Friday,, February 9, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY rage Nine Friday, February 9, 1973 1HE MICHIGAN DAILY rage Nine Sports of The Daily A Keen stroll .. . ...down memory lane, By JIM ECKER MICHIGAN LAST won a Big Ten wrestling championship seven years ago. A muscular, crew-cut young man named Rick Bay captained the talent-laden Wolverines to their third suc- cessive loop crown and a fifth-place finish in the national tournament. Tomorrow night at Crisler Arena, Michigan and Michigan State show down for conference bragging rights until the Big Ten Championships finally settle the matter later this month. In- cluded in tomorrow's expected 3,000-plus throng will be your usual assortment of friends, relatives, former wrestlers and current practitioners of the sport. But seated at mid-court, about six or seven rows behind the scorer's table, will be a particularly interested spec- tator. Take a look. Flanked by admirers, friends and; well- wishers alike, "The Old Man" will have a kind word and a smile for all. The man is synonymous, with wrestling at Michigan. He babied an infant, struggling program back in the truculent twenties, departed for a war, and then returned for three more decades of distinguished tutorial service. The man is Clifford Patrick Keen. Michigan's national award-winning wrestling guide pro- claims "Cliff Keen maintained throughout his 45-year career that success in wrestling could not be measured in the won-lost column, but rather by the sport's influence in making men better citizens for having been on the team." That's not just some propaganda phrase hastily patched together for university purposes. Those words express a man's life, his work and dedication in an often over-looked field. Rick Bay asserts that "Without a doubt, Coach Keen was the major influence in my decision to come here. It's not that he wined and dined me, by today's standard's anyway. At the time we were wrestling over in the Intramural Building. They had some pictures on the walls of his former stars and champs. Coach Keen walked me around from picture to picture, telling me all about his great wrestlers. "It wasn't so much that he remembered all his champs. He knew what these guys were doing today. He was really inter- ested in what happened to his wrestlers once they left school. That really impressed me." 1~ BACK IN FOURTH: Buffal By The Associated Press BUFFALO-Rene Robert scored a pair of goals and Dave Dryden turned in his third shutout of the National Hockey League season last night, leading the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-0 victory over the California Golden Seals. The victory moved the Sabres back into fourth place in the NHL East, one point ahead of idle De- troit. Robert's two goals, his 31st and 32nd of the season, came in the third period with Craig Ramsay picking up assists on both scores. The first two Buffalo goals came in the opening period when Randy Wyrozub and Doug Rombough connected. Dryden blocked 24 shots for the shutout while Mary Edwards faced 30 shots in the California nets. Julius nets NORFOLK, Va. - Julius Erving dazzled the crowd with a career daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: RICH STUCK blanks Seals high 58 points and led the Virginia Squires to a 123-108 victory last night over the New York Nets in American Basketball Association play.- Erving shot 100 per cent from the free throw line, hitting 22 shots. The 6-foot-7 New York native scored 21 of Virginia's 24 points in the first period, and 21 of its 27 in the final stanza. His previous game high was 53 points scored in last year's ABA playoffs. New York drew to within four points, 105-101, with 4:45 to play,E but Erving put the game out of reach with a volley of shots which hit the mark. He scored 16 of Virginia's final 18 points to give the Squires a 15- point advantage at the end. New York's George Carter was high for the Nets with 40 points. That tally by the 6-foot-6 veteran of five years matched his career high set two seasons ago when he played for the Squires. Virginia's only lackluster play came in the third period when the I Nets outscored the Squires 33-18. Today in Sports fM Icers fa e inn.Dulu r rnPro CLEVELAND CAVALIER GUARD JIM CLEAMONS (5) reaches around George Trapp of the Atlanta Hawks in a scramble for a loose ball in the game last night in Atlanta. The Cavs squeaked by their Central Division foes 136-132 in an overtime thriller. The win was Cleveland's second