THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1I SIDE LINES by Jim Benagh, Sports Editor MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS: Rivals Battle for Track Title I 'i Nowhere To Go .. . INDIANA'S great swimming team is to surpass Michigan In the upcoming Big Ten and NCAA race, don't be alarmed. It's a Michi- gan tradition to get caught from behind. It's happened that way' before-in football, basketball, hockey jnd track. Michigan takes an early leadership and builds up a tre- Mnendous national dynasty and tradition. Then it sits on top of the mountain, biding its time until the rest of the colleges see the glamour nd climb up to the top to share it. Football-and the money and prestige it brings-started things Dif. Michigan became the earliest Midwest school to break into East- ern domination for gridiron prestige in the late 1890's. Under in- vincible Fielding H. Yost the Wolverines stayed on top until the 1930's. Football at Michigan didn't get worse then-the other schools saw the glamour and caught up with Yost. Wholesale recruiting began in the early 1920's and many prospects felt financial benefits nullified academics and tradition-two Michi- gan assets. However, this is not to say that Michigan had a clean slate In the initial recruiting battles. Yost himself went on a rampage in the early twenties and even had George Gpp all set to transfer here from Notre Dame until the Gipper made a last minute decision and stayed in South Bend. After World War IT, many of the "no-account schools" in foot- ball made a big push for the money and glory. Michigan State, Iowa and Northwestern jumped to the top in a matter of two or three years time. It's gotten to the point now that each Big Ten football race is one big toss up from year to year. At present, it is hard to believe that any team will ever dominate the Conference the way Michigan or Chicago or Minnesota once did. Getting back to swimming, though, it was Michigan who first brought national attention to the fast-splashing kids. Like football, a great individual-Matt Mann-was responsible for the start. Because of Michigan's power, no national team score was kept during the first 13 years of the championship meet. When scores were begun, Michigan won the first five titles (1937-42). However, Ohio State used new tools-divers and Hawaiian swim- mers--to climb the mountain and join Yale in catching Michigan. But Gus Stager came along as coach in 1956 and re-vitalized Michigan. However, academic pressure makes winners come hard at Michigan. For each one of Michigan's last three NCAA champion- ships, there's a set of heavy rings under Stager's eyes. He has to work overtime in recruiting and coaching. Michigan Equaled-Overnight . . EANWHILE, INDIANA comes to town today as a serious challenger for the Big Ten crown for the first time. Its powerhouse was built In the period of one year. Southern Cal is doing the same thing on the West Coast. Some 25 years of swimming tradition by Michigan is equaled overnight. Michigan can't get much better, either. It builds a beautiful pool in 1956, then Michigan State and Indiana construct better ones im- mediately-and add an outdoor pool to boot. The same thing happened in basketball. Michigan built the first college field house in the United States (Yost, 1923) and produced some superb cage teams in the 1920's. But basketball fell to the way- side here with the school's'lacksidasical attitude. Meanwhile, brand new field houses are springing, or have sprung up, at six Big Ten schools in the last dozen years. Michigan, says Athletic Director Fritz Crisler, doesn't have any immediate plans for a new building. Michigan started another college tradition when former coach, Vic Heyliger, took college hockey out of its rut just after tihe war. To do it, he brought in good Canadian players and won six NCAA cham- pionships in the next 10 years. But as in the other cases, the rest of the collegians saw the light and beat Michigan at its own game. Michigan didn't get worse; in fact, the present team could probably outskate many of Heyligers contingents. It's just that other schools reached the top of the moun- tain with the Wolverines. Actually, some even catipulted sky high, like this year's great Denver sextet. Track was another Michigan stronghold for the first three decades of this century. Wolverines earned as many Gold Medals for Uncle Sam as any other school-and