"rage Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, December 6, 1972 Mi 1. F . . la tmen: Will makes the win 11 By JIM ECKER "It's not the will to win that's important But rather-The will to pre- pare to win." -Fielding H. Yost Michigan's legendary coach of those great "Point-A-Minute" teams fired up his players with these words before a rugged pre- season workout years ago. Today, a sign bearing Yost's remarks hangs on a wall in the wrestling room at Crisler Are- na. The sign is not up to inspire the wrestlers: athletes today don't go for that sort of thing. Rather, the sign expresses a philosophy: a willingness to sac- rifice oneself in preparation for a desired goal. MICHIGAN'S wrestling team opened its 1972-73 season with a resounding thrashing of the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh last Sat- urday. The 32-3 romp marked a fast start for what many think will be an outstanding year for the grapplers. But let's go back a few days: back to Thursday afternoon when several Wolverine wrestlers weigh five to ten pounds above their listed wrestling weights. Two-time Big Ten champ Jer- ry Hubbard hasn't eaten any solid food since last night. It will be all fruit and juices for Joliet's jouster until the weigh- in Saturday morning. Nearly ten pounds have to go. Freshman Jeff Guyton, who had expected to backup Rick Neff at 134 pounds, must make it down to 126. Last year's '26er, Bill Davids, beat Neff out for the '34 class and Coach Rick Bay needs a man for the lighter di- vision. ON THE SIDELINES, the in- jured Roger Ritzman watches as his teammates suffer through an agonizing workout. "Waiting until the last couple of days .to make weight is defi- nitely not the smartest way to do it," advised Ritzman. "There is a point of diminishing returns between cutting weight and los- ing strength . . . Each guy must decide how much to cut and at which weight he feels best." Cutting weight. If you want to evoke a grimace from an ov- erweight wrestler, ask him about cutting weight. "Stories have been written about cutting weight which make it sound like a really abusive system," mentioned Bay. "It can be, I don't deny that. But done properly, .under the super- vision of a coach, there is very little danger to the wrestler." BAY TELLS A story about a guy named Stackhouse who used to drive his father (also a wrest- ling coach) up the wall. It seems Stackhouse wasn't very consci- entious when it came to cutting weight before a match. He'd come in the morning of a meet one or two pounds over- weight, causing the elder Bay considerable a g i t a t i o n. Bay would make Stackhouse run around, spit, run some more, stop, take a leak and do some more running until he'd finally drop the excess baggage. One day, Bay (senior) decided to question his wrestler concern- ing the regimens of the structur- ed diet all the guys were sup- posedly obeying. "Aren't you following that diet I set up for you?" asked Bay. "Sure, sure I am" replied Stackhouse. "Nothing but fruits and juices just like you said." "Well, yesterday after practice you were two pounds under- weight. Today you're two pounds over. How'd you gain four pounds in one night?" growled the displeased mentor. HONEST, COACH, all fruits and juices . . . Well, maybe I did have a couple of glasses of water, but nothing else." "Four pounds on fruit, juices and water?" queried the incred- ulous Bay. "Oh yeah, I guess I forgot . . I guess I did knock off that apple pie and ice cream my mom whipped up last night." So much for Stackhouse. From then on, Mr. Bay kept his ras- cally wrestler locked in the coach's cellar the nights before meets. WOLVERINE captain Mitch Mendrygal has cutting weight down to a science. Now in his fourth year of collegiate wrest- ling, Mendrygal works on an ex- acting schedule calculated to bring him into meets right on weight. The Big Ten's defending 158 lb. champion gets within five pounds two days before a meet through practice and a restricted menu. During the last practice session, he'll sweat down to 159 and keep it there for the rest of the day. "I lose two pounds just sleep- ing overnight," informed Men- drygal. "The body burns that up while you sleep." Thus, he'll arrive for weigh- in at, or slightly under, his pre- scribed weight. Hubbard doesn't work it that way. The three days prior to the Pitt meet were an agonizing period for him. Even without eating any solids from Wednes- day night to Friday morning, Hubbard was six pounds away. Friday's practice drew him clos- er, but not close enough. "I got on that scale Friday night and was still a couple over," he related. "Time to do some running." HUBBARD donned the sweats, some boots, a pair of gloves, "an old floppy packet with a big red hood," gulped some laxative and took off. Down Washtenaw, past Frater- nity Row, the Women's I. M. Building and Palmer Field jog- ged he. Hubbard had just passed Cou- zens Hall when the laxative started to do its job. "Man, you've never seen a guy sprint as fast as I did then," laughed H u b b a r d in