THE MICHIGAN DAILY the P~e I/e... WITH DAVE GREY - - - - - SPE SAE Win, Kec Playoffs Delts Also Gain Championship Level In Il-M Social Fraternity 'A' Football Dear Michigan:. N ANSWER to the questions you may have been asking about the financial aid to athletes at Michigan, I have been doing some research to find facts and feelings on the subject. It's a complgx topic, but I hope that there is enough information here to help you understand and evaluate big time athletics at the University. We hear a great deal about the Michigan tradition of supremacy in sports. Under the "genius" direction of Athletic Director H. 0. "Fritz" Crisler, Michigan has developed a magnificent physical plant not only for intercollegiate but also for intramural sports. It's a program that offers many wonderful opportunities, and with it the problems of bigness-over-emphasis on the values of athletics as an educational contribution. So let's start looking In all honesty, the situation here is quite '~healthy. But one can't overlook some of the drawbacks, the room for criticism.. How does Michigan get good football players? There is recruiting, generally less than most other schools in the Western Conference (Big Ten). Michigan doesn't have to sell its athletic program exclusively. We have an academic standard that automatically scares many big name high school stars away. But academics also is a selling point for a good number of Michigan football players who are sincerely seeking a college education and a future beyond the field of athletics. There are a good many players on Michigan's team who came here because of a family tradition, one or more relative who may have graduated from here. Another reason that Michigan can get good athletes without, perhaps, offering as much as other institutions is that we possess the largest living alumni body in the Midwest. Alumni are'wonderfully vital to an institution such as Michigan. But'in the case of athletics they can also be unintentionally destructive. Thank goodness we have a minimum of alumni who feel that they can contribute by slipping money "under the table" to athletes. Michigan's policy under Crisler has even been to discourage outwardly alumni booster groups from over-emphasis. But there are still some individuals, and I have seen. them, who do not realize what great ultimate harm they are doing by giving illegal aid. This is not to say that all Michigan athletes accept illegal aid according to amateur standards. There are only a few, And you can't really blame many of them, since a high percentage of our players come from difficult financial situations. The pressure is on; many of us would probably do the same thing in the same situation. But why the situation and what can be done to correct it? What Can The Athlete Receive? PROBABLY the answer to this would be to state just what the athlete can get here. J Depending on scholastic ability, an athlete can apply for a scholarship starting at tuition and on up in degrees to the very few "full ride scholarships of tuition, room, board, books, laundry and incidentals. Students with other abilities, however, are not ignored. In fact, the financial aid to. athletes makes up only a very small figure of the total scholarships, grant-in-aids, and loans. Last year 4,640 students received approximately $1,450,000 in scholarships and fellowships. This to me is not athletic over-emphasis. Athlete and music stu- dents.are representing the University. The former is involved with the possibility-of physical injury. But why is the ,proportion, the rating-scale for athletes higher? Why can a football player maybe get a tuition athletic scholarship of $100 a semester as a minimum and a member. of the Michigan Marching Band only $45? Crisler has admitted that the athlete is "definitely special." - By the nature of his interest, he has certain advantages and disadvantages (ineligibility status, for example). He is on a pedestal from the start. Add to the basic aid he can receive here, there are a series of other added factors he can get that place a strange emphasis on his talents. No one should begrudge the opportunity for the athlete to get a good job on campus. He has to work in Ann Arbor in order to get paid. Some of the jobs, such as scraping the ice during hockey season, or selling football programs are-we must admit-pretty good deals. Nor should the single fact that the football player on the training, board table gets a free evening meal (a good $10 a week saved) be particularly bothersome.-, But start putting all these little things together and you get more1 emphasis, an even higher pedestal.; And the pressure really comes on when the football players get1 top-rate tickets for the games. A sophomore on the varsity gets two free tickets (non-student) for each home game, plus the opportunity to buy two more. A junior gets four and four; a senior gets six and six.j Free tickets for the family and friends are fine and should be continued. But why does the athlete, under Big Ten rules, get tickets for which he is almost invited to sell for more than the established price? Are these few negative aspects to an otherwise pretty good situ-! ation at Michigan helping our education?R Open aid, "all above board" and in reasonable proportion, is an ideal solution. Ineligibility for the athlete who accepts other aid would be the next step. Maybe conferences can someday get together tot establish a standard code, where everyone would get the equal amount. Anyway, financial aid to athletes is something worth wondering about now. After all, it's a philosophy in the American competitive 1 tradition that is going to carry on to our future generations. JIM PACE ... first string? By FRED WERTHEIMER Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Tau Delta gain- ed first place playoff positions by emerging victorious in their "A" fraternity football games yesterday at Ferry Field. SAE, who tied with two other teams for first place in its league, was awarded the spot on the basis' of, having the most net points of the three. Sig Ep knocked off Sigma Chi, 19-12, in a game featured by hard' rushing and rough blocking. Final Scorej