself - Michigan: is again the team to beat in the Big ses Ten. s gradua- "It's the worst graduation loss rmen-was I've had," says Keen, who'll start n history. his 41st season with the Wolver- rs, on the ines this winer. "But I see no with only reason to throw up our hands in least four desepair. It's been tough before oast title- and we've maiaged. We'll be in '-the crit- the thick of this thing. ht titles is Understatement or. And those last two sentences ten Michi- could be nominated for the under- to an end statement of the year. But it won't be the kind of race that has etting that characterized the Western Confer- poken Ok- ence for the past three seasons. Keen will For along with Timberlake, An- up award- thony, Buntin, Henderson and ' pions, dust many more of the athletic elite, y case, and Keen saw five regulars and three others just reliable alternates pick up their degrees last May. three ti ach since The five: Captain Rick Bay, three se nuch prac- Chris Stowell, Bob Spaly, Lee that'sr Unbeaten in 3-1 and Doug Horning; plus rcure, Tony Feiock, and ost. een himself puts it, "We've ly got some rebuilding of us." Four Titles ree years of eligibility, the e accounted for four mdi- Big Ten titles, two seconds Big Ten, and two third- nishes in the NCAA cham- ps. team, the Wolverines won At the NCAA touranment in Larami, Wyoming, Michigan gain- ed a respectable fifth-place finish, with one man finishing second in the nation in his weight class. A key factor in the team effort, as he had been for three seasons was Captain Bay, who hit an indi- vidual high in the Big Ten cham- pionship matches and captured the 167-pound title. In four tournament matches, Bay scored two pins in just 6:37 minutes and was awarded the meet when he copped the 177- pound title with four straight vic- tories. Spaly-a tall, well-built heavy- weight who started as a junior, and a senior, finished third in the Sig Ten heavyweight class last season. Then, in the NCAA chain- pionshsip, he moved down to the' 191-pound class and won the con- solation (third-place) title for the second straight year. Horning didn't become a regu- lar starter until his senior year, but then wrestled at both 130 and 137 when injuries hit the team early in the season. In the Big Tens, he wrestled in the 130-j pound spot and lost only once-in1 the finals-for a second-place fin- ish. Deitrick's RecordE Wrestling at both 147 and 157 during his three seeasons as a1 starter, Deitrick took the Big Ten championship in the lower divis- ion as a junior and finished third1 in the heavier last year. His ac- complishments also include a luarterfinal finish in the NCAA tournament and a second-place finish in the Midlands Open Tour-1 nament last Christmas. In the 157 and 167 divisions, Post and Feiock -both made sev- eral starts and were called on when injuries hit. Arcure saw similar action in the 177 and heavyweight classes. But if graduation losses have damaged Keen's legacy in the up-l per weight divisions, things arel looking better than ever in the lower weight classes, where three Mee ts Big Ten champs return to the Wolverine lineup. Two Contenders At 123 pounds, Keen has two wrestlers who might well take the Big Ten crown. One of them, junior Bob Fehrs, already has cap- tured the title once. In a sensational rookie year last season, Fehrs not only topped the Big Ten but bested all com- petitors in the Midlands tourney and placed second in the NCAA's as well. Taking over for Michigan's 1964 Big Ten 123-pound champ, Ralph Bahna, Fehrs led the squad in falls with seven in dual meet com- petition, and went undefeated in the Big Ten. The wrestler Fehrs narrowly edged out in the finals of the Midlands tourney was no n e other than teammate Tino Lam- bros, a senior who may wrestle 123 and allow Feehrs to competet at 130. Lambros pushed Fehrs for the starting spot last season and nade two starts. Talent In the 130- and 137-pound class Keen will also have plenty of tal- ent to choose from and some more juggling may be in order. Dave iozeman, a senior who saw lim- ited action last year after re- covering from an automobile acci- dent, could wrestle at 130 or 137. If he picks the latter, he'll have a pretty rugged time since the de- fending champion in that class, Bill Johannesan, Michigan's cap- tain this year, returns for his