THURSDAY, MAY 3 ,1992 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGH3 THURSDAY, MAY 3,1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGK COACH'S MEMORABLE MOMENTS: Canham Recalls Great Meets (EDITOR'S NOTE: Don Canham's teams have won eight indoor or out- door conference track champion- ships since he succeeded Ken Do- herty as head) coach in 1948. In his college days Canham was captain of Michigan's 1941 track team, and as a high Jumper he was an NCAA co-cham"pon, four-time conference titlist and the former indoor and outdoor varsity record-holder.) By DON CANHAM As told to Dave Good It's hard to pick out any one greatest moment and as time goes on it gets harder because you get so many. It's always the last one, you know, and you'd have to base it on what's important. Sometimes you get good performances in the Big Ten meet and sometimes it's the Penn Relays. But the individual performances you get are the ones that give you the thrills and they all sum up to give you a championship team. I just look at track, or any sport for that matter, as a struggle to arrive at performance capacity, and when I see it I get a thrill. And there are so few that do perform up to capacity. Don Mc- Ewen probably came as close to it as anybody I've had here. All the Time As for my greatest thrills. I could name you 50 a year. I could look back at 10 or so Big Ten meets and pick out the individual performances - and that includes guys who didn't win but still per- formed up to their capacity. Last year's Big Ten meet out- doors was probably one of my most satisfying single meets be- cause so many guys came up with peak performances. I think that defending champ, Dave Odegard from Minnesota. The time would have been a Big Ten record, but they called it wind-aided because they did3't have an average wind gage there. They just measured it for the gusts. After that Dick Cephas beat Odegard in the 220-yd. lows and this time they gave him credit for breaking Glen Davis' Big Ten record, which he'd shared with Jack Keller. That made me especially happy because Cephas was a senior and it was his first conference win. He team was the best the Big Ten ever had. There was Bennie McRae win- ning the 120-yd. high hurdles when he ran a :13.7 and beat the from his right to his left that year had switched his hurdling leg to take better advantage of the turns, and it took a tremendously versatile athlete to do it. Then there was Tom Robinson. I'd certainly say he's given me as many thrills as anybody else. Robby had lost for the first time in the conference two months be-; Elliot Views Freshman Backs By JERRY KALISH Despite being disappointed in last *Saturday's scrimmage, Coach Bump Elliot is keeping close track on the progress of two freshmen ball carriers -namely, Dick Rind- fuss and Mel Anthony. "Both boys have shown good improvement and good speed," El- liot said happily. This improvement that Elliot was talking about was quite evi- dent in the performances of the two. Fine Performances Rindfuss, a halfback, has been running with the second team, and he gained 47 yds. in nine at- tempts while setting up a touch- down after taling a pass in the flat for 62 Yds. Bucking the first and second lines most of the afternoon, An- thony was the only reserve able to pick up consistent yardage, 54 yds. in 12 carries. His largest gain was 20 yds. before the secondary could bring him down. Watchful Woody Coincidentally, both are from Ohio where many fine football players are developed. Anthony hails from Cincinnati and Rind- fuss from Niles. Michigan has got- ten several fine prospects from the Buckeye state which is no small task with Woody Hayes around. "We have good alumni support there, and we like to think that we can get a few of the good foot- ball players the area turns out," Elliot explained. He evidently shas been success- ful what with two of his starting backfield, Dave Glinka from To- ledo and Dave Raimey from Day- ton, coming from the neighboring state, and two other talented freshmen from Ohio, quarterback Bob Timberlake and end John Henderson. Depthful Duty With unusual depth in the back- field this year, Elliot is thinking of Anthony and Rindfuss figuring in his plans defensively. "but they still need a lot of experience," he said. The gap in the defensive secon- dary left by graduation could con- ceivably be filled by these two, An- thony as a corner line-backer and Fieldbouse Renovated With PaintI Rindfuss as a defensive, halfback. Benny McRae, and we expect to But Elliot still likes the idea of use a lot of men in the backfield using them offensively. this