- 4 1 11 lmm x 'BUMP' SGC-Where To Go Next? (Continued from Preceding Page) members of kis family treat each PERHAPS Bump's attractive other." wife, Barbara, explains his Bump still keeps in close con- personality best. tact with his brother Pete, a fast- "His own family is very close. rising head coach at California. I think the reason why he gets All the Elliotts, i n c 1 u d i n g along with people so well is that Bump's two other brothers and his he treats everyone the way the father, played football. Pete and FLOWERS ouie AND GIFTS 334 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan NO 3-5049 0 Bump teamed at Michigan in American and a number one 1947. J. Norman Elliott, who draft choice of the professionals. helped coach Northwestern's line Bob Hollway, the Wolverines' for a time and once starred for assistant line coach and a team- Illinois Wesleyan, made sure his mate of Bump's for a season, sug- quartet of sons was well-trained gests that one reason Bump em- by school age. phasizes technique is that his size required diligent work to perfect BUT BUMP can be tough at his own. times, too. He puts his backs through the ruggedest of practices, and drills continually on funda- mentals. Probably the most annoying thing to the little blond is a back who won't block or tackle. In 1957, he continually pushed Jimmy Pace so the speedster would polish his blocking techniques and improve his slow defensive maneuvers. Sometimes he even criticized the flashy runner in front of the whole team. But the pressure worked and Pace became an All) BUMP R ARFY weighed more than 165 pounds in his playing days and came out of the 1948 Rose Bowl game (which Michigan won, 49-0) tipping the scales at a mere 150. "He was always meticulous about technique," recalls Hollway. "The best example I remember was after the '47 Illinois game, which we won, 14-7. "He squatted to make a tackle and missed his man. The next Monday, Bump and Hank Fonde The P1'A RI LYN Shorre 529-531 E. Liberty Michigan Theatre Bldg. Have you heard about the 1959 TURNABOUT ? Everyone raves about Turnabout*, Pendleton's renowned reversible with the hipline that makes headline news! A figure-flatterer that only Pendleton's patented design* perfects, the 1959 Turnabout enhances its dreamline effect with vertical ombre stripes. It's another "either-side's-exciting" skirt, unmistakably Pendleton dyed, spun, woven and tailored. Also, bonnie Scotch tartans and popular Grand Canyon ombre stripes, (now Ann Arbor High's coach) got out to practice way ahead of everyone else and started work- ing on tackling."1 The work payed off, though. Bump earned All American honors from the annual Coaches Poll and was named Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten. The MVP award was especially eye-catching since he won it .over teammate Bob Chappuis, one of Michigan's all- time great halfbacks. IN HIS senior year, he led the Big Ten in scoring with 36 points, rushed 68 times for. a 6.7-yard average, and paced con- ference pass catchers with 303 yards on 14 catches. He also was the only man on the 1947 team to be both an of- fensive and defensive regular. Bump still doesn't know why Kip Taylor signed him as an un- tried assistant in 1949 when the former became head coach at Oregon State. "Evidently he must have talked to some people," says Bump who was a history major as an undergraduate and never took a physical education course. After three years with the Beavers, Elliott joined up with Forest Evashevski when the latter was appointed to the Iowa post. With Bump coaching his backs, "Evy" guided the Hawkeyes into their first Rose Bowl in 1957. "He's the finest young coach in the country," Evashevski told Tom Harmon when Bump was beckoned back to Ann Arbor. BUMP was an ardent recruiter at Iowa, and expects to get on the "banquet circuit" for the University soon. He helped "steal" such Michigan prep stars as Kevin Furlong, Willie Flemming and Don Horn away from the Wol- verines and Michigan State. The football season and the im- mediate banquet tour combine to make a "fatherless household" for Barbara and the three children. The Mrs. calls it "the longest season of the year." "Coaching is a sunrise to sun- down job," Bump agrees but says he does get some free time later in the week when game plans are set. The likable couple met while Bump was attending Purdue in 1943. They were married six years later. Bill, named after his father, is the oldest of the children and is the "least blond" blond. Bob, age five, whose namesake was uncle Pete (Peter Robert) is the "tow- head blond," while Betsy, age four, is rated "a reddish blond" by her parenits. FOOT^BAL consumes most of Bump's thoughts-but so far there still has been time for golf, ("But it's diminished more every time he got a new appointment," Barbara said.) "I'm just a hamburg at the game," jokes Bump. "But the exer- cise helps keep my weight down. I haven't gained too much (only five pounds) from my. playing weight-although I have lost a little hair." Bump didn't mention the many times he steps into