SPECIAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THREE-YEA R PLAN: olleges Ponder New Compulsory Physical Educatic * * ** *o on Program * * * G' * * * By JACK MARTIN A virtual revolution in the University's physical education set-up is being attempted by the Michigan Athletic Department. The groundwork for the proposed changes was begun in 194.4, but the first successful results were not achieved until just last spring. On March 31 the School of Education adopted a modified version of the new program. The two points stirring the most interest in the plan generally are the recommendations to make physical education courses re- quired for three years, and, inost important, to give students credit toward graduation for taking them. The School of Education voted to lower the requirement to two years. The plan received its first check near the end of the semester when the College of Engineering rejected the whole program, declaring, that their present schedules, particularly labs, could not be rearranged The L.S.A. college is studying the proposals but has delayed making any final decision. Although the three-year requirement and the granting of cre- dit are the two outstanding features, the proposed reorganization goes much deeper than that. It entails a complete shift in em- phasis and suggests ways to make the Michigan physical educa- tion program one of the most modern and efficient in the country. . All members of the athletic department stress that the old- fashioned system of calisthenics anld more calisthenics has no place in the new plan. Instead the individual student will select a course of study in his chosen field of interest, picking from a large number of sports those activities best suited to his needs and desires. i The suggested curriculum is divided into five main phases, the developmental, the competitive, the recreational, orientation, and a modified program. Each incoming student will take a specially de-, signed fitness test. Thor, below a certain standard will be placed in. the developmental program. The department declares that the num- ber put in this phase will be kept to the lowest minimum possible. Those passing the test will then select courses from the' other fourI .. programs. In the competitive division, the student will participate in both individual and team sports and Xeceive instruction in the rules and strategy of such games as football, basketball, etc. The recrea-: tional phase will stress the development of individual skills in such leisure-time activities as tennis. golf, canoeing, etc. a. ......... So-called orientation courses will be offered to all students. They will be designed to tell the story of sports in general terms, and point out such things as the place and importance of sports in modern society. The student, as the name implies, will be or- iented to the realm of athletics. The modified program is designed especially for students having physical handicaps. -.. . Previohs athletic experience- of each individual student will gov- ern to a large extent what courses he will take under the program. An incoming freshman who has participated in high school athletics will - be given an opportunity to go directly into advanced courses, avoiding KEN DOHERTY-Michgan repetition of training he has already received. KEN coh - acchi- The plan also takes into account the problems arising when a man wit Dc hwh s -w Campbell student is engaged in other activities, such as military drill, University of the committee on the Uni- Band, or other courses involving extra physical activity. Such students versity physical education pro- will be able to select courses in the orientation and hygiene phase, gram. and will spend one hour in classroom as against three in the regular program. The new program was drawn up by a committee established in March of 1944 by Athletic Director Fritz Crisler. The co-chairmen were J. Kenneth Doherty, associate supervisor of physical education and head track coach, and Laurie E. Campbell, associate professor of physical education for women. They studied reports gleaned from schools all over the country and after two years' work issued a report which was sent to President Alexander Ruthven and the various deans of the Schools. Nothing was done, however, until last March, when the Education School voiced its approval. The committee's report declared that required physical edu- cation programs are already in effect at a majority of the nation's larger universities. From surveys taken in 1944 the committee reached the disturbing conclusion that "Michigan ranked in the lowest quarter of a national scale in respect to requirements and, credit in physical education." Of the 186 schools studied, 84% required two years or more of physical education, with 46% requiring two years, and 33% four years. Furthermore, 82% gave credit toward graduation for such courses. Commenting on the committee's report and the suggested plan, Co-Chairman Doherty