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Michigan State University Varsity ‘S’ Club

NEWSLETTER

VOL. 58 ISSUE 3 3rd Varsity ‘S’ Club 100th Anniversary Issue

Duffy Daugherty Makes History in Recruiting Minority Athletes Above is with his five All-Americans from the 1966 Spartan football team. Left to right they are: Clinton Jones of Ohio, of Hawaii, of Texas, Gene Washington of Texas, and George Webster of South Carolina. Most were never recruited by southern universities.

S U M M ER 2 0 1 5 Michigan State University Varsity ‘S’ Club 535 Chestnut Rd. - Rm 276 East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: (517) 355-8523 Fax: (517) 355-7708 Executive Committee Email: [email protected] Executive Director Alan Haller ’92! Website: www.msuvarsitysclub.org President R. Paul Vance ’01 1st Vice President Lauren Aitch ’09 2nd Vice President Tim Bograkos ’04 We value your opinion and want to know what Secretary Mike Vorkapich ’94 you think about the Varsity ‘S’ Club Newsletter. Director Emeritus David Brogan ’56 Past President ! Cheryl Gilliam ’81 Send us an e-mail, call or fax with items or Board of Directors topics you would like to see included in future Ian Clutten ’07 Wally Dobler ’58 newsletters. If you have suggestions on how to Sue Selke ’76 Dave Thomas ’01 improve the publication, let us know. David W. Thomas ’75 Don Weatherspoon ’67!

Young Alumni Elections for the Board of Directors of the Varsity ‘S’ Kristen Henn ’13 Travis Key ’07 Erica Mann ’11 Club are held each spring. If you would like to serve on the Board, simply visit our website, click on the Office Staff: Marilyn Bria (Office Hours: M-Th, 12-4; F, 12-3) application tab, print the form, complete, and mail to Newsletter Editor: Ron Berby the the club office.

President’s Message: One of the missions of the Varsity ’S’ Club is to engage MSU letterwinners with MSU Athletics to help maintain your connection back to MSU. Each member of our Club, young and old, has played an important role in defining what it means to be a Spartan. By coming together in celebration of past athletic achievements and present successes of our current student-athletes, our Club can help advance MSU athletics in the future. With these goals in mind, we hope this upcoming year will be a year of celebration and engagement, kicked off with the 100 Year Celebration of the MSU Varsity ‘S’ Club on Friday, September 18. The 100 Year Celebration is a black tie optional event and will be co-hosted by MSU , Mark Hollis and MSU Alumni Association Executive Director, Scott Westerman. The Celebration will begin with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner. The 100 Year Celebration program will feature special guest speakers and presentations highlighting 100 years of the Varsity ‘S’ Club and MSU, and we will also honor our 2015 award winners. On Saturday, September 19, we will be hosting a tailgate on Old College Field prior to the home football game against Air Force. We hope to see you at these very special events. You can register for the 100 Year Celebration online at: https://commerce.cashnet.com/ msu_3719. Please help us spread the word to all Club members and MSU letterwinners. In addition to the 100 Year Celebration, our esteemed board of directors will be planning new events and opportunities for our membership to stay engaged with the university and celebrate our experiences at MSU. Stay tuned! Lastly, as I am writing this message, another fall season of MSU sports is quickly approaching. That means a lot of you will be joining us in the Varsity ‘S’ Club Room on football Saturdays and we look forward to having you. As a reminder, the Club Room will be open for all home football games at least 1.5 hours prior to kick-off. As always, concessions will be selling food and beverages and our new TVs will be on with the broadcast of the game. Members may bring up to three (3) guests into the Club Room but must accompany their guests. Keep in mind: the Club Room has a capacity of 150 people and is closely monitored by the fire marshal. Once we have reached capacity, entry to the Club will be closed until the number of occupants has been reduced. See you this fall! - Paul Vance

