Wage 10-Wednesday, October 17, 1979-The Michigan Daily Reid: unsung h 7r BLOCKING ROLE VITAL, NOT PRESTIGIOUS By BILLY NEFF The writers gathered for their weekly Interviewing of players and were presented with Mike Jolly, Butch Woolfolk and Lawrence Reid, the previous Saturday's heroes. Mike Jolly hadn't arrived yet and Butch Woolfolk Wvas eagerly switching television chan- Oels, vacillating over which of his, (avorite soap operas to watch. So the writers settled on interviewing Reid first. They asked at most ten questions of the articulate senior, nicknamed L.P., because they came to interview his running mate on Satur- day, Woolfolk. When interviewing Woolfolk, the questions were endless. Although Reid had accumulated 179 yards in just 10 carries in his finest game at Michigan, he wasn't the one the writers wanted - Woolf olkgar- nered 194 yards and had more spec- tacular plays with touchdown dashes of 58 and 41 yards. Reid accepts this unsung hero fate ro ofIM' readily because he realies as the blocking back in Michigan's option, the spotlight and statistics will go to his running mate. "If you looked at 'em (statistics), I would have quit by now," concedes the Philadelphia native. But Reid hasn't quit despite suffering through some frustrating times. "There's been frustrating parts but I; wouldn't have gone anywhere else. II know you have to pay your dues," con- tinued the communications major who1 has totaled 351 yards in 61 attempts for a 5.8 average. Some of the most frustrating momen- ts came for Reid last season as the backup fullback. "Sometimes, Russell Davis was tired last year and instead of putting me in, he (Coach Schem- bechler) would just put Russell backl out there again. I didn't think I got the opportunity as much as I would have liked; I was as good as Russell Davis1 was when he was tired," Reid asserted.I Opportunity may not have knocked tlis year, either, as Bo toyed with the rushin# idea before the season, of putting Woolfolk at fullback and Stanley Ed- wards at tailback. But the experiment failed, says Woolfolk, because "it was just too much hitting. I tried it but I didn't like blocking all the offensive linemen." Blocking offensive linemen doesn't appeal to Woolfolk, but Reid relishes the opportunity. "Athletically, I had never played for Michigan before. I knew it would be tough. I was willing to do whatever he (Bo) wanted me to do.. If I was going to block, I wanted to be the best blocker Michigan ever had," Reid asserted. Reid, who came to Michigan assone of the most prolific running backs in Pen- nsylvania high school history, seems to have turned his focus to blocking, and regards it as his specialty. "Until I got my shoulder banged up in the Notre Dame game, I was becoming a great blocker. I was Amazed I could pick through a lineman's block," he added. Reid is stuck in the unsung hero role attack of being a blocking back and takes little credit for his outstanding running last Saturday. "Anybody could have run through those holes. You could have driven through them with a truck and brought along coke bottles," opined Reid. Reid attributes some of his success against Minnesota to the fact that, "They (Minnesota) never expected the Michigan fullback to run that much. The element of surprise caught them. The last time I was in the open field like that was when I was in high school." In high school, he was the hero. At best now, he is an unsung hero, a role he has grown accustomed to and hopes will continue. He hopes it will continue into a fifth year of football here, which he is eligible for "if they (the Michigan coaches) offer a fifth year." Anyway, there is a lot of blocking to do ind many more options to run, so why not another year of being a hero - even if it's just an unsung one. STAR BAR 109 N. Main St.-769-0109 TONITE ldies but Goodies "Ann Arbor s Original Honky Tonk Dance Bar" WHETHER IT'S MOWING down defen sive linemen and ends so teammates Butch Woolfolk and Stan Edwards can get big gains or running the ball hard UO the middle, Lawrence. Reid (above? does it well. He ran for 179 yards in, fo carries against the Gophers last Satur- day. BOWMAN'S SABRES SECOND: Cherry-less Bruins to win Adams See Chrissy See Chrissy Learn About Life See Chrissy Dance.. . In Trhe Byoom Room Room 2A Drama By DAVID RABE I 9 B I p p I p p I Oct. 19 & 20-8 p.m. Oct. 21--2 pm. & 8 pm. Residential College Auditorium, East Quad Tickets $3 at Ticket Central Mich. Union, and at the door 763-1107' By JON WEL LS, Daily Sports Analysis Amidst the autumn entanglement of professional sports, perhaps a month or two ahead of serious fan interest, the NHL has embarked on its 1979-80 hockey pilgrimage to the land of the Lord Stanley's Cup. Although the NHL has once again complied with the dubious decrees of professional sports that "bigger is better" and "more is merrier," you can rest assured that the addition of the Quebec Nor- diques to the Adams Division will improve an already tough race. AT THE END OF last year Don Cherry resigned as coach of the Bruins in the midst of personality and contract disputes with general manager Harry Sin- den, thus ending a career with Boston in which he led the team to the Stanley Cup finals three years in a row. Cherry had an excellent rapport with the players-seemingly working miracles with often mediocre talent. The Bruins' new coach Fred Creighton (formerly of the Atlanta Flames) clearly has a tough act to follow. The Bruins have problems on defense, but then this is pointed out every year. Four days