~~~~1 PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1964 N Michigan Tankers Satisfied With Second in'64 By JIM LaSOVAGE Come October the Wolverine tankers will again be in training to open a new season-one which promises to have good things in store for swimming coach Gus Stager and diving coach Dick Kimball and their boys. Perhaps the 1963-64 season was not as fruitful as it promised to be at the beginning, but a second place finish in the Big Ten Cham- pionship Meet and a fourth in the NCAA's should not be com- plained about by too many people. Indiana's Big Ten powerhouse finished ahead of Michigan in both meets. In the conference champion- ships Indiana had been the over- whelming favorite to take the team title, but a real battle was expected to be waged for second by Michigan State, Ohio State, Minnesota and Michigan. As ex- pected, the Hoosiers did take first place, while the Wolverines lived up to Stager's hopes and finished a strong second-a much stronger second than most observers had expected. Gap Closed In the 1963 Big Ten meet In- diana had been victorious with 2381/4 points, while Michigan was far behind with 1471/2 points. The rest of the top finishers were Minnesota, Ohio State and Michi- gan State with 1401/2, 115% and 84% points, respectively. Last sea- son, however, the Wolverines clos- ed the gap on Indiana and pulled away from the remainder of the field. Michigan ended up with 171% points behind Indiana's 2231/2. Then followed Ohio State with 125%, Minnesota with 1041/2, and Michigan State with 88%. Bill Farley took two first place titles, in the 500- and 1650-yard freestyle events. Rich Walls also took two freestyle firsts, in the 100- and 2,0-yard sprints. His 200 yard victory was shared with Indiana's Chuck Ogilby, though, on a judges decision. 4th in NCAA Later, in the NCAA meet, Mich- igan came in fourth with 30 points, behind Southern Cal (96 points), Indiana (91) and Yale (87). Finally, in the first week of April, came the NAAU meet, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Eleven Michigan swimmers and divers, in- cluding six freshmen, made the trip. The top six finishers in each event were to be eligible to try out for the Olympic team in New York in August. Four Wolverines did just that. Ed Bartsch took a first in the 200-yard backstroke and finished fifth in the 100-yard race. In the same events, fresh- man Russ Kingery placed third and fourth. Carl Robie was award- ed second place in the 200-yard butterfly, although his time was the same as the winner. Paul Scheerer wound up fifth and sixth in the 200- and 100-yard breast- stroke events, respectively. Al- though Farley did not compete in this meet, he became eligible to compete for the Olympic team by virtue of his two Big Ten cham- pionships. Season a Warmup Actually the entire season was, as it is every year, merely a warm- up or conditioning period for the conference meet at the end. Michigan started its warmup season last year by placing swim- mers in every event of an AAU meet in Warren, Ohio. Both fresh- men and varsity swimmers turned in excellent performances as the Maize and Blue dominated the meet. Scheerer, a freshman, bet-, tered a varsity record in his first competition for Michigan in the preliminaries. Next in line for the Wolverine tankers was the Michigan College Swimming and Diving Meet at Matt Mann Pool, in which six colleges competed. Farley, a sopho- more sensation from LaCanada, California, smashed two varsity records and one pool record in winning his first three freestyle races as a varsity swimmer. Two Get Two Firsts Freshman Carl Robie and jun- ior Bartsch each took two firsts, in the butterfly and backstroke events, respectively. Scheerer would also have taken two firsts in the breaststroke, but was dis- qualified for an illegal turn in the 100-yard race. Steve Rabino- vitch, another freshman, was given the first place, with senior Geza Bodolay, Michigan's Hun- garian tanker, coming in right behind him. Sophomore Geoff D'Atri and freshman Bill Groft also grabbed firsts for the Wolverines. The div- ing events saw junior Ed Booth- man and sophomore Bruce Brown finish first and second respectively off both the high and low boards. John Candler came in third off the one-meter board. With the termination of this meet, the Wolverines began work- ing out for the dual meet season, which started after the holiday vacation. After practicing in Flor- ida over vacation, Stager knew just about what he had on his hands to work with. Michigan was ranked fourth in the nation be- hind Southern California, Yale and Indiana, and in the first dual meet of the season, Indiana stood up for its higher rating by dunking the Wolverines, 81-42. Michigan rebounded with a victory over Wisconsin, and then proceeded to beat Cincinnati, strong Ohio State and Iowa State, losing only to Indiana, again as the dual meet season ended. Good Performers Michigan had many consistently good performers during the dual meet season. Swimmers Farley, Bartsch, Frank Berry, Walls, Bob Tanner, Bill Spann, Bodolay, Fred Damm, D'Atri, Dave Roadhouse, Rabinovitch, Lanny Reppert, Rees Orland, Moore, Tom Dudley and Jeff Longstreth, along with divers Boothman, Brown and Candler, were high finishers throughout the season. Farley