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.ongstreth Improves
To Spark
Team
COURT REVERSES DECISION:
Mississippi State Given OK
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By BILL BULLARD
Jeff Longstreth has been stead-.
ily improving his times ever since
high school so that now the junior
butterflyer is one of the main-
stays of Coach Gus Stager's swim-
ming squad.
"Jeff is one of the guys on our
team that you can always count
on when the chips are down,"
commented Stager. He pointed to
Longstreth's last two perfornances
as evidence.
Key Second .
Against Michigan, State, Long-
streth took a key second place
behind teammate Jeff Moore to
shut Spartan Chuck Strong out of
the top two places. As Michigan
only won the dual meet by five
points, this, was one of the races
the Wolverines had to slam to win
the meet.
His time of 2:03.6 was the fast-
est of the season for him and bet-
tered his previous low time by sev-
eral seconds.
At the Big Ten Meet last week-
end, Longstreth placed in the two
fastest butterfly races ever swum.
While Walt Richardson was set-
ting American, NCAA, and Big
Ten records in both the 100- and
200-yd. butterfly events, Long-
streth was placing fourth in the
100 and seventh in the 200.
FIVE-YEAR STINT:
Notre Dame Coach
[ Resigns. From Post
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (') - Was
Joe Kuharich too big for the Notre
Dame football coaching job or
was it too big for him?
Joe, who had National Football
League coaching positions with
the old Chicago Cardinals and the
Washington Redskins, returned to
the scene of his collegiate football
playing glory at Notre Dame in
1958, succeeding Terry Brennan,
who was fired at Christmas.
Rockne Tradition
Records at Notre Dame in the
so-called "good old days" . were
something of a tremendous tradi-
tion. Knute Rockne set the pace
with a mark of 105-12-5. It was
carried on by Frank Leahy with
87-11-9. Those were something
that the national collegiate foot-
Recomm end
Ne Method
For Weigh-in
CHICAGO (R) - Two national
associations strongly X criticized
yesterday the practice of placing
high school and college boxers
and wrestlers on starvation diets
so they can make weight.
By reducing to a certain weight,
an athlete may compete in a class
below that in which he rightfully
belongs.
The American Medical Associa-
tion's committee on the medical
aspects of sports and the National
Federation of State High School
Athletic Associations said in a
joint statement the practice is
"ethically indefensible" and "cer-
tainly inconsistent with the spirit
of sports.'
They added that such dieting
can be hazardous to health.
"It has been demonstrated by
experience and shown experimen-
tally that strength and stamina
are markedly reduced by such,
practices,' they said.,
The groups said athletes mak-
ing weight fast before the weigh-
ing-in ceremony then try to gain
back as much weight as possible
before the contest.
However, they said the food
eaten between weigh-in and the
match cannot be metabolized in
time to contribute appreciably to
the restoration of energy reserves.
One alternative suggested, they
said, is to weigh the athletes at
an unannounced day before thie
season, grant a percentage allow-
ance for expected weight gain
during the season and assign them
to weight classes in which they
would remain throughout the sea-
son.
ball public had uppermost in its
mind._
When Brennan left, creating
one of the most controversial.
cannings in college football after
a 32-18 mark from 1954-58, Ku-
harich was named to step into
the breach. This put the pressure
on Joe from the very start. But
conceivably, he didn't quite. fully
realize what the situation was
when he accepted the job.
Cross Fire
It appeared, although all high
Notre Dame officials denied it,
that the school, was striving more
for academic acclaim than ath-
letic. Kuharich seems to have
been caught in this cross fire.
A South Bend native, Joe grew
up as one of the knothole gang
watching Notre Dame football
practices. His most fantastic
dream aththat time was to return
to the school as coach-which he
did.
When he took the job, he said:
"I would never coach anywhere
in college except at Notre Dame."
Stifled Recruiting
Just how much was he stifled
in his recruiting program? How
much were key injuries to star
players a part of his record? How
much were his actual associations
with athletic officials of the
school an ingredient of his deci-
sion to terminate his contract?
This remains something that
even Kuharich will not elucidate.
Kuharich -never has admitted
that the pressure of winning,
whether it comes from the Notre
Dame heirarchy or from the: all
powerful, alumni organization,
has affected his thought as coach.
Accent on Win
But it is quite obvious at this
point that the accent on winning
-or having a representative
Notre Dame team which looks
good whether it loses or wins-is
a thought of the higheI' brass.
