FADE FOUTR TIRE lIlCHIGAN- DAILY ichigan Coaching Staff Molders of Championship C aliber .0 H. 0. CRISLER RAY FISHER CLARENCE MUNN LEROY WEIR RAY COURTRIGHT EDDIE LOWREY By AL KOHN Last year Michigan more than lived up to its reputation as "the Champions and the Best." Seven of the 'eight teams competing in the Big Ten walked off with champion- ships. Much of the credit for this splendid achievement goes to the Wolverine mentors, headed by Ath- letic Director and head football coach "Fritz" Crisler. The eleven man coaching staff has turned out teams that any Michigander can be justly proud of. Coming to Michigan in 1938, pig- skin coach Crisler continued his rec- ord of championship teams. Under his guidance, the Wolverine elevens have continuously turned in top cal- iber performances. Last year Michi- gan was undefeated in Conference play, tying the Boilermakers of Pur- due for first place. Few can forget the play of Tom Harmon,* Forest Evashevski, Julie Franks, Al Wistert, Bob Westfall, Bill Daley, Merv Preg- ulman, or Bob Wiese, who are some of the many stars Crisler has turned out. When Fielding H. Yost retired as Athletic Director after a 20-year reign, in 1941, Crisler was appointed to succeed him. Besides supervising the athletic affairs of the various teams, Crisler is responsible for the huge physical fitness program now in operation. He started and put into operation many of the activities that are making future warriors physically fit men. Crisler's two assistants, Earl Mar- tineau and "Biggie" Munn, are both former All-Ame'ricans. Martineau, who handles the backs, came to Michigan from Princeton with Cris- ler. In 1923 Earl won All-American honors as a halfback from Minne- sota. He was also awarded the West- ern Conference Medal for excellence in scholarship and athletics. Line Coach Clarence "Biggie" Munn also attended Minnesota, where he won the same awards as Martineau. Munn was responsible for the "Seven Oaks" who starred in the Wolverine line two years ago. The job of sifting 1ut the promising freshman candi- dates falls to frosh coach Wally Weber. Wally was in the plunging slot for Michigan in the 1925-1926 season. One of the more versatile coaches is Bennie Oosterbaan. Although he handles the basketball team, Bennie also finds time to be end coach on the football team and assistant men- tor of the baseball team. Until Elroy Hirsch topped the mark, Bennie was one of the few to win three letters in a year, doing this three years run- ning. When Charlie Hoy, went to Yale as track coach, Ken Doherty moved up from the freshman team and cap- tured the indoor and outdoor crowns in his first year. Ken repeated this' trick last year. Chester Stackhouse came up from Saginaw High to take Doherty's place as freshman track coach in 1939. Mann Goes To Town Since coming to Michigan in 1925, Tank Coach Matt Mann has seen his- charges take, 15 Big Ten crowns and 12 inter-collegiate champion- ships. In 1940 Mann's team walked off with the Big Ten, Intercollegiate and National AAU titles, the first Wolverine squad to do this. Last season the tankers won in the Big Ten but lost the other titles by slen- der margins. Even though he has lost many men to the armed services, Mann is still producing squads of championship caliber. Filling out the winter schedule are the wrestling and hockey teams han- dled by Ray Courtright and Eddie Lowery. In his first season as coach, after replacing Cliff Keene, Court- right guided his charges to second place in the Big Ten. This year the wrestlers beat Purdue 28-27, tak- ing their first title since 1938. While at Oklahoma, Coach Courtright won 12 letters and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Eddie Lowrey of the ice sextet ended the last season with five wins and three losses. Lowrey was a member of the Ottawa Sena- tors in his playing days. Bring Three 'Titles The mentors of the spring sports brought Michigan three Conference titles, baseball, golf and tennis. A former veteran of the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees, Coach Ray Fischer has turned out many top flight nines. This year, with the pitching of Bliss Bowman and Elroy Hirsch, the baseball team again won the championship. Tennis Coach Leroy Weir. was just as for- tunate, winning the Big Ten crown and losing only to Notre Dame 5-4. Weir has coached the netters for six years and also took the title in 1941. The other spring title holder was the golf team guided by Ray Courtright, the only man to coach two sports. The Wolverines have been champs on the links for the last three sea- sons. Wolverine Tennis Team Beats Ohio State, 18-17, for Title Lewis, Gulic, and Post Place in Conference Championship Meet DOHERT Y'S ALL-STAR TRACK TEAM: Ken Doherty Reminisees on Five Successful Track Seasons By BOB CLINTON Coach Leroy Weir's tennis squad climaxed a season of eight victories and one defeat when they cane from behind to edge out Ohio State for the Big Ten championship, 18-17. The conference finals were held on the week-end of May 27 at North- western University and following the first day's play the Wolverine netters were on the short end of a 13-11 score. In the singles, three members of the squad won individual cham- pionships. They were Merle Gulic in the number three berth, Roger Lewis at five and Dave Post at the number six spot. All three Wolverine doubles teams advanced to the fials, and only one of these needed victories. It was the number three team of Gulic and Roger Lewis that came through with the win that gave Michigan the title. The two doubles teams of Jinx John- son and Bill Ford, and Lewis and Jim Frolik were defeated in the Big Ten finals. Johnson Captains Team Playing in the number one slot for Michigan all year was Johnson, who captained the team. In match play throughout the year he lost only three matches, one of them being out of the conference, and won seven. In the Big Ten championships, John- son lost a thrilling three set match to Aris Franklin- of Ohio State, whom he had previously defeated during the regular season. The most outstanding victories for Hall of Northwestern and Vic Sou- Johnson all year were against Harry kup of Western Michigan. Gulic Had Clean Slate Frolik occupied 4he number two position. :His record for the