Seven 1 Saturday, January 29, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, January 29, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Seven7\ I 1 Wolverines ready for woun ed Bucks { . T out to lunch mort noveck 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 dal Y sports 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. t 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.: MICHIGAN North Dakota 15 15 16-46 8 6 4-18 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 in the in the in the Big Ten, W LPct. 4te 0 1.000 AN 4 1 .00 All Games W L 13 2 9 6 r _ . . _ i Ohio Stag MICHI ..m......