PAGE SteC THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1967 PAGE SIX THE MICHiGAN DAILY THZJR~DAY. OCTOBER 5 1Q~7 A J<#if 'WV .'-'ALAI-.. J, 1VV1 I Notre Dame Tries to Recapture Broken Bubble a By BILL LEVIS When the pre-season football polls came out late this summer, it looked as if Notre Dame would be national champions for the second year in a row without even taking the field. How could the Fightin' Irish ever lose a game? To start out with, they had a ,miracle worker in head Coach Ara Parseghian who led Notre Dame to a 9-1 record his first season in 1964 after the Irish finished with a 2-7 slate the year before. Notre Dame also had one of the top ends in the country re- turning in junior Jim Seymour. Last season he caught 48 passes for eight touchdowns in seven games. In Terry Hanratty and Coley O'Brien, the Fightin' Irish fea- tured two of the top-rated quar- terbacks in the nation. When Hanratty got hurt against Michi- gan State, O'Brien took over and, led Notre Dame to a 51-0 white- wash over Rose Bowl bound Southern California. And talk about defense, the Fightin' Irish had their super- man returning in Kevin Hardy who anchored down the defense with his 6'5", 270-pound frame. Alongside him, Notre Dame fea- tured a new line that averages more than 260 pounds per man, heavier than many pro teams. Yet the Fightin' Irish won't go through the 1967 season un- defeated and unscored upon. Pur- due broke that golden bubble last Saturday pasting Notre Dame with its first defeat in two years, 28- 21. Then what weaknesses did the pollsters overlook when they vot- ed the Fightin' Irish as mostly to succeed in 1967? First, Parseghian had to fill the holes left by the graduation of Pryde will have a' fall; for pryde goeth before and shame cometh after. -John Heywood five consensus All-Americans plus five others who garnered partial All-America acclaim. Captain and linebacker Jim Lynch, halfback Nick Eddy, de- fensive end Alan Page, defensive tackle Pete Duranko and guard Tom Regner all received first place recognition while fullback Larry Conjar, center George Goeddeke, tackle Paul Seiler and linebacker John Horney got partial acclaim. In all the Fightin' Irish lost 11 starters to graduation. While these holes haven't been impossible to fill, the losses have taken their toll especially on defense where the Notre Dame first team only allowed 17 points all last year.' In the world of the immortal Parseghian, "the ability of the number one defensive unit in 10 ball games to surrender only 17 points was a fantastic achieve- ment. "The offensive team gave up two touchdowns, one on a fumble to ,Purdue and a blocked kick by Navy. The second defensive unit gave up on touchdown," explains Parseghian. "The ability for the defensive team to duplicate this is very un- likely." That became evident last Sat- urday when the vaulted Notre Dame defense collapsed. Parseghian put much of the blame for that loss on the pass rush. "Our front four just wasn't able to get at the passer. We' couldn't get near (Mike) Phipps." And Hardy, who led the defen- sive unit in Notre Dame's 41-8 victory over California two Sat- urdays ago, was hurt in the Pur- due game and will be a doubtful starter against Iowa this weekend. The Purdue game was a night- mare for the Fightin' Irish all around. "It's just that Purdue came up with the key plans on third and fourth downs while we failed," the Irish coach sighed. "Our running game didn't amount to a whole lot because we were playing catch-up foot- ball and this forced Terry Han- ratty to set some new passing rec-, ords. tHe completed 29 out of 63 tosses.) "Hopefully, we'll have a bet- ter balanced attack in the future. "We plan to employ the split end flanker back type of attack. It should be very much the same attack as last year" when Notre Dame piled up 362 points on its opposition. While Hanratty seems to have nailed down the number one quar- terback spot, Parseghian equivo- cates, "Both boys are outstand- ing quarterbacks and it's a de- lightful problem for a coach to have two boys who have such ability." But even with this happy prob- lem, Notre Dame's chances for a perfect season have done down the drain. The schedule which looked so formidable before the season wilt- ed when both Michigan State and Miami of Florida, both rated near the top by pollsters in August, each suffered two early season losses. M SENINEERS UARCO INCORPORATED We will be on campus Wednesday, October 11, 1967, to talk with graduating Mechanical and an Chemical Engineers (Chemistry majors, too), B.S. and M.S. Rewarding engineering and management opportunities are available with UARCO, a leader in the rapidly expanding business forms industry. 