?51 .PAGE ,FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY", SEPTEMBER 20, M' PAGEFOURTHURDAYSEPTMBER20, ,9_5 7 ,.,... Michigan Gymnasts Look Toward Brighter Future Hockey Team Won NCAA Title in '51 A sport which is rising in stature and popularity at Michigan as the years roll by is that of gymnastics. Although the Wolverines didn't enjoy too many successes in the past season, the year was notable in that Ann Arbor was host to the ninth annual National Collegiate Athletic Association gym meet in late March. * * * AT THE FINALS over two thou- sand fans crammed their way into the Intramural Building and then even some were turned away. Re- cording the event for posterity were three Hollywood movie stu- dios. Michigan and Coach Newt Lo- ken in particular acted as hosts for the assembled aggregation from nearly 50 schools. Florida State took the championship while the Wolverines were among the also-rans. At the beginning of the season the affable Loken was expecting to reach the heights with his squad. However, scholastic diffi- culties proved fatal to four men including Pete Barthell, Michigan's parallel bar champion, and the team balance was lost. The home squad did manage to win two out of six dual meets and came in seventh in the Big Ten championships, which was won by Illinois. This year's record was the HEY JOE! "Meet me at that popular student Tonsorial Parlor." The DASCOLA BARBERS Liberty off State Read and Use Daily Classifieds NEWT LOKEN ... eye to the future poorest since the reactivation of gymnastics as a varsity sport in 1947-48. Since that time Michigan has won 21 of 29 dual meets. * * * IN REGARD TO individual per- formances captain Ed Buchanan retained his NCAA trampoline title and then proceeded to cop the AAU crown in the same event. Connie Ettl, who could appro- priately be dubbed the "Wiscon- sin Whiz" (he is from Milwau- kee), was the Maize and Blue's most consistent scorer and for his deeds was named the 1951- 52 captain. Ettl, the Wolverines' versatility man-he works in five events-is the only senior with experience returning this season. When the personable Loken, who was a star gymnast in his own right at Minnesota, looks at the coming campai'gn he remarks, "We will depend mostly on the sopho- mores to plug the holes, therefore it will primarily be a build-up year." By KEITH MILLER Michigan not only has a success- ful football eleven, but also has a winning hockey sextet. In 1948 the National Collegiate Athletic Association commenced its hockey championships at Colo- rado Springs, Colorado, and since that time the Maize and Blue un- der the expert coaching of Vic Heyliger have been chosen to par- ticipate four times. * * * DURING THAT four year span the Wolverines have taken the title in 1948 and 1951 and have finished third in the intervening years. To receive the prize trip to Colorado Springs in early March, the Wolverines have had to compile amazing records over such outstanding Western sex- tets as Colorado College, Minne- sota, Denver, Michigan State and Michigan Tech. From this list two teams are se- lected to play in the finals and two squads are selected from the eastern United States. In addi- tion to Michigan, Colorado has played in the tourney in all four years. * * * AMONG THE eastern represen- tatives Boston College has been the most successful copping the bunting once in its three voyages to mountains of Colorado. In its most recent champion- ship effort, the Wolverines eas- ily swept past Boston University and Brown University to notch their second title in four years. To complete its domination of the tourney four Wolverines were named to the Associated Press all- tournament team. The high-fly- ing first line of Neil Celley, Gil Burford and Johnny Matcrefts and defenseman Bob Heathcott were the proud recipients of the awards. * * * OTHER MEMBERS of t h e Michigan sextet who chalked up honors in the tourney included: Hal Downes, goalie on the second team, and forwards Johnny Mc- Kennell and Earl Keyes and ue- fensemen Alex McClellan and Graham Cragg, honorable men- tion. In the most recent NCAA playoffs Michigan started off well, swamping Boston Univer- sity 8-2 in a first round en- count. This game saw the Maize and Blue inflicted with a rash of 22 minutes of penalties to Boston's eight, but still Michi- gan had too much for the east- erners. Performing excellently for the winners was goalie Hal Downes, who had recently left a sick bed to make the trip to Colorado. Downes, who was Heyliger's regu- lar season goal tender, was down with the flu bug to such an extent that Earl Keyes, a star forward, was being groomed to play in the nets in the NCAA. * * * SEVEN PLAYERS tallied for the victors with Johnny Matchefts scoring two while Al Bassey, Joe Marmo, Johnny McKennell, Neil Celley, Bob Heathcott and Keyes added one apiece. In the final NCAA clash Mich- igan met and trounced Brown, the Ivy League titleholders. The Bruins inflicted an 8-4 defeat on Colorado, the 1950 champs, to advance to the finals. The Wolverines probably reach- ed their zenith of the season in the Brown tussle as they combined stout defensive play with flashy offensive fireworks to completely outclass the lads from Providence, Rhole Island. IN POSSESSION--Gil Burford, high-scoring Michigan wing, takes over back of his own nets in the NCAA championship game against Brown University. Other Michigan players in the above photo include, left to right, John Matchefts, Alex McClellan, Neil Celley, and Hal Downes, goalie, Michigan won the game and the championship to cap the climax of a season which had seen scoring records topple and the Maize and Blue finish with a 20-4 record. . * * * * * * Puckmen H oRpe atSuccess 1 G I LU pj E T r 9 , f . i l I MGYM SUITS v WARM UP SUITS X SHOES -SOX ~ HANDBALL GLOVES ~ SQUASH RACKETS MICHIGAN "T" SHIRTS 1951 Champions Won 20, Lost 4 By ED WHIPPLE Michigan's Vic Heyliger-coach- ed hockey teams loom large in the Wolverine tradition of topflight athletic squads, and the 1950-51 men added