Wednesday, October 27, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven THE MICHIGAN D.AIL-Y Pa--ge-- -S--v-n I out to lunch mort noveck The legacy that Yost built T HOSE WHO HOLD myths dear should avoid a new book about Michigan athletics, Fielding Yost's Legacy. They will only be disappointed. However, those who would really like to know how all those buildings on Ferry Field got there and how the Wol- verines became the "Champions of the West" will enjoy John Behee's work. For despite the implications of the title Behee's book deals objectively with Yost as a pioneer in intercollegiate athletics. Though it is obvious that the author admires Yost, he finds it impossible to hide all of the man's shortcomings and failures. Like all successful men Yost had many faults and although the account of his legacy tries to gloss them over, they are reported. By reading the book one finds out that Yost did not have the great creative genius he is remembered for. Most of the ideas he implemented in the Michigan athletic de- partment were stolen. Many of the practices he instituted were already common practice at other universities. For in- stance, Michigan Stadium was not built because Yost could forsee the large growth of the university. It was built be- cause Ohio State and Illinois constructed new stadia and Yost didn't want to be outdone. The one true chance Yost had to make a genuine contri- bution was ignored. Yost was a West Virginian and was never able to overcome his racial prejudices. He discouraged blacks from participating in Michigan athletics, saying that Michi- gan has won without blacks and did not need to use them. Harry Kipke, who coached the Michigan football team in the early thirties, finally insisted that blacks be allowed to play and one, Willis Ward, made the team. But when Georgia Tech turned up on the Wolverine schedule in 1934 Yost refused to let Ward play in the game because he didn't want to offend his southern friends. Yost could have made significant progress in the field of human relations by protecting Ward's rights, but he chose to align himself with the regressive elements instead. It was not until Yost had retired as athletic director that blacks were encouraged to participate in Michigan athletics. Evidently Yost was one of those men who was always right, at least as far as he was concerned. Behee quotes endless letters in which Yost protests that he was unjustly criticized. He had many influential supporters who believed he could do no w wrong and he often called on them to write letters to the re- gents and the president of the University to tell them what a great man Fielding Yost was. When the construction of the building that bears his name was completed the overwhelming sentiment on campus was that it was improper to name the building after a living man. But Yost wanted to gym to bear his name and organized an alumni letter campaign to intimidate the athletic board into calling it Yost Field House. Yost was also the type to make sure that others were blamed for his mistakes. Tad Wieman coached the Wol- verines to a 6-2 record in 1927. In 1928 Yost decided to take full control of the team back before the season started. But prior to the first game he realized that the team would not be very good so he rehired Wieman. However he didn't do it until the day before the opener. Then when the team did poorly he could blame it on Wieman instead of shouldering the responsibility himself, which is exactly what he did. While the book gives other examples of Yost's flaws, it wasn't written to totally destroy the myth and most of the space is given to Yost's successful exploits on the gridiron and in the conference room. The first part of the book deals with Yost's years as a football coach and is the most reassuring. No one can deny that he was a successful coach. It is kind of fun to read about the point-a-minute teams even though those days will probably never return. Of course some of those victories came over teams like the Detroit YMCA, but still it must have been entertaining to see all those touchdowns. Later sections of the book deal with Yost's years as ath- letic director and his struggle to construct the Michigan athletic plant. The story of how Yost pushed through ap- proval for the stadium by declaring that the university belonged to'the people is amusing but the account of how he tried to increase student's physical education require- ments is not. Supposedly Yost operated under the goal of "athletics for all", but all actually meant all varsity ath- letes. He did, however, greatly increase the number of in- * tercollege sports. The Legacy of