UMaine ’59-60 basketball team to be honored; Volk at Colby today

The record-setting 1959-60 University of Maine men’s basketball team, considered the program’s best of all time, will be honored as part of the ceremonies surrounding this year’s UM Hall of Fame inductions on Oct. 16 at the Black Bear Inn in Orono.

Brian McCall, head coach of the ’59-60 squad, is one of the five individuals to be enshrined in the hall this year. McCall skippered his most successful team to a 19-4 record, the program’s winningest season ever.

Members of the ’59-60 squad were: Len MacPhee, Skip Chappelle, Wayne Champeon, Bob Wilkinson, Bill Livesey, Don Harnum, Leroy Chipman, co-captain Dick Sturgeon, Randy Furbish, Larry Schiner, co-captain Maurice Dore, John Ingalls, Bob Morin, Don Sturgeon, and manager Jim Stevens.

The ’59-60 team was ranked as high as sixth nationally in the college division and was featured in an article in Sports Illustrated magazine. The Black Bears finished second that season in the Yankee Conference.

Carl “Stump” Merrill of Brunswick, the former UM baseball and football player and former New York Yankees manager, will serve as master of ceremonies for the UM Hall of Fame inductions.

In addition to McCall, other inductees are former women’s swimming champion Whitney Leeman Zeiger, former baseball great Ed Flaherty, top cross country runner Paul Firlotte, and Marion Rogers, an administrator of women’s athletics at Maine for more than 30 years.

For ticket information, call 581-BEAR.

Boston Celtics President Jan Volk is scheduled to deliver a guest lecture at Colby College in Waterville Thursday. Volk will speak at 11 a.m. in the Lorimer Chapel on campus. Volk is a 1968 Colby graduate.

University of Maine System Chancellor Robert Woodbury will be a key speaker during the annual Eastern College Athletic Conference fall convention scheduled for Oct. 12-15 at Hyannis, Mass.

Woodbury will take part in a panel discussion on the “Gender Equity” issue (Title IX) facing intercollegiate athletics during a seminar Oct. 13 beginning at 11 a.m. in the Hyannis Tara Hotel.

As head of the UMS, Woodbury will speak from the perspective of a multicampus situation where budgets are being slashed.

Woodbury’s views will be juxtaposed with fellow panel members Phyllis Howlett, assistant commissioner of the Big 10, and Cindy Sisson, Gatorade’s Northeast marketing manager. Howlett will represent the big-school view, while Sisson is a former female athlete (triathlete at Pepperdine University) who will speak from an individual’s perspective.

Bad news on the medical front for the Maine Maritime Academy football team. Senior defensive end Bill Harrigan has been lost for the season with ligament damage in his right knee. Two other starters in the defensive front, senior tackle Kevin Heath and freshman tackle Scott Cote, will miss a minimum of four weeks with knee injuries suffered in last Saturday’s 27-7 loss to Bridgewater State.

“All three hurt their right knees,” said MMA head coach John Huard, whose team travels to Worcester (Mass.) State this week.

Huard said medical decisions were still pending on whether surgery would be required for any of the three.

“It makes it interesting,” said Huard, when asked about the impact of the injuries on the defense. “But the youngsters we’ve put in there have played well.”

Moving into the three vacant slots in the MMA front are sophomore tackle Kirt Currie, freshman tackle Pat Coleman, and sophomore end Dick Letourneau, who moves over from a linebacker spot. Freshman John Jamo, who made eight tackles in 24 plays Saturday, will slide into Letourneau’s LB spot.