, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1952 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE NINE New Mentor, Young Squad Give Hope r For Rise in Wolverine Cage Fortunes * * * * v ' WILLIAM PERIGO ... new head cage coach By DICK LEWIS Youth, spirit and a climb out of the dephts of the Western Con- ference second division should be the keynote of Michigan basket- ball in 1952-53. And the irst step toward a big time court attraction in Ann Ar- bor has been taken with the de- parture of Ernie McCoy, Wolver- ine mentor since 1948. * * * MC COY'S ACCEPTANCE of the athletic director spot at Penn State last June ended a four-year reign of discouraging defeats for the Maize and Blue hoopsters. The last Big Ten pennant garnered by a Michigan court squad was in 1947-48 when Oz- zie Cowles, present Minnesota hoop chief, led his charges to a 10-2 slate in conference play and a 15-5 record overall. Mi- chigan basketball, under McCoy, has been on the rapid decline ever since. In four years of competition, McCoy-coached teams could man- age only 18 league wins in 52 starts. Last season, an aggressive Wolverine five escaped 'from the cellar in the very last game of the season while compiling four wins in 14 outings against Big Ten schools. * * * FINAL STATISTICS reveal that the e1952 Maize and Blue entry lacked court finesse in gaining its eighth-place deadlock with North- western. The green Wolverines trailed the pack in ield goal percent- age hitting on only 28 per cent of their shots from the floor, and were also last on the free throw line, meshing 59 per cent of their charity tosses. To the credit side of the ledger, Michigan's youngsters did show flashes of brilliance in the past campaign. * s * AFTER DROPPING t h r e e early-season decisions in a row, McCoy's five bounced back with a three-point win over Colorado, and then took Virginia into camp before bowing to Penn State in the Steel Bowl Tourney at Pitts- burgh. A New Year's Day score over Princeton buoyed up the hopes of Wolverine rooters for the im- pending Big Ten action, but the local cagers got off on the wrong foot, dropping five successive scraps to Iowa (twice), Indiana, Minnesota and Illinois. These four squads were the top four in the Conference close of the season. * * * F Perigo's Background Shows 16 Years of Coaching Success -_____ ' at the MICHIGAN'S first league vic- tory was undoubtedly its sweet- est. Paced by freshman guard Don Eaddy and sophomore center Milt Mead, the Wolverines trampled Michigan State, 50-36, at Yost Field House. In chalking up its first Big Ten success, the Maize and Blue combine overcame an 18-12 halftime deficit to mesh 21 mar kers in the third quarter and win going away. Following a two-point loss to Northwestern on the Ann Arbor hardwood, the McCoy unit shifted into second with a 71-69 decision over the Wildcats at Evanston. Captain Jim Skala, a 6-4 senior from Chicago, threw in 21 tallies to spark the winners. * * * MICHIGAN FELL, 64-57, in a non-conference test with Mar- quette at Milwaukee, and extend- ed its losing streak to two straight by suffering an eight-point loss at the hands of power-laden Minne- sota. Then came a bir surprise. The Wolverines tangled with Wis- consin at Yost Field House, and entered the fourth and final period on the short end of a 51-45 score. But a steady surge gave the Maize and Blue a 56-55 advantage with less than five minutes re- maining, and McCoy's speedy quintet proceeded to freeze the ball for the remainder of the con- test to ice the one-point triumph. s s . A WEEK LATER, Ohio State shocked the Wolverines, 80-67, be- hind a 40-point performance by sophomore center Paul Ebert, and Wisconsin canned 31 free throws to turn back Michigan easily, 69- 53. Returning to the hoop wars at East Lansing the next week, Michigan Stategavenged its pre- vious setback at Ann Arbor by trouncing the Maize and Blue, 80-59. This scrap set the stage for the final game of the season two days later at Ann Arbor. * * * THE PRINCIPALS were Michi- gan and Purdue, in a flat-footed tie for the league cellar. The lo- cals escaped the tenth position with a hard-fought 68-60 win. Captain Skala, playing his fi- nal game in a Blue uniform, poured 23 points through the