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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday, September 18, 1968
PoaeEiat Wenesay, eptmber18,196
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Arizona State
leads
WAC
title
race
LACKS DEPTH:
S need marks defensive line
By DICK ZUCKERMAN
The exciting windup to the
Arizona State-Texas of El Paso
match slast fall just may have
been a preview to this season's
Western Athletic Conference foot-
ball title chase.
The Sun Devils won that one,
33-32, on a 'touchdown off a brok-
en pass play in the last second
of play.
However, Wyoming, unbeaten in
three years at home and tasting
defeat only twice, in their last 22,
games, has plenty going for them
and should also be figured in on
the championship fight. They will
be hardpressed to repeat their
10-0 regular season finish of a
year ago, but it could be done.
As in the Ipast two seasons,
Coach Lloyd Eaton lacks an ex-
perienced quarterback. He must
also come up with a kicker this
year. No longer can he depend on
the 40-yard field goals and punts
of Jerry Depoyster, whose toe de-
feated three teams last year ex-
pected to play key roles in 1968:
Texas-El Paso 21-19, Colorado
State 13-10, and Arizona State,
15-13.
Eaton will have the experience
of 28 returning lettermen. Cow-
poke co-captains are two All-WAC
choices, split end Gene Huey and
linebacker Jim House.
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Arizona State, 8-2 in '67, could rado State looks strong on de-)
clinch the. WAC title early by fense, particularly in the second-
knocking off Wyoming in an Oct. ary with returning Bill Kishman.
5 clash with the Cowboys. Arizona's Darrell Mudra pre-
dicts a "new look" for the Wild-
According to Coach Frank Kush' cats this year, and expects the ball
the Sun Devil strength will be to be moved with more consistency
"good all around experience in all I than in '67. Arizona's new look
positions." He adds, "ASU is lack;- includes plenty of junior college
ing in depth and the teams weinldspetofjircleg
put on the field will be all we've transfers, offensive speed, and a
got." d coaching crew that has had a year
All-WAC linebacker Ron Pritch- .
ard will lead ASU's defense while NATIONAL
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Hummer, veterans quarterback Ed
Roseborough, running backsLarry!
Walton and Art Malone, and
wingback J. W. Hill, will head up
the offense.
Coach Bobby Dobbs at Texas-
El Paso lost only one offensive
line starter, and will have 31 re-
turning lettermen, including 14
starter,. Among them are leading
Miner pass receiver, Volly Mur-
phy, and alternate quarterback
Brooks Daws from the Sun Bowl
team that beat Mississippi 14-7
and lead the nation in scoring
with 39.5 points per game average.
With only 18 lettermen, Colo-
rado State University Coach Mike
Lude will battle inexperience. CSU,
4-5-1 last year, will play its first
game as a WAC member in Al-
buquerque a g a i n s t conference
member New Mexico, 1-9. Colo-
OUTLOOK
to jell. "We should be one of the
most improved teams in tpe
league," remarked CoachMudra.
If Arizona is to pull any sur-
prises it will be up to quarterback
Owen Lee, a 6-3, 196 pound senior,
to get the Wildcats pro-style T-
offense moving. Singled out as top,
Arizona players were tackle Tom
Nelson and linebackei Gary Klahr.
Brigham Young lost four league
games in 1967. But the teams they
lost to had exceptional seasons-
Wyoming went undefeated, UTEP,
-Utah State, and Arizona State lost
two apiece. Yet Tom Hudspeth's
crew, which wound up 6-4, pulled
one of the biggest upsets of the
year, a 31-1.3 shocker over Oregon
State. BYU's average of 396.2
total yards per game ranked sixth
nationally in '67. Counterbalanc-
ing, that, the Cougars were 12th
in rushing defense, allowing op-
ponents a stingy 87.4 yards per
game-
Brigham Young lacks depth in
the interior lines. The Cougars
have four offensive backfield
starters from last year and a top-
flight pass receiver in Casey
Boyett. Hudspeth said his Cougars
"have inexperience and lack of
depth in both lines and we need
some more speed in the second-
ary . . ." BYU plans to throw "a
lot."
New Utah Coach Bill Meek, with
34 lettermen, also talks about a
passing game. "We're hoping we
can throw because we're not
strong enoygh to run the ball
down anybody's t hr o a t. Our
strength is our defensive unit.
The front four should compete
with anybody in the league."
Utah will have to rely on fast--
developing sophs and junior col-
lege transfers, but the part the
Redskins play in the WAC race
will depend largely on who takes
over for quarterback Jack Gehrke
and halfback Charles Smith.
Meek said there is a complete
new unit of offense and "we don't
look at all good at quarterback
and don't even know who he will
be." He said the best Ute players
are defensive ends Gary Kerl and
Norm McBride, and fullback
Steve Molnar.
Also in his first coaching sea-
son, New Mexico's Rudy Feldman
hopes to rebuild the Lobos after,
three straight losing seasons. A
team of less than 50 players and
building a defensive secondary ap-
BiIboard'
Team entries for the Gradu-
ate Division Intramural Tennis
Tournament are due on Wednes-
day, Sept. 18 at the IM build-
ing. Single and doubles entries
for the All-Campus Open Ten-
nis Tournament also close on
Wednesday, Sept. 18 at the Il
building.
pear to be major obstacles for
Feldman.
"We don't have a lot of offense By PAT ATKINS
or a lot of defense," he said, "but Nowadays there's just no way to
what we do have we want proper- save money.
ly executed." You can't even use last year's'
Quarterback Terry Stone, en- scorecard for the football team
tering his senior campaign, rifled because too many of those first
160 completions a year ago for
1,946 yards and nine touchdowns,
and was intercepted 19 times.
