-- ~- -------------------------------------------, Mailed January 5, 1965 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MmNEAPOLIS. - FOLIO, the University of Minnesota television hour from 9:00 - 9:30 Tuesday, January 12 on KTCA (Ch. 2) will feature the appearance live of Minnesota track coach Roy Griak and three University student-athlete recipients of Williams Scholarships. They are Jerry Cawley of Vlaseca, 1965 baseball captain; Bill Bevan, Jr. of Chisago City, football quarterback; and John Valentine of St. Louis Park, sophomore member of :Hinnesota's 1964 Big Ten championship cross country team. Arnold Walker will be host on the program. -0- Mailed January 5, 1965 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT Of PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MINNEAPOLIS. - Some 2,500 high school athletes and their coaches from 80 schools will sit in on the University of Minnesota's first Winter Sports Day Saturday to view four Gopher varsity teams in action. The response to the special offer of a $1.00 ticket good for all four events was so overwhelming that athletic ticket manager Shirley Korblick had to put in a rush order for an extra 500. These were exhausted early this week and the sale of the special tickets terminated. None will be sold at the gate Saturday. Only the full-priced tickets will be on sale. Saturday's "four-ring" athletic carnival includes the Minnesota - Kansas State wrestling dual meet in Williams Arena at 12 noon; the Minnesota - Illinois Navy Pier gymnastics meet in Cooke Hall at 1:00 p.m.; the Minnesota - Michigan State hockey game in Williams Arena at 2:00 p.m.; and the Hinnesota - Wisconsin basketball game in Willia'D.S Arena at 8:00 p.m. The 12:.30 hockey prelim pits Eveleth against Edina. The basketball prel.imi.nary features the Minnesota frosh in an intra-squad contest at 6:15. -0- ------------------------------------------ .- Mailed January 5, 1965 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MINNEAPOLIS. - The University of Minnesota wrestling and gymnastics teams will kick off their 1965 home schedules Saturday afternoon with dual meets against Kansas State and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (Navy Pier) respectively. Wrestling gets underway at 12 noon in Williams Arena with gymnastics slated for 1 p.m. in the Cooke Hall gymnasium. The action is part of a full slate of activity scheduled for the UniversityIs "Winter Sports Day." Also on the agenda is an afternoon hockey clash between Minnesota and Michigan State and an evening basketball game featuring the Gophers and Wisconsin. Wally Johnson's wrestlers, fresh from an encouraging runnerup performance at Evanston last weekend, anticipate a tough test against K-State. Johnson expects the 157-pound match between the Gophers' Lee Gross, dei'ending Big Ten champ, and the Wildcats, highly-regarded Rich DeMoss to be the highlight of the meet. Minnesota bested State 16-11 in a meet at Brookings, S.D. last month. Gppher gymnastics coach Ralph Piper warns that Navy Pier has what appears to be a tough squad, paced by Gene Kelber, a fine performer in the floor exercise, Bill Hall, a talented all-around man, Fran Christensen on the high bar and Kim Nagasawa on the rings. Hall and Minnesota's Bill Eibrink are expected to vie for all-around honors. ### Mailed January 5, 1965 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MINNEAPOLIS. -A University of Minnesota swim squad that again promises to rank among the Big Ten's best will open its home dual meet schedule Friday at 7:30 p.m. when it entertains the University of Oklahoma's defending Big Eight Conference champions. The Sooners are perennial swim monarchs of their league, having captured the championship 10 years consecutively. Oklahoma Coach Jay Markley will rely heavily on sophomores up from the outstanding 1964 freshman squad which won 11 of 15 Conference frosh events and placed 1 - 2 in three of them. If Coach Bob Mowerson of the Gophers chooses to enter his butterfly ace, O~pian Wally Richardson, in the 20o-yard event an interesting contest could develop. Mike Nichols of Oklahoma topped all Big Eight yearlings in this race last season. Friday's meet will mark the debut as a Gopher diver of John Ronstad of Robbinsdale, a transfer from St. Olaf who became eligible with the start of this winter quarter. Diving coach