Page 14-Tuesday, July 21, 1981-The Michigan Daily Wangler receives Big Ten Medal of Honor CHICAGO (AP)-Michigan graduate John; Wangler joins two other football players, three basketball stars, a golfer, and a soccer player as. those athletes honored by their respective schools' with the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor. The award goes to, graduating senior athletes demonstrating proficiency in scholarship and athletics. THIS YEAR'S HONOR rollincludes Wangler, John Kakacek of Illinois, Kevin Speer of Indiana, Steve Waite of Iowa, Jay Vincent of Michigan State, Tom Lehman of Minnesota, Jim Ford of Northwestern, Tom Wukelic of Ohio State, Brian Walker of Purdue and David Goodspeed of Wisconsin. Wangler, a quarterback from Royal Oak, led the Wolverines to a 23-6 Rose Bowl victory over Washington. He had a 3.14 grade average in psychology. Kakacek is a three-time letter winner in wrestling from Antioch, Ill., who had a 4.83 on a 5.00 scale in the College of Commerce and Business Administration. SPEER IS A Phi Beta Kappa football star from Evansville, Ind., who had a 3.84 of a possible 4.00 in pre-medicine studies. Waite is from Iowa City and never missed a basketball game in four years. Waite had a 3.52 average in finance. Vincent is from Lansing and was the starting cen- ter on the Spartan 1979 NCAA basketball champion- ship team. Vincent led the conference in scoring in each of the last two seasons. LEHMAN IS A golfer from Alexandria, Minn., and majored in accounting. He will try for the PGA tour. Ford, an offensive tackle from Burbank, Ill., had a 3.25 grade average in communications. Wukelic is from Upper Arlington, Ohio, and cap- tained the Buckeye soccer team. A Phi Beta Kappa, Wukelic had a 3.56 in pre-medicine. Walker is a basketball playmaker and three-time Big Ten all-academic selection from Lebanon, Ind: He is a Rhodes Scholar candidate with a 5.43 average out of a possible 6.00 in marketing. 4 4 ... wins scholar-athlete award SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Boycott to threaten 1984 Games? I BUCHAREST, Romania (AP)-Americans, Poles, Cubans and Mexicans scored lopsided basketball victories yesterday as the World University Games began under storm warnings of a new political dispute in international sports. The United States beat Senegal, 91-35, Mexico downed Jordan, 138-33, Cuba whipped Somalia, 114-54, and Poland defeated Nigeria, 102-48. BUT WHILE student athletes took to the city's gyms and pools in the first major international games since the boycotted 1980 Olympics, Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the Inter- national Olympic Committee, said he was concerned that a planned tour of the United States by the South African Springboks rugby team could lead to a black African boycott of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. According to reports here, the U.S. State Department has granted visas for the Springboks to play threematches in the United States after their current tour of New Zealand. Black Africans boycotted the 1976 Montreal Games because some com- petitors had sporting links with South Africa. Vilas beaten KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP)-John Fitzgerald of Australia upset top- seeded Guillermo Vilas of Argentina, 6- 3, 3-6, 7-5, yesterday to win the Head Cup tennis tournament. Fitzgerald, seeded seventh, earned $13,750 for winning the two-hour, 15- minute final. Fitzgerald had beaten West Ger- many's Klaus Eberhard, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, to reach the finals, while Vilas had eliminated Vitas Gerulaitis, 6-4, 7-5. New Villanova track coach VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP)-Double Olympic gold medal winner Charlie Jenkins is expected to be named Villanova University's new track coach today, the Associated Press has lear- ned. Jenkins, 47, won his two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He will take over the Wildcat program coached for 47 years by the legendary Jim "Jumbo" Elliott, who died in March. Jack Pyrah served as interim coach while the school searched for a replacement. VILLANOVA officials, who called a press conference for today, declined to comment on the report. Jenkins, who was coached by Elliott at Villanova, won gold medals in the 400 meters and as a member of the 1,600- meter relay team in the Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. 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