THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY s rav a. w .. v iJ F Lailey: lachiavell in Cleats and Shoulder Pads By CHUCK VETZNER When Don Bailey was in second grade he was interested in cos- mology. In third grade he want- ed to be a paleontologist special- izing in the Mesozoic era. By the time he reached fourth grade, he decided to become a nuclear 10 physicist. Don Bailey is now in the 15th grade and he plays first string guard on the Michigan football team. He has also changed his mind about his vocation again. He wants to be a politician. Offensive line coach Tony Ma- son has a name to describe Bailey. He calls him an intellectual rough- neck. Kicks . Bailey says he likes politics be-' cause 'it's the effect of one man's mind on another." He also seems to get a kick out of the effect one man's body has on another. At 195 pounds, he is one of the smallest guards in the Big Ten. It's a.handicap that proves no handicap. "He hasn't been beat- en out yet this year, and last week he played against a 250- pound weightlifter," says Mason. "He has tremendous speed and there's no one stronger for his size. "He gives you everything and stimulates those around him. He's all boy." Semantic Distinctions "I have to be vicious to get by," explains Bailey, "but it's not the same as being mean." Football means a lot to Bailey, but it's not everything. The de- cision to go into politics was made in sixth grade, and football didn't even come until freshman year in high school.; During a fire drill, the fresh-t man football coach stood at +the1 exit and watched the childrenl scamper out. When brawny Bailey cpme barrellin' through, the coach1 took one look, grabbed him by the back of his collar, and order-E ed him out for practice that aft-3 ernoon., "I sort of considered sports toi be foi' sissies up to then," he con- fecses. , he had not been seriously consid-l ering.I "I never had any doubts that I would go into politics," he re-1 calls, "but I never really thought about the way to do it. I was! ready to drive a truck and wash' dishes until' my chance came: along." "Most of what I learned was from books and our high school wasn't too good. My parents1 couldn't afford to send me to school and I just didn't think about it." The thinking changed when he earned laurels as a senior and a swarm of coaches explained that the bailey's wouldn't have to pay to send their boy to college. When he was recruited at Mich-' igan, he considered the rating of the Law School just as thorough- ly as that of the team. His other two final choices were Princeton and Wisconsin, both strong on po- litical science as well as football. The transition from his unruly environment to Ann Arbor was not a simple one. Pouter "When Don first came here, he was a pouter," says Mason. "He has tremendous self-confidence, and he would get upset when he didn't play as well as he thought he should." In addition, Bailey injured his neck as a freshman and then hurt his foot in the spring drills that year. "The coaches helped me a lot through the first year," Bailey says. "They taught me to accept disappointment and to keep plug- ging away." known as Buth Trrizzi and somej other friends. According to Bailey, "I never said a word to Vidmer, but Butch kidded him and threat- ened to break his leg. Ever since Vidmer has been telling these stor- ies." is due primarily from listening to' him talk. He is an unrestrained speaker, but is far from garrulous except for his filibusters on the high quality of Pennsylvania foot- ball. Hall of Famers When he talks about politics, the natural impulse is not simply to listen, but to grab a pencil and take notes. He manages to includeI the ideas of Voltaire, Niebuhr, Hobbs, and Plato in his discourse, a love for football, but not only for the sheer joy of the sport. He feels it has done a lot for him. In these terms, Bailey's ambi- tion is related to his athletic rath- er than in a separate sphere. Tough But Clean "Football has taught me what "Sure it's a tough sport." he people are like. People can be says, "but when the spectator feels good or bad, just as football