THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, January 9, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, January 9, 1969 l1ott moves in as assistant athletic director By KEITH R. WOOD, ump Elliott is now associate ctor of intercollegiate athle- This impressive sounding post created last April by the rd of Regents when the whole letic department was restruc- d. .liott will have varied respon- ities in this new position. He aid new head coach Bo embechler in recruiting, and dIe player-coach relations. lliott will also have to deal i Michigan's 230,000 alumni, .g primarily concerned with d-raising, ew grid coach Bo Schembech- has also asked him to continue a recruiting capacity for the ball 'team. lliott hasnot had much of a ious past according to the higan football tradition, but reign at head coach was not strous either. Mlott began his coaching career Michigan in 1959. He finished l'ast season on a high point a 8-2 record, good enough second place in the Big Ten nd Number One Ohio State. Elliott compiled an overall rec- ord of 51-42-2 and a Big Ten rec- ord of 32-34-2 as head coach of the Wolverines. His best season was in 1964 when he and All-American Bob Timberlake led Michigan to the conference title with a 9-1 record, an impressive Rose Bowl victory over Oregon, and a ranking of fourth in the, nation in the foot- ball polls. Bump also contributed to Wol- verine football history as a player. He played halfback for Coach Crisler's 1947 Big Ten and Rose Bowl champions. Bump was endowed with five All-American players during his Michigan coaching career. Bob Timberlake was an All-American quarterback in 1964. Bill Yearby was an All-American for two years, 1964 and 1965. His 1966 team produced two All-Americans, Rick Volk, now a safety with the champion Balti- more Colts, and Jack Clancy, presently with the AmericanE League Miami Dolphins. This sea- son he coached the greatest back in Michigan football history, Ron Johnson. Four left to carry on RETURNING WITH new football coach Bo Schembeehler next year will be four of Michigan's present coaches. From left to right they are: Hank Fonde, Bob Shaw, Frank Maloney, and George Mans. Fonde will move into an administrative post as a scout and recruiter. The rest will continue in their present jobs as as- sistants. Shaw and Maloney have been at Michigan for one year. COACHING GOLD MINE: Chalmers 'Bump' Elliott Bo latest Miami of Ohio export 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 All Games W L T 4 5 0 5 4 0 6 3 0 2 7 0 3 4 2 9 1 0 4 6 0 6 4 0 4 6 0 8 2 0 51 42 2 W 3 2 1 2 6 2 4 6 Big Ten L 4 4 3 6 3 1 5 ! 3 1 4 1 1 I T 0 0 0 0 2. Q 0 0 0 0 By KEITH R. WOOD piled an impressive 31-6-1 record With Bo Schembechler moving with the Redskins. Gillman is now up to head coach at Michigan, coaching the American Football Miami of Ohio continues its tra- League San Diego Chargers who dition of producing big-time foot- have had more than their share 32 34 2 Totals ball coaches. Some the most prestigious names in football were once rep- resentatives of Miami University,' Stu Holcomb, Sid Gillman, George Blackburn, Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, and John Pont are all part of the Miami tradition. Stu Holcomb started it all in 1942 as he led Miami to a 10-8-1 record in two seasons. He then moved up to coach at Purdue and presently is vice-president in charge of public relations for the Chicago White Sox. Sid Gillman took over the reins at Miami in 1944 and com- - - - - - - - -- of success. George Blackburn coached at Miami for one season in 1948 with a 7-1-1 record. He is currently coaching at Virginia. Woody Hayes (three yards and a cloud of dust) was voted coach of the year for his success with the Number One Buckeyes this season. He ocached at Miami in 1949-50. The Redsknis continued their success under him with a 14-5-0 record. Ara Parseghian followed Hayes at Miami from 1951-55. His Miami teams produced a 39-6-1 record. Parseghian currently heads the Notre Dame football dynasty1 which is rarely seen out of the1 top ten in the football polls. And Johnny Pont, who coached COME TO Student Book Service and visit LIZ HAHN' CLIFF CAROL LOFTUS from 1956-62 at Miami, brought powerless Indiana to a Big Ten title in his first season there, and: promises to keep the Hoosiers a threat. Now Bo, who coached the Redskins from 1963 until the pres- ent with a 40-17-3 record, has a: five-year contract at Michigan. His teams won two Mid-American co-championships, finished sec-« ond twice and third once. If you are still not convinced of the Miami football tradition, there are a few other names of Miami alumni that are also im- pressive. Paul Brown, who coach- ed the Cleveland Browns and now coaches the Cincinnati Bengals; Weeb Ewbank of the AFL cham pion New York Jets and former coach of the Baltimore colts; Pa Dietzel at South Carolina; Carm Cozza at Yale; Doc Urick at Bu falo; Jim Root at New Ham] shire; Ed Biles at Xavier; an John McVay at Dayton are a from Miami. Parseghian has three form Miamites at Notre Dame with hir Hayes has two Redskins as a sistants. Pont has two, and Alf Agase of Northwestern has one. Schembechler has brought thr of his assistants with him, and will be interesting to see if he ca continue his winnin traditi with the Wolverines. L, the vandal x ...howard kohn .k .'