Ron Jaco sees outstanding potential in Ronstad and predicts that he could become Minnesota's best man on the boards in the past decade. -0- --------- - Hailed January 5, 1965 I, oJ For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MINNEAPOLIS. - Le4gUe-leading Hinnesota returns to the vlestern Collegiate Hockey Association wars this weekend with a series at \villiams Arena against improved Michigan State. It will be the first Association action for the Gophers since early in December and the first of the year for the Spartans. Something new in scheduling will be on tap for the Saturday game which will be an afternoon affair, starting at 2:00, w:i.th a preliminary featuring Eveleth and Edina set for 12:)0. Friday's slate will follow the usual time formula: a prelim between Minneapolis Southwest and Alexander Ramsey at 6:30 and the varsity game at 8:00. Minnesota (3-1) has a half-game edge in the WOO on second-place Michigan, Ilichigan Tech and North Dakota (all 2-2). Denver has a 1-1 record. The Gophers also boast eight of the top nine scorers in viCRA play. Gary Hokanson leads the way with nine points on six goals and three assists. Roy Nystrom is runnerup with eight. Nystrom has tied Hokanson for the team lead in scoring for the season With 17 points. Doug \voog is the top goal-scorer, however with 11 and is only one point behind the leaders. Coach John ~~ucci was pleased with the sudden surge (six goals, 10 assists) by the line of center Lorne Grosso, wings Craig FaJ lanan and Nystrom in last weekend's pair of wins over Wisconsin. Nystrom led all scorers in that series with four goals and three assists. This veteran line had been the cause of some concern this season after pacing the team a year ago. The Gophers statistics: -- ---------------------------------------- I 1964 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HOCKEY STATISTICS (Nine Games) GP GOAlS ASSISTS POINTS PENALTIES MINUTES Roy Nystrom, Wing 9 9 8 17 1 2 Gary Hokanson, Wing 9 9 8 17 5 13 Doug Hoog, Center 9 11 5 16 4 11 Bruce Larson, Wing 9 6 7 13 10 23 Craig Falkman, Wing 9 4 8 12 10 20 Lorne Grosso, Center 9 4 8 12 3 6 Jack Dale, Center 9 2 8 10 7 25 Dennis Zacho, Wing 9 8 1 9 1 2 Dick Haigh, Defense 9 0 9 9 3 9 Larry Stordahl, 'Vfing-Defense 9 1 4 5 5 10 Frank Zywiec, Defense 9 0 5 5 1 2 Jerry Edman, Defense 9 1 3 4 8 19 Rolf Vinnes, Wing 4 0 3 3 0 0 Pat Furlong, Defense 7 0 2 2 0 0 Jim Branch, Defense 6 0 2 2 0 0 Mark Ryman, Wing 8 0 2 2 0 0 Tom Toebe, Defense 3 0 1 1 1 2 Mike Alm" Center 3 0 0 0 0 0 Dick Bloom, Wing 3 0 0 0 0 0 John Torrel, Wing ~ -.Q -.Q -.Q -.Q 0 TOTAlS: Minn. 9 55 84 139 59 144 Opp. 9 41 46 87 68 170 Goaltenders' Average: Team Goalie Records: GP Q! Stops Avg. goals Stop Pet. Avg. goals per game 6.11 Opp. goals per game 4.56 John Lothrop 9 41 274 4.56 .870 Opp. stops 248 Minn. stops 274 .. SCO~cI:S ('don 5, L()3;~ L;.•? ':lied. 0) CO:~Jrad.o Colleee C'::J~)r·:Jdo Colleg", 6 7 10 3 u. oX F.iT~n. Duluth 'j ! p' • 6 ~':'::. ~j :"O!1Sln 1 """-""- r-",...,' Mailed January 5, 1965 I • For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MINNEAPOLIS. - The University of Minnesota basketball squad jumps into the already boiling Big Ten championship cauldron when it hosts Wisconsin in Williams Arena here Saturday night. The 6:15 preliminary will feature the Minnesota freshmen in an intra-squad game. The Badgers, victims of Illinois and Iowa in Conference games, pit a 6-5 record against ~tU!nesota's 8-2 mark compiled against non-conference foes. Considered a prime contender for the title before kicking away games to UCLA and Iowa in the Los Angeles Classic last week, the chastened Gophers enter into the Conference scramble as "Just one of several with a chance for the championship" according to Coach John Kundla. He believes that Indiana, Illinois" and Michigan are "the teams to beat." Comments Kundla of his Gophers, '!\tIe will have to make steady improvement and play up to our potential all the way to be in it with these teams. We have shown some real good basketball, and some bad basketball so far this season. In other words, we have been inconsistent. We looked great in going ahead of UCLA's defending NCAA champions 26-17, but then we let up, lost our poise, and began making all kinds of mistakes. These killed us." Kundla contemplates no lineup changes for the Conference opener with the Badgers.