considerably to the Maize and Blue ice reputation as they won 20, lost but four, and tied one, not counting playoff triumphs. In his seventh season as Michi- gan's hockey mentor, Heyliger put together a combination which, in addition to copping the NCAA championship plus several national individual honors, featured the highest scoring individual, line and team in Wolverine history. . * * GENERALLY RATED the best college sextet in America, last sea- son's outfit scored more goals (197) during the regular season than any other previous Maize and Blue team, while feeding left-winger Neil Celley the puck as he tallied 74 points, a new high for individual regular season scoring. The curly-headed Celley's ef- fort shattered the old standard of 64, set by linemate Gil Bur- ford season before last, and earned for "The Seal" the most valuable player vote from his teammates. Oddly enough, both of the old Try FOLLETT'S First records mentioned above were broken in the same contest - a 9-6 conquest of Michigan State in the Coliseum at Ann Arbor. Odd- er still, Burford had broken Gordie McMillan's 1948-49 total of 61- then tops-also against MSC in the Coliseum. THAT EVENING'S activity saw Michigan rout the Spartans, 17-1, the Maize and Blue 17 being a record for one game. Celley and Burford, two sen- ' iors, lined up with sophomore center Johnny Machefts to form Heyliger's number one line, apd this unit bagged the staggering total of 74, 66, and 55 points, re spectivefy through the season to set another all-time mark. The 1950-51 total of 20 victories marked the fourth time in the last four years that Michigan has reached the charmed circle of 20 or more wins during the regular season. The .1949-50 powerhouse won 23 and lost four, the most a Wolverine sextet has ever won. *} ALTHOUGH prospects for the coming campaign don't warrant anticipation of another record- breaking offensive juggernaut be- cause of the graduation of four veteran forwards, including Bur- ford and Celley, Heyliger's sextet will be a formidable match due to its team balance. A coach doesn't lose players of the Burford-Celley caliber without a wince here and there, but a couple of sophomores, Mat- chefts and John McKennell, jun- ior and captain-elect Earl Keyes, a first-class goalie from fresh- man ranks, Willard Ikola, plus experienced defense hands make things more than bearable for Heyliger. McKennell, a red-headed flash from Toronto who plays right wing, bagged 32 goals and 21 assists in his first campaign to rank fourth in scoring behind Celley, Burford and Matchefts, who had 24 goals and 31 assists. * * * THE "TORONTO TERROR" has already established himself as a favorite with the large crowds that pack the Coliseum by his lively play and spectacular goal-getting. Matchefts is a slight, 150 pound speedster whose home is Eveleth, Minn., the home of Celley. The versatile and dependable Keyes has played almost every po- sition including goal, in addition to scoring 40 points last season, fifth best total on the squad. * * * WHEN INFLUENZA sidelined regular goalie Hal Downes (ano- ther 1951 graduate) against Mich- igan Tech at Ann Arbor last sea- son, Keyes stepped into the pads as Michigan an 8-3 triumph from the Huskies. The remainder of the cam- paign Keyes centered the second line, operated on the power play with his patented golf shot, kill- ed penalties, and played the steady brand of hockey that makes him much more valuable, than the scoring summaries in- dicate. Ikola's only appearance to date has been in the annual exhibition in the Coliseum with the Detroit Red Wings, but the yearling show- the fans plenty against the best in the business, including Ted Lind- say, Sid Abel, and Georgie Gee. AN INKLING TO Ikola's poten- tial can be gained from the fact that he is currently on the Red Wing negotiation list, a distinction seldom accorded American-born hockey players. Returning intact is the entire defense corps from 1950-51, ex- cept for goalie Downes. It in- cludes two-year men Bob Heath- cott, Eddie May, and Graham Cragg, plus Alex McClellan, with one year of experience. At the beginning of last season Heyliger was forced to operate with only one experienced rearguard:, Cragg, since Heathcott and May were shifted from forward where they played in 1949-50, and Mc-Y Clellan was up from freshman ranks. Goal tender Downes, though a senior, also played his first season as a regular. THIS QUINTET improved from game to game as the campaign wore on, and by spring made a first class unit. The year of ex- perience for May, Heathcott, and la puts the rear guard in, good McClellan plus the addition of Iko- shape for 1951-52. Each year Heyliger schedules the best in Canadian and Ameri- can college hockey, besides one or two professional organiza- tions, including a exhibition tilt per season with Detroit's Red Wings. Feature attractions on the card- are two games each in Ann Arbor with Toronto and Montreal, prob- ably the class of what's tops on ice north of the border. THESE TWO FOES each ac- counted for one of the four Wol- uerine losses last season, and. the knock-down, drag-out battles proved to be great crowd-.pleasers. Unbeaten with nine straight wins, the Heyligermen came from two goals behind in the last six minutes of the first Montreal game to tie Les Carabins 8-8 in a real thriller. Burford and Gor- die Naylor, a sophomore, banged in the equalizers. The following night another ca- pacity crowd watched the invad- ers hand Michigan its first loss.of the campaign, 3-2. Also on the 1950-51 slate were one tilt with Detroit Auto Club, Boston University and Boston Col- lege, perennial powers of eastern hockey, two each with Princeton, Western Ontario, Michigan State, North Dakota, Michigan Tech, and four with Minnesota, all of whicl4 were swept by the Maize and Blue. / Complete line of SPALDING - WILSON - MacGREGOR GOLF CLUBS USED BOOKS at BARGAIN PRICES M-- ---- I~liii low l i BRUNSWICK BOWLING BALLS -BAGS -SHOES C.C.M. 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