, MAY 29,1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY isar_1 MAY 2, 192 TH MTCTGANBA__ PAGE NI~ The, WihnfeI' Cince By MIKE BURNS The rit of Michigan T SEEMS LIKE ONLY LAST WEEK that I took my first long walk down to the huge Michigan Stadium and gaped at its seemingly end- ss mouth, filled with ant-like people scrambling for their seats. That as my introduction to Michigan athletics as a student. Four short years have passed since then. They haven't been par- cularly significant in terms of historical Michigan standards. The inds of fate blew both kind and cruel: Wolverines won more than eir share of Big Ten titles and produced some pretty memorable ioments, pleasant and tragic, for those who have actively and anx- usly- followed Michigan sports these past four years. Though the stars of today may not shine so bright and their glories fade in the distant future, I shall still recall with a par- ticular vividness the athletic contests and athletes I have seen and known, for they characterize Michigan in a way no other aspect of campus life can match. In the welter of the academic world, athletics may seem like a ther unimportant and peripheral facet of the University. But when ostiof us look back on college days at Michigan, athletics are sure to and out as a vital and memorable part of the total experience of [ichigan life. Like the weather, sports is a universal topic of interest and con- 3rsation but, unlike the weather, people quite naturally identify them- ives with their teams. So it is through the accomplishments of 'olverine teams that Michigan alumni all over the world are able to ep in touch most vividly with their alma mater. And that identifi- tion is just as strong and as significant for undergrads who flock to :ichilgan sports events. It is not always the winning record which is important: it is the pride of association, a living symbol of loyalty, a somewhat constant representation of the University and all it stands for. And that is why thousands of alumni return to Ann Arbor every fall to watch Michigan in action on the gridiron, though most of the athletic contemporaries of these alumni have passed into oblivion. I have sensed this feeling of attachment for Michigan's athletic ams and have felt a certain pride of association that I do not think ill fade with graduation. As I look back, a number of incidents and .dividuals clearly come to mind. Strangely enough, not all of them re particularly pleasant for,.like life itself, the good and the bad e equally as impressive. emorable Moments ... ME 1958 FOOTBALL GAME with Michigan State was an example. After fighting to a 12-0 halftime edge, the Wolverines were forced settle for a 12-12 tie in the last minutes of the game. You could nse the dejection of the Michigan rooters at losing sweet victory in e final minutes but there was'also a feeling of moral victory for elg the nationally-ranked Spartans. It was a brutal and rugged ime for both sides, as witnessed by the fact that neither team was 16 to :play that quality of ball the rest of the year . . . The next ar it was a well-deserved triumph over Ohio State by a 23-14 margin tat snt Wolverine fans wild with glee and proved once again that e best victories are those over traditional rivals . . . Probably the rkest day I can recall occurred this fall at Minneapolis. All through e second half Minnesota was challenging Michigan's early lead and sattack seeme dto gain momentum. When Michigan held the Goph- s for four downs on the Wolverine nine-yard line with only three mnutes remaining, it looked like Michigan would salvage the fierce- ught contest. But a tragic Wolverine fumble on the Michigan five ith about two minutes left was recovered by the hosts and sitting the press box, I could feel the impending doom, as Michigan lost the final minute 23-20. A last-minute victory that meant a lot to Michigan came in the gymnastics meet with Illinois In 1959. The I-M Gym was crowded to the rafters, and the evening produced one of the finest dual meets over seen in the Big Ten. It had been a truly cham- pionship meet with the Ilini's Abe Grossfeld winning three events himself, while Michigan's steady team balance left them only two pointi behind going into the final event, tumbling. Wolverine Jim Brown set the pace and it was up to Illinois's Allan Harvey to beat him and gain the tie. Harvey missed by a slim 277-274 mar- gin and that meant victory over the eight-time Big Ten cham- pion Illinois squad. Gym meets don't usually provide that much excitement, but that one proved to be one of the most electric athletic contests I have seen. Michigan's swimmers have won a number of NCAA and Big Ten .ampionships but perhaps the most stirring occurred last year when ey upset Southern Cal, the team that had dethroned the Wolverines 1960. Fighting the odds, Michigan regained the crown,,.walloping ghly-favored USC 85-62 in one of the biggest upsets the Wolverines er pulled. Waiting for the results to come over the wire from Seattle, e margin kept mounting and the sense of pride grew. Although there re few Michigan fans watching in person, that swimming meet owed but another example of Michigan rising to meet the challenge id conquering. rowth and Change.. . ND THERE ARE a number of things that you'd like to see changed. Lixe the present system of athletic financing, a system that pro- ote5 independence for the athletic department but which is now iding up the physical expansion program which Michigan desperate- needs . . . Like the closed Board in Control of Intercollegiate Ath- ics' meetings. This practice of closed meetings has persisted despite e fact that the Regents, Residence Hall Board of Governors and e Union Board have all opened their doors to Daily reporters. It is other unfortunate manifestation of the "independence" of the hletic Department I leave my job as sports editor with a sense of pride in having en associated with the many Michigan men who have done their st on the fields of athletic combat for the Maize and Blue, but also th a tear of regret at having to sever this active association. Paul llico, in his "Farewell to Sport," summed it up the way I'd like to d this column: Sportswriting has been an old and good friend and companion to me. One does not, it seems, barge ruthlessly out of such a friend- ship. Rather one lingers a little over the goodbye, sometimes even a little reluctant to leave, and