FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1965 TIE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE NINE ootbal By RICK FEFERMAN "There ain't nothing I hate more than practice. A lot of peo-. ple call me a Saturday football player, but I don't believe you play the way you practice. At 1:30' Saturday I'm ready to play." These words are more than just Saturdays Bring Ward Scrambling ages to be the first to get his food." That's motivation. Here's a dif- ferent kind: "I like contact-more than anything else in the world. Gives me a chance to let off steam." If that's the case, Carl Ward should have been a boiler- maker, because on the field he * a commentary on the game ofi just never stops bubling. football. They are a philosophy of Sleepy life-Carl Ward's life. When he comes off the field during a game, however, Ward im- "When he puts his mind to plements another facet of his something," said Ward's Cincin- theory. "You have cheerleaders to nati sidekick Stan Broadnax, "he cheer. If you can go out there can make good." relaxed, you'll do all right. That's Last First why when the defense is out there, Bill Hardy provides one exam- I sit back and rest. If they let ple: "You know, Carl's always the me, I'd go to sleep." last one in the room at the train- You have to understand Ward's ing table. But somehow he man- own peculiar type of dedication to realize that he's not acting indifferent towards his teammates. He loves football, loves to play. And when he isn't playing Ward relaxes because he feels it makes him sharp, at his peak perform- ance. Like any athlete who lives sports ("At home my life is ath- letics"), Ward is imbued with a. spirit for his team, of which he considers himself merely one part. "What can I look forward to next year? Well, if WE can get settled down earlier..." Anything At All Of course, Carl is more than, just a teammate. This is only' part of him. "Anything you want in a football uniform, Carl Ward is it," proffers Bill Hardy. Ward is playing in a game of big men, and at 175 pounds he needs something special to sur- vive. Ward has a theory about this, too. "If I can get to them before they get to me it won't hurt, because I have the momen- tum and they'regoing to be tak- ing the punishment." "Carl has a tremendous sense of balance. Combined with his ex- cellent speed (9.5 for the hun- dred), Ward gets to the defender often before he expects it," re- veals coach Hank Fonde. Quick's Kicks "He gets a helluva kick out of1 knocking bigger people down," Hardy claims. "Not only that, but when he runs, if you give him a little hole, he'll get there some- way, because he's so quick." As a matter of fact, Ward had trouble because of this earlier in the season. Tom Mack, 'who does most of Ward's blocking, runs over defenders ahead of the other blockers. As a consequence, Ward was forced to make a lot more cuts than he wanted to, until he syn- chronized his running to fit Mack's blocking. And when Ward does run with the ball, things happen. Crazy things. Against Purdue he zigg6d statement, because Ward has the unusual habit of evading tacklers by leaping over them. At least three times a game he goes spin- ning head over heels through the air; Ward probably has logged more flying time than Jim Mc- Divitt. Ward never was a pacifist, but football was far from his fav- orite sport. "My first love was basketball," he confesses. "I only played football because the other kids did. You just can't sit around. The only reason I played ball in ;high school was that they let me play defense." Remember, Carl Ward likes contact. Lucky Seven? Ward's ambition had always been to play in the Big Ten, to enable him to fulfill his dream of going to the Rose Bowl. Re- cruited as a defensive stalwart, Ward chose Michigan over Illinois, thus making Pete Elliott's losses to his brother total seven, not six as most people think. Though he always had played left halfback, Ward switched to the right side of his own volition . . . almost: "We were lining up by positions in the gym, and Jim Detwiler lined up 'at left half; so I figured it was time to become a right halfback." With one year left, Ward makes no attempt to mask his rosy am- bitions. The problem, it seems, is SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: GIL SAMBERG DEPEN DABLE IMPORT SERVICE We have the MECHANICS and the PARTS. NEW CAR DEALER Triumph-Volvo- Fiat-Checker WE LEASE CARS as low as $4.50 per 24-hr. day HERB ESTES AUTOMART that the team has not had the opportunity to try Ward's philos- ophy. "If we go out there relaxed we'll do all right. Last year we had Basketball' Back Collegiate basketball made its return to the national scene last night, when two unranked: but hardy battlers hit the boards in all-out combat. A hearty Freed-Hardeman five whomped arch-foe Lam- buth, 91-58. Thus, Freed-Hardeman is the only listed unbeaten college basketball school in the nation. fun, but then this year we had to live up to it. We were fighting ourselves earlier in the year. If we can settle down early ..." But it takes more than practice. 3 STUDGNT POOKSGRVICG 1215 S. University PRINTS STUDY GUIDES FREE BLUEBOOKS ____ '!'II -- -- _- INDIAN SARIS Silk, Handwoven Saris from Benares INDIA ART SHOP 3 3 Maynard (across from the arcade) --- c} .rcr c}cna c CARL WARD inside, couldn't find a hole, went outside, slipped a tackle, cut in, broke another tackle and darted to the outside for 30 yards and a touchdown. Flyboy Though used occasionally on passes, Ward prefers to run with the ball, because "you can punish a guy," he says. Anyone who has seen Ward run may doubt this J School Time is OLYMPIA TIMES 1 04-m4"loictoo 319 W. Huron 665-3688 CARL WARD IS FINALLY PUSHED out of bounds by two Illini defenders after some downfield scrambling. 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