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that resulted in the

changing their historical

Tennis Records
to reflect that

not Macalester

had rightly won the title of

1965 MIAC Conference Team Champions

Holt Tennis Courts

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Submissions
Initial 4-2-2011 Formal 5-16-2011 Rev 1 / 5-20-2011 Rev 2 / 5-22-2012 Rev 3/ 9-01-2012

1965 Records

Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions
Date: 4-30-2011 (updated 5-17-2012) Page 1 FACT: Hamlines 1965 Tennis Team was the undisputed 1965 MIAC Conference Tennis Champion (in addition to 1962 & 1964) PROBLEM: MIAC records showed Macalester as the MIAC Conference Tennis Champions for 1965 in error (as of 4-30-2011) Assignment: Provide PROOF of Hamlines Claim-request MIAC record change Prepared by: Bruce McKinnon (64), 1961-1964 tennis team member Background: On 3-15-1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) was born with Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hamline University, Macalester College, St. John's University, St. Olaf College and the University of St. Thomas. Concordia College-Moorhead joined the MIAC in 1921, Augsburg College in 1924 (mens tennis dropped in 1998) and St. Mary's University in 1926. Carleton dropped membership in 1925, rejoining in 1983. St. Olaf left in 1950 and returned in 1975. The University of Minnesota Duluth was a member of the MIAC from 1950 to 1975. Bethel University joined in 1978.
|||| SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ minnesota_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Conference

Determining WHICH team won the MIAC conference title has changed over the years. Initially, because of the weather, individual college commitments, budgets, and the difficulty with lining up outdoor tennis courts (in playable condition), it was litterally impossible for every team in the conference to play one another during the SEASON. In addition, the popularity (or lack thereof) of tennis at the time placed some teams in the position of not always being able to fill all the team player slots (6 singles and 3 doubles). Consequently, most of colleges would send their #1 and #2 singles and #1 doubles payers to a season ending play-off matchoften referred to as the conference championship. This became readily apparent to me as I spent countless hours searching the Internet for data and each MIAC college website for tennis team win / loss records and/or conference titles. Dependent upon the year, calls I placed to many college alumni offices to check their college annuals only proved that some colleges did not even mention their tennis team in their yearbooks or had a photo of the team and names of players shown AND that was it (no reference to conference championships or season standings nothing). Look at the chart to the left that I copied from the Gustavus website in April 2011 for the period 1920-1969. Source: https://gustavus.edu/athletics/mt/records/miacchamps.cfm . Note the references to more than one team name for a year (followed by and S & D singles & doubles). Clearly what is being reported here is the results of the season ending playoff results, not the team season standings. I highlighted all references to Hamline from 1920 to 1969. My interpretation of the roaring 20s is that Hamline won both singles and doubles in 1921, but only doubles in 1923 and 1928 at the end of the season playoff. There is NO WAY to even imply any connection to the season dual match win/loss record during this period. If the Gustavus records (2011) were correct, Hamline did not win a playoff tournament in the 30s, 40s or 50s, not one. During the 1960s, 3 Hamline Hall of Famers won 5 singles titles (Hutton = 61 and Gustafson = 3 in 62, 63 & 64 and Bob Bigelow = 1968) and both singles & doubles (Stebbins and Miller) in 1964. There is no reference to the season team win / loss record. So again, the RECORD here refers to the year end playoff tournament. FYI: Hamline has never since won a MIAC conference championship during the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s through 2012. According to Dan McKane (2011), the MIAC Executive Director, the MIAC did not have an office or Director until 1994. Prior to that date, athletic records were based on 1994 reports submitted by various team coaches, thus he could not guarantee MIAC record accuracy. He noted that there were some groups that had investigated the accuracy of existing historical records and supplied updates along with supporting newspaper clippings AND, that there may be some data that may not all have been posted to MIAC files (e.g., Steve Wilkinson, Gustavus and John Mueller, Augsburg).
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Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions
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Error in MIAC Records: As stated in the PROBLEM noted on the first page, the MIAC record book was NOT correct, at least for the year 1965. Hamline rather than Macalester had won the MIAC conference Championship. The MIAC SUMMARY (below) and Wikipedia were also incorrect. Hamline had won 3 Conference championships since 1940 1962, 1962 and 1965. Error LINK: http://www.miac-online.org/sports/2007/8/13/mtenrecordbook.aspx?path=mten

MIAC
Mens Tennis Recordbook
Titles Won or Shared (1940 to 2010) Institution Gustavus Macalester St. Olaf St. Thomas Hamline *UM-Duluth Concordia **Augsburg No 39 10 10 9 2? 1 1 1 Last Title 2010 1969 1951 1988 1964 ? 1960 1976 1947

