Modern Gymnast - May 1968

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NOTES FROM THE EDITOR: This May, 1968 edition of the Modern Gymnast magazine is dedicated to the memory of a beloved coach ...

A. CARL PATTERSON

1923 -1968 "Coach of the Year" Acclaimed the "The Coach of the Year" at the 1968 NCAA Championships and elected to the presidency of the NACGC for the coming year were honors well deserved by Coach Carl Patterson of Temple University.

After returning from the NCAA Championships in Tucson (where his team took fourth place) to his home in Somerton, Penna. Carl went off sailing with his sons Thomas, 20 (a Jr. at Temple) and Robert, 18 (a freshman) during the Easter vacation. On their drive home . Carl complained he felt tired and ten minutes later he was unconscious. Rushed to Underwood Memorial Hospital in Woodbury, N.J. and transfered to Temple Hospital on Wednesday (April 10th) he went into a coma on Friday and passed away on Tuesday (April 16th).

Carl Patterson was assistant professor of health and physical education at Temple. A Philadelphian, he grad uated from Northeast High School and received his bachelor's degree at Temple in 1946 where as a senior he finished fourth in the Eastern side horse competition and fifth in the All-Around. He also played soccer, ran track and swam. Received his master's degree at Temple in 1949. Before going to Temple to coach, Carl mentored the Girard College gym team and the Simon Gratz High team. Among his proteges were Bob Allen.

Ben Gunning, Tony Cline, Tony Procopio, Carlton Rintz and Charley Neely, just to name a few.

Mr. Patterson was a member of the 1968 Olympic committee and NCAA gymnastics rules committee. He was president of the Philadelphia Association for Health and Physical Education.

Besides his wife Alberta (who was a champion gymnast at Germantown High School, Phila., Penna) and sons, and his daughter Nancy, 12, surviving are his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Patterson and a brother and a sister.

Carl Patterson was a good coach, but more than that he was a man loved and respected by all. MG correspondent Walter Zwickel informed us that . . . "there were an estimated 3000 people at the viewing. an overflow crowd at the chu rch and over 200 cars in the procession" . .. "Among the notables attendinp were, Geo. Szypula, Gene Wettstone, Eric Kieldson. Frank Walcott, Paul Romeo, Don Tonry. Abe Grossfeld . Warren Nieger, Bill Savering, Frank Cuminsky, Frank Wells.

John Rammacher. Bob Stout. Harry Nelson, Lou Bordo.

Adam Walters, Lou DaTillio. Milan Trnka. Joel Baba. Tim Phillips, Tom DarlinJZ, Chet Phillips, Pete Peterson. Stellp.

Cohp.n, the entire Temple Gymnastics team , the Tp.mplp' HPER dept., the entire Temple Gym Team Alumni and every High School and YMCA coach in a hundred mile area." ... "Temple team captains, Tom Gibbs and Dave Rosenberg along with Rick Wells, assistant C'oach, served as pallbearers." . . . "Already under r.onsideration at Temple are several projects (scholarships. naming of the new Gymnastics Gym, Memorial Gvm Mppt) to honor the memory of coach. A. CARL PATTFRSON. To Carl's family and friends we extend our deepest sympathy at the loss of q dearly loved one.

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THE MODERN GYMNAST MAGAZINE

Official Publication of the United States Gymnastic Federation

G NOTE: 路In ke eping with our ten iss ue MG publication schedule the next two editions will be double dated: July-July and August-September. Th e june-july edition will feature the report on the NCAA College Di vision Championships (we could not make space for in thi s issue), Results of the Olympic Trial s in Long Beach , The USGF Nati onal Championships and many other special features plus an introduction to a new MG article series featuring "Gymnastic Fashions" .. . The August-September MG will feature our Annual High School State Championships report (If your State H.S. meet report has not been sent into the MG, we suggest you do it now! to insure publication in this Special Edition). * * * * P.S. Enjoy your summer and sign up for a Gymnastic Camp in your area, and if you are in the area drop down to Santa Monica Beach and enter our MG OPEN on July 4th or our Annual Santa Monica GYMFEST on Laborday weekend.

CONTENTS Volume X

May, 1968

Number 5

NOTES FROM THE EDITOR ................. .................... Glenn Sundby CHALK TALK .......... ............... ..................................................

CANADIAN REPORT ............................................ .John Nooney USGF REPORT ................................................................ Frank Bare 1968 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS .... ............................ .......................

NACGC AWARDS ... ..................... _.. _.... ... ......................................

CHAMPIONSHIP REPORT ... ...... ... ........................ .Jerry Wright THE VIEW... .. . ............................................... Dick Criley MG CALENDAR ............. ............ ........................... ...Rich Grigsby MG INTERViEW ....... .. .. ....... ...... .. Dick Criley & Ken Sakoda NAIA CHAMPIONSHIPS .... ......................................................... .......

REGIONAL REPORTS ..........................................................................

MG SCOREBOARD ............ ..._............................................ _................

GYM FORUM .......... . ....................................................................

LETTERS .................... ...................................................................

MG CLASSIFIEDS ... .........................._...............

COVER: 1968 NCAA All-aro und Champion Ma koto Sa ka moto of the Uni ve rsit y of Southe rn Californ ia .

PUBLISHER - EDITOR GLENN SUNDBY

ASSOCIATE EDITORS -Technical DICK CRILEY, Production KEN SAKODA, Design

ASSOCIATE EDITORS - Feature A. Bruce frederick , Education; Dr. James S. Bosco, ResearCh; Dick Criley , Statistics,' Jerry Wright, Co mpetition; Frank L. Bare , USG F; Jess Robinson, Tramp9line; Roy Davis, Judging; Jackie Uphues, Women ; Kenneth W. Hollis, YMCA ; Ken Sakoda, Art; John Nooney , Canada.

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Article for the Modem Gymnast by A. Carl Patterson

"TH E GOVERN I NG BODY" OR liTHE A.A.U. PRETENDS TO CONTROL EVERYTHING"

The term "Governing Body" is used over and over 'again. What is the "Governing .Body"? It is said that this is the group or organization that controls the various amateur sports in the United States and that there is only one "Governing Body''; for the sport of gymnastics. The Amateur Athletic Union claims to be this group. If this is so, how, when and why did the A.A.U. become the "Governing Body". Was the A.A.U. given this power by the President of the United States?

If it was, what President granted this and when?

Was it an act of Congress? What act, what Congress and when did it happen?

It is also said again and again that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes only one "Governing Body" for each sport in each nation and that the LO.C. recognizes the A.A.U. as that body in the United States. If this is so, when did the LO.C. first recognize the A.A.U. and how did it determine that this was the group to be recognized as the one "Governing Body" for the sport of gymnastics in the United States.

Article II of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) constitution lists its purposes, powers and jurisdictions. Section I, part 3 states that one of its powers is "to exercise exclusive jurisdiction, either directly or through its constituent members or committees, over all matters pertaining to the participation of the United States in the Olympic games and in the Pan-American games." How can the U.S.O.c. do this, if the A.A.U. is really the "GOVERNING BODY"?

Article II, section 1, part 4 says that one of the objects of the U.S.O.C. is "to select and obtain for the United States the most competent amateur representation possi ble in the competitions and events of the Olympic Games and the Pan-American Games." How can the U.S.O.c. do this if the A.A.U. is really the "Governing Body"

Article II, section 5 states "the corporation pursuant to the authority granted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) shall have exclusive jurisdiction to enter competitors who will represent the United States in the Olympic Games and the Pan-American Games (LO.C. rule 24 and to enforce in connection there with the definition of an amateur adopted by the International Olympic Committee (LO.C. rule 26 and official interpretation thereof)." How can the U.S.O.c. do this if the A.A.U. is really the "Governing Body".

The Olympic Pictorial (1967 United States Pan-American Team Trials) a publication of the U.S.O.c. iQ an article entitled "The U.S.O.C. Organization and Membership" on page 31 states "THE UNITED STATES IS REPRESENTED SOLELY IN OLYMPIC AFFAIRS BY THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE." The article further states that "THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMIMTTEE IS AUTHORIZED AS THE GOVERNING BODY WITH FULL POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY IN ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN THE GAMES AND IS SO RECOGNIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE." How can the A.A .U. assume to be the "Governing Body". It is time that the ga me was played the way the rules were written so that the United States can field its best team in every sport at the Olympic Games. The A.A.U. can play its palt, the N.C.A.A. can make its contribution, the U.S.G.F. can have its role and all other cooperating agencies can add their help and support but the U.S.O.c. is really the "Governing Body" in all sports. It was made the "Governing Body" by Act of Congress (Public Law 805) passed by the 81st Congress on September 21 , 1950.

Editors No te: The above article arrived after pre!;S time . . . It was sent to us by " Pat's" wife who found it among his things, all addressed and ready to mail . .. With respect and in all humility we feel it a privilege to print this article by "Pat" which was prepared for The Modern Gymnast magazine. "Pat" was a member 0/ the Olympic Committee, and a dedicated worker deeply concerned in the matter 0/ Tules, responsibility and representation.

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"Scats" 1968 California State Champs.

UNITED STATES GYMNAESTRADA ENTRY NAMED Word has been received from the FIG, that the Southern California Acro Team (SCATs) have been selected to represent the U.S.A. in the Fifth Gymnastrada at Basel, Switzerland, in 1969.

SCATs Coach Bud Marguette indicated that his group would be willing to participate in clinics, demonstrations, and age group competitions while in Europe after the Gymnaestrada. Any nation or club interested in having the SCATs visit them should write Mr. Marquette at 262 Coronado Ave., Long Beach, California 90803, U_S.A., so that an itinerary and tour schedule can be arranged.

NEWS AT RANDOM The results from the last Mediterranean Games showed Italy first with 278_15 and Yugoslavia second with 276.80. Cerar won the all-around with a 57.45 total while Menichelli was second with 57.25 .

In a dual meet between Italy and Hungary (Nov. 25-26, 1967 in Budapest), th e Hungarians were victorious with a 547.85 totaL Italy totalled 546.80. The Olympic compulsories were used. The all-around was . won by Menichelli with a 115.25 point totaL From Russia _ _ . with grief: Larissa Latinina (32), AA winner 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome, Silver medalist Tokyo 1964, has announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics_ She will, however, remain in the gymnastic scene as a coach (Master of Sports) and national and international judge.

No less renowned, all-around gymnast Boris Schacklin was stricken with his second heart attack in a year's time in late 1967.

NACGC PRESENTATIONS Plaques were presented to all the past presidents of the NACGC (see March Modern Gymnast) in recognItIOn of their achievements and contributions. A special service award was given Jerry Wright of the San Francisco State College for his outstanding service to the association, notably his national reports and statistical data on 6

gymnastic performances throughout the nation. J erry became the first recipient of the special service award other than those of the presidents_ The NACGC noted that no Honor Coach's Certificates or NACGC Certificates of Honor were made for 1968.

CANADIAN

WINNING HABITS Making a grand sweep of the first 3 places in the Trampoline event at the recent NCAA Championships was once again a big three for coach Newt Loken_ These winning habits seem to be rubbing off as his youngsters Jon (2) and Newt Loken, Jr. (0) made th eir illustrious coach father even prouder by taking the top Trampoline honors in the Junior and Novice division of the Michigan Gymnastics Assoc. East-West competition representing the Ann Arbor Gymkhana.

by fohn Nooney 18 Lavington DT. Weston, OntaTio

ALL-AROUND THE WORLD RepoTt by KUTt BaechleT Switzerland 560.30 Russia 569.70 Switzerland, a former stronghold in gymnastics is again on the move upward. Since Jack Gunthart took over as coach the training has been more efficient, powerful and dynamic. The Swiss boys, all young and full of enthusiasm have proved with this latest international competition they are again among the top world class (560's).

However, although coach Gunhart's boys will do their very best in 路 Mexico and will make a fine showing, the preparation period is too short for top Olympic honors for this young路 team and their real goal is to. win the World Championships in Ljublijana, Yugoslavia in .1970. But, watch out for these dynamic and elegant young kids from Switzerland at the Olympics_ GYMNASTS APPEAR ON TV Members of the Fairfax High School (Los Angeles) gymnastic team were featured on the apparatus during a musical number by Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass_ Exceljent camera technique brought out to fine ad vantage the beauty of our sport. We wonder how many of our readers thought to write the CBS Network to express their appreciation for this exposure of gymnastics to a nationwide audience.

MG EDITOR BITES DUST Old gymnasts never die, but do they have some .choice accidents! During a recent tumbling session at Santa Monica's Muscle Beach with such standouts as AA U Champ Doug Boger, Dan Millman, Steve Lerner, Ray Zecca, Dwan Dimmit, Al Heinrich and many others. an outclassed journalist, MG Associate Editor Dick Criley, 路 tore his achilles tendon loose from the heeL It was a repeat performance for Dick who had the same inj ury 7 years ago at Penn State. In Dick's words, "It was a simple tumbling pass : RO, FF, (snap 1._, Layout. I guess I just wasn't warmed up enough."

We wish Dick a speedy recovery and recommend something like rings or side horse for his future endeavors.

THE TAPE RECORDER AND GYMNASTICS The Modem Gymnast has successfully made use of a small portable tape recorder to capture the routines of top gymnasts at various meets in Southern California and at the NCAA's and AAU Championships. 路 For those high school reports yet to cOflle, it is suggested that a similar approach be used. The best basis for comparison of gymnastics about the country is the actual routines being thrown by the top gymnasts.

We hope this little tip will help us publicizing the great job being done by gymnasts and coaches all about the country.

HI REPORT HERE AND THERE WOMEN'S F .LG. CLINIC Mrs. Villancher is interested in coming to Canada to preside over this clinic. Date and place will be confirmed in the near future. In all probability this should take place in early July.

FUND DRIVE May I encourage everyone to help the efforts of Cal Girard who has undertaken this great task of raising funds for the CANADIAN GYMNASTIC ASSOC. For further inquiries contact Cal at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa.

SUBSCRIBERS Canadian subscribers lead all other countries and many of the American states with over 400 subscriptions. Here is the breakdown by provincial association: ONTARIO 231, QUEBEC 76, B.C. 35, Alberta 29, Saskatchewan 18, Manitoba 15, Nova Scotia 9, New Brunswick 3. May I take this opportunity to thank each and everyone for their cooperation. I personally receive extra copies if you should have difficulty, etc. in receiving your copy. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME. O.S.L.A.A. CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE UNIV. OF SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC University of Ottawa proves that if you have a proper gymnastic schedule and of course an excellent coach (Cal Girard in this case) you can win a championship in your first year of competitive gymnastics_ The Univ. of Ottawa team went allround (hope some kind of a precedent is set by this). Andre Gingras and Marcel Bujod were outstanding for Univ_ of Ottawa. penis Poulet and Roger Robert were the top men for Univ. of Sherbrooke.

Team Results: (1) Univ. of Ottawa, (2) Univ. of Sherbrooke, (3) R.M.C. Kingston. SH: Gingras, U of 0; Poulet, U. of S; tie, Bujold, U of o and Turenne, U of O. FX: Pettipas, RMC; Poulet; Lemarche, U of O. R: Robert, U of S; Bujold; Gingras. LHY: Robert; POisvert, U of S; Montmigny, U of S. PB: Gingras; Carmichael, RMC; Robert. HB: Bujold; Gingras; Turenne.

Maritime Intercollegiate Athletic Meet The four Maritime colleges held their annual meet for men and women. This meet was hosted at the new Oland Centre at St. Francis Xavier. Meet director was Mr. Geza von Martiny. See results below: MEN FX: Art Gibson (U.N.B.), Warren Roy (Acadia), Richard Meister (U.N.B.h HB: Art Gibson, Warren Roy, Kevin Murphy (St . F.X.). SR: Warren Roy, Art Gibson, Richard Meister. SH: Warren Roy, Art Gibson, Kevin Murphy. LH: Worren Roy, Ar t Gibson, Richard Meister.

PB : Warren Roy, Art Gibson, Richard Meister.

AA : Worren Roy, Art Gibson, Richard Meister.

WOMEN'S MEET FX: Lynne Pascoe (St. F.X.-M.S.B.), Nino Wiggins (U .N.B.), Susan White (St. F.X. -M.S .B.).

Y: Susan White, Lynne Pascoe, Nina Wigg ins.

UB: Lynne Poscoe, Susan W hite, Nina Wiggins.

BB: Nina W iggins, Susan White, Lynne Pascoe.

AA : Lynne Pas,oe, Susan White, Nina Wiggins.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO VERSUS McMASTER UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON Before a fairly large audience at Hart House, the University of Toronto, coached

by Julio Roncon, defeated Mc Master by a score of 264.30 to 242.60. This was a close meet and Digby Sale can be proud of his team. Copeland (U. of T.) won the all·around and Kortwright, his teammate, was 2nd and Lowe of Mc Master was 3rd.

FX : Sloane (U of T), Norton (Mac), tie Copeland (U of T) and Archibald (U of T).

R: Fink (Mac), Dispasquale (U of T), Horton (Mac). PB : McVey (U of T)( Copeland, Mezard (Mac). LHV: Tie, Michaelif U of T) and Copeland, Jess (Mac), McVey. HB : Kortwright (U of T), Fink, Copeland. SH: Copeland, McVey, Mezard.

ONTARIO HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS T.O.I.A.A. Results (Toronto City Championships) Co nvener, Mr. H. Rogers, TL Kenned y C.I. HB : Henry (Vic Park) 8.05; Arthurs (Vic Park) 7.7; Westlake (M . and T) 7.6. FX : Arthurs 8.3; Veno (M .T.) 8.3; Spasov (York Mem) 8.3 .

R: Westlake 8 .5; Veno 7.8; Zoratto (York M) 7.7. PB: Zoratto 9.2; Veno 9.1; West la ke 8.4.

SH (Pommels): Zoratto 8.4; Arthurs 8.3; Veno 7.9. LHV : West lake 8.9; Zoratto 8 .7; Spasov 8.6.

