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varsity can counter with Pan-American Games champion backstroker, Ed Bartsch, and NCAA run-
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Challenge Varsity
By GARY WINER
Basketball coach Dave Strack
received a letter from former Daily
sports columnist Fred Steinhardt,
yesterday.
The contents were not revealed
to the public, yet one might as-
sume they were the remnants of
a crow dinner. For it seems that
two years ago, in the midst of
Strack's second losing season,
Steinhardt, among others, wrote
that Strack just wasn't the man
to pull Michigan out of its basket-
ball doldrums.
Tuesday night signalled a little
celebration for Strack as the Wol-
verines downed Minnesota, 80-66,
for their 13th win of the season.
With that victory, Strack brought
his career coaching record at
Michigan to 42-44, although the
Big Ten Records Book credits him
with yearly marks of 7-17, 7-17,
16-8, before this year's 13-1, which
would make him an even 43-43.
Uphill
Considering the fact that his
teams dropped 34 of 48 contests
his first two years, Strack has
come a long way.
Things were not always so rosy,
though. Strack, earned three bas-
ketball letters at Michigan and
captained the varsity in the 1945-
46 season. That year he was also
chosen to play at forward in the
first East-West game held in Mad-
ison Square Garden.
After serving in the Marines,
he returned to his alma mater as
freshman coach and later became
assistant varsity coach under his
immediate predecessor, Bill Perigo.
For 11 long years he remained
as assistant and also doubled as
assistant ticket manager to Don
Weir. Athletic Director Fritz Cris-
ler was grooming Strack for that
job should anything happen to
Weir.
Ready to Quit
"I was so discouraged after the
1957-58 basketball season at Mich-
igan that I had decided to get out
of coaching and look for another
business," he related.
He had applied for almost every
open coaching spot over the years,
but he couldn't land one. Then his
big break came.
Strangely enough, Strack never
Winning Ways
originally applied for the coaching
job at Idaho, but in 1959 he took
over the vacant reins there and
pieced together an 11-15 season.
Meanwhile, Perigo resigned at
Michigan. "I know that I never
would have been considered at
Michigan if I was an assistant
here when Bill quit," he explain-
ed. "You don't hire assistants from
losing teams. The experience in
Idaho was just long enough to rub
off the stigma of being a loser."
Strack began recruiting immed-
iately. "I figured there was no
real good reason why we couldn't
get some of the best players
around," he commented.
In his first season, he picked up
transfer students John Oosterbaan
and John Harris, and freshmen
Bob Cantrell and Doug Herner.
Then he latched on to all but for-
gotten Bill Buntin, and later Caz-
zie Russell, Oliver Darden. Strack
admits he's done a lot better than
he had originally expected.
Strack credits a lot of the re-
cruiting to his two fine assistants
-Tom Jorgensen and Jim Skala.
"They've been invaluable to me
here at Michigan," he remarked.
"We all played here and so we
knew the problems confronting us.
Many of the decisions here have
been made jointly among the three
of us and I feel both are ready to
be head coaches anywhere."
Strack operates his teams under
a strange philosophy that might
make other coaches cringe. "We
don't attempt to pick a starting
team ,every year. I feel that the
best players will go out and prove
themselves," he emphasized.
"You can't prejudge a player
and decide what his talents and
deficiencies are before you see him
Sometimes he's kidded about
two of his personality traits--his
lack of over-confidence and his
excitement during games.
. "No one should expect any mir-
acles," he stated. "We have a good
team this year, and maybe we'll
go places, but the season still has
a long ways to go."
Commenting on his motions
from the bench during a game,
Strack admitted, "I just believe in
losing myself in the excitement of
the game."
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By BILL BULLARD
Michigan's varsity swimming
team will get one of the sternest
tests of the season Friday after-
noon at 4 p.m. against a foe that
isn't even on the season schedule.
Coach Gus Stager has decided
to pit his freshmen swimmers
against the upperclassmen to give
both groups an opportunity for
needed competition. The varsity
will oppose a weak Purdue team
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in the
Matt Mann Pool.
In the only dual meet outing so
far this season, Michigan was
blasted 81-42 by Indiana last Sa-
turday night. The Hoosiers showed
the power in every event that
makes them the top contender for
the NCAA Championship.
Year Away
This defeat convinced Stager
that Michigan is still a year away
from successfully challenging the'
Hoosiers. The meet Friday willj
give the freshmen a chance to'
show to what extent Wolverine
swimming fortunes are on the rise.
