i f TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1954 THE MICHIGAN UAILV W.. palm mw -- TUESDAY,, MARH 16a 195ayTWiaa V IdVALr 'flJ.V aurl' rsa.. PE ITHRES Sigma Chi Routs SAETo Enter Basketbal 1 Finals -4 RPI's Upset is Greatest In Ice. Tourney History Maentz's 13 Points Sparks' Winners to 64-46 Triumph Reeves, Taylor, Kelsey, Williams, Winchell Grab Victories in Residence Hall Contests HARD LUCK KID: Fessenden Plagues Scrug frs in 440 / By HANLEY GURWIN They just wouldn't be beaten. Considered only a minor ob- stacle in the way of mighty Mich igan and referred to as one of the teams that just came along for a joyride, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's hockey team put on the greatest display of hustle an drive that NCAA tournament fan had seen in the seven year his. tory of the playoffs to win the 1954 national championship this past week-end. Playing with only two forward lines in the rarified atmosphere of Colorado Springs, the RPI squad overcame Michigan's pre-tourna- ment favored Wolverines and then Minnesota which had blasted an outclassed Boston College sextet 14-1, the night before. Thus Rens- selaer- returned the title to the East for the first time since 1949, when Boston College won the crown. THE UNDER-RATED Engineers thrilled the partisan crowd Friday night as they took advantage of Michigan penalties to stun the de- fending champions, 6-4. In their futile struggle, the Wolverines were the victims of an eastern referee who refused 4t allow the Michigan squad to play its own brand of hockey. Ed Barry, a Boston official, and and to some extent "Rabbit" Mc- Veigh, who works the Michigan State home games, evidently in- terpreted close, hard checking, the trademark Michigan's style of play, as dirty hockey and handed out ten penalties to Vic Heyliger's sextet, most of them coming early in the first period when RPI built up a three goal lead. * * * CONTRARY to what might be expected, it was not "over-confi- dence" that beat Michigan. If any- thing, the Wolverines were too keyed up for the game. While rest- ing Thursday night and all day Friday, the pressure of three straight championships and what was expected of them mounted. When the Wolverines discov- ered that playing their own style of hockey only resulted in pen- alties, they werereluctant to go Into the corners for the puck. The inspired play of the Engi- neers, who sensed an upset in the Y: making, combined with the com- plete failure of Michigan's usually reliable first line to produce any- thing in the way of offensive strength, added to the Wolverine's frustrations and prevented them from holding the Engineers in check., AS GREAT as the RPI victory was Friday night, it was nothing compared to its win over Minne- sota on Saturday. Installed as at least a five goal favorite and playing with a day's rest, Johnny Mariucci's Gophers found themselves in the same position the Wolverines were in twenty-four hours be- fore: three goals behind and playing a fired-up sextet using its' heart as well as its' sticks. The Gophers came roaring back, however, and finally caught the Engineers a few minutes after the start of the final period. When Dick Dougherty scored for Minne- sota only minutes later to give his team a 4-3 lead, most fans would have admitted that it looked like the beginning of the end for Rens- selaer. * * * BUT NED Harkness' squad re- fused to roll over and play dead. By CORKY SMITH J-- By BILL STONE Sigma Chi earned the right to meet Phi Delta Theta Thursday night for the class A social fra- ternity basketball championship, by smashing Sigma Alpha Epsilon 64-46, last night at the Sports Building. Sigma Chi was in command from the opening tip off. With Tom Maentz breaking the scoring ice for the winners the Sigma Chis jumped to an 11-5 lead at the quarter mark. Playing in two separate units, the Sigma Chis sent in their alternate team at the start of the second quarter.' JOHN MORROW of varsity foot- ball fame tallied five quick points to increase the Sigma Chi advan- tage. Will Perry and Morrow con- tinued to pour it on as the Sigma Chi squad raced to a substantial 33-18 half time lead. Despite the aggressive play of SAE's Tony Cornielson and Guy Foster the Sigma Chi's first team widened the gap between the two squads in the third period. Maentz and Dick Balzhiser reg- istered the majority of points for Sigma Chi in a profitable on- slaught on the basket. The fourth quarter started with SAE on the short end of a 54-25 score. Jim Bradley, Fred Rich- mond, and Charley Tippy tried desperately to make a game of it in the final stanza, but it was too late. They did succeed however in outscoring the victors in the last period, and the game ended with the losers still rallying valiantly. MAENTZ thwas the top gunner for the Sigma Chi basketeers, as he marked up 13 points, playing less than half the time. Taylor defeated Strauss in a Residence Hall 'A' tilt 42-31 with Gene Wolberg racking up 26 points, making it a miserable night for the West Quad outfit. Art Krijawski, and Wally Roeses led Reeves to a class B victory over South Quad's Taylor House, 38-26. Jim