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Pass Defense Proved Deficient
AT MIDSEASON:
1962 All-American Team Taking Shape
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By STAN KUKLA
Six touchdown2 passes out of
27 completed, a 22 per cent aver-
age, 27 completions out of 60
passes, a 45 per cent average, an
average gain of 12.4 yds. per pass
completion-pretty good record?
It's the record of the Nebraska,
Army, Michigan State, and Purdue
passing attacks against the Maize1
and Blue.
At first glance this record does
not appear too promising. But let's
add the record of pass intercep-
tionis to that. The Wolverine deep
backs have intercepted seven of
the 60 passes, for a 11 per cent
average, which bespeaks of some
ability, albeit limited.
In 1961, Michigan's nine op-'
ponentsa completed 80 passes out
of 161 attempts for a 49.6 com-
pletion average. The 1961 team in-
HOMECOMING:
incentive
ToBlue
By JERRY DILLER '
Homecoming has again come to
the University of Michigan cam-
pus, but will it have any appre-
ciable effect upon the as-of-date
faltering gridders?
The Wolverines are still winless
and scoreless after two conference
games with iichigan State, 28-0,
and Purdue, 37-0.
This year's homecoming oppon-
ent, Rosebowl champion Minne-
. sota, has compiled a 1-1 Big Ten
record, the loss coming at the
bands of undefeated Northwestern.
This 53rd meeting between
Michigan and Minnesota will see
the Yellow and Blue as real un-
derdogs owning to their previous
performances and loss of veteran
quarterback Dave Glinka, whose
gridiorn career was ended last
Saturday by a knee injury.
Two for Four
In the past four homecoming
contests the Wolverines have split
but held their own against two
Big Ten champions.
Last year the, team rebounded
from a 28-0 shutout by Michigan
State the previous week to trip the
Purdue Boilermakers 16-14 on the
passing of Glinka. 1960 saw the
Wolverines drop a 10-0 loss to
another powerful Gopher team
which was destined to the Big
Ten title for that year.
In the previous season the team
bowed at Homecoming time to an-
other Rosebowl participant-to-be,
Wisconsin, 19-10. This score was
quite close considering that the
Badgers intercepted six Wolverine
aerial efforts.
In 1958 Bump Elliott's men kept
the Little Brown Jug at Michigan
by squeezing past the Gophers
20-19.
tercepted seven passes and gave
up six touchdowns through the
air waves. The opponents only
gained 6.8 yds. per completion.
This says' something for the
Wolverine's pass defense this year,
or maybe it just throws a darker
light on last year's defensive team.
Already this year, the defensive
backs have intercepted in four
games as many passes as last
year's team did in nine games.
However ...
Let's look at the other side of
the picture. In four games so far,
the Wolverines have given up six
touchdowns on passes (last year it
took the opponents nine games to
get that many), the opponents
have gained 12.4 yds. per pass vs.
last year's average of 6.8 (almost
half)'.
This all points up to what
coach Bump Elliott says, "It's the
long gainers that get the notice."
How right you are, Bump.
Case in point: Purdue's 54-yd.
touchdown pass on the first play
of the game, a 34-yd. touchdown
pass on the first play the next
time Purdue got the ball, and a
58-yd. touchdown pass in the sec-
ond quarter.
It's hard not to notice these
glaring errors. What's wrong?
The type of defense employed
by the Wolverines is a zone cover-
age, with the men instructed to
play the ball whenever possible.
The backs don't seem to under-
stand this.
As has been aptly put by a fan,
the Michigan backs look like they
are playing ring-around-the-rosie.
They ring the player, wait until
he catches the pass, and then try
to tackle him.
This is not the way a pass de-
fense works.
This week, after the debacles at
East Lansing and Lafayette, Ind.
which destroyed Michigan's image
as a football power, Elliott has re-
turned to teaching his charges the
fundamentals of pass defense. He
is doing this behind locked gates
-perhaps to save his boys some
embarrassment?
Elliott cites Bob Timberlake,
Dennis Jones, and Tom Prichard,
as his mainstays on defense.
A look at these players will show
why the Wolverine defense hasn't
been playing up to Big Ten stan-
dards. Timberlake is a sophomore,
Jones is a sophomore, Prichard is
a junior, who played only 49 min-
utes last season.
Ouch
Inexperience hurts-the more
inexperience, the more it hurts.
The defense has been able to
stop the short passes, but its those
long gainers that kill the squad.
The backs have yet to learn how
to make the right turns, diagnose
the pass pattern, and cover their
zone adequately enough to be rated
as good, or even fair, pass defend-
ers.
That comes with time.
Michigan doesn't have much
time left.
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As the 1962 football season
passes its halfway mark, many
stars are mentioned for All-Amer-
ican honors. Some of these are
experts' pre-season picks for top
laurels, while others have been
shocks to many of the coaches, as
well as to the so-called experts.
The most highly-touted All-
American candidates are in the
backfield. Quarterbacks in parti-
cular have a large number of
stars: George Mira, Sonny Gibbs,
Tom Myers, Dave Hoppman, Terry
Baker and Billy Lothridge.
