WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TRREE i PAGE THREE Hockey Hopes Highl F Repeat This Season By HANLEY GURWIN Shattering an NCAA playoff scoring record, Michigan's peren- nially powerful hockey team blast- ed its way to its third straight National Collegiate Hockey Cham- pionship at Colorado Springs last March to prove once again that the Wolverine squad is the num- ber one team in the nation. Despite what might be called in Ann Arbor a mediocre season (14 wins. against 7 losses), Vic Hey- liger's well cbached squad finished the season with five straight league victories to tie Minnesota's Gophers for first place in the Mid- Team Won h i ANOTHER GOAL-for 'Michigan's National Champion Hockey team. This time it's Earl Keyes blasting one through Spartan goalie Gerry Bergin as the Wolverines bury the Spartans 10-2 on their way to another national title. Golfers Edged by Boilermakers in Conference Meet BY JIM DYGERT Michigan's colorful golf team, after starting the 1953 season with only two lettermen, swept through eight Big Ten matches while drop- ping only one, and came within 18 strokes of repeating its 1952 cham- pionship in the title meet at Mad- ison, Wisconsin. Purdje,' whom the Wolverines had beaten twice during the regu- lar season, took the Conference title this year when its top swing- er, Don Albert, blazed through the 72 holes with only 290 swats .at the ball. ALBERT'S 290 was ten strokes better than the second place fin- isher, teammate Bob Benning. Wolverine captain, Hugh Wright, carded a 303 to tie for fifth while two other Maize and Blue golfers crowded into the top ten, Bud Ste- vens' 304 being good for seventh, spot and Jack Stumpfig taking eighth with a 305 score. After the first 18-hole round, the Wolverines were leading the field by five strokes by virtue of their steady playing, which they continued throughout the meet. But Purdue, playing better than it had all season, pulled ahead in the second round and went on to beat. Michigan, 1514-1,532, a narrow margin for the 72-hole grind. After the championship affair, Michigan was again invited to the NCAA meet, in which it finished second to powerful North Texas State in 1952. Wolverine links coach, Bert Katzenmeyer, turned down the invitation after learn- ing that three of his regulars could not make the trip. KATZENMEYER was pessimis- tic about the team's chances at the beginning of the golf wars. Only two lettermen, Wright and Lowell LeClair, returned from the '52 championship squad to' trek across Big Ten gr'eens again. Also back was Stumpfig, aj member of the 1951 contingent, who had been ineligible be- cause of scholastic difficulties in '52. Rounding out the open- ing roster, and remaining on the squad for the entire season, were sophomore Stevens, who cap- tured the all-campus golf tro- phy as a freshman,. Tad Stan- ford, football star, and Warren Gast.I During the spring training trip in the sunny South, a practice the Wolverines began in 1938, Katzen- meyer's charges dropped two matches, one each to North Caro-I lina and, Duke, strong Southern Conference squads who have the delightful advantage of weather that allows year-around play. Ste- vens brought home the best score of the sojourn, a 73 against North Carolina. "1. Since 1925 Van Boven's have. featured quality footwear for Michigan men and women everywhere. 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About ten days later the Maize and Blue swingers left for a week- end of golf that included a quad- rangular meet at Lafayette, Indi- ana, and a triangular engagement on Northwestern's course. * * * / PLAYING IN a strong wind, the Wolverines edged Purdue, 192- 16/, defeated Ohio State by the same score, and downed the Ilini, 21%-141/2, at Lafayette. Although Buckeye Frank Cardi's 73-75-148 was good for low total in the four- sided extravaganza, Stevens fired an even par 72 on his morning round for the best 18-hole score. In the triangular meet against Northwestern and Iowa, Mich- igan dumped the Wildcats, 21- 15, and thrashed the Hawkeyes, 24-12, to make it five straight in Big Ten competition. Stumpfig and Stevens paced Michigan with a pair of 143's that took medalist honors. On the following Saturday, the Wolverines roared into East Lan- sing to run head on into a sur- prising Michigan State team that' played on even terms with Michi-' gan until Katzenmeyer's men pull- ed ahead on the last two holes to win, 19%/-161/. The other