University of Minnesota· Vol. IX, No.3, Jan. 1972 WINTER SPORTS DAYS SET FOR JAN. 15, FEB. 19 The annual Winter Sports Days have proved highly successful. This year there are two scheduled; one on Saturday, January 15 and one Saturday, February 19. Athletes have been invited to attend at the special price of $1.00. For information call 373-3181, Athletic Ticket Office. The Winter Sports Days and the events are as follows: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1972 SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1972 11 :30 a.m. HOCKEY PRELIM River Falls vs. Frosh 11 :30 a.m. HOCKEY PRELIM Anoka-Ramsey J.C. vs. Frosh 1:00 p.m. TRACK Purdue 1:00 P.M. GYMNASTICS Illinois 2:00 p.m. HOCKEY Colorado College 2:00 p.m. HOCKEY North Dakota 2:30 p.m. SWIMMING Iowa and Nebraska 2:00 p.m. SWIMMING Michigan State 3:00 p.m. WRESTLING Purdue 6:00 p.m. BASKETBALL PRELIM St. Thomas Academy vs. Edina 6:00 p.m. BASKETBALL PRELIM Winona State J.C. vs. Frosh 8:00 p.m. BASKETBALL Northwestern 8:00 p.m. BASKETBALL Wisconsin 1972 REMAINING HOME SCHEDULES BASKETBALL Gym Prospects Good Sat., Jan. 15 Northwestern Tues., Jan. 25 Ohio State •'I'm highly optimistic. I feel that our material is as good as any in the Big Ten this year. We definitely have a first-division team with a Sat., Feb. 5 Iowa real shot at second or third." That's how Coach Fred Roethlisberger Sat., Feb. 19 Wisconsin sums up prospects for his first Gopher gymnastics squad. Tues., Feb. 29 Purdue Roethlisberger, a former Pan-American Games champion, feels that Sat., Mar. 4 lIlinois he has a potential Big Ten and NCAA champion in side horse specialist Russ Fystrom who was runnerup in the AAU nationals in 1970. He HOCKEY also has three top all-around men in Rick Blesi, Jeff Rock and Bill Kerchner. Fri., Sat., Jan. 14 & 15 North Dakota Blesi and Kerchner could be especially tough in the long horse and parallel Fri., Sat., Jan. 21 & 22 Notre Dame bars, respectively. Other specialists who could score points in the Big Fri., Sat., Jan. 28 & 29 Denver Ten championships are Craig Carlson and Barry Peterson in the floor Fri., Sat., Feb. 4 & 5 Wisconsin exercise, Bill Miklus in the rings, Glen Sorenson in the parallel bars, Fri., Sat., Feb. 11 & 12 Michigan State Blair Hanson and Chuck Marti in the horizontal bar. Fri., Sat., Feb. 18 & 19 Colorado College Remaining Gopher home meets are January 15 against Illinois and January 29 against Indiana. Both will be held in Cooke Hall starting SINGLE GAME TICKETS ON SALE at 1 p.m. RESERVED TICKETS $2.50 ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE-Phone 373-3181 A memorable and nostalgic bit of Gopher football lore was temporarily relived at halftime of the Minnesota-Ohio State football game as heirs of the Late Bobby Marshall, legendary Negro end of 1904-05-06, received the plaque honoring Marshall with induction to the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame for Pioneer College Players. Shown at the presentation ceremony are (From left): Marsh Ryman, Cecil Newman, publisher THE MINNEAPOLIS SPOKESMAN, Francis (Pug) Lund, chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, Mrs. Bobby Marshall (widow), Mrs. Betty Session, Bobby's daughter, Donald Marshall, a son, Donald Marshall, Jr., a grandson, Bruce Telander, graduate "M" Club president, Dick Holtz, halftime coordinator. "Class" Reunion Cooke Hall Profile •• • GLEN REED "My kids learned to sing the 'Minnesota Rouser' befort:: they learned their nursery rhymes," This candid remark by Assistant Athletic Director Glen Reed tells a great deal about his long and enthusiastic association with the Gopher athletic department, a relationship which goes back to his days as a basketball player under Ozzie Cowles, Reed has held his present post since 1963. Prior to that he served as assistant basketball coach under both Cowles and lohn Kundla from 1956 to 1963 and assistant baseball coach under Dick Siebert from 1956 to 1959. Glen has many happy memories of both his playing and coaching days as well as his administrative career. The brightest moments in his years as a cager came in the Gophers' game against NCAA champion Kentucky in December 1951. "I can still hear Coach Cowles' remarks before the game," he recalls. "He told us that he ,'would hang over hell from a rotten rope to beat Adolph Rupp (the ex.