TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE V EE 4 TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE. -: Can (Continued from Page 2) to be one of the top ground-gai ing outfits in the nation. Last season the. junior tackl Tom Mack and Charlie Kin started out with little experien but under the ,guidance of li coach' Tony Mason they turn in top performances. Mason, w earned 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, ho: to get the same results w guards Bailey and Keating, w have been defensive specialists to now. Elliott is, at his zenith of timism in saying, "Switch these two to the offense v greatly strengthen the line." Desire to Hit Bailey weighs only 190, but cording to Elliott he has a strc desire to hit people. Keating, a 226-pound sen 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 es, Tom Keating, who is now toiling ce, in the pro ranks. ine ied Kines and Mack will be return- ho 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. pes Major Leaguer ith Mack's father is Ray Mack, a ho former major league second base- upman. Tom explains that as a youngster he wasnalways "Ray OP- Mack's kid." But the gridder's line ing play is turning the 'elder Mack will into "Tom's old man." In the middle of these four, a three-way battle is shaping up for ac- center. The contestants are icon- ong verted tackle Jerry Danhof and sophomores Paul D'Eramo and ior, Joe Dayton. 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 without 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 21-20. 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- er learning. The game against Ohio StateI decided the Big Ten champion- ship, and Buckeye coach Hayes brooded after the defeat. The' OSU-Michigan game is always theI last of the year and is a bitter' rivalry. Hayes would love to see a similar situation this year-I only with different results. Previewing the season, Elliott sighs, "I'm a little uneasy." But, so are Michigan's opponents. I Wolverine Season Football Statistics 1 SCORING TD CK ClPR FG TI' Timberlake 8 20 0 4 80 .Anthony 6 0 0 0 36 Ward 3 0 0 0 18 Henderson- 3 0 0 0 18 Detwiler 3 4 0 0 18 Fisher 2 0 0 0 12 Smitli 1 0 1 0 8 Sygar 1 1 0 0 7 Farabee 0 0 1 0 2 Team (Safety) 2 11CH. TOTALs 27 21 2 4 201 Opp. Totals 11 7 0 2 76 Timberlake Detiler Ward Anthony Fisher Sygar Evashevski Bass Reid Lee Gabler Yolk A llison 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 7 0 7 2.3 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 2 1 0 47 0 1 1 0 33 1 1Rushling Passing Penalty Totals FIR{ST DOWNS MIlCHI. 12.1 44 10 175 RECEIVING No. Yds. 6 38 27 393 10 184 8 88 8 131 3 31 1 9 3 24 1 5 Opp. 61 59 13 133 TD 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 Mphasis 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 teanhs; 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. 3 S.So, it's not just a good team. ,.. There's something special about r<. Michigan games, and I can't be tooobectveabout it. There are Sother 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 there really isn't the same feel- ing about football anywhere else. Sure, there are football Satur- days every week in the fall all over the country. And there are H. . (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- lege towns four or five Saturdays in the fall. 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 spor. Last season's unprecedented record in all sports is testimony to he job they've done. nre. there are hns in the system. Maybe the Michigan ath- Welcome CGentlmenI! ': III, ..1 i 9. 3 V Uhe University Shops of SAKS FIFTH AVENUE Wave lonq becei favoredhby University o i11 aLMen for deothuiq. and fui o n~ Our on-campus shop at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Princeton and Yale has established us as experts in university clothing. Based on our long experi- ence, we've developed our complete collections of clothing and furnishings accord- ing to collegiate preferences. 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