PA69 TWO THE MITCHI AN 'nA iyv rnmAV_ ATTr-TTIZIF 9A i alb THE ,.....aMs.. UHT (v1ass a N 1L1) as TV m a .al a acY~ o 1~I VIUL"Az, %UIicubl: 4, 1 4a 5. Able Coaches Guide Wolverines to Big Ten Titles By HANK KEISER Tiger ace, is the most famous, while A glance at the record will reveal the latest addition to the Big League that Michigan's athletic teams have, ranks is Don Lund, who was just on the whole, piled up long strings of signed by theBrooklyn Dodgers. victories as against relatively few Fisher has served a long appren- defeats. ticeship in both college and profes- These continuous successes of sional athletics. He gained fame in Maize and Blue sportsmen can be his youth pitching for the Middle- bury College nine, as well as handling verines have had the good fortune the fullback. assignment on that to be blessed with coaches who are school's grid squad. experts instheir respective fields- men who know their business. "Vermont School Teacher" Everyone at Michigan knows the While still in school, he pitched name of Herbert Grin (Fritz) Cris- for Hartford in the Connecticut ler, nationally famous Wolverine League and, upon graduation, was football mentor, but the men who signed by the New York Highlanders, forerunners of today's Yankees. Fish- er kept in touch with the educational field during this time, teaching at Springfield Academy and Newton Military Academy, which caused him to be dubbed the "Vermont school teacher." He served with the Army Air Corps in 1918 and joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1919, remaining with them for two years. In 1921, Fisher came K"'' :: to Michigan, where for two and a half decades he has coached base- ball teams, only three of which have finished under the .500 mark. Doherty's Cinder Reign Turning to the cinder path, Coach .T. Kenneth Doherty is the man re- sponsible for recent Wolverine suc- cesses in that department. In his sixth year as Michigan's head track coach, his teams have won seven out of a possible 12 Western Conference indoor and outdoor championships. Last season, the Maize and Blue trackmen under Doherty's direction RAY FISHER nosed out a powerful Illinois squad by one point in a photo-finish fight direct Maize and Blue crews in other for the Big Ten outdoor title. In sports are seldom heard of outside addition, the thinclads annexed first- of Ann Arbor, or the confines of var- place honors in the annual Penn ious Michigan Alumni clubs. Relays, capturing four of the five Fisher's 25 Years events in which th'ey were entered. Nevertheless, the performances of One of the scribes from the "New the teams these men have tutored are York Times," commenting on Michi- ample testimony to their unpubli- gan's performance, stated, "The men cized coaching ability. A look at some from Ann Arbor performed a feat of the "greats" on the Wolverine seldom accomplished in the half cen- athletic staff proves this point. tury that the carnival has been in First, Ray L. Fisher, dean of West- existence." ern Conference baseball mentors, is Starred in Decathlon outstanding. In his 25 years with This is an ample tribute to Doher- Michigan, his teams have chalked up ty's coaching ability, as well as is 421 victories, as against 185 defeats the enviable record he has compiled and, in addition, Fisher-coached since his elevation to the head track squads have brought home 10 Big mentor's berth in 1940, when he suc- Ten championship crowns. ceeded Charley Hoyt, who moved on Develops Major Leaguers to Yale. An outstanding teacher and devel- Doherty first gained fame at the oper of individual stars, more than College of the City of Detroit, now two dozen of his boys have been of Wayne University, where he compet- sufficient calibre to play major ed in the shotput, javelin, high jump, league ball. Dick Wakefield, Detroit broad jump, hurdles, and pole vault. In 1928, he won the national Olym- pic Decathlon tryouts, and went on to capture third place at the Amster- dam Olympics, with a point total of 7,600-nine points short of the then world's record. In 1929, he set a new national AAU record in the Dec- athlon, chalking up 7,784 points. teams have walked away with 15 Big' Ten championships in the past 21 years. Mann, who is recognized as one of the best swimming men in the country, has developed Maize and Blue tank squads which have amass- ed a total of 151 victories in dual meets, while dropping only 16 of these clashes. Born in Leeds, England, the ami- able gent distinguished himself by winning the English freestyle cham- pionship for boys at the age of 16. Mann cane to America in 1906 and took his first coaching job at Syra- cuse, where he served until 1910. After coaching at Harvard, the New York Athletic Club, and Yale, he came west and served with t~e Duluth Boat Club and the Detroit Athletic Club. Still Going Strong Mann's debut at Michigan during the 1924-25 season was highlighted by a dual meet record of five wins and no losses, and a third place in the Conference championship com- petition. In 1927, his third year here, his boys registered a perfect record of five dual meet victories, as against no defeats, and copped both the Big Ten and NCAA crowns. Last season, the Wolverine mer- men demonstrated the effectiveness of his teaching by going through their Conference schedule undefeated, downing Northwestern, Purdue, Min- nesota, and Ohio State, and grabbing the Big Ten title to top it off. Church Most Recent Star In his 21 years at Michigan, the 60-year old youngster has developed being whipped into shape by Vic such stars as Waldemar Tomski and Heyliger, former Wolverine star Charlie Barker, Conference 50-yard puckster. Heyliger returned to his freestyle record holders; Jack Kas-_ alma mater last season, for the first ley, Conference breaststroke record' time since his graduation in 1937. setter; and Gus Sharemet, holder of Heyliger's Record 'mprcssive the Big Ten 100-yard freestyle mark. After leaving Michigan, he joined His most recent protege is Mert the Chicago Blackhawks, playing center for them, and, two years later, became a member of the athletic staff of the University