PAGE THREE TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 195~ THE MICHIGAN DAILY ~7PI leers Play Denver e r Tonight MR. LAWRENCE CHARFOOS and MISS ANDY KNIGHT AMERICAN YOUTH ABROAD- Pioneer Squad 'Toughest Opposition Yet' Heyliger Basketball Team Optimistic With Vitory Over 'Huskers By STEVE HEILPERIN By BRUCE B.ENNETT Michigan's once beaten hockey team attempts to get back on the winning trail tonight as it opens a two game, two point per game series with a powerful University of Denver squad. The faceoff is at 8 p.m. at the Hill Street Coliseum. The Wolverines, still smarting from Saturday night's loss to North Dakota, will have "all they can handle with Denver," accord- ing to Coach Vic Heyliger. Heyliger said, "We had such an easy time with them Friday, that I guess the boys figured it would be the same way Saturday. But North Dakota didn't give up. I hope the boys have learned a It is at least nice to know that the injury list will be minute when the Wolverines take the ice tonight-.. Bill McFarland, who injured his ankle in the opening contest against McGill is sound and will lead the fitst line again tonite. Along with him will be junior Dick Dunnigan and sophomore Wally Maxwell. Tom Reridall, second line cen- ter, who injured a leg tendon and also suffered a chest injury dur- ing a practice session, will be raring to go against the Pioneers. It always feels good to get that ments. Celley Returns The Pioneers' Coach Neil Ccl- ley, a stellar forward for Michigan five years ago, will bring a squad of 13 lettermen into Ann Arbor today, the nucleus from a team that won 11 straight at the end of the 1954-55 campaign. Spearheading DU's attack is the high scoring first line of Jack Smith, Joe Kilbey and Barrie Mid- dleton, all two year veterans. Be- tween them, this trio holds just about every important all time Denver scoring record. All Forwards Injured 'Replacing the injured Ken Nay- bor on the second line will be Eldon ~Willock. He will team up with veterans Jim Swain and Bruce Diackson, while Bill Nixon will skate between Ken Raymond and Larry John in another combina- All of these men are lettermen. rugged defensealedalby veterans Orville Off and Dave Rogers and bolstered by four sophomores. Sophomore Dave Broadbelt, hail- ed by some observers as the best goalie in Pioneer history, will be in the nets. Denver Toughest Yet This is the team that Michigan has to whip this week if they are A to gain ground in the Western In- tercollegiate Hockey League stand- ings. Coach Heyliger labels Den- ver as, "by far the toughest team we hav fceda . . a, lot stronger This seems to add up to the fact that the Wolverines will have 'to play an improved game over that which they played last week- end in Grand Forks. Commenting on that series, 'Frisco Stil Tops AP' Poll The sports writers and broad- casters who picked Coach Phil Wollpert's San Francisco Dons as the Number One team in the As- sociated Press pre-season ranking ~poll gave them the same billing Monday in the first of regular season ranking polls. The top 10 teams with won-lost records and first place votes in parenthesis: 1. San Francisco (3-0) (60) 910 2. N. Carolina St. (4-0) (4) 64G 3. Utah ..........(3-0) (3) 520 4. Iowa . ........ (2-0) (3) 438 5. Alabama ..... (4-0) (11) 404 '6. Duquesne .-... (3-0) (2) 335 7. Dayton .. .. .. ..(4-0 ) (1) 269 8. Brigham Young (4-0) 239 9. Vanderbilt . ... (4-0) (6) 188 10. Holy Cross .. (3-0) (4) 168 first victory under your belt. - And a solid victory, at that. A 77-71 win over a strong Ne- braska quintet Saturday night caused a bit of optimism to pre- vail in the Yost Field House locker :oom yesterday. Basketball Coach Bill Perigo saw a big improvement over the prey- LOUS week's loss to Pittsburgh: "The boys started to work as a mnit against Nebraska. Our play under the backboards was fine, and the bench came through when it was needed." Depth Evident T he w or ds, " b en ch c a me through" seemed to have a special- significance, for Michigan showed Saturday that it has stronger depth than it has had in quite a while. Injuries incurred during the game to Ron Kramer and Harvey Williams didn't prove disastrous to ubsttutewt capable pr form ers. Both injured men should be ready for Saturday's game at But- ler. Kramer pulled a muscle in his foot during the contest, but came back to seal down the lid on the JOE KILBEY, TOP SCORER in Denver history, leads the Pioneers against Michigan tonight in a WIHL hockey game at the. Coliseum. Kilbey tallied 32 times in 1953-54 to set the all time school record and garnered 21 more