O.S.G .C.A. MEET AT PORT COLBORNE Convener, Mr. J. Mc Pherson, Port Colborne HS Senior-AA: Gene Lauro (Eastdale c.i.) 5 1.5, Mike McKay (Port Col borne H.S. ) 49.5 ; David Hunter (Lawrence Park c.i.) 46.6.

Junior-AA: Colin Puffer (Port Col borne HS), Brent Goss (Port Colborne HS), Don MariNacci (Parkside H.S.).

ONTARIO H.S. TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Convener, Mr . K. Crouse , Parkside HS, Dundas Team Winners : Glebe Collegiate , Ottawa 113.2; Bawating c.i., Soo St. Marie, 107.2; Port Co lbo rne H.S., Port Colborne, 105 : Monarch Park c.i., Toronto, 103.3; Sir James Dunn C.I., Soo Ste. Marie, 102.8; Trinity College, Port Hope, 101. 1.

Eighteen high school teams competed. That was an '011 time high for this meet .

REPORT OF THE SECOND CANADIAN INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTIC COMPETITION

by Mr. Lome Davidson Chairman C.l.C.C.A .

University of Alberta, Edmonton On Sunday, February 25th, gymnasts from eight Canadian universities competed for the second time in the same number of . years for national honors.

Earlier in the fall of 1967 it was doubt· ful that the university gymnasts would meet during the current 67·68 season. This feeling was soon allayed due to the en· thusiasm and energy of a new Canadian physical educator at St. Francis Xavier,

Mens AA: 1. Bill Mackie, UBC , 2. Brian Mann, Dalhousie, 3. Rick Denielso n, U of Alberta.

Womens AA: 1. Lyn Peel, U of Alberta, 2.

Lynn Pascoe, St. F.X., 3. Nina W iggins, UNB.

Geza Von Martiny. Geza, as well as others, feels 'strongly about the development of gymnastics in Canada and especially de· velopment at the university level. When he became aware of the possibility that there may not be any inter·collegiate competitions this year, he took upon himself the task of organizing the intercollegiate gymnastic competition and contacted the universities and C.I.A.U. The result was a most successful com· petition for both men and women held at St. Francis Xavier at Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The Maritime provinces were repre· sented by University of New Brunswick,

NORTH VANCOUVER RECREATION CENTER Recently a very successful display and clinic was given at this center by the Seat· tie "Y" Girls gymnastic team. This event was sponsored and organized by the "Flicka" Gym Club. Close to 500 people attended the display and 135 registered for the clinic. ,,~mong the 16 members of the Seattle Y team were such top gymnasts as Joyce Tanac, 2nd place U.S. national champion

and Sandy Hartley, 2nd place Canadian National champion (presently training at the Seattle Y), Mrs. Dale Flansaas (former U.s. Champion) and Mr. George Lewis.

Credit for the organizing of such an excellent event must go to Mrs. Gladys Hartley (B.C. women's provincial coach) and the head coach of the FLICKA gym club and her assistants, Bette Shaw, Alex Moorhouse and Ed Nicholson.

Dalhousie University, Acadia University and St. Francis Xavier. Central Canada was represented by McMaster University and McGill University. Western Canada by University of British Columbia and Un iversity of Al berta.

Un fortunately teams from other Canadian universities were not able to participate but it is the hope of all attending this year's co mpetition that many more Canadian universities, if not all, will be able to attend the third annual intercollegiate gymnastic com petition in 1%9. This place and time is to be announced in the near future.

Durin g the competition, time was taken out by the coaches present to set up an interim executive committee for the formation of the Canadian Intercollegiate Gymnastic Coaches Association. Members of the executive comm ittee being Geza Von Martiny, St. Francis Xavier, Don Eagle, University of New Brunswick from the Maritimes; Digby Sales, McMaster University and Miss Willeme Moffatt, McGill Universi ty from Central Canada and Bruno Klaus and Lorne Davidson (Chairman) from We~tem Canada.

The Western Canadian Universiti es took top honors in both divisions, U.B.c. winning the men's team award with individual all round being won by Bill Mackie and University of Alberta, Edmonton winning the women's team honor and individual all round being won by Miss Lynwen Peel.

I feel sure that all present, coaches and gymnasts, were most impressed with the conduct of the Second Annual Intercollegiate Gymnastic Competition and would wish a hearty and warm thanks to be ex· tended to Geza Von Martiny, the Director of the meet and to all the staff members of St. Francis Xavier for their assistance and hospitality. I am sure that all gymnasts and coaches were made to feel at home.

Finally, good luck to you all in the com ing year. Looking forward to seeing you all again at next year's intercollegiate competition and it is hoped to see many new faces.

Thank you Geza - we all welcome you to the Canadian scene and hope that we can maintain the ex ample of en thusiasm and energy you have demonstrated for us .

Canadian Intercollegiate Gymnasfic Coaches Assoc.

At this year's National College Championships the above association was formed.

Members of the Executive Committee are as follows: Chairman: Mr. C. L. Davidson, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton.

Western Section: Mr. B. Klaus, U.B.C., Vancouver; Mr. C. L. Davidson, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton.

Central Section: Mr. D. Sale, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Miss W. Moffatt, McGill University, Montreal.

Eastern Section: Mr. Don Eagle, U.N.B., New Brunswick ; Mr. Geza von Martiny, St. F.X. University, Nova Scotia.

As I understand it, this association is for men and women. A set of rules and constitution and by-laws are now in the pro· cess of being drawn up.

A tentative date for next year's championships has been set the last week in February or the first week in March. Discussions have taken place with the C.I.A. U. It is important that all conferences recommend gymnastics to the C.I.A .U. as an intercollegiate activity. For further information write Mr. C. L. Davidson, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

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USGF DIRECTORS REPORT FRANK l. BARE

路Executive Director

A. CARL PATTERSON

1923 - 1968

"PAT" Just at a time when one of our sports grea~ leaders was recognized for his numerous and significant contributions to amateur gymnastics, we have lost him. Carl Patterson, known to so many as "Pat", passed away suddenlY just a few short da ys after so many of us enioyed his company at the 1968 N.C.A.A. Championships. It was at this meet, at the University of Arizona on April 4-S-6th, that Carl Patterson was voted "COACH OF THE YEAR" ... and then elected President of the N.A.C.G.C. You may already be aware of the fa ct that "Pat" was a member of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Committee and at the same time a member of the N .C.A.A . Rules Committee. His varsity team at Temple University was 1968 Eastern Intercollegiate League champion.

"Pat's" ~ymnastic record was a great on ~. His achievements in our sport were noteable and his contributions to amateur gymnastics will not soon be forgotten. Perhaps , even more of a loss to those of us who knew him will be his strength of character and his perserveranc('. He was never a weak member of any committee and he was quick to defend what was rir;ht and that which needed defending.

The best illustration I can give relates to a conversation "Pat" and I had at the USGF Office during what turnp.d out to be the last few days of life. As you mitlht well suspect this job as Director of the USGF carries with it the standard problems and discourat;ements that accompany any similar position, and it was on one of those days when l- was unloadinl! some of these problems to Pat, when he said "Hang in there and be touflh!" Nobody ever hung iTL there tougher than A. Carl Patterson our sport, all of us involved in it .. . will miss him for many years to come.

Frank L. Bare Executive Director, USGF

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The Awards: NACGC Awards From R eport by Hartley Price Chairman 0/ II' ACGC A wards Committee NACGC HONOR COACH'S AWARD The 1967 NACGC Honor Coach's Award was presented to Lyle Welser of Georgia Tech, At1a~lta, Georgia.

. Lyle Welser

Born in Kane, Pennsylvania, ' in 1905, Lyle graduated from the Kittanning High School in P ennsylvania in 1925. While still a high school student he became interested in circus stunts, vaudeville and gymnasti cs and eventually decided to go into physical education. He enrolled at Springfield Col· lege and , despite delays incurred while he built up fund s, finally graduated in 1929, completing a Master's in 1934. He partici· pated in gymnastics at Springfield under the coaching of Leslie Judd.

Later he became the director of the Bridgeport, Conn ., YMCA, and also tau ght at th e Univer~ity uf Illinois. In 1946, "'Mr. Welser joined the Georgia Tech staff, pion eering gymnastics in the south. From giving exhibitions to create interest and gradually building up competition, Lyle's participation in gymnastics snowballed to land him in a variety of coaching, committee and administrative positions includin g Southeastern AA U Chairman, Georgia AA U Chairman (until the AA U-NCAA conflict ) , executive secretary and later President of the SIGL as well as an officer of the Georgia Gymnastic Association which he helped to found. His leadership in founding the National Gymnastic Clinic led to his being named Honorary Lifetime president of the NGC. He had served as NACGC President, on , the NCAA Rules Committee, on the US Olympic Committee, and in many capacities within the NACGC itself. Lyle was named SIGL Coach of the Year and has been named to the Helm's Gymnastic Hall of Fame. Following the break with the AAU, he became' a member of the first USGF Formulating committee.

One of niany he-ctic coaches' meetings.

Lyle's coaching career spans even more th an the 22 years he ha s spent at Tech, and he looked back on many highlights includin g th e SIGL specialized judging system whi ch he devised, the Georgia Tech electric rope climbing timer, and the first televised gy mnasti c mee t. Still active in gymnastics, he consid ers r etirement as a couple years in the future.

RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS NAMED Hartley Price, Chairman of the Research and Professional Liason Committee of the NACGC reported th e followin g recipients of the Honor Research Awards. Th e C. H, Ivl cCloy award was presented to Don Tonry at the National Gymn astic Clinic in Florida for hi s th esis, "A Study of th e Nomenclature Used to Describe Skills in the USA on the Six Olympi c Events." The GymMaster Company research grant was award ed in Tucson to Jam es Klin e of the Uni versity of Wa shington for hi s study, "A Comparison of Vid eotape Replay and Conventional Meth· ods of Judging Competiti ve Gymna stics."

No Honor Research Award was mad e at Tucson in 1%7 but the NACGC Honor Research Award at the Fort Laud erdale Clinic went to Arthur Bourgeois for "A Mechani· cal Analysis of the Early and Late Props to a Cast Catch and Underbar Somersault on the Parallel Bars."

The announ cement for the Research A wards for 1968-69 has been issued by Dr. Price and will be carri ed by the M. adem Gymnast.

HELMS GYMNASTIC HALL OF FAME RECEIVES NEW MEMBERS The NACGC nominated three men instrumental in the promotion of gymnastics in this country to th e Helms Hall of Fame.

Certificates were presented in, Tucson to L. ' R. "Dad" Perry and to Glenn Sundby and , one will be sent to E. F. "Bud" Beyer. " Dad" Perry has taught gymnastics in Lawrence, Kansas, public schools for 33 years, coaching competitive gymnastics at Lawrence High from 1945 to 1%4. He was instrumental in organizing the Kansas State Hi gh School Ivleets and coached five conse· cutive teams champions from 1960 through 1964. Since his retirement in 1964 he ha s been teaching gymnastics theory and practice courses to PE majors at Kansas Uni· versity.

Sundby

Perry

' ''Bud'' Beyer, now at the State Univer· sity of New York in Plattsburgh, New York , return ed to teaching after serving for many years as promotion and publicity director for the Nissen Corporation . His competitive career at the University of Chi~ a go netted him four gold medals in national collegiate competition. For 15 years he served as head gymnastic coach at th e University of Chi· cago putting several people on the Olympic Team and also serving as U.S. Olympic Wom en's coach in 1948. He has served on the AAU Gymnastics Committee, the USOC, the Pan·American Committee and was ' chairman of the NCAA Gymnastics Com· mittee ' for seven years. Additionally he has written regularly for the Modern Gymnast and has authored books and instructional aid s, includin g four movies. For several years, he and his wife 'had their own tele· vision program in Chicago, and Bud also ' coordinated th e Chicago gymnastic program , for 30 YMCA's for eight years.

Gl enn Sundby began his gymnastic career when he beca me interested in hand-balan cin g at Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, Cali· fornia . Later he and a partner, George Wayne and his sister Delores created a hand·balan cing act which toured the US and overseas. When he settled down in Santa Monica at the ripe old age of 36, Gl enn began to produ ce the Modern Gym· nast magazin e, later adding a women's magazin e, Mademoiselle Gymnast. His promotional effort s with the magazine have greatly helped to boost gymnastics throughout the co untry, and it has been an important fa ctor in publicizing United States Gymnastic' prowess to the world.

COACH OF THE YEAR AWARDS At - t1ieir annual meeting in conjuction with the NCAA Gymnastic Championships in Tucson, Arizona, the members of th e NACGf: voted Temple University's Carl Pat· terson as 1968 Gymnastic Coach of th e Year.

Dr. William Vincent of San F ernando Valley State College, Northridge, California , was nam ed College Division Coach of the Year by his fellow coaches at their meetin g in Springfi eld, Massachuse tts, for the NCAA College Division Gymnastic Championships. , Continued on page 20.

Patte rson

~~1MJ University Division

C'al's Coach H al Frey greets Dan Millman after a 9.4 highba r routine which clinched the NCAA team title fo r Ca l. Seconds later, Dan is swamped by teammates .

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The Cal team's ~'ncontrolloble exuberance over the;'r ;'ictor y.

FINAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS FX SH Tr SR LH 27.90 25 .90 25.00 26.90 27.75

TOTAL PB HB University of Cal iforn ia 27.40 27.40 188.75 Coach: H a l Frey Southern Ill inois University 27.1 5 25.15 27.55 27.75 27.55 26.85 26.15 188 .1 5 Coach: Bill Meade . Unive rsity of Iowa 26.10 26.40 26.10 27.70 27.10 25 .5 5 27.60 186.55 Coach: Sam Bailie Temple University 26.55 24.20 2 1.25 25.05 26 .1 5 27.00 26.30 176.45 Coach : Carl Patterson Preliminary . Team Totals : Univers ity of Californ ia 186.75, University of Iowa 186.40, Southern I lli nOIS University 185.05, Temple Universi ty 177.50, University o f New Mexico 177.05,. Un ivers ity of Colorado 173.45, Colorado State Univer sit y 172.05 Louisiana State ' U nl vers lty 136.20. .

NATIO AL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA APRIL 4-5-6, 1968

By Jerry W right It has been sa id many times that truth is stranger or more unbelievable than fi ction and never was thi s more true than in the battle Southern Illino is University and the Un iversity of Californ ia fought in vyin g for th 1968 NCAA team title in gymnastics.

Two of the most sensational dismounts ever seen anywhere, followin g two of the most courageous routines one could ever invent in fic.tion, brought the University of .California and Coach Hal Frey their fir st National Collegiate team title.

Going into the final event SIU was can.ceded the title by everyone except Tom Bruce, Gary Diamond, Sid Freudenstein and Dan Millman, the Cal high bar team. I believe that probably even Coach Frey had about 99 0/0 given up hope with SIU ahead by l.15 and one event to go. However, SIU, up first, just could not muster enough to maintain the drive which h ad been generated by a fantastic trampoline team performance. SIU's first man up on the high bar drew an unexpected 7.65 causing the entire gym to stir-SIU's next two men , however, came up with 9.15 and 9.35, cau sing most of us to shru g and mutter "well, I guess that's that". Knowing the fourth man needed only score around 8.0 to put tt out of reach. Alas, it was not to be, for on his 17th routine of the meet (6 compulsory routines, 6 optional routines and 'five events for the final team competition) it appeared as though SIU's fourth man could not cope with this combination of obstacles and after two major breaks came up with a score of 6.0. This, of course, immed iately changed the entire picture-Cal was now back in the meet, but still needed somethin g like a 9.1 average to tie. Diamond struggled somewhat and was scored 8.3, 8.6, 8.6, 8.9 for 8.6 avg. Again gloom in the Cal camp-Bruce, up next, however, usually scored 8.8 to 9.0 so all was not lost- but, again it was not to be that simple-Tom did a good job but minor form breaks, hittin g the bar on a vault, and overturning a dismount dropped him below Diamond.

Now Freudenstein and Millm an had to score 9.35 and 9.4 to win and 9.3 and 9.35 to tie; it did not seem possible, especially in view of the very strict judging up to that point. Sid, however, came through! Losin g points only for a crook ed takemoto and on a couple of minor form breaks, he threw the highest double fly-a-way this observer has ever seen and opened while still higher than the bar; scores were: 9.4, 9.4, 9.5, 9.2 for 9.4 average! !!

Dan now had to score 9.3 for Cal to tie and 9.35 to win. Not on ly did Mr. Millman do just that but it is possible he was un derscored with an excellent Takemoto to vault, a beautiful double german, and a piked double fly-a-way that hi t the groun d like the book says it should : scores: 9.3, 9.5, 9.4, 9.4, avg. 9.4 and pandemonium broke out causing everyone to almost forget that another team still had to compete on th e high bar.

There were, of course, many other factor s leading to the finale but none so significant as the high bar. Fujimoto's parallel bar routine probably turned th e tide for Cal as he hit for a fi ne 8.7 avg ., Hammond 's two fine ring routines made it easier, Diamond, Freudenstein and Millman in FX scorin g 27.90, Iowa missing on the parallel bars to score only 25.55 and Iowa's failure on SH scoring 28.20 Friday but only 26.40 on Saturday. SIU had two breaks, sid e 11

horse with only 25.15 and the eventful high bar. It was felt, by this observer at least, that Cal was underscored on the PE and SR which cou ld have made a big difference.

Another story was Freudenstein's passin g up the All Around competition , staying out of the comp ulsories to be strong on Satur路 day, which he was, scoring 55.20 in the six Olympic events . . . Dan Millman passing up the All Aro und earlier in the season and forgetting about side horse, to work more trampoline, scored 55.80 in 6 even ts (countin g trampoline) and on and on and on!路 Temple's good young gymnasts were just pressured out but look out for them the next two years ,they are going to be tough!

Iowa simply did not look cond itioned well enough to hold up except maybe for Bob Dickson who scored over 54.00 points in the all around the final night.

