SFPCORT SECT ION I.EL gJilti t Daii4 SPCRTS SECTI ON Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom LXXIV, No. 1 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1963 TEN PAGES Ile Thin ian by Dave Good The Laugh's on Us Laughter is the best medicine when things happen to make Mich- igan football what it was last year. The backfield was slow, the line thin and the schedule traditional, and the result was a 1-6 conference record, the worst since 1936 when the Wolverines went winless in the S ig Ten. Head Coach Bump Elliott wasn't laughing about it, really, but he did manage to smile right until the bitter end. He watched his team finish last and never complained that he deserved a better fate, which he did. In Elliott's first three years here, he had improved his season record ,a notch at a time, finishing at 4-5, 5-4 and 6-3. But last year a combination of bad luck and Michigan's scholastic standards caught up with him, costing the services of half a dozen players and con- tributing toward a letdown which saw the team collapse to an over- all record of 2-7. "I honestly feel we had recruited enough players to have insured a successful season this year," Elliott said last fall. "We just aren't a strong team physically and we haven't much depth. The story of what happened to Elliott's plans began two sum- mers ago when the Detroit Tigers lured big Bill Freehan off the Michigan campus with a bonus offer of $100,000, the highest in the club's history. Not only did baseball Coach Don Lund lose a catcher ;who had led Big Ten hitters with a .585 batting average as a sopho- more; Elliott lost a 6'3", 210-pound end who would have started for him in 1961 and 1962. Following Freehan's departure were two freak summertime accidents which took the lives of two promising sophomores-to- be, Phil Garrison and Joe Sligay. Garrison, a 230-pound tackle from Wyandotte, caused more excitement in freshman drills than any other interior lineman in years, drawing a reputation as one of the fastest, most agile big men among the conference's fresh- man prospects. He died in an auto accident, however, before play- ing a minute of varsity ball. Sligay never got to play either. A small but aggressive center from Dearborn, he was electrocuted when struck by lightning at Camp Dearborn. The 1961 version of Elliott's team had enough depth to play over these losses and earn for one brief week the number-two ranking in the UPI's national poll, but last year's squad had a few other prob- lems, besides. To begin with, the team suffered heavy graduation oses, including Bennie McRae, Bill Tunnicliff, Jon Schopf, Lee Hall, Gorge Mans, Scott Maentz and Todd Grant. l Then, between the closing of spring drills and the beginning of fall practice, Elliott lost three more men, just as he had the summer before. This time, however, all three were ends and all three were victims of scholastic ineligibility. Two of them, Doug Bickle and Bruce McLenna, dropped entirely out of school after finishing promising seasons as sophomores. One of the best placekickers in the Big Ten, Bickle was almost a sure bet for a starting spot last fall. McLenna had just been converted to end after spending a season as the talest (6'3") halfback in the conference, where he 'had shown good ability in spite of what a na- tional television audience may have thought after watching him fall on ~ 1his posterior while trying to head off Ohio State's Paul Warfield on a touchdown run.' The other casualty was John Henderson, who as a freshman was Impressive enough to be called by some observers the best Michigan offensive end prospect since Ron Kramer. Henderson, a 8'3" Dayton, Ohio, product, was still awaiting word on his status as a junior this season as final exams ended in June. 'A ig, Dif ference .. "I honestly think these six boys would have added up to greater strength for our team, although it's just conjecture as to how much greater," Elliott pointed out. "We'd have had more depth, especially at end, and we wouldn't have had to switch so many men around and weaken ourselves at other positions. When you lose boys like Free- han and Bickle, for instance, you just know that's going to make a big difference." It was no use wishing for what wasn't available, though, so El- liott and his staff forced themselves to put on their toothiest grins and go to work, trying to salvage some kind of respectability out of a team that most everybody guessed would be too small and too green to be respectable. Here, then, is a resume of how Elliott