Wednesday, September, 16, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page 'Seven Wednesday, September 16, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven ---on this and that Hard Luck Wile comes back _eric siegel WE WERE ON our way back from an Amoco gas station out on Plymouth Road that, at least momentarily, was in sole possession of a well-used, slightly beat-up automnobile belonging to William Jerome (Billy) Harris. "That's me. Hard Luck Willie," he said with a touch of irony and humor but no bitterness. Hard Luck Willie. The phrase wouldn't even bear re- peating if Harris' biggest problem in the last few months was a broken fan belt on a second hand car. But Harris, one of the Wolverines' split ends, has been plagued by a knee injured diving for a ball in the end zone with just 32 seconds showing on the clock on the Rose Bowl scoreboard last January and Michigan trailing, 10-3. He underwent surgery two days later, limped around on crutches for six weekq and missed all of spring practice and part of the fall drills. That's hard luck. "I haven't thought about which teams are going to give me the most problems with pass defense," he said in response to a question. "The only problem for me is to-overcome this leg of mine. It'd be nice if I had two good legs, but I think I'll be all right.' Judging from his performance during Saturday's scrim- mage, his thinking seems to be sound. On the second play of the first series of downs, he caught a look-in pass from Don Moorhead for 12 yards. Later, he charged between a pair of defenders and broke up a potential interception on an errant pass. In all, he caught four passes for 44 yards, second best on the team. "The good part about the scrimmage for me wasn't so much that I caught the passes," Harris said, "but that I got hit and +. didn't have any trouble with my leg. It was the first time I got hit and knocked down and had people piling on me in eight months. "I didn't know if I'd get back up at first, but I wasn't worried about it. If I was worried about. it, I couldn't have gone out there. figured if I hurt my knee again, they'd say, 'Well, he tried, anyway.'" There were times, though, when there was more cause for worry. Although the knee was painful for only about 10 minutes after the game before it went numb, Harris said he can remember not being able to support his weight on it in the shower. "It felt like- someone hit me in the knee, with a hammer when I went down," Harris said. "I had just taken a course in 1~ training and conditioning, and something inside me said, 'You just did something to your knee.'" In the lockerronm, team physician Gerald O'Conner looked at the knee and said it "looks a litte loose." "I felt sick," Harris said. Six weeks later, they took the cast off, and Harris began strengthening hio knee. He started off with whirlpool treatments, and then started jumping ropes doing isometrics and running He was also lifting weights with his legs. When he started he could do only three sets with ten pounds; by the time he was finished, he was lifting 60. "The exercises got to be a grind," he said. "I'd go and ask the trainer for something new to do, and he'd say to take the week off." He sometimes took a day off, but only occasionally. Harris didn't start running patterns until the middle of August, about a week before the team opened its fall drills. At first, he couldn't run them very well, or very often. By his own admission, he was "a little rusty" running the patterns, and his knee would swell up with a lot of cutting. Consequently, when the team was practicing twice a day, Harris could practice only once. Now, the problem is mainly one of speed. Speed is one of Harris' main attributes, one that helps hin in his peculiar af- finity for catching the long ball. Two years ago, he snared 16 passes for 369 yards, including four touchdowns passes in four consecutive games. Last year, he caught 14 for 290 yards, in- cluding a 59 yard touchdown pass against Washington and a 34 yard picture play against Purdue with a diving snare of a ball that was underthrown. "I'm not as fast-as I once was," Harris said, "but I'm not as slow as I used to be." Even the slower Billy Harris is counted upon Jto do a larger share of the Wolverines' pass-catching this year. Earlier in the year, Coach' Bo Schembechler said, "Harris has worked like a dog to get in shape. I hope he's ready. He can really help us." Earlier this week, Schembechler was a little more positive. "He'll play some," he said, "He'll get in there." "If you want a good story," sports information director Will Perry told me late last month, "talk to Billy Harris. He's a helluva guy and he's done a tremendous job getting back in shape to play." It is, of course, Perry's job to publicize prominent Michigan athletes. But