SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY IuAt--4V a PLg9.' SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY -. a ~w FAUE SEVEN M Mnll Frosh Wins as, Varsity Sweats 'Big One * * * * * * * * * From Ann Arbor: Curd and Bunk Look At Game, TV-Style From East Lansing: Low Blood Pressure, Big 'H,' Silly Putty, and Dear Old 'Dad' By CHUCK VETZNER Sports Editor Today at 1:30 in - Yost Field House the Michigan basketball team will play Michigan State. The game will =not be televised. This is unfortunate because no one will get to say ". .one of the great rivalries in all basketball." "Right you are Bunk Milkinson. You might say this is one of those games where you can throw out the records. Michigan State is tied for the lead in the Big Ten, and Michigan is tied for last in the conference. But it won't mean a thing." "Right you are Curd Growley. And here's an interesting anecdote about the game. We asked the Sorry, Fans The office of Ticket Manager Don Weir reported yesterday that all seats for today's battle have been sold, and cautioned that those who have already purchased tickets arrive early in order to avoid a mass crowd- out right before the game. Game time is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. No local television stations will be carrying a broadcast. Spartan's top rebounder, big 6' 7" Matt Aitch how he pronounces his name, and hie told us 'like the eighth letter of the alphabet.' H ho." "Ho-ho. Thanks, Bunk. You know the rivalry between these two schhols is almost unbelievable. And although in the all-time to- tals Michigan has won 50 times while Michigan State has won on- ly 33 times, you know they'll be playing to win today. "Right, Curd. And you know this mammoth arena here brings back a lot of memories to both of us, I'm sure. The likes of Cazzie Rus- sell, V. Murinus, Bill Buntin. They' all got their start here." "V. who?" Not to Mention . "That's the scientific name for a bat, Curd. I just did that for laughs. I was going to throw in F. Pigeon. That's . "A pigeon." "Right, Curd. I figured it was too obvious." But getting to a ser- ious note, this lovely place does have a lot of history. Who could ever forget Doug Herner driving in for a basket to beat the Spar- tans with only one second showing on the scoreboard? "Bunk, I believe that game was played at Jenison Field House in East Lansing. Besides, why do you keep calling this place beautiful. "We always call stadiums beau- tiful. Have you ever heard an an- nouncer call one a snake pit?" Pride "And both coaches really have their teams fired up for this en- counter. As you all know, the Spartans defeated the Wolverines in the final Big Ten game of the season last year. And even though Michigan had already won the conference title, it's the kind of loss that . . Well, I guess you could say it .hurts their pride." "Yes sir, Curd. You can call it pride." "Thanks, Bunk. So Michigan will want to win this game even more to get back at their Southern neighbors, especially with the Wol- verines hoping to upset MSU's title chances." East is East and ... "Curd, you're absolutely right. Michigan will really be out to beat their Eastern neighbors." "Bunk, in the few minutes we have left, it might be a good idea to look at some of the interesting highlights of the game." "Well, of course, we shouldl mention that Michigan State is located so close to Michigan that the two are arch-rivals." "That is a good point to bring up. Bunk, I was looking at some statistics and came across an in- teresting item-that is, the simi- larity between Aitch and the Spar-. tans' fine sophomore forward, Lee Lafayette. Aitch ranks tenth in the league in scoring averaging 20 points a game, while Lafayette. is just Ahead of him at 20.5 points a game." 'Right, Lafayette is in ninth place in scoring. I think we could also mention the dissimilarity be- tween Michigan's Ken Maxey and' Craig Dill. Dill is quite a bit taller." "Yes, and we can contrast this to Aitch and Lafayette who are almost the same height." "But even though the sopho- more is an inch shorter, he's leading the Big Ten in rebounding with 17.5 a game."