and his Merry Men pro- ceeded through nine games, seven of them so gruesome that onei is left to wonder how they managed to win the other two. NEBRASKA 25, MICHIGAN 13. This game provided a gentle awakening to those who still thought the Champions of the West couldn't be bad enough to lose to a non-conference opponent. Favored by two touchdowns despite the fact that the Huskers had won their first game, 53-0, the Wolverines stayed in the game until late in the fourth quarter, when they were broken by the Man Who Wasn't There-or wasn't supposed to be. Nebraska fullback Bill (Thunder) Thornton played over a back injury to score one touchdown in the second quarter and do an encore in the fourth. The two Wolverines who most adamantly refused to smile were fullback Mel Anthony, who lost his starting position to a sprained ankle in practice the weekend before, and tackle John J Houtman, who became the first knee-injury victim of the regular season and had to call it quits. See THE THIN MAN, Page 9 Gridders Aim To Rise from Basement Elliott Encouraged with Sophomore Squad . But Points Out Lack of Breakaway Back . a VIEW FROM THE .GOAL POST-Bob Timberlake splits the uprights in a "blue" (first string)- "white" spring football scrimmage last May at Michigan Stadium. Holding the line for the "blues" are this year's captain-elect Joe O'Donnell (69), Dick Shupe (83), Ben Farabee (80) and company; while leading the charge for the "white" eleven are Don Baty (70), Dave Butler (62), Brian Patchen (51) and Wayne Sparkman (33). TO FINANCE AREN'A: Students Pay x$12 For Football Pass I The day is past when one of the chief advantages of going to Michigan was the free football tickets. Starting this season the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Ath- letics will be selling season re- served seat tickets at $12 a head to Michigan students interested in watching football in person. . Grid Tablods The Michigan Daily sports staff will again this year put together a football tabloid before all home games. Last year was the initial trial for this unique idea in college sports writing. The tabloid stress- es background and lineup for that week's game but it will also in- clude information about football on the Big Ten and throughout the country in general as well as stor- ies on other Michigan varsity and club sports. The tabloid is included at no ex- tra cost in the regular Daily sub- scription but will also be available, to those unfortunates who don't subscribe to The Daily, for a dime at the Stadium. While losing money last year on the tabloid The Daily decided to continue this service to the Wol- verine football fan in the belief that the tabloid fills a real need at the Stadium for a cheap-in-price but rich-in-information source. This year The Daily's contribut- ing editor, Bob Zwinck, will devote his full time and energies to see- ing that The Daily's football tab- loid contains the best football in- formation available in Ann Arbor. "We're putting out a tabloid for the person who wants his Michi- gan football news up-to-date, fac- tual and interesting. The tabloid will not be a lasting souvenir of the game but it will contain the best and most for those who want to know about today's game to- day," promised Zwinck. Besides reserving one of the 101,101 seats in Michigan Stadium for the purchaser,. the $12, which will take the material form of a student athletic card, will give the holder priority at student section seats in 9000 seat Yost Field House for basketball games. Buys New Athletic Plant The $12 fees will be used by the Board to finance new physical education facilities with a 12,000- 15,000 seat basketball arena hav- ing a first crack at the money. Other projects listed by the Board for futureaction arenewrintra- mural facilities, a hockey rink to replace the present Coliseum, and physical education facilities for North Campus. Funds for this new building wave will not come from student subscription only. The Board is planning to tap other sources. The Board has set no date for starting construction, although the pro- posed arena is well through the planning stage. Actual building will start as soon as the Board has amassed enough of a bankroll to satisfy the financing of the con- struction. The reason given by Athletic Director H. O. 