PROOF
1. Hamline 1965 Team Trophy: Each member of Hamlines 1965 team was given a trophy with a gold plate stating .. Hamline1965 MIAC Conference Tennis Champions. College has trophy 2. Hamline 1965 Liner (yearbook): See photo below with the heading Hamline Captures 1965 MIAC continued

Should be 3 and 1965

Note: During my tenure at Hamline (tennis seasons 1961 through 1964), team members were of the opinion that the MIAC Conference Championship was determined by the season win/loss record. Continued

* Left MIAC in 1975 **dropped tennis 1998

Errorshould have been Hamline

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Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions
1965 Continued

1965 Season in Perspective: From season 61 through 64, Hamlines tennis teams had placed 3rd and 2nd once and 1st twice in the MIAC Conference. So for 1965, it was very clear that Hamline would have a very strong team with plenty of depth. While the team lost seasoned 4-year letterman Stebbins, McKinnon & Lipelt, the 65 team returned 7 letterman from previous conference championship teams Gustafson, Huss, Miller and the Strohkirch twins (5) from 62 & 64 plus Wirtanen and Schneider (2) from 64. All of these team players came up under the tutelage of Dr. Lewis who always molded an unselfish, close knit group. Unfortunately, Dr. Lewis did move on to Dennison University in Ohio at the end of the 1964 school year, but all returning players had played key rolls in previous championships. Depth is always critical. Loss of Bob Gustafason: Hamline suffered a major blow for the 1965 season with the loss of 3-time conference singles champion and Hamline Hall of Fame player Bob Gustafson after only two dual matches. A disabling blood disease ended his career at Hamline after 60 wins and 2 losses (Wichita as a Freshman and the second 1965 season dual meet with Macalester). While Gus had never played doubles at Hamline, he did return to play doubles in one more dual meet in 1965, but subsequently totally quit playing tennis (until he was 28). He did not play in the 1965 year-end conference tournament / playoff (doctors orders). Team Season Record Leads to 1965 Conference Championship: Hamline again had a flawless season conference record in spite of the early loss of Gustafson, thanks in part to the constant emphasis Dr. Lewis placed on playing all team members in-conference and out-of-conference matches. Hamline ended the 1965 season with 8 wins / 0 losses in conference matches, 10-1 overall. Hamline won 10 dual meets (including 2 out-of-conference) and lost one non-conference match to St Cloud State, very impressive given the loss of Gustafson early in the season.

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Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions
1965 Continued

Gustafson Archives: Fortunately, Bob Gustafson did keep his scrap book from the good old days and sent me this page. The article on the right, written by 1964 team member Ford Spalding, was taken from the Hamline college newspaper (Oracle) at the time and discusses the 1964 team championship. However, the tennis article cut out of the 1965 Hamline Oracle appearing below indicates that Hamline had repeated its conference title in 1965, similar to 1964, and that this was the third team title in 4 years.

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Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions

Proof Hamline 1965 MIAC Conference Tennis Champions (continued)

From the Bob Gustafson archives (scrapbook)

The article on the right, taken from the Hamline Oracle, discusses the Dr. Lewis coaching win / loss record form 1961 through 1964 (highlighted). On the left, well known Pioneer Press sports writer Bob Shabert clearly states that Hamline won the Conference tennis title and Macalester was 2nd.

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Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions E-mail

Also see comments on

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This page contains a COPY of two separate e-mails sent to me by former Gustavus tennis coach, Steve Wilkinson, responding to 2 of my inquiries about the accuracy of MIAC records relative to the 1965 MIAC Conference Championship. Steve is perhaps the most revered tennis coach in US history due to his phenomenal 39 year coaching record at Gustavus. I needed someone to weigh in on this issue whos credentials were unquestionable. Steve was the perfect candidate. E-mail #1 (below) was Steves first response after checking some of his records following our first conversation. But, as he suggested, I needed to see what Macalesters records indicated. And I did. E-mail #2 to the left was Steves response to receiving the (next) PAGE that I had obtained from the Macalester Alumni Office and e-mailed to him. Shown on the next page is the tennis page from their 1966 yearbook which is self explanatory.

