TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PPAt4'F 44TV! PV TH I H G N IAl RAtE _~E~ a.I4~; 2$ r3k= UVLIN Wolverine Blitz Smas Rosema, Morgan Chase Down QB's By JOEL BLOACK Wolverine Head Coach Bump Elliott was walking off Ferry Field to the Yost Field House locker rooms after putting his charges through a light workout yesterday. A sudden rumbling be- hind him indicated the freshman gridders were through for the day also and he prudently stepped aside. "Hi, how are ya," he cheerily asked one of them; one who might be the next Clancy, Nunley, or Fisher. "O.K., coach, thanks." "How's school?" Friendly "Well, pretty tough," and on went the amiable conversation. It's amazing what a panacea a 49-0 win is to a coach. Last week, after the Purdue game, Elliott was entirely preoccupied with his own problems and had little time to worry about anyone else's. Last week visions of effigy hang- ings second guesses, and disgrun- tied alumni probably ran through his brain, stinging every neural fiber until he had to tell himself, just to forget about that game and try to start over again., And Elliott drove the team and the team responded. In the locker room after the game he heaped praise on the players. "It was a real great team vic- tory. I've been proud of these kids every week and I was very proud of them on Saturday." Where Credit Is Due Elliott continued to give credit where credit was due after the Monday practice. "There's something I neglected to say after the game on Saturday. What really helped in the game was that the offensive and de- fensive coaches did a heck of a lob in preparing their squads for Minnesota. Even though the whole staff jointly plans the strategy for ' the upcoming game, it's the indi- vidual squad coaches whose job it is to make sure their boys are ready." , The Wolverine defense kept the Gophers off the scoreboard; a3 plain simple statistic which indi- cates their overwhelming success in stopping the Minnesota offen- sive attack. But the manner in which they did it proved how well coaches Don James, Y C McNease, and Dennis Fitzgerald prepared the defense after the loss to Pur- due. Runner Coach Murray Warmath of Minnesota put in his running quarterback Curtis Wilson at the start of the game. Before the first quarter was over, Wilson was trapped for losses two times on roll outs; the second time describ- ed by the official press box sta- tistics sheet as; "Wilson scared by Morgan for -4 yards." So at the beginning of the sec- ond quarter and down by two line where both long yardage situ- ations. "I can't understand why we were able to get to the passer so easily against Minnesota but not against Purdue when 'we had a four man rush in both games," said Elliott. "True, we did work on some different types of rushes during the previous week, but it was also a determined effort by the boys which kept the pressure on Minnesota's quarterbacks all afternoon. The pressure was kept up in the second half as Warmath went back to starting quarterback Wilson in a vain effort to ignite the Gopher attack. Wilson found the going just as rough in the third quarter as it was in the first quarter. This was Rosema's quarter to kill the quarterback as he smothered Wil- son twice for 10 yards in losses. Linebacker Nunley also got a piece of the action, or more ac- curately of the quarterback, as he smashed Wilson when the lat- ter was attempting an abortive roll out. Reward As a reward for their syste- matic destruction of the Minneso- ta quarterback (whoever happen- ed to be handling the job at the time), Rosema and Morgan were rewarded with Elliott's "Wolverine Award" of the week. But the award marks a note of sadness along with one of joy. The Minnesota game will be the last game this year for Morgan to feast on enemy quarterback meat. With about five or six min- utes to play in the game, he was hit with a cross-body block on the knee. The severe injury necessi- tated Morgan's carrying off the es G opers .A What color is number nine, Dad? S- 1 I' 1 - .FOLLETT S \ /