'Fritz) Crisler for charging students for admission to football games is the skyrocket- ing cost of maintaining the pres- ent 'level of athletic activity at Michigan which do not allow for any building. Must Keep Pace "Michigan has long prided itself in providing fine physical facilities for all types of athletic endeavors. In order to maintain this position of eminence, we must constantly improve and expand these facili- ties. Our present plant has been developed through the years from athletic department revenues at no cost to the taxpayers of the state," Crisler said. "In a very recent survey of 18 educational institutions, 11 of the 18 required student purchase of coupon books for admission priv- ileges," he added. 'M ' Takl es All1-Sports Ti tle .Again Despite the fact that it won no spring sports titles this year, Michigan. repeated as the unoffi- cial all-sports champion of the Big Ten with Wisconsin second and Minnesota third. Iowa was fourth and Michigan State fifth, rounding out the first division. The Wolverines totaled 83 points in 11 varsity sports to edge the Badgers, who scored 82/2 in 12 sports, and the Gophers, who fin- ished with 81 in 12 sports The basis is a 10-9-8-etc. scor- ing system from first place n down in the 13 varsity sports, al- though Michigan State is the only Big Ten school which competes in all 13. According to the "quality point system," which takes into account the number of sports participated in, Michigan had a wider edge, .754 to .688, over Wisconsin. The Wolverines, who did not officially enter fencing or cross country competition, won outright championships in. wrestling and gymnastics and tied Iowa for the indoor track title. The only sports in which Michigan finished out of the first division were football and baseball. By CHARLIE TOWLE Bump Elliott promises nothing more for this fall's football team than that there will be one. After witnessing last year's ef- forts at Michigan Stadium when the once all-conquering Wolver- ines fell to a 1-6 Big Ten record and a 2-7 over-all mark and 10th place in the Big Ten, followers of Michigan football should not ex- pect much more. 'All that is to be hoped is that. the bottom has been reached and that this year's team will be the start of an upswing in Wolverine gridiron history. Missing Gone from this year's eleven are such well known names as. Dave Raimey at right half, Dave Glinka at quarterback, John Minko at guard and last year's' captain, Bob Brown at end. Raimey will leave the hardest hole to fill, that of a breakaway threat. The returning halfbacks, with the exception of Dennis Jones, are short of speed. They include Harvey Chapman, Bill Dodd and Dick Rindfuss. But Elliott._ is -getting in return a sophomore crop which, although it does not at the moment seem to possess a player of Raimey's caliber, at least seems able to fill up last year's shallow bench. "We still lack a breakaway run- ner," admits Elliott, "although we. do have some young backs with promise" The .most outstanding of these young backs, are John Rowser and Rick Sygar. Both. men' finished up last spring's football drills on the first team. Movers Rowser stands 6' and weighs in at 175 pounds while Sygar is an almost identical 5'l", 176 pounds. Both men possess good speed and an ability to move the ball when an opportunity is pre- sented. Rowser also has a good shot at a guard position on Dave Strack's basketball team this winter. Done Reid of Ferndale is prob- ably the fastest of the incoming sophomore halfbacks (:09.8 in the 100) but has yet to prove that he can stand up under the pum- meling of Big Ten football. Other new halfbacks who displayed var- ious degrees of ability last spring are Jim Scharl, Dick Wells and Tom Brigstock. Strong Point Fullback, which used to be a problem for Elliott; has turned into one of the more promising. positions. In fact the breakaway threat, which Elliott so longingly yearns for, may come from her :CHIPS.. by 'Mik£ B ltock in the person of Mel Anthony rather than from either of the. halfbacks. Anthony, a 200 pound junior from Cincinnati, consistent- ly made good gains on the much used counter-play in the spring- something which was lacking in the fall when Anthony was slowed by an ankle injury. Besides Anthony, sophomores Charles Dehlin and Bob Quist add plenty of power to the -fullback position. Returning are veterans Wayne Sparkman and Roger Schmitt. A Rose Is ... At the start of last fall a stand- ard comment about: the team was, "Elliott has five quarterbacks capable of starting anywhere in the Big Ten." But things did not prove quite this rosy. None of the five quarterbacks, although they all gave capable performances, was ever able to move the team con- sistently well. This year Bob Timberlake seems