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Tickets: $4.50, $3.50, $2.50, $2.00 Mail orders: Civic Center Box Office 505 W. Allegan East Lansing, Michigan Detroit Masonic Temple 500 Temple SUN., OCT. 29, 8:00 P.M. Tickets: $5.00, $4.00, $3.00, $2.00 Mail orders: Include self- addressed, stamped envelope. By DOUG HELLER As a high school quarterback in a fair to middling league 25 miles northwest of New York City, Paul Toscano was a hard runner with little recognized ability as a passer, In fact, Toscano was much bet-_ ter known as his school's basket- ball scoring star (he set a county record with 50 points in a game) against very weak oppositon that consdered a 6'4" center a veritable giant. Is college at Wyoming, his foot- ball coach took advantage of Tos- cano's known running ability and turned him into a defensive safe- ty. Last year, Toscano was goodI enough to make second team All- Western Athletic Conferencey But this year. Coach Lloyd Eaton of the perennially strong Cowboys had a problem. Gone were his top two veteran quarter- backs from his powerhouse of last year. Into the void Eaton inserted. Toscano because of his "head, at- tiude, and battle experience." As ,to the passing ability of his new choice, the best opinion given of Toscano from anyone was "fair." Poof. Now, after three games of this' season, Toscano leads the nation in total offense. After handling the ball 95 times, Toscano has run or passed 683 yards. But the real shocker is that he leads the nation in touchdown passes with seven, having run for only one. He also ranks fourth in passes completed (right behind TerrysHanratty) with 39 in 72 at- tempts. He also ranks second in passing yardage with 625, mean- ing he has run for ony 58 yards. Of Mice and Men Some teams have all the luck. The fact is, had Toscano -been proven to be only a mere mortal, Wyoming would still be favored to romp through its schedule un- defeated and take an outside chance at the nation's top ten. The Cowboy's "lesser" lights are: Gene Huey, 13th in the nation in pass receiving; Jerry Depoyster, fourth in the nation in scoring by a kicker; All-America tailback candidate Jim Kick; offensivej tackle Mike LaHood; guard Dave Rupp; defensive back Dick' Speights; and Vic Washington, who was the leading punt returner in the nation last year and is number two so far this year. A couple of years ago the con- ference would stop right there. One good team and a bunch of pushovers. f But now there's Arizona State, j who has Ed Roseborough-13th inI passing in the country, 17th in total offense and 18th in punting. Max Anderson is fifth in the coun- try in rushing and 14th in scoring, while J. D. Hill is seventh in scor- ing and 14th in pass receiving. Ken Dyer from Ann Arbor is 12th in pass receiving. Arizona State also has Curley+ Culp, NCAA wrestling champion and supposedly just as good at football, on the defensive line.+ Brigham Young, second in total offense, first in passing offense, third in scoring, and third in rushing defense will probably go+ somewhere this year. What a Way to Go But New Mexico, with the na- tion's top passer in Terry Stone,; the number three pass receiver in+ Ace Hendricks, and the third rank- ed passing offense, is picked for the conference cellar. Arizona is also very weak, de- spite the fact that they beat Ohio State Saturday. Utah has a passer in Jack Gehrke, but nothing else. Independents from the area in- clude Air Force, and New Mexico State. New Mexico State will be fairly good because of its tradi- tionally great running backs, but will be held up because of its tra- ditionalyly porous defense. As in Tot Air Force, however, is in trouble. One example is Dave Mumme (prosounced Mummy), a 'junior. He transfered fromt Louisiana to the big rival of Toscano's school during his junior year in high school. In his 'senior year, he averaged 11.5 yards a carry on the gridiron as a halfback, was the best passer on his team and so popularized the option pass, was a top defensive player, and set a league scoring record for a season. . He also set