Rienstra's 14 points were vital in helping Reeves House to a tight squeeze win over Winchell of West Quad in a class A clash. Winchell regained some of its lost glory in the class B bracket as Buzz Stevens' 18 points paved the way for a 43-17 rout of Anderson. John Hribar was the big gun in the Kelsey attack, as the South Quadders defeated Strauss hand- ily, 40-30, in another class B game. Scott forfeited to Williams in a class A game, that didn't material- ize into much of anything. Grant Scruggs is undoubtedly Michigan's hard luck man of the current track season. Despite outstanding times, the Cleveland junior has been nipped twice in the 440 by Ralph Fessen- den of Illinois and twice while running the last lap of the mile relay this year. * * * IN THE BIG TEN indoor meet two weeks ago, Scruggs crossed the finish line a split second behind the Illinois quarter miler, Fessen- den after holding the lead over most of the distance. Previously in a dual meet Fessenden had hit the tape a step ahead of Scruggs. In the Big Ten meet at Cham- paign Indiana's sophomore Len Robinson anchored the victori- ous mile relay team that won for for the Hoosiers a second in the meet. Scruggs, who had started the final lap of the relay 10 yards behind Robinson, turned in a great 47.6 quarter mile to barely miss catching Robinson. DESPITE the fact that Scruggs has lost several races this year, his record is not so dark as it might first appear. When he was a senior in high school, rising from relative obscurity in high school track cir- cles, he visited Ohio State Univer- sity with the intention of enrolling the follwing fall. However, because of the OSU track coach's indifferent atti- tude toward Scruggs at the time, the lanky athlete decided to look elsewhere for develop- ment of his running abilities. In his senior year, his high school coach, George Dale, who now coaches at Western Michigan, planned to return to Michigan to do some graduate work. Through Dales, Scruggs met the Wolverine track coach, Don Canham. Can- Scruggs attributes much of his cinder success to Canham's vigor- ous practice sessions. A lot of physical training goes into a track team, for Canham believes that there is no substitute for work. Scruggs added that the mental aspect of the sport should not be overlooked. One of the chief con- cerns of most trackmen is to guard against becoming keyed up before a big track meet. "An -athlete's mental approach to a race is also important," Scruggs claims. * * * SCRUGGS first took up track in junior high. He claimed he never broke a high school record, but added that Dale's "conscientious coaching" and encouragement by his father, helped him to continue with the cinder sport. Canham groomed Scruggs further for stiff college competi- tion. "I don't think there's a smarter track coach in the country," Scruggs commented about the Michigan track head. He spends about two hours a day working out at Yost Field House to combine "strength and speed" in the 440 and to perfect the baton handoff used in the mile relay. Now that the team is moving outside to the Ferry Field track, Scruggs has his eye on the Big Ten outdoor meet scheduled for May 28, 29 at Purdue, and if he continues to run with the times he has turned in thus far this season, he will stand a good chance of taking top honors in the quarter mile. McFarland To Captain 'M'cPuekmen Bill MacFarland, who led Miclii- gan's hockey team in goals scored for the season and then tied an NCAA tournament record with nine points in the two games, was elected Saturday to captain the 1954-55 icers. In a vote taken at the Broad- moor Hotel, MacFarland was also chosen, along with Doug Mullen, as the team's most valuable play- er for the current campaign. In addition to these honors, the Toronto sophomore was also se- lected by members of the press to the second team all-star squad for the tournament. Captain Jim Haas was also placed at a defensive po- sition of the second team e I r '/ GRANT SCRUGGS . crack quarter-miler ABBIE MOORE . ..tourney star Lead by Abbie Moore, winner of the Most Valuable Player trophy, and backed up by the remarkable goaltending of Bob Fox, unani-' mous choice for all-star team, the Engineers fought desperately, but methodically. In one of the prettiest plays of the tournament, Moore took the puck into the Gopher territory, out-faked the' Minnesota de- fense, hesitated, and then fired the puck past goalie Jim Matt- son, who was completely (fooled on the play.. Thoroughly winded from the ex- hausting pace of two games in as many nights, the Rensselaer crew managed to hold off the surging Gophers until the end of regula- tion time, forcing a sudden death overtime. AFTER a five minute rest, RPI returned to the ice intent on keep- ing the puck in the Minnesota end and hoping for a break. It came on its' first rush. With the Engi- neers pressing in the Gopher end, Wing Gordon Peterkin, also a first team selection on the All-Star, team, flipped in the winning goal at 1:54 to send the RPI squad and well over 2800 fans into a frenzy. Throwing their sticks high in the air, all 13 RPI players rush- ed into a group