THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1953 Swimmers Set for Best Year 7 FOUR DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS-of Michigan's top-flight coaching staff are pictured above. Left to right they are Bennie Oos- terbaan, head football coach; Vic Heyliger, hockey coach; Matt Mann, swimming mentor; and Ray Fisher, coach of Michigan's recently crowned National Collegiate Baseball Champions. Oosterbaan celebrates his 25th year on the Michigan coaching staff this autumn. He was a star athlete in his undergraduate days here at the University and has remained on the coaching staff since his graduation in 1928. , , , * 9 * , , Top-Flight Coaches Guide Michigan's Athletic Squads The four coaches pictured above are distinguished representaitves of the great coaching staff of the University of Michigan. Each has a superb record in the sport of his choice, and each is a nationally renowned personality in the sports world. BENJAMIN Gaylord Oosterbaan is perhaps the greatest athlete in the history of the University. He was an All-America selection at end on the teams of 1925-26-27. He teamed during the first two years of his playing career with the great forward passer Benny Friedman to form the feared "Benny to Bennie" combination that .sparked Fielding Yost's last two Michigan teams to national gridiron glory. Bennie's activities were by no means confined to the football field, however. He was a two time All-America selection in basketball in 1927-28, and a na- tionally recognized first base- man on the team coached then, as now; by Ray Fisher. They said of Bennie in his un- dergraduate days that he could have been a champion discus thrower, but he never could find time to go out for that sport. In his senior year, in addition to cap- taining the football team, Bennie won the Western Conference Me- dal for Proficiency in Scholarship and Athletics. IN THE dedication game at Mi- chigan Stadium in his senior year, Bennie turned from a receiver to a passer and three three touch-- down passes to Lou Gilbert to de- feat Ohio State, 21-0, and send a crowd of 87,000 Michigan fans home happy. When Bennie graduated, he was quickly grabbed up by Ath- letic Director Fielding H. Yost and placed on the coaching staff, where he has remained ever since. He was backfield coach under Fritz Crisler in 19- 47 when the Wolverines came up with a team which may have been the greatest in modern football. Well schooled in the art of winning football by great coaches like Yost, Harry Kipke and Crisler, Bennie put his good training to excellent use as his first three Michigan squads cap- tured Big Ten Championships. Included in that record were a National Championship in 1948 and a Rose Bowl title in 1951. This is Bennie's sixth season as head football coach. Three Big Ten titles in the past five years, stamps him as the winningest coach in the conference. *, * * VIC HEYLIGER, like Ooster- baan, is a former athletic great at Michigan. He was a sensation- al hockey player in the late thir- ties and also performed for the baseball team. Heyliger's coaching record is the greatest in collegiate hockey. In- the six years in which the N.C.A.A. has held its champion- ship tournament at the Broad- moor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Michigan has. been present six times. Four times, the last three years run- ning, the Wolverines have ruled as National Champions. In 19- 49 and 1950 they were held to third place. Matt Mann, who begins his fin- il year as Michigan's swimming coach, is unquestionably the fin- est in his sport. He has coached, more national title - winning squads (13) than any other men- tor. He has seen 'his Michigan teams win 16 Big Ten crowns, which is also tops in that depart- ment. In addition, Mann has tu- tored more Olympic swimmers than any other coach, and as a clincher, he coached the American Olympic team to victory at Hel- sinki last year. The points earned oy his swimmers made the United States triumph over Russia in the games possible. Ray Fisher, the dean of col- lege baseball coaches, has seen his Michigan teams win 16 Big Ten titles in his 32 year coach- ing regime. Last season,- the Wolverines won the National Championship as well. It mark- ed the first time Fisher has tak- en a team to the national tour- nament, and Michigan took home the title by beating an overconfident Texas outfit in the final game, 7-5. Fisher has posted an unbeliev- able coaching record during the last dozen years. His Michigan teams have won 10 conference titles in that time. Michigan has been playing at a .687 clip dur- ing Fisher's 32 year tenure. The varsity has won 547 and lost only 228 games during those years. '21'Loaded WithTalent'' By PHIL DOUGLIS Matt Mann's twenty - ninth Michigan swimming team may well be one of his greatest. Mann will add five highly-rated swimmers from last season's fresh- man squad to virtually the same team which swept undefeated through eight straight dual meets, finished second in the Big Ten meet, and third in the NCAA meet. * * * MICHIGAN loses only one out- standing swimmer from last sea- son, distance man Wally Jeffries.' True, his loss will hurt, but Mann has come up with some real depth to more than counter-balance' Jeffries' loss. Mann has been conducting a re-building program for several years, and it appears that it is ready to blossom this season. He has come up with such boys as the famed Scottish twins Bert and Jack Wardrup. Jack, the captain of the British Olympic swimming team in 1952, finished fifth in the quarter-mile at Hel- sinki, while