4 FRESHMAN SUPPLEMENT ilk igau ti SECTION THREE No -i..*- I ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 12, 1939 itle Hopes Soar As Football Season Nei irs Six Vars"y Coaches Promise Good 1939 Prospects '' IOT STOVE I =By BILL REED I 4 Kromer, Harmon To Be Mainstays Of Fast Backfield Ann Arbor, Mich. Aug. 12, 1939 I was very pleased to hear from you and needless to say gratified to hear you have decided to enter Michigan this fall. You have said your decision to enter Michigan was influenced not. a little by your particular interest in athletics and your belief that Michigan }s. ne of the finest athletic schools in the country. And you have asked me to give you something of the inside on athletics here. At the outset let me say that I, too, consider Michigan the finest tchool in the country for athletics. Its athletic personnel, program, physical facilities and its record are combined on standards so high as to be mnmatched. - There Is, for Instance, its record in intercollegiate competition. Look Jr und the country and you'll find your "football schools," your "bas- ketball schools," or your "track schools," institutions whose teams in a partIcular sport are consistently outstanding. But I don't believe you will find anywhere in the country a school that Is BO consistently outstanding in all sports competition. Michigan, too, has Its leaders. Its football record through the years will stand with any. For many years its track and swimming teams have been Conference and na- tional leaders. Consider the fact that last year Michigan won three Big S en championships and one national championship, that the year before Michigan won four Big Ten championships and a national title. Threatening In Every Sport More si nificant to me than that record of supremacy, however, is the all-sports record which finds Michigan teais contenders and dangeros in every ort on the intercollegiate program. Again take as typical last year when Michigan teams won 84 intercollegiate contests, lost 32 and tied seven, and you will note that Michigan schedules are never arranged as soft touches In any sport. In the Western Conference, probably the toughest =thletic league in America, Michigan teams in nine sports average 2.5, that Is just between second and third place in every sport. * Or there is the athletic plant, often called the most complete inii the world. Its physical worth is evaluated at close to $3,500,000 and Includes the Stadiudn, the Field House, the Intramural Building, the Golf Course, the Ice Rink, Ferry Field and the Women's Building and Field, which comprise facilities for as broad an intercollegiate and recre- itIonal sports program as could be desired. Those are some of the reasons I believe Michigan is the finest ath- letic school in the country. But don't get the impression that Michigan Is e1wlusively a school for athletics.. -You are fully aware of Michiga's, reputation as an educational institution, and I want to impress upon you the fact, which is also the ideal of the athletic administration, that the athletic program and facilities are but an adjunct of the entire educational program. That fact is reflected in the campus attitude toward the athlete. Michi- gan is no movie set where the appearance of a Varsity sweater is a signal for genuflections on the part of less publicized members of the student body. In other words, the athletes do not run the campus as they do at many institutions you will observe during the course of yo.r college career. But neither are they patronized as "dumb hired hands." On the whole the athlete is accorded the position he earns for himself by his own appearance off the field. Which leads me to what I believe you had in mind in asking me about Michigan athletics, something of its personalities. Combine Extra-Curricular With Curricular{ You would like to know about some of the athletes, who and what they are. It would be difficult for me to tell you of them individually, so I will try to generalize. On the whole those boys you'll see on the gridiron this fall, on the basketball floor in the winter, on the track or on the diamond in the spring, are just the sort of boys you knew at home, a little older and a little more proficient physically. They may live for their athletics and that may be what takes them above the average, but also they are here for an education. And most of them are getting it the hard way, working their way and being granted a minimum of favor because they are athletes. I saw a study of last year's football squad, for instance. Of 37 squad members, including all the lettermen, all but three were not at leat partially self-supporting in school, 17 of them working their way entire- ly, mostly with board jobs and room jobs or some marginal employment. Not many of them are brilliant students, although you'll find the all-Al students among them. I have never seen a study comparing the schol-1 astic standing of the athletes with the rest of the student body, but it is my guess they would he something above average. Their eligibility re- quirements necessitate that, for they must maintain