states, "This program attempts to fill an area in the life of the University which has been much neglected in the past. It basically offers opportunity for undergraduates to select from a large number of sports activities those suited to their interests and needs." H. O. "FRITZ" CRISLER- Michigan's Athletic Director who esitablished a committee to re- view the physical education set- up in the University. I i SPORTS SECTION A6F A6F 4f[ tr t n 4 A& tl SPORTS SECTION ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 Three New Varsity Coaches Appointed To Michigan Staff Katzenmeyer, Dixon, Loken Receive Golf, Tennis, Gymnastics Positions Appointments of Bert Katz- enmeyer as the new Michigan golf coach, Bob Dixon as Wolverine tennis mentor, and Newt Loken as coach of the new varsity sport of gymnastics were the major re- visions of the Maize and Blue coaching staff this year. Besides these, George Ceithaml, former Wolverine gridder, was named to the football staff, Joe Vancisin, Dartmouth cage star was appointed to assist Ozzie Cowles in basketball, and James Hunt replaced Ray Roberts as Michigan's head trainer. Replaces Barclay katzenmeyer, who at one time had been assistant golf coach here, returned from the physical 4 education department at Ohio State to take over Bill Barclay's post. A graduate of Alma College, he is 30 years old. He repeated Barclay's fine work of 1946 by leading the Wolverine golfers to their second straight Big Nine championship this year, the only Conference crowns Michigan has captured during that period. Barclay left Michigan last Oc- tober to accept a job as Harvard's NCI4A Gives Nod to Hockey HeyJiger Appointed National Secretary Vic Heyliger, Michigan hockey coach, saw a dream realized last Spring when the ice sport was of - ficially recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and moved into the upper brackets alongside football, basketball, track and the others. Furthermore, H e y 1 i g e r was named to the all-important post of national secretary of the hockey group. It was a just reward for the Wolverine coach had been the leader in scholastic hockey's drive fo recognition. To Begin in '48 The first tourney to determine a national champion will be held in 1948 and will call for a play-off between schools representing the Ivy, New England, Mid-West, and Far West regions. Four schools so far comprise the Mid-West area- Michigan, Michigan Tech, Minne- sota and Colorado. The winner of the play-off se- ries will be the American colle- giate hockey champion. The na- tional committee is trying to ar- range for a series with the Cana- dian national champions to es- tablish a title-winner for North head basketball and golf coach. He had been on the Wolverine staff since 1942, and was an eight- letter man in his undergraduate days here from 1935-38. Bob Dixon, a faculty member in the School of Education, and ranked 19th in the USLTA am- ateur standings last year, has taken over LeRoy Weir's job as head net coach, serving without pay to preserve his amateur standing. Dixon, a graduate of Syracuse, was an assistant to Weir in 1946. He is Michigan state am- ateur champ. Weir Goes to Carroll Weir has accepted the post of Dean of Men at Carroll College in Wisconsin. He had been head Wolverine coach since 1937. His teams of '41, '44, and '45 won the Big Nine title. Loken, 1942 National Collegiate and Big Nine All-Around Gym- nastics and Tumbling champ, was appointed to head the gymnastics team when it was reinstituted as a varsity sport after a 14-year ab- sence. He is 28 years old and a Minnesota graduate. Ceithaml, one of the outstanding quarterbacks in the nation in 1942, will probably handle the Jayvee grid squad. Vancisin will handle the freshman cage team, while Ernie McCoy, assistant ath- letic director, will continue as var- sity assistant and scout. Vancisin worked with Cowles at Dartmouth, and was captain of the Big Green team which reachedgthe NCAA finals a few years ago. Hunt Succeeds Roberts Hunt, a Minnesota graduate, was appointed head trainer after Roberts resigned the post he had held 17 years. Roberts has ac- cepted a similar job with the De- troit Lions pro football team. Hunt was Gopher head trainer from 1942-46, and recently had been practicing physical therapy in his home, St. Paul, Minn. Crisler Plans New Indoor Sports Arena Plant Expansion To BeginIn Year By ARCHIE PARSONS Vast expansion of Michigan's athletic plant to the point where it will be just~ about tops in the nation will begin in approximate- by a year, Athletic Director Her- bert O. "Fritz" Crisler announced during the winter. A huge sports arena will be erected, where Wolverine basket- ball and hockey games will 'be played, seating the 20,000-student body which Crisler believes will be average in the future at Michigan. In addition, six new basketball courts are to be constructed, both in the new building and in an en- larged version of the present In- tramural Sports Building, which