season including his victory in the confer- ence matches, was six wins and five setbacks. Before coming to Michi- gan, Frolik had played for Stanford. Gulic, playing in the third spot was undefeated in both singles and doubles competition. He was the only member of the squad who fin- ished wits a clean slate and had a secord of 12 wins against no losses. Playing in the number four posi- tion for Michigan was Bill Ford, the outstanding freshman star. Ford's record included nine wins, one loss Buckeye in the conference finals. Notre Dame Only Setback The netters started their 1944 campaign against Western Michigan and scored an easy triumph. Follow- ing this came victories over Minne- sota and Chicago. The following weeks, the Wolverines scored two 9-0 shutouts against Wisconsin and Illinois. After these matches, Michi- gan received its first and only setback of the season by Notre Dame, the score'being 5-4. One week before the conference matches, the netters scored victories 7-2 and 5%-3/2. In warming up for over Ohio State and Northwestern their final matches, the netters trim- med Western Michigan for the sec- ond time, 8-1. Johnson, Boucher at Nationals Two Wolverine netters, Jinx John- son and Roy Boucher went to North- western University to compete in the National Intercollegiate meet June 26-30. Johnson was victorious in his first match, but was defeated the next day by Gonzaga's third seeded Harry Likas, 6-3, 6-0. Boucher was eliminated in the first round. Civilians To Get Tickets to Football Games Students who enroll for the fall term at the University are entitled to admission to all football games when they pay their tuition fee at the time of registration and may attend all other sports events by presenting their identification cards at the gate the day of the contest. Some athletic events require a nominal charge, but in every case the price paid by students is lower than that paid by the ordinary spectator. In this way, the University gives all students the opportunity of witness- ing the finest intercollegiate sports program in the country. For admission to football games the student must exchange a special coupon he receives at registration for a block of tickets to the games. By MURRAY GRANT Ken Doherty ,track coach at the University of Michigan, has compil- ed an excellent record during his ten- ure of office at the school. He has coached six championship teams during a five year span attain- ing two championships in one year, that is, one each in indoor and out- door track. Thus Coach Doherty has three indoor champions and a like number of outdoor winners. He Attended Wayne Coach Doherty received his formal education at Wayne University, and then returned to Michigan to get his Masters degree. He began his coach- ing career in 1929 under the able tutelage of Keen Fitzpatrick, who is also famous in the annals of Michi- gan trackdom. This knowledge which Doherty ac- quired under Fitzpatrick at Princeton was soon put into actual practice; for in 1930 he was appointed as assistant track coach to Charles Hoyt, famous track mentor at Michigan for many years. This assistantship lasted for nine years when Coach Doherty was rewarded for his excellent work by his appointment as head coach of the thinclads in 1939. Thus a fine ca- reer reached its climax and it was in future years to blossom forth as one of the greatest eras in Michigan track history. All-Star Selections For Track When asked to give his selections for an all-star Michigan track team during the five years that he has coached, Coach Doherty declined on the grounds that "no one man or men are so far superior to any other man or men that it is not possible to clearly pick one man for each posi- tion." He did, however, agree to name those men who had attained the best records during the period of five years. He named Lt. Alan Smith, who ran the 100 yard dash in 9.8 seconds and the 220 yard dash in 21.3 seconds, as the outstanding dash man. Lt. Smith was killed in the Tunisian campaign. For the 120 yard high hurdles he named Frank McCarthy of the 1942 track squad, who ran the distance in 14.7 seconds. McCarthy has also paid in blood during the war, but he was a little luckier. He was injured during the invasion of France and is now recuperating in an Army hospi- tal in England. Hall Named Best Hurdler Then continuing his resume of the records compiled by individual stars on his track teams, Coach Doherty named Jeff Hall of his 1940 squad as the hurdler who ran the fastest time in the 220 yd. low hurdles. Hall's time was 23.6 seconds. Then in both the quarter mile and the half mile runs, Coach Doherty named Warren Breidenbach and Robert Ufer. Breid- enbach ran the 440 yd. outdoor dash in the amazing time of 47 seconds flat. This is a Michigan record. Ufer also set a Michigan record, in fact, an American record when, in 1942 he -ran the 440 indoors in the time of 48.1 seconds. These two men again stole the honors in the half mile, when Breidenbach broke the exist- ing Michigan record in the time of 1.51.2 minutes and Ulfer paralleled this feat by breaking the indoor rec- ord in the timhe of 1.53.8. In the longer distances three men were outstanding. They were the famous Hume twins, who , won all their races in dead heats, and Ralph Schwartzkopf. The Hume. twins ran the fastest outdoor mile of this per- iod in 4.14.4, while Schwatzkopt ran the mile indoors in 4.14.2. Both these times are Michigan records. Sch- wartzkopf also set the two mile rec- ords by running this indoor event in 9.10.5, and the outdoor two mile in 9.03.5. Thus these three:fellows dom- inated the distance picture at the university. JINX JOHNSON and one tie. He was unquestionably the most aggressive player on the squad, and if he continues to improve she::d become one of Michigan's top netters. Lewis Best in Conference Lewis held down the number five spot and finished with a record of ten wins and two losses. He was by far the most outstanding man in the conference at the number five posi- tion, and used a hard serve coupled with a stinging overhead smash to defeat his opponents. Occupying the last and number six position was Post. His record for the season was 11 wins against one set- back. 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