THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Returnees Brighten Icers'FFuture
AS EXPECTED:
Tidwell Highights 'M' B-Bal
fenseman scored the hat trick.
Palenstein ended up with 16 points
on 5 goals and 11 assists.
Nielson and Rodgers also help-
ed in the scoringrdepartment.
Nielson finished with seven points
while Rodgers ended up with
nine.
Butts Returns
Michigan's fourth graduation
loss is veteran goalie Jim Coyle,
but with sophomore Dave Butts
returning, it appears as if the
Wolverines will be hurt very little
by the loss of the veteran net-
minder.
For the entire year Coyle and
Butts alternated every weekend
and every series, and as the sta-
tistics show, there isn't a great
deal of difference between the two
men.
The veteran' Coyle stopped 369
shots on goal and had 45 shots
get passed him, while, the sopho-
more Butts deterred 396 shots
and 40 pucks got passed him.
Red Leads
By JIM BERGER
Statistically it has been quite a
year for Michigan and Big Ten
Basketball.
The Wolverines in spite of their
poor season did improve 100 per
cent over last year's record as
they won two conference games as
compared to last year's one.
Naturally, the big story of the
year has been the scoring of Cap-
tain John Tidwell.
Another Record
For the second year in a row
the 6'3" guard broke the all time
Michigan scoring record. This
year against Minnesota Tidwell
scored 43, and in the same game
he broke the all-time Big Ten
record for field goals in one game
by scoring 20.
In addition, Tidwell's career to-
tal of 834 points is the highest in
Michigan history.
Sixth in Conference
Tidwell's average of 19.2 points
per game leads the team, and
his total of 321 points in Big Ten
competition is sixth in the Con-.
ference.
Sophomore Tom Cole, with his
12.1 point average per game, is
the team's second highest point
getter while the two other lead-
ing scorers for the team are Scott
Maentz with 8.2, and Captain-
elect Jon Hall with 6.7..
With his 223 rebounds, 168 of
them in Conference play, Cole
leads the Wolverines, and is rat-
ed eighth in the Big Ten, while
Maentz with his 133 rebounds is
rated thirteenth in the Confer-
ence.
As a team, Michigan's sore spot
was at the free throw line. The
Wolverines sank 338 foul shots in
625 attempts, while their opposi-
tion sank 420 free throws in 619
attempts. Michigan's opposition
only sank 20 more field goals than
the Wolverines.
The Big Ten statistics this year
are dominated by the phenomenal
Ohio State Buckeyes, the nation's
number one team. Their fabulous
junior, the undisputed All-Ameri-
can, Jerry Lucas, is the Confer-
ence's number one rebounder and
number two scorer.
The Big Dish
Purdue's Terry Dischinger is the
other Big Ten headliner.
The Purdue junior is also one
of the undisputed All-Americans,
and heis the leading scorerin
the Big Ten and number three
rebounder in the Conference.
Dischinger's 52 points scored
against Michigan State on Feb.
25, is the all time Big Ten high
for individual scoring in a single
game.
Good-bye, John
Tidwell
Cole
Maentz
Mall
Schoenherr
Higgs
Brown
Donley
Eveland
Petroff
Jankowski
Ginger
Nameth
Mich ,Totals
Oppon. Totals
G FG FT Pts. Ave.
23 182 77 441 '19.1
24 107 77 291 12.1
24 89 19 197 8.2
23 55 45 155 6.7
23 47 12 106 4.6
24 33 26 92 3.8
23 28 21 77 3.3
19 17 23 57 3.0
16 8 6 24 1.5,
15 65 28 158 10.5
3 0 °2 2 0.7
2 1 0 2 1.0
1 1 0 0 0.0
24 632 338 1602 66.7
24 654 420 1723 72.0
% .
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Berenson 24 25
Babcock 18 13
Hinnegan 10 12
MacDonald 10 12
Kelly 11 11
Lunghamer 10 9
Palenstein 5 11
Rodgers 2 7
Nielson 1 6
Kolb, 4 3
Pendlebury 3 4
Cushing 3 3
White 4 2
McGonigal 3 3
Butts 0 2
Wilson 0 1
Rhode 0 0
Saves: Coyle--369Goats
Butts-396
Opponets--802
P Pen.PM's
49 16 49
31 10 20
22 3 6
22 10 20
22 5 21
19 7 14
16 27 54
9 17 34
7 14 28
7 8 24
7 5 10
6 7 14
6 3 6
2 1 2
1 20 46
Against :
Coye-45
Butts--40
Thinelads Finish Tour
In Big Cleveland Meet
MAN lit Motit
by MIKE GILLMAN
IM Afterthoughts
HE RICH GET richer and the poor get poorer. This isn't a
complaint against America's enterprise economy-it's the 'com-
mentary that has been aired on these pages cerently concerning the
Michigan fraternity intramural sports picture.
