SQtl1rdayi October 'B., 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .Page Seven. 4 Saturday, October 3, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Gridders face By ELLIOT LEGOW Although Michigan's Wolverines have won their first two football games of the 1970 season, they still have much to prove when they meet Texas A&M this after- noon at Michigan Stadium. The Wolverines have been far from spectacular in defensing! their way to 20-9 and 17-3 vic- tories over unheralded Arizona and Washington squads. And in Texas A&M the Wolverines for the third time will be meeting a team which has done a massive job of rebuild- ing, has a good young quarter- back, and has proved that it can surprise highly touted opponents. Michigan's defense has been nothing short of superb in its first two tests of the season. Neither Arizona nor Washington was able to reach Michigan's goaline. Since each of those teams has amassed at least 30 points in other out- ings, the Blue defense has shown that it can stop the most potent attacks. THE WOLVERINES' m a r k of six points allowed per game ranks eighth nationally and their de- fense against the rush (52 yards per game) ranks fifth among ma-, jor colleges. There will be a new problem for the Michigan defense this week, daily Sports NIGHT EDITOR: JIM KEVRA } i i i y } i i )1 i j i i on the Aggies' r of them will be Coach Gene a starting team sophomores, in standing quart STALLINGS "pretty good, Schembechlerl praise for the leader. "James: back Michigan' Bo asserts. Whe Michigan has a Sixkiller and B has Rex Kern agenda, Schemb added weight. rugged Aggies. oster and only two 1 After their first two outings gies will be sure to viewed as a starting. everything seemed to be going comparison of strength between Stallings will field right for the Aggies. But then they Michigan and Ohio State's foot- composed of eight ran into Ohio State. The Buckeyes ball machine. cluding his o u t - made mincemeat of A&M's de- The added incentive to, impress erback, Lex James. fense and held James in check the Buckeyes may serve to spur while overwhelming the Aggies Michigan on, but the Aggies' would TERMS James 56-13. like nothing more than to head for a soph", but Thus this first meeting ever be- back tothe southwest with two has much higher tween the Wolverines and the Ag- major upsets to their cedit. Aggies' offensive is the best quarter- The Lineups will face this year," en one{recalls that ilready seen Sonny Offense however. End Butch Carpenter who has performed well in the first two games as a backup for Mike Keller and Phil Seymour has been lost with a knee injury. Coach Bo Schembechler will replace him with sophomore Clint Spearman in the backup role at end. Defensive tackle Fred Grambau is also out of action and the result, is a much thinner line than open- ed the season for the Wolverines. THE OTHER injured defensive starter, halfback Bruce Elliott, will be inuniform, but will not start. Sophomore Bo Rather, who has turned in good performances in his first two starts will again open in the Michigan defensive back- field. Despite injuries to lessen its depth and strong offenses to test its strength, the defense has come through in grand style. It has been the offense which has pre- sented Schembechler with prob- lems. rian Linstrom, and on the future aechler's words take James has led the Aggies to a 2-1 record which was highlighted by a stunning upset of LSU at Baton Rouge. His statistics, a 54 per cent completion record, and a total of 752 yards gained through the air, are impressive, and so is his success at turning a team that finished 3-7 last season into a winner. The prime targets for James' aerials are diminuative 5-7 end Hugh McElroy and sophomore tight end Homer May. The Ag- gies' receivers have good speed and have already taken six scoring tosses from James. The running attack which has been a problem for the Aggies will be handled by fullback Doug Neill and halfbacks Brad , Dusek and Steve Burks. Burks is A&M's lead- ing ground gainer, with only 130 yards in three games. (30) (71) (65) (53) (75) (72) (85) (22) (42) (28) (27) MICHIGAN Paul Staroba (209) Jack Harpring (224) Reggie McKenzie (220) Guy Murdock (215) Werner Hall (219) Dan Dierdorf (250) Paul Seymour (235) Glenn Doughty (195) Bill Taylor (200) Bill Berutti (189) Don Moorhead (200) SE LT LG C RG RT TE LH FB RH QB (35) (70) (67) (57) (69) (78) (80) (44) (39) (42) (10) TEXAS A&M Hugh McElroy (160) Benny DeWitt (235) Jim Parker (200) Ted Smith (220) Leonard Forey (225) Andy Philley (240) Homer May (215) Brad Dusek (200) Doug Neill (190) Steve Burks (180) Lex James (185) Defense -Daily-Eric Pergeaux TWO LINKS in the Wolverine defensive wall, H enry Hill (39) and Pete Newell (82) attempt to stop an Arizona drive. Thus far they have been succ essful As the goal line they are defending remains untouched. 