usually more. As usual, other schools were attracted to the Gold Medals and worked to get potential win- ners in their folds. Michigan track, however, did some catipulting of its own when young Don Canham came along in the late forties to coach. Illinois had begun using great foreign athletes a couple of years before and found tremendous success. So Canham set out to beat them at their own game instead of watching the passerbys. He did such a good job that his team is the best bet among Michi- gan teams to register a championship this winter. Fate of Rose Bowl Game Be Decided at Columbus OLD FOES - John Parks (left) of Indiana and John Urbanscok of Michigan, the two returning place winners from last year's Big Ten swimming championships are slated to meet again this aft- ernoon in the opening session of 50th conference meet. Last year Parks finished second and Ur- banscok fifth, but the Wolverine junior turned the tables on his foe in the NCAA meet last season. AT VARSITY POOL By TOM WITECKI Michigan and Illinois will renew their fierce track rivalry at Colum- bus this weekend, with the, Big Ten indoor title hanging in the balance once again. Last year these two powerful squads met three times, with the' Illini, under Coach Leo Johnson, coming out on top twice. They edged the Wolverines 64/2-5812 in an indoor dual meet, but the Wolverines came back two we Mks later to take the Conference in- door title. In this meet the Wol- verines came up with several "im- .possible" performances to roll up 71 points, while the Illiui amassed just 48. It was a different story outdoors as the Wolverines, hampered by the loss of star sprinter Tom Rob- inson, could total only 45 points While the victorious Illini piled up 651/2. Dual Meet Canceled This winter the dual sheet be- tween the two schools was can- celed; thus Saturday, the two squads will be facing each other for the first time this season. And the Illini, says Michigan track coach Don Canham, "are loaded." Looking down the roster of re- turning lettermen, one can't help agree with the Michigan coach. First, there is George Kerr, who is probably one of the best, i hnot the best, 880-yard runner in the world. This Jamaican-born senior is one of the top favorites in this summer's Olympic 800-meter race. Kerr can run the shorter dis- tances too. He showed that just last Saturday when he turned in a :47.9 quarter mile, the fastest of the indoor season. Illini Coach Johnson will probably double his star in the 440 and 880, in hopes of gaining the maximum number of points. Potential in Mile In the mile, Illinois has two standouts: Ken Brown, second place finisher in last year's indoor meet, and team captain Jim Bow- ers, who ran a 4:09-plus mile last week. Brown is also a fine two- miler, finishing second in the out- door meet last year, followed by teammate Harold Harris, who took third. In Del Coleman, the Illini have a versatile performer, who placed in three events in last year's in- door meet. This year he is a threat once again in the 60- and 300- yard races, along with the broad jump. Also in the broad jump is tal- ented Paul Foreman, who finished second in the broad Jump last year and has cleared 24' this year. Football Back In the shotput, the Illini have another poteptial titlist in foot- ball back Bill Brown, who has tossed the shot over 52' indoors. Backing Coleman up in the mid- Officials Set .Date Michigan officially announced yesterday that the Minnesota football game slated for October 22 has been selected for. home- coming. By selecting this date the Ath- letic Department has kept tra- dition of selecting the third week in October for Homecoming. At the same time the Purdue game, October 22, 1961 was se- lected as Homecoming for the fol- lowing season. dIe distance races is junior Ted Beastall, who took third in the 880-yard outdoor finals. In addi- tion to these known stars, Coach Johnson will probably pull a couple more point-getters out of his reserve bag. Thus, the Wolverines will need another all-out performance if they hope to retain the cham- pionship title they won so impress pionship title they won so impress- ively and deservingly last year. SCORES NBA Minneapolis 123, New York 113 Detroit 116, St. Louis 110 Boston 133, Philadelphia.119 COLLEGE Holy Cross 86, Boston College 79 Dayton 75, Detroit 69 Iowa State 61, Drake 57 SMU 93, Arkansas 82 Tulane 64, LSU 54 Providence 80, Rhode