Harris is no All-America candidate. In fact, he's not even listed on Michigan's starting line-up. He's just a hard luck guy who has come back strong. Syracuse coach denies racism Gridders 8th in poll; Stanford ranked 4th EDITOR'S NOTE: With the boil- ing oven of the civil rights move- ment and student protests into Syracuse's athletic department, Ben Schwartzwalder has found himself in the unwanted position of acting as spokesman tor many of his fellow football coaches. Schwartzwalder agreed to an ex- clusive interview with the Asso- ciated Press to discuss his action of suspending eight black players from his squad. By The Associated Press Q-Is there any way the eight black players could get back on the football team this year? A-They had a chance to sign a statement that was given to them by the chancellor. They didn't sign it. I would think that if they had been serious about playing they would have signed it. Q-The black players said that the spring boycott was de- signed to expose the issue of racism that exists on the team. What is your reaction to such a charge? A-We never were' conscious of racism. When a group of players miss 16 days of practice, then don't want to come back except on their terms, members of the squad feel that they shouldn't be on the squad, and it wouldn't matter if they are black or white. We didn't have a black coach. The idea that we promised them a black coach last springdis not true. We hired a black coach this August. The chancellor agreed to do this obviously because they made so much of it. We brought in a fine young man, Carlman Jones, and he seems to be having his difficulties now with the same group. Q-Jim Brown was the only Negro on the team when he was here. He felt some of the assist- ant c o a c h e s discriminated against him. However he praised you for your fairness. Iow do you feel? daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: RICK CORNFELD A-In my opinion, there isn't any of the eight young men in Mr. Brown's class as an athlete. He worked. These young men for the last few years haven't bother- ed to come down in the winter very much and work out, and the other members of the team feel that they really don't want to play football. Q-Protests andsdemonstra- tions on the campus have been with us for several years. Have you talked these situations over with other football coaches? A-Yes, we discussed this at the recent NCAA meeting. It seems as though any place, any school where a third party entered the situation you had_ groupism. A group of athletes went to a third party and discussed their problems with them, instead of discussing them with the football coach. This is where you later had serious problems. I would say that this was the situation at Syracuse. We were no longer dealing with ath- letes. Q-Have you made any changes from the way you treated Negro players in the past?, A-Well, I always felt that the Negro needed a little special con- sideration. Most of these young men we have had have a tough financial background. Our policy over the years is that we try to be more gentle with these boys be- -i By The Associated Press Stanford, a 34-28 winner over Arkansas last weekend, and Mis- souri, a 3-0 victor over Baylor, produced the only major shake- ups in the first weekly college football poll of The Associated Press. Arkansas' Razorbacks, rated No. 4 in preseason rankings, w e r e bumped to No. 11. Stanford, pre- . viously ranked 10th, took over the fourth spot and Missouri moved up one notch to No. 11 in the poll of football writers and broad- casters. Ohio State, defending national champion Texas, and Southern California remained one-two- three. OSU and Texas were idle last weekend while Southern Cal- defeated Alabama 42-21. Twenty-four 'of the 40 voters picked Ohio State No. 1, giving the Buckeyes 728 points. Texas had six first-place votes for 657 -Associated Press points while the Trojans accumu- lated only 644 points, including seven No. 1 votes. Mississippi, ranked No. 5; Penn State, No. 7 and Michigan, No- 8, each received one first-place vote. 1. Ohio State (24) 0-0 728 2. Texas (6) 0-0 657 3. Southern California (7) 1-0 637 4. Stanford , -0 481 5. Mississippi (1) 0-0 432 6. Notre Dame 010 364 7. Penn State 0-0 316 8. Michigan (1) 0-0 307 9. Nebraska 1-0 29 10. Missouri 1-0 260 11. Arkansas 0-1 148 12. Louisiana State 0-0 139 13. Kansas State 1-0 134 14. Florida 1 -0 94 15. Houston 0-0 91 16. UCLA 1-0 70 17. West Virginia 1-0 44 18. Oklahoma , . 1-0 40 19. Georgia. . 0-0 21 20. Arlzano State 0-0 16 Others receiving votes, listed alpha- betically: Air Force, Alabama, Auburn, California, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Kansas, Navy, North Carolina, Oregon, Purdue, South Carolina, Tennessee, Toledo, Utah. 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