In th e preliminaries Makoto Sakamoto and Dave Thor stood head and should ers above all others. Makoto scored 55.80 on the compulsory exercises with many spectators making the observation that they were seeing stunts performed as they had never seen them performed before, some even going so far as to say they looked like different moves. A back uprise on the rings that looked like a straight arm giant to handstand and pirouettes on the high bar that looked so smooth and easy made it hard to believe he was doing the correct routine. To top it off Makoto hit a fine si de horse routine with one obvious trouble spot of .2 ot .3 and appeared to deliberate for about a minute as to whether he should repeat-scoring .only 9.4 pn it, arid deserving it.

Coach Bailie University of watches the competition.

Iowa -

Other notable performances in the com路 pulsory exercises' included Hayasaki's ring routine which scored 9.35 in spite of a break, Dave Thor on the side horse with 8.95 in spite of a stop, and, for the first time ever, I would imagine, one gymnast received a score of zero on his compulsory side horse and a zero on his compulsory high bar, end ing up with a total score, for 6 events of 22.95 (his 12 event all路around score was 64.75).

The optional routine surprises included Dave Thor and Joe Fedorchek of MSU as Dave received the highest optional total All Aro und score of 55.65 and Fedorchek wa s 5th with 52.25.

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free ex Toby Towson - (MSU) Sid Freudenstein - (Cal) Dan Millman - (Cal) Makoto Sakamoto - (USC) Dave Thor - (MSU) George Huntzicker - (Mich) Dale Hardt - (SIU) Rich Impson - (ASU) Final Scores - Medalist Entries : Depue (SFVSC) 9.1, Weiner (T) 9.05, Mayer (S IU ) 9.05, Warren (CSC LA) 9.0 , Casey (Co lo ) 8.85, Pomeranz (Colo) 8.80, Engle (Syra) 8.70 , Turoff (T) 8.70, So lomon (Spfd) 8.6 , Clarke (PSU) 8.55, Anderson (W. Chester) 8.45 , Jacki (ISU) 8.3, Bennon (Ariz) 8.10, Robella (Army) 8.10, Tubb (Furman) 8.05, Rogers (Ga) 8.05.

FLOOR EXERCISE ROUTINES , Mayer (SIU): Front step out, RO, back dive half, 2-foot takeoff jump, handspring , front fall, body turns, RO, FF , full, FF , st oop through to splits, straight-straight press; front , headspring, forward roll, pirouette, handstand, stoop through, half turn to jap splits; back extension roll; RO, FF, pike-open.

Freudenstein (Cal): Straddle jump, front; RO, FF , Full twist, FF , jack-knife toe touch, chest roll , toe rise; headspring , RO, FF I pike arabian,

fall and turn to splits: stiff-stiff press, front ro ll , back handspring; front handspring, front , headspring, swedish fall; leg circle, s tand , RO , FF, la yout back, punch front.

Huntzicker (Mich): RO, FF , FF, Double full , back extension roll; % turn, RO, FF, 1 Y2 twisting dive ro ll ; forward roll to swedish fall , spl its, press handstand; RO , FF arabian, front handspring, fall t o stomach; turn to seat, va ldez, RO, FF, FF, full twist.

Millman (Cal): RO, FF, arabian 1Y2 t o hands, I

roll out;

jump-landing

in fr ont prone position ,

snap to st raddl e stand, press t o japanese ha nd-

stand; roll out f orwa rd , back dive handstand, step down; turn toward side, 2 steps, cartwhee l, diving cartwheel, no arm roll; jump to immediate

arabian

dive

to

chest,

immediate

stradd le cut, sit , back roll handstand , pike down; RO, FF, back with 11/2 twists, front headspring, kickup handstand, stp .down, turn, RO, FF, FF , pike back.

Depue (SFYSC): RO, FF, Full , turn to swedish fall,

turn

under

to

a

bautista,

handspring ,

front, handspring (along diagonal), to a thrust, turn under to a leg circle, splits, stiff-stiff press to handstand, scissors down; RO, side somi, fall to va ldez, handstand, lowe r down, RO, FF, layout.

Towson (MSU): Handspring, pike front, handspring, forward roll, straddle through, press to handstand, half pirouette, pike dawn to stand; 2 s teps, RO, FF, whip back, back stepout, back walkove r, stradd le down to stradd le support, press to handstand '/4 pirouette, step down; RO, half twisting flip fl o p , handspring step aut, 3,4 pirouette t o handstand, forward roll, back flipflop , sp lits, swing rear leg around, pike to

a stand , RO, FF, Full.

Fedorcek (MSU): Handspr ing , fr ont, ha nd spri ng, fall , back spin , straddle ra il t o hand st and, st oop thr ou g h , boc k ex t en sion, t o ha ndsta nd, lower down ; RO, FF , whip-ba ck , FF , a r ab ia n dive ro ll , di ve t o handsta nd , lowe r t o

prone positio n, sw itch ki c k; RO , ara b ian step out, swedish fall , turn , bac k ex t ensio n; RO, FF , Full .

Weiner (Temple): RO , FF , pike arabian , headspring, jump t o handstand, st ep d own , lunge; 3/S spi n, RO, back d iv e ha lf, jump hands t and , stoop in t o spl its, turn, strai g ht ar m st raddl e p r ess to ha nd sta nd, step down ; h andspri ng , fr ont, ha ndspring , lift leg a nd f a ll int o ja p

splits; pull rea r leg aro und, ba c k extension ro ll , st a nd; RO, FF, Full .

Eaton (UNM): RO, FF, d oub le t w ist ing boc k , imm ed ia t e ba ck ex t en sion ro ll , qua rt er t urn , st ep d ow n , f ro nt handspri ng wa lkout , RO, wa lkou t, ba ckhand spr ing walkout , b oc k wa lkover t o splits; stiff-stiff press, fr o nt ro ll ; RO, FF , bo ck , FF , t oe t ouch FF , sing le leg c ircle t o str a ddl e pos iti on , t o chinese (jap ) spli ts, rise to L, snap t o ba ckhon dspring , ' step d own ; RO, FF , FF, Full.

Bennon (Arizona) : RO, FF , dou b le t wist, bo c k

ext ens ion roll, s t ep down , ca rt wheel, s ide som ie , turn , fall t o s upp ort, sw itch aro u nd , va ldez, handstan d, shoot thr ough t o splits, pre ss t o handstan d, step down; front ha ndspri ng, fr ont fro nt handspri ng . . . (so rr y, our tap e skipp ed here) . . . back ext ens ion , half turn, step d own; RO, FF, Full .

Thor (MSU): Fron t , handspring , front , swedish

fall , half turn , valdez, lower t o scal e; 3 steps, handsprin g, front d ive with full t w ist ; 2 sing le leg c ircles, 3 double leg circles, t o splits, turn

to straddle, press to hands tand , ste p out , RO , FF, arab ian di ve ro ll t o immediate ara b ia n div e to chest , st oop thr ough , to bock ex t ensio n ro ll , sca le, RO, FF , pike bock.

Hayasaki (Wash,) : Handspring , pike fro nt , ha ndspr in g, jump t o support , pike f orw ard t o ha ndst and , neck spin half turn , come t o stand, RO, FF , Full , FF , half turn , swedish fall , leg sc issors, stand, Y2 turn , boc k ro ll , FF , high bo ck handspring d ive t o suppo rt , brin g legs over t o splits w ith che st t ouching , sw ing body aro u nd 180 ° , cross ing leg s, stald er shoot

to handstan d, nec ks pring, pike tur n, imme di at e headspr ing , headspring, straddle cut, turn , . . (so rr y, our t-ape blew the ending ).

In the Floor Exercise T oby Towson, Sid Freudenstein and Dan Millman stood out in spite of an excellent fi eld, Sid 's round off , flip fl op, back somersault to imm ediate fr ont somersa ult matched Millman's round off , flip flop , back I lh twist to forward roll for sensationalism.

In the side horse event there were so many good ones that in spite of the fa ct that each had fin e routines Edwards of Colorado Univ. and Beckwith of Army fin · Ished tied for 8th with 9.05, and fo rmer NCAA champ Gary Hoskin s was 7th with 9.3, Jack Ryan was a questionable winner here at 9.6 as he, on two occasions, did 3 double leg circles in succession to set up extremely difficult sequences. The rest of his routine, however, was near·perfect. Dave Thor and Denni s Ramsey of BYU tied for second at 9,55 with almost flawless rou· tines.

On the still rin gs, local favorite, Pat Arnold earned an unquestioned fir st for host Arizona as he was alm ost completely on target and fini shed with a solid double fly· a·way. Arn old's teammate, Bob Shirk, fin· ished a good routine with a piked double and placed 3rd.

side horse Ja ck Ry an - (Co lo.)

De nnis Ram sey - (BYU) Dov e Th or - (MSU) Mike Freriks - (U SC) Jo hn Ru sso - (Wisc) Marc Sl atten - (Iowa) Final Scores - Medalist Entries : . . Hosk ins (SCL A ) 9 .30 , Bac k w ith (A r my) 9. 05 , Edwards (Co lo) 9 .05, Bo lni c k (Yal e) 8 .9 5 , Medi na (SF VS C) 8.95 , M ayer (S I U ) 8 .80, Spindl er (Sa n Diego) 8.60, Sa k a m oto (USC ) 8.5 5 , N ev ill e ( Ind. St .) 8. 30, De nn is (SIU ) 8 .25, Galiot o (U N M) 8 . 15, Fu j im ot o (Co l. ) 8.10 , Mantz (W .

Ch .) 8. 10, Amerine (So. Co nn ) 8. 10 , Scardina (Denver ) 7.56 , Charzuk (UN M) 7. 55, Ashl ey ( LSU) 7 .45, Grigsby (SF V SC) 7 .00 , Gill espie (KU ) 7 .00 , Difurio (T) 5 .75 .

The biggest controversy of the meet came on the trampoline, as no two people could agree on who should have won. Sopho· more Geor ge Huntzicker of Michigan beat out veteran teammates · Dave Jacobs and Wayne Miller by ,05 points and did it in spite of competing ahead of both of them.

Bruce Coulter of L.A. State was a sur· prise but unquestioned winn er on the long horse as defending champion Paul II/l ayer came in a close second, 9.55 to 9.5.

Makoto Sakamoto became the only defendin g champion to retain a title as h e clearly won the PB event, even though Yoshi Hayasaki follow ed by only 9.55 to 9.45, Makoto 's forte was stutz to handstand, and peach to handstand both in the middle of his routine, and his excellent front som· ersault dismount with lh twist, twisting in th e opposite direction most people twisttwi stin g out instead of in.

On th e high bar a tremendous field of compp. titors made this th e most pressurepacked event. Mak oto won with a near perfec t ro utine, losin g .1 on his mount and .2 on his dismount, in this observer's opinion, for 9.7 ( hi s score was 9.65) . Defendin g champion and College Division HB champ Rich Grigsby of San F ernando Valley did an excellent job to score 9.5 but just could not stay with Mak olo. T om Sexton of Okla· homa was the surpri se of th e event as h e placed third with 9.45.

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SIDE HORSE RO'UTtNES Ryan (Colorado): Jum p to re verse moore, immediate reverse moore, stock li , hop on end, half doub le leg, reverse moore, tromlet in, 2 double leg , pick up 2 back sci ssors, 2 fr ont scissors, 2 double leg, ru ssia n moore t o immed iate loop in to end, hop around, loops, d ismount.

Medina (SFYSC): Ju mp t o a rear in, double moore, imm ediate moore , immediate tra ve l, double, rear in, half a lternate, 2 fr ont scis-

sors, half a lternate, back scissors, 2 doub les, travel down , loop , walkaround, loop, dismount.

Scardina (Denver): Half high loop, half turn , walkoround , front uphill , immediate stock li downhill, walkoround, reor up , under cut left leg, one leg circle, cut right leg back, bac k

scissors, 3 front sc issors, doubles , back moore,

Dick Crile'y 1968 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 guess the southwes t must just naturally favor west coas t teams as Cali forn ia (Berkeley) becam e the first team since USC (1962 at Albuquerqu e) to take an NCA A Title west of the Sierras . . . it was California's first NCAA win in Gymnastics . _ . Receivin g that 1967 Coach of th e Year award for Hal Frey must have put the pressure on . .. In case you hadn't hea rd, 1968 College Division winner was San F ernando Valley S tate College and th eir coach, Dr. Bill Vincent, was named College Division Coach of the Year. Bill was the west reg ion nominee for the University Division while Temple's Carl Patterson represented the East, Dr. Ji m Sweeney the Mi d-East, and Ru sty Mitchell of the University of New Mex ico the l\lid- West. Our congratulations to Carl, who was voted th e 1968 Gymnasti c Coach of th e Year by his fellow coaches.

In cid entally, the NA CGC 1966-6 7 Hi~h足 lights is now in need of up-datin g to lJ1 elud e thi s year's results. It is still th e most com pl ete reference ava ilable on th e NCAA's - outside of a se t of bound MG volum es.

Wond er how th ey plan to keep track of two se ts of nationals, the college and the uni versity divi sion . . . Th e idea wa s a good one this year- one of the few, I thou ght- and gave a chan ce for greater recognition to some of the yo un ger gym na stic teams. Just by way of comment though, it seems to me that the so uthern teams would be better off to enter the coll ege than the uni versity division. Oh well, another qu estion for the NCAA _ Speakin g of the NCAA, why did they deci de to prom ulgate such a totally ridi culous and un enforcea ble rule as to bar moti on p icture ca meras, other than their own ?

It has been a tradition and a valuable teaching techniq ue for coaches and gymnasts to take motion pi ctures at gym meets. Besides, we didn 't notice full atten tive activity of the NCAA photographers during th e whole 3-ring circus anyhow_ The Meet Directors deserve to be commended for havin g the correct attitude anyhow . . . Smile fellas, you're on!

Any gymnast who thinks his coach had it pretty easy didn't go to any of the coaches' mee tin gs. Gran ted they had a lot to talk over this yea r, but such go in gs on _ .. On e yo un g idealist who sat in on the di scuss ion und er the rules committee session Saturday cam e away with hi s ideals in shreds- that's politics, boys, even in gymnastics. Th e brief hi story of th e NACGC prepa red by Chet Phillips shows that it ha s been that way for some tim e now; not much hope of change or improvement. And now another quote fr om College Division AA Champ, Jim Amerin e, "They're taking it away from the indi vidual gy mnast with all 14

immediate ru ss ian to end, walkoround , loop, loop, rus sian on end, loop off.

Freriks ( USC): Moo re to ru ssian, russian on one pommel to end, back travel moore to m iddle, bac k scissor, 2 fr on t sc issors , front sc issor _w ith half turn , front sc issor , pick up dou b les, bock tra vel, russian , loop, ru ssian, layout.

Neville (Ind. St _): Reverse moore, tr omlet down, loop a round, circle, tromlet up, circle , circle, break into reverse scissor, 3 front scissors, 2 circle, bock tram lot down, circle, circle, durham , loop, loop, and dismount.

Schmitt (Iowa) : Back m oore uphill , m oore, travel down, kehre in, double moo re, cut in, reve rse sc issors, cut 3 re gu lar scissors , pick up circles in front, troml et down, loop with half

off.

McCanless (Iowa): Back moore uphill , ci rcl es, Bailie, tramlet downhill, back circles, back tram let up, cut in reverse scissors, cut 3 scissors, pick up circles in front, kehre out, loops, wra o around, half off.

rings 9 .50 Pat Arnold - (Arizona ) Fred Dennis - (SIU) 9.40 Bob Shirk - (Arizona) 9 .3 5 Mike Jacki - ( ISU) 9.30 9 .25 .

Mickey Chaplan - (UCLA) Dan Mi ll man - (Cal) 9 .20 Don Hatch Iowa 9.20 Final Scores - Medalist Entries : May thaler ( ISU) 9. 15, Croft (MSU) 9.15, DeGallo (Mass) 9. 15, Price (ASO ) 9.05, Strange (CSU ) 8.95 , Sa kamot o (USC) 8.90 , Emery (PSU) 8 .90, Amerine (So. Conn.) 8.75 , Edwa rd s (Co lo) 8 .5 5, Pilli on (Spfd) 8.40, Schonberger (DU) 8 .3 0 , Olsen (LSU) 8.30, Bailey (No. 111. ) 8 .20, Coppo la (Sa n Jose) 7 .75 , Gunny (MSU) 6 .25, Gosney (LSU) 6.10 .

Siotten (Iowa): Ba ck m oo re uphill , circle, bac k moore, b a ck m oore d ownhill , circ le, kehre in, cut into reve rse scissors, pick up 3 scissors , pick up circl es in the fr ont, trom let down, 3 loops, half off.

Edwards (Colorado): Ju mp, loop, moore on end t o pom mels back t o end, loop , t ram let uph ill , immediate !rom let downh ill, double re verse moore, tr omlet up, break out to bac k sc issor, 2 fr ont scissors , pick up 2 doubles, reverse moore, tromlet down, up, loop, layawa y dismount.

Tepp (Cal): Back moore, trom let, uphill tromlet , moore , back tromlet down, hop, circle, doub le rear in , undercut, back scisso r, 3 front sc issors, tra vel down, loop, hop, loop, loop, off w ith a half.

Russo (Wisconsin ): Loop on end to 2 bac k loo ps, loop, back into center , moore, immed iate doub le out, circle, double in , tra ve l, back moore , travel to end, back in, straddle hop t o a reverse scissor, 2 front sc issors, pick up ci rcles, double o ut, 2 loo ps, loop with V2 off.

Thor ( MSU ): Stockli, moore, imm ediate st ockli , to hop , cricle, rear in, circl e, cut, bac k scissor, disengage to 3 front scissors, pick up high d oubles, stockli down, durham hop, t o loops, t o half loop , hop, and off.

Galioto (UNM): Back moore , trom let, c ircle, Bailie, ci rcle , moore, scissors, reverse sci ssors, circle , bock m oore, tr am let down , loo p, tromlet up, immediate t romlet down, loop, loop , dismount.