# Like Uncle, Like Nephew? "Another interesting think isI that Art Baylor is related to Elgin, Baylor. In fact Art is his ne- phew." "But of course that won't mean much since Elgin won't be playing today." -Daily-Thomas R. Copi FRESHMAN GUARD RICK BLOODWORTH driyes past two unwary Michigan State defenders in last night's Michigan frosh victory. The redheaded Bloodworth, who hit for a team high of 20 points last night, engineered the Michigan victory by popping in seven crucial points in the over- time period. Bloodworth, one of three freshmen Wolverines on tender, was an All-Stater at Fern- dale High last year. Bloodworth Leads 'New Blue' 00 Past State in Overtiome, 7-6 By DENNIS CHASE Associate Sports Editor Michigan State News Old Dad. That is the moniker they pin- ned on Michigan State basketball Coach John Benington when he attended San Francisco Univer- sity in the early 1940s. The name has stuck and no wonder. Bening- ton looks more like your old man than your old man does. But there is another reason for the nickname. Benington took ov- er a Spartan basketball team in 1964 that had won only one game the year before, and MSU was get- ting more of a reputation for los- ing basketball games than for milking cows. But last year Benington led the team to a 17-7 overall record, 10- 4 in the Big Ten, good for second place behind . . . ahem, well, just behind. Great White Father He has been "Old Dad", "New Dad", "Granddad" and Father Time" as far as the Spartans are concerned. This year he has the Spartans tied for the Big Ten lead, and 7-3 in all games, and there is no question that he is a superb handler of men and a fine tactician. His two best players from last year, Stan Washington and Bill Curtis, have graduated, and Ben- ington has turned their two as- signments over to 6-7, 236-pound ceiter Matthew Aitch and 6-6, 206-pound forward Lee Lafayette. Washington averaged 18 points per game last season, and Curtis 16.4. So far, Aitch has averaged 18.3, and Lafayette 16.9, despite the many problems of both play- ers. Resilient Aitch stays in shape about as long as silly putty stays around. Over Christmas vacation, he be- came slow and chunky. 'He has to run a lot to keep playing, or he loses his timing," said Benington at the time, and, to this day, the coach keeps Aitch running the' longest and the hardest at prac- tices. Lafayette is not without his dif- ficulties either. "He has low Benington said. "Apyway. he tires got three points and Rymal scor- easily, and we have to constantly ed 15. watch him at the end of most Neither Benington nor his as- games to make sure he's okay." sistants are taking the Wolverines Lafayette played the whole game lightly. against Illinois and Iowa. Bening- "Michigan is in the same boat ton says he has no idea why, but we could have been in," Bening- Lafayette looked better at the end ton said. "They've played two of the games than at the begin- games on the road and tough ning. Northwestern at home. I visualiz- And Benington is a inaster ed us being 0-2 playing at Illinois "strategist." and against Iowa. We're in much Benington's strategy worked last better shape than I anticipated." Gus Ganakas, Benington's as- Saturday against Iowa. Leadtingsistant coach who scouted the Hawkeye scorer Tom Chapman Wolverines last week in their loss had been averaging over 20 points to Illinois, agreed. "They can score a game, but was making most of 90 points with ease, as they've his oins fom ne ornr. en-been scoring a lot of points while his points from one corner. Ben- losing,'' he' said. "They're not go- ington told guard Steve Rymal to ing to be in last place very long. crowd Chapman when the Hawk- They're the best last place team eye went into that spot. Chapman I've ever seen." I- - By JOEL BLOCK Led by a fantastic second half performance by guard Rick Blood- worth, the Michigan freshman team battled through a hectic five minute overtime period to beat the Michigan State frosh squad, 75-69 last night. Bloodworth scored 16 of his team-leading 20 points after the halftime intermission, including 7 out of Michigan's 10 points in the overtime period. MSU guard Steve Kirkpatrick had tied the score at 65-all with only five seconds left in regula- tion .time. Then with 2:30 left in the over- time period, Spartan freshman guard Lloyd Ward hit on a free throw to give Michigan State a 68-65 lead. Just a Little Time It took only ten seconds for Bloodworth, a Ferndale High pro- duct, to get to work. He plopped in a 15 foot jump shot to bring the Wolverines within one point of the Spartan freshmen. Within another ten seconds,. Bloodworth took a pass from cap- tain Mark Henry and swept in from the right side and put the ball in to put Michigan ahead 69-68. A minute later, with 1:40 left in the period, Bloodworth made a repeat performance of the layup, this time getting the feed from reserve forward Chick Dobson. The basket gave the freshmen a three point lead and the game as they added