I PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1967 . .. . .......,..x . . N..... ...r...m. ... . " . .F. iI UNION-LEAGUE PRESENTS PROF. BRETTON of the Political Sciere Dept. Speaking on SOUTH AFRICA AND AMERICAN AFFAIRS 8:00 p.m. TUESDAY Feb. 21 in the UGLI Multipurpose Room Tigers, Tigers, Burn ing Bright . 0 0 By HOWARD KOHN Ivy League scoring and rebound- Sitting up straight in his swivel ing records. luminary C h r i s chair, he slapped it on the line: Sophomore pumindrdownh1r ifs "You can't be a champion if youThomforde pulled down 19 of can't play all the championship Princeton's 90 rebounds. teams." y Thomforde became dedicated to Bill Stryker, sports information basketball as a junior in high director at Princeton, has a case school after reading a verse in the d poitt. Bible, "I exhort you, therefore, Pintithebrethren, by the mercy of God Princeton isn't eligible fort to present your bodies as a sacri- NCAA finals. At least, not yet. fice, living, holy, pleasing to God." An academic debate last spring The Not-So-Secret Miracle over the 1.6 grade point require- This year, he's presented him- ment for tendered athletes-to self in the starting lineup of every which the Ivy League refuses to conform-cut Princeton and the Princeton game-pushing himself other Eastern mods out of post- so hard he's lost 20 pounds. season NCAA activity. "He can't play any other way Now a committee headed by but all out," sounds out Van Breda Yale President Kingdon Brewster Kolff. "I'm going to start sitting is trying to deal Princeton back in. him down in practice to conserve Only no one wants to talk about his weight.'' Thomforde is part of a quasi-.complexion of Ivy League basket- chance at the pros in lieu of en- miracle formula which has trig- ball with the advent of Bill Brad- tering the Lutheran ministry. gered Princeton's unpredicted rise ley. Now, with a nationally-feared "Over the long stretch, this to the top of the national polls. freshman team, he threatens to year's team could be better than "I'll have to admit I didn't expect create a powerhouse image for the one on which Bradley was a 19 wins off the top when the sea- Princeton. senior," compares Van Breda son started. Now I'd like to go all But a dynasty? Kolff. "When Bradley was on, the! All five were recruired while Bradley was still playing. In the past few weeks, Prince- ton's opponents have been frus- trated into below-the-belt desper- ation attempts at shutting down the Tigers. L ---_::' the way . . . not for myself . . but for these kids. They've reallyj put out," credits Van Breda Kolff.' Seniors Ed Hummer and Gary Walters and juniors Joe Heiser and John Haarlow are the other Tiger starters. "We don't have any secret plan or any super-stars. But I think all the starters have been the high scorer in at least one game. That's pretty fair balance," praises their cigar-chomping coach, who fin- ally got a full-time assistant coach this year. Van Breda Kolff changed the "Not here. That's a figment of some sportswriters' imagination.' We play the game, you tag on the names," he laughs. Yet the championship atmos- phere of the Bradley era still per- meates the scene. - "Because of Bradley, Ivy League basketball is accepted. The league played teams like Kentucky, Tulsa, Georgia Tech and Arizona for the first time in a long time this year." Bradley also helped interest Thomforde in Princeton. Unfor- tunately for the National Basket- ball Association, he's also helped. convince Thomforde to give up his team played great. But it's better Dartmouth, a 40-point under- when you don't have to depend on dog. froze the ball in a game-long just one man." stall - refusing to shoot for the In the forepart of the year, first ten minutes. When'a Dart- Hummer-the slick-shooting cap- mouth player finally chanced a tain-fired up eight straight vic- jumper, he missed. 'homforde tories. When he contacted a virus grabbed the rebound, passed to disease over Christmas vacation, Hummer: and Hummer drove in he faded; but the Tigers didn't. 'for a lay-up. 4 Hummer, Thomforde and Haar- low were the three most actively recruited among the starters. "Several top Eastern colleges were eager to sign them," recalls Van Breda Kolff. Walters and Heiser were win- ning gambles. "It's been quiet as a tomb," sighs Stryker. "No comment," says NCAA Pres- ident Marcus Plant. "We've got nothing to report so far," reports Brewster's office. "We're all hopeful," perks up Stryker. "Callme back next week," adds Plant. "It's a touchy situation.. It isn't that we don't want Princeton to play. It's a question of policy," re- ports Brewster's office. Back to the Ball It certainly isn't a question of basketball ability. Bill Van Breda Kolff, the easy- come easy-go Dutchman who flunked out of Princeton as an undergrad, has tutored his team to 19 wins in 20 games, including one over highly-regarded North Carolina. Louisville's 72-63 ex- pelling was the lone loss. This week's Associated Press rankings listed Princeton third- behind UCLA and Louisville. A few weeks back, the Tigers roared past defensively-deafened Dartmouth 116-42-establishing M' lcers Host rratic Princeton won easily 30-16. But Dartmouth coach Dave Gavitt In- sisted: "If our shooting had been better, we might have beaten them." It sounds reasonable until you consider Princeton shot 65 per cent. Duluth 1 WCI1A Standings I I 4 By DAVE WEIR With their top scorer on the bench with a bad knee, and their five game winning streak a thing of the past, Michigan's icers will attempt to regroup and conquer the invading Bulldogs of Minne- sota, Duluth, in the first of a two game weekend series in the Coli- seum at 8:00 tonight. The Wolverines, who have drop- ped three straight contests, will be without the services of senior Bob Baird and his hot stick, which has blasted enemy nets to the tune of 19 goals and 20 assists this sea- son. Baird twisted his knee in last week's Michigan State series, but the extent of the injury is not known as of yet. He will not re- join the team for practices until' next week.. Up from the Depths Duluth, currently mired in sev- enth place in the WCHA stand- ings with a 5-10 mark, is what Michigan coach Al Renfrew de- scribes as "a strange team which has had nothing but bad breaks. CHRIS THOMFORDE U U Have you seen Pontiac's all new FIREBIRD yet? THE FIREBIRD IS NOW ON DISPLAY This Weekend in Sports TODAY Hockey-Minnesota (Duluth Branch) at the Coliseum 8 pm. 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An Offensive Team Duluth coach Ralph Romano agrees that Christiansen is "in some ways similar to Wakabay- ashi." Christiansen centers a line which which features Pat Francisco and sophomore Bruce McLeod, the team's other top scorers, at the wings. McLeod, touted as the top rookie prospect by pre-season ob- servers, has "really moved up in the scoring totals since. joining the front line," according to Ro- mano. Overall, the Duluth mentor is satisfied with his squad's perform- ance to doate: "We've come along pretty well, considering that we've played the toughest schedule of any team in the loop. Ten of our games have been against the other threestop teams. "It's difficult to compare Mich- igan with our squad. The Wolver- ines have been the big surprise in the league this year . . . they're good and strong and tough ... but of course they stumbled last week against MSU. We, on the other hand, had a relatively easy time with State, beating them twice. "All in all, it's a crazy league," concluded Romano, "You can't make any sense out of it." The Duluth coach thinks that North Dakota is "bound to win the title. They have been playing North Dakota MICHIGAN Michigan Tech Denver Michigan State Colorado Coll. Minn. 'I(Duluth) Minnesota so darn well and they have a big jump on everybody in the stand- ings." The Top Four Wolverine coach Renfrew con- siders his corps anything but out of the league race, however. "We have been working hard all week and have organized new lines, so we're ready to get back to the job of winning. I consider it a four team race between Tech, Denver, Dakota and ourselves." Senior Danny Walter will re- place Baird on a line with Doug Galbraith and Ron Ullyot. 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