THURISDAY, TTII: 15, 1940
THE MICIGAN DAILY
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Wolverine Sextet Clashes With Huskies At Houghton'
Today
Hockey Squad
Seeks To End
LosingStreak
Samuelson Shifted To First
Line Position As Stodden1
Moves Back To DefenseI
(Continued from Page 1)
Canfield will make up Lowrey's sec-
ond line.
The Miners from the snow country
will start the same line-up that saw
action here last month. Maurice
Villeneuve, Charley Baird, and
"Moose" Mulliette will go into action
on the first line. Of this trio, Vil-
leneuve, who has earned the nick'
name of "The Flying Frenchman" is
by far the most dangerous. He com-
bines fast skating with clever stick-
handling, and his bruising body
checks make him a tough man to get
by on the defense.
Mulliette is the other threat on
the first line, and although not as
effective as Villeneuve with the body
checks, he is a fast skater and a
good back-checker.
Ernie Alvord and Arne Mars will
be at the blue line for the Huskies,
and although they are not so dan-
gerous bodily, they are both good
poke-checkers and are quite handy
at breaking up pass plays. Bespec-
tacled Kurt Gustafson will be in
the nets for Tech, and in the goal-
mouth he presents quite a formidable
last line of defense. In the series
here he held the Wolverines to a
single goal in the first game, and
blanked them in the second contest.
Ken Doherty Lauds Track Squad
For Its Excellent Demonstration
After a coach watches his team roll him as a competitor, and all that re-
up 79 points in a meet, you might mains is for Decker to continue as
think he'd be sitting on top of the he has been in practice in order to
world-but not a Michigan coach. allow him to become the best vaulter
Ken Doherty's remark after watching Michigan has had.
his first Wolverine varsity run away Johnny Kautz's display of strength
with all but two first places was and "heart" in driving up into third
merely, "They were all right, consid- at the end of the half-mile and Bill
ering. . Ackerman's performance in the
it was the middle distance men gruelling two-mile run showed that
who were on the disappointing side they too will be ready to take their
to their coach. To be sure, the half- share of the points when the time
milers ran one-two-three, and the comes.
milers ran one-three-four, but Mich-
igan track isn't based on relative per-
formances; it's figured against that To Be Site
of the rest of the country. 1:58.5 and
4:21. isn't bad for the half and the Of All-Star Game
mile, respectively, so you can expect
to see something when Ken puts TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 14.-UP)-Tam-
the stamp of approval on the efforts pa was chosen today as the site of
of his men. the All-Star baseball game between
Otherwise, Doherty had nothing two picked National and American
but praise, with the high-jumping League teams for the benefit of the
star Don Canham coming in for top Finnish Relief Fund, and Sunday,
mention. CanhAm's success is a March 17, was selected as the date.
tribute to the hard work he has put A group of the city's civic leaders,
in developing his new straddle style including Mayor R. E. L. Chancey,
jump, and that he could set such a met with columnist Joe Williams,
great mark in his first competition of chairman of the sports committee of
the season augurs nothing but the the relief fund, and enthusiastically
greatest of success for the remaining guaranteed that both attendance and
meets. receipts for the game would establish
The hurdlerscame next on Doher- a new record for southern baseball.
ty's hit parade, with Stan "call me So far as possible, the game will be
Watson" Kelley and Jeff Hall rating a duplicate of the All-Star game
high. Kelley competed and did very played regularly at mid-season. Com-
much improved hurdling that drew missioner K. M. Landis will attend,
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look as though Stan were finally
coming into his own in the barrier
events.
Hall had never shown much of
anything in the high hurdles, but in
recent. weeks has been coming along
at a fast pace. The form he displayed
while taking fourth brought a glint
into his coach's eyes, and that means
something. His low-hurdling, al-
ways good, left little to be desired.
Last, but hardly least, came the
sophomores. The way Charlie Deck-
er handled himself in his first varsity
meet put the stamp of approval on
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Michigan alternates-Corson, Can-
field, Heddle, Collins.
{ Tech,,. alternates-Meyers, Sihvon-
en, Frederickson, Petajo, Karane,
Johnson. .
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Groans About Zones.,.
Periodically, and sometimes often-
er, there arises something that is sure
to upset the equilibrium which bas-
ketball so precariously enjoys. Ever
since the late Dr. Nainsmith set up
a pair of emasculated bushel baskets
at either end of a YMCA gym for
pleasure-seeking members, howling
cassandras have predicted the death
of basketball.
