T, JANUARY I2,1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE 1'. JANUARY 12. 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE c n 1 rl eams Show Promise 0 in Weekend Victories -----© i i i i 1' 11h9 &'ith Spit by dove livingston _! i Ii Wins Over Wisconsin, OSU Give Cagers First-Place Tie Kramer, Williams, Groff sky Add Strength Under Boards; Jorgenson Stars at Guard OVERWHELM PURDUE: WrestlersRely on Overall Strength --'21 J WITH BUT TWO WEEKS of 1955 gone indications point to one of the most interesting, and just maybe one of the most successful, years in recent Michigan sports history. The relative success of the'various and sundry athletic squads wearing the Maize and Blue is incidental-regardless of what hap- pens the Ann Arbor sports scene is bound to be liberally sprinkled with color. CONSIDER the following post-January 1 happenings: A Michi- gan basketbll team has taken a share of first place in the Big Ten standings, and has played before a miraculously packed crowd in Yost Field House; an undermanned Wolverine hockey team, suffer- ing from such a dearth of manpower that it was considered by many as good only for laughs, has walloped favored Michigan State on two successive nights; Michigan Athletic Director H. O. "Fritz'" Crisler has the suposedly all-powerful NCAA shivering over a threat- ened Big Ten boycott of television rules; a prominent Chicago sports- writer has picked Bennie Oosterbaan's 1955 football team to go un- defeated and win the Big Ten, Rose Bowl, and mythical national ti- ties; the proposal to switch next fall's Army-Michigan game from Yankee Stadium to the Michigan Stadium has gained almost decisive proportions: and, to top everything, the priceless (to Governor Wil- liams) Paul Bunyan trophy has disappeared from its comfortable but dusty resting place in the corner of the Michigan locker room. To us the most encouraging of all the events of the youth- ful year has been the early success of Coach Bill Perigo's cagers. Nobody is predicting any Conference championship for the Wol- verine quintet, but it is a welcome relief to go down to Yost Field fouse and see a Michigan basketball team that one doesn't auto- matically compare to his old igh school team. Perigo, in his third year at the Michigan helm, has molded a high-scoring, imaginative outfit that takes advantage of the better points of both the fast break and a set style of offense. As to the Michigan hockey team-two weeks ago you could have gotten 10-1 odds that the Wolverines would not return to the Broad- moor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, where the Michigan pucksters have played for the NCAA crown every year since the inception of the tourney. Today the critics still aren't proclaiming Michigan as y the greatest collegiate hockey team in the country, but they are a little leary of what magic Mr. Heyliger may produce next with his half-a-team. * * * Crisler, the NCAA, the Army . . WHILE HIS ATHLETIC teams have been making hay in Ann Arbor (the swimming, wrestling, and gymnastics aggregations haven't been doing anything to undermine Michigan prestige, in case you haven't noticed), in New York Crisler has been collecting even more than his usual abundance of publicity. As spokesman for the Big Ten in the controversy over the national television of -football, he has mad it clear that the Western Conference will under no circum- stances acceedsto as rigid a TV setup as last year's, when only one game could be televised per week. Although the Big Ten is using as its main argumentthe insist- ance of several state legislatures that their state colleges televise locally, it is no secret that the Conference schools would have no ob- jections to the added revenue that television has a habit of producing.! The funny part about the whole thing is that there are just ten schools in the Conference, yet those ten have the NCAA and the hundreds of institutions It represents over the proverbial barrel. Should the Big Ten bolt the NCAA over this issue, the Pacific Coast Conference and Notre Dame, among others, would surely follow, and without this small but powerful group the power's of the NCAA as it is now established would be futile. As far as we are concerned, though, it is idle to speculate as to what would happen to Michigan sports should the Big Ten leave the national group. It's a prettygood