Tuesday, September 22, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Tuesday, September 22, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pae.in .- % .. .. f . 4 B o passes first test, kawaits Huskies he Coact By PAT ATKINS After last Saturday's g a m e against Arizona, Wolverine foot- ball coacl' Bo Schembechler ad- mitted to being somewhat cautious about his -on-the-field behavior. I did a good job of restraining myself on the sidelines," he ex- plained. "I was apprehensive, like a sophomore starting his first game." IT WAS his first pressure test singe the heart attack at the Rose Bowl, and Schembechler remark-. ed, "I feel better psychologically now that It's over. I'll have to face- it."' Yesterday there was the news that offensive tackle Jack Harp- ring may not make this week's *ame because of shoulder slippage - and that third deep tackle Jim Coode is equally, unpredictable as to line-up availability. The slow leak in the depth had begun be- fore the season even started, with defensive tackle Fred Grambau and backfield members Bruce El- liott and John Daniels out for the first and probably the second game. ALSO YESTERDAY there was the film of Washington gaining over 600 yards against Michigan State and' the film of Michiga.n's poor offensive showing against Arizona. A lesser man might be popping tranquillizers. Schembechler re- mains consistently nonplussed. "After the game, people expect- ed me to go and throw a fit be- cause we looked terrible. I don't like the way we did it, but we won. I'd rather we'd played better, if I had my druthers-and next week we'd better play better." His calm demeanor does not dail ,sports NIGHT EDITOR: RICK CORNFELD i standing pat -Pat Atkins, mean Schembechler is taking - a soft line approach on the practice field. He smiled enthusiastically when asked about practices lead- ing up to the Washington game. "There I become my congenial' self."' After a pause for the chuc-! kles, he added, "After this week is over, if any one on the team had a gun, they'd be hunting me up.} The freshmen, especially on, de- fense, will suffer, I hope." Michigan's offensive blocking was the sore spot for Schem- bechler last weekend. Nine Wol- verine passes were batted down and the backs blocked poorly,, managing to miss the holes while sometimes entangling their owne offensive crew. Nor was Michigan being blitzed or out-pressured. "MOORHEAD COULD h a v e peeled a banana and eaten it withr all the time he had. Arizona's linebackers had 80 yards to their sides, yet they just stuck up their hands, and knocked away the balls," Schembechler explained. Harpring, who worked out in yesterday's light practice, may be chanting all week that he is not hurt. His shoulder injury came in the first -half of Saturday's game, and his loss would crimp the of- fensive line's efforts for improve- ment. Jim Brandstatter presently would be the fill-in. If Coode, also an offensive tackle, remains in the health serv- ice infirmary with the flu, then Schembechler may move guard Werner Hall into the back up! short of that obyective by 46 yards against Arizona. THE BACKS, Glenn Doughty, Billy Taylor, Lance Scheffler, and Bill Berutti, rushed for only 122 of those yards, with 25 coming at once off Taylor's run midway in the first quarter. Part of the blame Schembechler lays to little practice for the running backs, especially Do u gh ty. "It's not Doughty's fault," Schembechler noted. "If anyone's at fault, it's me for letting him play before he's ready." A tired Doughty was replaced in the fourth quarter of the Arizona game by Scheffler, and Schem- bechler indicated that he might also use Preston Henry against the Huskies this weekend. On offense, only Reggie McKen- zie earned Schembechler's praise, and the champions of the week were defensive players Tom Dar- den and Dana Coin. "We know that we can play better than we did last Saturday," Schembechler c o n c l u d e d. "We haven't yet proved that we're a 420-yards and 35 point team." A limited number of tickets are still available f o r the Knicks-Pistons basketball ex- hibition game at Crisler Arena Thursday. Ticket prices are $1 for students with ID card and faculty and staff with athletic' card, and $2.50 for all others, and can be purchased at the ticket office at the corner of State and Hoover streets. A. LEE KIRK Pooh-Bear likes honey .. ...how sweet it is ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Don Canham enjoys a football victory as much as anyone, but there was something else at Satur day's football game that made him very happy. In fact, there were 80,386 things