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The Fifth Down
Is football worth saving?
EVER hear of a football coach that lets his players vote on the
starting line-up? Or one that is more concerned with his
player's feelings than winning?
Probably not. Chances are that this coach is not very well
known. In fact, many might consider such a man mythical.
After all, a democratic coach just doesn't fit the stereotype.
The prototype coach is a kindly father figure who is supposed
to guide his charges along the path of maturity. He uses ath-
letics to build men.
Of course not many coaches really fit this stereotype
either. Some of them are insecure, profane men who are
basically interested in keeping their jobs and increasing
their incomes. And the majority are somewhere in between.
They care about their players and believe in athletics but
they are not entirely altruistic.
But George Davis isn't any of these things. He is more
of a counselor than a coach, more a father than a recruiter.
And he probably would have remained anonymous to all but
the few who know him if Neil Amdur had never written Fifth
Down.
Fifth Down is really two books. The first half is an indict-
ment of football as the game is now organized. Amdur begins
by discussing some of the troubles that have become public, the
player boycott at Syracuse, the firing and subsequent rehiring
of Jim Valek at Illinois, Don Shula's surprising move to Miami
and some shocking stories about exploited athletes are just
some of the evidence he uses. He even cites an incident at
Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where the coachink staff
resigned rather than allow the college president to modernize
grooming standards.,
Amdur goes on to tell how athletes are beginning to
fight back. How players have quit rather than submit to
what they feel are senseless requirements. He even gets
around to the effort to stop the 1970 Michigan-Michigan
State football game. Politics is becoming part of football,
even if the coaches and administrators aren't willing to
recognize it.
Recruiting is another area in which Amdur feels the abuses
are blatant, Schools buy high school players and then steal them
from each other. A coach will do almost anything to get a
player he thinks he needs.
Then once the athlete begins to compete, the school's pub-
licity man will do everything he can to get him national recog-
nition. They will put out bumperstickers and print brouchures
to get their men votes for all-American. And it gets even worse
when the Heisman trophy is up for grabs.
By the time he is done, Amdur has painted a pretty
grim picture of the game of football. Many of the abuses he
discusses are already public information. But when they are
assembled they are shocking. It seems that the only thing to
do is make the game itself illegal.
But in the second half of the book the author gives new
hope for football and for athletics in general. He traces the
career of George Davis, a man who gave up personal gain to
help young athletes.
Davis believes in democracy on a football team above all
else. He makes his teams become responsible and self-reliant.
They vote on their starting line-up. They are responsible only
to themselves for practice sessions. And they are grateful to
Davis for giving them the chance to prove themselves.
The last part of the book is filled with glowing testi-
monials to Davis. It's easy to get sick of reading how great
the man is, but the effect doesn't entirely negate the point.
A coach can treat his players as people and get away with
it. Davis once won 45 games in a row with his controversial
methods.
The second half of the book reinforces the first. George
Davis is a good coach, yet he has spent his career in high
schools and junior colleges. Part of it is by personal choice,
but it's also because colleges just don't want a man who is not
fanatically committed to winning. He was once offered the job
as athletic director at Idaho but turned it down because he
felt that the school would not agree with his philosophy. He
believed that if a prospect could do better than Idaho, either
athletically or academically, then it was his duty to tell him so.
As a junior college coach he would help his players get
scholarships from four years schools after one year instead
of keeping them until they graduated.
Much of the material is already known. Some of it is
boring. But on the whole the book Is well worth reading. It
presents football as its never been shown before. Not just
from the standpoint of the player as Dave Meggessy and Chip
Oliver did. Amdur blasts it from all sides. Yet he still manages
to leave the reader with hope that football is worth saving.
His plan is radical, but it works. It's too bad more coaches
haven't read it.
By GEORGE HASTINGS
Despite reports to the contrary,
and amid a swirling mass of con-
troversy, the second Michigan-
Ohio State basketball clash of the
year will go on as scheduled at
Crisler Arena today - without
Luke Witte.,
The Wolverines, looking for re-
venge after being whipped by the
Buckeyes two Saturdays ago at
Columbus, had been decided un-
derdogs until it was learned that
Witte, Ohio State's 7-foot center,
will not play as a result of a ma-
jor concussion suffered during a
brawl which occurred at the end
of the Buckeyes', 50-44 win over
Minnesota Tuesday night.
The loss of Witte, along with
the absence of OSU center-for-
ward Mark Wagar, is a severe
blow to the Buckeye hopes. The
6-8 Wagar, as well as being the
Buckeyes' third forward, is also
Ohio State's second center.