bet that in the interest of self- preservation the NCAA will either find a compromise acceptable to the Big Ten, or if not will take no drartic action when the Western Conference fails to abide by its TV rule 'WHIE IN NEW YORK Crisler has been conferring with Army's Red Blaik concerning what could prove to be the game of the year next fall: Army-Michigan. It appears that if left as originally scheduled for Yankee Stadium it could conflict with the World Series (it seems to be taken for granted anymore that at least one of the parties to baseball's big blast will hang its spikes in New York). The possibility of moving the game to Philadelphia was discussed, but another conflict arises in connection with Pennsylvania's football schedule. So don't be surprised if its announced shortly that the Michigan Stadium will host seven games next fall. Amid the wealth of other Michigan sports news it would be easy to overlook the fact that a Michigan swimming team turned in its first dual meet victory in 29 years under the guidance of any other than Matt Mann. The two personable and optimistie young men responsible for this year's swimmers are Gus Stager and Bruce Harlan, the former being the gentleman who requested (Jokingly?) that The Ensian devote two more pages to swimming in order to amply cover Michigan's winning the NCAA title! Michigan was even represented in Hawaii last week when All- American Art Walker starred in the Hula Bowl (that was the game where Lou Groza missed an extra point attempt while complaining of "sea-sickness"). By STEVE HEILPERN Coach Bill Perigo isn't getting too optimistic over his surprising Michigan basketball team's chances for the rest of the sea- son-yet. While the Wolverine cagers have a seven-three overall record and have won two of three Con- ference tilts, good for a quarter- share of the Big Te lead, Perigo is reminded of lat year's disas- trous season. "Don't forget that we were in fine shape at this time last year, In fact, we started the second se- mester with an eight-five record to our credit but then r'n into trouble. We'll begin the toughest part of our schedule in February, and will the be abl to see how good we are. Improved Conditioning This doesn't mean that Perigo wasn't satisfied with Michigan's victories over Ohio State and Wis- consin. He noticed two big im- provements in the squad. One is the improved condition of his players, save Jim Barron, who may possibly be out for the remainder of the season. Seeing a lot of action at guard, Tom Jorgenson has been getting more mileage out of his bad thigh, since he doesn't have to run quite as much in the Michigan fast break at this position. Captain Paul Groffsky is round- ing back into his 1954 form, as was evidenced by his fine perform- ance in Monday night's Wiscon- sin game. Harvey Williams looks more durable than he was last year, and Don Eaddy is having his finest campaign. The other big improvement not- ed by Perigo is Michigan's added strength under the backboards. Using Ron Kramer, Groffsky and Williams up front simultaneously for the first extensive period of I-M Scores BASKETBALL Fraternity 'B' Psi U 42, D.K.E. 5 Independents Chemistry 47, Hawaiians 26 " Owen-Nakamura 36, Eaglehawk- ers 33 M.C.F. 27, Cardinals 22 Evans 26, Cooley 19 Farouk's '5' 33, Mugwumps 20 Flying Tigers 54, Pill Pushers 13 Tansey Pansey 18, Turks 14 Newman defeated .oger Wil- liams, default PADDLEBALL Fraternity Chi Phi 3, Zeta Psi 0 Sigma Nu 2, Alpha Delta Phi 1 Pi Lambda Phi 3, Delta Sigma Phi 0 A.S.P. 3, Phi Kappa Sigma 0 Beta Theta Pi 3, Alpha Phi Al- pha 0 D.K.E. 2, Kappa Sigma 1 Theta Chi 3, Phi Kappa Psi SPOUITS BOB JONES Night Editor time, the Wolverines completely dominated the 'oards'against the Badgers. Perigo is seriously think- ing of starting his three big men in future games. As for the Big Ten race, Perigo sees a mad scramble, with four teams possibly above the rest: Il- linois, Minnesota, Iowa a n d Northwestern. He adds, however, that almost any Conference team, including Michigan could beat the form sheets. LORNE HOWES ... a busy night Red Wings Down Icers As Freshmen Stand Out By DAVE RORABACHER In winning its first dual meet of the 1955 season last Saturday, the Michigan wrestling team proved that its capturing of first place in the Wilkes Invitational meet dur- ing Christmas vacation was no fluke. The 28-7 victory