that made him just about the happiest man in town, as 80,386 people from all corners of the state and from all walks of life ambled to Ann Arbor to watch the Wolverines win a gridiron contest that sometimes had all the raw excitement of a three day Monopoly game. Still, any time you draw over 80,000 people to watch a football game that has all the markings of a slaughter, you've go to be doing a good job of selling your product. And Canham has been doing just that. Although the Detroit media hasn't exactly been saturated, the Athletic Depart- ment has placed a fairly large number of ads in the Detroit papers as well as in local rags, and they seem to be doing the trick. Just last year, less than 50,000 fans showed up on a beautifulday to watch the Washington game. AND SPEAKING of Washington, the Wolverines patsy non- conference schedule has rolled over and died. The Huskies, who will host the 'M' gridders this Saturday, rolled 598 yards en route to a 42-16 slaughter of Michigan State, and no Spartan has ever surrendered so much yardage. Leading the Huskies is a Cherokee quarterback named Sonny Sixkiller (!), who should give the Wolverine's young secondary a' good test. And another sophomore quarterback, Texas A&M's Lex James unloaded a 79-yard bomb with 13 seconds to go to give the Aggies a 20-18 victory over LSU, the first time they've beaten the Tigers in The Den at Baton Rouge in years. The Aggies will play in Ann Arbor a week from Saturday. THE PACK IS BACK! - way back. The back-sliding Green Bay Packers hit rock-bottom Sunday as Detroit ripped them to shreds, 40-0. Lots of Detroit people are talking the Lions up as cham- pionship threats this year, and if they stay healthy, it just might happen. But Lion fans can find little encouragement in Minnesota's 27-10 revenge win over Kansas City. Joe Kapp apparently won't play this year, but Gary Cuozzo did a fine job directing the Viking offense, and the Four Norse- men and company took away the Chiefs running game and Len Dawson's deep passes. Pittsburgh is really sitting sweet in the National League East after taking three of four in New York. They are two games up with their only remaining tough series coming up this weekend when the Mets invade. In addition to this series, the Mets close against the Cubs. Chicago will play all their remain- ing games on the road. Je4ntei I On little oddities and big money If you're not a collector, forget it. You'll never understand why a couple hundred people would A closet themselves 'inside the Statler-Hilton Hotel in Detroit on one of the few remaining week-ends of the summer. Or why somone would hop a plane in Phoenix, Arizona, and travel all the way to Detroit. Essentially, why anyone would go anywhere to trade old baseball guides, or yearbooks, or autographed balls, or match covers, sports magazines, cigarette cards, or bubble gum cards. Even the answer given by Detroit Tiger broadcaster Ernie' Harwell wouldn't satisfy 'you. "It's like the mountain," he says mystically, "if it's there, they'll collect them."- The "they" include Harwell, and the "they" were at the First Annual Midwest Sports Collectors convention held a little over a week ago in Detroit. "I'm sure the mothers of the little boys who go out and buy baseball cards don't realize the extent of that action," one of the organizers of the convention, Dick Reuss, says. About two-thirds of the buying, selling, trading, and auctioning includes bubble gum cards, which date from 1933, and cigarette cards, which appeared from 1900-1915, Reuss states. "There's not too much of the Red Grange sweat shirt type of item. Autographed baseballs make up the majority of the sports memorabilia." Reuss, who's been collecting for 22 years, specializes in card collecting and owns about 70,000. He figures that puts him roughly in the top quarter in the country as far as size of card collections go. One of the largest, containing 2 million cards, belongs to a dealer. The most valuable item is, in fact, a baseball cigarette card. Only seven copies of the Honus Wagner card from 1910 are known to-be in existence, two of which are in museums. "Those cards go for what anybody is willing to pay, actually," Reuss says. "I'd figure an average of $500, but that could go from anywhere between $250 to $1000." For Harwell, the collecting days are just about over. He gave his entire collection to the Detroit Public Library about 5 years ago, when he bought a winter home in Florida. "If we had added five more rooms to our house in Florida," he jokes," I would have been able to keep the collection." His memorabilia, amassed