* . UMP ELLIOTT'S dreams were made of mended knees and short- er crossbars. Elliott coached football when other coaches manipulated, ana- lyzed and stampeded their players through the mechanics of winning games. Elliott won but he didn't have the guts or the insensitivity to win as much as he could have. He's gone now, coveyed aside for a winner. He's the new asso- ciate director of athletics, which is much like being a second-string stud at a cattle farm. "I gave up coaching because I didn't know if this job would be offered again," Elliott said. What he meant of course, was that he didn't know if his coaching job would be offered again - once he returned to losing as he inevitably would have. ELLIOTT'S FIRST five years at Michigan were equivocating years filled with fifth-place finishes and criticism tempered by the : caution he needed time to build a Yostian dynasty. But when he won it all in 1964 with a heavily sophomoric team Elliott placed himself in double jeopardy. He was expected to continue to win. And he expected to continue to win. But the gods were not kind. He did not win in 1965, ending up with a mediocre 4-6 record and a seventh-place tie. Even more damaging than the humiliation on the field were the charges levelled at Elliott's coaching motives. The 1965 offense was geared to the running of halfbacks Jim (Diesel) Detwiler and Carl Ward. In the season opener played in atrociously humid weather in Durham, N.C., Detwiler tore the carti- lege in his knee. The seriousness of a Detwiler injury was obvious. Without Detwiler the Wolverines were without a ghost of a chance at a repeat championship. But the actual seriousness of the injury to Detwiler was in doubt. Elliott refused to discuss the injury with reporters, saying simply that he didn't know when Detwiler would be back. n- DETWILER SAT OUT the next game. But he played against ly Georgia in the third game, running heavily and favoring his injured ul knee. Then on a power sweep around end he jerked his knee upward en and stopped, suspended like a hydraulic pump in midlift. He under- went a serious operation and was officially out for the season. nd The following reports will always remain in conflict. But one of al the attending doctors did say that Detwiler should never have played in the game. I did some of the reporting on the story and The Daily er sports pages hinted with very visible innuendo that Elliott had jeopar- m dized Detwiler's career to further his own. s- THE NEXT DAY Elliott walked up to me in the athletic depart- ex ment with tears in his eyes and asked me what I believed. He said he had played Detwiler with the doctor's go-ahead. ee Elliott has always given the impression he's unaware of the eco- it nomics of bigtime football, unaware that college football buys tackles on and fullbacks on the hoof and conditions and markets them accord- ,n ingly. He was the clean-cut Appollo out of the 40's who ignored the Bacchanalian life of the 60's and subsequently gave it tacit approval. Maybe, yes. Maybe, no. I guess Elliott was caught in the crush of 100,000-plus gates and recruiting payola as much as any of them. But he did care about his players. Maybe too much. Elliott could and should have gone to the Rose Bowl with his 1966 team. Michigan couldn't cope with nationally- ranked Michigan State (which won its second straight title) but it could easily have taken second and the roses. MICHIGAN LOST the Purdue game, 22-21, and missed Pasadena. Michigan lost because Bump Elliott sent Rick Sygar into the game with just under two minutes left and fourth and one on the Purdue 25 and asked him to boot a field goal. Elliott asked Sygar to do it, even though Sygar had never kicked one that far in practice. Earlier in the game Sygar had accidentally touched a punt that rolled into the end zone for a gifthorse Purdue touchdown. The field goal was Sygar's chance for redemption. Sygar missed. And Elliott was at fault. The 1967 season was another 4-6 episode. Alumni groups pres- re sured the athletic board (on which I was a student representative) 'e for Elliott's "resignation." One group even nominated a replacement n- in Forrest Evashevski and actively campaigned for a change. rs The athletic board didn't fire Elliott. But it did issue an ultima- th tum that Elliott win in 1968 or work elsewhere in 1969. Elliott did not tell his players of the ultimatum. But they won for him on a com- of bination of willpower and good fortune and less overall talent than be two and three years previous. It's all over now. Ten years. 32-34-2 in the Big Ten. 51-42-2 overall. on "BUMP'S TROUBLE is that he doesn't run the team himself," I a H. O. (Fritz) Crisler would say. Cisler should' have known. He ran n- his teams his way in the 40's and won (especially when a guy named es Elliott ran the ball). Crisler's the retirdd athletic director who de- n livered the ultimatum. "Bump's trouble is that he's too nice a guy," Tony (Mouth) Ma- son would say. Mason should have known. Mason was a bastard to his team and won (in high school). Mason's out chasing cats now with some of the other deposed assistants and will likely end up in pro football somewhere. Crisler and Mason are poles apart in football philosophy. But they both adhere strictly to the creed that a winning team is a good team. They don't really care as much about sports as they do about winning. ELLIOTT CERTAINLY does not believe in the grade school theme that college football is just good clean fun and that winning is incidental. But he does believe that it isn't how you win or lose but whether you play the game. He's a true sportsman. He cares about sports for the sake of sports. Maybe that was his problem. 1 * Seasons Stu Holcomb.................1942-43 Sid Gillman......... .......1944-47 George Blackburn ................1948 Woody Hayes .................1949-50 Ara Parseghian ................1951-55 John Pont ...................1956-62 Glenn Schembechler ..........1963-68 Record 10- 8-1 31- 6-1 7- 1-1 14- 5-0' 39- 6-1 43-22-2 40-17-3 SuTbscrie o The most complete supply of NEW and USED TEXTS and PAPERBACKS is at the Student Book Service Coaching opening less as Bo males choices THE MICHIGAN DAILY (Continued from Page 1) I lb SOPHOMORE LET US GIVE YOU sLu Pl A 4 I I 4 I I We're Much More Than Just a Daily Newspaper CREATE FOR . * " FRONT PAGE " EDIT PAGE " SUNDAY MORNING PAGE " ARTS PAGE 9 BOOK PAGE " SPORTS PAGE 9 PHOTO PAGE e ADVERTISING 4 * MAGAZINE PAGE WE LET YOU "DO YOUR THING" WITH ONLY SLIGHT LIMITATIONS I i