Thursday, April 1, 1976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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MSU fund 'exposed
By The Associated Press
EAST LANSING - A slush fund in excess of $100,000
was the major reason behind the recent dismissal of MSU
football Coach Denny Stolz, according to the State News, the
MSU student newspaper.
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Gymnasts
In a copyrighted story in yesterday's editions, the news By MICHAEL WILSON
paper said it had learned a slush fund has existed since thef
mid-1950s and has been used for recruiting. Barely had one Michigan team
STOLZ WAS ASKED to resign March 16. left the city of PhiladelphiaI
Ken Erickson, an avid Spartan booster and the son-in- when another rolled in. As John-1
Ken Ericson, anU avei Dprtnooer B d S the any Orr's cagers left on Tuesday,
law of former MSU Athletic Director Burt Smith, was the Newt Loken's gymnasts pulled F
person who revealed that a slush fund existed, one source, into town for the 1976 NCAA I
a former member of the MSU athletic department, told the Gymnastics Championships. !
newspaper. Nine Wolverines made thisn
'Ken was mad as hell at Michigan State for the way year's trip by virtue of finish-,
they got :rid of Smith," said the unidentified source. ing among the top three in last
SMITH'S RESIGNATION was requested at the same week's Big Ten Championship
time as Stolz' but Smith refused and turned the matter in East Lansing. Although the
tieastoslaw'erbuTeSmtrfusdtilandirneMaize and Blue tumblers aren't
ever to his lawyer. The matter is still pending. appearing in the tournament as
Smith was eased out of his post last October, and re- a team, Michigan has perform-
assigned as coordinator of special projects. No reason was ers competing in every event.
ever given by MSU for that move. On the floor exercise, Chuck i
Erickson is recovering from surgery and was unavail- Stillerman and Randy Saka-
able for comment. moto will compete by virtue
"It (the fund) was begun during Duffy Daugherty's of their first and third respec-
tenure as coach. The mechanism was set up then and tive place finishes in the in-
continued into Stolz' career, but Denny really didn't have dividual f i n a I s. Co-Captain
Jerry Poynton is Michigan's
knowledge of the fund or its use," said another source, also lone representative on the
a former member of the Spartans' athletic staff. pommel horse, while Scott
THE SOURCE continued, "After the Century Club, an Ponto is the Wolverines' only
illegal fund-raising group whose discovery earned Michigan entrant on still rings.
State two years' probation in the 1950s fiasco, the boosters Co-captain Pierre Leclerc and
moved the bases of their operation to the Detroit area. Nigel Rothwell will perform for
They held gatherings at several restaurants around the city Michigan in vaulting while Le-
and the way the money was collected, it couldn't be traced. clerc and John Corritore com-
"For example, someone would buy the liquor for the pete on parallel bars. Two-time
meeting and then donate it to the boosters," he said. den is the only Wolverine con--
"Only they didn't know this and a cash bar was set up. But peting in the high bar.
the money went into the fund." This year's national tourna-
THE INFORMANT said another manner for collecting ment was to be the culmination
funds was through "raffles" which nobody ever won. of a glorious season for the
'I know that over $100,000 has been collected over the Michigan gymnastic team. But
years," he said. a series of unfortunate breaks
suddenly struck the team mid-:
way throughout the year, event-
Dekers honor Manery
ually killing Michigan's hopes
for a national crown.
From Bob Creek's broken an-
kle to Harley Danner's untime-
ly knee injury, went against the
Wolverines. Consequently, the
Big Ten championship and the
right to compete in the national
tournament as a team was de-
nied Michigan.
Thanks to the strong per-
formance of its all-around per-
formers, the Minnesota Go-
phers captured the conference
and the NCAA team berth,
defeating Michigan by the
score of 420.35 to 418.15. And
to some, the memory is still
a hard thing to accept.
"I still haven't been able to
Green MV'
Michigan basketball player
Rickey Green was voted Most
Valuable Player by his team-
mates late yesterday after-
noon. Green, a unanimous
All-Big Ten and honorable
mention All-Americaselec-
tion, averaged 19.9 points a
game.
His 638 point season total
was the seventh highest in
Michigan history behind that.
of Cazzie R u s s e 11 (three
times), Henry Wilmore,
Campy Russell, and Rudy
Tomjanovich (once apiece).
Green's 134 assist mark
falls five short of the season
record (set by Michigan as-
sistant Dan Fife in 1971).
Freshman Tom Staton was
voted Most Improved. Staton
scored only nine points dur-
ing the regular season, but
came on strong in the NCAA
tournament with 25 points,
playing decisive roles in wins
over Wichita State and Notre
Dame.
