WedneWay, March 22,E 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page -Nine' Wednesday, March 22, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine' Arizona names Snowden Oral Roberts scalped; From Wire Service Reports University" of Myichigan assist- ant basketball coach Pred Snow- den was named head coach at the University of Arizona yesterday.I Arizona Athletic Director Dave Strack announced Snowden's ap- pointment; saying Snowden will take over immediately, replacing Brute Larson, who resigned after 11 years as head coach. Strack said Snowden was a "yoithg manwho has great knowl- edge of basketball and possesses the qualities to become a very suc- cessful collegiate head coach." After four years as assistant to Johnny Orr at Michigan, Snow- den, 35, will become the first black to move into a head coaching spot with a big league collegiate team. "I think it's a great opportunity and a great job," said Snowden before leaving for Tucson. "The people who interviewed me were some of the finest people I've met and I am impressed with the uni- versity and its athletic operations." Snowden will be under the gun from the start to put a winning team together as the Wildcats have never won a Western Athletic Association championship and were a weak 6-20 overall this season. From the start, Snowden will face local recruiting problems ,,= busted ai since in the past Arizona high school basketball has not provided the college ranks with a wealth of talent. Snowden will spend ten days in Tucson during which he will "form some guidelines and do some work in connection with players whom other members of the staff have been trying to re- cruit." Arizona assistant coach Bob Hanson has been keeping Snow- den abreast of his new staffs' re- cruiting efforts and all indica- tions are he will be retained by Snowden. Strack indicated that it was difficult to select between Snow- den and Tom Jorgensen, who was freshman coach at Michigan un- der Strack before taking the head coaching job at Northern Illinois, a teamwhich appears on Arizona's schedule next season. Snowden was an outstanding athlete at Wayne State Univer- sity where he captained both the basketball and baseball teams his senior year. He started his coach- ing career at Detroit Northwestern High School, where he established an 87-8 record before joining Orr at Michigan in 1968. Orr announced yesterday that a new assistant would probably not be named for several weeks. SPITALNY STARS: The fox .. . .. .moveson By The Associated Press I; Niagara makes semis al shackelford= E fox is gone. With a little imagination and some friendly caricature, Fred Snowden even looks like a fox. A hungry predator, preying on talent and funneling it into Michigan's basketball factory. Snowden, with his cocky manner and habitual "Hey, babe," has turned the page on an amiable chapter of Wolverine bas- ketball history by departing Ann Arbor for the head coaching post at the University of Arizona. The press had a field day during Snowden's four-year tenure, lauding his coaching team- work with headman Johnny Orr as a new frontier in black- white cooperation. Such articles always included a picture of the two smiling coaches and comments letting you know that they were Mr. Black and Mr. White. And Snowden's blackness was just as valuable an as- set as his coaching expertise, enabling him to act as a liaison man between Michigan and the black players it Tent fishing for. Black players, talking about Snowden the man, often characterized him as "smooth, real smooth." but that's no cut, because Snowden usually had the inter- ests of the players at heart, as much as any coach can. A great deal of the credit for Michigan's increased recruit- ing muscle in the past few years can be laid at Snowden's door. He's a glib tallier, a hip man, and he's been around: these qualities weren't lost on talented schoolboys who were leaning to Michigan. While I never doubted Snowden's competence for a minute, I often wondered how much of his rap was genuine and how much was pure public relations. And I'm sure that some players lost faith in Snowden's words once the honey- moon of recruitment was over. Snowden came to Ann Arbor after the Cazzie years, his reputation as a basketball coach glowing from a phenomenal stint at Detroit Northwestern. There Snowden had coached Northwestern's junior varsity teams to an 80-0 mark over five years, then taken the varsity heins and galloped his teams to an 87-8 mark and five city titles. His players included former Michigan State ace Stan Washington and Wolverines Jim Pitts and Bird Carter. Only Loften Greene at River Rouge rivaled Fred's