on the ice, hug- ged each other, lifted their coach; high on their shoulders, and, amid pandemonium, left the ice. No one could blame them, how-; ever, for they had pulled the "im- possible." Everyone in Colorado Springs, from the fans who re- membered their great performance last year when they lost to the Gophers, 3-2, in the first round, to even the Minnesota players themselves, had only kind words and warm praise for the Rensse- laer players and their coach. RPI's win not only added a birl- liant finish to what was expected to be a routine tournament, buta restored once again the East's claim to recognition as possessors of championship hockey teams. r BIG SHOES TO FILL: Mann's Successor Looms as Puzzle (4: By DON LIN\DMAN When swimming coach Matt Mann resigns on June 12 one of the most coveted jobs in collegiate coaching will be open. The successor to the veteran of 29 conference campaigns will in- herit one of the strongest squads in the history of college swimming. Only three members of the pres- ent team, which is generally re- garded as "Matt Mann's great- est," will be lost because of grad- uation. SPECULATION is rife over just who the next Wolverine tank coach will be. High school and college coaches alike figure in the rumors. One of the few things the speculators seem to be able to agree on is that the new swim- ming pilot will be an ex-Michi- gan natator. One particularly prominent name being mentioned among armchair swimming experts is that of Tom Haynie, the coach of the Stanford tank team. Michigan's swimming captain in 1939, the former Wolverine star has won four NCAA individual titles and was a member of two .of Michigan's national freestyle relay champions. Since taking over the coaching reins at Stanford, Haynie has con- sistently come up with one of the top teams in the nation. a,* ae ALSO PROMINENT in the talk of the speculators is the name of Gus Stager, who swam for Mann from 1947-50. Since graduation, ham showed immediate interest in Scruggs, and had him working out with varsity squad his first year at Michigan. * * * LAST YEAR Scruggs took a third in the Big Ten indoor meet, and a fifth in the outdoor meet. In the Ohio AAU meet last yea, he placed first in the 440. He' also swept the field of runners in the quarter mile at the Michigan AAU Track Meet in Ypsilanti with a time of 48.5, the best time he has run in that distance. This year he has been clocked in 49.3 for the 440. He plans to run in the Knights of Columbus meet in Cleveland with the mile relay squad. His biggest thrill came last June when ha compet- ed in the NCAA track meet at Lincoln, Nebraska. Running in 105 degree weather, the 5' 10" 133 pound speedster entered in the 440 and placed ninth in the country. Hairstyling to please! Try our: Personnel - Workmanship Service - 10 Hairstylists NO WAITING The Daseola Barbers near Michigan Theatre the freestyle star has performed a high school coaching miracle at Dearborn Fordson. Inheriting a squad which was in the depths of the swimming doldrums, Stager has turned it into the top high school team in the natioit. In Stager's first year at the helm the Tractors vaulted from the basement to the champion- ship in the Border Cities League. The following season the Ford- son tankers won the state title, and Stager's men have success- fully defended the champion- ship for two years. Another candidate for the Wol- verine coaching position is Matt Mann III. The Michigan captain in 1950, Mann served as the as- sistant to his father in coaching the Wolverines during the 1951 season, after which he took the coaching job at Lansing Sexton High School. STAGER AND Mann each have one serious shortcoming. Neither has had much experience as a swimming mentor, which may be an important obstacle to gaining the coaching position at a national tank power such as Michigan. A third high school coach mentioned by speculators is Dobie Burton, the pilot at Evan- ston Township High School in Evanston, Ill. The Wildkits have captured two successive Illinois state swimming titles under his direction, and the present squad is ranked with the finest in the nation. Gym Captain Michigan' gymnastics "squad has selected Bill Winkler, ace trampoliner, to captain next season's team. Winkler suc- ceeds fiery Mary Johnson as captain. At the same time, the team named Lee Krumbholt, num- ber two high bar man in the conference, as Michigan's most valuable gymnast. Read and Use Daily Classifieds 'a, D. H. Robertson, coach at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill, is still another prep pilot whose name is prominent in the minds of speculators. Burton's chief rival in the fight for the Illi- nois state crown, Robertson con- sistently develops one of the top teams in the nation. Dark horse candidates who are not receiving much serious consid- eration from the armchair experts are Charles McCaffree, coach- at Michigan State, and Dick Papen- guth, Purdue pilot. McCaffree al- ready has a good position as the Spartan mentor, while Papenguth has met with little more than or- dinary success at Purdue. 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