University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Boxing and Wrestling The University of Miami boxing and wrestling teams digressed somewhat from precedence this year by making an extended trip through the east and south. Although the mittmen were not followed by their usual success, an overwhelming victory over the arch-enemy, Florida, more than atoned for other set-backs. The wrestlers, coached by Ernie Brett, displayed their prowess by scoring one-sided wins over the teams encountered on the road trip, but due to several last minute substitutions for disabled varsity men, the all-important meet with the Gators of the University of Florida was lost by a close 16-14 margin. It was the first defeat for a Miami mat team. The boxing squad, headed by coaches Ingersoll and Brett, led off the season by an invasion of the crack Catholic U.’s territory in Washington, I). C., but were turned back with a 5-2 defeat. Several days later the mittmen joined forces with the wrestling squad at Beaufort, South Carolina, to engage the representatives of the famous Parris Island Marines. The boxers were only able to garner three bouts out of the scheduled seven, but the wrestlers hung up a business-like 36-0 decision for their first meet of the year. Manley, bantamweight. Nations, lightweight, and Bates, welterweight, accounted for the boxing victories, while Abras, Reichgott. and Weilbacher were outstanding in the grappler’s win. Additional representatives of Uncle Sam in the person of the soldiers of Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, were the next Hurricane opponents. The boxers

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Basketball The Hurricane basketeers, under the strategic handling of Head Coach Tommy McCann and Assistant Coach Lloyd Solie, waded through an 18-game schedule with but one defeat for the best cage record ever set up by a University of Miami basketball squad. A clear title to the South Florida A.A.U. championship, with wins over the leading amateur teams in this district, climaxed an eminently successful season. With only two veterans answering McCann's call, Louie Hansen and Luke Crowe, prospects were slow in assuming their brightest hue, but an influx of such stars as Folger, McKimmie, Delaney, Graney, Gordon, and others, rounded out one of the smoothest working teams ever seen on a Miami court. The Hurricanes started off the season with one-sided victories over local Y.M.C.A. and church league teams. With these games under their belts, McCann’s men waded through such teams as the South Florida Athletic Club of Tampa, the Parris Island Marines, St. Petersburg College, Fort Lauderdale Athletic Club, and Xorman Park College of Georgia to effectively demonstrate their court supremacy. Statistics gave the Hurricanes a season point total of 816, while their opponents were held to a 456 score. Folger and McKimmie took high point honors with respective totals of 167 and 160, and the former was chosen together with Hansen for a position on an All-A.A.U. team following the South Florida tournament.

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again came off with a 5-2 defeat, only Eavenson, featherweight, and Phillips, middleweight, getting decisions, while Coach Brett’s wrestlers ran into some formidable opposition, but won, 21 to 13. Abras, Reichgott, and Varner scored falls to lead their teammates. Returning to Miami, the Hurricane squads went into intensive practice for the Gator teams, whom they met in the Biscayne Arena before a large crowd of fans. The Florida wrestlers, coached by Evan Lindstrom, former pupil of Ernie Brett, upset predictions by their narrow 16-14 defeat of the favored Hurricanes. Miami led by one point up to the final bout of the evening, the heavyweight clash, in which Weinberg of Florida succeeded in gaining a time advantage over Peterniche of approximately one minute and then successfully stalled off the attacks of the Miami heavy to clinch the meet for the Gators. Abras did an iron man stunt by taking both the boxing and wrestling bouts in the bantamweight class, giving impetus to the glove-slingers 6-1 win by scoring a knockout over Perez in the first round. Phillips and Bates also rang up valuable points over the knockout route, while Eavenson, Nations, and Renshaw were given decisions in the featherweight, lightweight, and heavyweight classes. Burnett, light heavy, lost a close match for the only Hurricane set-back of the night. The wrestling team also came through in the sectional tryouts for Olympic candidates held in the university gym March 19, nosing out the University of Florida, 27-26, to win the team championship, and qualifying four men for participation in the national finals. Abras, 115 pounds, Lowd, 125 pounds, Loverde. 145 pounds, and Reichgott, 155 pounds, are the Miami men who will go to New Jersey in June for a crack at the Olympic goal. Two bantamweights will lead the Hurricanes into action next year. Manley, 115 pound boxer, will serve as captain for the university ringmen, and Abras will captain his wrestling teammates. Both are able veterans, and Miami followers can look forward confidently to well rounded teams for the coming season.