', MARCH 14, 1954
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
MARCH 14, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Rensselaer
Michigan Pucksters Crush
Takes Puck Grown
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Boston in Consolation Game
Philpott Pulls Hat '
MacFarland, Lucieri
By HANLEY GURWIN
Special to The Daily
COLORADO SPRINGS-Michi-
gan salvaged what little glory was
left for them at this year's NCAA
hockey tournament as the Wol-
verines skated to an easy 7-2 vic-
tory over Boston College in the
consolation game here yesterday
afternoon.
The win was little consolation,
though, for the six seniors who
were playing their last game for
the Maize and Blue. The seventh
senior, Willard Ikola, did not dress
for the game.
* * *
BILL LUCIER handled the net
' minding chores for Vic Heyliger's
sextet and turned in a brilliant
performance to ring tlown the
Michigan hockey curtain for an-
other year.
After losing the right to de-
fend their championship against
Minnesota by losing Friday night
to RPI, the Wolverines came
back yesterday to win consola-
tion honors for the third time
in the seven year history of the
playoffs.
The one bright ray in the Wol-
verine camp was the performance
of sophomore Bill MacFarland,
who tied a tournament record by
picking up nine points in the two
games. MacFarland scored one
goal and four assists yesterday to
go along with his, hat-trick and an
assist Friday.
IT WAS MacFarland's second
line that paved the way to victory
over Boston just as it kept the
Wolverines in that game against
the Engineers on Friday.
Linemate Doug Philpott tal-
lied three times against the
Eagles yesterday and also as-
sisted on a goal by Captain
Jimmy Haas, both of whom were
also playing their last game as a
Wolverine.
In fact, the only two scores that
were not made by the second line
in the tournament were made
when Michigan had an irregular
line-up on the ice because of a
man advantage or a man short,
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FOR SENIORS George Chin,
Doug Mullen, and Pat Cooney,
Michigan's number one line
throughout the season, the tour-
ney was a nightmare as far as
hockey was concerned.
Although one of the highest
scoring lines in Wolverine his-
tory, the trio--was only able to
for Wolverines;
Star in 7-2 Win
BILL MACFARLAND
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pick up two goals, one each by
Chin and Mullen. Both in the
final period when Michigan tal-
lied four times to sew up the
contest.
As in Friday's game, the officials
were whistle-happy against the
hard-checking Wolverines and
they handed out nine penalties to
Michigan and only four to Boston
College.
Burt Dunn, the remaining sen-
ior on the squad, played both
games with a badly bruised ankle
which he suffered in practice be-
fore tl, tournament.
The only members of this year's
team who are expected to return
next fall for the 1954-55 season are
Lucier, MacFarland, wings Jay
Goold and Yves Herbert. and de-
fenseman Neil Buchanan.
HOCKEY STATISTICS
FIRST PERIOD: Goals: 1. Michi-
gan Philpott (Goold), 6:10; 2. Boston
dempsey (Gagliard) 12:32; 3. Michigan,-
Haas (Philpott, MacFarland) 13:13.
Penalties: Boston: Sibo (boarding)
2:10, Forgues (holding) 16:51.
. SECOND PERIOD: Goals: 4. Michi-
gan, Philpott (MacFarland), 15:58.
Penalties: Boston: Smith (tripping),
7:37; Michigan: Cooney (tripping)
1:14, Buchanan (elbowing), 3:38, Mul-
len (slashing), 9:10.
THIRD PERIOD: Goals: 5. Michi-
gan, Philpott (MacFarland), 1:25; 6.
Michigan, Chin (Mullen), 1:41; 7.
Michigan, MacFarland (Chin), 11:32;
8. Boston, Cisternelli (Quinn, Sibio),
12:22; 9. Michigan, Mullen (MacFar.
land), 14:31.
Penalties: Boston: Kiley (tripping),
2:46; Michigan: Mullen (tripping),
6:15 Mullen (tripping), 11:06, Dunn
(holding), 11:13, Philpott (tripping),
12:25, Philpott (holding), 1621, Dunn
(holding), 18:05.
RPI Dumps
Minnesota
In Overtime
Special to The Daily
COLORADO SPRINGS - RPI
played giant killer for the second
night in a row as an overtime goal
netted a 5-4 victory over Minneso-
ta here last night to give the En-
gineers their first NCAA ice cham-
pionship.
Gordon Peterkin scored the win-
ning tally at 1:54 of sudden death
overtime to clinch the most bril-
liant victory in the seven year
history of the tournament.
