THE MICEIGAN DAILY F i" FITZGERALD NAMES TOP PROSPECTS: Freshmen May Bolster Backfield t a' ". - 2 ' The Thin Man by Dave Good 7, 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 11 A *, :' : ' V. . £ y r I 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 A 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.) 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