Hoskins (Cal State LA) : Reve rse moore, uphill tra ve l, downhill tra vel, hig h , back travel into the midd le, high, back tra ve l moore , back tra vel m oore, high, b reak into one back scissors, f ront scissors , fron t scissors with half turn, front scissors, ru ssian to immediate tra ve l down t o the end, loop, one and one-half twists off.

thi s emphasis on teams." You tell 'em Jim, maybe th ey'll un derstand someday why gy m· nasts compete . . .

Speakin g of com petiti on, we had a chan ce to compare strategies with some of th e contendin g coaches. Iowa's Sam Bailie de· clared that his strategy was just to have the coach stay out of the way and let hi s boys do it. We caught Bill Meade (SIU) about 7 a.m. Friday just returnin g from the golf links with USGF Director Frank Bare (They beat the grou ndskeepers to th e greens) -obviously no worries on hi s part.

RINGS ROU T INE A r nold (A r izona ): Cast , straight arm back upr ise, handstand , immediate straight orm bac k

giant, gi ant handstand, lower to sk in-the-cat, pu llout through cr oss to L, h ollowback press t o ha ndstand , inl ocate, uprise to L cross, la yback, dislocate, double f lyawa y.

Shirk (A r izona ): Back upr ise, inverted, g iant , st rai gh t arm handstand , giant, fron t upr ise L , st iff-s tiff press, handstand, fro nt laway, inl o-

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pike doub le.

Chaplan (UCLA ): St ill in locate, stra ight arm back uprise to handsta nd, Chaplan drop, back kip, maltese, ( lower st raight a r m thru planche t o support, kick legs t o V and drop to inver ted hang and dislocate t o maltese) layback, f ront rise L, ho llowback press, lowe r to planche to bac k lever and pu ll to cr oss, layback, dislocate, fu ll t w ist.

long horse LONG HORSE Bruce Co ulter - (Cal State L.A.) 9.55 Pau l Mayer - (SIU) 9 .50 Ha l Shaw - ( 111. ) 9.40 Cl iff Ga u thier - (Denver U .)

9.30 Dave Tho r - (MS U) 9 .25 .C ioc kosz (S IU ) 9.25 Final Scores - Medalist En t ri es: Bass ist (UCLA) 9 .20, H ardt (SI U ) 9 . 15, Bennon (Ar iz) 9. 15 , McConnel l (UNM) 9 . 10 , Clarke ( ISU) 9.05, Sexton (Ok lo ) 9 .05 , Jensing (LSU) 9.00, Grigsby (SFVSC) 9.00, Shidemant le (Pitt) 8.95, Provencher (Spfd) 8.90, Freudenstein (Ca l ) 8 .80, Weiner (T) 8 .80 , Sakamoto (USC) 8.70 , Jack i ( ISU) 8 .70, T hatcher (BYV) 8.70, Amerine (Ca. Co nn) 8 .55 , Indov ino (LSU) 7.95.

Jacki (ISU ): Dis locate, str aight arm shoot handstand, straight arm g iant to handst and ,

reve rse giant, come down, bock kip to L, st iffstiff press to handstand, lower d own t o cross , dislocate , double fl yawa y.

Hayasaki (Wash ): Inv erted hang , dislocate, shoot handstand, fallout of handstand , to back

uprise handstand,

lower down to cross, back

kip to L suppo rt , press handstand straight arm straight body, lowe r down to L support, back lever , dislocate, full twist dismount .

Den n is (SIU ): Disloca te, shaot to handstand , immediate straight arm giant (Hold ), reverse giant (Ho ld), stra ight arm giant t o an immedi-

ate fro nt cost, bock upri se, L cross, lower t o regu lar cross, la y bock , back kip, roll around t o a front lever, pike f orward roll , cast, straight arm back up r ise to an L, ho ll owback press t o handstand, gia nt, fu ll tw isting f lyaway.

Frank Bare

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However after his team dropped to third in the tea m preliminaries, he observed, "No golf Sa turday, I've got to coach." Hal Frey withheld his top AA man, Sid Freudenstein from AA co mpetition, noting th at Sid prob· ably wouldn 't bea t Sakamoto, and he needed him for the Team effort. Evid ently it paid off. Sid "only" had to go through 12 rou· tines instead of 18 in 3 days, and he still looked strong at the finish.

Will th e following gymnasts stand up and take a bow- 18 routines in 3 days ! Iowa's . Bob Dickson, SIU's Fred Dennis and Paul Mayer, and Tem ple's Fred Turoff and P ete DiFurio. This wa s worse than in ternational competition. These fellows did a l'eal job ... It didn 't appear to have affected Paul Mayer much, but he-or rather hi s rented car- was struck by a refrigera tor soon after arriving in Tucson. That's r ight, it fell off a truck just ahead of him . . . anyone make any jokes about keeping your cool, Paul?

Incidentally, Paul Mayer and Cal's Tom Bruce competed together in the good old days in Richmond, Calif. The way that Tom expressed the Cal team's sentiments about the championship has us wondering about their pep talks : " Kill, Kill, KILL!" (from Arlo Guthrie's record, "Ali ce's Restaurant", a Berkeley favorite.)

Would you believe ... the attendant at the Flamin"o Motel unloaded the ice locker into the "~mming pool each morning. Still didn't cool it down very much. The Tucson C of C and the USGF did their best to provid e fair weather-it was really appreci. ated by our northern and eastern visItors.

He had his nerve. Penn State Coach Gene Wettstone, looking rather lost without a team to ride herd on, claimed a champion· ship by proxy. It seems Hal Frey was on~e a gymnast of his as was ru nn e~"up Bill Meade. It's ni ce that Gen e IS lettmg som~ of his former pupils "share the wealth .': (Gene "only" has 8 team titles.) We'll ex· pect h im back in full force for next year's NCAA bout at the University of Washing· ton. :;,:

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top routines as we co uld get. Accordingly, your intrepid correspondents took a portable tape recorder and " brought 'em back alive," albeit a little man gled in some cases, for our readers, most of whom sq uawk that we don 't run enough routines. (So let's have some letters, even if you do point out our errors in transcripti on.) If we' ve rearranged or omitted any of th e routines, it's due largely to the noisy conditions und er which we operated (whoops, informal- if you please) and the resulting cacaphony which drowned our parts of the tape. We hope you will for give these omissions and others such as those 4 rolls of film which didn't turn out. (Out of 4 cameras, we wound up with 2 in workin g order and l ost a lot of side horse and parallel bar shots . as well as some team and' trophy photos at the end.)

LONG HORSE YAUL TS Sakamoto (USC) : Hecht .

Mayer (SIU): Pike handspring from for end.

Millman (C al) : Yamash ita, handspring.

Bassist (UCLA): Straight arm handspring, giant piked handspring.

Hayasaki (Wash): Yamashita-far end, hecht .

Freudenstein (Cal) : Giant hecht with full tw ist, giant h~cht .

Patterson and team at Tucson .

By the way, the Gymnastic Buttons we were pushing (see ad, last MG) went over rather well. There are only a couple hundred left for those of you who missed us -or were too chicken to buy_

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Notes on new moves coming to popularity.

FX: The piked arabian front , arabian l %" the Ilh twisting dive roll, full twisting dive roll; the handspring, front, handspring sequence has certainly become a lot more widely used also. FX still offers the greatest potential for innovation and ori ginality . _ .

Back travel moves and one-pommel work are said (but by whom, don't ask me) to b e in on side horse . . . If Sid Freudenstein's full twisting hecht is any example, look to see more t'wisting vaults. Hal Shaw's first vault holds a lot of interesting possibilities _ _ . can't you see someone doing a roundoff, layout with half or full twist (l don' t know about yo u, but the thought terrifies me) '. . _ Trampolin e didn 't necessarily show anything nell!, but more fliffis moves in the middle of the routine certainly add to the excitement __ . On P-bars, the trend seems to be away from the more hazardous diamidov-type move although a couple were thrown . There will be more side mountsa vaulting approach, also the hip circle mount, such as Millman's, from the side.

The cast over the side and its various highbar-like combinations seem to be increasing in popularity .. _ High bar, the double flyaway is becoming more common; it will soon need the variety of pikes, of the fullin fliffi s. Could certainly learn from the trampolinists here. A lot greater use of the stalder shoots and the hecht vault were noted, likewise a 1% twisting pirouettelike move, called an Ono by some.

One can only hope that the emphasis on all-around will not cause up-and-comin g gymnasts to n eglect some of the more exciting and diffi cult moves left up until now to the specialists. No one could really complain about dull all-around optional rou-' tines if they watch Dave Thor . . . Do you realize h e might have won the AA championship had it been decid ed on optionals alone? Sakamoto has ,become a byword when it comes to compulsory routin es, now he is startin g to work new optional material too _ 18

Grigsby (SFYSC): Giant handspr ing , piked handspring. .

Shaw (Illinois): The O- Shaw (described variously a s a pirouette in-back ou t , or round off back, o r cartwheel w ith quarter turn in with a back out), y amashita at for end.

Scorza (Iowa): Piked handspring at for end.

Thor (MSU): Yamashita.

p-bars Makoto Sakamoto - (USC) Yoshi Hayasaki - (Wash) Sid Jensen - (Mich) Ron Rapper - (Mich) Dick Swetman - (PSU) Dan Millman - (Cal) Rich Grigsby - (SFYSq Bob Emery ' - (PSU) . Final Scores - Medalist Entries: Weiner (T) 9.10, Dickson (Iowa) 9.00, Impson (ASU) 8.90, Johannson (Oklo) 8.90 , Strange (CSU) 8 .90, Charzuk (UNM) 8.90, Scorz a ( Iowa ) 8.85, Mayer (SIU) 8.85, Asb ley (LSU) 8.80, Diehl (MSU) 8.70,. Hemmerling (SIU) 8.70, Dennis (S IU) 8.70 , Takem ine (DU) 8.55, La zar ( Iowa) 8.55, Prov encher (Spfd) 8.40, Ja cki (ISU ) 8.25, Singer (Colo) 7 .80, Manna (UNM) 7.35, Jennings (CSCLB) 7.15 .

PARALLEL BAR ROUTINES Dennis (SIU): Peach to % handstand , immediate glide kip, straddle L, stradd le leg press to handstand, back toss, stutz, cast, back

uprise, straddle

cut,

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stutz,

la yaway, front off with half.

Dickson (Iowa :) Jump t o planche on one bar , bent arm press to handstand , pirouette in ,

L, hollowback ' press to handstand, stu tz, handstand, back, handstand, stutz, handstand, lay-

away, front uprise, moore, cast to support st raddle cut, layaway, front uprise, reverse I

sw inging pirouette, 1 arm handstand, fr ont off with half.

Jensen (Mich): Cast support, forward roll,

stutz, layawa y, fr ont uprise , czech moore, cast support, swing pirouette, cast , back uprise

st radd le cut, planche, front uprise, sw inging pirouette, bock toss, cost, straddle cut, swing handstand , laya wa y, front upri se, front off.

straddle cut, swing handstand (hold), peach , layaway, front uprise, front off.

Rapper (Mich): Cast, support, straddle cut

Millman (Cal): (Standing crosswise and holding for bar:) Free hip to handstand (one bar) hop (to other bar), straddle glide kip, cast up

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to handsta nd on both bars, stutz, layaway, fr on t uprise, hop pirouette, handstand, cast under a rm , back ri se, back stut z, straddle cut I L, planche, press handstand , stutz, layawa y, fron t uprise, front off.

Hayasaki (Wash) : Cast, half turn, immediate stalder , Peach basket, hand st and, streuli to

ha ndstand, stitz, peach basket, handstand, cost, back stitz , shou lder st and and ro ll t o straddl e cut catch, h ol d L, press handstand , stitz, la yaway, front upri se, fr ont somie dismount .

Swetman (Penn State): Peach , near handstand , la yaway fr on t upri se, hop pirouette, cost with V2 t wist , front upri se, moore, L, straddle press t o handstand , back t oss t o ha ndstand , bac k toss through ha ndstand, stutz t o hand -

stand, layaw ay, front uprise, front off with hal f twist.

Emery ( Penn State) : (Wi th beat board placed well in fron t of bars:) Jump in , glide, b ac k cut catch , peach , glide, swing pirouette , stutz, cast catch cut ca tch L, st iff-sti ff press, stutz, layaway, fr ont uprise, fr on t off with half (used a rudolph off during the season).

Schmitt (Iowa) : Peach, near ha ndstand, layaway, fr ont uprise, japanese moore, loose support, half m oor e out to gl ide kip, kip, double rear, straddl e cut, L, press handstand, back somie . . (our tape mi ssed here) . back upri se, straddle cut, la yawa y, front uprise, fro nt off.

hig bar Makoto Sakamoto - (USC) 9.65 9 .50 Rich Grigsby - (SFVSC) 9.45 T o m Sexton - (Oklo U .)

Dave Thor - (MSU) 9.40 9.35 Kanati Allen - (UCLA) Dave Niemand - (Sac. St.) 9.30 Fina l Scores - Medalist Entries : Freudenstein ,Ca l ) 9 .2 5 , Schmitt ( Iowa) 9.15, Blea (Colo) 9.10, Amerine (So. Conn) 9 . 10, Kimbal l (Utah) 9.0 , Geist (T) 8.95, Litow (PSU) 8.85, Turoff (T) 8.80 , Voorhees (Ariz) 8.75, Hemmer ling (SIU) 8.65, Swanson (DU) 8 .60 , Cla y t on (UNM) 8 .55 , Smith (SIU) 8.5, Boyce 8.35 , Schonberger (DU) 8 .30, Jacki (ISU) 8.0, Gunny (MSU) 7.25 , Hart (Go) 6.75 , Mayer (SIU) 6.40, Saurek (LSU) 5 .8 5.

HORIZONTAL BAR ROUTINES

Dickson (Iowa): Ja m to eag les, hop, immediate st.a lder, ro ll on hand to eagle grip, ana , v ault, kip , cha ng e, fu ll and a half pirouette , giant, fu ll twisting fl yawa y .

Scorza (Iowa) : Jam, stoop, dislocate, eagle, hop with one hand, ana, flank vau lt, reverse kip, german, ha lf twist, fl y ing kip, reverse piroue tte, giant l double .

Sc h mitt (I owa): Stem, stoop, 2 inv erts, dislocate out, hop, immediate stalder, giant, ro ll one hand, ano, flank vault t reverse kipt double german, half turn out, fl y ing kip, giant , straddle hecht.

Emery ( Penn State): High start, roll one hand t o eag le grip, rea ch under, v ault , half turn , _

It will all be good beca use he ha s all the basics down pat- a goo d start.

It would be interestin g to see if this column could nominate the top men for th e Olympi cs. We'll have a go at it after th e NAAU's n ex t week. If yo u thou ght the NCAA's were bad, we hear that over 50 all-around entries are prepared for the Lon g Beach affair. At least they have cushion ed seats.

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No matter what you may have thought about the handlin g of our gymnastic championshi ps, be glad you were not among tho se und ergo in g the trauma of the NCAA Wrestlin g Champidnships_ While the Wrestling Nationals drew over 7,000 spectators for the final night (how marv did gymnastics draw in all -路t4ree days?), the precedin g 5 sessions (eight matches proceeding at on e time) outdrew any previous college wrestlin g crowds anp topped the Gymnastic crowd record of 22,000 set at P enn State in 1966, by several thousand. The 3-day contest saw entries from 102 colleges totaling about 382 wrestl ers and required 464 bOUlS. The problem 'with the wrestling has been the sam e that gymnastics encountered and overcame some years ago, that any college or university could send its entire team to th e national s.

Is there a lesson to be learned? I believe so, and many of the coaches attending the wrestling nationals felt similiarly as they instructed the NCAA to establish a new rule to divide competition up into college and university divisions and to consider the establi shment of regional qualifyin g meets_ Thanks largely to the efforts of the NAC GC, gymnastics has already faced up to such problems, but lately too many tamperin gs with the rules have created new problems for gymnastics, not the least of which is insuring that the Championships themselves draw a crowd suffici ent to 'help pay for the cost of the meet.

Knowledgeable coaches, anxious to see even greater spectator interest, have been urging that the Championships be held in neutral sports arenas and college campuses which have a crowd-drawin g potential. Certainly, there is no point to hiding our light under a bushel basket, particularly since the NCAA shows no interest in promoting television coverage of the Championships.

It is tim e for some concentrated thinkin g on the part of those who guide our sport as to the directi on they wi sh to take in its promotion.

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hop, giant, stoop in, takemoto full twist, kip, front roll , hop , giant, giant, rudolph.

Sexton (Oklahoma ): Cast t o handstand, fr ont giant, hecht vau lt, reg ra sp, flying kip, front giant , stoop in, inverted (sorr y our tape went blank for a m oment) . . . vau lt, fr ont roll, front giant, pirouette, back giant, double flyaway.

Thor (MSU ): High sta rt to handst and, giant, st oop in, dis loca t e, d islocate g iant, hop out to reve rse grip, fr ont giant, h op, reach under, vault, kip, hop to f ront giants, stalder, pirouette, giant, doub le .

McConnell (UNM ): Half turn , jam t o eagles, hop ou t , beat for h echt va ult, hecht va ult , kip ,

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Clayton (·UNM ): High start , half turn, jom to eagles, eagle, eag le, h op, immediate pirouette, · giont , reach under for vault, va ult , fr on t kip, giant, back kip, german, hop, ha lf turn, k ip , giant, pirouett e, full o ff .

Manna (UNM ) : Back kip, double german, under cast half turn , back k ip, giant, stoo p in , 2 invert eds, eagle, hop ou t , reverse stalde r, pirouette, b li nd pi rouette, f ront off .

Hayasaki (Wash ): Cast, half turn, immediate sta lder, giant, pirouette, sale circle, hop change, mixed gr ip, vault, bock kip, german, half turn , kip, giant, hecht with legs t oge ther.

Allen (UCLA): Dislocate to inl ocate giant s, d islocate, hop t o sta lder, I Y2 t w ist s t o a front gnp, hecht vaul t, swing ha lf turn , kip, pi rouette, pike flyaway .