coaching record, and Rouge's competition has always been a cut below that of Detroit's rugged Public School League. Not content to confine his prep coaching to the hard- court, Snowden also guided Northwestern's baseball team. A few of his diamondmen have since attracted the public ear, and itre, such as colorful and talented players Willie Norton and Alex Johnson. That his coaching career at Michigan would be less suc- cessful, then, was preordained; how successful it has been de- pends on who's doing the talking. First Snowden and Orr had the Tomjanovich teams, nothing to build championship dreams on, and then the Wilmore et al teams, bursting with talent but plagued by inconsistency. Talk to the fans who raised a"Dump Orr" banner at this year's Michigan-Wisconsin game and I'm sure you would be told that his inconsistency was partly Snow- den's fault. But, whatever the reason, 1971-72 was a year most Michigan basketball fans would like to forget, and it has taken a little of the luster off Snowden's coaching credentials. Some people will be saddened at Snowden's loss because they thought he was being groomed for Michigan's head coaching job of the future, after Orr had stepped upstairs or called it quits. But this thinking is unrealistic because, had Orr been replaced, Snowden would probably have been in- cluded in the purge. Perhaps he took this into considera- tion when he decided to pull up stakes and head for sunny Arizona. Snowden will have a big job ahead of him, because Ari- zona hasn't been eating anyone up on the court lately. The Wildcats floundered to a 6-20 record this season and finished 4-10 in the tough Western Athletic Conference. That's plenty of room for improvement, but Fred's high-powered recruiting and basketball intellect should lift Arizona into the national limelight within a few years. At least Snowden will get a chance to try his head-coaching wings in the college game, as the first black major college mentor. And if he's ever had trouble with his sinuses, well, that dry Arizona climate will be icing on the cake. A STUD(NT PUBLICATION WITH THE STUDENT IN MIND Students throughout the country, many with the potential of becom- ing fine writers, are continuously searching for an outlet; somewhere they can have their works published. Until now, the only means college students have of seeing of their literary accomplishments in print*is through the school's literary magaine, which only reaches other students on campus. Through The Literary catalyst, students now have the opportunity of having their literary works read by other students on campuses across the country. Sample issue upon request-50c NATIONAL COLLEGIATE PUBLICATIONS, UNLIMITED Box 14 Flourtown, Pa. 19031 -Atssociated ±Press ORAL ROBERTS' ELDON LAWYER, a lightning-quick 6-1 guard, starts to whirl upcourt after pulling off a bit of thievery from St. John's Mel Davis (33). Action occurred in the first half of the NIT quarter-final clash. Rev. Oral Roberts saw his prayers go unanswered, 94-78. NEW YORK-St. John's of New York, behind the 27-point scoring, effort of Greg Cluess, held Oral Roberts, the number one scoring team in the nation, to 29 points in the first half,' going on to win 94-78 in last night's NIT quarter- final game. Despite losing star Mel Davis to an injury in the first half, the Redmen jumped to a 46-29 -lead at the half. Davis was carried from the court and taken to a hos- pital for what was diagnosed as a pulled tendon in the right knee. The Titans made a belated] charge at the Redmen in the sec- ond half behind Richie Fuqua. They trimmed a 19-point deficit to just six points as the high-scoring guard flipped in a jump shot to reduce the score 65-59 with eight minutes to play. The Redmen ripped off three straight baskets, the last by Bill Schaeffer with six minutes left to put them ahead for good at 71-60. Greg Cluess scored 27 points, 16 in the second half to help stem Oral Roberts' rally. He' also led all rebounders with 21 before sit- ting down with two minutes left. 12Davis scored 12 points and had 12 rebounds before his injury af- ter 15 minutes of play. Fuqua,the nation's second lead- ing scorer with a 36.1 average, managed 30 points. The Titans' offense, tops in the nation with a 106-point per game average, scored well below average. St. John's boosted its record to 19-9 while it was just the second loss for Oral Roberts in 28 games this season. sports NIGHT EDITOR BOB McGINN Tigers detoothed NEW YORK - Niagara pressed Princeton from start to finish and Marshall Wingate threw in 20, points as the Purple Eagles upset the Tigers 65-60 last night, gain- ing a semi-final berth in