­ tremely successful Kentucky Governor Wendell (Wendy) Anderson (secolld from right) held a re­ ception at The Governor's mansion in St. Paul following the annual coach)." As it turned out, such Gopher Alumni vs. varsity hockey game in which he participated, as drastic measures were not neces­ he has since concluding his Minnesota hockey career in 1954. sary. Minnesota won 61-57 in one Shown with The Governor are tour tormer teammates who played out­ ofthe year's most dramatic upsets. Glen Reed standing roles in this school's hockey history. They are (From the left): In looking back over his coaching career, Glen takes special pride in Dick Dougherty (1952-53-54), John Mayasich (1952-53-54-55), Bruce his association with two Big Ten baseball champions (1958 and 1959) Shulte (1954-55) and Dick Meredith (1952-53-54). during his three years as Siebert's assistant. His most vivid baseball memory is of the Gopher's doubleheader sweep from Michigan State on the last day of the 1958 season, a feat which knocked the Spartans out of first place and gave Minnesota the title. In basketball, it was Glen who recruited Lou Hudson and Archie Clark, two of Minnesota's all-time great cagers and now among the brightest stars in the NBA. Reed ended his baseball coaching after the'59 season when he assumed direction of the grant-in-aid and Williams Scholarship programs. He con­ tinued to handle these administrative duties along with his basketball coach­ ing until becoming assistant to Marsh Ryman when the latter became athletic director in 1963. "Marsh and I enjoyed a most harmonious relationship." Reed says. "I appreciated his delegating certain duties to me and he also was a boss who would listen to suggestions, even if they were contrary to current policy. He would always give them due consideration and sometimes incorporate them in his decisions." Glen's family shares his love for the University and his boundless en­ thusiasm for Gopher athletics. His wife, Ruth who holds a nursing degree from Minnesota, and his two sons-Steven, 15, and Douglas, 13-are among the most spirited rooters at Gopher sporting events. They also traveled to Switzerland and Austria last winter with the Gopher hockey squad in the first European trip ever undertaken by a U.S. collegiate ice learn, a tour for which Glen made all arrangements. Ruth also accompanied Glen in the special tour group which traveled to Hawaii last month in connection with the basketball team's appearance in the The Governor's reception was well attended as evidenced by this photo. Rainbow Classic. Glen made all arrangements for that one, too. To be seen at the far left is ex-Gopher All American and coach, John Mariucci, and far right Bob Johnson, now coaching the Wisconsin team that was off to an early lead in the WCHA championship race. Here Are the Remaining THE GOPHER CHATTER Blueline, Backcourt Dates The Gopher Chatter is published five times annually by the University of Minnesota's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. • •• The publication's purpose is to provide information of interest All Fans Welcome which is not generally available through other media. It is mailed without charge to University athletic ticket purchasers of current record, M. Club members, Minnesota high school athletic directors, The following are the remaining dates for the Blueline and Backcourt and University personnel. Circulation: 25,000. Editorial staff: Club luncheon meetings at lax. Cafe: Marshall W. Ryman, Otis 1. Dypwick, Glen Reed, Marion Raihala, Robert Geary, Tom Greenhoe, Mike Lyons. Address communica­ Blueline: lanuary 14, 21, 28; February 4, 11, 18. tions to GOPHER CHATTER, Room 208, Cooke Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455. Backcourt: January 25 (Fred Taylor, Ohio State); February IS (Wisconsin); February 29 (George King, Purdue). I Gopher Benefactor •• I Swimming, Wrestling f LOU GROSS Prospects Modest Minnesota's swimming coach Bob Mowerson and wrestling coach Wally For a young man whose "only suit ofclothes as a freshman at the University Johnson approach their respective 1971-72 seasons in much the same man­ of Minnesota was my ROTC uniform," Lou Gross has come a long, long ner ... with guarded optimism. way. And it is no accident. "We should be a better team than the one that finished 5th at the A graduate of Minneapolis North high school where he excelled in athletics, Big Ten meet last year," says Mowerson. "However, the Big Ten has it didn't take long for Louis Gross to establish himself at the University of improved from top to bottom and we may have a hard time hanging Minnesota. He won football and basketball letters in 1922-1923-24. One on to fifth place this winter. of his most prized mementos is the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor "Our strongest event has to be diving where co-captain and all-American awarded annually at each institution to the student demonstrating the greatest Craig Lincoln returns. He is the defending Big Ten and AAU one-meter proficiency in scholarship and athletics. board champion. In addition, we expect a lot from Tom Hodgson in Student-athletes were not subsidized in those days so young Lou, who the 400 individual medley, Dick Stone in distance freestyle and Dick rode the trolley car back and forth to the campus each day, had to find Grant in the breastroke.