v.O"Im MV*V.i~a TUVSDAY, AU+GtTST 24, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TU..SDA. ,aAUGUST 24, 1965 THEV [ C r L!} 1a/ 1 FADE I!THR6EE ' Can (Continued from Page 2) to be one of the top ground-ga. ing outfits in the nation. Last season the junior tacky Tom Mack and Charlie Kin started out with little experien but under the guidance of 1 coach Tony Mason they turn in top performances. Mason, w eprned a permanent niche in W verine football folklore by sho ing up for the Ohio State ga last year in shirt sleeves and ba ball cap, a la Woody Hayes, hop to get the same results wi They won the Myer Morton Trophy as in- the most improved player during spring practice. He's the younger les, brother of ex-Wolverine tackle ies, Tom Keating, who is now toiling ce, in the pro ranks. mne ed Kines and Mack will be return- vho ing to add their own special ol- touch of finesse. Kines, a barrel- w- chested 230 pounder, is used to me playing under Mason, who was se- his head coach in high school. Be First in 10 To Do It Again? Michigan doesn't pass often, but when the situation arises, 6'5", 230-pounder Steve Smith and 6'2", 190-pound Craig Kirby will be 'ready. As the weights in- dicate, Kirby will be the spread end while Smith will be in tight. Experience Both saw extensive action last year. Smith was a sometimes starter, and Kirby was John Henderson's understudy. Speedy Henderson has graduated, but Kirby should do nicely. He's skinny and slow, but has magnifi- cent hands and specializes in the short sideline pass. If this outfit goes all the way, it will be wfthout the help of the schedule-makers. Elliott lists Ohio State, Michigan State, Purdue and Minnesota as the prime contend- ers and Michigan plays them all. The Wolverines might be es- pecially anxious to play the Pur- due team in this year's home- coming battle since the Boiler- makers were the only team to defeat Michigan last year, and that by the slim margin of 2 1-20. Near-Upset Minnesota also almost upset the Michigan applecart, and it took a desperate final-minute goal line stand to emerge a 19-12 winner. The victory over Michigan State was the first since 1955 and the Spartans would like to prevent another for at least nine more years. For the record, the two institutions of higher learning do not like each other, primarily because Michigan men don't con- sider MSU an institution of high-r er learning. The game against Ohio State decided the Big Ten champion-' ship, and Buckeye coach Hayes brooded after the defeat. The OSU-Michigan game is always the last of the year and is a bitter rivalry. Hayes would love to see a similar situation this year- only with different results. Previewing the season, Elliott# sighs, "I'm a little uneasy." But so are Michigan's opponents. Wolverine Season Football Statistics Timberlake Anthony Ward Hen derson Detwiler Fisher Smith Sygar Farabee Team (Safety) MICH. IOTA Opp. Totals SCORING TO CK CPR FG TP 8 20 0 4 80 6 09 0 36 3 0 0 0 18 3 0 0 0 18 3 0 0 0 18 1 010 8 I 1 0 0 7 0 0 1.0 2 LS 27 21 2 4 201 11 7 0 2 76 Timberlake Detwiler Ward Anthony Fisher Sy-gar Evashevski Bass Reid Lee Gabler Volk Allison Radigan Kempe Greene RUSHING Tries Gains Loss Net Ave. 144 748 174 574 3.9 70 312 30 282 4.0 91 465 38 427 4.7 132 594 15 579 4.3 43 183 8 175 4.0 4 13 2 11 2.8 8 31 8 23 2.8 7 16 3 13 1.9 2 8 0 8 4.0 3 4 11 -7 -2.3 5 23 0 23 4.0 3 25 0 25 8.3 1 1 0 1 1.0 PUNTING No. Yds. Ave. 42 1523 36.2 1 34 34.0 Timberlake Evashevski Hollis Gabler Sygar Rindfuss Volke Kirby Henderson Detwiler Farabee Smith Rindfuss Lee Sygar Ward PASSING Att. Comp.Int Yds. TD 127 63 5 807 4 7 . 1 1 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 31 1 23 1 0 47 0 1 1 0 33 1 Major Leaguer A~nzcfat ih Ra Mar QE guards Bailey and Keating, who m i is nay a former major league second base- have been defensive specialists up man. Tom explains that as a to now, youngster he was always "Ray Elliott is at his zenith of op- Mack's kid." But the gridder's line timism in saying, "Switching play is turning the elder Mack these two to the offense will into "Tom's old man." greatly strengthen the line.'' I In the middle of these four, a Desire to Hit three-way battle is shaping up for Bailey weighs only 190, but ac- center. The contestants are con- cording to Elliott he has a strong verted tackle Jerry Danhof and desire to hit people. sophomores Paul D'Eramo and Keating, a 226-pound senior, Joe Dayton. Rushing Passing P'enalty Totals FIRST DOWNS MICH. 121 44 10 175 Opp. 61 59 13 133 RECEIVING No. 6 27 10 8 3, 1 3 1 Yds. 38 393 184 88 131 31 9 24 5 TD 0 3 2 0 Y 0 0 1 0 i M -phasis by TOM WEINBERG Sports Editor Michigan Football: Why It's the King A