* * *
THE SCORE came out of a
scramble in front of the net when
Peterkin casually flipped the puck
over the prostrated form of Go-
pher goalie Jim Mattson.
Sparked by center Abbey
Moore, who was voted the tour-
nament's most valuable player,
and goalie Bob Fox, who turned
aside 40 shots in last night's
victory, the Engineers put on an
inspired performance to outhus-
tle Minnesota all the way.
Just as it did the night before,
RPI jumped into an early 3-0 lead
and then saw it wither away as
NCAA HOCKEY
ALL-STAR TEAM
Bob Fox, RPI-Goalie
Jim Pope, RPI-Defense
Ken Yackel, Minn.-Defense
Frank Chiarelli, RPI-Center
Gordon Peterkin, RPI-Wing
John Mayasich, Minn.--Wing
the game progressed. At 4:39 of
the third period, Gopher center,
Johnny Mayasich beat Fox to tie;
up the game at 3-3.
* * *
LESS THAN four minutes later
Dick Daugherty finished off a set-
up pass from Mayasich to put
Minnesota into a 4-3 lead. The
underdog Engineers apparently
were through despite their gallant
effort.
However, Moore surprised the
capacity gathering of 2600 by
beating Mattson with a close in
drive at 16:10 to again tie up the
contest. Fox, playing brilliantly,
turned aside Minnesota for the
remainder of the period to send
RPI to its overtime victory.
The classy Fox had 20 saves
in the final stanza.
Mayasich, by picking up two
points against Rensselaer tied the
tournament scoring record of nine
points, also tied by Bill MacFar-
land of Michigan in the afternoon,
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By The Associated Press
Holy Cross scored its second
straight upset and captured the
National Invitational Basketball
Tournament championship by de-
feating top-seeded Duquesne last
night, 71-62.
Thursday night the Crusaders
surprise second-seeded Western
Kentucky, 75-69.
* * *
THE CROWD of 18,496, which
established a new Madison Square
Gargen record, saw All -American
Togo Palazzi play his last and one
of his best games for Holy Cross.
Palazzi didn't reach the upper
scoring brackets he usually hits
but he did everything else so su-
perbly that the Dukes hardly had
a chance.
Not only did he score 20
points, but he did such a job
both on offense and defense
and defense against Dick Rick-
etts, Duquesne's All-American,
that Ricketts scored only 13
points before he fouled out aft-
er two minutes of the last quar-
ter.
In the first game of the double-
header, Western Kentucky suffer-
ed its second upset loss in a row,
going down before Niagara, 71-65.
'Bo' Erias led the Eagles to third
place in the NIT as he tallied 21
points and gave a fine all-around
performance.
* * *
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Notre
Dame, which surprised Indiana on
Friday night, was itself the vic-
tim of an upset last night when
unsung Penn State smashed the
Irish 18-game winning streak, 71-
63. The Nittany Lions, the last
team invited to the NCAA basket-
Thomson Out
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -
(/P) - Bobby Thomson, the for-
mer New York Giants' outfield-
er whom the Milwaukee Braves
were counting on so heavily,
fractured his right ankle slid-
ing in an exhibition game yes-
terday and may be lost to the
Braves for as long as three
months.
ball championships thus reached
the semi-final round.
In the first game on the bill,
defending champion Indiana
settled for third place in the
Iowa City NCAA regional tour-
nament by whipping Louisiana
State, 73-62.
STILLWATER, Oklahoma-Un-
heralded Bradley University, the
at-large representative, surprised
Oklahoma A&M last night, 71-57,
to win the western regional NCAA
basketball crown.. Bradley scored
the most points ever tallied
against the Aggies at home as it
gained the NCAA semi-finals.
In the opening game Rice snap-
ped to life after a slow start and
THIRD STRAIGHT:
High School Tank Title Won
By Fordson; Records Broken
By LEW HAMBURGER
Holy Cross Upsets Dukes;
Garners NIT Championship
ran over Colorado, 78-55 to take
the consolation final.
PHILADELPHIA - LaSalle's
scrappy Explorers ran away frm
Navy in the second half to score
an easy 64-48 victory and qualify
for the NCAA semi-final round
March 19 at Kansas City. While
talented Tom Gola led the LaSalle
offensive as usual, it was Bob
Naples who early in the third per- 4
iod got hot and broke a low-scor-
ing, close-to-the-vest defensive
contest.