of Illinois. In 1940, the Illin hockey team, under hi ieto, atdte Big Ten lac, Mich., joined his alma mater as assistant basketball and football coach in 1942. Weber New Mat Coach Wrestling and tennis are handled by coaches Walter J. Weber and Le- Roy Weir respectively. Weber was just switching to teaching mat technique at Michigan last year, previously serving as freshman grid mentor and, as now, doubling as a football scout. He has trained many .tar wrestlers, notable among whom are Jim Galles, Confeitnce 175- pound champ, and John Greene, for- mer Big Ten 175-pound titlist. Weber graduated from Michigan in 1927, after making a name for him- self as a Wolverine back, and earn- ed his Master's degree in 1929. He ...... ..................... MATT MANN That same year, he joined the Prince- ton University coaching staff as track assistant, and came to Michigan the following season. Under the expert tutelage of coach Matt Mann, Michigan swimming KEN DOHERTY Church, captain of last year's crew, who was named the "Most Valuable College Swimmer" by the College Swimming Coaches Association at the 1945 NCAA meet. Michigan's ice hockey squads are and Mid-West titles and went on to become national champs-establish- ing Heyliger as one of the top ice mentors in the country. During the years he directed the Orange and Blue, three of his char- ges were signed upon graduation by professional hockey teams. These nien were Arno Bessone of the Bos- ton Bruins; Norbert Sterle, center for the Chicago Blackhawks; and Alda Palazzari, who played with the New York Rangers. Former Michigan Star Heyliger first played for Michigan in 1934 under coach Eddie Lowrey, whom he later succeeded. In 1937, captaining the Wolverine sextet, he distinguished himself at the center position by establishing a three year intercollegiate scoring record of 116 goals and being named All Mid- Western center. In Maize and Blue basketball cir- cles, no men are better known than Bennie Oosterbaan and Bill Barclay. Ocsterbaan, who is famous for his training of Wolverine football end candidates, also tutors Michigan's quintets, while Barclay ably assists him in the latter capacity. Barclay, Oosterbaan Coach Cagers Oosterbaan was one of the five nine-letter men in Michigan history, earning honors in football, basketball and baseball. He was an All-Ameri- can end for three years, all-Confer- ence forward in basketball, and dom- inated the Big Ten baseball circuit in his senior year by leading all Con- ference hitters. After graduation in 1928, he became a member of the football and basketball coaching staffs and was promoted to head basketballmentor at the start of the 1938-39 season. Barclay is another former Michi- gan athletic star, grabbing eight let- ters from 1935 to '38. His honors in- cluded two letters in basketball, at guard; three in football, as a half- back and quarterback; and three in golf. He won the Michigan state amateur golf championship in 1939 and, after coaching high school 'GRAND OLD MAN' Yost Blazed Trail in Michigan Sports Americans associate Fielding H. Yost with Michigan athletics just as they associate ham with eggs, Mutt with Jeff, and Bell with the tele- phone. "Hurry Up," as Yost was called, blazed an athletic trail that few have equalled in the many years he served as Michigan's football coach. His name ranks with the gridiron immor- tals-Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg, "Pop" Warner, and Walter Camp. During his career as a coach, he turned out some of the most out- standing elevens ever to appear on a gridiron, including his famous "Point- A-Minute" aggregations of 1901-05. But this was only the beginning of a career which was to last for 25 years more and finish with the same bril- liance as it had startea. Yost was not merely a great football coach or a great athletic director, responsible for the building of the present $3,000,000 athletic plant which bears his name. The greatness of his life lies in his faith in youth. Few men have been so universally acclaimed for work in elevating young men through college athletics. Yost was born in Fairview, W. Va., in 1871, and first participated in ath- letics as a member of the baseball team at Ohio Normal College, now Ohio Northern. After two years in school, he went into business, but returned three years later to the University of West Virginia, where he first encountered football and dis- tinguished himself as player s Inspired by his footba\ experi'ences, he received his first coaching assign- ment in 1897. After leading Stan- ford to the Pacific Conference cham- pionship in 1901, he accepted an of- fer to come to Michigan. His success was instantaneous, asj his "Point-A-Minute" teams, led by Willie Heston and other greats, ran' roughshod over all opposition, scor- ing 54 consecutive victories and a total of 2,821 points against their I opponents' 42. The' "Grand Old Man" retired in 1924, after 23 suc- cessful years as coach and athletic director since 1921. In 1925 and '26, however, he returned to the coach- ing spot, but finally devoted all his time to his duties as athletic director. He resigned in 1940. BENNIE OOSTERBAAN coached football at Benton Harbor High School, in addition to teachcing social sciences there. Weir Is Tennis Genius Weber developed Chuck Bernard, who became a Michigan All-Ameri- can, and Art Buss, who won similar honors at Michigan State. Weber was also backfield coach for Michi- gan in 1931 and 1932. when the Wol- verines were national champions. Coach LeRoy Weir has established an enviable record as "guiding geni- us" of Maize and Blue tennis squads in his short tenure at the University. Last season, his men went through their nine-match schedule undefeat- ed, cutting down Purdue, Wayne, Notre Dame, Western Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio State. To top off a perfect year, his netmen won the Big Ten crown; hands down. i - -- I I temtDvdo,:ihadCdl I 'I. DRUGS -PRESCRIPTIONS KODAKS -SUPPLIES ANN ARBORS LARGEST and FINET DRU ST RE COvMPLETE STOCKS - QUALITY MERCHANDISE 6ten~et rdi enic 'Iti c I r~u ii a C Iw'- - - - - - t i