New NACGC off icers: Dick Aron so n (SecTrea s.) , Carl Patterson (Pres.). Hu bie Dun n ( Immediate P']st Pres.). Dr. Otto Ryser (V-Pres .).

DAVE THOR NAMED NISSEN AWARD WINNER Presented annually to the nation 's outstanding senior collegia te gymnast, and the eq uivalent of football's Heissman Trophy, th e Nissen Award for 1968 was made to Mi chigan State's Dave Thor at the NCAA Gymnastic Meet in Tucson , Arizona.

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Notable in Thor's gym nastic career I S th e fac t that he is only th e third competi tor in the hi story of the· Big 10 to win three straight all-around titl es. Add ition ally, he has participated on several national teams representin g the US in international competition, th e most recen t were the 1967 Pan-American Games and the 1967 Universiade in Tokyo . In addition to his gymnastic laurels, Dave has captained the Spartan's gymnasti c team and has maintain ed a B average in mathenlatics.

The winn er of th e Nissen Award is· chosen by balloting by coll ege newspaper wri ters and acc redited coll ege .gymnasti c judges on th e bas is of gymnasti c accomplishment , scholars hip ancl sportsmanship.

Oth er nominees rece iving votes were California's S id Freudenstein and Dan JVl ill man , UCLA's Kanati All en, i'dike lacki of Iowa Sta te ancl Dave Niemancl of Sac ramento S tate College.

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trampoline Geor ge Hun tzicker - (Mich) 9.55 Wa y ne Miller J- (Mich) 9 .50 Dave Jacobs - (Mich) 9 .50 Dale Hardt - (SIU) 9.35 Dan Mi llman - (Cal 9 .25 Rob Ew ing - (C5U ) 9.10 Final Scores - Medalist Entries : Eaton (UNM) 8 .95, Cla rke ( 15U) 8.85 , Price ( Ind. St.) . 8 .8, Gauthier (DU) 8.75 , Anthonv (Wash ) 8.65, Rie sing (Neb) 8.65 , Ra y (S IU) 8.45, Clark (PS U) 8.40, Morgan (CSU) 8.35, Spann (ASU) 8.2 , Royce (UNM) 8.2 . Rodger s Spfd) 7.75 , Rogers (Go ) 7.6, Carr (DU) 7.55, Dupree (S IU) 7.5, Saurek (LSU) 6 .6 , Dana (LSU) 6.45 , Gei st (T ) 6 .35.

TRAMPOLINE ROUTINES Huntzicker (Mich ): Triple back, baran i out fliffi s, doub le back, full , half-in hal f out, full twi st, barani out fliff is, doub le back, barani · out fliffis, 1 3,4 back, doub le cody.

Jacobs (Mich.): Tripl e back, baran i out, doub le back, rudi - out fliffis, double back, ha l fin half-out, pike f liffi s, hal f-in h a lf-out, r udo lph , pike 13,4 back, double cody.

Miller (Mich ): 2Y2 twisting double front , double back, doub le full, f u ll , doub le tw isting doub le back, half-in ho lf out fl iffi s, rudolph , half-in half- out fliffi s, full, 1 Y2 t wist ing back 13,4 somie, ru do lph.

Hardt (SIU ): Triple back, pike barani out, full , doub le back, barani out, full, doub le full , half-in- .half- o~ t, full , doub le t w istin9 13,4

back to t r ip le tw isting cady.

Ewing (CSU ): Pike ru d i-out fliff is, tuck ba r an i out , double back, full , doub le back, pike fliffi s, rudolph , full, double full, 13,4 back, double cody.

Clarke ( ISU ): Full-in full-out, 1 3,4 back, doub le tw isting cody, full , half-in half out fliffis, pi ke f li ffis, rudolph , doub le full, doubl e full, pike 1 3,4 back, double cody.

Anthony (Wash ): Tr iple twisting back, doub l e back, back, double t wist, double back, fliffis, doub le twist, full , double twist, 1 3,4 back, doub le ca d y.

Millman (Cal) : Pike rud olph out, doub l e back, full , tuck barani out, tu ck double back, full, double twist, double, fl y ing back, 23,4 bac k , double cady.

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WINNING ALL-AROUND ROUTINES MAKOTO SAKAMOTO Floor Exercise: Roundoff , flipfl op , layout with half t w ist , fro nt hea dspring , sw edish f a ll ; half turn, front handspring , front , headspring , fall ; straddle cut catch, back ro ll with immediate half turn t o immediate neckspring to a ba ck handspring t o a t oe h o ld ; round off , side somie, swedi sh fall , leg circle t o chest t ou ch (in splits); press (straight arm) handstand , scisso rs down , roundoff, flipflop , pike back.

Side Horse: Russian spin , hop t o moore , rear ,

moore, re ar rear , two bock scisso rs , t wo fr o nt scissors, circle, rear, o lympic dismount.

Rings : Dislocate, flange handstand , snap rise handstand , bounce to cross, go thr ough back lev er t o kip to L, i1ollowback press to hand~~~k~ ' lower to back lev er, dislocate, double Long Horse: Hecht.

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FX SH SR LHY PB HB TOTAL FINAL Makata Sakamoto c 9.05 9,40 9 .50 8 .55 9.55 9.75 55.80 USC 0 9.30 8.55 8 .90 8.70 9.55 9.65 54.65 110,45 Yoshi Hayasaki c 9.15 8.00 9 .35 9.00 9,40 9.35 54.25 U. Wash .

0 9.20 8.30 9.10 9.05 9,45 9.20 54.30 108.75 Dov e Thor c 8.75 8.95 8,45 8.75 8.85 9,45 52.20 MSU 0 9.30 9.5 5 8.95 9 .25 9 .20 9.40 55.65 107.85 Bob Emery c 8.30 8.75 8 . 15 8.60 9.10 8.55 51,45 PSU 0 8.75 9.20 8.90 8.65 9 .20 9.00 53.70 105.15 Fred Dennis c 7.95 8.85 9.05 8.65 8,40 9.05 51.95 SIU 0 7.80 8 .25 9,40 8.75 8.70 8.90 51.80 103.75 Jim Amerine c 7.60 8.30 8.95 8 .55 8 . 15 9 . 15 49.70 So. Conn.

0 8 .60 8 . 10 8 .75 8 .55 8.90 9.10 52 .00 101.70 Bob Dickson c 8 .35 6.85 9.10 8.25 8.55 8.25 49.35 Fred IT~~ff 째c 8,40 7.80 9.10 8.35 9 .00 9.20 51.85 101.20 7.95 7.60 8.55 8 .30 8 .75 8.85 50.00 75 7 '0 95 0 5 MikeT~:'~~1I 0 88 '0 8 8.95 8.80 7.95 8.80 51.15 101.15 c . .

8.70 8.30 8.65 8.60 50.35 Utah 0 8,40 6.60 8 .75 8.80 9.05 9.00 50.60 100 .95 Gary Anderson c 8.00 8.00 7.85 8 .70 8,45 8 .55 49.55 W. Chester 0 8,45 8 .35 8,45 8.65 8.60 8,40 50.90 100.45 Pete DiFurio (Temple) 99.35, Joe Fedo rcek (MSU) 97.70, Paul Moyer (SIU) 96.05, Mike Jackl (ISU )95.10, Jim Hruban (UNM) 94.05 , Darryl Bair (ASU) 88 .95 , Rich Grigsby (SFVSC) 84 .05, Kirk Rose (CSC) 74.30, Pat O'Grady (AFA) 73.30, Chuck Kennedy (AFA ) 64.75, Tom Sex ton (Oklo. ) 57.05.

___J._-" Y oshi Hayasaki , University of Washington (former high school all-around chomp from Osaka, Japan).

The Judges (I to r): Lou Bordo , Larry Banner, Bob Manning, Ted Muczyczko , Rick Di ck Aro nson , Adam Walter , Fred Orlofsky, Don Robinson , Don Landers, Bill Holmes.

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Dave Thor

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BY DI CK CRILE Y AN D KE N SAKODA

Name: Dave Thor ,Age: 21 ,High School: Reseda, California (Coach: Don Schu Itz). .

College: Michigan State University (Coach: George Szypulal. Major: Mathematics.

Honors: High point man in l.A. City com· petition 1964. AII·around winner in Big 10 Conference 1966, 1967, 1968. 1966· member USGF team at World Games (Dortmund), 3rd NCAA AII·around. 1967 . member U.S. Pan American Games team, member U.S. Universiade team. 1968 3rd NCAA AII·around, 2nd SH, 4th FX, 4th HB. Nissen Award winner for 1968.

Dave Thor : three time Big Ten AA Champ , third 1968 NCAA AA title, N issen Award winner jar 1968 and a top U.s . can· tender for the Olympics this summer . . .

At the recent NC AA University Divis ion Championships the MG was able to comer Dave for an interview. Having completed competing jar his portion oj the three day· series of events he was able to relax and give us some thoughts concerning himself and the sport in general.

When did you get your start . in gymnastics, Dave?

I started out in junior high school with ele· mentary tumbling and horizontal bar and a little bit of trampoline. In the tenth grade I picked up a little bit of side horse and parallel bars. In eleventh grade-long horse, . and I picked up rings in college-unfortun· ately, that's my weakest event. I went to Michigan State after graduation to get out of the area.

Is there something about gymnastics which attracts you so that you stay with it?

I like it better than contact sports because you 're competing with yourself. It's the indio vidual type of thing about gymnastics I like.

I like to be able to do things by myself.

Have you tried other sports?

In high school, I was on the swimming team as a diver. I was mediocre. I played waterpolo during ·the summer. I like other sports. After a workout, sometimes I play basketball.

What kind of workout schedule do you follow?

I work out 5 or 6 days a week, usually 6.

A couple days last week I found myself work· ing out in the gym from 3 in the afternoon until 8:30, working crosses and things like that.

Have you always been flexible, or did you have to work on it?

I worked it in high school. In free exer· cise, splits were just about compulsory in Los Angeles.

How did you build the floor exercise routine that you are using now?

The one that I have now is basically the same pattern I used in the Pan American Games . I've changed a couple sequences. I was doing an arabian front but I've changed that to a front handspring front dive roll with full twist. I'm doing an arabian dive as well. Later this year, I hope to be able to put in the arabian dive with 1V2 twi sts . I've got it now, but just have to work it a little more.

How do you build up to learning a trick of that caliber?

Jrllmpoline.

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Do you think trampoline ought to be left in college gymnastics?

Oh yean. I think thi s is an American event.

It is perhaps not a part of gymnastics, but like diving goes along with swimming, I think trampoline should go along with gymnastics.

It's an exciting event and it's an excellent learning device.

Do you like the idea of having the compul· sories in college competition as was done this year?

Yes, I think everyone should do them, in· cluding specialists. It's pretty bad when a si de horse man can 't do the elementary cuts that are in the compulsories, and some of the better high bar men in the country can 't do the compulsory on high bar correctly.

What did you think of this year's NCAA for· mat, especially with its de·emphasis of the specialist?

I do think the idea of pushing the teams is a good idea, but I don't think they've gone in the right direction. It isn't an international format: in the international format the team title is decided on the basis of the compul· sory and optional scores which are totaled to get the team score. In this way, the finals are for the individuals so that you are not de· emphasizing the individuals or the team. Take tonight at the Finals, there are so many good gymnasts that won 't be there-Makoto Saka: moto, Hayasaki, and others . . . .

What was the deal with the playoff meet?

(Note: The Big 10 had a 3·way tie at Confer· ence meet among MSU, Iowa and Michigan,) It's kind of a sore subject with the Michi· gan State boys now. We won the conferenae meet, but we lost two dual meets. Our cham· pionship is determined on the basis of dual meets and the championship meet. There was a 3·way tie for first place according to Big 10 rules. According to NCAA rules, the quali· fying meet was the conference championships -the Big 10 Championships which we ran away with . Then they said they were having a play·off . .. I think Iowa has the stronger team as far as being able to hit any day, but I think our team has by far the greater po· tential to get the highest score. On our best day we' d beat them on their best day. You know, this (the NCAA Championships) is the first I've ever competed without the team, as a college competition experience.

When you say that this is the first time you 've competed without your team, do you miss them? Are you more of a team man than an individual?

You have to adjust yourself to the si tuation.

It's a lot easier when you have a lot more reason to hit. If the team ts doing well, and you know that you have to hit, it's just an excellent pressure for you. I like the pres· sure. I've never had a feeling like I did in the Big 10 when everybody hit. We just went wild.

How does a team feeling develop? How does a group of fellows from different schools and different backgrounds develop that team feel· . ing?

I don't know what it is; if you could figure that out, maybe you 'd have a championship team . (Is it the coach?) The coach has a lot to do with it. We had a kind of good luck streak going with the Big 10. We re alized half· way th ro ugn the meet that George Szypula , our coach, was running the meet, and he hadn't even come over near our bench. Towards the end of the meet, when he still had nothing to do, he stayed away .. . we were doing so well. I thing the coach can have a lot to do with it.

What do you think the role of a gymnastics coach ought to be?

A college coach needs to be nothing more than an ex·gymnast with a PhD in psychology and a National coach needs the same qualities but I think he should have proved himself internationally as a competitor. (How should he handle discipline and day· to· day meetings with his team?) I don 't know; I don't have a PhD in psychology. I do know Abie did a good job (with the World Games team).

With the possibility that you ' ll make the train· ing squad and quite possibly the Olympic Team itself, have you got any thoughts about your training schedule for this summer?

I'm not sure yet. I don't have any plans .

I need somebody to work with right now, somebody like Abie Grossfeld or Jack Beckner to help me. I'm not sure where I'll be train· ing this summer.

When did you start working the Olympic com· pulsories?

Not until after the Pan Am Games . Right after the Pan Am Games, we had the Univer· siade Games in Tokyo, and I went to Los Angeles to train with Makoto, Kanati, Arno (Lascaril and Sid. We were work ing optionals and I didn't re ally get a chance to start working compulsories until this fall. I have tnem now consistently mediocre but now I have to start working on the parts. Right now, I pl an on working about 2/ 3 to 3/4 on the corilpul· sories because my optionals are pretty much set tne way they're going to be. There may be a lew minor Changes .

Do you think there are any traits which characterize gymnasts as a group?

Tnere are n't any common traits. Gymnasts .. . well, it's like Amerine sa id, it's an individual kind of thing. (Wnat kind of person becomes a gymnast !) We ll, to become a gymnast, a pe rso n nas to be just a little bit (Crazy?) (Laugnter) . .. you said it first, you'd better write It tnat way. You have to have a certain amount of carefree ness and not be overafraid for life and limb.

Yet yo u have to have a certain amount of common se nse.

Thi s is wny starting gymnasts early before they have a fear of dOing a somersault, for instance, is a good thing.

How would you start kids out at gymnastics?

I'd start them on tumbling for flexibility and tumbling skill and horizontal bar to get them used to tne " pain" . (Laughter) I think I could go all day if my nands didn't hurt as much as they do.

Do you do anything special to help your hands?

I have a problem that most gymnasts don't have. My hands don't dry out read ily and I don't get cracking or chapped hands, but I do blister easily. I'm using a medicated lanolin ri ght now; I learned it from the Southern Illinois boys . The lanolin helps my problem anyhow.

championships

First:

N o rthw estern

Louis iana

State

NAIA N路ATioNAl 路 GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS Fort Hays State College, Fort Hays, Kansas March 22-23, 1968

Teams: N or thwestern Lou isiana Sta t e Co ll ege N ortheast Lou isiana State Co ll ege Eastern Washingt on State College Eastern Michigan University

W isconsin State Uni ve rsit y -LaCrosse

102 % 94 45 37%

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Fort Lewis College 23 % Georg ia Southern 2 1, Dav id Lipscom b 20, Western Illinois 18, Eastern New Mexico 12V2 , Eastern Montana 12, George Wi lliams 9V2, Ft. Hoys 8, Eastern Illinois 8, St. Cl o ud 8, Bemid j i State 2. Also entering we re Dickinson Co llege, Stout State, Wisconsin State-Oshkosh , Platteville, and Superior campuses.

Floor Exercise: Otoshi 9.25, Dav e Bedard (NWLa) 9.075 , Reub en Villi lobos (NELa) 9.025, Bi ll Schmidt (NELa) 8.925, Jerry Kraft (EWash ) 8.725 , Bill Godwin (Go So) 8.525, Dave Newey (GeoWm) 8.475, Elias 9.475, Mace Brady (EWash) 8.40, Gary Barnnett (GeoSo) 8.30, Ton y Blasko (GeoSa) and Steve Bo hringer (DL) 8.275.

Side Horse : Otoshi 8.525 , Eric Johnson ( LoC) 8.475, Chuck H arvey (EMich) 8.375, T om Rilley (EM ich ) 8.150 , Elias 8.075, Don Sabey ( Ei ) 8.050, Ted Immediata (DL) 7.725, Ed Ham (ENM) 7.650 , Jim Victori an (W I) 7.150, Carru thers 7.12?, . Dave Olson (STC) 6 .95 , Bob

College,

Coach

Armando

Vega.

Kunz (FtH ) 6 .1 75 .

Trampoline : Rich Wadsack, (NWLa) 9 .3 75 , Tim Fitzharris (EMi ch) and Terr y Disney (WI ) 9.15, Steve Berger (LaC) 9.025, Steve Johnstone (FtL) 8.725, Bob Arrell (ENM) 8.675, John Tobler (StC) 8.55, Steve Weber (NWLa) 8.50 , Brady 8.45, Dave Newey (GeoWm) 8.40, Pat Sucher (Sup ) 7.80, Bill Bizzell (ENM) 7 .6 25. , Long Horse: Otoshi 9.0675, Jim Kirkland (GeoSo) 8 .975, W arren Tea sley (FtH,) 8.9625 , Brady 8.9375, Jerry Wang (NWLa) 8.875, Car. ruther s 8.85, Rick Padgetta (LaC) 8.6475 , Elias . 8.6375, Jack Hill (Bemidji) 8.60, Blasko 8 .55, Stan Perci va l (FtH) 8 .50, Ra y Ferguson (FtL ) 8.375, Rod Cook (FtL) 8 .160.