As a result, Coach Fred Taylor
will have to go with an unknown
commodity in the pivot. Manning
that spot will be Jack Wolfe, a 6-6
sophomore who has averaged 3.6
points per game as a substitute
forward. Gary Kiracofe, also 6-6,,
may see some action at center.
A report had been circulating
Thursday that Michigan coach
John Orr had offered to postpone
the game because of the OSU in-
juries. However, Friday Orr de-
nied the report, saying that that
possibility had been mentioned in
a conversation between himself
and OSU'coach Fred Taylor, but
had never actually been seriously
considered.
Overshadowed in the furor over
the Ohio State-Minnesota fracas
was a fine 'performance by Mich-
igan in its 90-86 triumph over
Iowa. Wolverine coach John Orr
was encouraged by his team's ef-
fort, and looks to today's contest
as Michigan's biggest of the Big
Ten season to' date. A win would
put Michigan, now 4-1, in first
place intheconference, while a
loss would drop them two games
behind the undefeated Buckeyes
in the loss column.
Beating Ohio State, however;
has proved a formidable task in
recent years for the Wolverines.
The Buykeyes have taken the last
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NIGHT EDITOR:
ELLIOT LEGOW
eight in the series, a string ex-
tending back to 1967,
Michigan is still smarting from
the last meeting, an 84-73 shel-
Two Gophers banned
Big Ten Commissioner Wayne
Duke announced yesterday that
Minnesota players Ron Behagen
and Marvin "Corky" Taylor
will "be suspended from further
intercollegiate competition for
the remainder of the 1972 sea-
son" as a result of their par-
ticipation in Tuesday night's
brawl at the end of the Ohio
State-Minnesota game.
lacking in which the Buckeyes
once led by thirty points. Orr ad-
mits that his team was thorough-
ly outplayed in that game, but in-
sists that his club is capable of
turning the tables today. Orr stat-
ed that, "If we play the best bas-
ketball that we can, we can win."
Orr plans to start the same
starting five that took the, floor
against Iowa - Wayne Grabiec
and Henry Wilmore at the guards,
John Lockard and Ernie Johnson
at forward, and Ken Brady at
center.
This will be Wilmore's third
game at guard, and he has had
his problems at that position, even
though he remains the Wolverines'
leading scorer with a 20.4 aver-
age. However, Wilmore has done
better at guard in practice than
his game performances, according
to Orr, and the Michigan coach
has confidence in Wilmore's abil-
ity to adapt to the new position
once he attains more experience.
However, Orr will in all proba-
bility use Wilmore at forward at
some 'time during the game, and
he also plans to use substitutes
Dave Hart, Greg Buss, and Steve
Bazelon, each of whom did a fine
job coming off the bench against
Iowa.
Brady played only a few nin-
utes of the first Michigan-OSU
contest in his return after knee
surgery, and the Iowa game was
his first start. Brady's knee is still
improving, and his presence should
be felt much more than it was at
Columbus. Some of the pressure
has been taken off Brady by the
recent performances of Lockard
and Johnson, who have been aver-
aging 15 points apiece and 15 and
11 rebounds, respectively, in Big
Ten play.
Orr insisted that the absence of
Witte would not change his strate-
gy. "Witte or no Witte, we'll go
with the same game plan, and then
make any adjustments necessary
during the course of the game."
He said that his only worry was
that all the added publicity might
distract his players from the game
itself. Ohio State, he feels, is still
an excellent team even with Witte
sidelined, possessing in Alan Horn-
yak the conference's leading scor-
er. Orr concludes, "We are going
to have to be very aggressive to
win this game."
Meanwhile, Indiana, still with-
out a win after three Big Ten
games, journeys to East Lansing zo
take on the Michigan State Spar-
tans, who are 1-3 on the year. In
another night game, Purdue, 1-1
in the Big Ten, opposes North-
western, with only one win in five
outings, at Evanston,
MICHIGAN FORWARD Steve Bazelon (32) battles under the boards against a taller Iowa team
Tuesday night. Bazelon played a good game in a substitute role and may be called on for im-
portant duty in today's big contest against Ohio State.
LEAKY DEFENSE:
NoDaks blitz M'Icers
By CHUCK DRUKIS
Special To The Daily
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Per-
haps Michigan would have been
better off in the doghouse rather
than the Barn, as North Dakota
blitzed the Wolverine icers 9-1 last
night.
