PAGESIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 186! Swimmers, Wrestlers Place Second in Big Ten Tankers Take Third in NCAA Mat Win Streak Broken at 34 * By STEVE FICK They played in their own sha-1 Like a diamond in a garbage dows, too: the shadows of a re- dump, a good team at a school cord of continued excellence un-1 unused to winning ways will catch der the guidance of Coach Gus the eye of even a casual observer. Stager. During Stager's 12 years Put that same sparkler on dis- at Michigan, three of his squads play against a background of oth- have taken conference titles, four er gems or top-notch teams, and have won NCAA crowns, and none it becomes a little harder to see, has finished below second in the a bit tougher to spot . though Big Ten meet. it may not shine the less. And so, like the Boston Celtics, This is the way it seems to be Perry Mason, and the old Gotham with Michigan's swimmers, who Bombers, Michigan's swimmers were good enough to cop third have come to know a little of the place in this year's NCAA champ- strange vulnerability that attach- ionships, but who toiled all season es to being a perennial winner: if long in the shadows of a game you win, so what?-you were sup- called basketball and a man called posed to; but if you lose-now, Cazzie Lee Russell. that's something to talk about. Make WA HR'S your headquarters for all your textbook and college supplies SERVING U OF M STUDENTS SINCE 1883 But before they lost a regular meet last winter, the Wolverine tankers claimed victory in what was probably the most exciting and closely-fought match in their history-a down-to-the-wire, 62- 61 win over defending Big Ten champ Indiana. The win, a come-from-behind effort in a seesaw battle, was bag- ged at the end when Bill Groft, Ken Wiebeck, Bob Hoag. and Rich Walls whipped the Hoosier entry- in the last event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay. The points for their win were just enough to upset what had been a three-point Indiana bulge and give the Wolverines the nod. Significant Victory The victory, which Coach Sta- ger attributed to team effort - "they didn't punk out, they stayed in there giving their best" - was especially satisfying because it marked the second time in as many years that the Wolverine tankers had bested the Hoosiers in a head-to-head encounter. No other team has defeated Indiana (the 1965 and '66 NCAA runner- up) in a dual meet in any of the last six years. By CLARK NORTON Winston Churchill once warned that 'without victory there is no survival." Particularly when you're fighting Germans with pitchforks. But blood, toil, tears, and sweat also come in handy when you're building a Big Ten wrestling dual meet winning streak, and, of course, victory is essential-time after time-for that string to sur- vive. The 1966 edition of the Michi- gan wrestling squad did battle successfully the ultimatum of vic- tory facing them in the season's first three dual meets, to run their winning skein to 34 over a period of four years, but succumb- CARL ROBIE churns the water ed to the Inevitable Loss in their ith which he set a world record fourth match when they bowed to d won a silver medal in the 1964 the invading Minnesota grapplers by an 18-8 margin. End of suc- cess story? for the Wolverines in dual meets Matmen Start New String and came as no surprise, since Not to the Wolverine matmen, only three men had graduated who promptly proceeded to dis- from their third-place NCAA pose of their last four Big Ten WOLVERINE SWIM CAPTAIN{ with his unique butterfly style w for 200 meters when he was 16 an Olympics. Michigan's natators opened their season January 8 with a 79-40 win over Wisconsin. Diver Bruce Brown took both the one- and three-meter diving events for the Wolverines as sophomore Wie- beck and letternien Groft, Walls, Russ Kingery, 1967 captain Carl Robie, Paul Scheerer and Bill Far- ley added firsts in other events. The victory was the ninth straight BOB FEHRS 00, Il \4 sR Traditionally for, Fall .. Redwond & nu; ,presents its Fall 1966 collectfon of natural shoulder clothing and related furnishings. Authentic traditional styles that take you anywhere in classic comfort, dignity, and good taste. Al squad of 1965. Hoosiers Dunk 'M' The next day, Indiana tumbled the Maize and Blue by a 176.5- 153.5 margin in the Big Ten re- lays, capturing six firsts to the Wolverine's three in the eight- team meet. The loss was a dis- appointment for the Wolverines- the year before they had captured eight of eleven firsts enroute to downing second-place Indiana 104-76-but memories of it were washed away when they churned their path to the 62-61 victory over Indiana the following week- end. Then the tankers kicked their way to victories over Michigan State (70-53), Purdue in a dual meet (94-29) and Michigan State and Ohio State in a triangular (209-159-104) on the same day, and Minnesota (90-33), in quick succession. Indiana Again On February 12, the Wolverines carted a 15-meet win streak to Bloomington only to have it upset 66-57 by Indiana, which had trail- ed 33-24 at one point but finished strong. Victories by Olympians Robie and Farley in the 400-yard indi- vidual medley and 1000-yard free- style, Groft in the 50-yard free- style, and two relay squads were not enough to insure a Michigan win. Indiana's