a New York State record in the pole vault. Sought by many schools includ- ing most of the Ivy League, he passed up all offers including a full scholarship from Princeton granted weeks before the April'15 mailing date in direct violation of the Ivy League cooperative agree- ment, so anxious were they to get him. The American Way Instead, Mumme chose the Air Force following in the steps of his father, a military man. Converted to flanker back, he was one of the Falcon's top fresh- man.,However, Mumme badly in- jured both legs during his sopho- more year and was out for the whole season. Chosen the top back in spring practice this year, the honor is quite empty for Mumme, since the second cheating scandal in three years has wiped out the Air' Force. ii MUGGERS DESPAIR: Libel Juggernaut Set To Roll .Iir 9 I WELCOME!! OPEN MON. thru SAT. 8:30 to 5:30 P.M. DASCOLA BARBERS Near Michigan Theatre By ROB SALTZSTEIN Collegiate football's most prized and distinguished trophy, the Little Brown Trash Basket, goes up for grabs Friday, and UAC cap- tain Don (the fumbler) Tucker is not very happy about it.. "We might as well not even bother to show up for the game with you Daily people," said a dis- grunted Tucker as he calmly flip- ped paper wads out of his second story office in the Union. As pres- ident of UAC, this has been one of his most engaging activities. "We have no offense, we have no defense and our quarterback, Tom (the bomb) Lovel, is a study in futility," he added in one 'of his more optimistic assessments of the team. Tucker is probably right. Quarterback Lovel has yet to complete a pass, going 0 for 20 in last week's humiliating Mugger loss to a University High squad of freshman girls. In that game he had six passes picked off and-was held to -50 yards on the ground. The whole UAC squad from coach Bob (popgun arm) Neff down to offensive blocking back Jack (potato famine) O'Hara and Joe (the weasel) Heiser is a con- glomeration of ineptitude. "If there is a way to botch it up, I'm sure our boys will do it," said chief cheerleader Roz Braemen of the team that employs her. "After the game I'm going to join the Daily," she added. And join the Daily she might as well, for this is where the true UNION-LEAGUE -- i. "HOME IS HEAVEN AND ORGIES ARE VILE, BUT I LIKE AN ORGY, ONCE IN A WHILE."' GRID SELECTIONS, Deadline for entering the Grid Pix contest is usually Friday at midnight. However, since the Libel-Mugger game is Friday afternoon at 5:30 and since no one from The Daily will give a damn about anything by midnight, we thought it would be only true, just, and the American wayto give everyone fair warning. Homecoming '67 October 20-21 power lies this year. Roger Rapo- port, most libelous of all the Daily Libels, appears ready to once again snuff out UAC victory hopes. Fearsome Roger, ably assisted by Rick (the fishmonger) Stern is confident of the /outcome. Stern, one of the Daily's famed "seven blocks of balsa wood" put it this way: With Bob (the bullet) Lees shooting in on defense, Bill (hop- a-long) Levis firing from center, and oel (hard block) Block put- ting up the invisible wall, we should have no problem. Especially with play X in operation." "Play X is fantastic," sneered Clark (candy bar) Norton, head of, the Libel sports staff. "It's unreal," howled Grayle (the Holy one) Howlett, Associate Dai- ly Sports Editor. "I Just can't believe it," mumbled Daily sports prodigy Howard (ice cream) ohn. But Daly Executive Sports Edit- or, Robert (Mack truck) McFar- land, best summed up the inglori- ous play X: "Play X is indeed fan- tastic, The pros would like the lay- out from us but it's our discovery and even if it revolutionizes foot- ball, we're not going to give it away until we pummel UAC with 'it." And as if these stalwart stars were not enough, UAC's outlook is made even more gloomy by the presence of four outstanding rook- ies on the Libel staff. Tom (flashbulb) Copi, an alle- gitimate high school All-America four years ago at Ann Arbor High, is a deadly center. Dave (throw me one) Weir runs the ten in 9.4; Ed (Kamakaze) Herstein excels at the dive play; and Pat (Lois Lane)O'Donohue exemplifies the typical Daily "three-yards-and-a- c1oud" football. From all indications Tucker will not be able to stick his head in the Little Brown Trash Basket for at least another year. 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