SPE took advantage of a dazzl- ing 40 yard double pass play to set up its final winning score. Back on hit own fwn ith third do wn and Wolverines Look Ahead To Wildcats ,. Ray Hockstad, Tom Jones, and Bob Hieberger, and Dick Johnson intercepted and went all the way to account for another scoring. Other Games In other 'A' games Alpha Delta Phi outplayed Pi Lambda Phi to a 20-' decision. Kappa Sigma edged Theta Xi, 7-0; Phi Kappa All men interested in fresh- man basketball should report to Yost Fieldhouse today at 7:00 p.m. Bring your own equipment and be ready for practice. -Bill Perigo Tau topped Delta Sigma Phi, 12-0; Trigon whitewashed Chi Phi, 20-0; and Phi Kappa Sigma won a for- /feit over Phi Sigma Kappa. In "B" fraternity action Tau Kappa Epsilon nosed out Delta Chi, 1-0, and Delta Kappa Epsilon stopped Zeta Psi, 13-0. Vets Share Little Hope For Swaps CAMDEN, N.J. (RP)-A team of leading veterinarians worked fev- erishly last night to save the life of the great thoroughbred, Swaps. A reliable source reported not much hope is held for the horse, valued at more than a million dol- lars. Swaps, owned by Rex. C. Ells- worth and John W. Galbreath, has seriously aggravated the slight fracture he suffered during a workout at Camden's Garden State Park Oct. 9. The colt is suffering from com- plications of the fracture which might necessitate amputation of the leg. In that event the horse would be put to death. The job of the veterinarians is to try and save the leg. Dr, Jenney placed a special type of cast on the injured left hind leg of the record-breaking horse. It is hoped that this cast along with a sling which has the. horse suspended several inches from the ground will keep the leg immobile long enough for the fracture to heal. Net Yards $tushing 568 Number of Attempts 152 Yards Per Attempt 3.68 Net Yards Passing 306 Forward Passes Attempted 41 Forward Passes Completed 22 459 138 3.33 157 Number of Plays 193 Yards Per PFla 33 4.3 Punts 13 Average Distance Per Punt 34.6, Points 90 Michigan Football Statistics MICHIGAN OPPONENTS Passes Had Intercepted First Downs 4 31 2 Rushing 31 26 % of Passes Completed Passing 13 5 53.7 30.3 Penalty 1 0 .- --- Yards Per Pass Attempted 7.5 Net Yards - Rushing and] 874 3.6 28. 36 4.8 Passing 616 171 10 I I -. (- It was a warm autumn after- ull 1115'11 lu wVd l ull" llw w In sbut the Michigan football 30 to go for a first down; Laver- nOon, moeonithindothan combe faded back, flipped to Bruce squad had more on its mind than Wisniewski off to the side, who in Business before pleasure was the turn fired to Chuck Turner who motto of the dayasrthe team ran was finally tagged on the 10. through all types ofdrills while Lavercombe then passed to preparing for Northwestern. Crawford for the TD. Study Northwestern Offense SAE Wins .After the linemen warmed up on In a contest that was decided in tackling and charging drills, and the last three minutes, SAE topped the backfield and ends practiced Tqu Delta Phi, 12-6. ball-handling and passing, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon scored on squad settled down to the work its first series of downs, Tony of unraveling the secrets of the Hoffman flipped to Bill Mestdagh Northwestern offense. in the left flat who made a spark- Left halfback, Jim Pace, who ling one-handed stab of the ball was named to the starting liieup and traveled down the sidelines for the first time last Saturday, some 20 yards to pay dirt. was again working out mostly with Late in the first half Chuck the first team. Baraf of Tau Delt' intercepted a With the substitutes playing the pass thrown by Hoffman on SAE's role of this Saturday's visitors 10 and went into the, end zone to from Evanston, Ill., the regulars tie the score. practiced pass defense even though The second half was mainly a the Wildcats are not known as a defensive battle until, with a little passing team, less than five minutes left, Hoff- Every so often a running play man fired to Dick Weiss for the was thrown in to keep the first TD that won the game. stringers on their toes. The climax of the day's work Delta Tau Delta Over AEPi was an hour long test of the Wol- The Delts had no trouble in verine offense with the accent on whipping AEPi, 27-6. Ed Demarest pass plays. I tossed three touchdown passes to Develop Your Own System; Join Grid Picks Competition Top Three Big Ten Teans Show Powerful Offensives Oee***e@ 0 i 0 @0 00 ' By DON McGHEEv Big scores in last Saturday's Big Ten games are ample proof of the powerful offensive ability of the Conference's top three teams. The biggest score was tallied by Michigan State in its 53-6 victory over Indiana. Voted the number two team in the country again this week by the AP poll, the Spartans added something new to their of- fensive attack in Saturday's romp. The strong running game of the Spartans was very successfully supplemented by a passing attack which proved to be equally as suc- cessful. Increase Passing In Michigan State's two pre- vious games, very little use of the forward, pass was made. But Clar- ence Peaks, who passed so well in last year's Rose Bowl game, proved that he could still do it as he toss- ed one for a touchdown. Although the Hoosiers had wqrk- ed on pass defense during the week, they still failed to effectively stop the Spartans as they unleash- ed their passing attack, complet- ing 10 out of 12 for 204 yards. The other big score came out of Michigan's 48-14 victory over Army. OSU Also Passes Ohio State downed Illinois, 26- 6, to give them three wins in a row. The game was like the Mich- igan State-Indiana game in one respect. Much like Michigan State, Ohio State had previously this year made very sparing use of the pass. But the Buckeyes scored one touchdown on a pass and another on a fake pass. Subscribe to The Michigan Daily Rated 11th in this week's AP poll, Iowa stopped Wisconsin, 13- 7, in a hard fought game. The .win gives Iowa two Big Ten wins with- out a loss, and the Hawkeyes now are second in the Big Ten stand- ings. It was Wisconsin's first Con- ference game. A scoreless tie resulted in the Minnesota - Northwestern game. 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