a C average with no failures In order to compete. It is difficult to generalize although I have tried it. I remember the football squad that had a millionaire's on throwing passes to a boy whos had never owned a suit of clothes before he went away to school. Or you cans note the cosmopolitan array of names on any squad roster. The impression I want to give, though, is that these athletes you will see are not a privileged lot by virtue of their athletic publicity, but a group of fellows whose achieve- ments happen to be outstanding in athletics and who remain on the whole just guys you'd like to know. Devoted To Michigan Tadition Then there are the personalities of the coaches and the administration, responsible for that unique standing of Michigan athletics as near the top year in and year out in every sport. Of them I can generalize readily, for they are each anc all devoted to a Michigan tradition and a Michigan spirit of which you will hear much and which takes its form in the production of teams of high caliber on the field and off. More specifically I'd like to tell you briefly of a couple of those men, those two in ranking positions in the administration of athletics at Michigan. First there is Fieldng H. Yost, whose contrbutions to Michi- gan and to intercollegiate athletics can never be told. He is the "Grand Old Man" today, but it has been his vision and his ideals that have moulded the athletic Michigan you are to come to know. With him now is another man, Fritz Crisler, who came here last year as football coach. He is a man who, for his innate qualities, would have made a great , success in any profession he chose. He elected football and athletic WEBER MUNN CR.ISLER OOSTERBAAN DICKSON MARTINEAU Future For Varsity Natators Looks Prorising To 'Admiral' Matt Mann By MEL FINEBERG Admiral Matt Mann is back in the crow's nest of the Michigan Ship of Swim, his telescope pointing this time toward the future. The Admiral, musing with the muse, and with apol- ogies to the poet is "leaving the past to the fate it was fit for, the future be thine." . And the future might well be his. For deserting the Ship are but two of the hands who brought it safely into the Big Ten and National Col- legiate Championships last year, Tom Haynie and Walt Tomski. Jimmy Welsh, a sophomore who handed Haynie his first beating in Big Ten championship competition in three years when he dethroned him as 220 champion, finished sec- ond to Haynie in the quarter at both the Big Tens and the Nationals, and third in the furlong at the latter meet. Charley Barker, another soph- omore, nosed out Tomski in the 50 and tied for first in the century at -tho tion~als Wtheut ~adeta-of wishful thinking, it might be said that this pair has the free style situ- ation well in hand. Holmes Comes Back But the swimmers are an amiable group. They wouldn't think of let- ting these boys carry on alone. Still another sophomore, Bill Holmes, who finished sixth in the Collegiate cen- tury,comes back and then there's Gus Sharemet a freshman who has threatened to raise the temperature of the water every time, he swims, Sharemet finished fourth in the hun- dred at the AAU's in 52.5 and sixth in the 220. John Gillis is another Gym Schedule For Freshmen Is Announced Announcement of the year's pro- gram of compulsory gymnasium classes for freshmen was made re- cently by Dr. George May, director of Waterman Gymnasium. All freshmen except those enrolled in the two-year R.O.T.C. course will be required to attend the six hygiene lectures, given during the first three weeks of the school year, and the weekly gym classes. However, those taking part in any athletic squad work are excused during the time that these squads are in active prac- tice. Immediately on the disbanding of these squads, the student is re- enrolled in his gym section. The only athletic squads open to freshmen at the beginning of the fall term are football, swimming and track. Lecture groups on hygiene meet at the same hours as regular gym section assignment, that is, at 3, 4 or 5 p.m. Wonday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of the first three weeks of school. A member of the Health Service staff will be the lecturer. At the end of the series of lectures, an examination will be given. Following the lectures, on Monday of the fourth week, the regular gym sections will meet. Each class will be divided into five parts, each study- ing one sport, boxing, wrestling, basketball, track and field or gym- nastics. The five groups will be ro- tated every three weeks. The second semester's work in- cludes well-known games, tennis, golf, handball, volleyball, badminton and others. After spring vacation freshmen will be permitted to elect yearling who will sprint forces even Admiral Is But in the back make Wolverine more formidable. Worried stroke, Matt has HAL BENHAM Cagers Connive 'To Upset NeXt Mid-Term inx Hopes Depend On Jim Rae; Oosterhaan Starts Second Year As Head Coach Determined to avoid the midseason jinx that has hit for the past two years, members of the Varsity basket- ball squad are looking forward to a