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BY GARY WYNER
Preseason Rating's Image
Calls or nookn at Scrimmage
With a pessimistic forecast about this year's football team
under my belt, I gayly returned to campus, this week only to
discover that Look magazine had picked our Wolverines as the
third best team in the country and the recent edition of the arm-
chair quarterback's Football News had selected Bob Timberlake as'
probably the best all-around back in the conference.
I really wasn't too concerned about these minor setbacks until
one of the coaches began using my preseason column as, a reference
point for spotting the ball on one of Timberlake's field goal attempts.
Well, a lot of things occur between spring practice and the first
football game, so I decided to watch yesterday's scrimmage in an'
effort to determine how accurate the above mentioned prognostica-
tors were.
Coach Bump Elliott dwelt mainly on the sloppy and sluggish
play during the afternoon, although he occasionally mentioned
that a few players were looking good for this early in the season.
Signal Callers Sparkle .._.
Quarterbacks Timberlake and sophomore Rick Volk handled the
signal calling chores with poise and confidence. The first play I
viewed as I entered the Stadium was Timberlake flipping a quick
pitch to halfback Carl Ward who picked up 15 yards before being
downed. The play wvas executed with precision timing as were most
of the offensive plays by the Blue squad all afternoon.
This was quite a spectacle in itself since last year's first
string backfield of halfbacks Jack Clancy and Dick Rindfuss
and fullback Mel Anthony did not participate all day due to
minor ailments.
Instead, Elliott inserted sophomores Ward and Jim Detweiler at
the halfback slots and Dave Fisher as fullback.'
Ward is a hard running back who scampered around, between,
and literally over (he might be a good hurdler' on Don Canham's
track team) the defensive players with such authority that he might
remind some old timers of Jim Pace, Michigan All-American half-
back in 1957. And the only way to describe Fisher's running is to
say that once he gets his hands on the ball, he just shoots through
people like a cannon.
Pass Catchers Impressive .. .
The team looks exceptionally healthy- at end this year with
six returning lettermen at this position. John Henderson and
Craig Kirby played with the first Blue unit yesterday; captain
Jim Conley and Jeff Hoyne on the second team; and Steve Smith
and Ben Farabee on the third squad.
Junior first string center Tom Cecchini seems to have picked
up right where he left off last year. Prior to being injured in the
Purdue game, which sidelined him for the remainder of the season,
Ceechini, who is the defensive signal caller, intercepted one pass
in each of Michigan's first three games last year. He picked off
two more during the scrimmage.
Preseason
Picks Show
l' Chances
NEW YORK (P)-If Texas be-
comes "the, first team since 'Oka-'
homa 1955-56 to repeat as nation-
al college football champion, Lone
Star folks might make The Tower
-on the campus a shrine, like the
Alamo.
Meanwhile, those Sooners, un-
der new management, along with
Illinois, Auburn, Alabama, Ohio
State and Michigan, are putting
in major bids for the 1964 crown.
The season, which will be played
under a revised and almost un-
limited substitution rule, will be
kicked off next Saturday when
improved UCLA invades Pitt.
Texas opens its title defense a
week later at home against Tu-
lane. Coach Darrell Royal's Long-
horns defensed their way through
a 10-0 season last fall and then
turned on the attack for a 28-6
Cotton Bowl battering of second-
ranked Navy. Texas is 28-1-1 over
the past three regular campaigns.
The team remains a strong
threat for top laurels with 25
lettermen, including superline-
backers Tommy Nobis and Timmy
Doerr, plus a healthy Ernie Koy at
tailback. But there is a general
lack of experienced depth and
holes left in the line.
The Texas Tower is the main
university building at Austin, il-
luminated by orange floodlights
after every Longhorn victory.
If the lights don't go on often
enough, Rice in the 38th year of
Jess Neely's coaching career,:
stands ready to make some South-
west Conference hay. The head-on
collision comes at Rice Oct. 24
at night.
Illinois' once-beaten Rose Bowl
champions of 1963 will be tough
to unseat in the Big Ten, with
All-America center Dick Butkus,
tackle Archie Sutton, fullback Jim
Grabowski and quarterback; Fred
Custardo on hand. The Illini are
biggest and deepest where it counts
-up front.
There is a real threat at Michi-
gan, however, and no one ever
counts out a Woody Hayes' Ohio
State production, particularly
when-he has a field general like
Don Unverferth to run the show.
'SLOPPY AND SLUGGISH':
Scrimmage Displeases Elliott
By CHUCK VETZNER
The Wolverines had their first
look at Michigan Stadium yester-
day, but head coach Bump Elliott
was not pleased with what he saw.
After the gridders had com-
pleted their first fall scrimmage
on their home field, Elliott dis-
appointedly commented, "We were
sloppy and sluggish. We've still
got a long way to go."
He showed the sincerity of this
statement by sending his charges
through several wind sprints be-
fore allowing them to return to
the locker room.
Fumblitis
The most obvious signs of lack-
adaisical play were the frequent
fumbles. Another discouraging
note was the ability of Wally
Gabler to out-dodge the pursuing
linemen on several occasions.
Gabler, who quarterbacked the
White reserve team, was able to
out-manuever the defense of the
Blue first stringers in Roger Stau-
back-like fashion.
The performance served as a
bad omen for Michigan's upcom-
ing game with Navy. (Gabler, in-
cidentally, went to the same jun-
ior college as the Middie passer.)
As expected, Elliott played pla-!
toon football, but two of the top
offensive players, Rick Volk and
Dick Wells, were on the defensive
unit.
Versatile Sophs
Since both units got a chance to
run with the ball, Volk and Wells
were able to show their versatility.
According to Elliott, Volk, only a
sophomore, did a good job of run-
ning the team. Halfback Wells
scored a touchdown and turned
in several fine runs.
Fullback Mel Anthony and left
halfback Jack Clancy both missed
the scrimmage with illnesses, and
Dick Rindfuss and John Rowser
came up with minor injuries.
Due to these minor casualties,
Bob Timberlake was the only ex-
periended man in the Blue offen-
sive backfield, with sophomores
filling the other spots. Dive Fisner
was at fullback and the halfbacks
were Carl Ward and Jim Det-
weiler.
Making Comeback
Tom Cecchini and Rick Sygar,
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SOPHOMORE SIGNAL-CALLER .Rick Volk escapes white pur-
sures in yesterday's scrimmage at Michigan Stadium with a bit
of fancy footwork. Volk received praise from coach Bump Elliott
for the manner in which he ran the team.
jured last season, seem well on Strategically there were no sur-
the road to recovery. Cecchini prises. The offense alternated be-
played defensive linebacker and tween a straight-T and a wing-T.
intercepted two passes. Roll out option plays and pitch-
Elliott, pleased over Sygar's pi.0 backs to trailing halfbacks were
gress at halfback, said, "We were used frequently.
worried about Rick for a while,
but it looks like he's coming
around real well. He's getting
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