A considerable building pro-
gram reaching into the millions
of dollars is now in progress at
Notre Dame and the emphasis is
on greater academic achievement
rather than athletic.
Along with his seventh place in
the 400-yd. individual medley, his
butterfly performances gave Mich-
igan 11 points. Longstreth also
swam the butterfly leg of the med-
ley relay that placed third be-
fore it was disqualified for an il-
legal start.
Longstreth's improvement dur-
ing his college swimming career
is reflected in the lowering of his
times in the 100-yd. butterly. When
he was a senior in high school, he
tied for fourth in the state Class
A meet with a time of :58.5. At
the 1962 Big Ten Meet, two years
after the state high school meet,
he took a fourth place with a time
of :54.4.
Just the Beginning
But this four second reduction
in his time was just the beginning.
Last weekend he was fourth in
the Big Ten 100 with a time of
:53.5 in the preliminaries and :53.2
in the finals. His split for his leg
of the medley relay was :53.0.
Stager credited Longstreth's im-
provement to his "intense atti-
tude" of dedication to practice.
"As far as I'm concerned, he's
made the team through his hard
work," said Stager.
"I was never anywhere near as
good in high school as I have been
in college," Longstreth reported.
"The big reason is Coach Stager's
coaching and the tough workouts
he puts us through."
Legacki's Record
Last fall, Stager ventured the
opinion that the great swimmers in
the 100-yd. butterfly appeared to
b freestyle sprinters that just
swam the 100-fly at conference
championships or on their team's
medley relay. He used the exam-
ple of former Michigan great
Frank Legacki who held the
American record in the event until
last weekend. Legacki never prac-
ticed the stroke but just powered
his way through the short dis-
tance to set the record.
After Richardson had 4emolish-.
ed Legacki's record last ,eekend,
however, Stager said, "The trend is
in the opposite direction now. It's
the butterflyers with the smooth
strokes and not the sprinters that
are winning the 100-yd. butter-
fly."
Whipping Time'
Longstreth commented that,
"Anybody that has strength can
whip off a good 100-fly time." But
with Richardson, and Lary Schul-
hof and Fred Schmidt of Indiana
and himself placing in the top
four places in the Big Tens, all
primarily butterflyers, the sprint-
ers do not seem to be having as
much influence on the 100-yd.1
butterfly as in the past.
Despite being primarily a but-
terflyer, Longstreth has shown his!
versatility by swimming the indi-I
vidual medley at dual meets and in
the Big Ten Meet. Also Longstreth
has gone under 51 seconds for 100
yards freestyle on a relay during
practice. He is also good at longer
freestyle distances, Stager said.
"For a while we thought we might
turn Jeff into a distance free-
styler."
"You really can't place 'Stretch'
in any one area of events," Stager
concluded. "He's just a helluva
competitor."
FLYING LONGSTRETH - Junior butterflyer Jeff Longstreth
flashes through the water with a smooth stroke to show the form
that enabled him to place in three events at the Big Ten Meet last
weekend. Longstreth placed fourth in the 100-yd. butterfly, and
seventh in the 200-yd. butterly and in the 400-yd. individual med-
ley.
North Dakota Team Notches
Win in NCAA SemiFina
NEWTON, Mass. (P) -- North
Dakota completely outclassed Bos-
ton College and won a surprising-
ly easy 8-2 victory in the open-
ing semifinal game of the NCAA
hockey tournament last night.
Clarkson will meet Denver in
the other semifinal tonight.
Don Stokaluk and Pete Stasiuk
each scored two goals in pacing
the Sioux, who proved their supe-
riority in every department. Even
when shorthanded, North Dakota;
outplayed the No. 2 team in the
East, outscoring the Eagles 3-1
while BC held a man advantage.
The first goal set the tone of
the game when senior Dave Merri-
field from Port Arthur, Ont.,
skated through the entire Eagles
team and scored at 6:42.
Then a slap from the blue line
by John Sutherland and a goal by
Al McLean gave the Sioux a 3-0
budge and took the starch out of
the home team.
North Dakota turned the game
into a rout with three goals in the
last period.
Only the heroics of BC goalie
Tommy Apprille kept the Sioux
from scoring in double figures. He
came through with 39 saves, com-
pared to only 18 by the North
Dakota rnetminder, and most of
them were of the spectacular va-
riety.
McLean wound up with two as-
sists to go with his tally.
BC scores were by E. J. Breen
and Jack Leetch.