E-mail

#1

Steve Wilkinson
retired

Gustavus
Winningest Tennis Coach in Collegiate history 39 years
1970-2009

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Gustavus Coach Steve Wilkinson 2nd e-mail follow-up: Steve was right. What was needed to theoretically put this question (who was MIAC Conference Tennis Champion in 1965) to BED, was an acknowledgement of some sort from Macalester that would eliminate any debate. I contacted the Alumni Relations Office at Macalester and spoke with Associate Director, Damond Dean (M 91). I asked that he pull both the 1965 and 1966 MAC Yearbooks and turn to the tennis pages. He did. He said there was nothing but pictures in the 1965 yearbook (sort of like Hamlines Liner for 1958-1960), but the 1966 Yearbook spoke specifically to the 1965 tennis year (see below). I asked Daymond to scan the page and e-mail me a .pdf version (he did) and I forwarded the document to Steve Wilkenson. Steves response (see top e-mail on previous page) was immediate that other information I sent to him (see previous pages) PLUS .verification from Macalester records proves that Hamline was the 65 MIAC Tennis champion, not Macalester. However, the following page provides the clincher (3 colleges now agree that Hamline was the Conference Champion). Continued on next page

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Tribute to Steve Wilkinson: Yes, a coach can make a difference ! Wilkinson arrived at Gustavus as a religeon professor in 1970. He was asked if he would be willing to voluntarily coach the tennis team. Steve had played collegiate tennis at the University of Iowa where he finished second at #1 doubles at the Big Ten Championships as a senior. The rest is history. Steve became the winningest coach in the history of collegiate mens tennis (Divisions I, II, and III, and NAIA) over 39 years. Wilkinsons teams won 35 MIAC titles and 2 NCAA Division III titles (1980 and 1982). His players claimed 6 national doubles and 4 national singles titles. He coached 46 players to 87 ITA All-America honors, 103 players to 226 All-Conference honors, and 5 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans. His teams achieved an overall record of 929-279 (.768%) and a MIAC mark of 334-1 (.997%). Wilkinson also played competitive tennis for many years after college and ranked #1 in the US in the 45, 50, 55 and 60 and over divisions. He represented the US in the Dubler Cup, Perry Cup and Austria Cup competition winning the world championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1989 and finished second in Berlin, Germany in 1992. Steve was inducted into the Iowa Tennis Hall of Fame (1974), Northern Tennis Association Hall of Fame (1983) and the US Tennis Association Missouri Valley Hall of Fame (1999). Steve retired in 2009 as Gustavus Tennis coach due to an illness. But, he and his wife Barbara continue to work with the Tennis and Life Camps (TLC) which he foundedthe largest tennis camp in one location in the US. AND, with no strings attached, Steve helped ME (a total stranger) to establish that Hamline was in fact the MIAC 1965 Tennis Conference Champions. Thank YOU Steve. See Sources / LINKS below:
http://makeyourlifecount.blog.gustavus.edu/2010/08/20/steve-wilkinson-tennis-and-life/ and http://www.northern.usta.com/News/2010/2010_04/Steve-Wilkinson-ITA-Hall-of-Fame/

Hamline University, St Paul, MN 1962, 1964 & 1965 Tennis Teams MIAC Tennis Conference Champions
Direct LINK: http://www.csbsju.edu/SJU-Archives/SJUHistory/BooksaboutStJohns/ScoreboardBook.htm Home / Saint John's University Archives / SJU History / Books about St. John's / Scoreboard:

Scoreboard: A History of Athletics at Saint John's University

written and compiled by Dunstan Tucker, O.S.B. and Martin Schirber, O.S.B.
Introduction-Foreward-Acknowledgements

Instructions / direction to relevent information

Chapter I: The Early Days p. 1-9 Chapter II: Football p. 9-76 Chapter III: Basketball p. 77-128 Chapter IV: Baseball p. 129-199 Chapter V: Track p. 200-256 Chapter VI: Cross-Country p. 257-276 Chapter VII: Tennis p. 277-320 Chapter VIII: Wrestling p. 321-348 Chaptver IX: Hockey p. 349-374 Chapter X: Golf p. 375-390 Chapter XI: Soccer p. 391-402 Chapter XII: Rugby p. 403-411 Chapter XIII: Swimming p. 412-415 Chapter XIV: Gymnastics p. 416-422 Index p. 423-444 Full document for keyword searching

1. Click on Chapter VII - TENNIS (pages 227-320). . 2. Scroll down to bottom and click on "Chapter VII continued". 3. Scroll down to 1964, read second paragraph or, as quoted below:
Prior to 1964, a tennis championship was determined entirely on the outcome of the conference tournament in singles and doubles. According to the new ruling, however, the winners of singles and doubles were simply declared the individual champions of the conference, whereas the team championship was to be determined by the number of season victories and the state meet. There was no chance for quibbling in 1964, however, for Hamline won both the team title by an 8-0 record in the seasonal meets, and won both the singles and doubles championships in the tournament. St. John's was runnerup with a record of seven wins and only one loss (to Hamline). As was expected, Hamline and St. John's dominated the MIAC tournament. St. John's Art Grady won two matches before losing in the semi-finals to Hamline's Gustafson, the eventual winner in the singles finals.

