H 15, 1963 THE MICHIG~AN D1AILYV . yu A yyV ay V111 LfayL 1 PA! .ongstreth Improves To Spark Team COURT REVERSES DECISION: Mississippi State Given OK '9' --_______ N. 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. 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