into the exhibition season Brad Park and the same knee operated on that kept him out of half of last year's games, yet is expected to be healthy for the entire year. In spite of it all the Bruins should once again finish first in the Adams Division, due primarily to the relentless two-way hockey of forwards Terry O'Reilly, Don Marcotte, and Stan Jonathan, and the scoring of Peter McNab, Rick Middleton, and Ratelle. THE BIGGEST NEWS in Bufflao is the Sabre's acquisitionof the former head coach of the Montreal Canadiens Scotty Bowman. The former Hab, who led his team to victory in the last four Stanley Cup playoffs, will be serving the Sabres as both head coach and general manager this season. Things will be tougher for Bowman, however, for when he reaches into the Buffalo bag of tricks for a Guy Lafluer, he may only come up with a Dave Schultz. This is not to say that the Sabres are not a legitimate divisional threat, for with two-thirds of the "French connection" line in Gil Perreault and Richard Martin and the aggressive checking of Dan- ny Gare, Don Luce, and Craig Ramsay, Buffalo is rich at the forward positions. THE NEW ENTRY into the Adams Division race; the Quebec Nordiques boast a WHA born and bred of- fensive machine. Twenty-three year old Real Cloutier had 75 goals, 54 assists, for a total of 129 poiff- ts last season. Toronto Maple Leaf's GM Punch Imlach is throwing virtually .the same team into the ring this season that finished only one game over .500 a year ago. Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, and Borje Salming will need to grow wings to carry the Leafs past fourth place. 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The South African govern] promised that all sports an events in this country will n tegrated.. Is that a cr statement; who knows? What we do all know that i former Olymic boxer from K Tennessee is pitted against C South African. The obvious "l NEFF IS ENOUGH1 By BILLY NEFF ca is the persists-why would Tate, a black, are John fight in a country with policies like At stake those of South Africa. it boxing Money talks again But no, The answer to this question is easy- money. Tate's last fight was also staged d rugby in Bophutawana, South Africa, where abhorrent he knocked out another South African, ry. I am Kallie Knoetze. Knoetze, by the way, is estestable the fighter Who as a policeman had shot vernment a black teenager for no apparent reason. Jose Sulaiman, president of the of legal World Boxing Council, reached in ve in a Mexico, states, "if (this fight) -is ex- no voting elusively a matter of business in d cannot xing." ney in the As a black, Tate has been widely criticized and justifiably. He claims ment has blacks will now have more oppor- nd future tunities in this segregated country. ow be in- Well, I can't believe that these are. reditable really his motives because there would have been better ways to protest the s Tate, a policyu of apartheid. Knoxville, For example, he could have done 'oetzee, a what black tennis star Arthur Ashe has question done for years-to refuse to enter tennis tournaments in this country. Instead, all he is doing is feeding the business of South Africa with money and thus, the government with tax money. And as a black man, he shows an extreme insen- sitivity - to the problems of his beleaguered race. Sulaiman, whose council does not recognize South African boxers because of its policies, is opposed to the fight. "We don't believe in 1979 you should show the blacks through one gate and the white through another, and that the blacks should have one. bathroom and the whites another and the blacks have different seating;" Sulaiman said.- Fight goes on "They (the South African govern- ment) have so many abominable prac- tices we do not support. But the pressure from all over the world has been so strong that some changes might have been made,"added Sulaiman. The fight will go on despite all the protest. Today, three days before the fight, I agree with Sydney Maree that it should, as long as the South African government's promises are kept. Maree is the black South African track star and premier miles in the world who was banned from inter- national events this past summer for being a South African. "At this point, the fight must go on. If you're a spor- tsman, and the way the fighters have been training, you want to fight. You train so hard for that special day," said the Villanova University track student, "The fight will be a breakthrough for South Africa. Coetzee should be allowed an opportunity to fight. They promise to open the stadium to blacks and whites. That's something I can't promise. They may do it; I don't know," added Marie. The world hopes, waits "I'm looking for a betterSouth Africa where blacks and whites should go forth as a family and be accepted," con- tinued Maree. He isn't the only one who would like to see such a change-the- whole world is waiting and watching. This is the hope. Although Tate, as- a black man should not have fought this. fight on principal alone, he did so because of the ever loving dollar. Now that the fight will be staged, we will hope that since the world is watching, the South Africans will uphold their promise and put to rest their racist policies. Or as Maree puts it. "Regardless of color and race, if they stand by their. promise, that is an improvement." There will be lot of people pulling for Tate on principle alone Saturday and a lot more pulling for South Africa. 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