THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wolverine Liru By JIM LaSOVAGE Marcum and Butler, both sen- haveniiors, are currently affixed in the Preseason prognoticatorshlk guard positions of the offensive have extended a favorable outlook line. Marcum, six feet tall and of Michigan's gridiron hopes this weighing 210 pounds, has earned year, rating the Wolverines right two letters, after missing his first along with Illinois and Ohio State season with a knee injury. Al- in the Big Ten loop and as as though Butler saw limited action high as third nationally. last season, he showed marked ir- But the consensus of opinion of provement this spring, and is ex- these prognosticators seems to be pected to be used much this year. that the Wolverines' major weak- At the center spot is junior ness will be the offensive line, and Brian Patchen, who took over the lack of experience in actual game first string job last year when competition has been the big Tom Cecchini was injured. In 269 cause of concern.TmCecchini wasinjsrerIrm- Offensive line coach Tony Ma-- minutes last season his perform- son, however, will tell you differ- ance was impressive, and he has ently. "It's a weakness on paver continued in the same style this only," comments Mason. "I think fall. the boys are really looking tough." Mason is very optimistic about 217 Lb. Average his front line. "All I can ask is And they're looking big - the that they give a hundred per front forward offensive wall av- cent," he says, "and I think they erages 217 pounds a man. will." The "boys" are Steve Smith, Knock'em Down Chuck Kines, Dave Butler, Brian The offensive line coach says Patchen, John Marcum, Tom that no special offense has been Mack and John Henderson, all of planned against the Air Force whom have nailed down positions Academy but that "we're just go- in tomorrow's starting offensive ing to go in and knock them lineup against the Cadets from the down." Air .Force Academy. There have been some changes Smith, a junior from Park of players from the. offensive Ridge, Ill., will start at the left teams to the defensive teams be- end spot towering at 6'5", while cause of the experimenting with teammate Henderson, two inches the two platoon system. "If a shorter, is at the other flanker man goes quicker laterally we put position. Henderson led all Mich- him on defense," coach Mason ex- igan receivers last year with 27 plains. "If a ian goes quicker grabs and paced the Wolverine forward we put him on offense. total individual scoring with 32 When we can get them to push points. towards the goal line, that's what Non-Letterwinners we want for offense." The Wolverines will field Kines Cecchini is one of the players and Mack at the tackle spots. who switched from offense to de- Kines, a junior non-letterwinner, fense. The six foot, 200-pound , fills in the vacancy left by gradu- junior has notched the same start- ated Tom Keating. Mack has yet ing center linebacker position he to earn a letter, too, but walked held last season in the three games off with the Morton Trophy for before he was injured and where being the most improved player in he intercepted a pass per game. spring practice. He was converted Conley Switches to a tackle from end last season. Another player making the Play Pleases Mason GANG TACKLING by the Michigandefensive unit was the order of the day in this scrimmage last spring and the Wolverines are hoping to show a lot of crisp tackling tomorrow against Air Force. The preseason word is that the M' linemen are big and they hustle. The question to be answered Saturday is, how well do they play. Although some critics have sighted the lack of game experience as the line's chief weakness, Coach Tony Mason is optimistic about his front line, which averages 217. He feels that the weakness is one "on paper only." I 11 change is senior and captain Jim Conley. Conley played both ways last year, and is being utilized de- fensively this year in an attempt to improve the Wolverine pass defense. Junior Jeff Hoyne, who lettered last year, takes the other defen- sive end spot. Hoyne also played on the offensive squad last year. At the defensive tackle spots will be senior Arnie. Simkus and junior Bill Yearby. Yearby letter- ed in 'his sophomore year and Simkus has earned varsity recog- nition in both of his seasons on the team. Sharing about 450 pounds almost equally between them, they should pose a major hindrance to enemy backfield men. Rounding out the defensive line are guards Bill Keating and Rich Hahn. Senior Hahn, a sophomore letter winner, played 304 minutes last season, while Keating, a jun- ior, did not see any action last fall. I DAVE BUTLER ...._..._ 1 I. ii ATTENTION SENIORS! 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