Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, September 12, 1969 Pag S!1 THE111 M ICHIGA:N. .. .D-I---Y WARMEST GOOD WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR from Beth Israel Congregation If you're still feeling strange in town, come join Beth Israel. Worship, informal study groups, new friends. Membership might be just the thing to make this a happier, richer year. Call 665-9897 for the opportunities most suited to you. 1429 Hill Street Ann Arbor JUDO DEM ONSiTLRATION THE YM-YWCA JUDO CLUB WILL PRESENT THEIR FIFTH ANNUAL DEMONSTRATION Friday, Sept. 12, 1969 8:00 P.M. AT THE YM-YWCA-350 South Fifth Ave. The demonstration will illustrate what Judo is, self-defense techniques and Olympic style competition. at COLONIAL LANES 1950 S. Industrial highway LIVE ENTERTAINMENT every Friday and Saturday night Cocktails, Dining. Music starts at 9:30 p m. Saturday 10:30p.m. Sunday This week featuring: BROWNSVILLE STATION _ ____-f_ - - Gridders out to get kicks By ERIC SIEGEL FIRST QUARTER Captain Rokusek of Illinois won the toss and chose to defend the north goal. Captain Steger kick- ed off to Grange who received the ball on the ten yard line and raced the entire length of the field for a ouchdown. The ire Michigan tean stood between Grange and the goal line but failed to grab the elusive Illini back before hie had tle entire field to himself. -The Michigan Daily Saturday, Oct. 18, 19i24 The kickoff return. One of the most exciting, ex- plosive plays in football. A play that can put six points on the scoreboard within seconds after the opening whistle blows, or{ equalize an opponent's score al- most as quickly as you can say "The Victors." Fortunately, the Wolverines do not have to kick off to Red Grange anymore .The spectre of the le- gendary Illini halfback will not, it can be safely said, rise and run on the Michigan Stadium turf this year. The absence of Grange does not mean, however, that the Wolver- ines' kickoff unit will be able to relax. "Every team we face has at least one good kick return man," head football coach Bo Schem- bechler asserted. "There's Al Matthews of Van- derbilt and Harvey Blanks of Washington," Schembechler con- tinued. "Missouri has two or three outstanding kick return men, and Purdue has a couple. The list goes on and on." Kicking off against this long list of capable kick return men will be a unit that is, in the words of Schembechler, "a big question mark. "We don't scrimmage kickoffs and punts very much," the head grid mentor explained. "There'sj too much danger in open field running. We won'tireally know what sort of downfield coverage we're capable of until the open- ing game." The Wolverines held their first - and so far their only -- kick- ing scrimmage of the year Wed- nesday. The problem with the scrimmage wasn't with the down- field coverage, though - it was with the kicking itself. "Mark) Werner was my punter until I saw him out there today," Schembechler said after Wednes- day's practice session, showing obvious disappointment with the Cincinnatti senior's performance. Despite Schembechler's disap- pointment with Werner, however, it appears that Werner will be Bo 's punter- at least during the first part of the season. Schemn- bechler has been trying split end Paul Staroba, who has n e v e r kicked the pigskin before, as a punter. But, as Schembechler says, "Staroba needs a lot of wor'k." Mike Hankwitz will probably handle the kickoff chores for the Wolverines, with sophomore Dana Coin also vying for the honor to boot the ball off the tee. Hankwitz booted some long kicks in p~ractice this week, and also practiced a couple of onside kicks during the scrimmage, one MIark Jr eraser Tint Killin I SOUP KITCHEN Cheap and Friendly Soup- 25c Rolls-5-10c M-F-1 1 :30-1 :30 Canterbury House 330 Maynard of which was recovered by the defense. Schembechler calls the onside kick "a heck of a weapon" Despite the presence of speedy kick return men of their oppo- sition's roster, the Wolverines have not restricted their practice drills to the defensive side of the kicking game. "We practice place kicking every day." Schembechler revealed. "The field goal is an important part of the offensive weapon and an important part of our game." Tim Killian handled the place- kicking duties for the Wolverines last season, and is back again this year. Senior Frank Titas is also available for field goal and extra point kicking. The Wolverines, perhaps hoping for a few Red Grange-like per- formances of their own this sea- son, have also been working on kick returns. Offensive backs Lance Scheffler, Preston Henry and Glenn Doughty and defensive Imen Barry Pierson and B r i a n Hlealy are the top candidates to "go deep" for the Wolverines. The rest of the kick return unit, like the kickofftand punt teams, is in a general state of flux. "We have no specialty teams as such,' according to Schembechler. "Ev- eryone