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 % . I G A 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: 1 r f _f ,i f 4 i} '! f jtY 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) A hk 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. . * * * *. 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. I 4' "' 'K **, STUDENTS! KEEP UP' ON CURRENT EVENTS Also latest in listening pleasures!t Have your portable and transistor radios in TOP LISTENING CONDITION with a FRESH BURGESS BATTERY ma 4