PAG 1fE SIXA THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1GyY,67 _a I'AflU! ~IX TINE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16~~,$67 . .. bought Byers States Stand As Feud Continues Honig Guides Frosh year, I would have had to inten-1 Gagers Honig points out. He also has Sesquig raS 0 your S. superbal I 0 UNION-LEAGUE yep.? on sale on the diag now! KANSAS CITY U) - Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAAA, said yesterday that for- eign students athletes suspended by the AU are eligible to partici- pate in 90 per cent of the track and field meets in this country. "AAU competition represents less than 10 per cent of the track competition in America," he said, and the suspended athletes are eligible to compete in all meets sponsored by the U.S. Track and Field Federation. The USTFF is an arm of the NCAA-the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Byers called a news conference today to state the NCAA's position in the latest flare-up of the long- standing feud between the NCAA and the AAU over who should gov- ern the nation's track and field programs. The new outbreak followed sus- pension by the AAU who took part in the USTFF Invitational Indoor Track Meet in New York last Fri- day night. In New York yesterday Col. Donald Hull, executive director of the AAU, said the Athletes "are primarily in trouble with their own governing bodies." Hull said: "There is nothing we, can do here. They got word from their own athletic associations not to participate in unsanctioned competition." But Byers said that isn't true. "These foreign-born students have not, and will not, be ruled in- WALTER BYERS U eligible by their native countries," Byers said. ' "We already have information from at least two nations precisely to that effect." Byers said the nations are Greece and Ireland. Byers also said that he had talked to athletic officials at all but one of eight colleges attended by suspended students. He said he had learned that only students from England and Ireland had re- ceived any kind of communication from their native athletic associa- tions, and these -were not notices of ineligibility. Byers said 11 foreign athletes participated in the New York meet Friday and the AAU had sent tele- grams of suspension to nine. By JOEL BLOCK "The only difference between him and us is that he's smaller," said a freshman cager half-jok- ingly while eating at the Ohio Union after last Saturday's game. He wasn't referring to 5'10" frosh guard Steve Fishman. It was 5'10" frosh coach Richard L. Honig. At first look, the only difference between Honig and most of the freshman cagers is his lack of height. His collegiate basketball playing experience was limited to just one month on Michigan's varsity team ,when he was a sophomore. Two-Time Winner Honig did play three years for Detroit McKenzie and made All- City guard in his senior year. But he alsomade the All-City base- ball team as a shortstop, an achievement which put him in a dilemma when he came to Mich- igan in 1959. "I wanted to play both baseball and basketball in college if I could. But after playing on both freshman baseball and basketball teams, I realized I would have to make a decision between the two," remembers Honig. Honig's crystal ball told him to elect baseball, but the choice wasn't purely accidental. "I was told that there would be a pos- sible opening at shortstop for my sophomore season so I started thinking seriously about concen- trating on baseball." The American Game He ended up staying on the varsity basketball team only a month his sophomore year. But he found success in baseball, start- ing at shortstop every game for the 1961 Big Ten champion Wol- verines. t r tC i 1 tionally flunk a course to stay in served as referee for high school school," explains Honig. "I had games in the Ann Arbor area for accumulated more than enough the past few years. hours to graduate (he ended up In switching to his new post, with 136), so I decided not to wait Honig has found only minor dif- another year to graduate." ficulties. "I think I have a good Right after getting his educa- enough knowledge of general tion degree, Honig went right to basketball strategy. But at the be- work for his ex-mentor, Moby ginning of the year I had to sit Benedict, as assistant baseball down with George (Pomey) and coach. After three years of coach- Dave (Strack) to learn about the ing baseball, he got his chance to various warm-up drills which they coach basketball this year. use." I DICK HONIG Honig also started the next year and hit .345 in the Big Ten. Mich- igan didn't capture the conference title that year; Illinois beat them out by a game. Instead, they went from an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament all the way to Hawaii where they won the In- ternational Amateur Champion- ships. In 1963, his senior year, Honig was hit on the wrist in the first Big Ten game of the season. The broken wrist kept him out of the line-up for the rest of the year, but he had to turn down a pos- sible extra year of eligibility be- cause of unusual circumstances. "In order for me to get another "Assistant coach Jim Skala left, the staff around the beginning of November this y e a r," relates Honig. "Since his resignation came so close to the upcoming basket- ball season, the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics de- cided to wait a year until select- ing a permanent varsity assistant coach." Consequently, George Pomey, who was to have been the new frosh coach this year, was moved up to varsity assistant while Honig was given temporary charge of the freshmen cagers. Even though his only varsity