4. Now read the 2nd, 3rd and 4th paragraphs of the Saint Johns document under 1965, or as noted below:
The team started out well with a series of four consecutive victories, then had a few disappointing triangulars, but in the last part of the season was strong enough to compete for the conference crown at Macalester. Nevertheless, Hamline won the MIAC title. In a spirited review of the season, Arth, who wrote as well as he played tennis, commented: "Even as I look back on our past season, I still cannot possibly see how Hamline won the thing. And now that the season is over, I still feel that man for man we were the best team in the conference. (Record, May 26, 1965). The conference record for the season was 6-2, with a third place ranking in the MIAC. There was little reported about the MIAC tournament, won by Hamline. Rain interrupted the finals, which had to be completed in the Macalester field house. Tom Arth, top-seeded St. John's player, lost in the finals to Shipman of Macalester. John VandeNorth won two rounds before being defeated in the semi-finals. Michael Musty, a tenacious competitor, won first place in the consolation match.

SUMMARY / CONCLUSION / ACTION

Question: What / Who supports Hamlines Claim that they, rather than Macalester, won the 1965 MIAC Tennis Conference Championship and that MIAC records (website and Wikipedia) should be changed ? Hamline University is in possession of a 1965 tennis trophy Members of the 1965 Team were each given a trophy Hamlines yearbook (Liner) states Hamline was the champ Hamlines bulletins (Oracle) states Hamline was the champ The St. Paul Pioneer Press states Hamline was the champ Macalesters yearbook states they were NOT the champs St Johns publication Scoreboard states Hamline was champ Steve Wilkinson, retired Gustavus Tennis coach / historian and winningest coach in college history believes Hamline won the 1965 Tennis MIAC Conference championship
M I A C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
TENNIS - Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

19402011 Championship Determination Protocol

Period / Years

From 1940 1953 1965 1967* 1969* 1971* 1973* 1984* 1997* 2003 2007

To 1952 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1983 1996 2002 * 2006 2011 X

Dual Matches

Season End Tournament X | X S+D-1pt/win

Duals + Tournament

50% 51% 50% X 20 pts-2/m 100 pts-10/m X X

50% 49% 50% 72 pts 72 pts

X X X X X T=92 T=172

Conclusion: Hamline University WON the 1965 MIAC Conference Championship in Tennis! ACTION: In April 2011, we asked the MIAC to correct their records accordingly (and they did)
See Website page at: http://www.miac-online.org/sports/2007/8/13/mtenrecordbook.aspx?path=mten

10 11

*Nine flighted tournaments began in 1967 to 2002 Source: 5-30-2011 Coach Steve Wilkinson, Gustavus

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Its Official !!
The 1965 Hamline Tennis Team is the MIAC Tennis Conference Champions 1965
MIAC Records Updated 5-4-2011

5-4-2011 E-mail from MIAC

From: Matt Higgins [mailto:mhiggins@miac-online.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:24 AM To: 'Stephanie Harris'; Bob Beeman (rbeemanjr01@hamline.edu) Cc: 'Bruce McKinnon'; 'Dan McKane' Subject: 1965 MIAC Championship Hello Steph, Bob and Bruce, I want to thank all of you especially Bruce for your time and effort on verifying and trying to rectify the MIAC mens tennis history regarding the 1965 championship. Based on evidence provided by Bruce, Hamline and verification from Macalester, it is the MIACs official decision that Hamline University was indeed the 1965 MIAC mens tennis champion. As of this morning, I have updated the MIAC Mens Tennis Recordbook on the MIAC Web site to reflect this, and have adjusted each teams total titles and last title to reflect the change as well. You can view that updated page Here:

http://www.miac-online.org/sports/2007/8/13/mtenrecordbook.aspx
I am saving all documentation from this process to back up the MIACs decision to list Hamline as the MIAC Champion for 1965, and this summer I plan to add language to our Web site to clarify the changing nature in which the champion was determined. Thanks again for all of your work on this and for your help to ensure the MIAC records are accurate. Congratulations to Bruce and Hamline for the 1965 title, and best of luck moving forward with your Hall of Fame nominations. Matt Higgins Assistant to the Executive Director Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference E-mail: mhiggins@miac-online.org Office: 651-644-3965 Cell: 612-237-8237 Fax: 651-647-6422 Web: www.miac-online.org

Hamline was the winner of 3 MIAC Conference Championships

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