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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, December 9, 1972
Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, December 9, 1972
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show rolled into Dayton today set
to battle the Flyers in an 8:00 p.m.
contest. The Wolverines, not too
fresh from an 83-77 defeat handed
them Thursday night by Brigham
Young, are looking for their first
road victory of the young season.
The Flyers offer a squad sport-
ing a win over Illinois and a loss
to Louisville so far this year. They
also offer a weakness that the now
weary Michigan cagers should have
no trouble exploiting.
Coach Don Donoher's ball club
lacks the board strength to re-
bound with Ken Brady, John
Lockard, Ernie Johnson and Co.
That statement would have been
hard to argue with until Thurs-
day night, when the Wolverines
were chewed up and spit out
" Cunder the boards by BYU's
scrappy Cougars.
In that contest, Ken Brady man-
aged a mere five caroms as he
was thoroughly outplayed by 6-11
Kresimir Cosic. Ernie Johnson and
Henry Wilmore garnered eight and
seven respectively and Campy Rus-
sell led the team with a modest
nine.
Dayton does not h a v e the
strength to match Br ig ha m
Young's backboarddominance, but
they still possess a seasoned squad
capable of carrying the play to
Michigan.
"We think Dayton is even bet-
ter than Brigham Young," said
assistant coach Jim Dutcher ear-
NHL Standings
By The Associated Press
NHL
MICHIGAN
Campy Russell (6-7)
Ernie Johnson (6-8)
Ken Brady (6-10)
Joe Johnson (5-10)
Henry Wilmore (6-4)
lier this week. "They're definite- feat in stride, but two straight loss-
ly going to be very tough." es would be much tougher to swal-
The Flyers return their top six low. The Wolverines also need a
scorers from last year's 13-13 win to rekindle any hopes of hold-
squad. Leading the pack is 6-0 ing their spot among the nation's
junior Don Smith. From his guard top twenty.
spot, Smith has hit 27 and 24 points Dayton likewise is on the thres-
in the Flyers first two ball games. hold of a season that could go
Michigan has yet to face a either way. While lacking Mich-
guard of Smith's caliber this year igan's overall talent and depth, the
and they will have to adjust their Flyers now have the -height to hit
big man-oriented defense accord- the boards. Whether or not they
ingly. can utilize that height to win the
Mike Sylvester, last year's sec- battle of the boards has yet to be
and leading scorer, netter a career proven.
high 28 points in the Flyers' 81-75 Hopefully, Ken Brady will put
win over Illinois. The 6-5 junior together the solid inside game
was one of only two starters over Michigan fans have awaited since
6-4 on the '71-'72 squad. The other his sophomore year. Brady has
one, 6-7 center John Bitter has sparkled at times in the first
been relegated to the bench in three ball games, showing the
favor of junior Joh Von Lehman. speed and finesse that charac-
At a slender 6-8, 200 pounds, Von terized his play of two seasons
Lehman doesn't add much beef up ago.
front, but what he lacks in muscle, But until the Wolverines can get
he's been making up in scoring a full game out of the big man, the
punch. He tossed in 18 points pressure on Henry Wilmore and
against Illinois after averaging only Campy Russell will continue to
5.0 a game last season. mount.
Sophomore Joe Fisher augments After enduring a scoreless night
Donoher's new emphasis on the big against Oregon State, Campy play-
man, going 6-8, 225. But he still ed his best game of the year in the
has to prove he can put the ball in Brigham Young contest, scoring 23
the hoop. Fisher was held score- points and avoiding the early exit
less in Dayton's 75-58 loss to Louis- via fouls for the first time.
ville. Wilmore continues to improve at
Smith's performance was the guard. He collected 18 points in
lone bright spot for Flyer fans Thursday night's debacle, but foul-
in that one. A Dayton spokesper- ed out just when they needed him
son termed the loss "immensely most, in the last four minutes of
disappointing" after their fine the game.
effort in downing a highly re- Ernie Johnson played his best
spectable Illini outfit in the half of the season, tossing in 14
opener. first-half points.
With both teams doming off dis-
heartening losses, tonight's gameA
takes on added significance for INDIANA, ARIZO
each cl'.b. A second straight los
doubts as to the team's inconsis-
tency and have thegrowing "Dump rJl
louder for the Michigan mentor's
scalp. By The Associated Press
Orr took the Brigham Young de- Yesterday was a busy day for
the nation's collegiate grid coaches.
cane Stats To wit:
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Mike Sylvester (6-5)
John Von Lehman (6-8)
Don Smith (6-0)
Gordie Gahm (6-3)
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yesterday's scrambler with Brigham Young. Wilmore has been
playing superbly thus far in the season. Tonight he and his friends
of the hard court go into action against Dayton.