Co-Captains for the 1976-77
season, as voted by their
teammates, are Steve Grote
and John Robinson.
get the Big Ten meet out of my
mind," Poynton said. "If we
would've only had Danner we
could've come here and won
this meet."
However, Minnesota is the
only hope for a Big Ten na-
tional gymnastics crown, and
that now seems a remote possi-
bility. Last Saturday during the
individual finals, 1976 Big Ten
all-around champion Tim La-
fleur reinjured his left knee. His
leg was put in a cast and now
the Minnesota team must face
the nation's top eight teams
minus its top point-getter.-
Those teams include Califor-
nia, Penn State, Arizona State,
Nebraska, C.S. Fullerton, Tem-
ple University and Louisiana
State University.
The weekendclassic begins
this evening on the Temple
University campus with com-
pulsory competition, continues
Friday evening with optional
performances and concludes
on Saturday with the team fi-
nals Saturday morning and
individual finals later thataf-
ternoon.
SCORES II
This year, Michigan has the'
most individuals entered in the
competition. And the best hope
for the Maize and Blue is to
repeat last year's accomplish-
ment-qualifying the most per-
formers for individual final per-
formances. In this respect, the
nationals is a team affair.
"We're competing as individ-
uals," Poynton admitted, "but
we're still wearing the blue
shirt."
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By PAUL CAMPBELL
Kris Manery, junior forward
from Leamington, Ontario, was
tabbed as captain for the 1976-
77 hockey season last night at
the fourteenth annual Deker's
Club Hockey Banquet at the
Holiday Inn West.
The announcement by coach
Dan Farrell came right after
Manery was named Most Valu-
able Player for the 1975-76 sea-
son.
Manery finished the season
With 61 points to lead the Wol-
verines. He also saw a lot of
action as a penalty killer and a
niember'of the power play.
"He worked so hard and saw
so much ice time . . . there
were times that I couldn't see
sending him out again," said
Farrell. "But he went out."
THE DOUBLE honor to Man-
ery was the highlight of an eve-
ning filled with reflections on
the -past season and optimistic
declarations about the near fu-
ture.
Manery was one of many
Wolverines who received some
sort of honor at the affair at-
tended by approximately 220
people.
The Alton D. Simms Trophy,
given annually to the most im-
proved player on the squad (by
a vote of his teammates) was
awarded to goaltender Rick
Palmer.
"HAVING PLAYED in only
eight games this year, it's hard
to tell whether the guys are
telling me I was that good this
year or so bad last year," quip-
ped the Detroit sophomore.
Rookie-of-the-Year h o n o r s
went to Dan Cormier. The fresh-
man center from Toronto cen-
tered the line for Dan Hoene
and Bill Thayer which emerged
at mid-season as the most con-
sistent line on the team.
Zbigniev "Ben" Kawa won the
Carl Isaacson Memorial Trophy,
which is given to the player who
best combines academic andj
athletic excellence. Kawa's fine
performance on his recent Jour-
nalism 201 test (28 out of 30) isI
rumored to have given him the
inside track. His professor for
the course, John Stevens, is well
known as one of the biggest
hockey boosters on campus. I
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Dunking restored
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By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Dunking
-the practice of stuffing a bas-
ketball through the hoop-was
restored to the sport yesterday
by its rulemakers. It had been
outlawed for a decade.
The National Basketball Rules:
Committee, which governs all
a m a t e u r basketball in the
United States and Canada, voted
yesterday to allow dunking dur-
ing games of the 1976-77 season.
D.Clifford Fagan, secre-
tary of the 23-member com-
miittee which completed its
two-day annual meeting in
Philadelphia yesterday, said
dunking will be permitted dur-
ing a game but will be pro-
hibited in warmups before the
game and at intermission un-
der penalty of technical foul.
The committee had outlawed
dunking prior, to the 1966-67
season in a controversial vote.
The pros have always permitted
dunking.
Technical fouls charged to
the coach which result from
conduct on the bench will
have a penalty of two free
throws. Only one free throw
was awarded this past season.
The rules changes apply to
all major and small colleges,
junior colleges,. high schools
and YMCA leagues in both
boys' and girls' competition.
The committee also approved
Bo signs prep
quarterback
The athletic department an-
nounced the signing of another
highly recruited football player
yesterday in quarterback John
Wangler (6-2, 190) from Royal
Oak Shrine. Wangler, the 30th
player to sign with the Wol-
1 verine gridders this year, was
the anlv auarterback landed for
a program to upgrade officia-
ting in three major areas: hold-
ing violations, eliminating de-
lay of game prior to free throws
and throw-ins, and fouls called
when a player falls to the floor
in a deliberate attempt to draw
a foul.
The last proposal applies to
those calls commonly referred
to as "acting fouls."
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