island 49 St. Joseph's 78, Lafayette 66 Loloya 89, John Carroll 75 Syracuse 73 , Naigara 69 Rutgers 85, Lehigh 70 Big Ten Scoring (Continued from Page 1) competitors in their respective heats. Indiana's Pete Si n tz, Fred Rounds, and Tom Verth are seed- ed first through third respective- ly, but it is doubtful that all three' will start . The other Indiana entries are senior John Parks, seeded sev- enth, and Frank Brunell is seed- ed 23rd and last. Wolverines Hope Michigan's hope in the 1500 rests with Bill Darnton and Andy Morrow, placed fourth and fifth respectively, Win Pen d 1 e t o n, eighth, John Urbanscok, ninth and Tom Bechtel, 12th. Each team will be forced to withdraw one man from their en- try list to reach the allowable number of entries and all evi- dence points to the fact that neither Sintz nor Morrow will be on the starting blocks tomorrow af ternoon. Of the other aforementioned entrants only Indiana's Parks and Michigan's Urbanscok have ever swum the distance in collegiate competition. Parks, who has campaigned in the sprints this year, finished sec- ond in last year's Big Ten 1500, while Urbanscok was fifth in the same meet and placed second at the NCAA championships. All Sophomores Verth, Rounds, Brunnel, Darn- ton, Pendleton and Bechtel are all sophomores and will have their first opportunity at this event today. The 200-yard individual medley is expected to be a two man battle between Indiana's Bill Barton and the host's Fred Wolf. Wolf turned in the fastest time of the season (2:06.8) by a yard. The Wolverines will again be without the services of Captain Tony Tashnick, American, NCAA and Big Ten record-holder in this event, sidelined for three weeks by mononucleosis, the Michigan iasJWtmmtnUg i Ltt senior has now been felled by academics. Academically Ineligible Tashnick was declared academ- ically ineligible this week after failing an exam, which he missed, while in Health Service. Behind Wolf and Barton there is a drop-off in talent. Other con- testants who are expected to be in a battle for the remaining four places are Brunell, Chip Pet- erson of Minnesota, Chuck Bab- cock of Michigan and MSU's Dave Diget. The one-meter diving competi- tion is also expected to be a two- team battle, but the teams in this instance are Michigan and Ohio State, with Indiana conspicuous in its absence. Schedule of Events Thursday afternoon, 2:30 1. 200-Yard Individual Medley trials 2. 1500-Meter Freestyle finals Thursday evening, 8:00 1. One-Meter Diving (Preliminaries and semi-finals) 2. 200-Yard Individual Medlay finals Friday afternoon, 12:30 1. Trials for evening finals Friday evening, 8:00 1. 200-Yard Butterfly 2. 50-Yard Freestyle 3. 200-Yard Backstroke 4. 220-Yard Freestyle 5. 100-Yard Breaststroke 6. One-Meter Diving 7. 400-Yard Freestyle Relay Saturday afternoon, 1:30 1. Trials for evening finals Saturday evening, 8:00 1. 100-Yard Butterfly 2. 100-Yard Freestyle 3. 200-Yard Breaststroke 4. 100-Yard Backstroke 5. 440-Yard Freestyle 7. 400-Yard Medley Relay 6. Three-Meter Diving The competition between OSU's Sam Hall, defending champion, and Tom Gompf and Michigan's Bob Webster and Joe Gerlach is expected to be as close as any in the meet. Indiana Coach Jim Counsilman has stated that Indiana's lack o diving and Michigan's abundance of talent in the two springboard events should turn the meet in the favor of the Wolverines. Gus Stager, the Wolverine coach, similarly feels that diving will give his team a boost, but he is a little more reticent than Counsilman to predict the meet's outcome. Dlschinger, Pur. Lucas, OSU Walker, MSU Johnson ,Minn. Tidwell, Mich. Bellamy,. Ind. Vaughn, 11l. Jackson, Ill. Joneg, NU Miller, Mich. Cronk, Minn. Nelson, Iowa Nowell, OSU Radovich, Ind. FG FT Pts. Ag. 116 120 352 27.1 132 75 .339 26.1 119 82 320 24.6 116 64 296 22.8 115 65 295 22.7 115 63 293 22.5 109 35 253 19.5 97 35 229 17.6 78 68 224 17.2 71 28 170 15.5 71 56 198 15.2 69 57 195 15.0 80 33 193 14.9 74 43 191 14.7 i S PCCHLL (Thurs., Fri, & Sat.) =HOUR Dry Cleaning by ARMEN The Most In Dry Cleaning Ann Arbor's only STA-NU franchised plants - 3-HOUR SERVICE or try our BUDGET PLAN Leave your clothing with us one week and save. SAVE 25% DRESSES AND SUITS, REG. PRICE $1.55 I -I I COLLEGIATE HAIRSTYLING GALORE!!! Try our 10 Haircutters NO WAITING The Dascola Barbers Near Michigan Theatre Plant No. 1 630 S. 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