team in the triangular meet, Marquette, bowed meekly to the Maize and Blue, 31-5" * * * A WEEK LATER the Spartans came to Ann Arbor along with Purdue and Ohio State. On the hilly University course, the Wol- verines edged out Purdue, 19-17, and blasted Michigan State, 29%/2- 612, but also suffered their first loss of the regular season when the Buckeyes came through with a 201/2-151/2 victory. The Wolverines finished with an enviable Conference record of eight wins and one loss. They trounced Detroit in' a return match, the last of the season for Ithe Maize and Blue, 18/-81/, to bring the final tally for the year to ten wins, three defeats, and one tie. Biggest factor in Michigan's golf success was the ability of one golfer to fire a low score when a teammate faltered, thus keeping the team average at a respectable figure. Even in the championship meet, they played, as Katzenmeyer commented afterwards, "As well as we expected." But Purdue came through in the clutch to take the coveted trophy back to Lafayette for a year. * * * KATZENMEYER is ready to wade into the battle in 1954 a little more optimistically. Three lettermen, Stevens, Stumpfig, and Stanford, will be back next year. Andy Andrews, who played in two meets this year, will also be around, along with Larry Reger, Dick Har- rison, and promising freshman Bob McMasters. McMasters will be the first representative of the Standish- Evans Scholars (which will pro- vide many Michigan golfers in the future) to break into Wol- verine golf headlines if he makes the varsity; and Katzenmeyer is sure that he will. The Standish-Evans Scholars comprises former caddies who are attending the University on schol- arships from the Western, Golf As- sociation and the Detroit District Golf Association. Standish-Evans, in its first year on the campus, 1952-53, also had four other mem- bers on the freshman golf team. west Collegiate Hockey League, and thereby earn a berth in the NCAA playoffs at the Broadmoor Ice Palace at Colorado Springs, Colorado. SINCE the inception of the now annual event, at the Broadmoor, the Wolverines have been the only squad to compete in all six play- offs. Heyliger's charges started things off the first year by com- ing home with the title and have returned to the playoff scene ev- ery year since. In 1949 and 1950 the Maize and Blue pucksters slumped to third place, but since 1951 the trophy has come back to Ann Arbor every year. This year the Wolverines, under the lead- ership of captain John Mat- chefts, who was named Most Valuable Player of the tourna- ment, waltzed by Boston Univer- sity in the semi-finals, 14-2, be- fore turning back Johnny Mari- ucci's Minnesota sextet, 7-3, to annex, the crown. The 14 goals piled up by the Wolverines was the highest tally ever scored in one NCAA playoff game, surpassing the previous high of 13 set by Colorado College against another Boston University squad back in 1950. George Chin, scrappy right-winger and leading point-getter for the season with 42, tied a playoff record when he bagged six points on two goals and four assists in the runaway contest. * * * IN THE showdown game against the Gophers, who had beaten the Wolverines three out of four times during the regular season, Michi- gan overcame a first period 2-1 Gopher lead with two tallies in the middle stanza and three more in the last to hand the over-con- fident Ski-U-Mah - squad a 7-3 drubbing. The victory was a well-earned dessert for Heyliger who had pulled his team through a long and at times a seemingly unsuc- cessful season of hockey. Win- ners of 100 games against only 14 losses in the previous five years the Wolverine squad suf- fered its first setback of the year before the season started. Ron Martinson, smooth skating Eveleth, Minnesota right-wing, broke his ankle during a practice session and was lost to the team for the major part of the campaign. Heyliger had been counting on -,{P/ JIM HAAS *.. hockey captain the experienced forward to spark the third line. THE NEXT key blow, and by far the most costly of the sea- son was the loss of Johnny Mc- Kennell, scrappy first-line left- winger and second highest scorer on the squad. McKennell was sus- pended for the season by Athletic Director "Fritz" Crislervafter the fiery forward was involved in an altercation with a referee in Den- ver on December 23. The incident occurred as Mc- Kennell was vehemently protest- ing an overtime goal which gave Denver a 5-4 victory