Tuesday, August 27, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, August 27, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY By JOEL BLOCK On March 16 the Regents named track coach Don Canham to succeed Fritz Crisler as Michi- gan's new athletic director. Can-" ham got word of the official an- nouncement at the NCAA indoor track meet in Cobo Hall and he hasn't stopped running since. Canham officially took office i only, Monday, but he's already made his mark on Michigan ath- letics. He has Innovated a new sports clinic, giving thousands of Ann Arbor youngsters the free use of University athletic facil- ities and free coaching sessions with five Michigan head coaches. He has appointed the first Negro coach to the Michigan athletic staff. He is presently renovating the locker rooms and training area Canham in Yost Field House, complete with the plush carpeting modern- ity of a suburban country club. He also is currently remodeling the basement of the athletic ad- ministration building to be used as a new public relations center complete with a special room for weekly press parties. In the area of intramurals and recreation, Canham has already begun to act on plans to place three temporary basketball courts in Yost Field House for student and faculty use. If he can find the money, he will build a tennis field house, with five courts for varsity tennis practice in the afternoon and portable basketball courts for in- tramural use at night. Canham's initial projects show that he will carry into Michigan" athletics what he has done in pri- vate life. He has built a one-man instructional sports film com- pany jinto a million dollar cor- poration which produces play- ground and athletic equipment and teaching aid materials. Canham has put the company, Don Canham Enterprises, into a trust fund, and will no longer have managerial control of the' cor- poration. He says he has had sev- eral offers for the company but no longer is considering selling it. Canham's entrepreneurial skills served him well when he was Michigan's track coach for 19 years. He conducted coaching clinics in such places as Finland, Africa, Germany, Trinidad, and Canada. He was a pioneer in the creation of the United States Track and Field Federation, the Prins largest track organization in the United States, and is permanent Executive Director .of the United States Track Coaches Association. Canham has been director of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Cobo Hall for the past four years. He has turned the meet into the most profitable one in track in 1966 and 1967. This year, as promotional di- rector of the Madison Square Garden Invitationtl Track Meet, Canham made the show a sell-out. He says he wants to do the same thing for Michigan football and. basketball games and has taken steps to do it. Besides expanding public rela- tions facilities in the athletic department, he has hired two new publicity men. Will Perry, as- sistant sports editor of the Grand newi Rapids Press, has replaced re- cently retiring Les Etter as Sports Information Director, Larry Zim- mer, sports director of WAAM, an Ann Arbor radio station, has en- tered the newly-created post of television and radio coordinator for the athletic department. Canham says he has "doubled the promotion" for football games, sending out 100,000 ticket broch- ures to high income families in the Ann Arbor area, along with spot radio commercials and news- paper ads. The response has been a 12 per cent increase in season ticket pur- chases and the sell-out of single- game tickets for the Michigan, State game. Under the new structure of the athletic department, Canham will have two associate athletic direc- Second again, By DIANA ROMANCHUK ahead of Brown) on the Michigan's swim team is the meter board. original "We try harder" gang. Diving coach Dick Kimba Eight Big Ten meets ago, the also have two members Wolverines finished second to successful freshman squad, Indiana. The next year they came Rydze and Al Gagnet, and back -. and finished second again Pete Emonds to work in ... and each year since. diving act. At the beginning of last season The two other departing se it looked like Michigan would have John Salassa and Ken Wi to try even harder than ever, as deal a double blow to Mi graduation took stalwarts like strength in the 50 and 10 Carl Roble and Paul Scheerer, the freestyles, and relay depth National butterfly and breast- Their loss is partially co stroke champions respectively, acted, though, by the reap All together, seven departing ance of Bob Harmony, a seniors left Coach 'Gus Stager ising sprinter who missed wd ony re a niogaps to pug last season due to illness. : the 1967 squad. But the squad followed in the footsteps of the seven before it, Y d, and now only these three will be missing from this year's team. Be- f sides, an excellent crew of sopho- " mores (they won the Big Ten Freshman meet) can help furnish F' the all-important depth. One-third of the senior con- tingent was represented by diver and team captain, Fred Brown. Coach Stager tagged the two A's of diving as ability and attitude, adding that Brown was strongest in the latter. "A fine competitor, he always came through in the clutch, Sta- ger noted, "Take the Nationals for example." There Brown moved from eleventh to seventh place in the three-meter finals, ultimately assuring the Wolverines of their hold on sixth place. Bruce McManaman and Jay Meaden may not be able to re- place the captain in Brown, but I they will lead the diving company. I Meaden, a senior this year, placed eleventh in the Nationals (one JUAN BELLO 'M' tankers plan change deas tors under him. One will be in charge of the men's and women's physical education