The 20-degree below tempera-
ture in the Sioux hockey coliseum
known as the Barn, created the
BAY'S BOYS SHINE:
Matmen destroy hapless Illini
By ROGER ROSSITER
The Michigan .matmen stormed
into Crisler Arena last night and
thoroughly blitzed the Fighting
Illini of Illinois, 29-5. The Wolver-
ines were the aggressors in every
match as the lethargic Illini seem-
ed quite willing to stand around
and wait for their Michigan coun-
terparts to attack.
Jim Brown continued his super-
lative wrestling at 118 pounds by
shutting out Phil Miller, 8-0. After
two scoreless periods, Brown lit-
erally exploded in the third stanza,
tying Miller in knots. If the match
had lasted a couple seconds longer
Brown would have had a pin.
The 126 pound match was al-
most a carbon copy of its prede-
cessor with a strong third period
by Wolverine Bill Davids boosting
Illini scalped
118-Jim Brown (M) dec. Phill Miller
(1)'8-0
126-Bill Davids (M) dec. Bob Mayer
(1), 11-3
134-Rick Neff (M) dec. Greg Zuidema
(I), 10-1
142-Bill ehuck (M) drew Enos
Brownridge (I), 1-1
150-Jerry Hubbard (M) pinned Randy
Sulaver (I), 2:41
158-Mitch Mendrygal (M) dec. John
Oaks (I), 6-0
167-Roger Ritzman (M) dec. Earl
Medley (I), 10-3
177-Denver Beck (I) dec. Dave Curby
(M), 6-2
190-Lon Harris (M) dec. Palmer
Klass (1), 8-2
Hwt.-Gary Ernst (M) dec. Mike
Levanti (I), 5-2
him to an 11-3 win. Davids, too,
was near a pin when the final horn
sounded.
Rick Neff pulled a change of
pace in the next bout, coming out
strong from the onset and nearly
pulling off a quick pin. The match
settled down, however, and Neff
methodically tore down his op-
ponent, Greg Zuidema, 10-1.
The Illini put their top wrestler,
Enos Brownridge, on the mats for
the 142 pound contest, but fresh-
man Rick Schuck put on a super
Frosh set
for OSU
cage duel
After completely devastating
Genesse Junior College last Tues
day night, Michigan's fresheman
cagers found themselves undefeat-
ed with less than half of the sea-
son remaining.
The Wolverines, now 7-0, will
attempt to keep that unbeaten
streak alive when they host Ohio
State's frosh team today at 11:45
at Crisler Arena.
Ohio State is not blessed with
a wealth of talent this year, and
the frosh have won only two of
their five contests. The Buckeyes
rely for their scoring punch on
their strong front line, consisting
of center Bill Andreas, forward
Steve Wenner, and forward Dan
Weston, an All-Stater in Ohio last
year.
In their first four games, West-
on was averaging 19 points, Wen-
ner 17 points and 13 rebounds, and
Andreas 13 points. However, An-
dreas, 6-7, recently aggravated a
back injury and may not play. His
loss would severely hamper the
Buckeye attack.
Buckeye coach Ben Waterman
sees two basic problems confront-
ing his squad: stopping the Wol-
verine fast break and keeping
Michigan's powerful rebounders
from dominating the boards.
To control Michigan's fast
break, Waterman plans to have
his guards drop back when Ohio
State shoots on offense.
The rebounding problem, how-
ever, presents a more difficult
challenge for the Bucks. Like the
Buckeye varsity, the OSU frosh
employ a man-to-man defense.
and Waterman hopes to use it to
effort and almost pulled an upset
as they drew 1-1. Had Schuck gar-
nered ten more seconds of riding
time, he would have been awarded
an extra point for riding time ad-
vantage and thus gained a 2-1 win.
Jerry Hubbard needed only 2:41
of his match with Illinois' Randy
Sulaver to record the only fall of
the evening. Hubbard's pin gave
Michigan a 17-2 lead at the half-
way point.
Mitch Mendrygal not only shut
out his opponent 6-0, but gave him
a complete physical beating as
well. Roger Ritzman followed
Mendrygal with another Michigan
victory, 10-3, despite the nandicap
of a bruised and heavily taped
left shoulder.
Denver Beck then recorded Il-
linois' only win by a 6-2 count cver
Dave Curby at 177.
