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By CHARLIE TOWLE
World beaters they ain't.
That's the impression football
freshman coach Dennis Fitzgerald
gives talking over this year's group
of new football faces. But don't
go away yet. Fitzgerald does say
that where .this year's team is
hurting the most-at the halfback
spot-is where the freshmen are
going to help most.
Carl Ward and Jim Detwiler are
the two big name high school grid
stars who are considered the best
of the halfback group. Ward, who
stands 5'9" and weighs 180 pounds,
is a fast back with good blocking
ability. Detwiler, at 6'2" and 210
pounds, is considered more of the
power runner type. Other promis-
ing halfbacks among the freshmen
are Tim Radigan of Lansing, Louie
Lee from Philadelphia, Ypsilanti's
Mike Bass, Dave McLaughlin of
Chelsea and Mike Willie of River-
dale, N.Y.
Fitzgerald will be dividing the
freshmen into two even squads for
a scrimmage Monday afternoon at
3:30 p.m. in the Stadium. The
game will be open to the public,
and the curious who like to judge
football players for themselves are
welcome to drop in and appraise.
Good Squad
For those who have other things
to do Monday, a rundown of the
newcomers, whom Fitzgerald calls,
"not as strong as last year, but
a good freshman squad," goes like
this:
FULLBACKS-This is the spot
Fitzgerald mentions almost in the
same breath as halfback. The
main hope is 215 pounder Dave
Fisher of Dayton, Ohio. Fisher,
who played end in high school, is
being groomed as a linebacker
after playing defensive end in high
school. Other fullbacks are 200-
pounders George Knapp and Bob
Mielke and 195 pound Dave De-
Fouw.
QUARTERBACKS - A lot of
early publicity in this group, but
so far Fitzgerald is not real ex-
cited. Rich Vidmer, Rich Volk,
Jim Seiber and Wally Gabler. are
the four given about equal chance
to help the varsity.
TACKLES-The strongest posi-
tion on the line, but as a group
Fitzgerald says, "the linemen are
not as advanced as the linemen
last year, but still making good
progress." Tackles given a chance
of moving up next year are John
Buzynski (220 pounds), Pete Mair
(232 pounds), Henry Cartwright
(240 pounds), Jim Hribal (230
pounds), Max Pitlosh (250 pounds)
and Jerry Danhof (235 pounds).
CENTERS -- Frank Nunley of
Belleville is the front runner at
this position. At 6'2", 220 pounds,
Nunley has impressed Fitzgerald
with his rugged play. Canadian
Jack Craig (6'2", 225 pounds) is
the other player who has stood
out among the center contenders.
GUARDS-Steve Yatchak and
Bill Hardy who both weigh in
around 215 pounds are the ones
given the most chance of making
the jump to varsity ball but there
are others with a chance, among
them Pat O'Donnell, brother of
this year's captain, Joe O'Donnell.
ENDS-Material is sparse at
this position, but then by afore-
thought, or maybe just happy co-
incidence, this is a strong spot on
this year's team and will continue
to be next year. The top prospect,
Clayton Wilhite, may give John
Henderson and Craig Kirby a
challenge for their position as pass
catching specialists.
Ends Stanley Kemp and John
McCabe may make the varsity on
the strength of a good strong leg.
Both are considered outstanding
prospects to replace O'Donnell as
the Wolverines' punter.
Legacei Fills Swim Duties
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By BILL BULLARD
A former Michigan swimming
captain and national recordholder
who didn't start swimming com-
petitively until he entered high
school is helping to keep age
group swimming alive in' Ann
Arbor.
Frank Legacki has assumed the
job of coaching the Ann Arbor
Swim Club for this season. With
the loss of Rose Mary and Buck
Dawson at the end of last season
a void was left to be filled. Le-
gacki is filling the coaching duties
while the administrative details
of running the club are being
handled by an organization of
parents.
In six years the Dawsons
brought the club from its incep-
tion to a thriving organization.