The freshmen have several
Gymnasts '
Meet Ohio
By JIM GREINER
Still lacking the services of vet-
eran Arno Lascari, Michigan's
gymnastics squad will open de-
fense of its Big Ten champion-
ship, tomorrow afternoon, against
Ohio State.
The meet will be held in the
Intra-Mural Sports Bldg. at 3:30
p.m.
Lascari, who injured his elbow
almost two months ago, was ex-
pected to be in the lineup for to-
morrow's meet. Instead he is out
for another month with a pain-
ful case of tendonitis in the el-
bow.
Even without Lascari, Coach
Newt Loken will be able to em-
ploy gymnasts who finished sec-
ond in the Midwest Open a month
ago.
The Trampoline event should
be the day's highlight. Michigan's
Fred Sanders, Big Ten champ;
Gary Erwin, NCAA champ, and
John Hamilton, third in the Mid-
west, will be pitted against Dan
Jarrett, fifth in NCAA action, and
Ken Collins. Loken calls the quin-
tet of rebounders the top five in
the Big Ten.
Much of Lascari's load will be
carried by senior Alex Frecska.
Loken expects to enter him in the
floor exercise, side horse, high bar,
parallel bars, and still rings.
Among the other top Wolverine
gymnasts to see action are Mike
Henderson, defending NCAA floor
exercise champ; Phil Bolton, Big
Ten runner-up in tumbling, and
sophomore Rich Blanton.
Ohio State, which has yet to
win a gymnastics meet from
Michigan in 16 years, will coun-
ter with a squad called by Loken
as "much improved" over last
year's eighth place Big Ten fin-
ishers.
Leading the Buckeyes will be
co-captains Dick Affeldt and Gus
Leibrook, who will see action in
three events apiece.
Said Loken, "I think the boys
are ready. It could be close with-
out Lascari, but our practice ses-
sions have been excellent."
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swimmers who will be favored to
defeat their varsity opposition.
Foremost among them is Carl
Robie, three-time AAU outdoor
200-meter butterfly champion and
record holder.
Robie will also be entering in
the individual medley or the dis-
tance freestyle events besides his
butterfly specialty. He holds the
national prep school record for
the 200-yard individual medley
and swam the fastest prep school
400-yard freestyle race in the
country last season.
Backstroker Russell Kingery is
another top prospect. Kingery set
the national prep school record
in the 100-yard backstroke last
season.
Beat Varsity
Breaststroker Paul Scheerer beat
the best that the varsity has to
offer in the Michigan College Meet
last December. The Hinsdale, Ill.
product won the 200-yard race
and finished first in the 100-yard
event although he was disqualified
in the latter event.
His time in the 100-yard race of
1:01.4 wouldhhave been a pool
record. As a high school senior he
had the second best, time in the
country.
Freestyler Bill Groft of York,
Pa. had the fastest 100-yard time
in the country as a high school
senior. His 48.5 best-time is slight-
ly better than that of Wolverine
freshmen Tom Schwartin of Evan-
ston, Ill. (49.0) or Howard Brun-
dage of Oak Park, Ill. (49.3).
Brundage and Groft were also
high school All-Americans in the
50- and 200-yard freestyle.
-Daily-Al Boxt
NICE GOING-Coach Dave Strack congratulates Cazzie Russell
for his 27 points against Ohio State Saturday. Michigan won 82-
64. Strack works under the philosophy that Michigan has just
as good an opportunity as any other school to recruit a player.
"We check his grades and watch a high school game, then we go
after him until he tells me he's going somewhere else."
FG
Russell 123-245
Buntin 106-200
Darden 63-122
Treg'ning 54-118
Myers 53-133
Pomey 30-60
Cantrell 35-75
Herner 14-34
Thompson 6-17
Clawson 5-16
Ludwig 3-7
Greenwold 1-5
Adams 1-2
Tillotson 0-0
Brown 0-2
Yearby 1-3
FT R
73-85 138
73-94 160
16-34 122
10-22 89
6-15 66
15-26 37
7-12 27
6-8 13
7-10 7
4-7 9
2-2 2
0-1 10
0-0 1
0-0 1
0-0 3
0-0 3
PF Pts.
24 319
35 285
39 142
31 118
32 112
20 75
39 77
23 34
3 19
3 14
4 8
4 2
0 2
1 0
3 0
2 2
263 1209
58 1008
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