FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1967 TIlE MICHIEAN DAILY THE. VANDA S BANDEHEAD ,I F I Doty Awaits 'Break' on Kicking mw m v u itiu m - Ui V7 By BILL LEVIS Doug Heller Al Doty is more than just aj H*l*er football player. He is a symbol of all the sen- iors who have worked their hearts out for three long years but have never been able to break into SH istor .Babbthe starting lineup. Like most high school players who journey to Michigan" to play ' once upon a time the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, had a college football, Doty had all the genuine major league professional basketball team, credentials. He had set all his This wasn't too strange. After all, cities like Rochester and Syra- school's records and he came to cuse had them .too. Anyway, Indiana has to be the world's basketball Ann Arbor with high hopes. hotbed, unless it's Kentucky. He was not only looking forward The only trouble with these Indiana people is that they have to to great games with the Wol- have a pretty good team or else everybody around, won't go to every verines but also to a stellar career. single game. And that's just aboutwhat has to happen in a city the in the pros. size of Fort Wayne or the team won't make money. Then it will have soon found that his dreams would to move. not be fulfilled. "I was told I Anyway, one day this basketball team got up and left town. was just one in a million and I Just about the only thing it took with it when it left was its nick- had to start fighting for a posit- name: Pistons. ion," Doty relates. Well, the team didn't go all that far away. Instead of playing Fighting was just not enough. in a city named after Mad Anthony, they moved to where the whole IHe has spnt tre ya a ot- c'ounty was named after him.infrmoe)Oiintaiohr without making the first string.; Now the Pistons were 100 per cent Big League. Ready to go in "My big 'problem is that I sin the fifth largest city in the country. Their court was even set up over not a standout at any position. an ice rink, just like the Boston Celtics and New York Knickerbockers. I don't have the great speed, To bad the similarity ended, there. Unlike Boston, they weren't weight or power. I'm sort of a very good. And unlike New York, Detroit just doesn't love a loser. Mr. In-Between," he says. "I started out my sophomore It wasn't that the Pistons didn't have any good players. They year on the kickoff team but I had some really good shots like Bailey Howell and Don Ohl. And dislocated my shoulder in one of even though they could never get a competent center, they com- the early games. I thought I had promised by fooling around with tall ones, like Walter Dukes and a chance at fullback behind Dave Reggie Harding. Fisher so I just wasn't hustling At last the Pistons got their first really big break. They moved when I got hurt." again. They took their basketball court off the ice and onto the floor 1 He was granted an extra year "And Al has had two real gooo+ games for us. He even won the kicking award one week for his tackling. "Doty has made seven ±rckles this year on kickoffs," James states, "and while this figure mayE not sound impressive, you must realize isn't playing all the time." Doty's play has been so ag- gressive that this week, he will also play on the punt return squad. "I'm in there to block fora George (Hoey) and Jerry (Hart- man)," he notes. While he has never started a game, Doty is still optimistic that his day will come. "I'm just like any other guy. I have to go out there and wait- my turn. You practice until you get your chance." AndDoty will be prepared if that chance comes. "We prepare for the games in the same way as the starters and we're just as ready to go. We know when we go in there we've got to make the play. "You know I feel we even have to be mere mentally- prepared than the starters because when we go in a game we have to make the play or else," he stresses. Sill, Doty feels that "riding the bench," a player can get himself down quite easily. You just have to keep coming back." "If I were to quit now there would always be the point later on in my life when I would say to myself: 'Maybe I could have made it.' Meanwhile it hurts you to think you're not good enough to be a starter." Doty feels that the solution to w I f h4 Hi se ga fi iI in2 AL DOTY alfback. He now backs up George oey and Brian Healy in the econdary. "He played behind Rick Sy- ar last year," defensive back- eld coach Don James reports. He played a little at left safety the Minnesota game." "This year, he's also been on he starting kickoff team because e's real aggressive. He's got good, peed, quickness and toughness," ames notes. this dilemma is not to think of yourself as inferior. "Rather, I have to think that