North Carolina State, led by its
all-time scoring ace Mel Thomp-
son who tallied 26, captured the
consolation game by beating Cor- LEE KRUBHOLZ
hell, 65-54. . . . best of Wolverines
Six state and two national rec-
ords fell as Fordson-Dearborn,
rated by many the nation's top
high school swim team, captured
the State Class A meet for the
third consecutive time here at the
Varsity Pool last night.
Coach Gus Stager's outfit was
led by a tall, stout boy by the name
of Ken Gest. In the preliminaries
in the afternoon Gest established
a new national 50 yard freestyle
record of 22.9 seconds and went on
to successfully defend his title in
the finals last night.
* * *
THE FORDSON medley relay
trio added another national rec-
ord to Stager's collection. Gest
came from behind as anchor man
to win after teammates BillButz-
laff, backstrker, and breaststroker
Tom Kwasney completed their legs
of the relay a yard behind a strong
Jackson team.
Don Nichols, who put the
Jackson medley unit in front
with his leadoff effort, set a
state record in the preliminary
hearts of the 100 yard back-
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(This is the final in a series about
the prospects for next year's Michi-
gan basketball team.)
By WARREN WERTHEIMER
Will next year see Michigan's
basketball team again fighting to
stay out of the Big Ten cellar, or
are Wolverine fans going to have
an outfit that will be in title con-
tention?
The picture for next season is
clouded with uncertainty; yet
those who are optimistic can find
bright spots when they look at
Wolverine cage prspects during the
1954-55 campaign.
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BEFORE TAKING a look at
next year's outfit, it might be in-
teresting to glance back at the
'53-'54 quintet. Despite the fact
that it finished tied for ninth place
with three wins for the second
season in a row, this year's cage
squad showed improvement over,
its predecessor.
The nine games won during
the season was three more than
last year's team could garner.
The Wolverines' trio of ,victories
in Western Conference play was
accomplished in a 14-game
schedule whereas the previous
campaign Michigan played 18
league contests.
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CERTAINLY Bill Perigo's outfit
was more interesting to watch.
Home attendance jumped from
39,500 for 12 games last year to
47,900 for this season's 11 en-
counters.
Included among this total
were near capacity crowds for
FINAL MICHIGAN CAGE SCORING
FG FT TP AVG.
Jim Barrbn ..131 115 377 17.1
Tom Jorgensen ..101 70 272 12.3
Paul Groff sky .... 91 68 250 11.3
Don Eaddy . .. .82 41 205 9.3
Harvey Williams .. 82 31 195 9.2
Milt Mead....... 38 48 124- 5.6
John Codwell .... 33 36 102 4.8
Tom Singer.......3 4 10 3.3
Bruce Allen....... 11 7 29 2.0
Jay Vawter....... 5 1 11 1.3
Ray Pavichevich . 6 6 18 1.0
Jerry Stern....... 1 1 3 0.7
the Indiana and Michigan State
contests, reminiscent of the days
of Ozzie Cowles championship
teams seven years ago.
Whether next season's Wolver-
ine cagers revive memories of the
glory days of 1947-48 in unans-
werable at present; however the
possibilities do exist.
THE KEY to Michigan's hopes
next year would seem to be 6-8
Harvey Williams. It is an accepted
adage in basketball that you do
not go far without a good big man.
Williams can be that man.
After a very promising start,
the sophomore center began to
play very lethargic basketball
and finally Perigo was forced to
bench him. However Williams
did show sparks of brilliance
and Perigo has stated a couple
of times, "he (Williams) could
be great."
Perigo will have back next sea-
son Williams, Jim Barron, Don
Eaddy, Paul Groffsky, and Tom
Jorgensen, all regulars on this
year's outfit, but he may be sorely
lacking in depth.
John Codwell, Milt Mead, and
Ray Pavichevich, all seniors, help-
ed give Michigan a good bench
during the 1953-54 campaign. The
first two were among Michigan's
best rebounders, a department
which was a trouble spot all year.
From the freshman team and
the returning reserves, Perigo will
have to develop additional strength
if Michigan is to escape the Big
Ten doldrums and acquire the
position of a title contender.
Aside from those mentioned, also
returning from this year's team
will be Bruce Allen and Jay Vaw-
ter, both letterwinners and Tom
Singer and Jerry Stern. Singer is
a sophomore and Stern is a first
semester junior with ,a year and
a half of eligibility remaining.
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