They ordered a casket for the game
when the 10-second rule was in-
stalled. They rang the death knell
when the center jump was eliminat-
ed. The symphony began to play
Beethoven's funeral march when the
pick-off play was redefined. But
somehow basketball continues to
play to some 80,000,000 spectators a
year, and it keeps most of them sat-
isfied.
Now there's another gripe-
the zone defense. "Positively
ruinous" say many coaches;
"tsk, tsk," cluck some other
clucks. The common cry now
appears to be "stop the zone de-
fense before it ruins basketball".
Now what are these things that are
so objectionable about a zone? In
the first place it relegates the use of
the offensive pick-off play to a min-
or position.' In fact, the zone was
given a healthy impetus in the East
two years ago when the rule-makers
decided that the offensive blocking
should be looked upon a little more
leniently, more as it was in the mid-
west and west. So to counteract the
block, coaches began to use zones.
In a zone defense every man plays
the ball. The intention is to shift
from side to side with the ball--and
since no guard watches any particu-
lar forward the block play is almost
useless.
If this were all that the zone
had then it wouldn't be cursed so
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1:42.6 as the Wolverines rolled up a
Injuries Alter Hedt Refuses 61-23 score.
o ryeBeebe's best time so far this year
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In Place Of Pink competition won't get Francis Heydt
By DOUN WHRTCHAFTER
George Ruehle, a junior reserve, yDNWRCA'?R--_
will replace Charlie Pink on the back Francis Heydt has a chance to
line, if the latter's injured ankle has humble his former friends from Iowa
riot healed sufficiently to permit him this Saturday when Dave Armbrus-
o start against the last place Chi- ter brings his Hawkeye mermen tog
the I-M pool to share the spotlight
cago Maroons this Saturday night. in the Wolverines' 1940 competitive
Pink worked out with the varsity debut, but the Michigan backstroker
yesterday afternoon as it drilled who transfered from Iowa last year
against the second team, which was just isn't that kind of guy.
employing a zone defense, but he Austntthandheofrrgy. p ihnP o
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moving about. Michigan, and Heydt, the swimmer GINGER ALE
Most of the action that Ruehle who did 1:36.6 in the National AAU
has seen has been at a forward post, Meet in Columbus last March and
but in the system Coach Bennie who finished second in the Western At Your L(
Oosterbaan is using this season it is Conference and National AAU's then
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adapt himself to a new position. watching.--
A hard working player, George has Won't Swim Against Pal
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season got under way, and he has The tall bespectacled Wolverne
advanced and polished his playing dorsal artist isn't scared and he's
more than any other member of last not staying out of the meet becauseC eara n ce
y e a r 's r e s e r v e s q u a d . A s i x - f o o t e r , h e o f o r d e r s f r o m M a t t M a n n o r C o a chwi l a d c n i e b e h i g t f h e A m r s r . T e y d o h l k e o sehm i n h r e,
will add considerable height if he Armbruster. They'd both like to see
breaks into the line-up, and it will him in there, but as Heydt puts it,
aid him in setting up long passes "I just can't picture myself in com-
which are essential in working the petition against a fellow like Al Arm-
ballthrugha zne efese uchastruster, the Hawkeye backstroker."
ball through a zone defense such as "Wewere real buddies when I was
Chicago employs.Q s o l
Capt. Jim Rae who is also handi- at Iowa, in fact we used to live to- U% scour
capped with an injured ankle took a gether" he explained, "and it cer-
stiff workoutyesterday tainly doesn't seem right for me to
sifwkotytedytry to beat Al now that I am on the T
other side of the fence."o
One thing certain i that Heydt
could use the competition Saturday.
CORNER Aside from swimming along with iOPCOAT"
Beebe and Reidl, he hasn't been in
a race since the AAU's last spring.CT"
against a real backstroke star (ex- O C O T
I NEBERG ~~~~Furthermore, Heydt 'won't come upagisarelbctoksarex
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most teams are blocked before they the Big Ten meet next month.
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defense has to come out. And that in 1:37.7 while 1:38.1 was his timing
strikes at the very heart of the zone as the Hawkeyes trimmed Minnesota
otandry's hpltess. Thrend iste 56-28. This shows a tremendous im-
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t year's form. In Iowa City last Feb-
The second way is one which ruary, Beebe licked him easily in
is pretty much neglected in these ......._......._--
days of high scoring-fast and
clever ball handling. If you can
get the defense jumping from
side to side then once more
you've got them spread out. And
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There is, of course, a third way to
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Stanford looked so much like a
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