set two varsity rec- ords along the way, and Reppert set another. Although the Wolverines may lose the best of these swimmers to the United States Olympic cause, they will be back in time to en-' roll for the spring semester, and thus will be eligible to compete in the Big Ten Championship Meet. Perhaps the results of the an- nual Varsity-Freshman Meet, held during the dual meet season, show hopes for an even greater season this year. The nation's fourth- ranked swimming team was edged by the frosh, 53-52, though the varsity men lost points When one man was disqualified. Freshman Kingery, Scheerer, Robie, Bill Keswick, John Vry, Groft, Tom Williams, Tom Schwar- ten and Brundage led the way. Michigan only lost seven swim- mers through graduation-Berry, Bodolay, Dudley, Damm, Long- streth, Moore and Jon Lundin. But with the freshmen who will replace them on the varsity team. this year, the Wolverines may just have the depth to knock In- diana out of the way in the Big Ten Conference for the first time in five years.. FOR THE MICHIGAN STUDENT: Clubs Afford Opportunity for Varied Sports Activity By TOM WEINBERG and PERRY HOOD No quarter-million dollars is put out by the Board in Conrtol of Intercollegiate Athletics for rugby or soccer players, for rifle and pis- tol shooters, for sailors or skiers, and yet these non-varsity sports still go on in their seasons at Michigan. In the fall the rugby team takes the field-Wines Field, that is. The team, composed mostly of gradu- ate students, law students and for- eign students, plays a regular schedule of games with teams mostly from Canada. Just as Rough The rugby games are as rough a.s football, with very similar ac- tion to American football. It is played on a football field with a blown-up ball which looks like a soft watermelon. To score, the linemen, who com- prise 8 of the 15 players, pass the ball back to the backs. With a con- tinuous action, stopping only for penalties, they move the ball over the goal line of the opponents. The games are played at 3:30 on Saturdays, and it doesn't cost anything to stop in and see the second half on the way home from a football game at the Stadium. Interest Aroused A newly-formed organization at Michigan is the Michigan Ameri- can Soccer Club. The group started play two years ago and has com- peted in the International Center's league the past two years. Last year the team took steps to have soccer adopted as a var- sity sport. The movement was basically unsuccessful, but a great deal of interest was stirred up, and this year the team intends to try again, but on a larger scale. The team has compiled an over- all two-year record of five wins and seven losses against teams composed of soccer players from abroad. Recruiting and practice will begin during registration this year, so the, team will be in top condition for its seven-game schedule. A feature of this year's schedule is the proposed two games with a foreign team at Eastern Michigan. Need Shooters For those who can't make the basketball team at Michigan, the pistol and rifle teams are seeking accurate Chooters. The club aims to teach the objectives of playing with firearms and to compete both on the campus and around the nation. There is an annual' competition at the ROTC rifle range in May. In addition the team competes with other Big Ten teams. The whole shooting match is sponsored by the team itself, and last year it was, along with the wrestling, gymnastics and track teams, a Big Ten champion. The fencing club is relatively new and is sitll hoping to attract some new members. Two of the non-varsity sports which are especially of interest to women are the sailing and skiing clubs. The ski club takes weekend trips to the snowy regions of Mich- igan. The enthusiastis can take their semester break or spring vacation and travel to Quebec or Colorado with the skiers. The ski club offers the latest information on rates of ski mer- chandise, movies on instruction in the fast-growing sport and other programs of interest to the ad- vanced and beginning skier. Lots of Sailors The sailing club is one of the largest of the non-varsity sports and boasts over 100 members, both novice and experienced. The huMbug By Charlie Towle Ode to ... The Noble Red Shirt If sometime on a late fall afternoon the urge to leave your books behind should take hold of you-and after a certain amount of aimless wondering your should find down by Ferry Field House where the football team practices-and if it should happen to be one of those days when Bump Elliott opens practice to the public-THEN you may have the chance to watch one of the less seen groups of varsity athletes on campus. In order to denote a semblance of order to the three ring circus which is football practice Elliott has his charges don jerseys of distinctive colors. The first team has the honor of wearing the blue shirts-home color. The second team wears gold (maize?). The third team steps out in nondescript white tops, while the fourth team is forced to wear the hated green of Michigan State. The rest? Well, the rest are put into red shirts-the cape in a bull fight is red for much the same purpose-and sent out as cannon fodder for their athletic peers. During the practice the top four teams take turns running over the