can it's dirty and animalistic, he's be clean or . dirty. We live in a wrong. Non-athletes have the world that needs help. I like to same competitiveness. They have compete and I like to win. Nat- courage, but they just don't have urally I would like power, but only an opportunity to test themselves. to use it right. Fighting is not a "By playing football, I learn rational recourse to solving prob- about myself. Especially when lems, but man is by nature a pred- we're behind. You want to hate ator. That is why government is yourself, but you must have self- needed." confidence and pride. That is also why the Michigan Ejh lfootball team needs Don Bailey. ,xharation He has a physical eloquence that hI've learned there is an ex- helps the Wolverines survive. hilaration in doing things hard; Bailey has even more ambitious and right. It's a reflection of dreams, however. what the individual has to learn in response to the group and him- And he's a fighter who has the self." desire to make them come true. -- GUILD HOUSE 802 Monroe "The University and the Student" Friday Noon Luncheon Discussion Lunch .Buffet Style 25c -Daily-Jim Graff THIS DON BAILEY BLOCK will be worth a thousand political words. Just ask Wally Gabler, the beneficiary of Bailey's hold on Illinois' Don Hanson in last Saturday's 23-3 win over the Illini. Bailey's comparatively small 195-pound frame has been deadly at keeping enemy tacklers from Wolverine backs throughout the s Bailey grew up In an area where such attitudes were under- standable. Home was an unin-, corporated area in the western Pennsylvania mining region. He is listed as living in Greensburg be- cause that's the mailing address. But it was the kind of town where the Post Office was usually flock- ed with more wanted posters than letters. Despite Bailey's scholarly ambi- tions, much of his time was spent in Lou's Pool Room which was. eventually closed down when a mothers' protest group marched on city hall. West Side Story Bailey's friends and acquaintances weren't the kind who wore shorts and licked lollipops. They looked more like the extras from the cast of "Blackboard Jungle." There was Leadpipe Lou who worshipped Bailey and to show his affection offered to beat up anyone. Don didn't particularly care for him. Leadpipe, a legend in his own times, earned his mon- iker when he was attacked in an '%S TELL STORY: C be.Ca yDuo Leads '11 alley by five men with a lead pipe. Lou, as the story ,goes, rose up from the ground and destroyed all five of his assaulters. Other homey inhabitants of Bailey's high school days were Hagmaw (first syllable pronounc- ed "hog"), who spent five years in jail; Joe Dog, the Italian full- back who was actually a nice guy, but had a knack for getting into fights, and Budney, who was boot- ed out of the army for shooting his sergeant in the leg. Playing high school football did not diminish the importance of these associates to Bailey, but the game did open up new vistas and opportunities. Football was something new in Bailey's life and it excited him. "When I first went out as a freshman, they put me at full- back. It was great; I would just run and the other guys would try to stop me. Sharp Contact "But there was more to it than the contact. Football is a chal- lenge translated into sharp physi- cal contact. It's the concerted ef- fort of a team giving everything needed to win. "I did some boxing in high school, but it's not nearly as re- warding a sport. Football is the most technically developed game there is." The sport also gave Bailey a chance to go to college-a plan Another problem was Bailey's IHe also makes his political be- liefs quite clear. He was asked to tough guy appearance which he make a promotion for WCBN, the felt he had to overcome. student radio network which had Logician the slogan "The progressive sta- "He had to become more logi- tion." Bailey came up with: "I cal in his thinking," Mason says. listen to WCBN, the progressive "He became a man who hit an station, because I prefer prag- opponent hard, but could walk matic progressivism as opposed to away from him afterwards. He