the defense at practice to hold blocking dum- mies. More than once his husky backs have swept him off his feet. (Continued from Page 10) deteriorate into something most unpleasant. JF' A GROUP of well meaning students calendars your acti- vity at the wrong time, approves your constitution too late for some big dance or meeting, schedules sorority rushing in the spring in- stead of the fall, and then closes the library at noon, you -can al- ways defeat these people at elec- tio'As, talk to them over cups of poisoned tea, or simply hang them in effigy. But if the radministra- tion does these things, all youI can do is leave school. If a group of students is seri- ously disturbed by some Univer- sity rule or regulation (like the strict driving rules which were in force until recently), it cannot do very much to change things. But SGC, recognized by the Re- gents, the president and the deans can, (and did) get the rules changed. So it is sometimes useful to have a student government, after all. MANY SGC projects are begun with the best of intentions, only to be abandoned when un- foreseen difficulties develop. The much publicized "Reading and Discussion Group" appears to have bitten off about fifty more books than it could chew, al- though this issue is still in doubt. The proposed Course Evaluation Handbook failed because of an. almost comical lack of foresight by its supporters. Campus Chest was probably one of the best ideas ever proposed by SGC. Unfortunately the students found it easier to dodge one bucket drive than four, so the project failed. pE MOTIVES of SGC mem- bers are often questioned. It But It is disappointing to ob- serve how many supposedly ra- tional people have gone off their trolleys since SGC's Sigma Kappa decision. We see now the ama .ing spec- tacle of a sizable and vocal sec- tion of the student body demand- ng more administration control and less student government con- trol simply because student gov- -!rnment ruled Sigma Kappa in violation of some University rule or other. This is certainly a rather short- sighted view, for it is fairly ob- vious that these same students would be in an exactly opposite position if it had been the admin- istration that found Sigma Kappa in violation of a rule, and it was student government that was at- tempting to get this decision re- versed. CHANGING the membership of an elected group which fails to carry out the wishes of the vot- ers is to be expected. But abolish- ing or weakening the elected group is something else again. Students who advocate the abolition or weakening of the power of their own representatives are somewhat in a class with the man who shoves his new automo- bile off a cliff because the brakes don't work. The cure is effective but expensive, and it will be most unfortunate next week or next month when your government or your car might be needed. The future of student govern- ment is a popular subject for speculation. During the past few months, SGC has suddenly found the offi- cial administration policy of the University to be in conflict with an SGC decision. More specifically, student government now finds that it is not trusted, that it cannot carefully consider a certain matter I WO ROADS are now open to student government. It can attempt to work in closer coopera- tion with the office of student af- fairs, and become something of an official consultant representing I"student opinion." Or it can re- turn again to the status of an unofficial pressure group. At this particular point, it seems much more realistic to adopt the first proceedure. The first goal of student government must be ef- fectiveness. If student government must lose some of its presumed ,autonomy to become more effec- tive in acting as liaison between students and faculty-administra- tion, this must be done. It may be difficult to work with and consult with members of a somewhat paternalistic, somewhat; 5 i t C t C vi Sf4 ti f1 n somewhat paternalistic, somewhat $9 AN SGC MEETING .. .some are interested open eve But all these comments only deal with some of the symptoms of the single significant problem SGC is right now up against. This problem is, simply stated, that members seem to be more concerned with playing the roles they think they are expected to play; and less concerned with thinking logically and (perhaps) in a creative manner. CAMPUS opinion regarding its student government changes with each breeze. After the much-awaited modi- fication of the driving ban, every- one loved student government. When SGC was investigating methods of getting students bet- ter seats at football games, SGC was popular. When SGC threw a double points si THE DES 1210 South University pOPEN EVEI Diamond bers ano w n u a r n fL Ath W kE might be comforting to think that few thousand dollars into the gap and arrive at a plan of action the whole gang is primarily in- and saved J-Hop, SGC was the which will be acceptable to higher terested in the best interests of local hero. . authorities. the University community as seen through their own eyes. o }=>= o<> <>.->« c> <>