r- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1959 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE 77 vi timistic Ice Squad Solves anpower Si zortage ' By HAL APPLEBAUM Always outmanned, but never outfought, the Michigan hockey team ended the '58-'59 season with a disappointing 8-13-1 record. However Wolverine Coach Al Renfrew is optimistically looking forward to the coming season. Forced by injuries to play with only an 11-man squad the Wolver- ines were consistently pitted' against squads of 17 and 18. Against such odds the Wolverines battled brilliantly, but in many instances the obstacles were too difficult to overcome and defeat was the inevitable result. The 1959-60 season will also mark the innaugural season of the newly formed Western Hockey As- sociation. Late in June the Wolver- ines announced their plans to join this loop which grew out of and was thea result of the disbanding of the Western Intercollegiate Hockey Association after the 1957-58 sea- son. The members of the WHA are the same as those of the old WIHL. Besides Michigan are Michigan State, Minnesota, North Dakota, Michigan Tech, Colorado College and Denver. Most of the difficul- ties that led to the collapse of the WIHL have been ironed out in the new loop. the fourth place team. Two-game series will be played on the home ice of the first and second place teams. If the teams should split the two games the team with the highest goal total would be de- clared winner of the playoff. For- merly the first two teams auto- matically qualified for the NCAA playoffs. For the second successive year Michigan will be captained by de- fenseman Bobbie Watt. Last year as a junior Watt was a mainstay on defense for the Wolverines and early in the season Watt played upwards of 50 minutes a game. For his great play he was named on the All-American team. Up front the Wolverines will also have returning lettermen forming the nucleus of a fine team. Top forwards are Bob White, rugged center, who was an All- American each of his first two sea- sohs and junior Dale MacDonald, the Wolverines' leading goal-get- ter, who scored 19 goals last sea- son. Steve Bochen, last year's most improved player, Pat Cushing and Gary Mattson are the other re- turning lettermen at the forward slots. Lost by graduation from the frontline are John Hutten, voted most valuable member of the squad and Don Gourly and Jay Katz. Two Defensemen Return Butch Nielsen and Ed Mateka, who became eligible at mid-year, and went on to win letters, will re- turn at defense. The lone defense- man to graduate was Barrie' Hay- ton, noted bad boy, and holder of Michigan and WIHL records for penalties. Goalies Ross Childs and Jim Coyle who split the chores in the nets last season will be back, al- though Childs has only one semes- ter of eligibility remaining. The Wolverines should be great- ly aided by a group of flashy soph- omores who will see varsity action for the first time during the Thanksgiving recess. Included in this group are for- wards Gerry Kolb, John Lung- hammer, Ken Hinnigan, Carl White and Bill Kelley. John Pal- enstein looms as the outstanding defensive prospect. Icers Have Good Schedule Renfrew has arranged a top- flight schedule for his squad. The season opens with a tour East over Thanksgiving to play St. Lawrence, Clarkson and the University of Toronto. Colorado College and Denver, absent from the schedule last year, will return to give Ann Arbor fans a chance to see the two teams that have dominated collegiate hockey in the last few years. The home schedule also includes games with Minnesota, Michigan State and Michigan Tech. There is also al possibility that Michigan may travel west to play amateur teams in Los Angeles over the Christmas holidays. Last season was only the second time that Michigan failed to qual- ify for the NCAA Championship playoffs since they were inaugurat- ed in 1946. Since then Michigan Detroit's Olympia Stadium. Su- perior goal tending by Childs held has won six championships and the Russians at bay during mostI was runner-up twice. Highlights of the 1958-59 season were exhibitions against the Rus- sian national team and the Detroit. Red Wings, and regular season vic- tories over Michigan State, Michi- gan Tech, Minnesota and the NCAA champions, North Dakota. Russians Overcome Wolverines On Jan. 5 a combined Michigan- Michigan State squad skated against the Russian Nationals at of the first, but eventually their overwhelming experience paid off and the visitors skated off with a 7-3 victory. A crowd of 7,000 turned out to see the game, which was played under international rules unfamiliar to most American spectators. The Wolverines played their final game with the Detroit Red Wings in Ann Arbor last December. A Big Ten rule was recently passed which forbids Big Ten schools from playing exhibitions with pro- fessional teams and so this fine se- ries has been concluded. The last game in the series saw the pros win, 8-3, in a surprisingly rugged game. Four regular season opponents came close to sweeping series from the Wolverines, but in each instance the home icers rose to the occasion and came up with a victory. Against Michigan State the Wol- verines tallied three times in the last two minutes to drop the Spar- tans, 4-2, at East Lansing. After falling three times to Minnesota and Michigan Tech the Wolver- ines bounced back to win the sea- son's finale against both by iden- tical 5-4 scores. The NCAA champions North Da- kota won their first encounter with Michigan, 6-1, in a game ended midway in the third period by a fight which erupted into a near-riot. 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