will be extended west towards the tennis courts. New swimming fa- cilities for male students will probably be located in the Sports Building, and the capacity seating for swimming meets is due for an increase. Building Project The golf course is also due for some overhauling in the building project. A new clubhouse is to be erected, and provisions for winter sports, such as skiing, possibly will be created in the same sec- tion. The Athletic Director said the women's athletic plant will not be overlooked in the proposed con- struction. A new women's ath- letic building is to be erected on Palmer Field, in which will be in- cluded a new swimming pool. New Tennis Courts A tennis pavilion, with 20 new See EXPANSION, Page 4 BRUCE I1LKENE-Michigan tackle who will captain the 1947 version of the Maize and Blue gridiron machine. Hilkene is the first gridder ever to be elected captain of the team twice. ROSE BOWL EXPRESS: Gridders Eye Big Nine Title; Prospects Brightest in Years 50-Yard Line Seats OK'd by Control Board Student Legislature SuggestedChange Seats on the 50-yard line for Michigan students at Wolverine football contests was the result of a revised seating plan recom- mended by the Student Legisla- ture and acted upon favorably by the Board in Control of Intercol- legiate Athletics last April. Under thetnew arrangement, students' seats will begin in the middle of section 23 and extend in a solid block through section 26. Student seats in section 27 and other end zone sections will be assigned only above row 30,ethus giving these students a better view of the game. Alumni Seats Revised A long-standing alumni com- plaint was satified by the as- signment of one section inside the goal lines for alumni who wanted individual game tickets. The seating revision gives stu- dents 1,826 seats nearer the center of the field than the plan in op- eration last fall. Under the old system, student seats started in the middle of section 24, with seats apportio ed on the basis of the number of semesters complet- ed in the University. New Stamping Method The Student Legislature is now working on a method of stamping registration cards so that the fraudulence which was prevalent last year will not occur again. Last fall many students "exaggerated" their class standing, and the Men's Judiciary Committee prose- cuted some students by revoking their student seating privileges. The registrar will stamp the cou- pons this year, instead of the stu- dent filling in the blank himself. Students who wish to sit to- gether will receive seats in the section assigned to the category of the lowest number in the group. A married student applying for a seat for his wife, will have to sit in the section assigned to the category just below his actual one, if his wife does not attend the University. 'M' 1947 Football Team Faces Tough Schedule; Revise Student Seating * * * The Rocky Road Sept. 27 ..... Michigan State* Oct. 4 ............Stanford* Oct., 11 ..........Pittsburgh* Oct. 18 ........ Northwestern Oct. 25 .......... Minnesota* Nov. 1 ............... Illinois Nov. 8 .............Indiana* Nov. 15 ........Wisconsin Nov. 22. ........Ohio State* *Ilome Contests. Big Nine Meets Coast Champs In Rose Bowl Ater an absence of 25 years, Big Nine teams are once again per- mitted to go to the Rose Bowl. A five-year contract with the Pacific Coast Conference was finally agreed upon last Novem- ber, under which the Big Nine will send a Conference team to the Bowl for three years, after which they may choose a team from outside the Big Nine for the remaining two years if they so desire. The lambasting which Illinois gave UCLA last New Year's Day was the first Big Nine Bowl ap- pearance since California trimmed Ohio State, 28-0 in 1921. Michigan won the inaugural Rose Bowl con- test in 1901, when the late Field- ing Yost's team whipped Stan- ford, 49-0. The new contract is calcu- lated to remove "semi-profes- sionalism" from the contest, by excluding those schools which subsidize athletics to too great an extent. The agreement calls for a limited number of practice days before the game, a share in expenses and receipts by each team in the conference, and the stipulation that one Big Nine team can only appear in the Bowl once in three years. Although the vote was never of- ficially released last year, the un- official count was 7-2, with Illi- nois (paradoxically) and Minne- sota reportedly dissenting. A sim- ilar pact had been proposed by the Pacific Coast Conference sev- eral years ago, but the Big Nine turned thumbs down on the prop- osition at that time. Gridders Play Six Big Nine Games in Fall Home Tilts Include Stanford,_Pittsburgh By ARCHIE PARSONS Roses, nice red roses, will be in the back of every Wolverine grid- der's mind when the Michigan football team swings into its nine- game schedule beginning Sept. 27, Coach Herbert 0. "Fritz" Cris- ler of the 1947 version of the Maize and Blue gridiron machine faces a tough program, including