Fielding Yost is not the most fascinating book ever written. It contains a great deal of information and many interesting stories, but it is definitely not a thriller. It was compiled from Yost personal papers and it tends to wander as Yost's thoughts did. However football fans will en- joy learning how Michigan was built into a gridiron power and those who think college athletics are out of hand will thrill to learn that nothing has changed, it was just as bad in Yost's days. Piston By The Associated Press DETROIT-A basket on a goal- tending call in the last four sec- onds gave Houston a 104-103 vic- tory over Detroit for the Rockets'! first National Basketball Associa- tion triumps of the season lastt night. Mike Newlin was credited with' the winning basket after the call against Bob Lanier of the Pistons. The Rockets, who had lost their' first six in Houston since trans- ferring from San Diego in the summer blew a 19-point lead and then rallied from a three-point deficit in the final minute to pull' the game out. It was Newlin again with a bomb shot that had pulled the Rockets to within a point of the Pistons' after Detroit had gone ahead 103- 100 after trailing most of the way in the game. Detroit had fallen behind twice by 19 points in the third period with Elvin Hayes and Calvin Mur- phy leading the early Houston up- rising. Then Bob Lanier took over for the Pistons and with a 19-point third period reduced Detroit's def- icit to 12 points going into the final stanza. Detroit kept pecking away and finally with Lanier continuing to lead the way went ahead 99-98 on two freethrows by Willie Norwood.j Jimmy Walker followed with an- other basket for Detroit but then Stew Lance of the Rockets and Bill Hewitt of Detroit exchanged baskets in a low-scoring finish be- fore Newlin took over to win the game. Lanier finished with 38 for De- troit while Hayes had 30 for the Rockets. Bucks bash MILWAUKEE, Wis. - The Mil- waukee Bucks, led byBob Dand- ridge with 27 points and Kareem Jabbar with 24, boosted their Na- tional Basketball Association rec- ord to 7-0 last night by defeating the Baltimore Bullets 120-90. Jabbar added 13 rebounds fort the defending champion Bucks,: who spotted the crippled Bullets an 8-2 lead. But Milwaukee over- came its own floor errors to out- score Baltimore 22-7 for a 34-21 lose on first quarter lead, with Dandridgea netting eight points in that spurt.; The Bucks rolled to a 64-45 half- time spread, and widened it to 88-60 with less than two minutes left in the third quarter. Reserve Terry Driscoll sparked a Bullets' surge which cut the gap to 89-72 with ten minutes to play. but a basket by Lucius Allen and two free throws by Jabbar got the daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: BILL ALTERMAN B~ucks roiling again. BArchie Clark, whose suspension eight points in the last 3:25 of the for jumping the team was lifted third period as the Knicks pulled Monday, scored 18 points in his ahead at the close of the period first game for Baltimore. How- 81-71 after holding a narrow two- ever, the Bullets were without the point lead at halftime. suspended Earl Monroe and Gus The Knicks built their advan- Johnson, recovering from knee tage to 17 points, 95-78, midway surgery. John Tresvant started for through the final period before Johnson but was injured early in Boston battled back and closed the the game. gap to 101-96 on a tap by Don Nelson with two minutes remain- ing. Frazier then hit two free K ckNEW O KWthrows and a jumper, giving the NEW YORK-Walt Frazier, re- Knicks a safe 105-96 lead. turning to action after a two-game * - absence, scored 22 points in help- ing the New York Knicks to a Rockets roar 106-101 National Basketball As- DENVER-The Denver Rockets sociation victory last night over broke open a tight game midway the Boston Celtics. in the fourth period last night on Frazier, who had been sidelined the shooting of Ralph Simpsonj wxith a stomach virus, fired in and the rebounding of Julius Keye goaltending charge to defeat the Memphis Pros 115- 100 in an American Basketball As- sociation game. Simpson led all scorers with 32 points. Keye had 10 of his 16 re- bounds in the final period. Byron Beck was tireless on de- fense until he left the game with an injury with 1:05 remaining and the Rockets leading 109-96. Wings wopped DETROIT - Bobby Hull scored his fifth goal of the season last night, starting the Chicago Black Hawks to a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings in a National Hockey league game. Hull skated around the Detroit defense to score off Red Wing goalie Joe Daley at 2:16 of the first period. Stan Mikita picked up