31 DEAD: (91) (99) (39) (82) (90) (33) (70) (14) (15) (23) (35) Phil Seymour (215)' Tom Beckman (245) Henry Hill (220) Pete Newell (225) Mike Keller (210) Mike Taylor (217) Marty Huff (230) Frank Gusich (190) Bo Rather (190) Jim Betts1(185) Tom Darden (190) LE LT MG RT RE WLB 1MLB WOLF DHB S DHB (96) (68) (52) (66) (87) (53) (60) (26) (33) (36) (30) Todd Christopher (200) Boice Best (225) Mike Lord (200) Van Odom (215) Max Bird (210) Clifton Thomas (215) Kent Finley (195) Dave Hoot (190, Ed Ebrom (185) Dave Elmendorf (200) Bland Smith (160) Crash kills Wichita gridders SILVER PLUME, Colo. WP A. in Logan, Utah, where Wichita plane carrying some members of State was to play Utah State on the Wichita State University foot- Saturday. The game was can- ball team, athletic staff and team celed. boosters crashed Friday in rug- Assistant Coach Chuck Ramsey ged mountain country near the informed those aboard the second Continental Divide. Thirty-one plane of the crash at the Logan persons, including 14 football play- Airport. Sedatives were adminis- ers, were believed killed. tered to many players at their Eleven persons, nine of them hotel and they planned to go to football players, a pilot and the church later. team trainer, were known to have Mike Bruce, 21, of Sherman, survived. The Colorado State, Pa- Tex., another survivor said from trol said it was informed there his hospital bed in Denver: were 40 persons aboard, including "Everyone was looking at the a crew of four, when the twin- mountains. We kept getting closer engine plane crashed and burned. and closer. We were enjoying our- Among those presumed dead selves-laughing. The plane took were the head football coach, Ben a dip . .. or something Next thing, Wilson, and his wife; Athletic the plane ended up in the trees." Director A. C. "Bert" Katzenmeyer and his wife; Associated Athletic "IT ALL happened so fast I Director Floyd Farmer; Kansas didn't really think about it until State Rep, and Mrs. Ray King, and we got out," said Glenn Kostal, a Wichita banker John Grooms and 20-year-old linebacker from Chi- his wife. Katzenmeyer was a long cago who survived the crash. Kos- time golf coach at Michigan be- tal's mother said her son called fore accepting the position at her soon after the crash and said: Wichita State. "Mom, I'm alive. It's a miracle. ers from a highway project below met the youth near a road and he' directed them toward the crash. He said the plane banked to the left and everyone asked what was happening. The plane then banked, to the right, and hit, he said. He and others were under a pile of. rubble and "we just dug our way' out," Kostal said. "I think I was trying to climb up and out." The linebacker said he hit his head when the plane crashed and did not remember the impact. Sheriff Harold Brumbaugh ofI Clear Creek County said the plane crashed in timber just off U.S. 6, a heavily traveled winter route to' Colorado ski country. He said the+ plane burned in the Dry Creek area, about eight miles west of this old mining town. "This is a sad, tragic day in the history of Wicsita State Uni- versity," said Wichita State pres- ident Dr. Clark Ahlberg, who kept a telephone line open to St. An- thony's Hospital to keep track of condition reports. Katzenmeyer became athletic director in May, 1968, after 21 years as golf coach and adminis- trative assistant to Fritz Crisler, former University of Michigan athletic director. He collaborated with Sam Snead to write a book called How to Play Golf. M' alumni gridders star in pro circuits I THE SURVIVORS were taken! by ambulance- and Army helicop- ter to hospitals in Denver, about 55 miles east of where the plane went down near the eastern base of 11,992-foot Loveland Pass, a: main route across the Continental Divide.I Most of the players aboard the plane that went down were firstl stringers.I A second plane carrying 23 other players and the rest of thei staff and boosters landed safely. My buddies are all dead." "John Hoheisel and I were ly- ing on our sides in the plane. We all scrambled out-four of five of us-and I was the least injured, they were burned pretty bad." He said the group started down the hill but Bruce, realizing the others were hurt more seriously then he was, told them to stay behind. He went ahead, "toward the sound of a truck below . . in a hollow or something." A GROUP of construction work-I r r r 1 f t' SEEK RAISE Umps still threaten strike CHICAGO (9) - A meeting be- been unable to reach National, tween National League president League President Feeney to relay Charles Feeney and the Major to Feeney the results of the um- League Umpires Association, aim- pires decision about the threaten- ed at preventing the umpires ed strike. *threatened strike of the playoffs Reynolds s a i d he contacted and World Series, was delayed yes- American League President Jo- terday to await the arrival of four seph Cronin in Minneapolis and. umpires who worked Thursday that Cronin informed him Feeney