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THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN

TJEDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1964

THROUGHTHE
BULL'S EYE
by Bill Bullard

Wolverines Open Cage Season Cagers Lead Nation
By LLOYD GRAFF -_--_---- In Pre-Season Polls

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Nice Guys Don't
Always Finish Last
After six years of hard work as head coach, Bump Elliott
long last has hit the jack pot. It's very tempting to say that
couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

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it

Two years ago Bump was at the lowest point in his distinguished'
football career with a last place Big Ten team that had an overall
2-7 record. The 1962 squad was shut out four times, outscored 214-70,
and someone recently wrote that the team was even more inept
than the scores would indicate.
Now everything is literally coming up Roses. With only a one-
point loss to Purdue to mar a perfect season and a berth in the
Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, Bump is the hero of victory-straved
alumni, students and Michigan fans everywhere.
Two years ago Bump wasn't a hero. Two years ago he was a
lousy recruiter, had an unimaginative offense, a leaky defense and
besides, Bump was just too nice a guy somehow to win ball games.
This is quite a difference in attitude. I doubt if Bump has
changed so radically. It must be that this is just the difference
between the image of a winning and a losing football coach. Fans
will always make up their own myth about a football team and
its coach. It will be complementary to the coach if his team is
winning and derogatory if his team is losing.,
But through winning and losing.
years, the one myth about Bump.
Elliott that persists, probably be- f
cause it's true, is that he is al
nice guy. Before the season start-
ed the Big Ten "skywriters" de-
scended upon Ann Arbor to gather.
material for a pre-season report
on the Wolverine football team.. . .'
Bump lectured and answered ques-
tions for almost an hour and a
half. When he was through, one . -. - .
writer quipped, "I don't think I'm
going to write anything about
Michigan. Bump is such a nice
guy I wouldn't want to take a
chance on misquoting him."
You can't help being impressed b ............................
by this man whether he is in- 4
formally answering question to r
two or three reporters or whether f
he is giving a talk to a larger BM LIT
group. For most people, seeing BUMP ELLIOTT
Bump pace along the side lines or being interviewed on television,
his clean-cut good looks prejudge him favorably. When he talks he
is articulate despite having to mouth the subtle evasions of foot-
ball coaches under high pressure.
This is the nice guy image. It is directly opposed to the image
of the old-style football coach, yelling and swearing at players dur-
ing the game and using every sly device in the book in an inhuman
frenzy to win.
Bump has an overwhelming desire to win. It couldn't have been
otherwise in order to create this season's championship tean. But
winning should be done according to the rules. Before the season
started, Bump stated that he would abide by the spirit of the new
substitution rules as well as the letter of the rules. While other
coaches took intentional delay of game penalties to switch platoons,
Bump refused to evade the intent of the substitution rule in this way.
The result was that Michigan probably had its offensive team
playing defense and its defensive team playing offense more often
than most other teams. But the Michigan players were coached
to go both ways and it never was very long before the right group
of specialists was able to enter the game without violating the spirit
of the rules.
A winning football team is good to have 4round and it's also
good for Bump personally. Unless Michigan football fortunes take
an unforeseen and disasterous turn for the worse in the next few
seasons, Bump can be included in the select and highly qualified
group of candidates for the job of Athletic Director when H. 0.
(Fritz) Crisler retires.
Nice guys don't always finish last. Sometimes they win Big
Ten football championships.

The Dodgers to win the pen-
nant, Mississippi to be the top
college football team, Green Bay
the champ in the NFL, and now
Michigan in basketball.
The parallel is frightening, but
the Wolverines will be trying to
show Ball State tonight at 8 p.m.
that the predictors once in a
great while are correct.
This will be the third straight
year that Michigan has opened;
the season against Ball State The
Cardinals have made a respectable
showing in every contest, only to
lose in the end.
But, on paper tonight's game
Ticket Sale
Tickets for tonight's Ball
State basketball game are on
sale at the Athletic Ticket Of-
fice from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
today, and at the doors tonight.
Students, faculty and staff can
purchase the seats for $1, and
general admission costs $1.50.
Tickets for the Dec. 14 Cobo
Arena game with Wichita are
also an sal todav for $5. $4.

Before the first ball is thrown,
the Michigan basketball team is
top-ranked in the country by both
the Associated Press and the UPI
polls.
The Wolverines, who open the
season against Ball State today,
edged defending NCAA champion
UCLA by slim margins, but far
outdistanced the other teams
named.
nThedWolverines, which finished
behind UCLA and Duke in last
year's NCAA tourney, will get a
chance to prove themselves early,
this season.
Duke Ranked Fifth
Duke, ranked fifth by both polls,
will meet the Wolverines in Dur-
ham, N.C., Saturday; Wichita,
ranked third and fourth in the
SAP and UPI polls respectively,
collides with Michigan at Cobo
Hall in Detroit on Monday,
Rounding out the UPI Top Ten
are Davidson (No. 3), Vander-
bilt (6), San Francisco (7), North
Carolina (8), Seattle (9), and
Minnesota (10).

Following are the AP Top Ten
with first place votes and last sea-
son's records included in paren-
theses:
1. MICHIGAN (19) (23-5) 302
2. UCLA (12) (30-0) 292
3. Wichita (23-6) 113
4. Davidson (1) (22-4) 102
5. Duke (26-5) 87
6. Vanderbilt (19-6) 76
7. Syracuse (17-8) 67
8. Kansas State (22-7) 59
9. San Francisco (23-5) 57
10. St. Johns, N.Y. (14-11). 55

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DAVE STRACK

CAZZIE RUSSELL BILL BUNTIN

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$3, and the $2 tickets are be- pumped in 19 points against at center, Tom Ludwig and John
ing sold to students, faculty Michigan and averaged 15.2 a Clawson at guard, Jim Myers and
and staff for $1. game for the year. George Pomey at forward regard-
Other men who figure in Ball less of how close the game in an
does not appear to be quite as State picture are Dan Howe and effort to give his nine top men
respectable as usual. The Ball Doug Reid. Howe is a burly 6'4" game experience and to discover
State Cardinals are rebuilding this center who transferred from the the best playing combination. He
season, losing four starters off a Citadel. Reid was a junior college calls his team "ready and anxious
solid '63-64 squad which had a All-American last season and is to play."
17-8 record. reputed to have a fine shot. Last year Michigan had no easy
Neal Back Short Team time with Ball State down in Mun-
The lone returnee from that What the Cardinals particular- cie, Ind. Buntin had been sus-
team which forced Michigan to ly lack is height. Howe is the pended for the game and the scor-
come from behind to win 90-76 is tallest starter, an inch shorter ing burden fell on sophs Russell
Stan Neal. Neal has been called than Michigan guard Cazzie Rus- and Myers, who got 30 and 2;
"slender" by one observer in the sell. points, respectively. The Wolver-
epitome of understatement, as he The Wolverines will start Bill ines trailed early in the second
stands at 6'32", 155. Buntin at center, Oliver Darden half, but spurted in the last 10
Let it not be said that he and Captain Larry Tregoning at minutes of play to win by 14.
doesn't pull his weight on the forwards, John Thompson and The gates of Yost Field House
team, however, for he has an ac- Russell at guards. Coach Dave open at 6 p.m. tonight. You might
curate jump shot. Last season he Strack intends to use Craig Dill bring your books.
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Michigan's hockey sextet open-
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