fairly well set at the starting posi- tion. Timberlake who was shifted- between" half and quarter all sea- Wolverines Nearly Shut Out In NCAA Spring Tourneys son last fall seems finally set at the place where so many predicted stardom for him. Still There Timberlake cannot rest easy, however, as again Elliott has a large crop of capable signal callers. Bob Chandler, Tom Prichard, Jack Clancy and Frosty Evashevski will probably all see action next fall. In the line is where the greater depth of this year's team over last shows up. "We just weren't phy- sically strong last year," says line coach Bob HIollway in explaining the poor showing of his charges. This year with the addition of a few sophomores the beefing up of some of the veterans and some changes in positioning Hollway hopes that his boys will be the shovers instead of the shoved. Starters The incoming sophomore line- men who are expected to start are Tom Cecchini at center and Bill Yearby at tackle. Captain Joe O)'Donnell ha~s been switched from the.tackle spot he See ENDS, Page 4 TO BUILD AROUND BUNTIN: New Sophomores Boost Cage Hopes Michigan went exactly nowherev in the spring NCAA competition this month. Besides being eliminated in the District IV baseball regionals to lose all chance of defending their NCAA and World titles, the Wol- verines failed to distinguish them- selves in the other three sports. Michigan sent no one to com- pete in the golf or track compe- tition, and Coach Bill Murphy's tennis team could send only one man - senior Ray Senkowski - as far as the fourth round. Senkowski, who prepped under the famed Hoxies of Hamtramck, was a runner-up in the NCAA singles tourney as a sophomore. This time he advanced to the "round of 16" before being elimin- ated by Butch Newman of Trinity (Texas) College. This was the main impetus to- ward earning Michigan six points, which did place the team in a tie for seventh nationally. Murphy's other entrants didn't do so well, however, in the Prince- ton, N. J., tournament. Junior cap- tain Harry Fauquier was ousted in the first round by Dennis Ral- ston, who led Southern California to its second straight team cham- pionship Then Hal Lowe went in the first round and Brian Flood in the sec- ond. The doubles team of Fau- quier-Senkowski bowed out in the third. After taking the measure of Reissen, 9-7, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, Ralston joined the United States' Wimble- i Y 'a - f r m- - l.i -i .i Tr .. nament held in Wichita, beating Jack Lotz of San Jose State. Arizona outlasted Missouri for the NCAA baseball eliminations and walked off with the team ti- tle to succeed Michigan in that de- partment. DONATE BLOOD: Sports Staff Wants You "The Daily sports staff needs new blood," Dave (The Bat) Good, sportseditor for the year, an- nounced gravely. "The white blood cell count of the group we gotr last fall has jumped way up," he lisped through his three-inch canine teeth. "The way I work them over they just don't seem to last. "I guess it's time to put out the usual line about how anyone in- terested in getting on the inside of Michigan sports, taking exciting trips to far off Big Ten campuses, looking for a good excuse to get away from his roommate or after a chance to work on one of the top college newspapers in the country should volunteer his ser- vices at the Student Publications Bldg." Lightly leaping away from a probing ray of.the Sun, Good con- tinued by saying, "You might even add that any poor souls lost in the c- of fa.ti- f.r.PC wilm iin e a To Judge a Gymast It has been argued, and with some merit, that the sport of gym- nastics" suffers because of its scoring 'system. In most other sports scoring occurs when some clearly defined action has taken place- when a man steps on home plate in baseball or crosses the goal line in football, for example. But in gymnastics, the scoring of points de- pends solely upon the arbitration of four judges, whose opinions of excellence are all too often widely divergent. The reason for the lack of a more reliable system for scoring gymnastics events lies in the very nature of the sport itself. Unlike the majority of athletic contests, the opponents in a gym meet don't compete with each other directly in face-to-face combat, but take turns in displaying their "abilities. If gymnastics is compared with the so- called "team" sports like baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, where the entire squad must work together to defeat the combined ,0'forts of the opposing players, the