top-notch season this winter, as Coach Benny Oosterbaan starts his second year as head coach. The hopes of the team will be built around Captain Jim Rae, sensational leader who was hampered by a back injury all last season, although he played in most of the games. A mem- ber of the Toledo DeVilbiss cham- pionship team in high school, he has been one of the fans' favorites during his two years on the Michigan team. Other letter-men who will be back, and who will probably be counted on for most of the action in this year's games are Charley Pink, speedy for- ward who burned the Detroit leagues playing for Northwestern High, Tom Harmon, rough and ready but at times inspirational guard, and Russ Dobson, who specializes in smooth floor-work and beautiful long shots. Milo Sukup, Mike Sofiak and John (Continued on Page 17) Wrestlers See Hopeful Season Conference Meet Will Be March 10, 11 In Chicago Runner-up for the Central AAU Title in Chicago last December, Mich- igan's wrestling team, defending Big' Ten champion stands a good chance to repeat their Big-Ten triumph this winter, in the opinion of Coach Cliff, his worries. In sophomores Bill1 Beebe and Barker he had two of the best dorsal exponents in the country. But Francis Heydt, who has swum faster than either, and Dick Reidlt who shows great promise, are com- ing up. The Admiral is worriede Where will he put them all? Barker can easily be shifted to a free style event but the remaining trio will worry Matt. (Any other coach in the country is on the lookout for this specie of worry).f Oh yes, the breast stroke. Johnnyf Haigh, fifth in the Collegiates, re-l turns to be aided and abetted by freshmen John Sharemet, Bob John- son and Tommy Williams; a versatile powerhouse., Renham Will Divek That leaves the dive with Capt.-t elect Hal Benham, third in the Col-f legiates off both high and low board,s handling things quite efficiently. Matt Mann says, "It'll be a typicalE Michigan team. Anybody that beatsk us will know they've been in a fight."c Benhami " is the second diver ini Wolverine natatorial history to be-c come captain, the precedent havingt been established in 1936 when Frank Fesenfeld led the teamp to a National championship.1 Benham came to Michigan froms Indianapolis in 1936 after having been ranked number one scholastic- ally in both diving and breast stroke by the Swimming Guide. Since com- ing to Ann Arbor, however, he has concentrated on the springboard event. His election to head the team next year was the climax to a career that had been uphill against the injury jinx. In 1936 as a freshman he had appendicitis; in his sophomore year he fractured his elbow; and last year he hurt his foot in a dual meet. Last year at Purdue the swimmers took the Big Ten title with a total of 73 points, while Ohio State, their nearest rival, had 49. This was sweet victory for the Wolverines, who hadf been held to two 42-42 ties by thet Buckeyes in dual meets during the winter. In the National Collegiate Meeteheld in the Intramural Pool, the team took 65 points to 58 for the Ohioans, while Princeton came in third with 22, and Texas, Yale and Harvard each copped eight. Coach Doherty To Take Over Track Squads Falls Heir To Big Ten Title Holders; Replaces Hoyt, Yale's New Head Coach Coach Ken Doherty of the track team falls heir to one of the most im- pressive records compiled by any Michigan team in the last decade. But he also falls heir to a good deal of the material that helped make part of that record last year. Coach Doherty succeeds Charlie Hoyt, new head track coach at Yale University. During the' last eight years under Hoyt, Michigan track teams won 11 out of a possible 16 Big Ten championships in indoor and outdoor competition, and won at least one of the titles every year. Last year the team won both the indoor and outdoor titles with ease. But Coach Doherty helped build this record as the popular assistant Heavy Ticket Sale Is Drawn ByGrid Hopes Unusually heavy pre-season ticket demands attributed to the most at- tractive home schedule in many yearsf and the promise of the finest Wol-f verine football team since 1933, have resulted in the mailing of. almost f 100,000 ticket applications to propec-a tive University gridiron fans, accord- ing to Harry Tillotson,'ticket man-r ager. Approximately 70,000 applicationsv are distributed annually during Au- gust, according to Tillotson, but a rec-4 ord number will be sent out this year.V Preference in the location of seatsf is accorded applications returned be- fore Aug. 31, according to Tillotson. Preference among those orders re- ceived before the Aug. 31 deadline is determined by means of a draw. t The draw is one of the most color-o ful features of football ticket distri- bution at Michigan and is adminis-e tered with all the excitement andt formality of a miniature Irish Sweep- stakes drawing. Before each game applications are grouped in bundles of 50 and eachf bundle numbered. Cards bearing corresponding numbers are dumped2 in a hopper and then drawn, prefer-C ence being accorded applications inb those bundles in order of drawing. On the Michigan