over a 39 year period, in- cluded old contracts, pictures going back 50 years, World Series programs, all-star programs, and about 90,009 clip- pings. "They asked me about giving my collection to Cooperstown," Harwell says, "but it's so far away and hard to get to that no one in Detroit could have really used it. This way if someone is doing a story the material is handy." He donated almost his entire collection, but saved a few pictures and a check signed by Babe Ruth in 1922 for one half a month's salary-about $4,000 for the Babe. Reuss and collectors like him aim for a legitimate base and solidarity for sports memorabilia collecting. The past few years mutual aficionados have met in private homes to carry out their business. The group has come above ground as a result of the efforts of Detroit area collectors. Although catalogues and dealers and collectors existed prior to the convention, no national organization has reqlly been sustained. "Next year, with more publicity and advertising, we hope toy triple our attendence and have many thousands here. We are in the black from the couple of auctions we held, since we received a 20 per cent commission on the items," Reuss said. - If you find it even harder to understand now why many thousands of people, much less hundreds, would attend such a show, rest assured-there actually were some items that were unsalable. 4 One, for instance was a huge, framed color portrait of Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tiger hurler of the Forties. "I knew no one would bid on that as soon as I saw it, Reuss relates. "It would be embarrassing for Harwell, too, and he was doing us a favor by auctioning off some of the items. Then they went and put a minimum bid of $15 on it. Sure enough, nobody bid on the damn thing and we had to take it back." All face was not lost for the Tiger sportscaster, however. Reuss adds quickly, "Some one went and paid $8.50 for his necktie, so that made up for it a little." -Daily-Eric Pergeaux MICHIGAN MIDDLE linebacker Marty Huff (70) accosts an Arizona running back in Saturday's game which the Wolverines won, 20-9. Huff intercepted a pass late in the fouth period to set up a Michigan touchdown which put the game on ice. TEXAS THREATENS OSU: Michigan drops to tenth in poll By The Associated Press Despite beating Arizona and re- ceiving one first-place vote, the tackle position. Michigan Wolverines dropped two "We have to play better offen- places, from eighth to tenth, in sive football," Schepnbechler em- this week's Associated Press na- phasized. "We have to be at least tional football poll. a 400-yard team.'' Michigan fell The Texas Longhorns took a -- - - - - --4 giant step toward regaining their No. 1 national ranking Saturday with a 56-15 rout of California. They drew 16 first-place votes in this week's poll to 14 for top- rated Ohio State Monday, but trailed. the Buckeyes in total points 645-632. Last week. O h i o ' State led by 71 points. The names of the Top Ten teams are the salnA as ,last week, although there were 'several posi- tion changes. Stanford defeated San Jose State, 34-3 and climbed from fourth to third, replacing Southern California, which battled to a 21-all tie with Nebraska and dropped to seventh. Penn State's 55-7 walloping of Navy pushed the Nittany Lions from seventh to fourth. Missis- sippi and Notre Dame remained Ififth and sixth, the Rebels trounc- ing Memphis State 47-13 and the Irish beating Northwestern 35-14. The top twenty teams, with first- place votes in parentheses, season re- cords and total points. 2. Ohio State (14) 0-0 645 2.STexas (16) 1-0 632 3, Stanford (1) 2-0 472 4. Penn State (2) 1-0 453 5. Mississippi (1) 1-0 420 6. Notre Dame 1-0 369 7. Southern Cal. (2) 1-0-1 368 Syracuse, blacks to see state officer SYRACUSE (W) - Officials of Syracuse University said Monday they would meet Tuesday with the state commissioner of human rights, at his request, to discuss charges of discrimination against the footballcoaching staff filed by suspended black athletes. Robert J. Mangum, the human rights, commissioner, sent a tele- gram Friday to head. Coach Ben ,Schwartzwalder in which he said: "Urgently request you restore eight black football players to the Syracuse squad and make them eligible for participation in Saturday's opening game pending a resolution of the controversy." The players were not reinstated in time for the game against Houston, which Syracuse lost 42-15. S. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 24. Nebraska Missouri Michigan (1) Houston. 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