TILE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, SEP"T! EMBER, 14, 196 ; cehini To Continue as Blue Squad Center I ,, By GARY WINER v rtainly not one of the biggest rs in Michigan football an- sophomore Tom Cecchini, theless, has nailed down the unit berth since last spring. ected to the Detroit all-city while at Pershing High School, Cecchini has been termed an aggressive and determined foot- ball player despite his six-foot, 195-pound frame. Coach Bump Elliott commented, "Tom certainly is not an excep- tionally large man to be playing center, but he's a good player and has earned his position." Cecchini is one of four sopho- mores listed on the first. team as of this week. The other rookies are Bill Yearby, right, tackle; Dick Wells, right halfback; and John Rowser, left halfback. Rowser has been hampered with injuries for the last two weeks and only has been running through light drills, but Elliott will have him playing in today's scrimmage. During yesterday afternoon's practice session, Elliott had his charges running through light contact drills in preparation for today's intrasquad game at the football stadium, 1:30 p.m. The team also practiced kickoff and punt returns for the last hour. 'Blue' Lineup sion, but it is expected he will be scrimmage, Evashevski riddled the available for today's action. blue secondary with his aerials Evashevski Promoted and passed for two touchdowns After last week's sparkling per- while leading the "white" team. formance, senior Frosty Evashev- Sophomores Jack Clancy and ski has taken over the second team Bob Quist, along with senior signal caller's chores. In that Wayne (Cowboy) Sparkman com- plete the second team's backfield. Clancy has been shoved down with the return of Rowser to the line- up. Completing the second unit are ends Ben Farabee and Jeff Hoyne; tackles Charles- Kines and John Yanz; guards Dave Butler and John Houtman; and center Jim Green. With the opening day game against Southern Methodist just two weeks away. Elliott is still con- centrating on getting his team into shape both physically and men- tally. "We haven't decided yet when we will begin gearing our de- fense for Southern Methodist's offense," he remarked. I WANTED! FRESHMAN CLIPPINGS 72 1/2 N. UNIVERSITY Basement of Michigan Pharmacy Riessen Downs Pimental In American Zone Finals '4 By The Associated Press Besides the aforementioned sophomores, the blue squad today will be composed, in all probabil- ity, of ends Jim Conley and Bill Laskey, both juniors; left tackle Tom Keating, senior; guards Cap- tain Joe O'Donnell, senior, and Rich Hahn, junior, quarterback Bob Timberlake, junior; and full- back Mel Anthony, junior. Anthony injured his 'ankle slightly in Thursday's practice ses- DENVER-The United States won its opening test yesterday in the Davis Cup American Zone tennis finals with Venezuela as Marty Riessen of Evanston, Ill., defeated Iyo Pimentel 8-6, 6-4, 6-4. Dennis Ralston of Bakersfield, Calif., faced Orlando Bracamonte in the second singles match at the Cherry Hills Country Club courts. A shirtsleeve crowd of about 900 watched~ the 21-year-old Riessen, a Northwestern University senior, take charge after a slow start and'. win a close but decisive victory; over his 29-year-old opponent. Riessen lost his first service of the match and was behind until, the ninth game of the first set. Then Pimentel, needing only to, hold service to take the set, dou- ble faulted twice and Riessen broke him at love. Riessen broke Pimentel again in the 13th game and then won the set by holding his own service in the 14th. There was only one serv- ice break in each of the last two sets, both by Riessen. Pimentel lost his service in the opening game of the second set and in the third game of the third set. Riessen, getting stronger as the match progressed, needed only 1 hour and 10 minutes to de- feat the Venezuelan southpaw. Pimentel's loss was a bitter blow to Venezuela's hopes of upsetting the U.S. team. They had counted on two singles victories from Pi- mentel and picking up a third point in the doubles. Capt. Bob Kelleher of the U.S. squad, said he will not name his doubles team until just before match time today. This country can clinch the victory by winning just one of the remaining three matches and go into the interzone semifinals , against England at Bourndmouth; England, Sept. 26- 28. 