Bill Utley grabbed firsts in both the 100- and 200- yard freestyle, events the Wolver- ines had hoped to win, and Robie was awarded second in the 500- yard freestyle though finishing in the same time as Hoosier Bob (Continued on Page 11) opponents and two non-confer- ence foes as well, copped a second place finish in the Big Ten tdur- nament (which solely determines Big Ten standings), and then grabbed fifth place in the NCAA championships. Nor to Cliff Keen, Wolverine wrestling coach, who managed to be philosophical about his team's lone setback in a 9-1 season, which included a third place finish in the Midlands tournament in La Grange, Illinois, to open the year. "Well," he explained, "the win- ning streak actually represented 34 separate victories, each accom- plished in its own fashion by a number of different athletes. Its main significance is that we did win those 34 different matches, each in their own right. 'While it was something I think all the boys can be proud of there, was no pressure on us to continue the winning streak for its own sake-rather we wanted to win every match for its individual im- portance." Keen had felt from the begin- ning of the season that the 1966 squad was one of great potential, but remained cautious throughout the winter when issuing predic- tions for an outstanding season. "The team is still unproven," the coach asserted after the early matches, in which the wrestlersj gained decisive victories over Big Ten opponents Iowa, Indiana and Illinois. "We don't know quite what to expect pet, since many of the boys are still inexperienced." Four Regulars Returned In fact, at the beginning of the season, only four of the eight, weight classes used in Big Ten competition were occupied by in- cumbents. The other four, it ap- peared, would have to be filled' mainly by sophomores or upper- classmen who have seen little pre- vious action. Yet at the end of the year, the Wolverines had capped a "very good season," according to Keen, by a national champion, a run- ner-up, a third, a fourth, and a sixth place finisher in the NCAA tournament, in addition to the second place Big Ten team finish. "Of course we're never really sat- isfied unless we win the confer- ence championship" (Michigan had won the title the previous three years), related the coach, "but overall the boys did an ex- cellent job." Defeat Spurs Grapplers On. The team seemed to reach its peak immediately after the Min- nesota defeat. After whitewash- ing their next two opponents, Pur- due and Illinois, the grapplers al- so manhandled Pittsburgh and Wisconsin before closing out the regular season by shutting out To- ledo and squeaking by arch-rival Michigan State, in a contest that wasn't decided until the final match. Ironically, Michigan State went A on to capture the Big Ten tourna- ment and the conference champ- ionship by a scant four points ov- er the Wolverines. while Minne- sota, Michigan's lone nemesis dur- ing the regular season, had to settle for third. Fehrs, Johannsen Lead 'Wolves' 4 The matmen were led through- out the season by this year's cap- tain Bob Fehrs, 123 pound run- nerup in the NCAA finals; gradu- ated captain Bill Johannesen, who captured fourth place in the 137 pound division at the nation- al championships; Cal Jenkins, $ who grabbed second place in the Big Ten at 145 pounds; and Dave Porter, NCAA and Big Ten heavy- weight champion. Other regulars in the Wolverine line-up were Dave Dozeman, 130 pound senior who sat out the pre- vious season with an injury suf- 4 fered in an automobile accident; Burt Merical, who filled in for injured Jim Kamman most of the year (Kamman recovered in time to take third place in the NCAA's at 157 pounds); sophomores Way- ne Hansen and Bill Waterman, who alternated at 167 pounds;4 and Wayne Wentz, stalwart in the 177 pound class. Two Top Stars Fehrs met defeat but once be- fore his second loss in two years in the finals of the NCAA tourna- ment-that in the Midlands tour- ney, in which he dropped a close A decision to Massaki Hatta, Olym- pic world champion. Porter was perhaps the biggest surprise of the year. The sopho- more muscleman from Lansing, affectionately nick-named Baby Huey by his friends, and rumored to do such things as pull-ups by making the bar come to him, dropped only one decision all year. Porter lost to Joe James, a former national champion, in the Mid- lands, but from then on was un- stoppable. Three Replacements Needed But while Fehrs, Porter, Kam- man, Hansen, Waterman, and Wentz are all returning to form a strong nucleus for this year's squad, coach Keen faces the pros- pect of finding new regulars in three weight classes; 130, 137, and 145-Dozeman, Johannesen, and Jenkins having graduated. Veter- ans Gordon Weeks and Merical have good shots at two of the spots, but at least one position will apparently have to be filled by a (Continued on page 11) SUITS edwood & Ross suits are cut along natural lines, narrow lapels, center hooked vent with plain front trousers. A complete variety awaits your inspection, including Cheviots, Coverts, Worsteds, and Sharkskins-many with vest .. . from 59.50 to 100.00 SPORT COATS istinctive separate jackets, fine im- ported and domestic woolens. Cut along natural body lines for correct appearance. 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