over the Wolverines. In the ensuing ar- gument McKennell allegedly slugged referee Mike Yalich. The Denver and Colorado press made such an issue over the affair that pressure was brought upon Crisler that eventually led to the suspension of the star for the rest of the season. PLAYING without McKennell, the Wolverine puckmen won three games while dropping two, includ- ing one to Minnesota, before the next hole was torn in the Michi- gan first line. Earl Keyes. stand- out right-wing for three seasons, and Captain of the 1952 Cham- pionship squad, was lost to the team through graduation. This left only Matchefts from the original first line. Matchefts, or the "fly" as he was called by his teammates, was the real sparkplug of the team. Up to lational this point in the campaign he was leading his team both as captain and as leading point- getter. Many of his un-assisted goals were remarkable. "The "fly" was a great stick handler, an excellent fore-checker, and a scrappy competitor from the opening face-off. Left with only Matchefts as a nucleus, Heyliger formed a new first line with Doug Philpott in McKennell's spot and Jim Haas, captain-elect for this year, con- verted from a defensive position on the right-wing. The first line proved successful, but the unstable balance of the rest of the squad was inadequate to contend with the high-flying Gophers. In two crucial contests in Mineapolis, the Wolverines were almost elimi- nated from the playoff scene as they dropped two one-sided games on the foreign ice. AT THIS, the lowest ebb of the season for the Wolverine sextet, EHeyliger came Up with a new sec- ond line that lifted the team right out of its doldrums and into the National Championship. Doug Mullen was placed at center be- tween wings Chin and Pat Cooney, and this combination blossomed into the most potent scoring line' of the three. Cooney, Chin, and Mullin tal- lied seven goals between them as Michigan swept two games from North Dakota and then came on with a rush to win its remaining three league tilts to tie Minnesota for the title. Chin, who up to then had been . playing only mediocre hockey, suddenly went on a scoring rampage and finally wound up with 18 goals and 24 assists, high for the squad. However, last season's cham- pionship is a thing of the past, I just like all the others, and Hey- liger's main concern is to provide Michigan fans with another top- notch squad. Three of the men nmost responsible for the Wolver- ines' successful drive to the na- tional crown graduated in June and will not be on hand to lend their talents this year. * * * THE LOSS of Matchefts, All- American Defenseman Alex Mc- Clellan, and Martinson will leave tremendous holes to be filled by Heyliger from among last year's freshmen. McClellan was by far the thr oeBolvcoy .. O FTEN IMITATED . . NEVER EQ UALL ED Crown standout of the Michigan rear guard and was rightly recognized as one of the finest defensemen in college hockey when he was selected to the All-American Hockey Team picked by coaches from schools with leading hock- ey teams. After missing a good part of the year with a broken ankle, Mar- tinson played outstanding hockey in the closing stages of the sea- son and continued his excellent play in the NCAA playoffs. RETURNING FROM last sea- son's squad will be goalies Willie Ikola and Bill Lucier, both of whom have played for two years in Maize and Blue livery. Ikola and Lucier both are outstanding goalies and will be heavily count- ed on to stop the pucks more than ever this coming season now that McClellan has graduated, Despite the loss of the gradu- ating trio, Heyliger is looking forward to bringing the, title back to Ann Arbor for the fourth straight time. "We may not have too much depth,"* said Heyliger, "but we'll have some pretty good boys out there again." He was referring to the crop of freshman pucksters he has been grooming to fill' the ranks this season. * * * AS ALWAYS the .Wolverine schedule will include many non- league tilts with the always strong Canadian sextets. The annual matches with Toronto and. Mon- treal always pack Michigan's 4000 seat Hill Street Coliseum. One of the finest collegiate hockey rinks in the nation, the' Coliseum will undoubtedly be the scene of many exciting and thrill- packed hockey games again this season. DID YOU KNOW: that Michi- gan 'is the only Big Ten school to have won three Rose Bowl games? 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