football game is more than just 22 guys running around after a funny-shaped ball. And college football is more than just a diversion of a couple dozen millionaries who hire young giants as paid gladiators for three months of the year. Football at Michigan is still another story. Starting with the point-a-minute teams of Fielding H. Yost at the beginning of the century, through the great Kipke and Crisler teams, down to last season's Rose Bowl champions under Bump Elliott, Michigan football has been the standard of the nation. And football is king at Michigan. But the development of an athletic program at Michigan doesn't start and end with football, as it does at a few other schools. The football greatness is representative of the excellence upon which the University keys itself. But there's more to the football tradition at Michigan than just great teams. Football has, and probably for a long while will over- shadow the other sports. Even a basketball team that fell just a few whistles short of the national title, or a Big Ten championship wrestl- ing, tennis or gymnastics team, or for that matter, a second place team in baseball, track, golf or swimming doesn't steal the luster from last year's football squad. Last season, the students and some 100,000-plus alumni had a feeling for the football team that lingered through the entire winter and spring. Intangible Reasons .. . The doubters might say that it's just because the Wolverines were so great last year. But I don't buy it. There's something intangible about a Michigan game that sets it off from any other. I could sense it three years ago, when the team was lucky to finish the season with just two wins, one a nonconference triumph over Army and the other a squeaker over brother Pete Elliott's Illini on the coldest Sat- urday within memory. So, it's not just a good team. There's something special about Michigan games, and I can't be too objective about it. There are other schools that fill up their stadiums more often and with more people per game than we do. Other schools from time to time have better teams than we do. There certainly are more in- terested and enthusiastic stu- dent bodies than we have. But " C there really isn't the same feel- ing about football anywhere else. Sure,vthere are football Satur- days every week in the fall all over the country. And there are H. O. (FRITZ) CRISLER parties in the dorms with apple j u i c e and cookies, fraternity brunches, radios blasting in windows, cars honking all over town, and long lines in every restaurant in any one of a few hundred little col- col lege towns four or five Saturdays in the fal. But it's just not the same anywhere else. Not because you're here or I'm here. It's more than that. I guess part of it stems from the alumni. They perpetuate the feeling that has persisted for over 60 years in Ann Arbor. In fact, I sometimes think that University President Harlan Hatcher and the Regents held off the big fund drive for the year when the football team is at its highest moment. The feeling of excellence that the alumni can experience on one Saturday afternoon at Michigan Sta- dium, viewing the game from the President's private little booth fol- lowing a beautifully arranged luncheon meeting, can and does bring in more money than it costs the University to maintain the entire athletic program for centuries. But, regardless of how many there are, or how rich and powerful they may have become, there's more than just alumni in an athletic program that has meaning to such a diverse student body and alumni audience. Enter Crisler - .- Maybe that's where H. O. (Fritz) Crisler and the Athletic Depart- ment come in. Through the years, athletics at Michigan have never been permitted to stand still. A great record on the football field wasn't quite enough for Crisler and the faculty members (nine), alumni (three) and students (two) on the University's Board in Con- trol of Intercollegiate Athletics who have guided the fate of sports here. All eyes have been set on progress. And although it's often slow, it's usually in the right direction. Like saying: A good football team isn't enough; the players should be as representative of the student body as any other group on campus. So high academic standards for all athletes have been imposed. Michigan isn't content to follow the Big Ten's eligibility standards. Its levels are higher, not only for ad- mission, but for performance once enrolled. A good football team hasn't been enough. Michigan went after the finest personnel avail- able to recruit the best athletes to represent the University in every snor. 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