Page 10-Thursday, October 5, 1978-The Michigan Daily SETS SIGHTS ON PROS: Blue defensive back has Jolly outlook Mike Jolly. BOWLING 601 per game BILLIARDS $1.25 per hour to 6 P.M. Mon.-Sat. at the UNION By HENRY ENGELHARDT Mike Jolly hopes to make his living by running backwards. Last Saturday the spirited defensive back intercepted two Duke passes and for his efforts was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, as well as Michigan team defensive champion. Someday he hopes to play in the NFL. BUT BEFORE THE NFL Jolly plans on getting his Michigan diploma, as Bo Schembechler insists. Not too long ago, though, it didn't look like Jolly would make it academically. "My grade point's 2.4 or 2.5, and that's not bad considering I almost flunked out after my first semester," the 6-3 junior explains. "I took classes I didn't know anything about and was put on probation.", Schembechler set Jolly straight. "Bo said there'd be no way I'd be back if I flunked out," says the mustachioed 20-year-old. "So I went out and pulled a 3.0." Studying does not come that easily to number 16 ("that's about the number of hours of sleep I need during the season," he says). On a typical day Jolly is up around 7:30, for either an eight o'clock class or football strategy session. Jolly fills his mornings- with class because practice starts around 2 p.m. By the time practice and dinner are over it's 7:30. "Then I may watch a little TV, I'm a real TV watcher, and relax for a while before studying for a couple of hours," Jolly describes. The hectic pace usually eases up after the football season, but Jolly, who played four sports in high school, is going to try and make the baseball team this year. The Melvindalenative (Detroit suburb) hit .400 his junior year in high school playing leftfield and .333 his senior year while playing shortstop. He has kept in touch with the bat and ball by playing in summer leagues. "Bo said 'I'll let you play baseball as long as your start. Otherwise I want you back on the football field (for spring prac- tice')," explains Jolly. Jolly went to Catholic high schools, spending his first three years, at Dearborn Sacred Heart and his final year at St. Thomas Aquinas. In high school he played both ways, starting at tailback and defensive back. "It was fun to carry the ball, that's why I like returning punts so much. But when I came here I was definitely a defensive back," Jolly says. As a senior just about every school that fields a football team wrote Joly a letter. "I got a couple hundred letters, but I didn't an- swer any of them," he says. "If they were really interested they would come out and see me." The slender youth was visited by Michigan and Michigan State. He discounted Michigan State because of its probation problems. "My mom wanted me to go to Notre Dame," Jolly remembers. "But they recruit only the biggest guys and I'm not that big." Jolly is the youngest of five children. The next generation in his family is nine years older. "I grew up pretty much as an only child," he says. "My brothers played football in high school and they were really good. "They always keep me in place," he continues. "If I think I'm good they just say they would've been twice as good. One of my sisters was such a good athlete the Melvindale football coach wan- ted her to go out for the team." After the Duke game Schembechler praised Jolly, saying: "It's tough to beat Jolly. In fact, we have trouble beating him in prac- tice." One of Jolly's strengths is his refined backward running technique. "There are a couple of ways to run backwards," Jolly notes. "As a freshman I would just run backward and I would won- der how the receiver could get to me so fast. "But I watched (former U-M defensive back Jim) Bolden run with one foot turned out, so I tried it," he adds. "And I found I could run faster that way. Now all the defensive backs run that way." It's these long, quick steps backward that Jolly hopes will propel him into the NFL. And for now, he enjoys the game: "Inter- cepting is the best. Hitting somebody really good is second best." r 4 1'4 FREE DELIVERY+ There's always TIME for BELL'S delicious pizza and grinders S. STATE and PACKARD ,_995-0232 SUN-WED open til 1 am THURSDAY ti 2 diY atr43 FRIDAY and SATURDAY til 3 am Bonds balks at trade; money not the issue By The Associated Press CLEVELAND-Outfielder Bobby Bonds says he doesn't care about money and he does not plan to honor the last four years of his contract after being traded by the Texas Rangers to the Cleveland Indians. Since Bonds, 32, does not have any clauses in his contract which could bar Tuesday's trade, his only apparent recourse, other than reporting to the Indians next spring, would be to retire. Such a move would forfeit, the final four