goals last year. LOKEN SA TISFIED:- GymnstsInsire ByFirst Meet By JOHN LaSAGE Saturday's Midwest Open Meet at Chicago gave Coach Newt Loken a od ide of the kind of cme tition his gymnasts will be facing Mhigan finished fourth in 'the meet, compiling a total of 57 "Ou weakest events seem to be the trampoline and tumbling," boken said, 'while we appear Staff Fired By The Associated Press The new broom swept clean at Northwestern, yesterday, as Stu Hoicomb, athletic director less than three days, fired football coach Lou Saban and his entire staff. Saban, line coaches Bud Svend- sen and Nathan Johnson, back- field coach Al Pesek and end coach George Steinbrenner, were told that their one-year contracts would not be renewed when they expired March 1. The shakeup in the Athletic Department climaxed alumni and campus criticism of the last two football seasons during which Northwestern won only one Big Bob Voigts resigned "uder aluin pressure" nearly a year ago.' Purdue Hires Coach Jack Mollenkopf, whose 'power- ful lines made Purdue the best defensive team in the Big Ten this fall, was promoted to head football coach yesterday. The former star end of Bowling Greep University -of Ohio was re- ported to be the choice of Stu Holcomb, who left the Purdue coaching job after nine seasons to become athletic director at North- western. Mollenkopf was given a three- year contract at an undisclosed salary. Holcomb's last Purdue con- tract was for 10 years. strong on the parallel bars, side ones they already have." horse, flying and still rings, and 'The team is preparing for their ' high bar. Illinois and Iowa look 'next meet, a January 9 contest with Michigan State. very strong this year. I was par- __ -_ - _ ticularly impressed with Iovwa's BamiBeycaptured four first places Rm l y C for Iowa. The versatile Hawkeye won *the all-around title sid N FL Title on ] exercise event. The Wolverines performed very By JIM BAAD well on the parallel bars. Ciiptain "Chio" Sn Atoni, Wyne ar- The Los Angeles Rams will be I ren, and Ed Gagnier all placed thevWld's ofesonal Footbyallr among the top ten in this event. teWrdsPoesoa otal "This is especially impressive con- 'Championship game on Dec. 26. sidering there were twelve schools The.,Browns, perennial winner in the meet and at least fifty men of the Eastern Division title, had in each event," Loken said. Itheir crown for this season sewed Gagnier was Michigan's strong- up a week ago. Sunday they rolled est performer. Although the off i- over the Chicago Cardinals 35-24, cial results are not out yet, Loken for a final season victory they Ididn't actually need. Need aLete? eThe Chicago Bears, who finish_ BB & OffCT, ed ahalf game behind LosAgee, Wrestling Coach Cliff Keen fought hard enough at the end, has a problem, but their start was too slow, and The Big Ten has decided that they lost one game too many. in accordance with Olympic The Rams, on the other hand, rules, the conference will add got off to a quick start, and hung another weight division to the on to the end, relinquishing their wrestling mieets--115 pounds. Division leadership for only one The only catch is that Keen brief week. has no men who can classify Los Angeles had to win Sunday for this weight. Anyone who can to clinch the tittle, however, and and is interested should contact did, whipping the Green Bay Keen or Assistant Coach Bob Packers, 31-17. It was really a Betzig. victory under pressure, as the -scoreboard stood before them, glar- believes that Gagnier finished ing out Chicago's previous 17-10 among the top ten in every event, win over Philadelphia. While the The Wolverine coach seemed IRams played, the Bears prayed. well pleased with his team's show- The Bears had done their part ing, remarking, "Watching some on this day of' decision. They had of the other performers in the won their final game, giving them meet seems to have instilled the a record of 8-4 for the season. But boys with an incentive to learn the game that had deprived them some new tricks and perfect the of a title more than any other was the fateful loss to the lowly Chi- WIHIL Standing cago Cardinals on Thanksgiving ES weekend, 53-14. Team Won Lost Pts- The loss dropped them from the Noi'th Dakota 3 1 6 division lead and set them behind Michigan 1 1 2 Los Angeles that small but never Mich. State 0 2 0 surmounted one-half game. All other teams have not yet The Rams looked strong in the played.deciding game. Rookie Ron Waller opened up a seven point lead for eveland For December 26 the Rams with a 55 yard run on the fourth play of the game and Green