y THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER', 11, 1959 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEM~U II, )i~9 . Many Return to i' at Team t 4, . { if { A d... Associate Sports Editor To win the title, however, Mich- igan must overcome the following strong fgurth-place finisher in last disadvantages: year's Big Ten meet, has a definite 1) Michigan will get little help chance this coming season to pick from its sophomores. They are few up its first Conference team chain- in number and lack wrestlingex- pionhipsine 156.perience. pionship since 1956. 2) Minnesota and Michigan The following factors are in the State, which both finished slightly Wolverines' favor: ahead of Michigan in the 1959 1) Last season's team returns Conference meet (50, 45 and 42 virtually intact: only one man, points respectively), are only losing Capt. Larry Murray, graduated. a couple of men apiece to gradua- 2) Cliff Keen, Michigan mat tion. Both -teams can draw on coach since 1925, has again ar- numerous sophomores to fill these ranged a tough schedule of 11 dual gaps in the lineup. meets with some of the nation's Gophers and Spartans Strong foremost wrestling powers. These The Gophers, Spartans and Wol- meets should provide the competi- verines appear to be the only tion that will prepare the Wol- teams that will figure in the Big verines for peak performances Ten championship race. Iowa, when the Big Ten meet comes in which scored 46 points for-second March. place in the 1959 Conference meet, 3) The Conference meet itself, lost its best five men via gradua- for the first time since 1952, will tion. The other five teams have be held in Ann Arbor, on March little chance. 4-5, 1960. Last season Michigan, in post- ing a 6-4-1 dual-meet record, got a lot of mileage out of its stand-1 out sophomore contingent. With only three lettermen returning from the 1957-58 squad, Keen was1 forced to use five and sometimes six sophomores in the eight-man+ lineup for dual meets. Corriere Outstanding The most outstanding sopho- more last year was 157-lb. Dona Corriere, who compiled a 7-3 rec- ord during the dual-meet season, and then won Michigan's only individual championship in the Big Ten meet at Iowa City in March. Corriere's key victory in the Conference 157-lb. tournament came in the semifinals, where he outhustled Northwestern's highly- regarded Art Kraft for a 6-4 vic- tory. It came with a vengeance, for Kraft had pinned Corriere in a dual meet earlier in the season. The Michigan sophomore then wrestled to an easy 6-0 victory over Minnesota's Harry Schlieff in the championship bout. Fitzgerald Strong Another Wolverine sophomore, Dennis Fitzgerald, lost only one bout during the entire season- the 167-lb. Big Ten title match. Fitzgerald, halfback on the foot- ball team, wrestled in three weight divisions during the dual-meet season, winning four matches, drawing twice and losing none. He won three more bouts-two by falls-to advance into the 167- lb. finals, where he finally met de- feat at the hands of veteran Spar- tan Jim Ferguson, 4-0. Fitzgerald and Corriere will head this season's Junior contingent, which also boasts Karl Fink, Jim Blaker and Dick Fronczak. Last season Fink had a 6-3 record in dual meets as a 177-pounder, beat- ing Iowa's Jim Craig in one of the season's big upsets. Fink was nudged out of the Big Ten tourna- ment early. Blaker was 5-4-1 in dual meets and 2-2 in the Conference meet, where he lost the 147-1b. consola- tion title to Minnesota's Jim Reif- steck. Fronezak, a defensive - minded grappler competing mostly at 167 pounds, was 4-5 in dual meets, in- cluding Northwestern's Chuck Ar- ends among his victims. At 137, sophs Jim Agnew and Wilf Hilde- brandt, while losing more matches than they won, showed improve- ment near the end of the season. Injuries Harmful Injuries to two key lettermen hampered Michigan in the Big Ten meet. Murray, the leading con- tender for the 130-lb. crown, was bothered by a bad knee most of the season and not at peak efficiency for the Conference meet. As it was, Michigan State's Young barely beat Murray in the preliminaries. Murray bounced back to win the consolation title by dumping Wisconsin's Jim Lowe, 9-1. Murray's 6-5 dual-meet record included decisions over Ohio State's Dave Camatone (Big Ten runnerup) and Garcia. The other injured letterman was heavyweight Fred Olm, whose left leg was fractured when Spartan Tim Woodin fell on it in a dual meet a week before the Big Ten tournament. Thus deprived of Olm's services, Keen was forced to go with untested heavyweight Guy Curtis, who performed well but not well enough to avoid early elimination. This year's schedule, one of the most demanding Michigan has had to face, includes dual meets with seven Conference opponents and Eastern powers Penn State, Syra- cuse and Pittsburgh, plus Iowa State of the Big Eight. It's a season that Michigan wrestling fans can look forward to. 4 x c ';:; a . r... 5 Much Improved Hoyles Wrestling Squad Captain i 1i The Michigan captain, after a slow start, posted a 3-5-2 record in his sophomore year, and won' six of his last eight matches last season in a 7-4 record. Included in his 1958-59 victories were four pins, half the team, total. Hoyles, from Hazel Park, brought a four-year high school wrestling background with him when he came to Michigan. He placed third twice and second once in the : state high school meets. 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