playing experience consists of a one month stretch while a sopho- more, Honig has been around Michigan basketball throughout all eight years he's been connect- ed with Michigan. He was in charge of taking the films for Michigan basketball while he was serving as assistant baseball coach. "I took over the freshman prac- tices for Tom Jorgensen (last year's frosh coach) when he was out of town on a scouting trip," Honig's chance selection this year as freshman basketball coach was t o t a 11 y unexpected. But strangely enough, it fulfilled one of his high school wishes. "When I was playing both base- ball and basketball in high school, I wanted to coach basketball rather than baseball. I felt that there was nothing to baseball on the high school level and always had my hopes on coaching a high school basketball team." Big Ten Standings 1 W L Pet. Northwestern 5 2 .714 Indiana 5 2 .714 Iowa 5 2 .714 Michigan State 5 2 .714 Purdue 3 4 .429 Illinois 3 4 .429 Wisconsin 3 4 .429 Ohio State 3 5 .375 MICHIGAN 2 5 .286 Minnesota 2 6 .250 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Iowa 80, Northwestern 75 Wisconsin 85, Minnesota 75 I Right Angle Y A Fresh new approach to your favorite crepe-soled tie with a smart new- square toe. Comes in theu Season's most wanted leathers. $1S00 CAMPUS MATSSHOP ' NMatmen Face Dual Test Pro Standings NBA Eastern Division W L Pct. GB Philadelphia 54 10 .844 - x-Boston 45 15 .750 7 New York / 31 34 .477 231/ Cincinnati 27 34 .443 25%f Baltimore 16 48 .250 38 Western Division San Francisco 37 26 .587 - St. Louis 30 32 .484 61/2 x-Los Angeles 26 34 .433 9112 Detroit s 24 38 .387 121/ Chicago 23 42 .354 15 x-Late game not included. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Cincinnati 129, New York 118 Philadelphia 127, Detroit 121 Boston at Los Angeles (inc) NHL W L TPt4. GF GA Chicago 30 11 8 68 182 116 New York 23 19 8 54 138 130 Montreal 21 20 7 49 125 126 Toronto 19 21 9 47 126 148 Detroit 21 26 3 45 158 162 Boston 14 31 7 35 129 176 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Toronto 6, New York 0 By KIM KENDALL The boys can keep their little good luck charms and their pre- match rituals. But the coach isn't superstitious himself. The polka dot tie around his neck for every meet is just a precaution. "I don't believe in taking chances," he ex- plains. Coach Cliff Keen will take that same safety device off his tie rack this weekend as the Wolverine wrestlers meet Illinois at Cham- paign and Purdue in West Lafa- yette. The Friday - Saturday matches will climax a week in which the undefeated grapplers will have met four Big Ten teams, a strain which may influence' their per- formance this weekend. "It's not the physical phase of so many meets so close together," Keen commented, "as much as it is getting ready for those four matches. Putting them together may be more than we can digest at one time." The typical coaching philosophy that confidence may evolve into laxity cornered Keen into evaluat- ing both the Illini and the Boiler- makers as "good teams," although they are far behind Michigan in conferencse standings. He explain- ed that so-called easy matches See Kaiser Aluminum's eyeball- twirling poster on the bulletin board in the Placement Office. -- I ternoon match with Purdue. "This is to our disadvantage!' said assistant coach Rick Bay, "since the team won't have much of a chance to warm up after a long ride." Boilermaker power depends up- on two senior stars. In the 125- pound division, Larry Katz, Pur- due's lone entry in last year's NCAA meet, is scheduled to clash with Michigan's Bob Fehrs. The only Black and Gold placement in the Big Ten meet since 1964 is this year's captain, Ralph Trail, who was sidelined last year with a shoulder injury. His 130 pounds will place him in Geoffrey Hen- son's territory. While the Purdue meet should not prove to be a fierce battle, in sports only the unpredictable is predictable, and K e e n credits Boilermaker potential. "It's the hungry dog who catch- es the rabbit,' added Keen. So, although Michigan is strong- ly favored in both upcoming matches, outside factors could shatter predictions. An epidemic of jaundice could break out. One of the station wagons could run out of gas. Or Cliff Keen could forget his polka-dot tie. BIboard There will be a Tang Soo Do karate session tonight in Wat- terman Gym, 7-9. DAVE PORTER are a definite disadvantage, a rugged schedule produces a rug- ged team, that "we don't train well on milk toast-we need raw meat." The meat of Illini strength lies in Bob Loffredo and Jerry Pillath. Loffredo will be pitted against Wolverine Fred Stehmen at 152, and Pillath will wrestle NCAA champion Dave Porter at heavy- weight. With only eight return- ing members of last year's squad, a conspicuous gap in the 130- pound division with Don Jeffry's graduation, and a contest against the powerhouse of Big Ten wres- tling, Illinois will be fighting up- hill. But as Coach Keen empha- sized, "You never can tell." The Michigan team arrives en- masse in West Lafayette in two cars just before the Saturday af- I Daily Classifieds Get Results 619 East Liberty 662-0266 SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: JOEL BLOCK 4 1I I 4 I College & grad stu- dents, faculty with . - I.g people skills and IF YOU'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT A POSITION with a company that puts a premium on ideas...a company that can offer you a chance to do a job on your own and in your own way... a company that thinks ahead and thinks young (we're probably younger than you are) ... then WE'D LIKE TO TALK WITH YOU! 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