Lon Harris and Gary Ernst com-
pleted the rout with 8-2 and 5-2
t r i u m p h s, respectively. Harris
turned in one of his best perform-
ances of the season, charging hard
early and not letting down after
he gained the advantage. Ernst
started slowly but finished with a
bang as he took down Mike Le-
vanti in the waning seconds to
ice his victory.
Michigan coach Rick Bay was
extremely pleased with the victory
and considered it a great come-
back after the loss to Oklahoma
State earlier in the week.
fastest ice the Wolverines have
encountered this year. Thus,
Michigan waskcontinuously beat
by the NoDaks, who were quite
familiar with their home ice.
Overall, the Blue skated very
well, except UND always seemed
to have that extra burst of speed
in the crucial situations.
North Dakota drew first blood in
the opening period. At 2:29 Karl
Bagnell was forced to leave the
net when Michigan was slow cov-
ering a loose puck to his left.
Brian DePiero, however, beat Bag-
nell to the puck and slipped it to
Bob Law for the unopposed score.
At 5:56 into the period North
Dakota's Al Henry was removed
from the ice on a sled stretcher
wen he gashed his head against
the net post.
Michigan evened the score at
5:34 on a centered shot by Mike
Jarry. Bob Falconer had picked
up a stray Bernie Gagnon shot
and sent it to Jarry for the score.
The Nodaks scored the two
other goals of the period with ex-
cellent pass execution. The Sioux
then went back to work on the
Michigan defense in the second
period to score three more goals.
Mike Lundbohm fired a 30-
foot slap shot at 11:59. Three
Numbed by NoDaks
FIRST PERIOD SCORING: 1. ND-
Law (DePiero) 2:29; 2. M-Jarry (Gag-
non, Falconer 5:34; 3. ND-Cameron,
Ross) 9:07; 4. ND-Cahoon (Anderson)
11:51.
PENALTIES: 1. M-Lefefebvre (2, trip-
ping) 7:44.
SECOND PERIOD SCORING: 5. ND-
Lundbohm (H'angsleben) 9:08; 6. ND-
Johnson (unassisted) 11:59; 7. ND-Mil-
ler (DePiero, Rood) 19:30.
PENALTIES: 2. M-Kardos (2, holding)
14 :40.
THIRD PERIOD SCORING: 8. ND-
Miller (DePiero, Bragnalo) 7:09; 9. ND-
(DePiero, Hangslebgn) 9:24; 10. ND-
Ross (Lundbohm, Bragnalo) 15:10;
PENALTIES: 3. ND-Landby (2, inter-
ference) 2:14; 4. ND-Anderson (2, high
sticking) 8:16; 5. M-Falconer (2, high
sticking) 8:16; 6. M-Dunbar (2, fight-
Ing and game misconduct) 10:28; 7.
ND-Bragnalo (2, high sticking and 2,
roughing) 10:28; 8. M-Lefebvre (2, in-
terference) 14:30.
SAVES
minutes later Dennis Johnson
weaved around the Wolverine
pucksters for a 12-foot unassisted
score.
Michigan was unable to mount
any sort of offensive threat. The
Nodaks netminder Dave Murphy
would have made a stronger ef-
fort swatting flies.
The third period was a repetition
of the first two as the Sioux
scalped Michigan for three more
scores.
Gerry Miller and Rick Wilson
hit for 30-foot slap shots two min-
utes apart. Gary Ross dunked in
a rebound to end the Nodak scor-
ing at 15:10.
After a relatively penalty-free
first two periods, the strained
emotions of both teams became
apparent in the third. North.Da-
This Weekend in Sports'
TODAY
BASKETBALL-Ohio State, at Crisler Arena, 2 p.m.
HOCKEY-at North Dakota.
FRESHMEN BASKETBALL-Ohio State, at Crisler Arena, 11:45 a.m.
SWIMMING-Purdue, at Matt Mann Pool, 3 p.m.
WRESTLING-Purdue, at Crisler Arena, 4 p.m.
GYMNASTICS-at Iowa.
TRACK-Michigan Relays, at\Yost Field House, preliminaries at 11
a.m. and finals at 6:30 p.m.
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kota received its first penalty of
the game at 2:14 into the third
period. Earl Anderson and Fal-
coner six minutes later squared off
in a fencing match with both re-
ceiving high sticking penalties.
Michigan won the only real
fight of the game. Pete Dunbar
laid out Dave Bragnalo with a
wicked right jab after Bragnalo
had irritated Dunbar with high-
sticking.
Michigan's offense once again
was for all practicalpurposes im-
potent, managing only 18 shots on
goal.