his brother Bert was the top backstroker of the Brit- ish Isles, and finished sixth in the Olympics. Jack and Bert both looked very impressive last season in winning several AAU events, and they oc- casionally led the freshman squad to victories over the strong var- sity. Bert gives the Wolverines strength at a crucial weak-spot, the backstroke. * * * OTHER NEW men who will be much in evidence come January, will be Ron Sharpe, an Australian breaststroker, who finished third in the British Empire Games last year, and -Jim Kruthers, National high school backstroke king two years ago. This gives Michigan much needed strength in the here- tofore weak breaststroke. A fifth member of last season's frosh who may be heard from this season is Bob Knox. Knox set a national interscholastic record in the 100 yard free style while in high school, and gives the Wolverines much-needed depth in the sprints. Any follower of collegiate swim- ming well knows who Mann has returning from last year's squad. Such names as Bumpy Jones, Ron Gora, Don Hill, Jimmy Walters, Tommy Benner, and many others, will once again fill the headlines. BUMPY JONES is probably the world's greatest all around swim- mer. This is shown by the fact that he is the world's top individ- ual medley swimmer, a race which consists of back, breast, and free- style strokes. The "Bumper" as Mann calls him, is defending Big Ten and National champion in the 150- individual medley, and is only a junior. Jones, who smashed many records while prepping at Detroit's Redford high school, was undefeated last year, and may well turn in the same kind of showing this season. He swam in the Olympics in 1952. Ron Gora is another magic name in swimming circles. Gora teamed with Jones last season as the soph- omore sensations of the Michigan squad. Another Olympic swimmer, Gora was ineligible his freshman year and the first part of last sea- son, but once he regained the right to compete, he was a big gun in the Michigan attack. * * * UNDEFEATED during his fabu- lous high school career at Chi- cago's Lane Tech high school, Gora helped spark Michigan's smashing victory over Michigan State at Lansing with a double victory. Gora swims in almost anyI middle distance race, and can sprint also. His long layoff from actual competition did hurt him somewhat, but he is expected to be in top shape for the coming sea- son. Jimmy Walters once again carries Michigan's diving hopes on his shoulders. Walters, Illi- nois state diving champion from New Trier high school, won in many dual meets last season, and was third in the conference three meter diving, and fifth in the one meter. Walters is an- other one of the many juniors on the squad. Senior co-captain Don Hill was Michigan's top sprinter last sea- son. He lost the conference 50 yard freestyle title last season by one inch to Northwestern's Keith Pet- erson, but won most of his other starts.' * * * , OTHER RETURNING vets in- clude co-captain Tom Benner, a speedy sprinter, John Chase, Mann's top choice in the back- strike last season, Glenn Miller, who was the top Michigan breast- stroker last season, and John Reis, a sprinter used in the relays. Others include medley men Barry Wayburn, and Ed Furdak; Bud Hurd, the number two div- er; freestyler Pete Dow; back- stroker Tom Case, breaststroker Bob Marans, and backstroker Don Potter. Michigan swept undefeated through eight straight dual, meets last season. The Wolver- ines opened their campaign at Evanston, where they tore apart a helpless Northwestern outfit 62-31, as nine out of ten events went to Michigan. The following week, Mann's team ran all over Iowa 62-31. Michigan hit the road again, trav- elling to Purdue, where it too. the Boilermakers into camp 54-3I, with Jones and Hill getting double wins. * * * BOWLING GREEN served mere- ly as a workout, with the Wolver- ines annihilating the Falcons, 74- 10. Then the Ann Arbor lads rode into the East Lansing, and smash- ed a Spartan unbeaten streak at five straight meets. Ron C'ira and Bumpy Jones led the 55-32 tri- umph over MSC with double wins. Back home came Michigan, to take on Iowa State, and the Cyclones were no match, fall- ing 63-30. The next day, Min- nesota came to the, I-M Build- ing Pool, and Michigan made quick work of the Gophers, 67- 26. The stage was set for the big one. Ohio State held three straight dual meet wins over Michigan, and was trying for its fourth, but Mich- igan turned on the power before a Jammed-packed house and whip- ped the favored Buckeyes 50-43. * * * THE BIG EN meet at Iowa City saw Ohio State run away from the field. OSU polled 102 points, to runner up Michigan's 68. Mich- igan State was a far third, with 48. The meet saw Bump Jones win the conference individual med- ley crown and the 220 freestyle title. The 400 freestyle relay squa# also won a crown, the team 00mi posed of Hill, Benner, Gora, an4 Reis. The Michigan team ended it. season at Columbus on March 28, as it placed third in the National championships. Yale won the crown, with Ohio State right be- hind. Michigan's great 400 yard, free' style relay team took the national title, with a record tine of 3:24.0, a mark which smashed Michigan's 1952 mark of 3:25.7. The always reliable Jones easily took the NCAA- individual, medley crown. f ii . I Michigans "ESQUIRE FERTURE" Store h- at MICHIGAN WILTON ... and WESTGATE have much more than natural shoulders! Pn In additiont to the natural shoulder,{ here are other important distinguishing characteristics of our two models. 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