Horizontal Bar: Otoshi 9.425, Elias 9.25, Carreiro 9.05, Disney 9.05, Carruthers 8.70 , Jo hn Langsdon (GeoWm) 8.35, T ob ler 8.325 , Wor k 8.20, Nat Boyer (FtL) 7.825, Blasko 7.6 , Hal Hal vo rson (EMont) 7.375 , Rich Zaleski ( LaC ) 7.325.

Parallel Bars: Otosh i 8.950, Elias 8.90, Car- ' rut hers 8.70, Arnold 8.575 , Rod yni e Coo k (Ft L ) 8.25, Dave Fennessey (DL) 8.25, Bill Schmidt (NELa) 8.225, Wo rk 8.20, Jack Crow f ord (NWLa) 8 .1 0, Cook 8.10, Boyer 8.05, Maurice Soul is (GeoWm) 7 .85, Mike Ry an (Dick.) 7.425 .

Rings : Carreiro 9.425, Elias 9 .225, Immediato 9. 175, Boy er 9 .1 5, Otoshi 9.075 , Larr y Allen (ENM) 8.90, Zaleski 8.90, James Bond (GeoW m) 8.35, Ken Bri!!schke (W I) 8.075 .

INTERMEDIATE PARALLEL BAR SKILLS (f ive charts per set) .. . Iii 6.00 per set ADVANCED PARALLEL BAR SKILLS ( f our chart s per set ) .... (q) 5.00 per set INTERMEDIATE RING SKILLS (t hree c h ar ~ s pe r set ) ... J o 4 .00 per set ADVANCED RING SKILLS (th ree chorts per set ) .. .. 0 4.00 per ,et

ALSO GIRL'S PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS GYMNASTIC CHARTS BOY'S PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS GYMNASTIC CHARTS INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED CHARTS FOR PARALLEL BARS INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED CHARTS FOR STILL RINGS THE SI DE HORSE - BOOK

by Don Tonry

Second: Northeastern Louisiana State College, Coach S. Ainsworth.

All-around : Toshi o Otoshi (N ELa ) Jo h n Elia s (NWLa) Randy Carruthers (E. Wash) Jim Arnold (E. Mich) Henr y Work (E . Mont) Bob Carreiro (NW La)

Third : Eastern Washington State College, Coach J . Bensen.

FX

SH

HB

LH

PB

R

TOTAL

9 .00

8.40

9.30

8.825

8.85

9 .05

53.425

8.70

8 .05

9.05

8.675

8.65

9.15

52.275

8 .1

7.90

8.35

8.90

8.55

7.40

49.200

8.10

6.40

7.35

8.475

8.65

8.30

47 .275

7.15

7.30

7.80

7 .90

8.00

8.30

46. 550

7.20

3.55

9.10

8.375

7.75

9 .50

45.475

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(CSC LA) 8.85, B r u c e Coul te r (CSC LA) 8 .65. SH : Gary H os kin s (CSC LA ) 9 .5, Gene Spindler (SD SC) 9 .25, Frank Scardina (DU) 9.0 . R: Del Strange (CSU) 9.4 , Ed Fowler (CSU) 9.15, Fred Schonberger (DU ) 8.85 . Tr: Rob Ew ing (CSU ) 9.3 , Gauthier 9 .25, Chuck Morgan (CSU ) 8.95 . LH : Coulter 9.3, Ga uth ier 9. 1, Warren 9 .05 . PB: Strange 9 .2 5, Cou lter 8.70, Gene Takamine (DU ) 8.6 . HB: Schonberger 8.90, Kyle Boyce (CSU) 8.75, Frank Swanson (DU) 8.65.

REGIONAL REPORTS Shame

Shame

Shame on YOU

Have you wondered what has happened to our Regional Reports? ... We have some great guys all ove r th e USA eager to send us news

of GYMNASTIC ACTION IN YOUR AREA ... Our MG Regional Reporters . . . But . . . Th ey have not been receiving news from YOU to send on to us to be included in our " Special

Regional Repor ts Section" ... master edited

by Jerry Wright ... If you have nelVs. reo ports, Clinics, Camps and other items of Gym-

nas tic interest going on in YOUR AREA send it to Your Regional Reporter and he will edit it and send it on to us for publishing.

See listing below for MG Regional Reporter

to contact in your area.

Reg ion One (Connecticu t, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hamp-

shire. Rhode Island, Vermont.)

REPORTER. Richard Aronson, Gymnastic Coach lowell Techno logical Institu te lowell, Mass 01854 Region Two (D elaware, Pennsylvania. New York, New Jersey,

Marylandl REPORTER. Mike Jacobson U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis. Md. 21402 Region Three (Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia , Ke ntucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, MiSSissippi, Georgia, Florida)

REPORTER. len Bryson Memphis State University Memphis, Tenn. 38111 Region Four

(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minn esota, Wisconsi n, Iowa)

REPORTER. Roger Council

Indiana State University

Terre Haute, Ind. 47809 Region Five

QUALIFICATION MEETS FOR NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP SOUTHERN INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTIC LEAGUE Team : Loui siana State Univ ersity 161 .59. FX : Hank Rogers (Go) 8.6, Dave Porch (Memphis) 8.47 , Bobby Tubb (Furman) 8.3. SH : Dick Tobias (M. St.) 8.93, Chip Lidicker, (LSU) 8 .87, Clyde Ashley (LSU) 8.03 . R: Marty Olsen (LSU) 8.67 , Doug Gosney (LSU) 8.0, John Lockhard (M. St.) 7.93. Tr: Rogers 8.43, Caleb Dana (LSU) 7.2, Mike Sourek (LSU) 7.2. LH: Mike Brennan (Flo) 9.33, Tubb 8.9, Randy Indav ina (LSU) 8.7. PB: Ashley 9.23, Danny Tatsinas (W. Va. ) 8.67 , Robin England (Flo) 8.57.

HB: John Hart (Go) 8.2, Engla nd 8 .17 , Sourek 8. 13.

COLLEGE DIVISION NCAA Team: San Fernando Valley St a te Co llege. AA: Jim Amerine (So. Conn) 104.9, Rich Grigsby (SFV) 103.15, Gary Anderson (W . Chester) 99.01. FX : Darryl DePue .(SFV) 9 .1 , Grigsby 9.05, Larry So lomon (Spfd) 8.95. SH: Bob Medina (SFV ) 9.0 , To m Nev ille (Ind .St) 8.95, tie among Amerine, Grigsby and Dav e Mantz (WC) 8.7 . R: Amerine 9 .25, Tony Coppola (San Jose) 9.1, Tom Pillion (Spfd) 9.05. Tr: Jim Price (Ind St) 9.45, Tim Rogers (Spfd ) 9 .05, Rich Crimm (Ind St) 8.9. LH : Grigsby 9.25, Amerine 9 .2, Mike Provencher (Spfd) 9.05. PB : Don Jennings (LbSC) 9.15, Provencher 9 .0, tie, Anderson and Grigsby 8.95. HB : Grigsby 9.4, Amerine 9 . 15, Dave Niemand (Sac St) 9.05.

{Kansas, Missouri, Nebras ka , North and South '

Dakota, Oklahomal REPORTER. Bob Rector Kansas State University Manhattan. Kansas 66502 Region Six (Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas)

REPORTER. Jamite Ashmore University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 Region Seven IArizona. Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyomingl REPORTER. Don Norton Brigham Young University A·206 Provo, Utah 84601 Region Eight ICalifornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Hawaii. Alaska)

REPORTER. Jerry Wright San Francisco State College San Francisco, Calif. 94132 OUf reporters are hard·working gymnasti c coaches themselves. They would appreciate it if you sent them on ly a concise write- up of your gymnastic news rather than a long mimeograph or a sketchy newspaper outline.

Pl ease let them know of gymnastic dates which are important in your area and of noteworthy competiti ons and cl inics. and news of gymnasts, coaches and ju~ges.

RegiOn Six Mr. Jamile Ash mo re Univ. of Texas. Austill. Te xas.

Region 6 - Arkansas. New Mexico. Texas.

High Schools: On May 3 and 4th the second Texas State High School Gymnastic Championship lVill be held at L.O. Bell High School in Hurst, Texas. l ast yea r 14 high schools were represe nted in both the boys and girls events. This year coach Milan of Hurst is expecting an increase in teams.

Dallas, Texas. Th e Inwood lions club of Dallas, Texas sponso red a Gymn astic Exhibition with Monterrey, Mexico, in Monterrey. the week·end

of March 1, 2, 3.

Gymn as tic Team from Bell High School-both

boys and girls par ticipated along with many of the members of the Dallas Sokol, and the Dallas Athletic Club. lesler Griffin of the Dallas Ath· letic Club acted as the coach.

Approximately 2,000 people were on hand to watch th e show between Dallas and the Monter· rey club.

Summ er Gymnastic Courses: Texas Women Univ. Denton, Texas. Graduate

and Undegraduate courses .offered. Contact the Dept. of Physica l Education for information.

North Texas State Univ. Denton, Texas. Men and women courses offered. Both 6 weeks. For

informa ti on. Dr. Jess Cearley, Dept. of P.E., N.T.S.U., Denton, Texas.

WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Team : University of New Mexico 182.80. AA: Mike Kimball '(Utah) 101.60, Jim Hruban (UNM) 99 .50, Darryl Bair (ASU) 98.70.

FX : Stormy Eaton (UNM) 9.3, Rich Impson (ASU) 9.1, Jeff Bennon (Ariz.)

9.0. SH: Tom Galioto (UNM) 9.5, Dennis Ramsey (BYU). 9.2, Jo hn Charzuk (UNM) 8.95. R: Pat Arno ld (Ariz) 9.6, Bob Shirk (Ariz) 9.3, John Price (ASU) 9.1. Tr: Eaton 8.9, Mick Spann (ASU) 8.8, Jim Royce (UNM) 8.75 . LH: Rich McConnell (UNM) 9.4 , ' Impson 9.15, Austin Thatcher (BYU) and Benno n 9 . 1. PB: Impson (ASU) 9.1 , Bob Manna (UNM) 8.95, Charzuk 8.85 .

HB : Gene Voorhees (UA) 9.0, Bob Cla yton (UNM) 8.95, Kimball 8.95 .

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN UNIVERSITIES Team : Univers it y of Califo rnia 190.05.

AA: Makoto Sakamoto (USC) 11 2.80, Yoshi Hayasaki (Wash) 109.90, Sid Freudenstein (Cal) 107 .20. FX : Sakamoto 9.5, Freudenstein 9.5, Dan Millman (Ca l) 9.475. SH : Sakamoto 9.4, Bill Fujimoto (Cal) 9 .125, Mike Freriks (USC) 8.9. R: Sakamoto 9.325, Millman 9.225, Mickey Chaplan (UCLA) 9.075. Tr: Millman 9.3, John Anthony (Wash) 8.9, Steve Lerner (UCLA) 8.675. LH : Freudenstein 9.525, Sakamoto 9.5, Larr y Bassist (UCLA) 9.425 . PB : Sakamoto 9.625. Hayasaki 9.575, Millman 9.375. HB: Sakamoto 9.55 , Kanati Allen 9.435, Freudenstein 9.350.

EASTERN REGION (Non-Conference Teams) Team : Southern Illinois University 191.65, Northern Illinois Universit y 153.85. AA: Fred Dennis (SIU) 108 .25, Paul Mayer (SIU) 107.40, Pete Bailey (NIU) 96.50.

FX: Mayer 9.45 , Gene Kelber (SIU) 9.30, Dale Hardt (SIU) 9.15. SH: Mayer 9.4, Bruce Bolnick (Yale) 9 .2, Dennis 9.15. R: Dennis 9 .55, Jack Ho ltz (SIU) 9.0, Bailey 8.9 .

Tr : Hardt 9.4, Sk ip Ray (SIU) 8 .75, Joe Dupree (SIU) 8.65. LH : Mayer 9.2, Larry Cio lkosz (S IU) 9.2, H ardt 9 . 1. PB: Hayer 9.35, Pete Hemmerling (SIU) 9.1, Dennis 9.05 .

HB: Hemmerline 9.4, Stewart Smith (SIU) 8.95, Mayer 8.6.

WESTERN REGION (Non-Conference Teams) Team: Col orado State Universit y 177.80, Denver University 177.00 .

AA : Pat O' Grady (AFA) 82 .05, Kirk Rose (Co loSC) 80.95, Chuck Kennedy (AFA) 73.85 .

FX : Cliff Gauthier (DU) 8.85, Don Warren

BIG EIGHT CONFERENCE Team: University of Colorado 179 .85 , Iowa State 177.05, Ok.l ahomo University 175.60 AA: Mike Jocki (ISU) 97.35 , Tom Sex t o n (CU) 94.55, Gary Pome ranz (CU) 90.15 .

FX: Jacki 9.05, Pomeranz 8.975, Tom Casey (CU) 8.975. SH : Pa t Ed ward (CU) 9.2, Jack Ry an (CU ) 9 . 17~ /, Jim Gillispie (Kansas) 8.625.

R: vvard Maythaler (ISU) 9.25, Jacki 9.225, Edwards 8.95 . Tr: Rick Carr (OU) 9.025, Tim Clarke (ISU) 9.0, Tom Riesing (Nebraska) 8.775.

LH: Clarke 9.35, Sexton 9.15, Jacki 9 . 15. PB: Jacki 9.125, Erick Singer (SU) 9.075, Jim Johannesen (OU) 9.05. HB: Sexton (aU) 9.4, Ben Blea (CU) 9.15, Jacki 8 .975 .

BIG TEN CONFERENCE Team: Michigan State 190.25, Michigan 188.0, Iowa 185.85 .

(Note: Iowa was declared Con f erence representative on the basis of a playoff meet, the results of wh ich hav e not reached the MG.) AA : Dave Thor (MSU ) 106. 1. Bob

Dickson (Iowa) 104.9, J oe Fedorcek (MSU) 102.8. FX : Toby Towso n (MSU) 9.55, Thor 9.45 , Geo rg e Hu ntzicker (Mich) 9 .3. SH : Marc Slatten (I owa) 9.45 , John Ru sso (Wisc) 9.35, Thor 9.35. R: Don Hatch (Iowa) 9.35 , Dav e Croft (MSU) 9.2, tie among Larr y Go ldberg (MS U) , Ed Gunny (MSU) and Dwayne Weieser (Ind. ) 9. 15. Tr: Dave Jacobs (Mich) 9.5 , Wa yne Miller (Mich) 9.35, Huntzicker 9 .2 .

LH: Thor 9.4, Hal Shaw (III) 9.35, Sid Jensen (Mich) 9.30. PB : Ro n Rapper (Mich) 9.3, tie among Cliff D ieh l (MSU), Jensen, Rich Scorza (I owa ) Dickson, Arnie La zar (I owa) 9. 10 . HB : Neil Schmitt (I owa) 9.35, Thor 9.25 , Gunny 9.15 . (We were plea sed to rcei v e these resu lts in a neat and compact I BM format.

Cong ratulati ons to Meet D irecto r George Say pula f or hi s f o resight and efficiency.)

EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS U.S. Naval Academy

By Dr. Joe Massimo It wa s another one of those exciting, unpredictable seasons in the Eastern League which has now become the tr ademark of its members: Arm y , Navy, Universit y: o f Massachusetts, Penn. State UnI :--e r sity, Univ ersity of Pittsburg , ~ Prl,:g­ field College, Syracuse Un Ivers lt y and Temp le Univ ersity. The 41 st annual champ ionsh ip s were hosted by the Nav al Academ y in Annapolis, Maryland on Feb . 29 , March 1 and 2nd. Go ing into th e meet the perennial powerhouse-Penn .

State-wa s undefeated in league competition. Templ e Un iv. had los t o nl y to Penn. State. A f our wa y bottle f or third place was shapin g up between Army, Navy, Springfi eld, and the Univ . of Mass. (The unpredictable nature of the season can be seen by the fact that on Feb. 10 Springfield defeated N avy, on Feb. 14 th e Univ. of Mass. beat Springfield and low and beh o ld on Feb . 17 Navy beat th e Univ. of Mass .) On Thu rsday, Feb. 29, the Olympic Co mpulso ry exer cises were evaluated. The score s were comb ined with Fr iday's A.A. results to qualify indi vidua l men for the Ol y mpic Trial s. (N eeded combin ed score- l 04).

AA : (1) Fred Turoff (Temple) C-52.70, 0-52 .3 0 , T-l05; (2) Pete DiFurio (Temple) C-51. 90, 0-5 2.80, T-l04.70; (3) Bob Emery, Penn .

State, C- 52.40, 0-52.05 , T-l04.45.

(4) Barry Weiner (Temple) C-50.1 4, 0-53. 30, T-l03.45. (5 ) Dick Swetman, Penn . State, C-51.00, 0-5 1.95, T-10 2.95. (6) John Kindon (Penn.

State) C-47.40, 0-15 .20, T- 62 .60.

FX: W e iner (Temple) 9.425; Eng el (Syracuse) 9.175; tie, Turoff (Tempi) and Clark (Penn. State) and Robello (Army) 9. 10. SH : Long (Na vy) 9 .575; Beckw ith (Army) 9.375; Di Furio (Temple) 9.00. R: Vexler (PSU) 9.25 , Del Galle (Univ. of Mass.) 9.20; Emery (PSU) 9. 10.

Tr: tie, Clark and Rogers (Spfld) 9.05; De Sant is (PSU) 8.875. LH : Shidemantle (Pitt.) 9.40; tie, Vexler and Weiner 9 .325. PB: Emery 9 .525; Swetman 9.375; W einer 9.35. HB: Turoff 9.35; tie, Geist (Temple) and Litow (PSU) 9 .225 .

Ther e were many excit ing per-

formances d uring the meet. Turoff's clean wo rk and controlled endurance was im pressive throughout the compet it ion. Eme ry swung a fine P-Bar routine with the emphasis on execution.