retrospect. " . Made it to Mercy Hospital just in time, too!" The wrestlers don't enjoy cut- ting weight, but they don't rebel against the system either. '"It's not the will to win that's important, but rather the will to prepare to win." BIG TEN TOUGH I"in < « c . --- ---_SPECIAL! HOT CHOCOLATE SPCIL HTCHCLAEBy BOB HEUER newcomers to the national ca Everyone W ecocal limelight. Long Beach State, Yechoing from the East coast to the ws oiin n rlRb West Whowill beat UCLA? Whio typify the growing trend of hei RA D ! will rescue the college basketball tofore unknown schools parlayi world from the Bruins, those ma- the talents of an Ed Ratleff, x COFFEEchine-like nasties who walk away Dwight Lamar, or a Richie Fuq Cv F F with the laurels year after year? into a first rate basketball pow FH OUR And in many circles, the ans- Freshman Larry Fogle, hi H v U R wer rings forth: The UCLA sec- school sensation at Detroit Cool Wy Dond string! Divide the Bruins and has joined Lamar at SW Louisia * ne -y, 8.let them beat themselves. That duo plus center Roy Eb 8-1 0 p.m. Indeed, great match-ups abound. promises to give the Cajuns one West Conference Swen Nater challenging Bill Wal- college basketball's most excit Room, 4th Floor ton in the pivot, Tommy Curtis and attacks. e e iOS C sophomore sensation Andre Mc- Ratleff's supporting cast at Lo Cone m a kes fabrcs people I e n. RACKHAM Carter giving Greg Lee a run for Beach should give the 49ers enou OUTSIDE ON THE TERRACE his money at guard; sophomore clout to once again reach th LOTS OF PEOPLE LOTS OF FOOD Pete Trgovich and animal-man inevitable annual defeat at Larry Hollyfield fighting Keith hands of UCLA in the NCAA We S--- -- Wilkes and Larry Farmer for the ern Regional. --- --- forward spots. Fuqua returns to Oral Robe ye th em Jhnny with his 35.9 scoring average Wooden toe bench warmers Johnny with him comes 7-foot sophom< Wooden to coach against his first David Vaughn who averaged string, and you'd probably have the closest game UCLA will play points and 23 rebounds as a fre al yea man. Junior college All-Ameri all year. Greg' McDougald will play a j But assuming that this awesome ward along with last year's piv S up' array of talent might have an off man Eddie Woods. j day once in a while, there are a Throughout the rest of the co conglomeration of teams who, on try, those big time cage pow any given Friday, Saturday, or houses, used to national pro Monday, could conceivably catch nence, will once again bask in the Bruins off guard. all-encompassing shadow of Jo <; tIncluded in this year's power- ny Wooden's bountiful Bruins. house delegation are some relative Of the rest, Florida State pr - <;;;;;;> ;;;;;;> ; - ably has the best shot at unse - %ing the champs. 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Lucas scored ron at a 28.5 clip for the Warrior fresh- of men. ing McGuire will have plenty of beef up front with 6-10 Mike Mills and Ong 6-9 Larry McNeill. At guard, his ugh boy Ali will team up with either ieir Marcus Washington or Freshman the Earl Tatum. t- Lefty Drieseel's Maryland team arts has a truckload of talent, putting and it togethertlast year in time to lore wipe out the NIT field. In Tom 32 MMillen and Len Elmore, Drie- sh. sell'has two of the country's finest can big men. Howard White quarter- for- backed the offense creditably last vot- year, but might be pressed for his job by freshmen standouts un- John Lucas and Maurice Howard. er- Bob Bodell starred in the Terps' mi- rout of Niagara in the NIT final. the He and senior Jim O'Brien should hn- lend a steady hand to the veteran quintet. ob- 7-4 Olympian Tommy Burleson eat- leads a strong North Carolina State hat entry in the annual Atlantic Coast for conference dogfight. Burleson and re- sophomore guard David Thomp- ot- son could team up to give Mary- and land a tussle in their bid for the ege ACC title. reg ef Tro ans top U's r j 6-11 (5-7final AP poll way Although unanimous No. 1 in the Tuesday's final regular season ns- Associated Press poll, the 11-0 USC oth. the team must risk its top-rated neck chi- one more time. ght- The Ohio State Buckeyes, who ass.wound up No. 3 to the amazement ,ysof football fans everywhere, cha- yes lenge the Trojans on Jan. 1, 1973. ?> The Top Twenty teams, with first- Place votes in parentheses, season rec- ords and totai points. Points tabulated on basis of 20116-14-12-10-9-8-7-6--4- :y 1. So. California (50) 11-0-0 1,000 2. Oklahoma 10-1-0 88 3. Ohio State 9-1-0 666 y<4. Alabama 0-1-0 606 5 Penn State 10-1.0 554 6. Auburn 9-1-0 536 " 7. Texas 9-10 484 8 Michigan 10-1-0 467 S9. Nebraska 8-2-1 385 10. Louisiana state 9-1-1 273 1. Tennessee 9-20 259 12. Notre Dame 8-2-0 227 r 13. Colorado 8-30 174 i: 14. UCLA 8-3-0 79 15 Arizona state 9-2-0 68 16. North Carolina 9-2-0 60 17. Louisville 9-1-0 22 1; West Virginia 8-3-0 18 19. Washington State 7-4-0 10 20. Purdue 6-5-0 3 r;?k Others receiving votes, listed alpha- betically: Missouri, North Carolina state, San Diego State, Southern Methodist, Tampa, Texas Tech, Tulane, w