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2 Summer 2015 Graduates

Women’s - Jasmine Hines, Kendra Lumpkin, Rebecca Mills & Anna Morrissey Crew - Sarah Crosby, Jessica Marone & Kathryn Trahan Football - Shilique Calhoun, Joel Heath, Greg Jones & Men’s Golf - Jonathan Finley Women’s Golf - Sritragul Paveenuch Hockey - Matthew Berry, Brock Krygiier, Tanner Sorenson & Travis Walsh Softball - Rachel Vanpoppelen Women’s Tennis - Hilary Hager Women’s Swimming - Cristee Cordes Women’s Track - Tori Franklin, Kassie Powell, Lauren Rose & Tejuanna Williams Men’s Track and Cross Country - David Madrigal Women’s Track and Cross Country - Devan John Volleyball - Taylor Galloway & Ryian Hubbard

Scenes from the 2015 ‘S’ Club Golf Outing

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Women’s Track: Big Ten Champions

Left: Head Track Coach Walt Drenth gets happily drenched as his women athletes take MSU’s second women’s Big Ten title ever (the first was in 1982). Following last fall’s NCAA championship in cross country, many of State’s points came in the distance runs, with star senior Leah O’Connor winning the 3,000 Meter Steeplechase, the 1500 Meters, and the 5,000 Meter Runs. However, it was truly a team victory as MSU’s women scored in 24 events. At the end of the second day of the three-day meet, Minnesota led with 71 points to State’s 52 and Nebraska’s 51. But the Spartans came storming back on the final day, spanking the competition with 128 points to Nebraska’s 97 and Minnesota’s 93. The MSU men finished seventh with 55 points, after several years edging to the top half of the now-expanded .

Scenes, Memories from Michigan State University’s Sports History Editor’s Note: This editor would like to thank Paulette Martis and the staff at MSU’s Athletics Communications for pictures used in the production of this and previous Anniversary “Sentinel” issues. Also credited are Tom Shanahan and his book, “Raye of Light,” as well as Ernie Pasteur, who told me of his family’s visit from Duffy Daugherty. Other sources are Frimodig & Stabley’s “Spartan Saga” and Seibold’s “Spartan Sports Encyclopedia.” But credit is also deserved by the ‘S’ Club’s Don Behm, and our woman who gets things done, Marilyn Bria, Supervisor of the Varsity ‘S‘ Club Office. S UM M E R 2 0 1 5 4 Duffy’s “Underground Railroad” and “Hawaiian Pipeline” Bring African-American and Hawaiian Athletes Into Division One Football As Never Before

The 1967 Spartan Football Team with 23 Minority Players In the 1950s and 1960s, a smattering of black athletes could be found at Division 1 colleges and in professional sports. But Duffy Daugherty, an an assistant coach to MSU Biggie Munn, took over as in 1959 when Munn retired and became the AD. Both had previously coached at Syracuse, where in 1961 black running back had won the Heisman Trophy. (Davis unfortunately died of cancer and never got to play in the NFL.) Davis‘ speed and power caught Daugherty’s notice, and he began to send assistants to scout black players, finding a gold mine in black high schools in the segregated south. Also noticed were Hawaiians Bob Apisa, Dick Kenney and Charlie Wedemeyer. Not all were stars and a few had little playing time, but from 1959 to 1972, 44 black players from the south played on Duffy’s teams, with thirty of them graduating, above the average until just recently. At the height of their power, the Spartan teams of 1966 and 1967 were the best in America. The potent offense featured Jimmie Raye, running backs Clinton Jones and Bob Apisa, and receiver Gene Washington. But it was the defense that was special. Defensive end Bubba Smith, roverback George Webster, and 5’9” sparkplug linebacker Charlie (Mad Dog) Thornhill led the charge in holding teams like Michigan and Notre Dame to negative rushing yardage, and at times negative overall yardage. These were the most dominant Spartan football teams ever. Below: Duffy waving goodbye at retirement, Charlie Thornhill of Virginia, and Jimmie Raye of South Carolina