four free throws to bring the score to 75-69 at the buzzer. Poking Along The game started out at a snail's pace with the first half being marked by multiple turn- overs on both sides. At the 10:00 mark of the first half the score! stood at Michigan 11, Michigan State 9. Along with the several bad passes was a flury of fouls by Michigan freshman center Mike Lawson and MSU guard LaMarr Thomas. With less than five min- utes gone after the tipoff both were pulled out of the game with three fouls apiece. Bloodworth and 6'7" forward Rudy Tomjanovich were both cold from the field and freshman coach Dick Honig took both out for substitutions in the first period. With 7:30 left to play the Wol- verines pulled away to a 25-18 lead. They managed to hold their lead for the rest of the half and went into the locker room with a six-point margin over the Spartans. Intimidation Henry was th esparkplug in the first half, popping 15 foot jumpers for 11 of his 15 total points. Tom- janovich added nine points and intimidated the Michigan State offense by snuffing five Spartan layup attempts. At the second half tip, it looked like the Wolverine freshmen were going to run away with the game. Tomjanovich got the tip to Law- son who, in turn, fired the ball into Bloodworth for an easy layup. Michigan got another quick bucket as Bloodworth intercepted an errant MSU pass and streaked all the way down the court for two more points and a 10 point margin. Suddenly Thomas and Ward got their shooting eyes back and they pumped the Spartans to a 54-47 lead with 13:30 left in the second half. Pressing Three minutes later, Honig put the freshmen into a zone press, trying to force the Spartans into the same mistakes they were mak- ing in the first half.. It worked. Within four minutes Bloodworth stole the ball five times from the MSU guards and Tom- janovich intercepted two passes. With six minutes to go the two combined to regain the lead for Michigan. Bloodworth frisked Ward of the ball, faked around another Spartan defender and laid the ball up. It bounced a little too hard off the backboard and Tomjanovich looked like a volley- ball player as he spiked the ball through, making the score 57, State 56. Mistakes, Mistakes The Wolverines increased their lead to 63-60 with just 2:25 left in the game. But costly mistakes gave the Spartans an opening to tie the score at the end of regu- lation time. After a time-out, they took too long to put the ball in play and MSU freshman forward Bob Gale converted the Wolverine miscue into a basket. Ward made one of two free throws with a minute left to knot the score at 63-63. Again Bloodworth came througn with a clutch layup, taking a pass from Fraumann to put the Wol- verines ahead 65-63. With 10 sec- onds left in regulation time, State called a time out with the ball under the Michigan basket. Blew It for the Blue "That's where I blew it for us," said freshman Coach Honig. "I had forgotten that they were still shooting fouls without the one- and-one bonus. I should have tolei one of the guys with one or two personals to foul someone on their team. Then they would have gotten only one foul shot and we would have won by a point." What did happen was the layup by guard Steve Kirkpatrick which forced the Wolverines to go into the five minute overtime period to win the game. Forward Bill Fraumann made himself obnoxious to the Spartan offense as he scrapped for the ball and swept the defensive boards time after time. 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By virtue of the calibre of the team that meted out Iowa's setback, Northwestern, led by con- ference scoring leader Jim Burns, cannot take the highly-regarded Hawkeyes lightly. In the other conference match, cellar dweller Minnesota will meet Ohio State in Columbus. Ohio State, led by junior center Billy Hosket, fell last week to Indiana by one point, 81-80, and is other- wise considered a possible dark horse contender for the Big Ten crown. Minnesota, plagued by in- experience, has not been able to get off the ground this season, standing, like Michigan, 0-3 in conference play. Wisconsin; Indiana, Purdue, and Illinois remain idle, a full slate of conference games not scheduled until Feb. 7. 1 I 1 t z 2 3 r 1 j f t UNION-LEAGUE/ creative arts festival PRESENTS II M' Draws Blood MICHIGAN FROSH Tomjanovich Fraumnann Lawson Bloodworth Henry Dobson Fishman Totals G F P T 6 2-5 3 14 6 1-2 5 13 2 0-1 4 4 9 2-5 0 20 5 5-6 2 15 1 3-4 1 5 1 2-3 0 4 3015-2615 75 i s . r m : . 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