1 b 'V p offense," he remarked. JOHN ROWSER ... soph halfback COND CONSECUTIVE YEAR: Chiefs Look for Western Division Title EDITOR'S NOTE: This'is the see- I article of two dealing with the '3 American Football League. To- "s article analyzes the Western ision.) By LLOYD GRAFF ANSAS CITY CHIEFS - The fs have the players, momen- . and the youth to take them 6 second consecutive division n Dawson, ,Kansas City quar- ick, was the AFL Player of the last season. He has the brains the arm to oontinue strongly nany years. Dawson has the ie's best all-around end to w at in Chris Burford, and1 urial Abner Haynes to hand- o or aim at. if this isn't enough, the fs have tough Curtis Mc- on and Jack Spikes to handle bulldozing at fullback. i defense E. J. Holub and rill Headrick are a mighty acking twosome. Mel Branch uge rookie Junious Buchanan Jerry Mays and Paul Roches- ;ive the Chiefs an excellent isive line. >bably the only weakness of eam is punting. There seems little improvement over last s poor record. th all the offense and defense Chiefs have, however, they may not be forced to often this year. punt v very SAN DIEGO CHARGERS-Ven- erable Tobin Rote joins the AFL this year with the Chargers hoping that the environment will be as much to his liking as it has been to other aged quarterbacks like George Blanda, Baba Parilli and Frank Tripuka. Rote has spent the last three seasons in Canada where he led the Canadian pro league in pass- ing twice. If Rote can stabilize the Charger offense Sid Gillman's charges could give the Chiefs a real fight. Last year's dismal 4-10 record is really no indication of the caliber of the team. The 1962 Chargers had an al- most unbelievable number of in- juries. Eleven starters missed at least half the season last year and 23 players were out a minimum of two games. Few think such mis- fortune could strike again. San Diego has considerable tal- ent. Paul Lowe is a great break away runner and Keith Lincoln is better than average. Another Ca- nadian import, Gerry McDougall, is a powerful fullback. Lance Al- worth is an outstanding flanker back. The defensive line has bigness, but questionable agility. Earl Fai- P 1 i i son, and mammoth Ernie Ladd are enough to make a quarterback cringe. The offensive line is strong with Ron Mix, a superb offensive line- man, leading the way. The sec- ondary is adequate. DENVER BRONCOS-Denver was an erratic team last year and prob- ably will be. this year also. They got off to a strong start and then collapsed at the end of last sea- son. Their 59-7 opening game loss to Kansas City in last Sunday's opener is an indication that they will start slower this year. Coach Jack Faulkner has. an- cient Frank Tripuka at quarter- back and he will undoubtedly throw a lot again this year. His favorite target is fly paper finger- ed Lionel Taylor, pass catching demon who clutched 77 passes last season for 908 yards. Gene Mingo and Donnie Stone do most of the Bronco's running but Charley Mitchell of Washing- ton wil be an added ground threat. The defense is headed by peren- nial All-Leaguer Bud McFadin, a fabulous tackle. The rest of the defense is sbelow average. The way things look now Denver will have a hard time equaling last year's 7-7 record. OAKLAND RAIDERS-Oakland might well be the surprise team of the year in the AFL. They pulled off a devastating upset of Buffalo in the opener Sunday. The Raider's under the leader- ship of young Al Davis will prob- ably do a lot of passing. Cotton Davidson has always had a lot of potential. This year he might realize it. He has a pair of light- ning fast flankers in Bo Roberson and Dobie Craig and an excellent end in Art Powell. The offensive line is fairly solid, bulwarked by center Jim Otto. Defensively Oakland does not look good on paper, but last week's showing against Buffalo indicates that they may have matured a lot in a year. Undoubtedly, Oakland is better than last year. I Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE W cork 98 sota 84 go 84 tore 78 t 73 I ' 71 eland 70 s City 67 Angeles 67 ngton 53 L. 51 65 65 71 75 79 80, 81 82 96 Pet. GB .657 -- .564 14 .564 14 .524 20 .494 24% .473 27% .467 28 .450 30Y2 .450 30 .354 45 Los Ang St. Lou Milwaul San Fra Philade] Cincinn Chicago Pittsbur Houston New Yo NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GE geles 90 58 .609 - is' 88 61 .591 2% kee 80 68 .540 10 ncisco 79 69 .533 11 lphia 78 71 .523 13 ati 78 73 .518 13f 75 73 .507 15 gh 70 77 .476 19V2 55 93 .371 35 rk 49 99 .329 41 layed night game. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS go 5, Washington 2 t 3, Baltimore 2 a 7, Kansas City 3 ork 2, Minnesota 0 and at Los Angeles (inc.) TODAY'S GAMES more at Detroit go at Washington (t-n) and at Los Angeles (n) m at Kansas City (n) ork at Minnesota (2, d-n) YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 3-1, Los Angeles 2-2 Houston 1, New York 0 Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 4 St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 0 TODAY'S GAMES Los Angeles at Philadelphia San Francisco at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at Chicago Houston at New York Milwaukee at St. Louis I B %2 'I I II I lii I I SENIORS. Senior Pictures for the MICHIGANENSIAN are being taken THIS MONTH ONLY! Appointments-can be made 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. MON. thru FRI. Il il i,'I I' I I it i Kwik 'n Kleen's handsome new coin-operated laundry facilities are available 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m. ANN ARBOR'S COMPLETE CLOTHING-CARE CENTER DRY CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY 740 PACKARD Kwik 'n Kleen's inviting customer service center--open 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. I 'I I 44 I' HI 1q 2112:tk'SHI U ~ U i C, I l U :II: F, I IIll !U L