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Celebrating 100 Years Of Delivering Great People

HONORING THE PAST CELEBRATING THE PRESENT SUPPORTING THE FUTURE Pasteur Remembers Visit From Duffy Daugherty

This editor sat down with Ernie Pasteur, one of Daugherty’s Southern recruits, who still lives in the East Lansing area. Pasteur was a highly recruited 1962 fullback/linebacker at black Queen Street High School in Beaufort, North Carolina. He fully expected to play at black colleges North Carolina A&T or Grambling, but a friend of his brother, Earl Tootle, drove him to meet with Norm Clark, a white high school coach at nearby Morehead City. Clark said, “Ernie, you’re better than that. I’ve been following your career--let me write some letters.” Michigan State was among the Big Ten schools that began to recruit him. Pasteur vividly remembered when Daugherty came knocking at the door to convince him to play for Michigan State: “You’ve got to understand what it was like in the South back then,” he said. “When Duffy stood in our doorway, it was the FIRST time a white person stood there who respected my mom, my dad, my brothers and sisters, and me.” Pasteur remembered the dinner they shared: “It was a sign of respect among Southern black families that you ‘finish your plate‘ when a guest at someone’s home. Duffy finished his plate, asked for another one, and finished that too.” Pasteur said his mother cared little about football, and that before he left, Duffy told her, “If Ernie comes to East Lansing and Michigan State, he will graduate.” With Daugherty gone, his mother told him: “Ernie, you are going to Michigan State.” And that was that. A pinched shoulder nerve in high school did not completely heal, and by his junior year, the pain was so great he left football rather than suffer permanent injury. He found his scholarship would continue, and as per with Duffy Daugherty’s promise to his mother, Ernie got his degree in Education. Pasteur dated a white girl despite some discouragement of it. But Clinton Jones and George Webster, black players elected by the team as co-captains, talked to Duffy and asked that black players date whomever they chose. There were 40,000 students at MSU at the time, and only 350 of them were black. Duffy agreed that there should be no retribution for interracial dating, something that was yet against the law then in some states, including Virginia! He and Micki were married and raised three kids. Micki continues to practice law and Ernie earned his way to an educational specialist degree, was a teacher, coach and administrator, and directed a juvenile facility.

Gideon Smith - Way Ahead of His Time At the left is a picture of the 1915 MAC Aggie football team running onto the field at Michigan’s Ferry Field. Gideon, our first African-American athlete, can be seen at the right of this intimidating bunch. Oh yes, they beat Michigan 24 - 0 that day. At the right Gideon is seen more formally - wearing his MAC letter sweater.

The minority athletes who were recruited by Duffy Daugherty were certainly not the first to play for MSU. Biggie Munn’s teams in the 1940s and 1950s included black players from industrialized cities from the North. But State’s first African-American athlete played a half-century before Duffy’s remarkable turnabout in assembling his teams. In the early 1900s Gideon Smith attended Virginia’s black Hampton College, which under an agreement sent students to Ferris “Industrial College.” He played football there before moving on to MAC, anchoring the defensive line and beating Michigan in 1913 and 1915. (MAC’s loss in 1914 was 3-0.)