Girls of all ages from 10 years
old and under to those of college
age swim for the club.
Legacki was Michigan swim-
ming captain in the 1960-61 sea-
son. He won national and Big
Ten titles in his specialty, the
freestyle sprints. At one time he
held the NCAA Meet record in the
100-yd. butterfly. He still holds
Michigan varsity and pool records
in the 50-yd. freestyle.
First Assignment
This is his first actual coach-
ing assignment. "I've coached a
little bit before," he said. "But
this is my first full team respon-
sibility.
Hockey Girls
Close Season
Michigan's undefeated women's
field hockey team will play the
final game of the season against
Albion at Palmer Field at 3:30
this afternoon.
The Wolverines' record in league
playis now 3-0 after defeating
Western Michigan Saturday morn-
ing. Sukie Brainard and Margie
Bloom each scored two goals
while Marilyn Brown added an-
other to the 5-0 victory.
Michigan now holds wins over
Eastern Michigan, Western Mich.
igan, and Michigan State in the.
regular season.
"Coaching girls sort of scared
me at first. I come from a family
of six boys and two girls. But I've
found that girls work just as hard
as boys do."
Legacki was enthusiastic about
the practice of starting young-
sters swimming competitively at
an early age. "'You almost can't
start swimming in high school
anymore like I did. I think start-
ing early gives you tangible goals
and a definite incentive."
He explained what he wanted
to accomplish with the chub this
season. "I'm in sort of a bad posi-
tion here. I'm only going to coach
here ona year. What I'll try to do
is make the kids word hard to
develop both their swimming abil-
ity and the character and disci-
Pline demanded by swimming."
Legacki will receive his masters
degree in business administration
next May. His future plans are to
give up coaching and accept a job
in advertising or marketing in a
large firm.
The swim club has a three part
program. These groups are the be-
ginning competitors, the novice
league, and the varsity. Over 100
girls are in these three classifi-
cations.
The novice league is for girls
who have not placed first, second,
or third in the previous year's
league meet or in the finals of the
state AAU Meet. Teams in the
league include the Flint Olym-
pians, Toledo Glass City Swim
Club, Birmingham Maple Swim
Club, Detroit Women's City Club,
and Detroit Osborn Swim Club.
To, Competition
Varsity competition is with
teams in the midwest area and
AAU competition on the state and
national level. As soon as a girl
is ineligible to compete in the
novice league she starts working
out with the varsity.
Legacki has help for his coach-
ing job. Nancy Wager, coach ofl
the Michigan Women's Swimming
Team, is assisting him. Also Paulj
Attar, Wolverine diver, comes in
twice a week to instruct in diving.
Jim Wanzeck, vice-president of
the parents' group, explained how
the parents were helping the club.
"Our aim is to leave Frank free to
coach by taking care of the details
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of running the club ourselves," he
said.
Parents arrange for transporta-
tion, renting of the Michigan Un-
ion pool for practice, and all other
financial matters, according to
Wanzeck. The club is financed by
contributions from parents and
the Elks Club.
Future aims of the club include
adding young boy swimmers to
the club's program, hiring a coach
to replace Legacki at the end of
this season, and getting permis-
sion to use the Ann Arbor High
School pool for practice as well
as the meets currently held there.
Piston Star
Sidelined
DETROIT (41) - The Detroit
Pistons announced yesterday that
Dave Debusschere suffered a frac-
ture four to five inches above the
left ankle in last night's National
Basketball Association game with
the Philadelphia 76'ets.
Debusschere, former University
of Detroit basketball and baseball
star and a pitcher with the Chi-
cago White Sox, will be lost for
from three to four weeks.
Debusschere fell to the floor in
the final quarter of the game. He
had scored 18 points and grabbed
16 rebounds as the Pistons won
119-101..