straight while the Hawks dropped their second consecutive contest. THOUGH it may be the last proposition many of them desire, Michigan's pucksters take to the ice again this weekend. The opponent in this eight-point series at the Michigan Coliseum is Minnesota-Duluth. The dekers from Duluth currently reside in eighth place in the WCHA, sporting a 9-11 conference record. Center Pat Boutette paces the Bulldogs in conference scoring with 13 goals and 24 assists for 37 points. Wings Chuck Ness (8- 15-23), Mark Heaslip (14-8-22) and Pokey Trachsel (11-10-21) also possess consistent twine-tickling tendencies. Jerome Mrazek and Ken Turko share the goaltending duties for Duluth. In WCHA play, Mrazek boasts a 4.1 goals against average, while Turko has allowed 4.9 scores per game. Last weekend, Minnesota-Duluth split a series with cross-state rival Minnesota, winning 7-5 and losing 3-2. In its two outings against Michigan State this season, the Bulldogs lost 5-4 and 6-3. Michigan's dekers enter the Duluth series, their final home games of the season, with their backs to the wall and facing elimination from a playoff berth. Starting time for both games is 8:00 p.m. Barring upsets, the main excitement for the fans in this series will be watching the remaining Maize and Blue playoff hopes disappear into the sky, or wherever it is playoff hopes. dis- appear to. DOUBLE OVERTIME Freshmen rule tough Britons 1 "Here, take a look at this," offered the country's 1948 Olym-U pic coach. "I got this in the mail just the other day." "Dear Coach," the letter be- gan. "I've fallen behind in my correspondence the last couple of months. You can understand why. All the gala and festivities before the game detracted from our efforts. Miami has a great team, but we should have won. Best wishes, George Allen." Allen wrestled at Michigan for a year, but, as Keen once confided to a Washington writer tinguish himself as a wrestler." Cliff Keen "George didn't exactly dis- As we casually flipped through 45 years of wrestling lore recorded in a pair of humongous scrapbooks, Mr. Keen reached back for one memorable campaign. "All the good teams we had were fun," related the native Oklahoman. "But out of all those teams the most satisfying to me was a squad we had back during the Depression. Those boys weren't the most talented wrestlers in the world," he continued, "but they might have been the hardest workers. "Up till then, Michigan had never finished below .500 under me. Well, here we were in a seven meet season and we've got to win the last two meets for a winning record," he snaps. "Both of them were on the road. We won the first and then went to Northwestern for the second. And we won that one, too. The boys and I went into Chicago for a little celebrating that night!' "That season didn't draw a lot of headlines. Nobody really paid too much attention to us. But we knew what we had done. Inside, we were proud." Keen expresses himself quite strongly about the kind of competitor he looked for while coaching. Michigan didn't want the guy who thought "the university owed him something" and who wasn't willing to give the 110 per cent effort that success requires. "You know," he added, "there's nothing like wrestling to teach discipline and hard work. If a fella's successful in wrestl- ing, he's going to be successful out of wrestling. It's a chal- lenge, and once a guy meets and conquers that challenge, he's ready for anything else in life that comes along." Keen sees himself as just another interested spectator today. But Rick Bay, architect of this year's "Michigan Mat Machine," thinks his ex-coach underestimates his role. "He's sort of an inspiration to the guys," says the former Big Ten champ. "Here's this great man, who's done so much, not only in wrestling, but in other areas as well. The guys just have to respect and admire him. In fact, I'd like to see him come around more often. He's a big help." 43ut Mr. Keen sheds some light on his reluctance to interfere. "I remember something that happened around here once," offered Michigan's Mr. Wrestling. "When Mr. Yost retired from football he just didn't get out of the way. He kept interfering with Harry Kipke's program. Hell, I don't want to be like that. It's their show now." It is THEIR show. Rick Bay and his assistant, Bill Johan- neson, probably have the best show in town. Come on out to- morrow, catch the act. And while you're there, check out the man: Clifford Patrick Keen. By JOHN KAHLER It took