Stone will alternate at quarter-
back with Rich Beitler. Top de-
fenders are tackle Woody Jones
and end Dave Harris. New Mexico
will score, but the defense is ques-
tionable. Eight teams rolled up 40
or more points on the Lobos last
year.
year Wolverine pigskin proteges
abound.
Coach Dennis Fitzgerald, men-j
tor of the defensive line, calls it
"a pleasant blend of experience
and potential." Experience equals
three returnee lettermen. Poten-
tial includes a host of sophomores
and a smattering of juniors.
Reflecting this analysis, t h e
probable starters for the interior
defensive line against California
will be senior lettermen Tom Goss
and Jerry Miklos, and sophomore
Dan Parks. "All three are ahead
of last year's comparative point."
Fitzgerald notes. "They have more
quickness."
Newcomer Parks was a stand-
out in Spring practice. A fullback
in high school, he was moved to
tackle last spring. "Because of his
good athletic ability, he adjusted
to the right tackle position with-
out difficulty," says Fitzgerald.
"He has great size - 6'5", 240
pounds.
At the other tackle spot, Goss
brings the experience that Parks
lacks. "Experience and quick-
ness have made him much im-
proved," Fitzgerald says.
Fellow jsenior Miklos, a tackle
last fall,has been moved to middle
guard. "He has good speed for TOM GOSS
as strong as he is," explains Fitz-
gerald. "He's probably the strong- set, at least in part, by lack of
est defensive lineman we have. He depth and inexperience. It will be
will be of considerable help to the especially true for the first few
linebackers." games.
BACKUP During the week before the Cal-
From a list of six others, the ifornia game, basic drills are min-
best three or four will be picked imized, and "experience" drills are
to backup Goss, Miklos, and emphasized. "We work on recogni-
Parks. Letterman Jim Wilhite, a tion of opponents and go into the
senior, and junior Ed Woolley are problems we had last year with
the only ones with Wolverine ex- California," Fitzgerald adds.
perience. "Naturally we hope the game is
Boilermakers top AP poll;
South shows grid strength
By The Associated Press
Houston and Georgia cracked'
into the rankings as a weekend
of only limited warfare produced
a thorough shakeup in The As-
sociated Press' major college foot-
ball pool.
The top three-Purdue, South-
ern California and Notre Dame-
were about the only teams to
escape the madcap shuffle from
the preseason rankings.
Purdue attracted 14 of the 30
first-place votes and 584 points,
while Southern Cal had eight and
536 and Notre Dame two and 488.
Houston, unmentioned in the
preseason poll, leaped all the way
to 11th after humiliating Tulane
54-7, and Georgia took over the
No. 18 spot after a 17-17 with
Tennessee/ that dropped the Vols
from ninth to 12th.
Nebraska, only other ranked
team in action over the weekend,
remained 14th after a 13-10 last-
minute victory over Wyoming.
Texas moved up a spot to
fourth, trading places with Okla-
homa, while FlQrida climbed a
notch to sixth and Alabama mov-
ed from tenth to seventh.
- Oregon State dropped f r o m
sixth to eighth, Ohio State moved
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from 11th to ninth and P e n n
State fell two spots to tenth to
round out the top 10.
Texas A&M slipped from 12th
to 13th, Indiana from 13th to
15th, Minnesota from 15th into a
tie with UCLA for 16th, Miami
jumped from 20th to 19th and
Louisiana State, dropped f r o m
18th to 20th.
Arizona State, 17th in the pre-
sealson poll, and Syracuse, 19th,
vanished from the ratings al-
though neither has played a game.
The top 20 undoubtedly w ill
undergo another shakeup next
week, since three games this
weekend match rated teams.
Oklahoma opens at Notre Dame,
while Minnesota is at Southern
California and Houston tests
Texas.
Purdue has drawn a soft'touch
in its opener, Virginia, but the
following weekend the Boilermak- '
ers face Notre Dame.
The top 20, withfirst-place votes, re-
cords and total points awarded for first
15 picks on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-
8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1:
1. Purdue 14 0-0 584
2. Southern California 8 0-0 536
3. Notre Dame 2 0-0 488
4. Texas 2 0-0 388
5. Oklahoma 0-0 280
6. Florida 0-0 266
7. Alabama 2 0--0 244
8. Oregon State 0-0 212
9. Ohio State 0--0 162
10. Penn State 0-0 148
11. Houston 2 1-0 136
12. Tennessee 0-0-4 118
13. Texas A & M 0-0 116,
14. Nebraska 1-0 106
15. Indiana 0-0 100
16. tie UCLA 0-0
Minnesota 0-0 68
18. Georgia 0-0-1 62
19. Miami, Fla. 0-0 42
20. Louisiana State 0-0 32
Others receiving votes, listed alpha-
betically: Arizona State, Arkansas,
Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech,
Kansas, North Carolina State, Syracuse,
Toledo, Wyoming.
Sophomores Henry Hill, Giulio
Catallo, and Dick McCoy, plus
junior transfer Morris Abrahams,
complete the group.
After the starting defensive line
positions are filled, potential be-
comes a more common adjectWe.
than proven ability. Although the
defensive line is quick, the asset
inherent in this speed will be off-
such that we can get vroei
but we -don't expect that type of
game. It's gong to be a very diffi-
cult struggle. California is as
strong a team as we could face in
the first part of the year."
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