the more conservative dialectic." grew up with trouble' and he hadI Wiggles for LBJ to learn not to look for it or want Bailey is willing to argue with it-" anyone, though. At last year's teach-in on Viet Nam, Bailey tried ymnastsPerfoto wiggle through the Diag crowd G m s r r to debate the anti-Johnson admin- Coach Newt Loken's gym- istration speaker. nastic squad will hold an ex- "I never knew Don was an ath- hibition meet this afternoon in lete until the end of the year," the gymnastics room in the I-M adds one of his former teachers. Bldg. The meet is open to stu- "He was a good student and was dents and begins at 3:30. articulate, not just glib. He did a paper on Machiavelli and he real- Another reason is the Uncle Re- ly put himself into it." mus mind of his roommate quar- By his own admission, Bailey is terback Dick Vidmer. Bailey and pragmatic, not idealistic. He has Vidmer were high school oppen- pnf dnA hpir chnl ur in Wally Gabler, Jack Clancy, and Carl Ward are Michigan's offen- sive leaders this season, as con- firmed by statistics revealed yes- terday. Gabler has scored 36 points in' eight games this season, leading Rick Sygar by two in that depart- ment. Gabler's points have all come on touchdowns while Sygar has only one touchdown, but 16 extra points and four field goals. Clancy Sets Record, Clancy leads in pass receiving with 598 yards in 38 receptions, good for Michigan records in both categories. Clancy's figures put him in the eleventh spot in na- tional reception tabulations, be- hirid Tulsa's Howard Twilley and Purdue's Bob Hadrick, among others. Ward picked up 139 yards Sat- . ....... .1 . . . d CARL WARD utday against Illinois to move ahead of Dave Fisher in rushing yardage. For his - performance against the Illini Ward was named "Midwest Back of the Week" by United Press International. All toll, Ward has gained 458 ground yards averaging 5.5 per carry, 24 more than Fisher who has aver- aged 4.1. Gabler's total passing yardage is 653 with 44 completions in 94 tries. Sophomore Dick Vidmer has completed 29 passes in 63 attempts for 442 yards. Stan Kemp is responsible for all of Michigan's 1965 punting and has averaged 37.2 yards, punting 41 times. The statistics including games against North Carolina, Califor- nia, Georgia, Michigan State, Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Sygar Morgan Detwiler Punting Kemp GAME. 3 40 1 1 1 18 No. Yds. 14 1527 STATISTICS A1 Illinois: Scoring Gabler Clancy Sygar Fisher Ward Sharpe Radigan Vidmer D'Eramo Detwiler Rushing Ward Gabler Fisher Sygar Sharpe Radigan Rowser Schick Vidmer Brigstock Morgan Hollis Kemp Detwiler Passing Gabler Vidmer Sygar Ward Receiving Clancy Smith Sharpe Fisher Kirby Wilhite Ward TD CK FG TP 6 0 0 36 4 0 0 24 1 16-17 4-8 34 2 0 0 12 3 0 0 18 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 6 0 0-1 0-1 0 2 0 0 12 Tries Net Ave. 84 458 5.5 67 194 2.9 105 434 4.1 44 190 4.3 17 72 4.2 18 60 3.3 13 42 3.2 12 62 5.2 39 -18 -0.5 4 10 2.5 6 11 1.8 2 -7 -3.5 17 61 3.6 Att. Comp. Yds. 94 44 653 63 39 442 2 1 26 3 2 7 No. Yds. TD 38 598 4 20 303 0 4 62 0 1 14 1 3 51 0 2 16 0 3 37 1 SCORES Michigan 31 N. Carolina Michigan 10 California Michigan 7 Georgia Michigan 7 M.S.U. Michigan 15 Purdue Michigan 13 Minnesota Michigan 50 Wisconsin Michigan 23 Illinois Mich. 0 0 0 0 Ave. 37.2 24 7 15 24 17 14 14 3 Opp. 122 67 49 6 337 1087 1084 l 1 I enus ana ner scnoois were in- tense rivals. Vidmer takes delight in telling "Bailey stories" which portray his roommate as a character who could make the Devil shiver. Bailey claims to be completely innocent and a victim of a cruel hoax. He claims the origin of the rumors was a chance meeting of Vidmer the night before their high school teams were to collide in the big game. Bailey was with a teammate FIRST DOWNS Rushing Passing Penalty NO. OF RUSHES Net Yds.-Rush. Net Yds.-Pass. FORWARD PASSES ATT'D. Completed Intercepted by Yds. Int'cpt. Ret'd. TOTAL PLAYS PUNTS, NUMBER Ave. Dist. KICKOFFS, Returned by YDS. KICKS RETURNED Punts Kickoffs FUMBLES Ball lost by PENALTIES, No. Yds. 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