them two overtimes to do it, but the Michigan Freshman basketball team overcame a stub- born Albion College quintet, 81-79, last night at Crisler Arena. Sparked by inspired ballhawking by Greg Bailey, who had three quick steals in succession, the frosh jumped out to a 18-10 lead. Bailey, a 5-6 guard with constant hustle, scored seven points during the team's early surge. Lack of movement on offense and numerous turnovers, however, allowed Albion to rally. A basket by Don Johnstontat the buzzer pro- vided the Baby Blue with their halftime margin of two points.j Michigan broke out to a 41-33 lead in the second half, but Albion refused to fold. Cheered on by, their fans, who outnumbered Blue rooters in the crowd of 73, theyi rallied to take the lead at 56-55.1 Michigan re-took the lead, only1 to have the game tied again on two free throws by Albion's Kevin Huffman. After Bailey threw the ball out of bounds, the Britons took the lead 65-63 on a shot by See No Evil COLORADO SPRINGS (UP) - The International O 1 y m p i c Committee must prevent fe- male athletes from entering the male athletes' quarters, and vice versa, the outgoing presi- dent of the U. S. Olympic Com- mittee said yesterday. In his report to the annual convention, Clifford Buck called upon the IOC to "reaffirm and enforce" the Olympic tradition of not mixing the sexes. "The breakdown of this tradi- tion at Munich created prob- lems," Buck said. "It was ob- jectionable to many athletes, did not enhance the Olympic image or make any worthwhile contributions to the Olympic movement." The report allegedly stem- med from complaints by female American swimmers who were fearful that Kresimir Cosic could look over the partition separating the male and female dressing quarters within the lockerroom and see them in the buff. SCOR ES NBA Cleveland 136, Atlanta 132, ot. ABA Virginia 123, New York 108 NHL Buffalo 4, California 0 St. Louis 3, Minnesota 2 SPECIAL OFFER a g 0 SIR RUDOLF BING'S 5000 NIGHTS This Weekend in Sports TONIGHT HOCKEY-Minnesota-Duluth, at Coliseum, 8 p.m. TOMORROW WINTER SPORTS DAY BASKETBALL-MSU, at Crisler Arena, 2 p.m. SWIMMING-Indiana, at Matt Mann Pool, 4 p.m. WRESTLING-MSU, at Crisler Arena, 7:30 p.m. GYMNASTICS-Oklahoma, at Crisler Arena, 4 p.m. HOCKEY-Minnesota-Duluth, at Coliseum, 8 p.m. TRACK-MSU Relays, at East Lansing John Knudson with 20 seconds left. gavewthebasket to Albion, thoug It looked like the end. when Bill not without vehement protest. The Burress missed a shot with only basket gave Albion a 75-72 lea six seconds left. But Cameron with less than a minute to go. Cheeks grabbed the rebound and The freshmen put on anothe put it through with time running rally to tie the game again. John out. ston hit on a free throw and Scot Albion rolled out to a q'iick lead Mason canned a ten-footer to sen in overtime, aided by Michl-gan the, game into a second overtime turnovers and an incredible goal- C Gary Paavola hit for the fros tending call. The official ignored to start the next period. Knudso Don Schultz' hand on the rim and responded for Albion, after a Mich 1 .lsall uure uuwu. baney put Michigan in the lead, and Mason scored the clincher on a goaltend- ing call on Schultz that the official did not miss. Huffman connected on a one-and-one to bring the Britons to within two, but a des- peration shot was missed and the game finally ended. Coach Richard 'Bird' Carter said the key to victory was his team's poise. "They made the big shots when they had to." He praised Albion as a fine team with good shootersaand said it took a total team effort to beat them. He also praised his bench as being "as ed important as the starters." d Johnston lead the baalnced frosh scorers with 16 points. Bailey had r 15 points, and teamed with Bur- 1- ress to give the Baby Blue a guard t pair that plagued Albion all eve- dning. Huffman led Briton scorers - with 22 points.n s h- Office of Financial Aid Announces .. . Applications For Aid Will Be Available As Follows: Spring-Summer 1973-February 12, 1973 Fall-Winter 1973-74 FIRST-TIME STUDENTS--February 12, 1973 RENEWALS (for people who have aid now)-March 1, 1973 Foreign Students for 1973-74-February 12, 1973 APPLICATIONS DUE NO LATER THAN: Spring-Summer-March 1, 1973 Fall-Winter-May 1, 1973 Foreign Students-March 31, 1973 If you need assistance for these terms, please apply through our office. You may be eligible for loans, grants, or Work Study employment. 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