learns a position and we'll go with out best elevens in game situations." Recent practices have seen such standouts as Jim Man-, dich and Jerry Imsland on the front line of the kick return squads. Blocking patterns are set before the kick, Schembechler said, and every team has two or three pat- terns that they use. For example, on kickoff returns, the Wolverines might use a cross block pattern, with the front men crossing the field to block potential downfield tacklers from the side; a wedge, where the linemen drop back in front of a back; or a trap play, where two blockers try to box a defensive man in from the side. No matter what the kicking un- it.s -- offensive or defensive - do, however, chances are the kick re- turns will be longer this year. "Yes, there'll probably be longer returns this year because of the 'ur'f." Schembechler' said. Red Grange may ride again, af- ter' all. It should be exciting, anyway. INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE? CHESS Fridays :30pm. ANN ARBOR YMCA Graff it I wien J Jo e Marker The Chicago Cubs ... ... the choke is on Another in a long series of collapses of professional baseball teams seems to be unfolding before our very eyes. The Chicago Cubs, who only a week ago had the National League's Eastern Division pennant locked up, have incredibly lost seven games in a row and in the process lost the league lead to the surging New York Mets. On September 4, the Cubs were perched in first place with an 84-52 record, while the Mets at the same time were wallow- ing in second place at 77-56, or 5%2 games behind. The race seemed a lock for the Cubs at this point, especially when one considers the team's personnel and its season-long performance. HERE WAS A TEAM that had been the scourge of the Na- tional League for nearly the entire campaign. The Wrigleys (as the Cubs are affectionately designated in the Chicago news- papers) had destroyed the prohibitive pre-season favorites, St. Louis, in two four-game series. Personnel-wise, they are unequalled t except by, perhaps, the defunct Cardinals). They have solid starting pitchers, good re- lief pitchers (in the tireless arms of Phil Regan and Ted Ab- ernathy), and what may be the best infield in baseball. NOW TO RETURN to Sept. 4. In view of their superior personnel, the momentum of a superior season-long perform- ance, and their 5-game lead, only the most confirmed Mets' optimist (but aren't all Mets fans blind optimists?) could dare have even the faintest thread of hope. Even if the Cubs were to do so poorly as to break even at 13-13 in their remaining games they would finish at 97-65. The Mets would have to finish 20-9 to even tie for the title. WITH THEIR INVINCIBILITY at this point established. the Cubs have turned right around and done the impossible - lost their insurmountable lead in the space of a week. All the elements of a full-scale choke are there. The pitching has gone sour and things are happening that shouldn't happen on a ma- jor league baseball diamond. For instance, last Tuesday night Glenn Beckert, certainly an All-Star calibre second-baseman. dropped a throw and allowed the Mets' Art Shamsky to escape a run-down. Moments later, Don Clendenon belts a two-run homer and the Mets go on to win. The choke is an interesting phenomenon. There is no ex- planation of its beginning. However, its continuance is explain- able. A team loses, and panics as it watches its lead disappear. The more it loses, the more it panics, the more it loses, etc., etc., and the choke goes on. (Now this isn't to imply that the Cubs can't rebound - one lucky break can snap the vicious circle of losing and panicking. Itkiskto imply that they probably won't rebound, at least not un- til they return to Wrigley Field, where their fanatical entourage may provide the psychological climate in which they can break the cycle). BASEBALL IS a game requiring precise a n d unnatural physical movements. Scooping up a ground ball, pivoting to complete a double play, or hitting a sphere traveling at 90 mph require unusual co-ordination and more importantly, complete concentration and relaxation. Thus an unrelaxed team, even though its personnel are of very high calibre, almost invariably plays lousy bMl. A first-place team that loses a couple of games certainly is not relaxed, es- pecially if its lead is being whittled away. Ergo, the obvious conclusion. In contrast, a football or hockey team that suffers a loss can rebound by venting its spleen against the next opponent. These are two sports where anger and violence can work for a team; baseball is not. IN ADDITION, the recovery period for a baseball team is very short. After a loss, the team does not have a week to re- group. Frequently it is called upon to play the next day follow- ing a night game (worse yet is the second game of a double- header. 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