red shirts. First the green team runs over them, then the white team, then the gold team and finally, when they are softened up enough so that there is not the slightest chance of any red shirt hitting anyone hard enough to cause even the least bruise, the precious blue team is allowed to "play" with them. The red shirt team usually numbers around 30 at the start of practice, but by the time late October gets here Elliott has to use his best boyish grin to convince 11 of them to show up. The red shirts under go another change as the football season progresses, they get a lot tougher. In fact, the hard core red shirt eleven is able to keep any of the other teams honest at the end of the season. Last year's upset victory over Illinois at Illinois was probably caused as much by a tough red shirt team, who were all back at Ann Arbor, as by any other single factor. The surviving red shirt, then, is a rather stalwart individual. He possesses the talent to put him on a varsity team, but not enough to make him a starter. His main characteristic is his dogged determination to play in a varsity sport, whether the reason for this be the remembrance of past glory in high school or the reflected glory of being on the present varsity in any role. I will briefly sketch for yoi now a few thumbnail biographies of typical red shirts: Red Shirt No. 1-Red Shirt No. 1 came to Michigan as a highly touted center from a high school in the northern part of Metropolitan Detroit. He is still on the football team, but he has switched to guard due to the shortage of manpower at that position on the current team. This year he might even make the green team. Last year, slowed by a knee injury which required an operation and a long rehabilitation period, he was most noticeable for having the biggest pot belly on the football team. Red Shirt No. 1, however, does have a saving grace, he has perhaps the best punting leg on the team. Suited up for home games he is the man booming out 50-yard floaters during the pre-game warmup nobody recognizes. Last fall Red Shirt No. 1 made it into one of the early games to try out his specialty. Playing before the big Michigan Stadium crowd for the first time, No. 1 squibbed a punt off the side of his foot which might have made it back to the line of scrimmage if given the benefit of the doubt, anyhow it was certainly the shortest punt of the entire season. Needless to say No. 1 did not make it back onto the field during a game for the rest of the season. Better Luck This Year No. 1. Red Shirt No. 2-Red shirts are not necessarily confined to the football team, they can occur on all varsity teams. Red Shirt; N, 2, as it happens, was on the basketball team last year He was the center who played behind Bill Buntin. No. 2 could most easily be spotted at games by first locating coach Dave Strack on the bench and then going all the way down the bench to the opposite end where No. 2 sat in deep soliloquy. Being a red shirt on the basketball team is better, in a way, than a red shirt on the football team because with only fifteen men on the team the real basketball fans do know who you are. No. 2, who stands a gawky 6'9" and wears goggle type glasses, was a natural crowd favorite. Getting into games that were already sewed up he would have the crowd wildly cheering for him to sink one. Two years ago when Michigan set a scoring mark of 110 points against Indiana it was No. 2 who notched the record breaking, points and again last year when the broke that record with 117 points against the University of Detroit it was No. 2 who did it. Red Shirt No. 3-Red Shirt No. 3 was on the track team for which he ran the two mile. Nothing is quite so sad in track as watching the two-miler run his appointed distance. After the first three minutes every contestant has turned a deep beet red, and then there is that chubby kid at the finish line pointing to each man as he crosses the line gasping for breath and sneering, "You! You have 13 more laps to run." This is especially sad if to the man right ahead the chubby kid has said, "nine laps." This was the position No. 3 usually foundahimself in. One thing that could be said for Red Shirt No. 3 was that he was betterthan other school's red shirts. No. 3 made his bid for a moment of glory in last spring's Big Ten championships. Here chin held high No. 3 gamely held onto the third position in the race for the first mile, but then... And now a little note of encouragement for all you red shirts out there in readerdom land, especially if you are golfers. Cheer up, bunkie your not the world's worst-I claim that honor. Can you beat this record for the world's worst 18 holes of golf (honestly trying division) of 276? Or the world's worst twosome score, recorded with last year's Daily sports editor Dave Good, of 514? Or the world's worst single hole of golf ever played recorded by Good when he took one to reach the sand trap beside No. 17 on the U-course and 22 more strokes to get out of the trap, two putting for his 25? Feeling better? _F jI I -Daily-Jim Lines ONE OF THE NEWEST CLUBS on the Michigan sports scene is the Judo Club. The Jude Club held its first campus champion- ships last spring, some of the action is shown above. 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