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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Tuesday, October 19, 1971 1

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By HENRY ENGELHARDT
Two guys strolled into the dusty boxing gym
in the basement of the IM Sports building. They
put on some gloves and started hitting the
speed bag.
"Hi there, I'm Let Philbin," he said, inter-
rupting them, "let me show you how to do
this."
The two looked quizzically at the short, white-
haired old man putting on a pair of gloves in
front of them.
"NOW, YOU were standing straight in front
of the bag. That's not right. You want to stand
three quarters turned, facing the bag with your
left foot forward and your right foot back.
"You want the bag to be at shoulder height,
so you can practice keeping your hands high."
He adjusted the bag so that it was just above
his shoulder. Slowly he began hitting it.
"Forehand first, hit, 1-2-3. Now forehand, hit,
1-23, backhand, hit, 1-2-3. Next the other hand
forehand, 1-2-3, backhand, 1-2-3.
HE TURNED and the two guys nodded their
heads. The 71-year-old Philbin returned his at-
tention to the bag; he started drilling it, his
battle-weary hands a blur of perfect timing.
Would you believe he knocked the bag out
in three rounds?
 He looked again at the two guys, "Say, you
know we have a boxing club that meets Mon-
day and Wednesday from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 and
Saturday mornings 10:00 til noon. It starts Oc-
toger 16, so come in and join us, will you?"

"But my manag-r said he wanted me where
he could get hold of me, and Michigan was
the closast of the three, so I went to Michigan."
HE FOUGHT 119 fights in the welterweight
(147 lbs.) class before giving up his active ca-
reer in 1927. His record stands at 100-2-15
In 1927 he became Michigan's boxing coach in
the physical education school. In 1934 hard times
caught up with Philbin and he went to work
for Ford Motor Co.
He returned to Michigan as a student- in the
early fifties and received his master's degree
in 1952.
THE UNIVERSITY offered him a position
similar to the one he had left 18 years earlier.
He couldn't leave his job at Ford, but they ac-
cepted his offer to coach on a volunteer basis.
Philbin has done more than just coach at
Michigan. In 1960 the Indonesian government,
through the State Department, requested he
coach their team for the Rome Olympics.
Here he met a quiet, reserved young Ameri-
can, the named Cassius Clay. "He's a beautiful
boxer," Philbin says of Ali, "when I met him
he was not the wisecracker he turned out to
be."
IN INDONESIA he coached a fighter he call-
ed 'the little professor'. After the 'little profes-
sor' graduated from high school he wanted to
go to school here. Philbin went to bat for him.
Philbin arranged with the U. S. authorities to
have the boy put in his care. "Everything went

LET PHILBIN has associated with some of the great
names of boxing. Here Philbin puts up his dukes against
former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey (in suit) while
some young hopefuls look on. This photo was taken in the
Intramural Sports Building in 1932 and is part of Philbin's
personal collection of boxing memorabilia.

through," says
FOR THE 24th consecutive year, Let Philbin ment his govern
Introdudtion to Kundahni Yoga is boxing club coach. His philosophy is simple: little professor,
"I'd like to pass on to others some of the bene- In 1975 at ag
AS TAUGHT BY fits I have received through boxing. boxing team in
Swami Rudrarwnda & Michael Shoemaker "It's opened the doors for me, taken me zuela.
places I wouldn't have gotten to otherwise."
BEGINNERS CLASSES EVERY Philbin got kicked off his high school bas- TODAY PHIL
MONDAY 0 WEDNESDAY 0 FRIDAY ketball team in 1920 for accepting five dollars every morningt
at 5:30 P.M for boxing. At age 15, it was his first fight. rope. "Not too
He graduated from high school, in the small rope you know,
Rudrananda Ashram town of Rossford, Ohio near Toledo, first in a His house is
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-[UIS SKILLFUL boxing had gained him area of pictures and
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to college at Ohio State, West Virginia, or Michi-
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"I didn't much care about OSU or West Vir- pinball wizard
ginia, but I knew for sure that I didn't want to child.
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Philbin, "until at the last mo-
nment wouldn't let him out. The
'was just sick."
e 70 Philbin directed the U. S.
an invitational meet in Vene-
LBIN briskly walks two miles
to stay in shape; he also jumps
many men my age can jump
I taught my wife to do it too."
like a museum. It contains me-
fts from his travels to South
the middle east, and hundreds
newspaper clippings of his box-
a picture of Elton John as the
drawn in crayon by a grand-
proud of it all," he says.
Clubbers-
surprise
WMU, 5-
By PAULINE TOOLE
The Michigan Women's Field
Hockey team got back on the
right track in a 5-3 triumph
over Western Michigan Univer-
sity yesterday. Playing on their
home turf, the team combined
speed, stickwork, and teamwork
to produce the win which
brought their record to 4-1.
,Senior halfback, Carol Osborn
attributed the win to several
factors: "We were real speedy.
The defense played well. We
cleared the ball up to the for-
wards."
The Wolverine victory was a
big surprise to the Western
team, which was undefeated
previous to the Michigan
game. According to a West-
ern Michigan player, "This
was a real shock, especially
after last year," (Referring
to the 1-3 slaughter of the
Wolverines last year). She
continued, "We had heard that
Michigan was iniproved, but
nobody expected this."
Mary Callam, freshwoman left
inner, led the Michigan attack
with four goals. Junior transfer
student, Dawn Kohut, added to
the rout with a first period goal.
Coach Phyllis Ocker was very
pleased with the team perform-
ance. "I felt we cut fore the
ball and that the defense fed
the ball to the forwards well.
It was a good game - every-
one looked as though they felt
comfortable playing together."
The comfortable, ecstatic
feeling exuded from everyone
on the team. Many of them,
who could also remember last
year's loss, were exuberant,
saying over and over, "It was
a good game."
Junior fullback Pat Cohen
commented, "All of our goals
were well earned. They were
good, solid hits."
Michigan takes on Albion this
Friday in their next home game.

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