Every so often someone starts to beat the drum for separate IM
leagues for the larger and smaller houses. And the fraternity stand-
ings, year in and year out, would appear to justify such a division.
- Surprisingly enough, opposition often comes from those small
houses that would stand to benefit from the split-houses that would
probably be strong challengers for all-season honors in a league of
small fraternities, but that can't make headway in the present 43-
house league.
In the first place, many of the smaller houses on campus have
been here 100 years or better and are steeped in tradition. These
houses will be reluctant indeed to see themselves relegated to "second-
'class" or "second-division" houses in any separation--sports included.
A NOTHER REALISTIC OBJECTION these houses might bring up
centers around the fact that some of them excell in certain
sports and don't waht to be denied the opportunity to administer a
licking in those sports to the "big" houses.
In recent years Psi Upsilon has consistently produced champion-
ship-calibre golf teams; just last season Zeta Psi saw ended three
Consecutive years without a loss in round-robin softball; Tau Kappa
Epsilon won the softball'title in 1959; Pi Lambda Phi and colony
Alpha Kappa Lambda have developed first-rate bowling teams.
In a division based on nunber of members, all of these houses
would be in a "second division".
And so, proposals for a split league are usually kicked around
and eventually discarded for a lack of suppo'rt. But the fact remains
that, on the whole, larger houses do, dominate IM play. Social
fraternity standings (according to the always-late scoreboard at the
IM Building) through the results of wrestling, are:
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By DAVE GOOD
This weekend marks the end of
a tour against the best trackmen
in the country for Coach Don
Canham's Big Ten indoor cham-
pions.,
The Knights of Columbus Meet
at Cleveland tonight and the Den-
ison Meet at Granville Saturday
will be the Wolverines' last en-i
counters against world-class com-
petition until they move outdoors
on April 8.
Big Squad
Canham will send his largest
aggregation thus far to Cleve-
land -- hurdler Bennie McRae,
pole vaulters Rod Denhart and
Steve Overton and the one- and
two-mile relay teams.
Overton and Denhart will be
the only Wolverines competing at
Granville.
McRae, the best in the Big Ten
Students Get
Most Bounce
Per Ounce
EVANSVILLE (P) - Fifteen
Southeast Missouri State College
students rested in hotel rooms here
yesterday. after dribbling a bask-
etball 145 miles in hopes of "put-
ting some bounce in their cheer-
ing section" at last night's NCAA
College Division Basketball Tour-
ney.
The students, all boys, left Cape
Girardeau, Mo., Wednesday morn-
ing and arrived here at 4 a.m.
CST yesterday. They rode in
three cars, each student taking
turns dribbling the basketball one
mile at a time.
Mike Howenstein, leader of the
group, said they got good cooper-
ation from state police along the
route and made the trip in 20
hours. "We averaged about six
miles an hour," he added.
Howenstein said the group
planned to present "the battered
basketball" to the Southeast Mis-
souri State basketball coach be-
fore the team's game with the
University of Chicago,
in either the highs or lows, will
get ,his fourth and last chance to
upset Olympian Hayes Jones in
the 60-yd. highs. I
The former Eastern Michigan
star has been the best in the
world insthe indoor circuits for the
last two years.
Denhart and Overton, who tied
for third in the Big Ten meet this
year at 13'8", will have to come up
with superb efforts even to place.
They meet five men who have
cleared 15', including Henry Wads-'
worth, Aubrey Dooley and Rolando
Cruz.
Varied Success
The two relay teams have en-
joyed varied success this year. The
Wolverines won the two-mile at
the Los Angeles Invitational and
the Milwaukee Journal Games,
and managed a close second in the
one-mile at L.A.
Ergas Leps, winner of the mile
and half-mile in the conference
meet, will try to anchor both
teams to victory.
In the one-mile relay, Dick Ce-
phas, Bryan Gibson, Carter Reese
and Leps will battle Pittsburgh
and Western Michigan.