S U M M E R 2 0 1 5 6 Spartan Basketball: The Excitement Finally Arrives

Not much happened through the earliest decades of Aggie/Spartan basketball, but it’s time finally came in the late 1950s with the arrival of “Jumpin’ Johnny Green (right). His coach, Forddy Anderson (left) said that a friend wrote him saying they “had a guy in the Marines that had never played high school basketball but could jump like crazy.” Anderson told the friend, “Well. when he’s through, have him come and see me.” When Green came to campus and was practicing with the other freshmen under Anderson’s assistant, Bob Stevens, Stevens came to Anderson and told him to have the varsity shoot free throws so he could watch the new kid. Anderson went to the upper gym and watched with Stevens and the other freshman as the 6’5” Green repeatedly jumped up and touched the top of a 12-foot high room divider. Green had to wait for winter term to be eligible. In his first game Anderson said, “some guy took a shot from the base line, and Johnny knocked it into the fifth row of the bleachers and after that everything changed.” In the three years before he arrived, State won 35 and lost 31 games. In the three years after he left it was 25 and 42. And in the 2 1/2 years he played the record was 49-13. In 1957 the Spartans tied Indiana for the Big Ten title, and were beaten in the NCAA quarterfinal in three overtimes by eventual champion North Carolina. They also took the outright Big Ten crown in 1959. Playing before crowds of 6,000 to 7,000 early in Green’s first season, the Spartans recorded sellouts by late season with 13,871 fans jammed into Jenison (with a capacity of 12,500) for the home closer against Indiana.

After a Lull, Basketball is Back

For other than a Big Ten title in 1967 when coach John Bennington coached fierce Spartan defenses, things were pretty quiet on the hoops scene for a while. Bennington coached for only four seasons before dying of a heart attack at age 47. But (far left) took over in 1966, recruited Earvin “Magic” Johnson (right) of Lansing’s Everett High School, and within three years had MSU’s first NCAA title in basketball. Johnson and Greg Kelser, out of ’s Henry Ford High School, teamed up to top Indiana State’s in the championship game. Later Johnson would star in the NBA with the Lakers and Bird with the Boston Celtics, and the two would challenge each other many times, eventually becoming good friends. Note also in the picture on the left a young . Out of the Upper Peninsula’s Iron Mountain, he played basketball at Northern Michigan and joined Heathcote’s staff. He would eventually add his own name to a huge Spartan legacy.

7 Other Spartan Teams Dominate Above is the 1967 Spartan Wrestling team, likely the most successful wrestling team in college wrestling history. They were Big Ten and NCAA Champions, and of 10 weight divisions in college wrestling, Spartans were All-Americans in 7 of them. Don Behm, 1st on left in row one, was later an Olympics Silver Medalist. Grady Peninger, on left of back row, led them to 8 Big Ten titles between 1961 and 1972, and was inducted into the college wrestling Hall of Fame. Jeff Richardson and Mike Bradley, 4th and 2nd from right in back row, were African-Americans who also played for Duffy Daugherty’s sensational football team that year. Lower left is the 1963 Big Ten Championship Cross Country Team. Though State’s 8 NCAA titles in the sport ended in 1959 (three came before State first competed in the Big Ten in 1950), the Spartans nonetheless won 6 Big Ten titles and one IC4A title between 1960 and 1971, continuing team’s tradition. Lower right: Gene Washington, one of the football All-Americans in the cover picture, clears a hurdle in Jenison Fieldhouse. He was joined on the track team by other of Duffy’s recruits, including Clinton Jones, Jim Summers and Jim Garrett. They contributed greatly to MSU’s first Big Ten Outdoor Track Championship in 1965, and took both the Indoor and Outdoor titles in 1966! Greatest Sports Years: 1966 Championships: Football -Big Ten & National Title; Hockey - NCAA; Wrestling - Big Ten; Indoor & Outdoor Track - Big Ten 1967 Championships: Wrestling - Big Ten & NCAA; Soccer - NCAA; Basketball - Big Ten; Tennis - Big Ten; and Hockey - Big Ten Has any other Division 1 school ever had a better two-year success rate? Yes, the torrent of championships would start to ebb in the 1970s. But there would soon arise a change that would prove revolutionary.