The Wolverines will try to re-
verse their mediocre performance
of last night in an afternoon con-
test today which will be their last
meeting with the Sioux for the
season.
Weak Boilermakers
face swift swimmers.:
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CORN BELT CLASH:
Gymnasts. battle Iowa
By BOB ANDREWS.
The Wolverine tankers should
have no difficulty in coasting to
their fifth straight victory of the
season as they take on the Pur-
due Boilermakers at 3:00 p.m. to-
day at Matt Mann pool. At least.
this was the prediction confident-
ly stated by swimming Coach Gus
Stager and diving mentor Dick
Kimball, and usually a coach
knows what he's saying.
The Boilermakers are coming off
two consecutive losses to Illi-
nois (65-58) and Ohio State (85-
38). Both coaches feel Purdue
just doesn't have enough talent to
send Michigan to its first setback.
With . freshmen Larry Krauser
and Maurt Wolford rated as the
only top performers of the Boiler-
makers, many of the Michigan
swimmers and divers will be senti-
rested or will not participate in
the meet at all.
Kratuser hasrth# best times in
two events for Purdue, with a
1:46.9 in the 200 yard freestyle
and a :48.9 clocking in the 100
yard freestyle. He should offer
tough competition for Steve Mc-
Carthey of Michigan, whose quick-
est time for the 200 is 1:47.65,
as well as Ray McCullough, whose
top time in the 100 has been 48:45,
just a shade better than Krauser.
Wolfred, considered the m o s t
talented swimmer for Purdue, has
already set school records in four
500 yard freestyle, and 2:01.9 in'
the 200 yard individual medley.
Michigan's 1000 yard free-styler,'
Mark Anderson, has only a 10:17.2
best and will have a tough time
in defeating Wolfred. The Wolver-
.ines should sweep the other three
events as'Anderson- (500 yard free
style), Stu Isaac (200 yard individ-
ual medley) and either Rich.:Dorn-
ey or McCarthey (200 yard back-
stroke) will compete. Chris Man-
sen, who normally swims . in the
200 yard backstroke, will not com-
pete.
Isaac will not compete in ~the
200 yard breast stroke even thoughs
he has posted the best Wolverine
time of 2:11.23. Even without him,
Michigan should have ari easy,
time of it as Purdue's times have
ranged around the 2:20 mark.
The Wolverines should also have
no trouble in the 200 yar'd butter-
fly event as Byron MacDonald'
leads the 'nation with a time of
1:54.9. MacDonald's opponents will
be John Stanback, BilR Stephens,
and Jim McGaughy.
In the diving events, Kimball,
plans to keep his top performer,
Joe Crawford, out of the,- entire
meet. In the one and three meter,
categories, Michigan will go with
its other, seven divers, with none
of them competing in two events.
Big Ten Standings
By THERESA SWEDO
There is always one Michigan team that won't
let you down. The Michigan gymnasts make up
that kind of team. They have succeeded in win-
ning 45 straight dual meets, and will attempt to
bring this figure up to 46 in a meet at the Uni-
versity of Iowa this afternoon.
The twelve man team, plus substitute Rupert
Hansen, left for Iowa City and the Iowa campus
yesterday to compete in required routines that
took place last night. In the required competi-
tion, everyone does the same routines and they
are judged on form, mechanics, and style.
Today the gymnasts do their optional routines,
a series of tricks that the athletes arrange them-
selves. The judging includes the same standards
of form, mechanics, and style with the addition-
al criteria of difficulty.
Ted Marti, Ray Gura, Jean Gaghon and J. P.
Bouchard will participate in the all-around com-
at 1:30 today in the University Field House on
the Iowa City campus. They are on the outlook
for an upset in this meet, as all observers see
Iowa as Michigan's closest challenger in the Big
Ten.'
Coach Dick Holzaepfel is counting on his two
all-around stars, senior Dean Schowalter and
sophomore Carl Walin in his attempt for an up-
set. Walin has won both home meets in the all-
around competition. His best score this season for
those events has been 51.8. He and Showalter
also compete in the vaulting event, and have
matching top scores of 9.2.
Freshman Dave May is Iowa's top free exer-
cise man with a record season score of 9.2. Side
horse is dominated by Chuck Citron, a junior
with a season's record score of 9.15. Dan Repp
takes the rings with 9.35 for a top score; he's a
junior. Another junior, Rudy Ginez, is Iowa's top
events this season; 10:03:9
1000 yard freestyle, 2:01.3
200 yard backstroke, 4:57.5
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