fall," he commented on his "We will miss the great speed of good depth. fore in the indoor meet. That was when Indiana's Eddie Miles beat him in the 60-yd. dash, but it was an unequal start. Robby was back on his heels and the group went off in waves. Beats Miles But this time he beat Miles eas- ily in the 100 and then ran away from everybody in the 220, even though he let up at the finish. And both his times were just .1 second off Jesse Owens' Big Ten records. Ergas Leps was a double winner in that meet, too. He won the mile and 880 with no trouble, just like he had indoors and just like he did indoors this year. He just kicked by the field both times. He's never really had a chance to run a good time in the mile in the conference meet because he'd always have to come back for the half-mile. But times don't mean anything when you're running a tactical race. Rod Denhart was another one I remember in that meet. Rod had transferred here that year and picked the conference meet to make his best vault since he came here - 14'. He placed second ahead of Steve Overton. Jim Wyman was one who didn't get as much publicity as the rest. He was a senior who had never done anything much his first two years, but last year he ran his best time ever when he placed fifth in the conference two-mile run. Remembers Martin There was something else I re- member from last year - Dave Martin's 4:06.9 mile in the West- ern Michigan - dual meet. Some- thing like that is just fantastic. He ran about two seconds faster than he ever had before and broke McEwen's varsity record. This year one of my biggest thrills was something that just happened last weekend, when Leps ran on his sixth winning team in the Penn Relays. In past years I can still remem- ber some of my biggest thrills. In 1956 we won the Big Ten meet at Minneapolis when the team ran a 3:13 in the mile relay - and we hadn't run a 3:20 all year. Then back in 1953 Milt Mead won the NCAA high jump championship at '6'8%"-that gave me a big thrill. And finally in 1952 there was the time when McEwen broke Greg Rice's American two-mile record with a 9:01.8. The same year we broke the world record in the distance medley and the American record in the four-mile with McEwen anchoring both races. * Fill one of Trojan's GIANT clothes hampers with all of your bulky winter clothes. The clothes will be stored and insured in our Refrigerated vault for the summer for only $4.95. Next fall the will be returned cleaned, pressed, on hang- ers and ready to wear. Naturally, the cost of clean- ing and pressing is extra. CALL NOW for immediate delivery of a Trojan Storage Hamper to dorms, frats, sororities, or plain old apartments. LAUNDERERS and CLEANERS near Hill Auditorium -Daily-Bruce Taylor HARD TO TACKLE-Dick Rindfuss (14), freshman halfback, is finally taken down in a White-Blue scrimmage. Both Rindfuss and Mel Anthony have proven elusive runners so far and are viewed happily by mentor Bump Elliot. the taste to start with..the taste, to stay with WIN REGATTA: -v i J M' SailorsI Advance To Berth The Michigan Sailing Club's victory over five other Michigan- Indiana area universities in the weekend regatta on the Detroit River near Belle Islehas insured the club of a berth in the Mid- western Championships Sailing, which will be held at Columbus on May 12. The regatta, which saw Michi- gan edge by Michigan State by one point, 69-68, for. first place, took place on a wine,' day and featured rough waves. Following the top two teams were Wayne, 46, Detroit, Purdue, and Indiana. High point skipper for the regatta was Michigan's Timmy Schneider, who was also the top 'A' skipper. Miss Schneider was assisted by Eric Hall. The top 'B' skipper post was shared by three competitors, Michigan's John Goldsmith, State's Dave Davis and a team- mate Lee Jeffries assisten Gold- smith. The top three teams are eligible for the Midwest Championships. \erns, zwei gsuffa In old Bavaria when the beer ~> tastes extra good, they lift their steins and sing "eins, zwei - . - g'suffal" (tastes so good you drink it up-one, two.) eins, zwei, gsuff a GEYER'S J :' \' r brewed in the old Bavarian tradition. DIST. BY ALL STAR BEV. CO., ANN ARBOR Geyer Bros. Brewing Co.-Frankenmuth, Mich. Maybe it will be a while Michigan gets a new field but at least it will have a Yost Field House., before house, "new" Well, maybe not a new Yost Field House, but rather an old Yost Field House with a new coat of paint. And as one workman put it, "It's probably the first time it's had a new coat of paint since it was built." 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