difference is obvious. But gym is also quite a bit different from other "individual" sports, such as tennis, swimming, wrestling, and many track and field events-here, although the whole team isn't cooperating as a unit, an individual from each team is put into direct conflict with one of his opponents. When one man aces a serve, scores a pin, or wins a race, the other must necessarily suffer. Thirdly, in a sport like golf or a track event like the shot put or pole vault, two individuals aren't directly confronting one an- other, so that one man's good isn't automatically another's harm. If one golfer breaks par by three it is still humanly possible for the other to break it by four; or if one pole vaulter Jumps 17', this doesn't exclude the next from making it 17'i4". $ut even without this direct confrontation, these sports still have the advantage that their scoring is done in prescribed units, e.g., the stroke or the quarter inch. No such advantage exists in a final class of sports which includes diving, figure skating, and the dog show, as well as gymnastics. In these, to quote an old proverb, the decision of the judges is final, and the grounds on which the decision is based are often somewhat hazy. The spectator can't just look at the teams' performances and deter- mine who the winner is as he can when a goal is scored or a race won. Instead, he must wait for the judges' verdict, of which he may heart- ily disapprove in some cases. Loose outline ... Now in gymnastics in particular, the scoring really isn't that arbi- trary.-For each event, there is generally a prescribed number of points to be deducted for a major "break," or fault in a routine, or to be accredited for a particularly difficult feat. So, for instance, if a man hits his leg on the sidehorse in the middle of his routine, he may automatically lose five points (out of a perfect 100), but if another includes a perfectly executed double backflip in his tumbling routine, he will easily outscore an opponent without the double, no matter how well the latter executes his performance. But even with a general outline of this kind to guide the judge, gymnastics scoring is often quite erratic. Even at the NCAA Championships at Pittsburgh last March, where supposedly the best Judges in the country were presiding, four of them render- ed a 48, 54, 60, and 78, respectively, for the same performance, and it was not at all uncommon for the scores on a routine to lie in a range as wide as ten points. Gymnastics. scoring rules provide for this kind of divergence by discarding the outer two evaluations and averaging the middle two; this method at least prevents an ex- treme score from counting for or against the gymnast. While this procedure is better than taking the average of all four of the judges' estimations, it is by no. means a very good one. If a man's scores are 70, 71, 79, and 80, his final tally is 75, which is the average of all his scores as well as of the middle two. But 75 is not a good statistical representation of his raw scores-it seems thaf two of the judges considered his performance to be in the 70 area, while the other two placed it around 80, and one or the other of these two extremes ought to be decided on. It could very well have been that the "70" judges saw a fault that their two colleagues didn't. The system is also unjust in that a gymnast with scores of 72, 73, 75, and 81 gets the same overall mark as his opponent who racks up a 65, 73, 75, and 76. By a casual glance of the scoring, and most mibnh z-x - " n i,"- "4"- ' -c m - sn^ - --n n 1" --,- - - -- n a ecin By LLOYD GRAFF Michigan basketball fans are hoping that last year's shower of success will turn into a torrent of victories this season.. Optimism pervades the campus concerning the Wolverine cagers after last season's surprising show- in;; and the potential talent this i year's sophomores have shown. The confidence is contagious. LEven cautious Coach Dave track expresses it: "With seven letter- men returning including Bill Bun- tin, who was all-conference as a sophomore, we feel we have a pointing toward an even more outstanding performance '.his year with Buntin having a year of var- sity experience. Buntin won't have to go it alone on the court. He has a supporting cast which could really make it big. Three little guards, Captain Bob Cantrell, Doug Eerner and Tom Ludwig return. Cantrell, a fiery team leader, showed himself to be a standout defensive player last year, holding Jimmy Rayl of In- diana and Bill Small of Illinois _ . ';