I am as good as or better than the first stringers. This may sound cocky but I think everyone on the sec- ond team feels the same way." And Doty does have his own number one booster to cheer him on in times of despair - his wife. "It's a great feeling to have some- one always backing you." He does know, though, that his football career is nearing its end and because of this he is turning his sights to teaching. "Right now I am planning to be a coach. I'm student teaching at Forsythe Junior High School in Ann Arbor and I also have been doing a little bit of coaching. I do it because it is someth ng I love teaching kids." And by coaching, Doty can stay associated to his favorite short, football. "I also find that coach- ing has helped me as a player. I can spot weaknesses and strong points that I didn't know of be- fore." At Forsythe, Doty also feels he experiences some of the problems his coaches face at Michigan. "The hardest thing is gettting your plans across to the players and convincing them they will work. "Besides coaching, I'm teaching classes in physical education be- cause I can be close to the stu- dents. It's a thrill to watch boys improving specific skills when it's ,all part of your doing. You just have a great feeling." Still, the big thing foi Dopy this fall is preparing for Michigan's football games. But for a second stringer it can soihetimes be a strainr. Sits easy to get discouraged when you have been around for three years and you don't get 0 play often," James noes. I '(ty concurs. "It's quite a pres- sure going through the season not playing but knowing you have to keep in shape. You ave to be ready if your chance comes." And Doty is still looking for that chance. If it isn't in the defen- sive backfield, maybe it will be at some other position. He'll always be ready. of Cobo Hall. Now, people had to show up just to find out what the of eligibility and he indicates he' new buildinglooked like. of course, this didn't mean they had to come will probably play next year. th back twice. And they didn't. Last year, Doty was switched he Then came the all-time greatest break in Detroit Piston history. to linebacker but he spent most sp hof the year as a reserve defensive Ja They lost a coin flip. Instead of getting Cazzie Russell, the greatest. college player of 1965-66, they got Dave Bing, the best professional rookie of 1966-67. I UNBEATEN IN STATES: Trouble was, with only Bing and hometown favorite Dave De-' Busschere doing anything consistently well, the Pistons didn't even1 come close to being winners. But they looked like they had potential. Then came the unkindest cut ever. After years of mediocrity in the mediocre Western Division of the National Basketball Asso- ciation, they were switched. Any time the Pistons approached being good again, they would be crushed by the competition of the league's unbelievably rough Eastern Division, where they were moved due to expansion to the West Coast. Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, New York. Help. Detroit started this year ready to be slaughtered. No doubt about it. Except they won a game. And another. Soon their record was 7-5. Too bad they had to play St. Louis. The Hawks came into town with a 16-1 record. Detroit stomped them. Terry Dischinger, back after two years in the army, and DeBus- schere went crazy while Bing had an off-night. Two nights ago Philadelphia came, to Detroit with a 16-game winning streak over the Pistons. They were so cocky, Chamberlain eveni fooled around in the first quarter, trying to "steal" from a team- mate, before the 76'ers built up a big lead. Detroit came back. Bing stopped mising shots altogether. The Pistons won by three points going away, if such 4 thing is possible. They're now only two games behind the defending world champions. Cobo Hall might sell out. yet before it falls down. Ruggers Boot Ili-ni, Meet Badgers ' The Michigan Rugby Football Club, unbeaten against American competition this season, travels to Madison tomorrow for a confron- tation with the Wisconsin ruggers. Michigan knocked off Illinois 18-6 in Champaign last weekend as the club continued its domi- nation of Midwest rugby. The road victory was led by inside center Mike Johnson's nine-point per- formance. Johnson, the club's captain, scored a try late in the first half, giving Michigan a 9-6 intermis- sion advantage, then booted a penalty kick and tallied his sec- ond try to'sew up the win. Rick Spears, Shingo Oda, and Bill Fleischman each recorded a single try to round out the 18- point total. Club president John McKenzie credited fine scrum play, led by hooker D a v i d Campbell, for springing the backs loose in the team's defense of its unblemished record. 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