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By ROBIN WAGNER
Wisconsin's hockey team boasts
a record of 9-1. Michigan's puck-
sters are 2-8. The Badgers are
number one in the country. The
Maize and Blue reside deep in
the second division of the WCHA.
Two weekends ago at the Michi-
gan Coliseum, the visitors from
Madison swept Michigan, 5-3 and
7-2.
This weekend, Wisconsin hosts
the Wolverines in Dane County
Coliseum. A snowball in hell
stands a better chance of sur-
viving than does Michigan's
hockey squad. Barring a minor
miracle, the lowly skaters should
return to Ann Arbor at 2-10.
After a fluke 10-6 loss to Colo-
rado College to open its season,
Wisconsin proceeded to rattle off
nine consecutive victories, and
peace again reigned in the hearts
tackle
tough
Ba dgers
of Badger hockey fans. The pow-
erhouse has passed every clutch
test so far this season. In its only
overtime affair, W i s c o'n s i n
toppled Notre Dame, 5-4. With
nine minutes remaining in a
game against Colorado, the score-
board read, 3-3. No need for
worry. When the buzzer sounded,
the Badgers had sewed it up, 6-3.
Mentor Bob Johnson proudly
describes his team by saying,
"Our strong suit is balance.
Though we have a long way to
go, we will continue to improve
with every game by gaining con-
fidence and experience."
Spearheading the balanced Bad-
ger attack are centers Gary
Winchester and Dean Talafous.
With twelve points apiece, the
duo pace the team's scoring sta-
tistics. As a sophomore last year,
Winchester netted 25 goals and
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27 assists.
Johnson's remarkably effective
goalie platooning consists of jun-
ior Jim Makey and sophomore
Dick Perkins. "Uncanny" best
describes the performance of Per-
kins. In five contests, the opposi-
tion has beaten him only 13
times. In twelve appearances as
a freshman, Perkins allowed but
1.92 goals a game.
Wisconsin's stalwart defense (in
sportswriting, defenses are al-
ways either stalwart or porous)
revolves around sophomore Bob
Lundeen, whom Johnson refers
to as "one of the best defense-
men in the country." Lundeen,
along with his defensive prowess,
can also score, as evidenced by
his 13 goal output a year ago.
Comparative statistics for the
Badgers and Michigan illustrate
the incredible difference of abil-
ity between the two contingents.
Wisconsin has outscored its op-
ponents, 70-32, averaging seven
goals per game. Michigan has
been outscored, 64-35, a mark of
3.5 "red-lighters" every three
periods for them.
Shots on goal? Sorry, but the
Badgers again display superiority
over the Maize and Blue. Wis-
consin has pummeled foreign net-
minders 503 times, or, believe it
or not, 50.3 times a contest. The
Wolverines have executed 316
shots on goal, or 31.6 per game.
In six home games this year at
Dane County Coliseum, an aver-
age of 8,347 people have viewed
the Badgers. Not bad for an
arena with a seating capacity of
WCHA Standings
W L T Pts
Michigan State 6 1 1 23
Wisconsin 7 1 0 14
Denver 5 1 0 14
North Dakota 6 4 0 141
Michigan Tech 4 2 0 8
Notre Dame 3 5 0 81
Minnesota 2 5 1 71
Minn.-Duluth 350 6
MICHIGAN ,2 8 0 4
Colorado College 1 7 0 2j
This weekend's games
MICHIGAN at Wisconsin
Denver at Notre Dame
Manitoba at North Dakota
Western Ontario at Michigan Tech
This Weekend in Sports
FRIDAY
HOCKEY-at Wisconsin
SWIMMING-at Purdue
SATURDAY
BASKETBALL-at Dayton
HOCKEY-at Wisconsin
SWIMMING-at Illinois
WRESTLING-at Ohio U.
8,000! The Coliseumites display
craziness and devotion to their
team equal to the Wrigley Field
"bleacher bums" and the second
balcony residents of Boston Gar-
den. This weekend, they should
have lots to cheer about.
If Michigan's team can play
hockey this weekend like it is
capable of playing, if the play-
ers can keep their cool in clutch
situations, if the Badgers display
a sub-par performance, and if a
majority of the adrenalin-pump-
ing Wisconsin puck fans forget
to show up, the Wolverines might
pull off an upset or two. That is
a lot of "ifs," but David slayed
Goliath, didn't he?
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Miller blasts Kuhn on
reserve clause matter
NEW YORK (i) - Marvin Miller,
executive director of the Major
League Baseball Players Associa-
tion, accused Commissioner Bow-
ie Kuhn yesterday of making a
fraudulent statement and s a i d
player negotiations had been set
back by "an act that only the
most rank amateur would per-
form."
He said that in an Hawaii news
conference Kuhn outlined an own-
I ers' proposal for modifying t h e
straight reserve clause, w h i c h
binds a player to one club for life
unless he is sold or traded, and
5 said the players had rejected the
plan which he labelled "historic"
and "spectacular."
"These words were clearly in-
tended to deceive the public and
players," the players' executive
said. "His prediction of a catostro-
phe if the terms were not accept-
ed were a transparent and inept
attempt to psych the players and
the fans."
The owners' proposal, as pre-
sented by Kuhn, called for f r e e
agent status for any player with
five years' major league exper-
ience not offered at least $30,000
for his sixth year or a player of
eight years' experience not offer-
ed $40,000 for his ninth year.
The players proposal is that af-
ter five years as a professional
player, three in the major leagues,
a player would become a free
agent if he is earning less than the
average big league salary now
figured around $32,000.
Miller charged that baseball sal-
aries fall below those in the other
major professional sports-football,
basketball and hockey-and cited
the National Basketball Associa-
tion's minimum of $20,000 com-
pared with baseball's $14,000 as an
example.
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