program, in- tramurals and recreation while the other will cover intercollegiate athletics. "I've narrowed down the field to three candidates for the recre- ation associate," Canham said yesterday.."The problems with in- tramurals will become urgent when students return in the fall so I'll probably make my decision, by the end of August." Canham is postponing his ap- pointment for the other position. "The associate director of inter- collegiate athletics is a new job and I won't be able to' select a man to fill ituntil I've set up his specific duties," Canham said. "Another position, administrative assistant, is also vacant and I want to get that situation settled first." Canham's appointment of Ken track coach was a first for the Burnley, a Negro, as assistant athletic department. "I wanted Ken because he was qualified and could help us. That's the way I'm going to make all my appoint- ments and that's probably the only reason any black coach would want to come here," Canhan de- clared. Canham met with Ulnversity President Robben Fleming and several black students following last April's lock-in inside the Ad- ministration Bldg. He also met privately with two black student representatives and came to a "profitable mutual understanding" with them about the hiring of black coaches. The blacks had demanded the immediate hiring of more black coaches to the athletic staff. Canham's record as a track coach has been impressive. In his 19 years as Michigan track coach, his teams have won 12 Big Ten track championships, indoor and outdoor, and have placed second 14 times. e one- ll will of the , Dick junior to, the eniors, Lebeck, chigan 0-yalli unter- ppear- prom- all of opho- more twins Greg and Bob Zann will bolster these two events (Greg was Big Ten 50-free frosh cham- pion), along with junior Bob Kircher. But the real nucleus of the Michigan squad remains intact. Stager labels distance freestylers Mike O'Connor, Gary Kincaid, and Juan Bello, the "cell around which the team is built." In years past, the distance men have been the team's strongest swimmers. This year is no excep- tion. O'Connor, who considers the 200-free a sprint, goes the 500 and 1000. Though sick through the start of last season, he was well enough by the close to clip more than ten seconds off Carl Ro- bie's 1000-free record, clocking a 10:23.3 against Ohio State; -ind he finished third in the 500 at the Big Tens.- While O'Connor sticks to the freestyle, the mainstay of the relays, Kincaid and Bello are the chessmen Stager moves around. Kincaid best demonstrated his versatility in the Nationals where he placed tenth in the 500-free, eighth in the 400-yard individual medley, ' and sixth in the 200- back (an event he had only one other chance to swim all season). He also set a Michigan pool rec- ord in the 500-free at the Big Tens, but was judged second. Bello, an export of Peru, is in a similar predicament: trying to decide where to swim, though he is principally a freestyler, accord- ing to Stager. Nonetheless, he was Big Ten champion in the 100-yard but- terfly as well as in theP00-free. His efforts in the latter event be- gan auspiciously enough: the first time he swam'the 200 was at Min- nesota, and he set a pool record in 1:42.08. He missed a Big Ten crown in the 200-yard individual medley, despite the fact that he sur- passed Carl Robie's record for the event. Then in the nationals lie ran into Olympian Don Schol- lander and had to settle for sec- ond in the 200-free. What Stager, hopes for is enough depth, mainly from sopn- omores Mike Allen and Mike Casey, so that he can free either Kincaid or Bello from the dis- tance events and let them swim where they can do the most good. The two events that could use help are the backstroke and the individual medley. Bill Dorney and Tom Mertz, both juniors, are the backstroke regulars. Mertz was converted from freestyle at the beginning of the season be- cause of a shortage in the event. The individual medley can't even boast a specialist. Dorney, Bello, and Kincaid all swam it last year, -but the job often falls to Tom Arusoo, really a butterflyer. The butterflyers Coach Stager summed up in two words: "They're class." The Canadian-born Aru- soo was third in the Nationals with teammate Lee Bisbee sev-' enth. They will be joined this sea- son by sophomore Steve WazsatK. The breaststroke is beginning to rebuild its depth after losing Scheerer. Jay Mahler and John Robertson- will be aided by the Big Ten frosh champion, British Columbian Bill Mahoney, and Tom Bates of Detroit. Prospects for 1968? Michigan State is still filling weaknesses, Ohio State has some good freshmen, and Wisconsin is improving . .. but Indiana is the team everyone, including Michi- gan, is watching. Coach Stager pointed out that, "Indiana lost heavily, and their freshmen weren't outstanding," but, he continues, "They still have more strength than we do," (mainly in the person of Charlie Hickcox, triple champion in the Nationals). DON CANHAM, new Nichigan Athletic Director, responds to one of an endless succession of phone calls that require his at- tention each day. The ex-Wolverine track coach has already been responsible for the development of plans for improved intramural and intercollegiate facilities. STUDENT BOOK SERVICE LARGEST USED BOOK STOCK IN TOWN OPEN TIL MIDNIGHT DU RING BOOK. RUSH "Where the, Virtuous Buy Their Books", 1215 S. UNIVERSITY 761 -0700 i i I t 1 I Order Your Subscription Today 764-0558 i L , ---- // V r Michigan is having a harder time than Avis trying to trade "We try harder" for "We're No. One", but this year may get them a little bit closer. i GARY KINKEAD See. Prin t. Set. Snap. Develop. 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