Bay never caught up. It turned into an all-around day for Los Angeles as Skeet Quinian ran a punt back 55 yards for a TD and quarterback Norm Van Brocklin completed 12 out of 19 passes. In other games around the league, the last of the season, the Washington Redskins finished sec-. ond in the Eastern Division, de- feating Pittsburgh 28-17, New York handed Detroit its ninth loss, 24-19, and San Francisco dropped Baltimore into fourth place, crushing them, 35-24. FINAL PRO sTANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T PcIt. Casualties Recovered Although his foot still is in some pain, the mishap is nothing ser- ious. Williams, another casualty, is back in smooth working order. lie was removed from the game in the first half after injuring an ankle. Randy Tarrier, who played most of the game, felt ill afterwards arid checked in at Health Service. He recorded a fever, but respond- ed to treatment and was released Sunday. The Maize and Blue, led by Kramer and Williams, scorched the nets in the first half on 45 per cent of its shots, but fell to slightly above 30 per cent in the final 20 minutes of play. This drop-off in shooting per- mitted Nebraska to sneak up to within one point of Michigan, 67- 66, late in the game. Then Kramer took over, scoring three quick bas- kte to putthe finishing touches Dormis, Pro Fraternities Take Titles Gomberg had little trouble in whipping Reeves, 4-0 for its sec- ond straight Residence Halls volleyball championship at the I-M Building last night. .Michigan, after losing the open- ing pair of games, stormed back LATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES SMU 75, Wisconsin 62 St. Louis 86, Indiana 75 Ohio State 89, Oklahoma 68 Wayne 67, Western Ontario 56 Kentucky 71, DePaul 69 to take Cooley, 4-3, and second place spot. Adams dropped Hinsdale, 4-1, for third place honors. Phi Alpha Kappa, easily downed defending champions, Nu Sigma Nu, 4-1, to win this year's profes- sional volleyball championship. Taking second place ribbons, was the Law Club who disposed of Alpha Chi Sigma, 4-0. ~jCompete Your Christ mas ~ Sopping at Staeb & Huss Ifyou haven't decided what to give him, we believe our store will furnish inspiration. Sport Shirts Underwear Neckwear Robes Hosiery Shirts Hats Pajamas Handkerchiefs Jewlr Gloves Belts and -S uspenders Jackets Wool Shirts Stradivari ALL GIFTS APPROPRIATELY BOXED Store Hours - Daily 9 to 5:30 Monday and Friday 9 to 8 :30 P.M. 309 South MIai Street c.eveland... Washington. Chicago Cards ... Philadelphia .. Pittsburgh.. WESTERN C Los Angeles .. Ccago Bears Baltimore ... San Francisco.. Detroit. .. . . .. . . "KE EP A-I OF YOI T'ry Us for * WORKM * PERSONA --11 Tonso The Dasco Near Michi ....9?l .840 1 ,81 .545 /.. 5" Sc .4 A SI PORTS FACTS Bock in the roaring twenties, undisputed Big Ten basket- ball championships were the exception rather than the rule. Only three out of nine seasons saw a single leader at the head of the Western Conference pack. One of these uncontested champions was the Michigan Court squad of 1926-27. Big drawing card on the cage varsity was a flashy forward named Bennie Oosterbaan. The center was a. standout defensive sophomore named Ernie McCoy, later to become captain of the. varsity, coach of four teams around mid-century, and assistant athletic director. Then there was a diminutive guard who went by the name of Ed Chambers. So the day of reckoning came. The oppenent was Iowa, co-leader the year before, and the date was March 7, 1927-- the seventh of March being the mcxgic number on Michigan court history. But it looked like it was the Wolverines' unlucky number when the action got underway. It took more than 10 mthes rfor the Maize and Blue cagers to find the range from They needed fight and plenty of it if they were to win the game. Here's where Chambers, the unsung hero, stepped into the picture. Throughout the game he kept his team in the bitter fight by his sensational shooting. The score was 27-25, with two minutes left to play. Now was the 'time for Oosterbaan, experiencing a horrendous night, to come through with the all-important bucket, his lone two points of the contest: After Iowa gained possession of the ball, Al Harrison, sub- stitute Hawkeye guard, drove in orn the right hand side of the keyhole for the basket. But Chambers generated superhuman effort to block Harrison's layup attempt with less than half o mnintite left, forcing the overtime period. Iowa drew first blood in the extra session, but Chambers retaliated to tie the score at 29-all. 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