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Wolverines Smash Badger Defense
STILL LEAD WCHA:
IM' Icers Cinch Big Ten Title
By TOM WEINBERG
Wisconsin coach Johnny Erick-j
son had an interesting plan to stop
the Michigan basketball team just
in case Saturday's game were
close.
Unfortunately for him, there
never was much of a chance to
test the strategy, as the Wolver-
ines walked all over the Badgers
at Madison, 103-59, to tie the all-
time record of 18 wins in one sea-
son by a Michigan team.
The distraught coach explained
after the game that his defensive
effort was centered around stop-
ping Captain Bob Cantrell. "That
Cantrell is the key to their of-
fense," he said. "Whenever they
need a bucket, he's there. I was
Cagers Get
Third Spot
By The Associated Press
After its loss to Minnesota a
week ago, Michigan dropped from
second to third place in the latest
Associated Press basketball rat-
ings.
The Wolverines lost ground to
Kentucky, a team that won twice
this past weekend to take over
second place in the standings, but
the Wildcats were beaten by Ala-
bama last night, 65-59.
UCLA's all-conquering Bruins,
rolling unchecked toward the first
undefeated season among major
college basketball powers in seven
years, remained the No. 1 team in
the nation.
UCLA brought its record to 22-0
last week by beating Stanford
100-88, and moved still another
step closer toward becoming the
first team since North Carolina
in 1956-57 to go through anentirs
season undefeated. The Bruins
have only four games remaining,
against teams they already have
beaten-Washington, Washingt,
State, California and Southern
California.
While UCLA dominated the bal-
loting at the top of list, there was
considerable elbowing from the
second to ninth spots, and a re-
turnee took over as the No..
team. Loyola of Chicago rejoined
the elite after impressive 92-83
and 99-81 victories over Bowlir
Green and Marquette, respectively.
glad that he only made one bas-
ket."
'Can't Stop Them'
When asked about the potency
of Michigan's great scoring punch
of Cazzie Russell and Bill Buntin,
Erickson sung a familiar tune.
"Those guys are going to get their
points, no matter what we do. We
just don't have the manpower to
stop either one, and I doubt if
anybody in the country can stop
Cazzie."
The Badgers' coach pointed out
that the percentages told the tale
in the game. Wisconsin sank a
dismal .209 in the first half com-
pared to .500 for the Wolverines.
"The thing that makes this so
discouraging," Erickson said, "is
that we only turned the ball over
twice in the entire first half. As
soon as we started missing, well,
school was out."
Erickson was quick to praise the
Michigan squad, calling it "a won-
derful team. They're big, strong,
quick and handle themselves well.
They look like real champs."
Michigan coach Dave Strack
was in understandably good spirits
after the win which kept his team
on top of the Big Ten and tied
the all-time Michigan record for
wins in one season at 18.
"You know, in the first half I
would have been happy with a five
point lead. They gave us plenty of
trouble off the boards. But when
the lead gets to 20, you want to
make :t 30, and it just keeps going
like that."
Strack was quite happy with the
performance of forward Larry
Tregoning who popped in six-for-
six from the floor before missing
his last shot. Tregoning snapped
back from a below-par 4-13 out-
put at Minnesota last week.
Extend Deadline
The Judo Club has extended.
its deadline for persons wish-
ing to sign up for an all-
campus championship tourna-
ment to February 28. Anyone
interested should call the main
office of the intramural depart-
ment.
The big worry of the game was
at the end of the rst half when
Wisconsin's little Mike O'Melia
shoved Caitrell, who then fell into
Russell. The 6'5%" sophomore fell
on Cantrell and twisted his ankle.
Russell sat out for two minutes
while Doug Herner and Cantrell
played together for the first time
all year.
Perfectly OK
Russell came back in less than
two minutes, without any trace of
an injury, and went on to score 26
points, two shy of Buntin's game-
high output.
Strack and the Wolverines are
working this week with Illinois in
mind. The Illini invade soon-to-
be-replaced Yost Field House Sat-
urday in an effort to pull the Wol-
verines off the top rung in the
Conference and spoil the NCAA
bid for Strack and the team.
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By JIM TENDBALL
"We 'played as well against Min-
nesota as we have against anyone
this season, especially Saturday
night," said hockey Coach Al Ren-
frew yesterday, looking back on
last weekend's action.
Thanks to the sweep from Min-
nesota, 6-3 and 8-2, Michigan
mathematically cinched the little-
publicized Big Ten Championship,
thereby being the first squad to
bring home this honor in a full
year.
