PAGE FIVE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1952
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
from the Sidelines
...By Dick Sewell
Davies Lone Wolverine Athlete
To Garner Olympic Gold Medal
Major League Standings
ANiE R
N THE OCTOBER ISSUE of Sport Magazine there appears what
the editors call "one of the most important and revealing stories
Sport has ever published. . . " Its title: Gene Filipski Says He Was
Railroaded Out of West Point.
Filipski was one of the famous-or infamous-90 who were
dropped from the Academy in August, 1951 for "cribbing" in viola-
tion of the honor code. More than that, he was then, and is now (for
Villanova) a top-flight football performer. His cry is "Gee, ma, all
the boys were doing it," and in weaving his tale he unwittingly casts
some nasty reflections on his own ethical standards and football's
place at West Point.
Although admitting that what he and the others did was morally
wrong, Filipski later rationalizes that "cribbing as compared to out-
right cheating in the classroom is like shaving points in basketball
compared to downright throwing a game. Neither should be tolerated,
but there are shades of difference." Are there really, Gene?
Football and West Point ...
Football's role in undermining the West Point honor system is
plainly evident. Says Filipski, "It's nice to talk about the high ethics
of the honor code, but when it comes to the point where you know
what you say is going to get a fellow tossed out of school, you're not
always worried about honor. Especially when you've been taught that
the football team is something big at the Point."
Stating that nine months of the year football was played or
thought about, which, he says, "was a little too much," Filipski
points out that the time-short gridders were more susceptible to
cribbing than any other group. As he puts it, "You grab at short-
cuts."
All things considered, it appears that football was getting a little
out of hand at West Point. Obviously something is out of kilter when
gridiron glory makes honor unimportant. It is equally obvious that
football overemphasis is not the only reason for the cribbing scandals.
A However, a discussion of the other factors involved would be out of
place in a sports column. Philosphy 61 (Ethics) classes might do well
to study the whole problem.
Attention Olympic Committee
The same issue of Sport contains a worthy suggestion by Biff
Bennett which deserves the careful attention of the United States
Olympic Committee. His plan calls for the Committee to leave at
least three berths on the Olympic squad open until the last moment
and fill them by appointment.
It has long been one of the tragedies of sport that often some
of our outstanding track and field performers have missed per-
forming in the Games because of an unlucky moment in the
Trials or because of a temporary disabling injury.
If Bennett's proposal 'should be adopted, men like ex-Wolverine
shotputter Charley Fonville and miler Gil Dodds who missed in 1948,
and distanceman Don Gehrmann and hurdler Craig Dixon who
were left behind this year, could make the team via the appointment
route.
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By DICK LEWIS
There was a broad grin across
the face of American Olympic
swimming coach Matt Mann one
day last August.
Not only was it the realization
that his Olympic charges had vir-
tually swept all events, but it was
a proud-papa feeling four years in
the making that gave the genial
Michiian swimming mentor some-
thing else to smile about.
* * *
FOR MINUTES earlier, Austra-
lia's John Davies, Wolverine tank
captain last winter, salvaged the
lone gold medal won by a Michi-
gan athlete as he sped to Olympic
record time in the 200-yard breast-
stroke.
And Davies had to use all that
Mann had taught him in a four-
year span to beat off arch-rival
Bowen Stassforth by a scant
three-tenths of a second in the
new mark of 2.36.8.
Davies began his glory road with
a 2:39.7 victory in a qualifying
heat, and then went on to tie the
Olympic standard of 2:36.8 in the
semifinals. He had previously fin-
ished fourth in the finals of the
1948 World games.
THE AUSSIE stroker was not
the only Michigan athlete repre-
sented at Helsinki. Four Maize and
Blue track stars and two natators
also made their presence felt at
the Olympiad.
Most successful of these was
giant Roland Nilsson, competing
in the field events for Sweden.
Nilsson finished fifth in the
shot put as he hurled the 16-
pound ball 54 .feet, 3.59 inches.
He also captured the seventh
spot in the discus throw with a
heave of 165 feet, 1.42 inches.
Team-mate Roy Pella, a Cana-
dian student at Michigan, grabbed
fourteenth spot in tne discuss with
a toss of 153 feet, 1.02 inches. Pella
reached 157 feet, 3% inches in the
Canadian Olympic trials, for a
Dominion record.
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TEACHER AND STAR PUPIL-Matt Mann, Michigan and 1952
Olympic Swimming Coach, and John Davies, Wolverine breastroke
ace who swam for his native Australia, were both winners at
Helsinki. Mann's United States natators won the team title
and Davies won the 200-meter breastroke in Olympic record
time.
I* * *
TWO OTHER Canadian track
luminaries advanced in the Games.
Junior John Ross, the Big Ten
mile champion, came home fourth
in a qualifying heat of the 1500-
meterhtest with a 3:55.2 clocking,
but then faded to 4:00.6 and a
twelfth place finish in the semis.
Michigan track captain-elect
Jack Carroll ran second to Ja-
maica's Arthur Wint in 48 sec-
onds flat to move to the second
round of the 400-meter run.
Here he hit the tape third to
Ohio State's Mal Whitfield in
0:47.7.
Carroll bettered his clocking by
three tenths of a second in the
semifinals but had Wo be satisfied
with fifth place.
ODDLY ENOUGH, no Wolverine
athletes made the trip with the
American track squad to Finland.
Canadian Don McEwen, fabulous
Michigan distance star, stayed,
home with an ailing stomach.
Sophomores Ron Gora and
Burwell (Bumpy) Jones surviv-
ed the Olympic swimming try-
outs in Astoria, New York, last
July to put up quite a fight over-
seas.
Gora, an ineligible freshman
from Chicago last semester, tri-
umphed in a qualifying heat of
the 100-meter free style in 58
seconds, won a semifinal heat in
0:57.7, but finished eighth in the
finals with an 0:58.8 timing.
Clarke Scholes of Michigan State
garnered the gold medal in this
contest in 0:57.4.
Jones, national individual med-
ley champion, anchored the sec-
ond-string 800-meter relay squad
which took the semifinals in 8:50.9.
Five other Matt Mann products
appeared in the New York Olym-
pic trials. Jim McKevitt, Don Hill,
Jim White and Wally Jeffries
were all eliminated in the prelim-
inaries.
Graduate student Bernie Kahn
notched fifth in the 100-meter
back stroke finals, coming within
San arms length of third place fin-
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