uncertain, turning back as some old, well-loved incident is remembered, calling up again, the pic- tunre of vanished friends, having one's last say, lingering; as long as one dares before that final, irrevocable shutting of the door. HIGH JUMPER COMES BACK: Williams Finds Angle to Success By DAVE GOOD It was the Monday before the Big, Ten track meet and Steve Williams was desperate. The senior Michigan high- jumper, who had bordered on greatness two years before by up- ending Indiana's Reggie Sheppard for the outdoor conference cham- pionship, now had to face the grim next day I did 6'8, so I decided to stay with it. It was the first change I'd made since I was a sophomore in high school." Later in the week Williams, who has always used the straddle style, cleared 6'9%/2" and thought he stood a good chance to show that he had regained his sophomore form in Saturday's Big Ten meet. And after the jumpers got past 6'S" Williams and Miller were the only two left. They both made 6'7" easily, but when Miller cleared 6'7%/4" the burden was on Williams. It was 1/" higher than his winning mark as a sophomore and he couldn't quite make it. Should Have Won "I think that jump at 6'7" was the best I ever made," Williams remarked. "I should have beat him and beat him bad. But I started hurrying." Coach Don Canham added, "He jumped real well. If he'd had a little break he'd have made it. He's a good competitor and he always has been." Just clearing the 6'7" in a meet proved that he was at least as good as he was as a soph, but in all this talk about his first season and his third, there seems to be one whole year missing. And there is. Misses Season Williams, it seems, lost out his entire junior year because of in- eligibility, and it is this little mis- fortune which both Canham and Williams think cost him a chance to become a nationally known jumper. "It hurt him a lot," pointed out Canham. "I think he'd have been one of the real good ones if it hadn't been for that." Williams added, "I think I'd be jumping 7' right now. I .didn't high jump for a year, and that hurts you just like a layoff from anything else." Just last week Williams got into the stratosphere with a practice jump of 6'10", but the skinny 6'6", 172 lb.) Boyne City product isn't very optimistic about winning next month's NCAA jump with men like Boston College's John Thomas and. San Antonio JC's Joe Foust, both Olympians, in the running. Williams thinks he might not T Iennis 'T eamn Sends Three To NCAA By GEORGE WHITE June will see the graduation of half of the netmen who brought Coach Bill Murphy an unmarred season and his fourth Big Ten Tennis Championship in as many years-Gerry Dubie, Jim Tenney and Tom Beach. Coach Murphy will send Dubie and Tenney along ,with Ray Sen- kowski and Harry Facquier to the NCAA Tennis Tournament this summer representing the Maize and Blue. Dubie and Tenney finished the season with perfect records while Beach dropped a loner to Purdue's Bill Hannas early in the season. Dubie and Tenney went on in the Big Ten Championship to cinch two and three singles, teaming up to win two doubles, while the Beach-Ron Linclau duo romped to victory taking the number three doubles crown. No Defeats The season saw Michigan take victory after victory in solid fash- ion against the best in the Mid- west; blanking three teams, Ohio Wesleyan, Detroit and Indiana. The Wolverines swept three others in 8-1 fashion, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan State. Coach Murphy will undoubtedly look to this year's strong freshman squad to fill out next spring's ros- ter. Hal Lowe, Illinois Men's Tournament Champ and Grosse Pointe's George Russell sseem most likely to fill in for the graduating seniors. Lowe came to Michigan as the Arizona high school champion. I 11 Oxforb C1uU TRADITIONAL SPORTS HIRTS STRADDLE STRATEGY-High-jumper Steve Williams says you don't have to work as hard using the straddle style as with the older western roll technique. But he adds that there is a tendency to lean into the bar too soon, which is difficult to correct. jilts 4i Sale It& 12a 4 STEVE WILLIAMS ... back in groove possibility that he had lost what- ever it was that had made him a winner. He had jumped only 6'5" in his last two outings, once beating Big Ten indoor champion Connie Mil- ler, but that was when Miller was just rounding into form after pull- ing a muscle. Williams knew he'd have to go higher to whip the In- diana sophomore again. "I was jumping rotten," com- mented Williams. "I had to do something. Tries New Angle "So just by accident I decided to try approaching the bar at a sharper angle. I'd been jumping at a 60-degree angle to the bar, and my approach is pretty fast so that I sort of glide and sometimes almost run right through the bar. I tried changing it to 30 degrees and this way I found I had more time on top of the bar. "That night I did 6'1" and the get to join the select 7' club unless he goes into the service after he graduates. "If I want to continue high jumping, that's the best way. to do it," he noted. "That's what Russia's world rec- ord-holder Valerei Brumel does. He's jumping five or six hours a day, but I wouldn't do that much." Elect Aquino Track Captain Charlie Aquino, a junior from Norwalk, Conn., was selected by his teammates over the weekend to captain Michigan's trackmen next year. Aquino will succeed senior Ergas Leps, from Toronto, in this capa- city. A virtual unknown last year, Aquino won Big Ten champion- ships in the indoor 1000-yd. run and outdoor 660-yd. run and set varsity records in both. He also ran 440 and 880 legs on Michigan's mile and two-mile relay teams. He's the one whom Coach Don Canham is counting on to take over for Leps in the middle dis- Then he put in, "If I lifted weights I think I could add two or three inches to what I can do now. When I get up high I know I'm just not powerful enough." Right now, however, Williams has no future visions of grandeur. He says he'd just be content to beat Western Michigan's Jim Oli- phant and All Littlejohn in the Michigan Open at Kalamazoo this Wednesday. "Oliphant is a funny jumper," Williams remarked. "Sometimes he does 6'8" and sometimes he does 6'2". Littlejohn is more consistent. I sure hope I can beat them." The rich Oxford iny styling. feel of pull-over Button down collar ... tapered body... box pleat back. 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