Yale, Manhatten, Western Mich-
igan and Notre Dame head the
strongest two-mile field in years.
Michigan will counter with Charlie
Aquino, Wally Schafer, Dave Mar-
tin and Leps.
MSU ,Names
Assistant To
Daugherty
EAST LANSING (AP) - Burt
Smith, defensive line coach, has
been named administrative assist-
ant to head football coach Duffy
Daugherty of Michigan State.
The newly-created position,
Daugherty said yesterday, will
give smith major responsibilities
of handling player recruitment,
aid, academic and personnel prob-
lems. Smith will work with the
varsity unit this spring and also
will be in charge of organizing
the football clinic.
Hank bullough, freshman coach,
was moved to defensive line
coach.
(Standings and All-Season Points)
1. sigma Chi-751
2. Sigma Alpha Epsilon-697
3. Beta Theta P1-677
4. Phi Delta Theta-646
5. sigma Alpha Mu-643
6. Alpha Tau Omega--619
7. Phi Kamma Delta--605
8. Chi Phi-596
9. Phi Sigma Delta-585
'10. Sigma Phi Epsilon-576
11. Theta Xi-565
12. Delta Upsilon-546
13. Chi Psi--505
14. Delta Tau Delta-470
15. Zeta Psi-461 (tie)
15. Theta Chi--461 (tie)
17. Pi Lambda Phi-445
18. Lambda Chi-442
19. Tau Epsilon Phi--433
20. Delta sigma Phi-425
21. Phi Kappa Psi-424
22. Tau Delta Phi-423
23. Kappa Sigma-419
24. Phi Sigma Kappa-413
25 Theta. Chi-406
26. Sigma 'Nu-=401
27. Alpha Sigma Phi-387
28. Phi Kappa Tau-376
29. Zeta Beta Tau--345
30. Tau. Kappa Epsilon-340
31. Delta Chi-299
32. Alpha Delta Phi--290
33. Acacia-286
34. Trigon-285
35. Alpha Kappa Lambda-275
36. Phi Kappa Sigma-245
37. Alpha Epsilon Pi-239
38. Psi Upsilon-225
39. Delta Kappa Epsilon-4156
40. Sigma Phi.-130
41. Phi Epsilon PI-90
42. Kappa Alpha Psi-0 (tie)
42. -Alpha Phi Alpha--0 (tie)
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AN EXAMINATION OF these standings shows that in the "first
division"--the top 22 houses in sports, 17 are also among the top
22 houses in number of active members.
In other words, only five of the smallest 22 houses have been
able to crack the first division in sports: Chi Psi (13), Zeta Psi (15),
Pi Lambda Phi (17), Tau Epsilon Phi'19) and Delta Sigma Phi (20).
And none of these has been able to hit the top ten.
This corner doesn't .see that this' is merely a function of size
that "the rich get richer". A great part of the problem (and a pos-
sible solution) lies in the system used by the Intramural Sports
Department to set up leagues in those sports with a round-robin
schedule.
Under the present system, it is virtually impossible for a team
to dig itself out of a low standing in a given sport. In the seven
round-robin sports ('A' and 'B' football, volleyball, 'A' and 'B' basket-
ball, and 'A' and 'B' softball), the setting up of the leagues is based
on a team's finish in that sport in the previous season.
That is ,every league is made up of a first-place, a second-place,
a third-place, and a fourth-place team of the previous season. There-
fore, a team finishing fourth in a four-team league one year is sure
of being placed with teams that finished higher than it did, when the
next year rolls around-making it harder to ever move upward and
guaranteeing teams already on top that they will stay there.
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N FACT THE schedules are so easily predictable that Earl Riskey,
director of IM sports, even sets aside the top game in each league
for the final weekend of the round-robin schedule.
While there is some merit behind Riskey's plan to see to it that
the top teams alweys meet in the finals, it would seem that it has
many, deficiencies. If pairings were made on a random basis, a few
top teams might get knocked off along the way but interest by all
the houses would increase and new names might someday grace the
IM championship bard.
It appears then that at least a partial.solution to the issue of
"haves" vs. "have-nots" could be in the elinination of "seeding"
teams in these leagues. Seeding may have its place in sporting events
when a great deal of either money or prestigeis at stake, but it has
no place in a program designed originally for participant enter-
tainment.
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