a goal and two assists for Chicago while Doug Jarrett, Dennis Hulland Jim Pappin also scored for Chi- cago. Mikita got his goal when he stole the puck and skated in alone on Daley in the second period. His assists came on Chicago scores in each of the first two periods. I IT HAPPENS EVERY FALL Trojan By JOE PHILLIPSI "This was just like the game last; year," grumbled a deja vu'ed Ara Parseghian, "they jumped out to a quick lead and forced us out of our game plan." The underdog Trojans of South- ern California put Ara on another trit last Saturday as the Irish- jinx haunts Parseghian record. He was haunted by theI memory of last year when a medi-I ocre, but inspired USC team rob- bed Notre Dame of a perfect sea- son with a stunning 38-28 victory in the final game of the season. Anxious Ara had good reason to be. killers of the West bounced Notre With 5:44 to play in the first Dame 28-14 in a game marred by period Saturday, USC quarterback a wild third period free-for-all. Jimmy Jones hit receiver Edsel Only the Irish pride was injured Garrison with a 31-yard touch- as. for the second straight year, down pass. USC ruined the Irish bid for a Notre Dame came right back perfect season. with its grinding ground game All last week Ara kept sounding after Gary Diminick pranced for off to his players and the press 66 yards with Southern Cal's kick- about how dangerous the Trojans off. Andy Huff eventually bull- were, despite their innocuous 2-4 dozed over from the one-yard line ningham scored from ' there to make it 21-7 and marked the firstI TD allowed by Notre Dame on the ground this year. In compiling a 5-0 record, the' Irish habitually put points on the board by running and then run- ning some more. But with a sopho- more quarterback, Cliff Brown, at the helm and forced to play catch-' up football, the Irish were in trouble. And when T r o j a n cornerback Bruce Dyer picked off his second' interception of the afternoon andj streaked 53 yards to the end zone in the closing minutes of the sec- ond period, the Irish were pretty well sunk. The Irish came back from half- time fighting mad. Or frustrated. Because when Mike Rae fumbled in the third period an incredible fist fight broke out during the wild scramble for the recovery. The benches emptied and the state police swarmed on the field looking fashionably absurd, pull- ing players apart. But some good solid punches were t h r o w n by players on both squads before or- ider was restored. deStrangely, no penalties were called and Notre Dame quickly scored as back John Cieszkowski ran four yards over left tackle to make the score 28-14. But the Irish got no furthersatisfaction out ofI the game, as neither team could sustain a drive for the rest of the afternoon. Brown completed only 12 of 35 passes, along with three costly interceptions. "Just say that when we needed the big play, we didn't get it-and when Southern Cal needed one they did," mumbled Parseghian, who was forced to watch drive after drive break down because of foolish penalties and passes that bounced in and out of people's hands. The loss not only cost Notre Dame a perfect s e a s o n,but knocked them out of the top ten in this week's wire service polls as well. They were ranked eleventh by United Press International and only twelfth by the Associated Press inhthe poll released Monday. Shag Hairstyling Now on display U.M. Union Barber Shop I __ __ ___P_ -Associated Press LITTLE JOHN EGAN of the Houston Rockets squeezes un- der Detroit Piston center Bob Lanier to grab the ball. Hous- ton won last nights game 104- 103 when Lanier was called for goaltending in the closing sec- onds. For the student body: FLARES by Levi O' Farah 9 Wright O Lee SMale CHECKMATE State Street at Liberty to knot the score 7-7. But with 42 seconds to play in Professional League Standings the quarter, another Trojan cuar- '_1terback, Mike Rae, found Garrison !i L East Division . W L T Pts GF GA New York Boston Montreal Toron~to Vancouver Detroit Buffalo , 1 2 5 1 1 4 1 2 32 3 6 267s0 West' Division 2 1 2 0 12 11 10 6 6 4 4 30 28 31 20 24 23 22 31 28 25 15 2; 21 ,8 23 16 19 27 35 35 38 16 12 15 23 22 33 37 Kentucky Virginia New York Floridians Carolina Pittsburgh ABA East Division W L 312 4 2 4 3 3 4 2 4 2 4 West Division 512 53 Pct .750 .667 .571 .429 .333 .333 .833 .625 .429 .333 .286 open again. Garrison snatched up Rae's 24-yard strike, while Irish GB defender Mike Crotty slumped by the wayside. The Trojans led 14-7 % and by now the Irish had to be 1% shook up about their pass defense 2t Maybe too shook, because the 2 game quickly got out of hand. 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