- -- - - r~-- -- - Page 18-Saturday, September 16, 1978-The Michigan Daily MANY TALENT-LADEN OFFENSES: The Michigan Daily-Saturday, Septe One more time.. . Big Ten offers increased passing Final season for band director Cav By ALAN FANGER Some pretty nifty arms will be tossing the pigskin around the Big Ten Con- ib IC Udjctgan Football supplement editors: Bob Miller, Paul Campbell, Ernie Dunbar, Henry Engelhardt, Rick Maddock and Cub Schwartz. ference this fall. In fact, 1978 could be the Year of the Pass. From West Lafayette come signs of more aerial acrobatics, as Purdue's Mark Herrmann returns to defend the conference passing title he claimed as a freshman last year. At Michigan State, Coach Darryl Rogers is counting on a passing/receiving combination of Ed Smith and Kirk Gibson to lift the Spar- tans into contention. HIGHLY TOUTED freshman Art Schlichter has arrived at Ohio State with thoughts of unseating the run- oriented Rod Gerald, and Coach Woody Hayes may hold the same opinion come opening day. It will be mighty difficult for the silver-haired mentor to turn his back on Schlichter's impressive 21- touchdown pass performance as a high school senior. Even Michigan Coach Bo Schem- bechler has hinted that the Wolverines will be hurling more balls through the breeze this autumn. Opposition defenses will be wary of Herrmann, who connected on 55 per- cent of his tosses for nearly 2,500 yards and 18 touchdowns. Boilermaker foes can only hope that Herrmann fires as many interceptions (27) as last year. NEW AT ICHC=MATEI Otherwise, the Carmel, Indiana, sophomore may just bask in All- American glory. In last season's encounter with Michigan, State's Smith riddled the' Wolverine secondary, completing 14 of 23 passes. Although not all his perfor- mances were as praise-worthy, Smith covered more than 1,700 yards through the air and wound up fourth in total of- fense within the conference. Smith should better his 1977 slate by having Kirk Gibson around, if not by mere self-improvement. Gibson, better known for his baseball abilities, averaged over 24 yards a reception last season, while hauling in six for touch- downs. His outstanding speedy and strength will loom as a constant threat to defensive backfields. FOR THOSE fanastics of the grind-it- out-on-the-ground game, all is not lost. Ohio State tailback Ron Springs will be back to improve on his sterling 1,166 performance of a' year ago. An All-Big Ten selection in '77, Springs averaged nearly six yards per carry and was far and away the finest back on a talent- laden squad. Buckeye helmsman Gerald will com- plement Springs with some running of his own as long as he can hold off Schlichter's challenge for the job. The agile senior from Dallas chalked up 1654 yards as a junaior, and in his spare time completed 59 percent of his passes. With standouts such as these predominating the Big Ten this fall, the offenses should be more potent and the defenses slightly bluer with frustration. More stats INDIVIDUAL DEFENSIVE, Tops FOR GALS! TACKLES Solo SIMPKINS............ 126 METER ............... 70 Anderson .............. 54 GREER..............58 Hicks ..~........48 Pickens ......:........ 48 Howard ............... 39 Tedesco ............... 37 KEITZ............... 27 Graves................ 37 JOLLY................ 32 OWENS ............... 31 HARDEN ............. 30 SEABRON............ 24 GODFREY ............ 22 MELITA..............14 TROGOVAC........... 12 DE SANTIS............ 9 PATEK ............... 10 Bednarek..............9 BELL................. 8 W. JACKSON .......... 6 Richardson ............ 6 BRAMAN ............. 4 WEBER ............... 2 Brown................. 2 HARRIS .............. 2 Harding ............... 2 NICOLAU .............~ 1 MURRAY ............. 0 Ast Total 48 174 34 104 42 96 36 94 28 76 28 76 27 66 29 66 32 59 18 55 14 46 15 46 " 5 35 10 34 7 29 11 25 7 19 7 16 2 12 2 11 2 10 3 9 0 6 1 5 3 5. 1 3 1 3 0 2 1 2 2 2 Yds 20 40 48 10 1 72 6 15 7 5 48 22 13 19 10 11 3 By RICK MADDOCK The 104,000-plus at Michigan Stadium will only have one more season to cheer a friend. A friend who works incredibly hard, and always has a successful product to show for his effort. Professor George Cavender will retire from leading the Michigan Marching Band after this season. He has been the director since 1971, and he has worked for the University for 28 years. Cavender will move on to be the director of Development and School Relations for the School of Music. The job entails fund raising for different projects for the School of Music. He's already had some experience 4n this type of work. "I WAS successful