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Thursday's Games
Boston 5, St. Louis 0
Buffalo 6. Detroit 1
Atlanta 5, Vancouver 2
Philadelphia 6, Minnesota 2
Only games scheduled
Yesterday's Games
No games scheduled
Today's Games
California at Montreal
Vancouver at Toronto
New York Rangers at New York
Islanders
Boston at Philadelphia
Detroit at Minnesota
Pittsburgh at Los Angeles
Atlanta at St. Louis
Only games scheduled
Wilmore
E. Johnson
Russell
Brady
J. Johnson
Kupec
Kantner
Lockard
Tyler
(three games)
FG FT TP
24-55 17-21 65
18-29 8-13 44
19-46 3- 7 41
16-23 6- 9 38
11-32 7- 9 29
2-4 4-8 8
3- 7 2- 5 8
3-10 0-0 6
1-1 0-2 2
A BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Pre-
Avg. sident John W. Ryan announced
21.7 that trustees have voted continua-
14.7 tion of the present contract of John
13.7 Pont as head football coach for the
12.7 coming year with no termination
9.7 date, although Coach Pont's con-
4.0 tract does not come up for renew-
2.7 al until Feb. 1.
2.0 Ryan said the board thought it
2.0 necessary to act at this time so
-- that Coach Pont could get on with
the important business of recruit-
ing. Pont said, "I am pleased the
board has made a decision at this
time so we can continue our re-
cruitment of prospective student
athletes and carry on our off-sea-
son projects with the present squad
members toward the 1973 season."
In reaching the decision, the
trustees took into consideration the
unanimous recommendation of the
Athletic Committee and of Direc-
tor of Athletics Bill Orwig. Orwig
said, "The trustees' action is most
heartwarming to me. It substantia-
tes my confidence in John and his
football program.''
* HOUSTON, - Head football
Coach Al Conover has signed a
five-year contract to remain at
Rice University, Univer-
t City President Norman Hacker-
man announced yesterday.
Conover, who led the Owls to a.
5-5-1 record in his first season as a
head coach, had been rumored in
line for the head job at Wake For-
est, his alma mater.
However, Hackerman said he met
with Conover yesterday to discuss
Rice's athletic future and Conover
Big Ten cage units face
heavy weekend schedule
had decided to remain at Rice.
"We just talked about the pro-
gram in general and what we hop-
ed to do in the next few years,"
Hackerman said. "He gave me
some recommendations for what he
thinks desirable about our facili-
ties and I will take them under con-
sideration."
Conover was interviewed for the
Wake Forest job Tuesday and re-
turned to say the job was his if
he wanted it. Wake Forest offic-
ials said, however, no offer h a d
been made.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Pur-
due University's defensive coach,
Tony Mason, reportedly has been
offered the head football coaching
job at Arizona University.
Television Station WLFI in Lafay-
ette reported Mason's wife Caro-
lyn, said he was in Arizona con-
ferring with university officials.
Purdue University officials con-
firmed he was in Arizona Thurs-
day and Friday but declined com-
ment on the matter.
Mason was offensive coordinator
:nder Charles "Bump" Elliott at
Michigan before coming to Purdue
and the Wolverines won the B i g
Ten title and the Rose Bowl his
first year there.
In 1964 he was named O h i o
High School Coach of the Year.
O SALISBURY, N.C. - William
M. Faircloth has been elevated to
head football coach at Catawba
College, school president Dr. Mar-
tin L. Shotzberger announced yes-
terday.
Faircloth, 30, a member of the
Catawba football coaching staff for
seven years, assumed his new
duties immediately.
He was named after Harvey
Stratton asked to be relieved of
his head coaching job. Stratton will
remain as athletic director and
associate professor of physical edu-
cation.
Birthday boy
Bullpen coach Joe Pignatane of
the New York Mets reached his
43rd birthday on Aug. 4.
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By The Associated Press
Three of the Big Ten's f o u r
still unbeaten basketball teams risk
their perfect records in, a nine-
game program today involving
Conference clubs.
The only idle league member is
nationally fourth-ranked Minnesota
3-0 which marks time until a Dec.
16 invasion of Chicago Loyola.
With Michigan tumbling before
iBrigham Young 83-77 Thursday
night for a 2-1 record, the Big
Ten's only other undefeated quin-
tets are Indniana, Iowa and Illinois
with 2-0 records.
Indiana is host Saturday before
a home sell-out crowd of more
than 16,000 against highly regardedf
Kentucky, upset by Iowa 79-66 atI
Lexington, Ky., Monday night.
Iowa's Hawkeyes, also owning a
101-44 opening defeat of Chicago
State, invade Kansas to face the
twice-beaten Jayhawks who earlier
fell before Indiana, 72-55.
Illinois, following easy victories
over DePauw and Valparaisin,
hopes to make it three straight in a
visit to Detroit U.
Other conference tests Saturday:4
Missouri at Ohio State 2-1: Texas
Christian at Purdue 2-1; S o u t h
Dakota at Wisconsin 1-2; Michigan
2-1 at Dayton; Michigan State 1-1
at South Carolina, and Ohio Uni-
versity at Northwestern 0-2.
After a fast start against out-
side opposition, the Big Ten has
slowed to a 17-8 victory margin.
Heralded this season as a su-
per basketball conference, the tal-
ent-loaded loop's most impressive
performance to date was Iowa's up-
set of eighth-ranked Kentucky.
Hawkeye coach Dick Schultz
commented after that triumph at
Lexington: "Defense and rebound-
ing win on the road. We did a good
job of both, at Kentucky. I have
never been concerned about the
offensive ability or rebounding
strength of this ball club."
Thus far, all five Hawkeye start-
ers have scored in double figures,
led by Neil Fegebank's 17.5 aver-
age and closely followed by 7-foot
Kevin Kunnert's 16.5.
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