PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1966 PAETOTE,:HGNDIYTHRDY _TERRV1~I a vvv" i Nara iL1 aLa1 aY 4, A.1 Ulf F NATIONAL PREVIEW: Same P By RICK STERN No matter what the critics claim, most college football teams still must play for just plain fun. Because it's a cinch they don't play for fame, glory and bowl bids. Every year the same 10 or 15 teams get all the recognition and win the big games. The ma- jority of schools have an occa- sional winning season, spend a week or two in the polls every couple of years,. and spend the re- maining time resting comfortably in tranquility. The year 1966, say the maga- zines and the experts, is no dif- ferent. You could name the dozen or so supposedly top teams of this fall just by reading last season's final ratings. Michigan State, Ala- bama, Arkansas, and Nebraska, last year's top four agglomera- tions are again picked as teams to beat. And the All-America lists are dominated by behemoths from these same schools. Wrong Field Of course, occasionally the ex- perts goof. Playboy picked Michi- owerhouses To Dominate Grid Scene gan as the nation's top team last year and mentioned Iowa's Jerry Burns as "Coach of the Year." They should have stuck to nudes and fashions.' This year Playboy took the con- servative course and picked Ala- bama as the best, followed by Ne- braska, Syracuse, and Arkansas. Street and Smith's which sticks better to its field than Playboy and enjoys a good reputation among football followers, says that UCLA will be the best but that IAlabama, Michigan State, and Ar- kansas are close behind. Two other major football pub- lications, Dell Sports and Sport Magazine, also show little vari- ance. One ranks Nebraska first, one says that Arkansas is best. The former puts MSU second, the latter Georgia Tech. Alabama is third in one poll and fourth in the other. Previews Based on a point system which gives 10 for first, nine for sec- ond, etc. from each of four pub- lications the ratings would be as follows. (First place votes in par- enthesis). 1) Alabama (1) 34 2) Arkansas (1) 32 3) Nebraska (1) 31 4) Michigan State 25 5) Notre Dame 20 6) UCLA (1) 15 7) Syracuse 13 8) Georgia Tech 12 9) (tie) Purdue 7 Tennessee 7 Seven of those teams were in last season's Associated Press fin- al top 10 rating, and the other three received mention. Alabama, of course, simply doesn't lose. Paul (Bear) Bryant is the coach and his team's have won 160 out of 225 games in the past 20 years. Southern teams are always jumped on as being over- rated 'because they won't play out- side their area. But Alabama play- ed Nebraska in the Orange Bowl January 1st and beat them sound- ly. Southern Slinger Quarterback Steve Sloan who threw five touchdown passes in Ifli i -Ill that game is gone but consensus' is that 180-pound junior Ken Sta- bler will fill his shoes fine. Stabler has All-America prospect Ray Per- kins as his receiving target and Les Kelley to hand the ball to. Perkins runs the 100 in 9.7 and makes difficult catches look even harder. Kelley is 215 pounds and a good reason why "Bama" will do all right on the ground as well as in the air. All of the blocking line except All-America center Paul Crane is back and this won't hurt Bryant's Tide a bit. Arkansas had a 22-game win- ning streak snapped by LSU in the Cotton Bowl but apparently is equipped to start anew. Coach Frank Broyles has almost all of his top players back including quarterback Jon Brittenum and wingback Harry Jones. Britten- um was All-Southwest Conference quarterback as a junior last year. Jones averaged 7.7 yards per car- ry and had four touchdown runs of over 50 yards though he only played half the season. Sharp Razor Defensive tackle Lloyd Phillips is tabbed as the. best in college football and he leads a unit that should give the Razorbacks their third straight Southwest Confer- ence championship. Lincoln, Neb., is the site of an- other dynasty. Since Coach Bob Devaney arrived on the scene four years ago, the Cornhuskers have won 38 games and lost six. In 21 Big Eight conference matches they have lost only to Oklahoma . . . Twenty-three of 32 offensive play- ers return and 19 of 25 defense- men including second team All- America Larry Wachholtz who had 452 yards in punt returns last fall. Bob Chruchich is an experienced quarterback and "Lighthorse" Larry Wilson is a fast back. The main problem for Nebraska will be finding the ends to replace Freeman White and Tony Jeter. Drowning Spartans? Michigan State is certainly high on talent but the Spartans are felt by many to be riding the crest of last year's success. Five assort- ed super stars are carrying the squad and injuries or ineligibility could be fatal. Notre Dame is always in the top 10 and this year is no excep- tion. Coach Ara Parshegian with a 16-13-1 record in two years at the Irish helm has halfback Nick Eddy and fullback Larry Conjar among name players. Tom Schoen is the quarterback and the defense stacks up well. Of course, the Notre Dame's difficult schedule is a factor. The Irish start with Pur- due and finish up with USC and MSU. Shining Backs UCLA has two superstars in the backfield. Halfback Mel Farr and quarterback Gary Beban were both sensational in the Uclan's win over Michigan State in the Rose Bowl. The offensive line needs rebuild- ing and Heisman Trophy winner the U.S.A. And Syracuse has a schedule which is the easiest of any of the top 10. Only one rank- ed team, UCLA, is on the slate for the Orange. Georgia Tech has Coach Bobby Dodd and 220-pound center Bob Breland who was All-America