final season. After a slow, injury- (Continued on Page 10) SAM'S STORE Has Levi's Galore for Gals and Guys E NINE Bob Fehrs Pins Foe for Big Ten Title itles during those same easons and you can be sure no coincidence. The four wrestlers have seen Michigan lose only once while they were in uni- form, and they have currently pil- ed up a fantastic 31-meet winning streak. Their development, and the team's, reached its climax last year when they manhandled all the competition Big Ten had to offfer and registered a record 88 points to win their third consecu- tive conference title. Keen watch- ed his wrestlers cop a record five individual titles, two seconds and a third-place finish in the eight weight divisions. meet's Outstanding W r e s t 1 e r Award. The performance was even more remarkable in light of the fact that Bay was sidelined at two dif- ferent times during the season due to a knee that was injured, partially healed and then re- injured. Fdr two weeks late in the season he was forced off the mats completely and the knee was put in a cast. "He was a great leader-an example for the rest of the team," says Ken. Stowell's Peak Stowell, another starter since his sophomore year, also hit his peak in last season's Big Ten ONLY ONE SENIOR: Inexperienced Pucksters Finish Fifth* in WCHA :"""wr54'".'"' S J' P 3. rv 4"". 4 "x."r. a44 44.r'.. 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We have the potential to do well, though.," Big Ten For several years Renfrew has expressed an interest in the for- mation of a stronger Big Ten h o c k e y conference. Presently Michigan, Michigan State, Min- nesota, Wisconsin and Ohio State have sanctioned teams. At the oth- er Big Ten schools there exist in- dependent "clubs" that are await- ing university approval so that they can play intercollegiate hock- ey. y Reflecting on the progress of the league, which crowns a cham- pion every year despite the lim- ited participation, Renfrew said, "Not a whole lot has been accom- plished in two years. Indiana will enter competition actively in the near future, and Ohio State is changing over in their coaching so that they will probably become more active, too." Thus, unless that league de- velops rapidly, Michigan will con- tinue to participate in both the Big Ten and WCHA, which is rather easy as games with Michi- gan State and Minnesota overlap and count in both standings. New Scheduling Commenting on scheduling, Renfrew said, "We are getting to the point where we will only schedule a team twice in a season and we will try to work out bet- ter road trip plans with schools such as Minnesota and North Da- kota so that fans can see two different opponents in one week- end series." Coming to fill in gaps in the Wolverine ice squad are the fol- lowing sophomores described in thumbnail sketches by Coach Ren- frew: Harold Herman: goalie . played on the Junior Red Wings in Detroit ... needs experience in WCHA play . . . good, stand-up 'goalie. Bruce Koviak: forward ... cap- tain of the Junior Wings when he played for them .. . has a good shot .. very strong skater has to be exposed to competition after a year off to see how quick- ly he can get his shot away. Ron Ullyot: forward. . . son of Ken Ullyot who coaches the Ft. Wayne Comets ... good skater... good hockey sense. Bill Lord: defenseman ... a real rough customer . . . player foot- ball linebacker ... from Minneso- ta ... has a good shot . .. 5'". Lee Martilla: forward. .. broth- er of Mike, junior forward, has knee trouble ... problematical whether he can help us ... has good hockey ability. Tom Pullen: forward . . . has good moves . . . will play football in the fall before he comes out with us . . . remains a question mark because of his two-sport interest. Renfrew sums up the coming season in "the world's toughest amateur hockey league" by say- ing, "It will be a real rough road, over some real tough competition, but it can be done." WAIT SLIM FITS to be Styled by, WILD'S ALL COLORS ALL SIZES 9 9 f .4i25 Yes ... by all means . . WAIT until you arrive at Ann Arbor to choose your college clothes because here and only here is the store that has been serving smartest dressed Michigan Men since 1888.. . knows best their wants. Major League Baseball is played almost entirely at Night! 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