Myers, Northwestern's unbeliev-
able passing sensation, leads the
cluster of Big Ten stars mentioned
on the exclusive list. A 19-year-old
from Troy, Ohio, he is third in
passing nationally, having passed
90 times and completed 61 for a
.677 percentage. His outstanding
performance, particularly in the
Ohio State game last week, has led
the Wildcats to the Big Ten lead
and national ranking.
Down South, Miami's Mira,
TCU's colorful 6'7", 230 pound
giant Gibbs, and Georgia Tech's
junior marvel, Lothridge, are the
most highly-touted quarterbacks.
Dave Hoppman, Iowa State's
leader ranks fifth in the nation
in scoring and Terry Baker of
Oregon State is regarded as the
top all-around quarterback in the
Far West.
Other backs across the country,
rank as top choices. In the South,
halfback Jerry Stovall of LSU
rates as one of the greatest run-
ning threats in the nation. Michi-
gan State's rugged fullback George
Saimes has lived up to his All-
American ranking with an out-
standing year.
Texas' tough Ray Poage, Mich-
igan State's Sherman Lewis, South
Carolina's Billy Grambell, and
powerful Bill "Thunder" Thornton
of Nebraska are a few of the
other backs mentioned with the
nation's best.
Wisconsin's surprising Badgers
boast some of the nation's top
linemen in the persons of senior
end Pat Richter, 210 pound center
Ken Bowman, and 245 pound
tackle Roger Pillath. Richter, also
a basketball and baseball great,
has been given much credit for
the Badgers' fantastic success.
At Northwestern, tough guard
Jack Cvercko, a 230 pound senior
is rated "a definite All-American
two-way performer" by his coach,
Ara Parsegian.
Elsewhere around the Big Ten,
center Dave Behrman of Michigan
State, tackle Don Brumm of Pur-
due, tackle Bobby Bell of. Minne-
sota reign as rulers in tne line.
Bell, a 6'4", 218 pound converted
high school quarterback from
Shelby, N.C., will present problems
to Michigan's Wolverines this Sat-
urday. Last year Bell made most
All-American teams and iw is prob-
able he will duplicate the feat this
season.
Others prominently mentioned
are ends Hugh .Campbell of Wash-
ington State, Chuck Logan of
Northwestern, Hal Bedsole of
Southern Cal, Dave Robinson of
Penn State and Cloyd Webb from
Iowa.
''ackles high on the roll are
Herschel Turner of Kentucky. Tom
Kern, Army, and Villanova's Al
Atkinson. Glittering guards in-
clude: Harrison Rosdahl, Penn
State; Navy's Al Krekich; Wash-
ington State's Jim Paton; and Bill
Delbiaggio of Oregon.
The center sensations are SMU's
John Hughes, Southern Cal's Ar-
mando Sanchez, and Doug McKin-
non of Dartmouth.
RABI DEAU-HARRIS
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CHICAGO (P) - Center W a 1 t
Bellamy sparked a fourth quarter
surge that carried the Chicago
Zephyrs to a 118-107 victory over
the Los Angeles Lakers last night
in the National Basketball Associ-
ation.
It was the fourth loss in five
starts for the Lakers, last season's
NBA runners-up. Chicago squared
its mark at 2-2.
Bellamy, who.topped the scoring
with 42 points, contributed 16 in
the last.12 minutes in pulling the
Zephyrs out of danger.
Chicago, leading 90-75 early in
the fourth quarter, had its ad-
vantage whittled to 95-90 as rookie
Leroy Ellis and Dick Barnett col-
lected six baskets between them in
less than two minutes, putting the
Lakers into range.
Then Bellamy rattled in three
dunk shots and a lay-up
* * *
ST. LOUIS (A') - Guards Len
Wilkens a n d J o h n Barnhill
brought the St. Louis Hawks to
life in the second half and paced
them to a 121-114 decision over
the Cincinnati Royals last night.
Oscar Robertson, high scorer for
the game with 31 points, tried to
bring the Royals back into con-
tention with some late baskets, but
the closest Cincinnati could get
was seven points. Barnhill's long
set shot iced the game for the
Hawks, giving them a 120-111
bulge with 90 seconds left.
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The Big Ten statistics should be
written in purple ink this week
since Northwestern tops the con-
ference with a 3-0 record and
leads in six of the nine individual
statistical categories.
Paced by its sophomore passing
sensation, Tom Myers, the Wild-'
cats hold the top rung in rushing,
passing, total offense, pass re-
ceiving, interceptions, and is tied
for the scoring lead.
Myers maintained his No. 1
ranking by completing 18 of 30
passes aaginst Ohio State to boost
his total to 41 completions in 66
attempts for 536 yds and six
touchdowns. Three more TD passes
will give Myers a share of the
Conference season record.
The Wildcat- gunner also leads
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who set a Big Ten single game
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by just 20 yds. r
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As might be expected, Myers'
favorite target Paul Flatley, the
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far behind the Wildcat back this
year having caught 11 for 128 yds.
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a net of 159 yds. in 29 carries for
a 5.5 yd. average. Teammate Willie
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array of backs has gained 782
yds. in two games. Northwestern
leads in passing with a 215.3 yd.
per game average.
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