last year. Quarterback is Kim King, backs are Lenny Snow, Craig Baynham and Doc Harvin. Pass to Roses Purdue has Bob Griese, the oth- er Heisman candidate and Griese has two outstanding receivers in Jim Beirne and Jim Finley. Even if the weakened offensive line is leaky, Purdue still looks like Mich- igan State's heir-apparent for a Rose Bowl trip. Tennessee would be the best in Insights and insuilts CHUCK VETZNER On Being a Part Of the Irregular Normal And now as a brief intermission, we take leave from the latest medical report on Jim Detwiler's knee and the new odds on Tulane's chances to win the National Championship. Yep, smack dab in the middle of sports section number one, I the Sports Editor have the audacity to change the subject. Well, not really change it. Just reshape it a bit. It's expose time again, but the blunted pen points are only aimed in my direction. Everybody who reads the sports page is entitled to know what kind of clowns he's dealing with. How do you explain a paper where I have to fight to get my copy of Sports Illustrated away from the Associate Editorial Director (who's a girl yet), but have to plead to put a football story on page one. The Daily is not a place for normal people. It's a home for bald radicals, bearded conservatives, and middle-of-the- roaders who are too clumsy to walk down the yellow line. The frightening thing is that the Daily does not shelter a pecu- liar brand of ID card carrying students. It breeds them. In come people. Nice normal ones. Boys with neatly pressed yellow shirts and girls with sunglasses propped up in the middle of their hair. And then they become part of the only barber-shop- library-automat-fraternity-museum-back porch-coffee house-city room known to man. The experience is shocking. It molds, builds, creates. Something strange happens. It's like marinating LSD sugar cubes in peanut butter. You can read the morning paper between wrinkles on the yellow shirts, and damn it if those girls don't let the sunglasses slip over their eyes. If the sports staff does have a basic, all-embracing char- acteristic, it's tolerance. Daily sports writers have gone on to be real sports writers, real regular writers, cowardly soldiers, even a couple brave soldiers, lawyers, leading campus social- ists, and (shudder) husbands. We adore all types. Even girls-a variety which we do possess in a small quantity. We have scholars who know J. W. Porter's birth- day, fanatics who believe it is a heinous crime to miss watching a football scrimmage, and even sensible human beings who think a single wing refers to a crippled chicken. We take them all. Not out of desperation, but out of a romantic earthy swelling called love. We don't claim to be Damon Runyons or Ring Lardners. We're just us and we have fun while we're at it. So that's whose stuff you're reading. If you're not satisfied drop in at 420 Maynard and get your shirt dirty. 4 lp. 4. BOARD IN COOPS Three Meals Per Day $12.00 and 3 hours work per week For men and women For men only Tr-House Lester 917 S. Forest NO 2-3164 or NO 3-2474 900 Oakland NO 3-2929 Nakamura Owen Michigan 807 S. State NO 2-3219 1017 Oakland NO 2-4559 315 N. State NO 2-3159 MICHIGAN'S BUMP ELLIOTT shakes hands with Coach Tommy Prothro after the Rose Bowl game two years ago. Prothro switch- ed to UCLA last season, and this season he has a nucleus of 30 lettermen. The Uclans are highly touted in the pre-season polls, and they are generally regarded as the favorites on the West Coast. For information, contact house president or the Inter-Cooperative Council, 2546 Student Activities Bldg., 668-6872 L, ' i I i Mike Garrett is gone. Coach Tom Prothro has 30 letter winners back though which is enough of a nu- cleus for any "Coach of the Year" award winner. Garrett's Heisman Trophy re- placement is probably sitting in Syracuse, N.Y., right now. That would be Floyd Little, the third and possibly the greatest member of the Syracuse all-time backfield. Jim Brown and Ernie Davis were the first two but Little has already set half of their records with a year to go. Says Coach Ben Schwartzwalder "He's the best back in America." Smiles in Syracuse Adding to the optimism in Syra- cuse is fullback Larry Csonka, an- other potential All-America. Iden- tical twin Jim Del Gaizo will pass to brother John and round out what may be the best backfield in the southeast had they not lost All-America fullback Tom Fisher in an automobile crash. Two ex- cellent quarterbacks, Dewey War- ren and Charley Fulton, will pass to two experienced ends, John Mills and Austin Denney. Ron Widby is the most remarkable punter in the country averaging 43 yards per kick last season. Sophomore wingback Richmond Flowers left his native Alabama and ambititious dad to play in Tennessee and rates as a future superstar. Tailback Walter Chad- wick is another good backfield man. Coach Doug Dickey may eventually inherit Bryant's domi- nation in the south. Other teams mentioned by the magazines as rough and ready in- clude UCS, Ohio State, LSU, Utah State, Miami, Texas Christian, Mississippi, Illinois and Colorado. CHUCK VETZNER ...........................Sports Editor JIM TINDALL .......................Associate Sports Editor JIM LaSOVAGE..... ... ... Associate Sports Editor GIL SAMBERG ...................... Assistant Sports Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Steve Fick, Grayle Howlett, Howard Kohn, Bill Levis, Bob MacFarland, Clark Norton, Rick Stern John Sutkus, Gretchen Twietmeyer, Dave Weir. 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