The NCAA Tournament pits the
two best teams in the East against
the two best teams from the West-
ern Collegiate Hockey League.
North Dakota is the WCHA co-
champion with Denver.
North Dakota will play the win-
ner of tonight's Denver-Clarkson
game on Saturday night for the
NCAA championship. In last week-
end's WCHA playoffs, North Da-
kota beat Minnesota in two
games. Denver beat Michigan Tech
in two contests. The "series was de-
cided on the total number of goals
scored.
San Francisco
May Submit,
Olympic Bid
SAN FRANCISCO 0) - San
Francisco's supervisors v o t e d
unanimously yesterday to pursue
the city's bid for the 1960 Olym-
pics, after being told there was
a "good chance of sliding in the
winner between Los Angeles and
Detroit."
This encouragement came from
Adm. Tom Hamilton, a member of
the Olympic committee and advis-
er to the mayor's citizens com-
mittee for Olympic presentations.
Supervisor Harold S. Dobbs said
an estimate that it would cost
San Francisco $100 million to
build facilities and otherwise pre-
pare to accommodate' the Olym-
pics "does not make sense." He
was of the opinion that the "Bay
area already has 90 per cent of
the facilities needed for athletic
events."
EAST LANSING (R)-The con-
troversy-plagued Mississippi State
basketball team arrived belatedly
yesterday after an intriguing
drama at Starkville, Miss., to
avert a court order against the
team's play in the NCAA Mid-east
tourney tonight.
Coach Babe McCarthy, whose
Southeastern Conference cham-
pions play third-ranked Loyola,
Ill., in the opening round of the
Mid-east tourney, was not with
the team when it left Starkville
late yesterday morning.
But he was picked up by the
chartered plane at Nashville,
Tenn., where he had hurried
Wednesday to avoid being served
the restraining order.
Order Stayed
While successful, the intrigue
turned out to be unnecessary. A
Mississippi Supreme Court judge
cleared the way for the Bulldogs
to take part in the tourney when
he stayed a temporary injunction
which would have kept the team
from playing.
Segregationists had the injunc-
tion issued by a chancery court,
judge late Wednesday afternoon
seeking to ban Mississippi State
from playing against Negroes in
the East Lansing tournament.
All-America
Loyola, with a 25-2 record, has
four Negro starters, including All-
America Jerry Harkness.
Loyola, which lost to Bowling
Green 92-75 for one of its two
set-backs in 27 starts, comes fresh
from a record 111-42 NCAA open-
ing round triumph over Tennessee
Tech at Evanston, Ill., Monday
night.
In Friday night's other Mid-
east showdown, Big Ten co-cham-
pion Illinois, 19-5 and No. 8 in
the Associated Press poll, en-
counters Mid-American Confer-
ence champion Bowling Gteen,
19-6.
Order Directed
It was reported the court order
which sought to call off sixth-
ranked Mississippi State's trip to
East Lansing was directed speci-
fically at Coach McCarthy and
the university president, D. W.
Colvard.
Officials getting off the plane
at the Lansing airport at 3:05 p.m.
said they did not know the where-
abouts of Colvard.
Escape Plan
The Mississippi State staff had
devised an intriguing plan to es-
cape possible detention at the
Starkville airport.
Assistant coach Jerry Simmons
kept the team's regulars in se-
clusion at a dormitory. As depar-
ture time neared, Simmons had
five second stringers and a team
trainer, Dutch Luchsinger, go to
the airport.
The idea was that if the order
were served to, that group, Sim-
mons would be notified by phone
and he would hustle the regulars
to a private plane for a flight to
Nashville, where a regular flight
would be made to East Lansing.
McCarthy, already in Nashville,
would have accompanied the team
from that point.
No Plane
However, when the advance
party reached the airport there
was no deputy and no plane. The
entire squad then waited almost
an hour for their chartered plane
which had been delayed by weath-
er in Atlanta.
The 13-player squad, led by
Capt. Joe Dan Gold, went directly
to Jenison Fieldhouse, the tourney
site for a late afternoon workout.
Suspends Order
Supreme Court Judge Robert
Fillespie suspended a chancery
court order prohibiting the Bull-
dogs from playing in the NCAA
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The action was granted on the
basis the original order came
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parties.
The suspension will remain in
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entire matter. The suspension
means the original order blocking
Mississippi State from playing
against Loyola of Chicago here
tonight will not be in effect.
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