Hail to the Victors! M Greats Inducted Into Sports Hall of Fame

Hail to the victors! M greats
inductee into sports Hall of Fame

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DETROIT - Everyone agreed.

It was about time.

Former Michigan wrestling
coach. Cliff Keen, now retired,
and former Michigan football
great, Willia^ard, now a probate
judge in Detroit, "were inducted
Thursday night into the State of
Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.

Both men had been on the ballot
for years.

Keen was on the ballot in recog-
nition of his 25 years of coaching
success in Ann Arbor and Ward
for his fierce play as an All-Big
Ten football player.

Ward also was a great sprinter,
long jumper and high jumper and
in addition to Big Ten champion-
ships in those events, he claimed
victories over the fabled Olympi-

s, in head-to-head
competition in the 100-yard dash
and high hurdles.

Although wrestling had been
started n" th" M^h^pin campus
in 1921, i really got
the program moving.

In his second year on the job

M greats Wi.i.i, .^rd, left and Cliff Keen

(1926), after winning a national
championship at Oklahoma State
as a collegiate wrestler, Keen
produced his first Big Ten cham-
pion, Theron Donahoe, and in 1930
1 t first national champ,
Jun Airily.

By 1929, Michigan had won its

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first Big Ten tean ,
and a dozen more v» tn v^.

By the time Keen ret had
^ 10 national champs and
( 'i Big Ten champs. In 1960
and again in 1965, he produced
five Big Ten championship indi-
vidual in one season.