the 35th National Invitation Basketball Tournament. Niagara notched a berth in, Putters, prep for Miami meet Thursday night's round against the winner of last night's second game between St. John's, N.Y., and Oral Roberts. Jacksonville meets Maryland in the other semifinal match at Mad- ison Square Garden. Little Niagara overcame Prince- ton's brawny front line with a tenacious defense that forced sev- eral key turnovers. The PurpleEagles made the Ivy Leaguers turn the ball over 13 times in the first half while tak- ing a 30-28 lead at intermission. Wingate's leadership on defense at thegstart of the second half helped the underdogs score eight straight points in the first five minutes as Niagara held Prince- ton without a field goal during that span. WEST 2ND AGAIN: Jabbar grabs MVP By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Kareem Jabbar of the Milwaukee Bucks has been named the Most Valuable Player in the National Basketball A sociation for the 1971-72 season. It was the Milwaukee center's second award in three professional years. As Lew Alcindor, he won the honor last year as he led the Bucks to the NBA championship. The Bucks already have clinched the Midwest Division this season. The 7-foot-2 former UCLA All-American received 81 first-place votes, 52 seconds and 20 thirds in the balloting of NBA players. Jerry West of Los Angeles finished second in the votingtfor tote third straight year. Wilt Chamberlain of Los Angeles was third, John Havlicek of Boston fourth, and Spencer Haywood of Seattle fifth. Jabbar received 581 total points to West's 393 and Chamberlain's 294. By BOB HEUER The Michigan golf team prepped ,for today's start of the Miami Invitational by finishing second in a four-way warm-up match yesterday at Coral Gables. The linkers grabbed the run- nerup spot behind Miami with a four-man team total of 301. The1Hurricanes won the meet by 10 strokes finishing at 291. Michigan finished ahead of both Bucknell (308) and Western Il- linois (309). Yesterday's meet marked the conclusion of the four-round preliminaries, held to determine who will play in the Invitation- al. Neil Spitalny fired a 72, giv- ing him a 72-hole total of 306, good enough for the number one spot on the team for the Miami event. Spitalny and Dan Hunter had gone into the final round tied for the team lead at 234. Hunt- er shot a 73 yesterday and will play in the second slot. The rest of the individual scores ranged from mediocre to horrendous, the biggest disap- pointment being the absence of Captain Gary Balliet and Chuck Burnham from the six players eligible for the Invitational. Burnham skied to an 82 yes- terday to finish seventh overall among the team, and Balliet shot an equally poor 78 to fin- ish eighth and last in the pre- lim. SCOREJS Burnham and Balliet are thus ineligible for team competition in the tournament. They are still able to compete, as indi- viduals, however. Sophomore Craig Ghio cap- tured the third spot on the team, despite shooting an 82 yesterday. Rounding out the top six for Michigan will be Rene Desmarais, Pete Clark, and Paul McIntosh, who shot 77, 86, and 79 respectively in the quadrang- ular meet. Once tournament play begins, each school takes the best four scores from its six players. Coach Bill Newcomb was sat- isfied with the team's perform- ance in the preliminaries over- all. "Our' 301 total of yesterday was less than a stroke off our average in last year's tourna- ment," sid Newcombe, "and we finished third in that one." Michigan is the only Big Ten team playing in the event and probably the north's strongest entry. Defending champion Flo- rida will once again be the team to beat with the University of Miami joining the Wolverines as top challengers for the title. 11 BLA THE Revolutionary Legacy OF C. L. R. James A CONFERENCE ON REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT IN HONOR OF C. L. R. JAMES MARCH 31-APRIL 2, 1972 University of Michigan Auditorium 4, Modern Languages Building 812 EAST WASHINGTON STREET Conference opens 7:15 P.M., March 31, 1972 Applications for CK STUDEt ADVOCATE (FULLTIME POSITION) Now Being Received at STS' Office of Student Services& Programns 336 Michigan Union (or phone 763-4183) Applications must be in by March 24, 1.972 "" Walter Rodney Trevor Monroe John Higginson SPEAKERS -AND- Erick Perkins Sylvia Wynter Archie Singham NBA Milwaukee 111, Houston 94 Los Angeles 109, Chicago 104 Atlanta 117, Philadelphia 111 Detroit 120, Cincinnati 117 Buffalo 114, Baltimore 100 NIT Niagara 65, Princeton 60 St. John's 94, Oral Roberts 78 NHL Minnesota 4, California 2 C. L. R. 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