home schedule for 1939 are Michigan State, Oct. 7;v Iowa, Oct. 14; Yale, Oct. 28; Minne- sota, Nov. 11; and Ohio State, Nov.' 25. HDockey Squadr Sees Brighter' Season Ahead1 Capt. Spike James Is Backf As Goalie; Al Chadwickt Only Other Senior Leftt Bolstered by an up-and-coming freshman squad, Michigan's hockey team is looking forward this year toa a return to dominance in the Con- ference and in the local hockey cir- cles which they have lost in the last1 two or three years.r First of all, there will be Capt. El- don "Spike" James back as goalie. Although playing on mediocre teams1 in his first two years, "Spike" has been a stand-out in the nets and has kept going a tradition for first- class hockey left by his brother Gib.c Al Chadwick in the forward wall will be the only other senior on the squad. Have Less Experience Juniors who will be back have had less experience. Bert Stodden, who was out with an injury most of last year, will return, as will Larry Cal- vert, Jim Tobin, Jim Lovett, Chuck Ross, Gil Samuelson and Fred Heddle. But it is the freshman squad which] is the main hope of Coach Eddie Low- rey. "This outfit is one hundred per cent .better than last year's fresh- man squad," he says, "and our hopes this coming year depend on these boys." Freshman Squad Paul Goldsmith, a center, and Bob Collins, defensemen, are the out-' standing performers on this squad. Goldsmith is fast and rangey, and his height and reach make him an ex- cellent poke-checker. In addition he is a good stick handler and boasts the hardest shot on the team, need- ing only a little seasoning to become a top player. Collins, the most aggressive man on the squad, has spent considerable As , Star (Continued fromr Page 5)l. ceptionally fine blocker, From the freshman squad of last year comes Dave Nelson, small but with the abil- ity to run across a football field as fast and elusively as ligptning streaks across the sky. Fullback prospects have been dim- mied somewhat by the loss of How- ard Mehaffey, veteran from Kiski, Whose aggressive play won him - a regular berth in midseason of last year. Doctors have declared that he will not be ready to play by next fall because of the reluctance of a leg in- fection to heal completely. Appeases Loss However the presence of sophomore Bob Westf all should go a long way toward appeasing the disappointment of Mehaffey's loss. As a freshman last spring, Bob showed enough pow- er and drive from the fullback spot to give promise of being ready for Big Ten duty next fal. He will battle with Ed Christy, 190 pound junior who was injured most of last season, for the starting berth on Fritz Cris- ler's first eleven. Sophomores Bob Zimmerman of Chicago and Jim Grissen of Holland, Mich., also may be counted on for dependable service. 'One-Man Gaang' Hard blocking and. fierce tackling were responsible for the fans' dub- bing Forrest Evashevski the "One- Man-Gang" last year. He will be back as the number one signal caller; able Jack Meyer of Aleria, Ohio, who alternated with him last season, and Mik Megregian, who showed much last spring in the way of playing quar- terback, will supplement his services. In the line, center material is boun- tiful. Capt. Archie Kodros, with five 60-minute games to his credit from last fall, will be the inspiration and mainstay of the team. Horace Tink- er, who turned in an outstanding per- formance for the injured Kodros in the Pennsylvania game last year, and Bob Ingalls, 200-pound sophomore from Kiski, will be ready to take over whenever the need arises. Heavily Drained * That leaves only the guards, tackles and ends, and in each of these posi- tions graduation has drained heavily, leaving Coach Fritz Crisler with the problem of finding capable replace- ments from, for the most part, inex- perienced juniors and sophomores. One of the guard posts will be filled by Ralph "Tugboat" Fritz, win- ner of the Chicago Alumni Trophy for showing the most promise in spring practice this year. For the other side of the line, with both All- American Ralph Heikkinen and his replacement of last season, Milo Sukup, lost to the team, a player capable of carrying on with the same caliber of play will be drawn from among two seniors and four sopho- mores. Showing the most promise are Fred Olds, who played center, guard and tackle at different times last season, and "Butch" Jordan, 210- pound captain of the wrestling team who will be trying to overcome an injury jinx to win his first major "M" in football. Count On Guards Sophomore guards who are count- ed on heavily to fight for Michigan in her gridiron wars will be Bill Mel- zow, Jack Butler, John Laine, and Bob Thomas, all from Michigan. Melzow who showed an uncanny abili- Rated highest in this group is Bill ty to block from the running guard position last spring. After three seasons of outstanding play, erstwhile Capt. Fred Janke and Don Siegel deserted the tackle posts at the, end of last year and left only two veterans with enough experience to play the positions as well as they Loss Of Mehaf fey Dims Prospect For Veteran To Fill Fullback Post Bob Westf all Seen