years of a five-year pact estimated to be worth $2 million. "THEY CAN CRAM the money," said the much-traveled Bonds. "Money doesn't make it. I'm sick of talking about money. It doesn't pacify a person I don't play for money. I play because I like it." Bonds, who hit 31 homers, drove in 90 runs and stole 43 bases for the Rangers last season, came to the Indians, along with young pitcher Lem Barker, in exchange for pitcher Jim Kern and utility infielder Larvell Blanks. ASKED WHAT HE would do if he does stay out of baseball next year, Bon- ds said "I'm going to scout around and see if there are any high school jobs open Maybe I can help out in a college." Meanwhile, Cleveland General Manager Phil Seghi ignored Bonds' stand and said, "We acquired power we desperately need and speed we desperately need in one very talented man." Daily Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN MIKE JOLLY snatches an Illinois pass in this year's season opener. The junior defensive back hopes that maneuvers like this will get him a shot at the pros. WATER POLO CLUBS LOOK AHEAD GRIDDE 'U 65/35 PICKS' Don't forget to sling those Gridde picks over to, 420 Maynard before mid- night Friday for a chance at a mouth- watering small Pizza Bob's pizza. 1. Arizona at MICHIGAN (pick score) 2. Illinois at Missouri 3. Indiana at Wisconsin 4. Utah at Iowa 5. Notre Dame at Michigan State 6. Oregon State at Minnesota' 7. Arizona State at Northwestern 8. Southern Methodist at O.S.U. 9. Wake Forest at Purdue 10. Delaware at Lehigh 11. North Carolina St. at Maryland 12. Nebraska at Iowa State 13. Oklahoma-Texas (at Dallas) 14. Stanford at UCLA 15. Texas Tech at Texas A&M 16. Alabama at Washington 17. Louisiana St. at Florida 18. Penn State at Kentucky 19. San Jose State at Hawaii 20. DAILY LIBELS at Conclave College Cardinals Women1 By DAN PERRIN If Melissa Luedtke can be the first, so can Beth Friedlander. Luedtke, who works for Sports Illustrated magazine, recently won female sports writers the right to interview athletes in the locker room. Friedlander, a sophomore at Michigan, is attempting to put a woman's water polo team together for the first time. Why is that so tough? Not only would this be a first but the established men's club is having problems of their own. trying to find pool time for practice. This makes the situation even more dif- ficult for Beth and her female cohorts. "We tried to do it (put a team together) last year, but we didn't have enough girls," explained Friedlander. With no club to call her own last year, Friedlander joined the men's team and played out the season as the sole female participant. 'O 9 ----- f A o - _ rQ 'polo' in doubi The Mountain Parka $73.50 When she attempted to rejoin the guys this fall, she swam into a barrier. It seems the men's team wants to use strictly men, therefore leaving Beth without a team to play on. According to Andy Katzenstein, cap- tain of the men's club, "Everyone has agreed, when it comes to games, we want to win. We'd rather put in a guy off the bench than one of the girls. So, we've decided not to let girls play with us this year." "Believe me, there's nothing the guys want more than a girl's team," con- tinued Katzenstein. "We want to help, but we don't want the responsibility of runing both teams." However, many females have ex- pressed an interest in water polo this year. Friendlander surprisingly received calls from nine other women, enough to start a team. The final say now rests upon the shoulders of Dr. Jack Reznik, Director' of Club Sports for the IM Dept. Friedlander hopes to meet with him later this week to discuss future plans. "If we're given pool time, cooperation from Dr. Reznik and if the University and the interest of the women is still there, we plan to go all out, have a team and win," concluded the optimistic Friedlander. Meanwhile, the men's club began light practices last week and began heavy workouts Monday. They somehow overcame the pool hours' con- troversy and are getting together three times a week from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. With 25 guys out for the team, captain Katzenstein foresees great things for this year's club and claims, "The top 12 (traveling squad) are stronger than ever." After two scrimmages, newcomer Irwin Futernick, a senior transfer student from the Unviersity of Denver, leads the team in scoring. Katzenstein, who swam with Futer- nick at Birmingham Groves High School, calls the former all-state water polo player the "one big scorer we neede last year." Others to watch this year include a pair of first year men. Paul Fairman and Eric Johnson, Fairman, a graduate student from Ann Arbor, has played two summers of water polo in Califor- nia. 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