The Wolverines lengthened their
win streak to 12 in a row, while
raising their season mark to 18-2.
Michigan now has a Big Ten rec-
ord of 6-1, while Minnesota stands
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STILL UNDEFEATED:
Keen's Matmen Humble. State
at 5-3. Far behind are Michigan
State, 1-6, and Ohio State, 0-2.
Coach Renfrew, who has been
praising this year's team as one of
the finest in Michigan history,
proudly said, "This is one of the
things that we were shooting for
this season, and I was happy to
win it."
As for the WCHA, Coach Ren-
frew stated, "It is really going to
be tough going from here on in.
We have two rough series these
next two weeks--one with Tech
there, and a home-away series
with State."
First Spot
"We are in first place now, and
we can lose one more game and
stay on top; however, we intend
to win them all!"
The Maize and Blue stand just
ahead of Denver in conference
play. Denver maintained its posi-
tion by taking two games from
Colorado, 3-0 and 6-3.
Both Michigan and Denver have
a pair of games left with tough
Michigan Tech. The Wolverines
journey to Houghton this weekend
for two games with the Huskies.
This series will determine the
WCHA championship, for Tech
plays Denver twice the following
weekend.
They're Set
Commenting on the team's fu-
ture, Coach Renfrew said, "The
team is ready, and we know what
we have to do." With the excep-
tion of the State series, we have
improved ,pretty steadily since our
trip to Ohio. The team is healthy,
and looking forward to this series
with Tech."
Coach Renfrew singled out All-
America candidate Bob Gray and
Captain Gordie Wilkie as the out-
standing players of the series.
"They are both real fine hockey
players that give a 100 per cent
effort."
Wilkie garnered two goals in the
series as well as playing a strong
game all ovrr the ice. Goalie Gray
only allowed five goals in the two
games, for a season's per game av-
erage of 2.22.
Michigan divided the scoring
among six players against Minne-
sota, while three additional icers
picked up points on assists. Mich-
igan's amazing offense is now av-
eraging 8.5 goals per game for the
season, and is thereby one of the
highest scoring major collegiate
hockey teams in the nation.
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WCHA Standings
YESTERDAY'S REHULTS
Purdue 85, Illinois 74
Indiana 108, Wisconsin 82
Northwetern 98, Iowa 76
NM' Gymnasts on the Mend;
Wind Up Conference Slate
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By LLOYD GRAFF
What a difference a day makes.
That was the tune gymnastics
Coach Newt Loken was whistling
after Arno Lascari, the team cap-
tain overcame his elbow injury
and gave a splendid performance
on the parallel bars, and still rings
in a 56-56 tie against Michigan
State Saturday.
This was a day after Loken had
said cautiously of Lascari, "He'll
try to work himself into some
semblance of shape for the Big
Ten Meet." For someone whose
practicing has been curtailed by
tendonitis in the elbow and who
has competed very sparingly all
season, Lascari's performance was
truly remarkable. He won the par-
allel bars and finished third in the
rings.
'Feeling Fine'
Lascari went through a workout
yesterday and said his elbow was
feeling fine which bodes well for
the conference championship to
be held in a couple of weeks in
Madison.
Lascari was not the only sur-
prise of Saturday's meet. Michigan
had to sweep the first three places
in the last event of the evening,
tumbling to get a tie. Mike Hen-
derson and Phil Bolton figured to
take first and second spots, but the
Wolverines had to get the top
three spots. But Loken had an ace
up his sleeve, John Hamilton who
had not tumbled competitively
this season because of an injured
knee. Hamilton got his knee se-
curely taped and then made his
run. He scored spectacularly to
take second place in the event and
insure a tie for the Maize and
Blue.
As if these heroics were not
enough, Fred Saunders, another
injured gymnast got himself taped
together enough to take a third
place. Sanders, defending Big Ten
champion in the trampoline, was
not expected to compete in his
specialty because of a couple of
pulled tendons in his leg.
Winning Season
The gym team has now finished
its dual meet season in the Big
Ten with a 3-2 and one tie record.
Efforts will now be directed to-
ward the Big Ten meet and the
NCAA championships.
Michigan does have one more
dual meet left, however, a battle
between the Freshmen and the
varsity Friday night at 7:30 at the
Sports Building.
By BOB CARNEY
"I just wonder what they had to
say at their banquet."
Wrestling coach Cliff Keen re-
called yesterday that Saturday's
meet at Michigan State was the
Spartan's Homecoming and that
their annual banquet was to be
held that night. He surmised that
a 20-5 loss takes the starch out of
any after dinner speaking.