hoop to lead both squads in the scoring column and boost his three-year varsity total to 508 tallies. Does this seem like a bleak out- look for 1953? Not on your life. Of the eight performers that took the court against the Boilermak- ers in the season's finale, only Skala graduated. * * * HEADING THE returning let- termen is diminutive Doug Law- rence, captain-elect from St. Paul, Minnesota. Lawrence, who stands .only 5-8, ranked fourth among Michigan scorers with a 22-game output of 147 counters. She flashy left-handed senior cavorts at one of the guard posts. At the other backcourt posi- tion is deadeye Eaddy, a sure- shooting cophomore from Grand Rapids. In his freshman year of varsity play, Eaddy rifled in 188 tallies to place third among the Wolverine point-getters. Eaddy's specialty is a two-handed set-shot from way out. * * * MEAD, A 6-7 giant center from Bay City, showed great promise while competing at the forward and center spots. He netted 238 scores to finish twenty behind Skala, the team's leader. The lanky pivot operator likes to use a one-handed push shot. He's also quite adept from the foul line, having led his team- mates with 76 charity tosses last year. Plucky Ray Pavichevich is another returning letterman who will see plenty of action. This 5-11 sparkplug out of East Chicago, Ind., played- in the forward and guard positions and banked in 98 scores for the 1952 campaign. A DUO OF top-performers de- clared ineligible in the middle of the year should bolster the Wol- verine aggregate. These are Hoos- ier hustlers Bob Jewell and Ralph Kauffman. Competing in 14 contests, the 6-5 Jewell was a real crowd- pleaser. This well-packed cen- ter notched 57 scores and was especially adept with a right- handed hdok shot. Letterman Carl Brunsting, for- ced out at mid-season with a bro- ken arm, sophomores Bob Topp and Jerry Stern, junior Syd Cook, and senior Jack (Legs) Levitt pre- sent a powerful bench for the new Michigan mentor, who will be shooting for the Maize and Blue's sixth Western Conference cage crown. Bill Perigo, successful coach at Western 'Michigan College, has been chosen to guide the Wolver- ine basketball quintet this win- ter. Perigo, an exponent of the fast break, replaces Ernie McCoy who is now directing the athletic pro- 4 gram at Pennsylvania State Col- lege. SERVING THE new mentor as assistant coach is Matt Patanelli, Well-known' olverine athlete of the mid-thirties. Patanelli acted in the same capacity at Western Michigan where he also helped tutor football and baseball. Another former Michigan ath- lete and member of the coach- ing staff, Dave Strack, remained to assist Perigo. Unlike McCoy, who was also as- sistant athletic director to H. O. (Fritz) Crisler and head football scout, Perigo will devote full time to the University's basketball prob- lems on t he Yost Fieldhouse'hard- w o o d., , PERIGO'S record as a coach of high school and college hoop teams is excellent and Michigan fans are looking forward to the end of two decades of almost con- tinuous losing seasons. A native of Lebanon, Ind., Perigo attended high school at Delphi, Ind. and college at West- ern Michigan. He was an out- standing athlete at both insti- tutions. After graduation with a BS in physical education, Perigo coach- ed the Markelville, Ind. high school quintet for two years and then moved to Benton Harbor, Mich. where he succeeded Bill Orwig, now a Michigan football coach. * * * IT WAS IN Benton Harbor that Perigo made a name for himself as a cage mentor. In his 13 years there his teams won the South- west Conference title seven times, played in the state finals three times and won the Class A cham- pionship once. His record during that span was 122 wins and 64 losses. n 1949 he moved up to West- ern Michigan and his success continued at the Kalamazoo school. In three years of col- lege competition his teams won 42 and lost 29 games. Last win- ter his squad tied for the Mid- America Conference crown and the previous year it was run- ner-up. Patanelli, an eight-letter :man in baseball, football and basket- ball, captained the Michigan foot- ball team of 193. He was named to the Western Conference's sec- ond team as an end. 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