Swet man's combinati o n back catch, back cat ch hand, stutz hand was dynamic. Temp le's perfor mance on P- Ba r ~ as a team was ou t standi ng -Weiner, Turoff, Vile, and Gibbs all in th e 9's for 3, 4, 5, and 6th place. Th ey were a lso t oug h as a team on the High Bar taking first, a tie f or second , fourth, and sixth .

Vex ler of Penn . State was powerful on Rings ending wi th a good double and scoring 9.5 in the Prelims.

In the fi na ls he mi ssed his str aight arm shoot but went on to perform so well he managed to get a 9.0 and win the event. Del Gallo of U. of Mass. was a strong 2nd with effortless wo rk . Emery's ring work emphasized a balanced composition and flair an abundant swing work culminating with a high full. The Side Ho rse efforts of Beckwith and Long were great . Long t ook the event w ith a fairly stock rout ine executed w ith near perfec t form.

The team competi tion was fierce and very close. When the smoke cleared it revealed : Temple t ook Penn. State and tied f or the Eastern League Team title. Th e Eastern Championship meet sco re -T empl e 187.70, Penn State 187.30 (it went right down t o the H-Bar where Temple hi t). Navy tied w ith Spring field f or 3rd in the leag u e alth ough the Middies beat the Mass. team in the Championships 174 .70 t o 174.30. Univ . of Mass. was 5th (172.70) Army sixth, 171.65 fol lowed by Syracuse and Pittsburg.

According to Eastern League rul es th e team that scores the highest in the Championships w ill repre sent th e East at the N.C.A.A.s (university division). T emple w ill therefore make the trip to Tucson in April. Congratu lat ions t o Coach Carl Patterson and hi s team . In addition, th e t op three men in each event qualified for ind ividual honors at the N .c.A.A.s. When the final routine was thrown on Sat urday and we all headed for home it was with the k now ledge that we ha d enjoyed another great. Eastern Championship competition.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGIATE GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIP San Jose State College March 23, 1968 Report by Bob Peavy, Meet Director San Fernando Valley St a t e Col lege, 1968 National College Divi sion Champions, defended its Cal ifornia State Col lege Crown at San Jose State's Spartan Gy mnasium , March 23, 1968 . Coached b y Dr .

Bill Vincent and led by National Horizontal Bar Champion , Rich Grigsby, the Valley State team dominated the meet with a 183. 35 team average. Dr. Irv Faria 's Sacramento State team placed second just ahead of h ost college San Jose State.

Highlight of th e evening was the confrontation of Rich Grigsby and Dave Niemand at the H orizonta l Bar. Both competitors left the floor w ith a standing ova ti on. Both routine s wer e mixed w ith a certain flair and style that can only be d esc ribed as sensational. Both r outines scored a deserved 9.55 to the disapproval of on ly a fe w . The tie will mast likel y be reso lved in the upcoming NCAA Championship in Arizona this A pri I. The strang Valley State Ring team av eraged 9.2 in V alley's best event of the evening . Champi on Chuck Wa lden (9-.45) was backed handil y by team mates Mike Allmandinger (9.20) and John Magginetti (9 .05). Hometown favorite, T ony Coppo la , scored a 9.25 for second place.

Steve Pleau (King of the Cowhide) copped first placs on both the Long and Side Horse events. Other outstanding performances were turned in b y San Jose State's Doug Hill s in Free Exerci se; Grigsby, Magginetti , and Nlemand on Parall e l Bars' Steve End icott and Jim Turpin on' Tramp o line; and the t otal performances of Grigsby, Magginetti, and Pleau in the All Around.

Whi le this w ill be th e fi na l team competition f or many seniors, several wi ll have one mo re opport unity for indi vidua l h onors in the NCAA Championship next month.

Special congra tu lati ons t o Dr. Clair Jennett f or hosting a we ll organized and we ll run State Championship meet.

Team Placement ; San Fernando Va ll ey State 183.35, Sacramento State 166.40, San Jose State 161 . 15, U.c. Santa Barbara 144 .75, Cal State at Long Beach 141.30, San Francisco State 129.90. AA ; Rich Gri gsby (SFVS) 52.50; Steve Pleau (Sac . State) 52.00; John Magginetti (SFVS) 5 1.50, Tony Coppola (SJS) 50.75, Haven Sil ver (UCSB) 40.50. FX ; Tie, Doug Hill s (SJ S) and Darry l De Pue (SFVS) 9 .05; Pleau 9.0. SH; Pleau 8.65 ; Grigsby 8.4; Bob Medina (S FVS) 8 .35 . Tr : Stev e Endicott (Ca l Po ly - SLO) 8.9; Jim Turpin (SJS) 8.85; tie, Dav e Niemand (Sac. State) and Clayton Chrisman (Cal Poly-SLO ) 8.6. R; Chuck W alden (S FVS) 9.45; Ton y Coppo la (SJS) 9.25; Mike AIIhandinger (SFVS) 9.2. PB : Gr igsby 9.4; John Magg inetti (SFVS) 9.2; Niemand 9 . 15. LH : Pleau 9. 15; Turpin 8.8; tie , Niemand and Magginetti 8.7 . HB : tie, Niemand and Grigsby 9.55; Pleau 9 .05 .

1968 GEORGIA GYMNASTIC ASSOCIATION INVITATIONAL February 24, 1968 Georgia Tech Team standings ; Georgia Southern (GS) 165.tl, Furman U . (F) 161 .5, Miami Dade (MD) 146. 1, Georgia Tech (GT) 11 7 .8 , A urburn U. (A) 112.9, Flo rida State ( FS) 93.3, DeKalb Jr. College (D) 83.4, Jefferson High Schoo l (J) 66.8 , Woodward Academy (W) 59 .9, No. Spring High (S) 35 . 1. AA; T . Blasko (GS) 47.8, B. Tubb (F) 44.7, G. Barnett (GS) 43.9. Rope: C. Peebles (AH) 4.8, W . Jacobs (GT) 5.1, A. Sa kam oto (GT) 5.2. LH; R. Lopez (MD) 9.6, tie, D. Hervig (FS) and Blasko 9.3 . SH : Tubb tl.O, tie, D .

Brown (F) and D. Key 7.5. Tu: Lopez 8.8, W. Godw in 8.5, Tu bb 7.8 . FX: Blasko 9.0, H. Rogers (Unatt) and Godwin 8.9. PB: Rogers 9.4, J. Wood (F) 8.7, GodWin 8.5. HB: Blasko 8.2, D. Harrison (GS) 8 . 1, tie, D. Creech (F) and S. W eisner (F) 8.0 . R; W eisner 9.3, E. Dames (MD) 9 .2, J . Wood (F) 8.7, M. Yaksh (GT) 8.7 . Tr: Godwi n 9.3; D. Dav is (GS) 8.7, Creech 8.2.

SEVENTH ANN'UAL MIAMI-DADE JR. CO'LLEGE VS. DADE COUNTY SR. ALL STARS GYMNASTIC MEET February 19, 1968 Miami-Dade JC 122.5-AII Stars 112.0. FX; Roland Lopez (MD) 7.75, tie , Terry Sellarole (MD) and Bishop (CP ) 7 . 1. SH; Don Hoecher l (MD) 6 .85, Frank LeGrand (MD ) 5.7 , Smith (NM) 5.53. R: Ell is Dames (MD) 7.25, Ted Shaulis (MD ) 6.75, Kennedy (SoWest) 6.3. LH; Lopez 9.25, DiGiacomo (Hialeah) 8.65, Dowling (CC) 8.35 . PB; Lopez 6.9, LeGrand 6 .85, Gross (MD) 6.75 . HB ; Morton (Hialeah) 6 .8, Lopez 6.7, O' Harriz (MD) 6.2.

FIRST ANNUAL CONFEDERATE NATIONAL GYMNASTIC MEET Lovett H.S., Atlanta, Georgia Sponsored by Georgia Gymnastic Association Men's Teams; ' Memphis State University (MSU) 161 .50, New Orleans YMCA (NaY) 136.60 , La. State U (New Orleans) 128 .30.

Men AA: Richard Loyd (NWLa ) 53.40, Bill W ilcox (MSU) 40 .50, Bruce McGarthlin (NaY) 39 .85. FX : Loyd , McGarthlin, D. Porch (MSU).

SH: Loyd, J. McKinney (MSU), D .

T obis (MSU). Tr: D . Harl en (S F), D. Neel (2P), M . Kaufman (2P) .

R: Lo yd, J . Knight (MS U), J . Miller (MSU). LH; Loyd, S. Boyd, D. Wright (MSU). PB : Loyd , McGarthlin , tie Boyd and Miller. HB: Loyd ' McGarthlin, D . Ellison (GEN). Tu; Boyd, McGarthlin, T . Jaeger (NaY).

Women's Teams : Coral Gables YMCA (CG) I 10. 12, Lo uisv ill e YMCA (L VY) 109 .75, Sylacauga Gym Club 85 .76 .

Women AA : Joan Lauter (CG) 32.77, Chri s Nichols , (CG) 3 1.74.

Sandy Garrett (CG) 3 1.46 . FX ; La uter, Garrett, Nichols . BB; Lauter, J. Ingram (SF), P. Badeaux (NaY) .

UPB: Garrett, C. McGarthlin (NaY), Nichols. SHV: Garrett, Lauter , P. Murrell (LVY). Tr: V . Bo linger (SF), T . Kauffman (2P), T. Eheman (2P) .

Tu : Garrett, Lauter, D. Howe ll (LVY).

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INTERSTATE INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Central Michigan 'University March 1-2, 1968 Team Standings : Western Illino is 264.35, Illinois Stat e Uni versit y 239.25, Eastern Illino is 203.25 , Central Michigan 172.45. AA : Terry Disney (WI) 36.90, Ron Piper (CM) 3 6 .65, ti e, A I Low (W I) and T odd Fassbender (IS) 34.40. FX ; ' Dennis Zick (W I) 13.70, Bob Heywood (CM) 13.65. Jay Joh nson (EI) 13.50. SH: Don Sabey (EI) 15.00, Jim Victorin (WI) 14 .60, Mike Litwin (W I) 13.25. R; Terr y ' Dieckhoff (EI) 15.50, Gary LaRocco (WI) 15.30, Ned Bartlett (EI) 13 . 10. Tr: Disney 15.80, Dan Olson (CM) 13.05, Bruce Claypool (WI) 12.70. LH ; Di sney 16.75, Piper 16.65, Ed Cheatham (EI) 16.40 .

PB; Bill Coo k (EI) 13.85, Lee Combs (IS) 13.65, Disney 13.25.

HB: Ron Bauer (IS) 16.15, Fassbender 15.80; Low 15. 15.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAMPIONSHIPS Washington State College March 1-2, 1968

by Jack Benson, Meet Director The tenth annual Pacific Northwest Collegiate Gymnastic Championships were he ld at East ern Washington State College in Cheney, Washington. Competition a ttracted over 100 gymnasts 'on both the v arsit y and J V / freshman levels.

The University 0 f W ash ington turned in a fine team performance 路to win with 179 points. EWSC was second with 164 points. The Huskies also won the lower division competition While the Washingto n State frosh to ok a second .

Varsity AA: Sho Fukushima (Wash) 51 .95, Randy Carruthers (EW) 48.90, Bo Bennett (Wash) 48.70. FX : Yoshi Hayasak i (Wash ) 9.2, Fukushima 9. 17, Bennett 9.02. ' SH; Steve Eadie (Wash) 8.62, Ha yasaki 8 .57, Fukushima 8.25 .

R: Bennett 8 .57, Fukushima 8.42, Mace Brady (EW ) 8.22. Tr: Jan Hard in (Wash) 8 .65, John Anth o ny (Wash) 8.50; Walt Prue (EW) 8.35.

LH : Brady 9.15, Carruthers 9.10, Mike Olson (are) 8 .97. PB: Fukushima 8 .64, Hayasaki 8.85, Charlie Peters (Wash) 8.57. HB; Hayasaki 9.2, Fukushi ma 9.0, Carruth ers 8.5.

JV / Freshman AA: Hi de umeshiti (Wash) 50.00, Marv Hildebran (WSU) 47.00, Dean Hale (are 39.00. FX; Useshita 8.75, Georg I' Shoemaker (are) 8.2, Dan H a llmaql (WSU) 7.65 . SH: Bruce Brinton (Wash) 7.34, Jo hn Phillips (WS U ) Eastern

7 .03, Greg Hamp ton (WSU) 6.99.

R: Umeshita 8.24, Terry Barber (Wash) 7 .68, Mike We igelt (Wash ) 7.5 . Tr: Jim Young (Wash) 7.00 , Larr y McGee (ECC) 6.95, Dan H o ltman (WSU) 6.52. LH: Umeshita 9.32, Brinton 8.58, H a le 8.45. PB: Umesh ita 8.64 , Hale 6 .93, Brinton 6.68 . HB: 路 Umeshita 8.9, Young 7.03, Hale 6.57 .

FIRST NEW ENGLAND INVITATIONAL COLLEGIATE GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS Lowell Technological Institute March 16, 1968

By Richard Aronson Running t wo eve nts similar t o the same f ormat as the NCAA Co llege Div ision Championships r ecently he ld ot Springfield College, Lowell Te chnologi ca l Insti t ute held the first annua l NE Collegiate Gym nast ic Champi onships on March 16th, 1968. The meet was highl y successful with over 50 g y mnasts participating. Mast surprising was th e number of spectators who attended and sta ye d until the final event to see Southern Conn. State Co llege take the team title. (It should be noted that even though Springfield College and U . Mass. were invi ted, they were not el igible for the team title since they are Eastern League teams hav ing an opportunity to participate in t eam championships. All other teams and indiv idual s in the m eet have not had an opportunity prev iously to win a team or indiv idual title.)

Next year, Lowell wi ll aga in host the meet. After that, it w ill ro tate to other colleges in the New England area .

It should be menti oned that the officiating was excellent and under the direction of Dr. Joseph Massimo, a regional v ice president o f the National Gym nast ic Judges Associ ation.

Joe o rganiz ed two teams o f judges and kept them moving until th e end of the competition.

Results Team: So. Conn . SC , Massachusetts I nstitute of Tech no logy (MIT), Coast Guard Academy, Lowell Tech , Pl y mouth SC, Dean J C, Boston Universit y. AA: Hauben , (So. Conn.) 42.30; H ood (MIT) 39.80; Miller (MIT) 36.15. FX: Hauben 8.45; Fontecc hio (Spfld) 8.3 ; Simmons (Spfld) 7.9. SH : Yearwood (So. Co nn.) 8.7; Shay (So. Conn .)

8.2; Hauben 7.9 . Tr: Stevens (So. Conn.) 8.4; Fletcher (Spfld College) 8.2; Kasavana (U. M ass.) 6.6. R: Nejedley (Spfld C.) 8 .6: Hauben 8 .35; tie, Hafer (M IT) and March (U. Mass.) 8.30. LH: Simmons 9 . 1; Brown (U. Mass.) 8.5; tie, Colburn (Coast Guard) and Hauben 8.45.

PB: Brown 8.7; Shiebler (Spfld C. ) 8.15; March 8 . 1. HB: Ridgewa y (Spfld C.) 8 . 15; Seibert (U . Mass.)

8.1; Capitao (Co . Conn ) 7 .8.

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Readers reply to Glenn Wilson's {lllest editorial in the February MG.

GYMNASTIC CONTROVERSY Dear Editor: In response to the article written by Glenn Wilson in M.G. (2-68) pertaining to everyone even tually going all-around in order to make a better international showing for this country.

I disagree with him on several points.

I think that it would be very difficult to justify a program where only three peo. pIe can compete. The administration just would not accept it.

I feel that it would not stimu late interest, but kill interest, as only the few limited, gifted could compete.

Most people seem to feel that ex-gym nasts usually make the best gymnastic coac hes and officials. Instead of increasing the number of potential coaches, judges and advocates of gymnastics you would be decreasing the number, and everyone kno,vs that one of the reasons that gymnastics has riot been fully recognized and accepted is that there are not enough qualified, confident teachers and coaches-who, in return can help sell the program to the administrators and community.

I feel that it would be a shame to cut out all the specialists (if, and when it ever oomes to that) and deprive them of an opportun ity to enjoy the sport of gymnastics. I realize that more emphaSis should be placed in the all-around performer for the international competition, but we cannot sell out our complete program for the deveLopment of the gifted few.

Perhaps some consideration should be given to having 3 or 4 entries in dual competition, which, 1 or 2 would have to be all-around. This would place more emphasis upon developing the all - around program, but would not completely shut out the other gymnasts (some of which may eventually develop into aU-around gymnasts).

Every year we get closer to in ternational (F.l.G.) rules, etc. which I believe is good ill most instances, but not strictly a ll- around performers. If we had mOFe qualified people, oommunity interest, and facilities (by selling the admin istration) we could fo llow the example of the age group swimming program which is so suc cessful in this country. It takes more people interested in gymnastics, not fewer to accomplish our goal.

I enjoy reading the M.G. as do a ll of my gymnastics clubs and I respect Mr. Glenn Wilson as a very outstanding person and coach of gymnastics.

Keep up the good work.

Sincerely, Elmer Gates P.S. Gymnastics Instructor Dear Mr. Wilson: In your editorial in the February issue of the "Modern Gymnast" , you made the following statement: "I believe that sooner or later (preferably oooner) we must come to the reality that we must eventually have All-Around only teams . . :" It is agreed that this step would improve our depth in all-around men for international competition; however, what would this step accomplish for the individuality of the competitor?

Winning in the Olympics seems to override the gymnast's enjoyment and aspir ations for the sport. Th e dedicated gymnast who enjoys competing on one or more events, but who does 110t wish to compete or is handicapped from competing in all-around, ' w ill have been shut out.

Is winning in the Olympics so important that we lose sight of the individual gymnast who has his own unique personality and see him only as a member of a sixman, all-around team? The Olympic games 'vere originally man versus lnan; \vhereas, today they have degenerated. to a political arena where natio'lal . teams compete for their country's h onors. This type of propaganda may be all right for some countries; however, this 'country was founded on the worth of the individual.