But most of Keen's thoughts
were with his own team, which is
sitting on top of the Big Ten with
only one league meet remaining.
Better Meet
"We wrestled a better meet
against State than we did against
Iowa," he said. "We were sharper
and more determined."
Keen was referring to last
week's rather tight win over Iowa,
15-9, in which the Wolverine vic-
tory wasn't assured until the last
match was over.
It was a different story Satur-
day, with Michigan posting wins
in the first six matches, but -at
several points during the meet the
same close competition was evi-
dent. Cal Jenkins' 137-pound duel
for example, was anything but
one-sided. Jenkins won it, 4-2, but
not before opponent Dick Cook
had given him a good scare.
Referring to this match and a
couple of others that were nearly
as close, Keen noted a little Michi-
gan State strategy.
"They moved a couple of their
lighter wrestlers down a weight
class to see if they could knock
us off that way," he said, "but
that didn't bother our boys."
Ironically, Michigan State's only
win came in one of the heavy
weight classes, 177, when Spartan
captain i Emerson Boles whipped
Chris Stowell. In that one, Stowell
was five points down before the
match was a minute old.
Keen didn't seem too concerned
about the loss, which was Stow-
ell's third straight.
"It was just one of those
things," he said, "He was caught
off guard. After that shaky start
he fought a good match."
Defensive Moves
Michigan State's only other
points came when heavyweight
Home McLure was able to tie
Michigan's Bob Spaly. Short and
stocky, McLure is basically a de-
fensive wrestler, and against Spaly
this strategy proved effective.
After forcing the Michigan
wrestler to make the first move,
McLure was able to catch him off
balance and score an early take-
down. It took a very sharp move
by Spaly late in the meet to sal-
vage a tie.
Obviously, neither the loss nor
the tie disturbed Keen very much.
Why should it? His wrestlers are
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the only undefeated squad in the
Big Ten.
"These boys come as close to
hitting one hundred per cent of
their potential as any team I've
coached," he said. "Despite the
fact that they haven't lost a col-
lege meet, they don't think of
themselves as stars. They work
at it."
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Friday
Michigan Tech 7, Michigan State 3
Michigan 6, Minnesota 3
Denver 3, Colorado 0
Saturday
Michigan Tech 11, Michigan State 1
Michigan 8, Minnesota 2
Denver 6, Colorado 3
This Weekend's Games
Michigan at Michigan Tech
Minnesota at North Dakota
Colorado at Michigan State
Warroad Lakers at Denver (non-
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This Week in Sports
THURSDAY
SWIMMING-Indiana at Matt Mann Pool, 4:00 p.m.
FRIDAY
HOCKEY-Michigan at Michigan Tech
GYMNASTICS-Frosh-Varsity Meet at Sports Bldg., 7:30 p.m.
TRACK-Track and Field Federation at Yost Field House, 1:00
and 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
BASKETBALL-Michigan at Illinois
HOCKEY-Michigan at Michigan Tech
WRESTLING-Minnesota at Yost Field House, 7:30 p.m.
SWIMMING-Iowa State at Matt Mann Pool, 3:00 p.m.
CLIFF KEEN
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2. Kentucky (2)
3. Michigan (1)
4. Duke
5. Wichita
6. Oregon State (1)
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Alabama 65, Kentucky 59
Georgia 81, Vanderbilt 69
Bowling Green 106, Marshall 87
Virginia 79, North Carolina 64
NBA
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Liston Gets
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP)-
Heavyweight champion Sonny
Liston, an ominous 7-1 favorite,
is expected to button the lip of
Cassius Clay tonight at Conven-
tion Hall in a heavyweight title
fight that could be a shocking $5
million mismatch.
Is Clay a hoax? Or a new gold-
en boy? The true story of this 22-
year-old former Olympic cham-
pion will be told when he has to
put up or shut up against the man
he calls "that big ugly bear."
The gabby poet from Louisville,
unbeaten in 19 pro fights, has been
popping off so long that his spiel
sounds like a recorded message
from an answering service.
"I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm
the greatest. Ain't I beautiful? I'm
too pretty to be a fighter. I'm go-
ing to whup that ugly bear. If he
whups me I'll crawl across the ring
and kiss his feet. I'm predicting
eight to prove I'm great."
That is the Clay party line, de-
livered with the glibness of a car-
nival pitchman while he stares out
into space.
There is no free home tele-
vision, of course. There will be a
radio broadcast by the American
Broadcasting Co.
The 15-round match is sched-
uled to start at 10 p.m., EST.
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