PAGE SM THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 31,196'7 , PAG SI TH MIHIGN DILYFRIAY.MARH___-_6' -=,1 ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA MIXER Featuring the LONDON FOG UNION BALLROOM Records By DOUG HELLER butterfly in NCAA, first Hei waworld 0yar d. butterfly 1650 fireesty champion at 10 years old. 016- And then he didn't win any- * 1966-] thing for five years. "I thought terfly, seco about quitting. I even tried play- Ten meet. ing some high school football." It's too bad for Michigan's op- yard butterf position that Carl Robie didn't style, seven stick to the gridiron. In fact, ex- * 1967- tremely unfortunate. first in 5 A listing of Robie's perform- 1650 freest] ances in championship meets is 200 butterf reason enough: style, fourth * 1965-First in 400 I.M. and It's 1650 freestyle and second in 200 Robie is Not Waterproof for Robie n Big Ten meet. In in 400 I.M., second in le and 200 butterfly. First in 100-yard but- nd in 200 butterfly, rd in 400 I.M. in Big In NCAA, first in 200- fly, fourth in 1650 free-j th in 500 freestyle. First in 200 butterfly, DO freestyle, first in yle. In NCAA, first in ly, third in 500 free- lin 1650 freestyle. of the 500-yard freestyle in this year's NCAA, the day after the 500 j took place. This was in order to show it on television since the TV crew missed taping it the first day. The time Robie took to change must have been three sec- onds. Robie began swimming at the Prendergast boys club in Drexel Hill, Pa. When he finally "came around" in 1961, he set a world 200-yard butterfly record that last- March 31 9-12 P.M. Who You Know ed two years. also the first and only He also was effective on the in- - ' -Ef person in history to go with a ternational scene. In 1963 he went Michigan homecoming queen, to the Pan-American games in' Chris Anderson. Sao Paulo, Brazil, and set a Pan- He also set the world record American record in the 200-yard for the quick-change act by fly. He set two records in the switching from street clothes in- 1963 pre-Olympic meet in Japan. to his swim suit when NBC re- In February, 1964, Robie was quested a replay of the beginning the only American in the Bremen, Fr i1 t.;. #1/el .' / HILLEL DELI HOUSE MEET THE EDITOR Roger Rapoport Germany, International Swim Fes- tival and he won three medals. At the Olympics in 1964, Robie took the silver medal in the 200 fly behind Kevin Berry, then of Australia, now of Indiana. Berry also beat him in the 1966 Big Ten meet, but never again. In 1965, Robie took part in the world student games in Budapest, Hungary. Then he took the gold medal in the 200 fly and the silver in the 400 IM. Whew! The Wolverine captain doesn't make any bones about the fact that his reason to go to Michigan over, say Yale, was the full schol- arship he was offered. Certainly grades were no problem as he was first in his class "at the Peekskill Military Academy, where he spent his senior year. Olympics?! An English major, Robie is after a law degree "purely for academic reasons" but he isn't sure of a future occupation. One thing is certain. He isn't quite finished with swimming yet since he will participate in the Pan-American tryouts in Dallas. Whether he will still be a serious competitor when the '68 Olympics roll around de- pends upon cooperation from the Law School and the draft law. Looking back at his swimming career Robie has found that swim- ming "showed me my limitations as well as my potential. "By knowing your limitations, you aren't too disappointed by any adverse result. You can come closer to your possibilities than if you expected more than you could do." Robie sees swimming as an aid in other walks of life since "work- ing hard in anything changes your personality so that you concen- trate harder in everything." Evi- dently, swimming helpa certain things, like academics, as five of the six best teams in the NCAA's were Stanford, USC, UCLA, Yale and Michigan. Although Robie sees the West Coast as the dominant power in college swimming, like everybody else, he does not agree that every good swimmer in the nation came from the Santa Clara Swim Club or something like that. "The Amateur Athletic Union has com- petition that is strong all over the country. In fact, swimming helps the AAU financially more than any other sports, including bas- ketball." To an outsider it must sound like a miracle that anyone could keep going at the top level for over WOLVERINE CAPTAIN CARL ROBIE has ended a career which, among other things, included an NCAA championship every year. ten years. Robie says that he would only stop swimming when it stops being dynamic. It hasn't stopped being dynamic yet, and Robie is aiming to hold the world's record again in the 200-yard butterfly as well as make the Pan-American team. Actually, mere medals haven't meant anything to Robie since he was 12 years old. He is much more concerned with improvenient and even though every swimming rec- ord will be quickly erased, "no- STORAGE PROBLEMS? Protect and store your seasonal gar- ments at Kwik 'n Kleen, Ann Arbor's Complete Clothing Care Center. After a professional cleaning, your clothes are motlhproofed and stored until you request them. Then, they're pressed and ready for you to wear. It's so easy to use this low cost, space-sav- ing service from Kwik 'n Kleen. Dry Cleaners " Laundry 0 740 Packard 9 body can take away that for a certain year, you were the best. It's a way to make your mark on the world." He views the past NCAA meet as the toughest competition he's ever been in-"much tougher than the 1964'Olympics." He sees swim- ming as improving extremely rap- idily, with most of the top coaches in the country trying to grab the best incoming swimmers in a ter- rific recruiting struggle. Possibly because of the develop- ment of Big-time recruiting in Rowser Signs GREEN BAY-John Rowser, 6'1" former defensive back from Michigan, signed with the Green Bay Packers yesterday. Rowser was a third round draft choice. swimming, Robie could not con- ceive of himself as a coach except "of a boys' club or something like that." One award Robie received and he didn't even know what it's for. Wrestling Captain 'Bob Fehrs seems to be the only source who knows that the Yost Honor Award, established by the Regents in 1948, is given to about 30 athletes on campus for academic and athletic proficiency. Who else receives awards with- out knowing the reason? 4 Sunday at 5:30 P.M. Call 663-4129 for $1.00 members 1429 HILL STREET Reservationos $1.25 others ALL WELCOME f I HOURS: 7:30 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.-Drop Box for Professional Work Open Until 11:00 P.M. 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