The individual .should have the freedom to pursue his happiness in the ways' he ,s o chooses . Why must we force the com petitor who enjoys gymnastics to comp e t e

in a ll- around even though he may not want to go all-around? Why can't gymnastics in this country be a sport where the gymnast can express himself as he so chooses? Do not relegate gymnastics to an institution whose sole function is the furtherance of our international esteem, Let gymnastics remain a sport for the individual and let the gymnast who does not want to go all-around remain in the sport.

Sincerely, List of sign atures: ASU Gymnastics Team: Joel Pearson, Richard Impson, Joe Kappes, Danny Less, Bruc e Wilson, John Price, Kenneth S. McGlory, Dick Williams, Ralph E. Weise, Jack R. Han-is, Darryl Bail', Brian Diebold, William Pilgrim and Norris J. Stevenson (Coach), Wells Impson (Instructor in Physics at ASU and gymnastics judge), Chuck McMahon (Coach at Arcadia High School and former ASU gymnast-h e is also a judge), Jerry Stansbury (Coach at Westwood High School and former ASU gymnast-he is al,so a judge), Joe Schabecker (Academic Vice President at ASU, judge, and former gymnast).

N MSU Gymnastics Team: Craige Naylor, Sam Richards, Jerry Allman, Jerry Donahue.

Dear Glenn: In regards to Glenn Wilson's article in the February i,ssue of y,our magazine concerning the great importan c e of the a llaround effort in the U.S.A., I have proposed the following compulsory routine which seems to coincide well with the thinkil1g of Mr. Wilson and others who feel that a ll- around is the only way to go, I'm sure that a routine of this calibre will enable our all - around gymnasts to put into action the ideas so eloquently expressed by Mr. Wilson.

ALL-AROUND ROUTINE

Front uprise to "L".

Back hip circle.

Lower to Jap splits.

Back kip.

Loop.

Lower to perverted cross .

Front giant.

Back roll to handstand.

Dislocate Rear-in. n. Flip flop.

12. Full twisting hecht.

Yours truly, Chris Castner, Los Angeles 1.

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Dear Glenn: The "Next Step" by Glenn Wilson that appeared in the February issue of the MG was one of the most irritating pieces of writing that I have ever had the misfortune of reading. The tragic thing is

that the viewpOint expressed in this editorial is receiving a lot of sympathy.

But before critiCizing the letter by suggesting any alternatives, let me carry some of the suggestions made to their logical conclusions. The editoria l vaguely suggests keeping the trampoline a long with a team of a ll- around men. I suggest that if enough momentum were generated to eliminate the other specialists, there wou ld be little to halt the elimination of the trampoline. The fact that the sport developed in the U .S. and not elsewhere wou ld prove to be an insignificant obstacle to mow down. I a lso dislike the notion that any event is "special", especia lly bec ause special in this case seems to imply peculiar or even not worthy or regular consideration . Finally, the entire concept of "all - around plus tramp" seems at best a logical in conSistency and at worst merely a temporary placation of "non-international" die-hards and that th e event will be elimioated when their cries fade away.

Now, I would like to see the U.S. up on top as much as anyone e lse, but I feel that the solutions expressed in "The Next Step" constitute several steps backward.

I t hink that before we can expect our teams to perform as well as they are capable of doing, we must make certain changes in the structure of competitive gymnastics. Everyone who is in any way oonnected with gymnastics realizes that this sport is consider ed a minor one in this COUll try. What a lot of people do not recognize is that merely altering our rules of competition to conform to those of other countries will not change the caliber of our performers. Most people fail to see that in those countries that do well in gymnastics (competition-,w ise), the sport en joys greater populari ty at the grass roots level than in the U.S. Gymnastics in the European countries. and Japan rates as football, baseball, and basketball do here. In order to attract more people to any new sport (and especially g y mnastics) the rules must be as simple as possible if maximum acceptance is to be achieved . Baseball and other team sports, though they have their share of complex rules are still basically simple games to u nderstand . Even in the individual sports like track and swimming, simplicity is the order. Most people understand the oonception of a race against time or one of a highest jump or longest throw. Not only that, but mediocre performances are easily distinguis hed from 路superior ones, even by persons who know nothing of the fine points. Since the essence of competitive gymnastics is of an aesthetic nature, it takes a fairly sophisticated eye to be aware of the slight but often important breaks that can make or break a routine. How often have you heard the audience express disapproval at a low score because of an unnoticed zone violation on the long horse or a ,s pectacular but unpolished high bar routine. True, disagreements between the audience and the official,s occur in every sport but they h appen enough in connec tion with gymnastics to indicate that the rules are sufficiently hard to understand to a casual audience.

What can be done? I do not advocate eliminating the "fine print" to appease audiences because to so do would pervert the beauty of the sport. What I think should be done is to increase the attraction of the sport so that the general public will have the desire to learn a ll the details.

The editorial points out that "progress is already being ' made" by the elimination of tumbling and flying rings from cOmpetition. Ridiculous! Tumbling is a basic event and one that easily lends itself to the introduction of the other apparatu路s .

If there was anything that could please a crowd it was a Hal Holmes, a Gary Chamberlain, or a Don Martinez charging down the mat doing his stuff. The same thing is true of the flying rings. The audience could more easily identify with this events because of its resemblance to trapeze. Gymnastics needs these events!

Along with the reinstatement of these two events I think that trampoline instruction should begin at the junior high school level. I realize that there are few coaches '''ho are falniliar ,vith the trampoline, but a start has to be made some where. The complaint that trampoline (or flying rings) is too dangerous is misleading. There is nothing intrinsically dangerous abou t any piece of apparatus .

All that is needed is more strict supervision and better coaching.

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Continued from page 27 Th a t tram poline perfo rmances a re as good as th ey are now is am a z ing con s ide ring the h eadstart that the other events h ave in t erm s of expos ure tim e. But the ge n eral l evel of trampoline performances could be brou g ht up to par wi th the rest of the apparatu s if it were introdu ced at the same time.

Finally, the most important thing to be do n e is to drastically de-emphasize th e a ll- a round with press ure to eliminate the necessity (not c hoice) of same as a require ment for international co mpe tition.

A lo ng with this, the speci a li s t s h o uld b e e ncouraged.

I full y r ealize that eliminatio n of th e all-around r equirement from interna tion a l com p etition may s eem futil e a nd even ridi c uLou s , but consider the consequences were it the case. Th e caliber of performances would litera lly go sky-high an d the U.S. wou ld b e up with the b est of them.

Con s id e r that in swimm ing a nd track, the re is no requirement to work a ll events . Th e persons with s u c h a n inclinatio n h ave their own (e.g. d ecathalon) com petiti o n. I d o not see a q u ic k e r way of c h o king o ff o ur gymnastic talent than to force a n a ll or none s ituatio n on b e gi nn e rs. This country needs a solid foundation before we can hope to b e better internationally.

Although our immediate pros p ec t s f or s u ccess in inte rn a Uo nal c0111petitio n 'would n o t advance (a nd may possibly r egr ess ) if the s uggestion s made above were implemented, I f eel that the sport would be made more p o pula r to more people and that progress would eventually b e made t o th e point where we could reali sticall y exp ect improvem ent in OUr gymnasts' p erfonnance s to warrant such rule c hanges of th e nature now advocated by Glenn Wilson, et a l. It even seems th a t s om e p eopl e want the U.S. to be up front eve n if we h ave to sacrifice Our longe range gym nas ti c inte r es ts becau se w e might " l ose face" . I would see gymnastics flourish in thi s country and h ave u s do p oorl y in the Olympics or th e ,;Vorld Game~ r at h e r tha n smother the s p ort with what seem s to be a d esperate bid for U.S . s up eriority for the sake of our pres tige .

Th e preserva tion of the s p or t in this co untr y i s t oo important!

Sincer e ly, Stev e L e rner

United States Olympic Gymnastic Committee INFORMATION FOR GYMNASTS THAT HAVE QUALIFIED FOR 1st OLYMPIC SQUAD TRIALS I st Olympic gymnastic team squad trials on July 12th and 13th, 1968 at Northwestern State College of Lou is iana, Natchitoches, La . All gymnasts that have attained 104.00 points in the All-Around in a championship meet using the Olympic compulsory exercises and optional exercises with qualified judges. In addition, all gymnasts that have the approval to compete from the U.S . Olympic technical committee. At this trial the top twenty gymnasts become the U.S. Olympic gymnastic squad. The top six gymnasts qualify for the final trials at UCLA in August. There will be a two week training period for the U.S. Olympic gymnastic squad members immediately following this trial at Northwestern State College of Louisiana.

2nd Olympic gymnastic team squad trials on August IS, 16, 17, 1968 at the University of Penn State, University Park, Po . Squad members seven through twenty are eligible to compete in this tr ia l. The top six gymnasts from this trial plus the top six qualifiers from the I st Olympic team trials qualify for the finals at UCLA on August 28, 29, 30, 31, 1968.

3rd and Final Olympic gymnastic team trials on August 28, 29, 30, 31, 1968 at Unive rs ity of Cal ifornia, Los Angeles, USCA, Pauley Pav. gymnasium . The top six gymnasts from the I st Olympic team trials and the tap six gymnasts from the 2 nd Olympic gymnastic team trials, plus

any ather gymnasts granted permission from the U.S. Olympic gymnastic technical committee, compete in this final trial to select the United States Olympic gymnastic team of seven gymnasts. Immediately follal'(ing this trial, the top seven gymnasts and one alternate will attend an Olympic gymnastic team train ing camp at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Col orado from September 15 through September 30th, 1968.

Thomas E. Maloney, Chairman U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Committee

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LETTERS CORRECTION Correction and apologies to Dr. Newt Loken concerning him in the March MG issue, where we had him married to his own daughter (Article about the presidents of the NACGC) . If we had maneuvered things a little more carefully, we might have arranged it somehow to have him wind up being his own Grand-pa. Sorry Newt, sorry about that, we'll try harder next time. Also apologies to Mrs . L.oken, it must have been a slip of the typewriter . . . • Lyle Welser LETTERS Dea r Glenn: I would first lik e to th an k you for the adv ice you sent m e in o rd e r to acq uire th e books by George C. Kunzle.

In the April ed ition of the Modern Gymn as t I was rea ding the problem tha t Mr. LaLoggia , vas h av ing

REPORT #4 MAY 1. Makoto Sakamoto, USC 113.05 111.65 2. Yoshi Hayasaki, Wash.

3 . Fred Roethlisberger, Mil. Tur. 108.55 107.90 4. Steve Cohen, Unatt .

5. Sid Freudenstei n, Cal 107.20 109.15 6. Fred Dennis, SIU 107.85 7. Dave Thor, MSU 8. Bob Lynn , Unatt 107.80 107.75 9. Richard Loyd, Nw. La. 107.70 10. Steve Hug, Unatt.

I I. Kanati Allen, UCLA 107.20 12. Greg Weiss, Unatt.

106.60 13 . Jim Amerine, So. Conn.

105 .50 14. Rick Tucker, Unatt.

105.90 105.15 15. Bob Emery, PS 16. Bob Dickson, Iowa 104.90 105.00 17. Fred Turoff, Temple 18. Pete DiFurio, Temple 104.70 19. Dick Swetman, Penn St 104.10 20. Paul Mayer, SIU 107.40 104.05 21. John Ellis, Nw. La. 104.30 22. Jim Culhane, Unatt.

23 . Terry Higgins, A.F. 103 .90 ** Citizenship status not known.

Rankings are subjective. Only those who have qualified for the first trials are listed except for Terry Higgins.

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r e la tion to the h orizo ntal bar, a nd I h ave found a method whi c h has worked fo r me. lt is as fo llows : Firs t , I p owd e r c halk on the palm and finge r s of my h a nd s to r e -

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collecte d. Next, (u s ing c h a lk in bloc k farm) I rub the chalk o n all parts o f m y h a nd with th e exception. of wh e re the s kin tends to rip. In my case thi s is right a t th e base of my fingers, so I c h a lk up only my fingers a nd lower palm. If m y h a nds a r e especially sore after a workout, I will soak them in h ot water for abo ut fiv e Or ten minutes. If you r h a nd s st ill t en d to rip o n ce in a whil e, soak th em in h o t w a t e r and then a ppl y some kind of healing ointment to s p eed up th e h ealing process. I hope that thi s wi ll b e of some help to Pete and others who face tloe same dilemma.

Sincerely , Mike M a li szewsk i Tewk s bury, Mass.

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GYMNASTIC RESEARCH AWARDS for 1968-69 1. The C.H. McCloy Honor Research Award of the National Gymnastic Clinic, Sarasota-$100. (President, Frank Cumiskey, RFD Westwood; Rockleigh, New Jersey). Decided at Sarasota.

2. Two Honor Research Awards of the NACGC (National Association of College Gymnastic Coaches)-$100 each . (President, Dr. Hubert Dunn, Gymnastic Coach, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois). a. Two Western Awards-USGF National Western Clinic at Tucson, Arizona b. Eastern Award-USGF National Eastern Cl inic at Fort Lauderdale, Florida Also at the Gymnastic Clinic at Tucson, Arizona: 3. The Gym Master Company Research Grant-$200.

CRITERION OF COMMITTEE: The committee wishes to stress that studies that benefit a large group rather than a small group will be favored.

PROCEDURE O~ CANDIDATES: Candidates cannot submit their outlines to both clinics. A choice must be made.

1. A prospectus of the problem must be submitted by November 30. a. Studies tor consideration for the Honor Research Awards of the National Gymnastic Clinic or the NACGC (National Association of College Gymnastic Coaches) Eastern Award (USGF National Eastern Clinic) must be submitted to Dr. Hartley Price, Florida State University by November 30. The prospectus will then be passed on to the sub·committee of the Research Award Committee in order to decide the winning candidates. It will facilitate matters if several copies of the prospectus are sent to me. b. Studies . for consideration for the NACGC Western Award and the Gym Master Grant at Tucson, Arizona , must be submitted to Dr. Glenn Wilson University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

2. The Prospectus of the Research: a. The candidates should include the following points in their prospectus : (1) Outline the problem (2) State the hypotheses (3) Indicate the methods to be used (4) Report the bibliography that was used in approaching the problem (5) Justify the research b. The deadline for tne prospectus for this year 's award will be: Nov. 30 , 1968 c. Indicate the progress that has been made up-to-date on the research . d. The members of the sub·committee will decide what candidate will receive the award after stUdying the prospecti. Therefore, the prospecti should be very complete. e. Each recipient of the award is expected to publish his study in the Modern Gymnast or the US Gymnast when it is completed.

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MID-ATLANTIC GYMNASTIC CAMP Located on the Com pus of Fairleigh-Dickenson University at Florham Park - Madison, New Jersey • First Session, July 7-14 • Second Session, July 14-21 • Third Session, July 21-28 • Fourth Session, July 28 - Aug. 4 Fee of $90.00 per week includes : • Excellent Cuisine, • Insurance, • Full Instructianal Program, • Lodging includes Linen, Living Room and Pri vate Bath, • Quarters Completely Furnished and Air Conditioned • Video Taping Facilities a s Instructianal Aid .

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AUG. 24 AUG 31,1968 For boys ond girls 8 years old ond up Located at Camp Arbolado in the magnificant San Bernardino National Forest at 7,000 ft on the slopes of Mt. Gorgonio.

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2 Exc lusive lever action roller

• HALF-FOLD IT! Need extra space on the gym floor? Now you can half-fold the trampoline without inserting the IO/ler stands.

stands! Easy, one-man operation-trampoline never has to be lifted to insert the roller stands.

• EXTRA -W/oE SINGLE STRUT LEGS. A new leg design for greater stability and safety, the 4 single strut legs feature an extra wide spread, plus extra large, thick non·marking rubber floor protectors.

• 16 OIRECT SUPPORT POINTS to the top frame provide greater strength and

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3 The new " Chuck Keeney" Trampoline can be easily rolled through any standard 6' 8" doorway when folded on it:; own roller stands.

• FASTER FOLDll{GIFolds faster,easier with less effort than any other trampoline.

The New "Chuck Keeney " Trampoline is available in l' x 14 ' and 6' x 12' sizesofficial for al/ NCAA and other competition. (Patent Pending) :···THE WORLD'S GYMNASTIC EQUIPMENT SPECIALISTS

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GYMNASTIC APPAREL Here is qUality gymnastic apparel you would expect only from Nissen. Our new line includes: (1) Expertly tailored 100% acrylic warm-up uniforms in your choice of four popular colors; (2) Three styles of men's stretch pants and shirts designed with four-way stretch to allow complete freedom of action for the most difficult movements; (3) 100% stretch nylon leotards in both boat and V-neck styles with special double overlock stitching at all points of stress; (4) Three styles of gymnastic shoes including a new Japanese made lightweight canvas shoe with a special cushioned inner sole; (5) Three styles of handguards; and (6) A fine quality imported chalk. All these items are illustrated in our new 12-page apparel catalog which is available upon request.

PORT-A-SCORE Nissen introduces a totally new concept in gymnastic scoring. PORT-A-SCORE is convenient to operate, using a blinker-type numeral that can be clearly seen 100 yards away. A flip of the finger and each 10" numeral can be changed from o to 9. PORT-A-SCORE is designed with a wide base on four double casters for easy portability. Scoring units can rotate 360路 and are height adjustable.

FREE GYMNASIUM EQUIPMENT CATALOG A copy of our new 36-page, 4-color catalog is yours for the asking. It includes our new 1968 gymnastic equipment with the new Floating Counterbalance feature for safe, effortless adjustment. In addition, Nissen now features the new Reuthertype Uneven Parallel Bars for official competition.

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NEW FLOATING COUNTERBALANCE This exclusive feature is installed in each upright of Nissen gymnastic apparatus.

Height adjustments are made effortlessly because the piston is always at static tension. Only a slight finger pressure is required to raise or lower the apparatus.

Simple, safe and convenient.