Writers Piek
Howard As
MP W*inner
NEW YORK-Elston Howard,
veteran New York Yankee catcher,
was picked yesterday as the Amer-
ican League's Most Valuable Play-
er by a 20-man committee of the
Baseball Writers' Association of
America.
He outdistanced his closest rival,
Detroit's Al Kaline, by 100 points,
248-148, and received 15 of the 20
first place votes. Mickey Mantle
and Roger Maris of the Yankees,
who had dominated the poll in the
last three years, failed to-get a
single vote. Maris won in 1960
and 1961, while Mantle prevailed
last season.
Although the Sporting News
named Kalihe as the' American
League's top performer, insiders
viewed his late season batting
slump as the chief reason he flop-
ped in the BBWAA poll.
Epitaph for a Golf Course
Cross-country, the brief candle of Michigan athletics, has flick-
ered out again.
As a result, Chris Murray, the needle-thin Toronto senior who
doesn't really like to run unless it's for six miles or more, finds himself
in a paradoxical situation.
He just may emerge from the Big Ten Cross-Country Meet at
Champaign this Monday as the conference champion at four miles-
without representing Michigan.
Murray and sophomore Ted Benedict will be the only ones to
make the trip, and, like most Michigan cross-country runners of the
last decade, they will be laboring not-to-count in the team standings.
Coach Don Canham, whose teams have won nine conference
track titles outright and tied for another-all since 1955-has always
taken a dim view of his runners
working too hard in the fall. To
him and his runners, it's always
been a period for light practices.
When Dave Martin, an old
Michigan distance man himself,
came on the scene this year as
Canham's new assistant, he han-
dled things with hopes of getting
>,a team of five men in shape to
run in the conference meet for the
first time since 1958-if it didn't
interfere with the larger goal of
preparedness for the track sea-
son.
It hasn't. But just the same,
Michigan still doesn't have five
men in shape to run.
CHRIS MURRAY After a season consisting of
practice meets with Bowling Green
and Spring Arbor and a trip for 'Murray and Benedict to the Notre
Dame Invitational, Michigan's cross-country team stands now just
where it always has-nowhere.
Canham insists there never was a team this year, and he's right.
The catch is, though, that there would have been a team if five men
could have been rounded up for Monday's meet, no matter what the
record had been before that.
Martin's tentative plans for a team, despite getting a boost from
unseasonably warm weather, have been scuttled by a combination of
minor injuries and classroom commitments.
Of five possibilities other than Murray and Benedict-Dave
Hayes, Des Ryan, Ted Kelly, Jay Sampson and Jim Austin-none
wilbe making the trip to Chan-
paign:
1) Hayes has afternoon labs to
attend and is behind in practice
anyway after some early-season
knee trouble.
2) Ryan has a speaking part in
a play and has also missed some
practice.
3) Sampson has had occasional
stomach cramps but says he would
run anyway if a full team were
entering.
4) Sampson has been working
hard in practice on the track, but
Martin isn't taking any chances on
his irritating an ankle ailment
TED BENEDICT that kept him out of the entire
track season last year.
5) Austin has missed a month of practice with a sprained ankle.
If the entire "team" had been ready for Monday, the consensus
of Martin and his runners was that they could probably have finished
second behind Michigan State, which has won titles in 10 of the last
11 years, interrupted only by a Michigan win in 1954.
There was even one opinion that Michigan in top form could
have beaten Michigan State this year. How's that for heresy?
Anyway, falls will come and falls will go, and probably darned
few of them will produce a cross-country team at Michigan.
Maybe this isn't really very important, but at least we should try
to time it so that we can get up a team on the years when we have a
runner capable of challenging for the individual title.
After all, what will people think if they should happen to pick
up the Big Ten Records Book for 1963-1964 and read this?:
1963 CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
*1) Chris Murray, Michigan
2) Al Carius, Illinois
3) Dick Sharkey, Michgan State
* (Place does not count in team scoring.)
FAR WEST GRID
Huskies Eying Roses;
Trojans Still Fig hting
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