S U M M E R 2 0 1 5 8 Michigan State University Varsity ‘S’ Club Merchant Discount Program The Varsity ‘S’ Club coordinates a program with several campus-area merchants to give club members a discount on purchases when you present your membership card. So if you live in the East Lansing area, or when you visit campus, please patronize these fine merchants who support MSU athletics. Listed below are merchants participating in the program. Discount amounts vary by merchant, so please check with your cashier or waitperson prior to ordering. Albert’s Furniture - 32344 Michigan Ave. - Wayne Applebee’s - 2284 Woodlake Drive - Okemos Arby’s - 2220 Jolly Rd. - Okemos Bell’s Greek Pizza - 1135 E. Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Bravo! Cuchina Italiana - Eastwood Town Center - Lansing Cosi - 301 E. Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Dusty’s Cellar - 1839 W Grand River Ave. - Okemos Emil’s Italian Restaurant - 2012 E Michigan Ave. - Lansing Forest Akers West Pro Shop - MSU Golf Courses Grand Traverse Pie Co. - 1401 E Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Grand Traverse Pie Co - 3536 Meridian Crossing - Okemos Gilbert & Blake Steak & Seafood - 3554 Okemos Rd. - Okemos Harper’s - 131 Albert Avenue - East Lansing Holden & Reid Clothiers - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Kellogg Hotel - State Room Restaurant - MSU Campus Kellogg Hotel - Gift Shop - MSU Campus Leo’s Lodge - 2525 E. Jolly Rd. - Lansing Leo’s Outpost - 600 S. Pennsylvania Ave. - Lansing Leo’s Spirits and Grub - 2085 W Grand River Ave. - Okemos Michael’s (Framing Dept. only) - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Panera Bread - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Panera Bread - 4738 Central Park Dr. - Okemos The Pizza House - 4790 S. Hagadorn, Suites 114-116 - East Lansing Reno’s East Sportsbar & Grill - 1310 Abbot Rd. - East Lansing Reno’s West Sportsbar & Grill - 5001 W. Saginaw Hwy. - Lansing Spartan Book Store - International Center - Campus Spartan Hall of Fame Cafe - 1601 Lake Lansing Rd. - East Lansing Student Book Store - 421 E. Grand River Ave - East Lansing Trippers - Frandor Shopping Center - Lansing Twp. Velocipede Peddler - 2758 Grand River Ave. - East Lansing Woody’s Oasis - 1050 Trowbridge Rd. - East Lansing Additional merchants will be added as the program develops. For more information about the program, contact the Varsity ‘S’ Club office at 517-355-8523 or the committee members listed below: Ron Berby - 517-290-8043, Wally Dobler - 517-372-8096, Eldon VanSpybrook - 248-895-0015

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Passings Reinier “Dutch” Kemeling, Soccer 1959-62 - died on Franklyn M. Collins, Track 1948-49 - died on May 25, 2015. Dutch was First Team All-American January 14, 2015. His wife Joanne said he and was the Spartan Team Captain. graduated in 1950 with a BS in Physics. He earned his PhD at the State University of New Does your Varsity Jacket, which fit when you were York in 1958. He was President of Ohmcraft, a twenty, seem tiny these days? Or, do the moths leader in high performance resistor design. like it even more than you do? Take heart. A Varsity ‘S’ Club Replacement Jacket may be just James Sullivan, Golf 1955-57 - died on July 6, what you need! Interested? Contact the Club 2015. He served as captain of State’s golf team and later played on the US Army golf team in Schweinfurt, Germany. For forty years he SAVE THE DATES operated a successful sales agency for major carpet and pad mills. Sept. 17-19, 2015 (Thur.-Sat.) - Reunion George Guerre, 91, Football 1946-48 - died Weekend and 100 Year Celebration - August 13, 2015. Nicknamed “Little Dynamite,” Football Game: MSU vs. Air Force. at 5’5” and 157 pounds, averaged 6.75 per carry, a record that holds today. Twice he Oct. 2 & 3, 2015 (Fri-Sat)- Homecoming topped the team in total yardage and was Parade and Football game vs. Purdue named most valuable. Voted Senior Class President, he went on to achieve greatly in the December 31, 2015 - Last day to submit Insurance industry, and took leadership roles in many community organizations. candidates for 2016 ‘S‘ Club Awards

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