in raising all the funds for Revelli Hall. I said, 'Well, it's about time we had a good building for the-band.' I raised over half a million dollars," Cavender said.. He also raised seven million dollars for the School of Music. How did he do it? "You just have to know the right people at the right time," he said. To people around the University, Cavender is not known as the fund raiser, but as the band leader, whom everybody calls George. "I've always had a marvelous rapport with the student body, even during the turbulent sixties. I'll be walking on campus and students who I've never taught will say, 'Hi, George." His popularity stems from his job, as people appreciate his dedication. The man works hard, and he works the band members hard, yet he does not let his intensity interfere with his personality. "I'VE TALKED with my young men and women about giving 150 per cent. Few people have been challenged to give their total utmost. We've talked about it in drills," Cavender aid. "It's a nebulous goal, but at the dress rehearsal for the half-time Orange Bowl show, my band gave 150 per cent; and they knew they had and I knew they had. There was nothing I could do, so I just put'my head down and cried, just like a baby. It was the ultimate moment." Cavender's goal for his band members is not to benefit the band directly. Sure,, he wants to have his band sound perfect, but he's interested in something far more important. "Learning to give 150 per cent is not to produce a good show, but to produce great people. The show is a by-product of training people. Other band directors look at it the other way, all for the show." A few years back, Life Magazine did a story on Bob Johnson, a leading heart surgeon in Phoenix, Arizona. Johnson said in the six-page interview that he learned the intensity that he uses on the job from his experience in the Michigan Band. WHAT KIND OF intensity does it take to play in the Michigan Band? Well, first of all there were three-a-day practices before classes started. They practiced from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Then again from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and finally from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. "We don't have a lot of money. Other schools have band camps, so they practice gradually. We don't have the money to have band camps, so we have to make hay the first few days," Cavender said. The September hot spell has caused some problems for the practices, limiting full capacity practices. To make matters worse, this is the hardest opening show ever, according to Cavender, because the following week they're on national television at Notre Dame. "One young man came up to me after one of the practices and said, 'You know, Mr. Cavender, I was on the high school football team and the wrestling team, and I've never worked this hard,' " Cavender said. Now that classes have started, the band practices for an hour and a half a day, but they waste no time. The drill sheet has everything to be done that day, including the number of minutes that will be used to practice each listed item. THIS YEARS band will have about 260 members, and all of their positions are- decided upon by their peers. The vote who will play where, as well as who the twirlers, drum major, announcer, and flag carriers will be. "If a young man or woman is qualified, then I owe them a place. I turned 50 to 60 flute players down. We don't need them, because they don't add anything. You can't hear them," Cavender said. "I don't play a numbers game. The 250 is not an attempt to make the biggest band ever." Cavender was involved with the biggest band, however. The now-extinct Band Day created the largest mass DATE September 16 September 23 September 30 October 7 October 14 October 21 October 28 November 4 November 11 November 18 November 25 ILLINOIS at Notre Dame DUKE ARIZONA MICHIGAN STATE at Wisconsin MINNESOTA (Homecoming) at Iowa at Northwestern PURDUE at Ohio State band in the world - 15,000 strong. The feat is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. The record is nothing, though, compared to the feeling that the band members perceive when they march out of that dark tunnel into the p..- FEW THINGS IN LIFE BECOME ,,,:. , ._ . .., : y.- w f screaming et "It's an in thrill up and tell me it tz Cavender sa themselves? and Blue on I out. That's th 1 1978 Michigan football s TEAM _--. SHIRTS " SWEATERS " BLOUSES " VELOURS * BIG TOPS Tissue fresh and ready just for you. Come see..*. I solo each: Cannavino, J. Jackson, O. Johnson, T. 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