six Big Nine games and three non- Conerence contests, in their quest for the Western Conference cham- pionship and a date in the Rose Bowl Jan. 1. Michigan students and followers will have a chance to see the gridders tackle six op- ponents at home, while three oth- ers will take place on the road. Open With MSC The Wolverines open the season with Michigan State's Spartans, in the Michigan Stadium Sept. 27. It will be Spartan Coach Clarence "Biggie" Munn's first opportunity to match wits against a team of which he was formerly an assist- ant coach, and there's little doubt that this is "the" victory he wants most of all. The Spartans took a 55-7 shellacking from Michigan last year. Stanford rolls into Ann Arbor on the following weekend, Oct. 4, and the Wolverines hope to pick up where they left off in 1901, when they whipped the Indians, See SCHEDULE, Page 5 'M' Gridders Win Honors By JACK MARTIN Is this the year? Michigan's Wolverines have been trying to claw toward an undisputed Western Conference championship ever since 1933, but the end of each season has found them just short of making their kill. However, the 1947 chase may see them do it. Official reports coming from the Maize and Blue coaching camp haven't breathed a word containing a remote tinge of championship flavor - in fact, they've been a bit pessimistic. But let's put some facts down in black and white and see what kind of a picture they paint. Backs-all kinds of backs- plunging backs, scatbacks, pass- ing backs, blocking backs--will inundate Ferry Field when the practice get-togethers begin this month, if all pre-season indi- cations are borne out. True, Paul White and Bob Wiese' will be gone-but look at what they've left behind. Fullback was supposed to be one of Coach Fritz Crisler's head-aches when dope-sheets were being compiled last spring. Now, to back up last year's regular Jack Weisenburger, a Canton, O. lad named Dick Kempthorn will play leading a role in blasting away opposing walls. Kempthorn needs a lttle pol- ishing, and some competition un- der his belt, but when he hits his stride he'll be a priceless offen- sive weapon. In addition to Weis- enburger and Kempthorn, a boy with a well-known name will be available. He's Conrad Kuzma, younger brother of Tomn Kuzma, Wolverine great of a few years back. The chief problem in the realm of halfbacks seems to be one of choosing. At left half both Bob Chappuis and Gene Derricotte are returning, while Bump Elliott and Hank Fonde are coming back to play the other side. If these four aren't sufficient, there's a chap named Walt Tenin- ga coming home to Ann #Arboi next fall after a stay in the Ar- DAILY DONATES TROPHY: I-M To Present Engraved Cup To Best All-Around Performer I ; y F I - C'mon Over! Like sports? Like to write about them? If you are a second semester freshman or higher, male or female, with or without experi- ence in sports writing, drop over to, the Student Publica- tions Building, 420 Maynard, and ask to see Dick Kraus, Sports Editor. Look for a notice in The Daily about the first tryout meeting. What's in it for you: Instruc- tion in writing, copy desk pro- cedure, and page makeup; as- signment to a "beat," where you will cover Michigan sports events and write news stories and features; a chance to work up to paid editorships on the staff. By BEV BUSSEY After a lapse of four years dur- ing the wartime program, the cus- tom of presenting an engraved trophy to the best all-around ath- lete in Intramural competition will be resumed at the end of this semester. Earl Riskey, director of the In- tramural program, completed ar- rangements for selecting the win- any tournament, whether it be singles or team competition. Since this recognition is for "the best" all-around athlete, both fra- ternity and independent men are eligible to walk off with "the mug." There are thirty-six sports on the yearly program in which to gain tallies, so fourteen events are considered, the average number for all hopefuls. Varsity Men Eligible In the case of varsity men, they While Michigan's football teani was finishing second in the Big Nine and sixth in the nationas standings for the 1946 season several Wolverine gridders cane off the field with individual hon, ors. End Elmer Madar, one of the "Seven Oak Posts" of 1942, cap. tured a first-string position or the Associated Press' All-Ameri- can team and the Big Nine All- Conference squad. The diminu. tive end also plav:ed for the East in the annual East-West contest, Madar recently signed a contras to play for the Detroit Lions C the National Football League. Harmon Picks Ford Len Ford, another of the Wol. verines' great ends who is bacl thisc xoo nrcr rprcvrl twn h nnnr. CRISLER CLOSES GOLDEN GATE: 'M' Mentor Turns Down California Offer Midwestern sports circles were spinning feverishly last February calls to California by The Daily, the athletic director finally re- never released officially until The Daily called Dean Brutus Hamil-