over the Pur- due Boilermakers pointed up the team-wide strength possessed by the Wolverine squad. The lone loss came as Purdue's Ahmet Finol pinned Paul Melgaard in the heavyweight division. Finol, bet- ter known as "the Turk," was last year's Western Conference cham- pion at 177 pounds while Mel- gaard was wrestling his first match in a college dual meet. Wrestlers Praised In reviewing the team's per- formance in the meet, Assistant Coach Bob Betzig pointed up the work of Don Haney, Mike Rodri- guez and Tom Krause as being es- pecially praiseworthy. H a n e y , wrestling at 157, handled his op- for the J-HOP TUXEDOS We now have for your approval the new light weight all wool tuxedos in midnight blue with the long roll front, priced at 52.50 in regular, shorts, and longs. ponent with comparative ease, pinning him in the fast time of two minutes and seven seconds. Although injured in his first match last season and consequent- ly held out for the e-itire season, Rodriguez looked like an experi- enced performer as he was also able to pin his mar in the 167 pound class. Krause, who was wrestling the first match~ of his life won a finehard-fought vic- tory over the more experienced Ron Larson by a 9-8 count.. Deppe Lauded Also to be lauded is Dan Deppe as he gained a fall over senior Boilermaker Bob Algarian. Deppe is another grappler who was com- peting in his first dual meet. Cap- tam Andy Kaul pinned his man in fine style to maintain his unbeaten record in college dual meet com- petition. Although Purdue is the reigning Big Ten champion the Michigan win is not quite so significant as it might first appear. Purdue lost many men from its last year's team through graduation. Finol is the sole remainder of the Boiler- makers individual champions of last year. Michigan's next meet will be against Indiana this Saturday. The Hoosiers, who have won four out of five matches, have three men who are undefeated and pre- sent a definite threat tr the Wol- verines. The match will be held in Yost Field House beginning at 8 p.m. I (Continued from Page 1) Within two minutes, the Wings opened their lead ur to 5-1, as Howe netted his second of the night, and rookie Lorne Dads beat Howes a minute and a half later. 'M' Defense Strengthens The second period -aw the Wol- verine defense strengthen tremen- dously ,as Schiller, Hudson, and Bob Pitts rocked the Wings into the boards on several occasions. Almost 12 minutes of the period had elapsed when Glen Skov add- ed the sixth Detroit goal, and Howes had held the Wing, score- less for a consecutive period of 14% 2minutes. The Wings kept playing hard hitting, big-league caliber hockey, and during the next two and a half minutes increased their bulge to 8-1 as Bill Dineen and Bob Goldham hit the cords. Bill Lucier, the only senior on the Michigan squad, saw his first action of the season in the third period when he entered the Mich- igan nets, and he proceeded to hold the Wings to only two goals while his teammates tallied a brace of their own, Rendall Scores With Goalie Wilson smoking a cigar, fleet Tommy Rendall picked up a pass from Maxwell, and slammed it home at 2:52 to close the gap to 8-2, and the crowd went wild. Just 53 seconds later, the Hey- ligermen surprisingly countered again, as MacDonald moved in from the left, took a neat pass from Switzer and Dick Dunnigan, and belted it into the nets. Toward the close of the game, the Wings let up somewhat, but not before they scored another pair ofgoals. Delvecchio and Din- een became the only men to beat HOCKEY STATISTICS FIRST PERIOD: 1 - Detroit - Howe (Wilson) 5:07; 2 - Detroit - Del- vecchio (Howe, J. Wilson) 5:38; 3 - Detroit - Pavelich (unassisted) 11: 06; 4 - Michigan - MacDonald (Switzer) 12:44; 5 - Detroit - Howe (J. Wilson) 15:42; 6 - Detroit - Da- vis (Stasiuk, Kelly) 17:21. Penalty: Detroit-Zeniuk (holding) 14:13. SECOND PERIOD: 7 - Detroit - Skov (Leswick, Pavelich) 11:52; 8 - De- troit - Dineen (Bonin) 15:28; 9 - Detroit - Godham (J. Wilson) 17: 47. Penalty: Detroit-Pronovost (trip- ping) 14:10. THIRD PERIOD: 10 - Michigan - Rendall (Maxwell) 2:52; 11 - Mich- igan - MacDonald (Switzer, Dun- nigan) 3:45; 12 - Detroit - Delvec- chio (Pronovost) 10:37; 13 - De- troit - Dineen (Reibel, Godham) 14:00. No Penalties. Lucier, a final and brought the score to 10-3. 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