n i g h t 's Baltimore - Washington would be in Pittsburgh at 4 p.m. game. EDT. John R. Reynolds, legal coun- The umpires association, which sel for the umpires, said that an has threatened to boycott the offer hiking umpires pay to $3,000 playoffs and World Series unless for the playoffs and $7,000 for the they receive higher pay for work- series was not a new proposal but ing the games, have drawn a one that had been offered by counter - proposal to baseball's Feeney some time ago. offer. The Chicago Sun-Times report- Reynolds said the umpires also ed the offer Thursday and said took a strike vote but he declined, the umpires discussed the proposal to elaborate on the counter-pro- #in a Chicago hotel late Thursday. f posal or the results of the strike Reynolds added that he had vote. By TERRI FOUCHEY The last strains of "The Vic- tors" have faded from the gray November air on that final Sat- urday signifying the end of col- lelge football for several seniors. Most former Michigan football players pack away their press clippings which are already be- gignning to yellow and their mem- ories of 103,000 people chceering en masse, and prepare to move on. The opportunities awaiting them may be in coaching, athleltic ad- ministration, or graduate and professional schools. However, not all are destined to abandon play- ing for keeps the game which has occupied approximately one half of their lifetime and brought them this far up the ladder of success. These are the several seniors who each year are drafted by pro foot- ball teams. They have the option to continue their football careers, and to increase the size of their scrapbooks, with further gridiron exploits. The two most recently admitted members to the pro football chap- ter of Michigan alumni are Jim Mandich of the Miami Dolphins and Tom Curtis of the Baltimore Colts. Mandich finds that the big difference is that "now I look on it as an occupation, something I work at eight hours a day, five days a week. I find it really en- joyable and a great life." The most noticeable difference for Curtis is in the attitude at practice. "Practice is a lot more relaxed than it was in college. curity of knowing that, even if you weren't good enough to start, you were on the team. Here, if you're not good enough to play, then you're cut." Other stellar performers for the Wolverines have made the suc- cessful transition to the pros and have continued to be outstanding. Tom Mack, a member of the 1965 Rose Bowl team, anchors the im- penetrable line of the Los Angeles Rame. Mack has been an All-Pro guard for four seasons. Another member of that team has added All-Pro honors to the All-American accolades he earned as a safety inj college. Rick Volk may eventually play beside the man who replaced him in Michi- gan's defensive backfield when Curtis is reactivated to the start- ing position he had with the Colts before he,was injured. Tom Keating is still another member of the 1964 squad who graduated to All-Pro, honors. He is a defensive tackle for the Oak- land Raiders, and although side- lined by an injury for the major portion of last season, he is fully recovered and expected to help the Raiders scalp the Kansas City Chiefs. Injuries have plagued several former Wolverines, one of whom is Jack Clancy. He was originally drafted by Miami and played a brilliant rookie season for them. Knee trouble hit him and he has been trying to regain the form of his pro debut. He was traded to Green Bay over the winter where it is hoped he will help to fill in for a receiving corps depleted by retirements and trades. Ron Johnson spent a good rookie season with the Cleveland Browns and in a surprise move was traded to the New York Giants. John- son's speed is considered to be a welcome contribution to the Gi- ants' backfield. If Mandich and Curtis follow the pattern set by previous Wol- verine pro matriculants. their scrapbooks will continue to over- flow and two more M i c h i g a n names will be added to the an- nual All-Pro lists. I 10 There isn't as much yelling and sr.m.ngo ethethc.................. .oaches or teammates. I think this is be- Major League Standings cause we view it as something we're working at. In college we AMERICAN LEAGUE 1Wednesday, Oct. 7 - Pittsburgh at still saw it as a game we played Final Standings Cincinnati, if necessary, 2:30 p.m. not as a job." East Division American League Both found the transition to the W IL Pct. G Tdy almrae aguiest4 Baltimore 108 54 .667- Today - Baltimore at innesota, 4 pros similar to that of going from New York 93 69 .574 15 P~m.hg colt clee adc Boston 87 75 .537 2 Tomorrow-Baltimore at Minnesota, high school to college. Mandich Detroit 79 83 .488 29 4 pm says, "You find that 90 percent of Cleveland 76 86 .469 32 Monday, Oct. 5-Minnesota at Balti- the people up here are super ath- Washington 70 92 .432 38 more, 1 p.m. letes and you realize that's the West Division Tuesday, Oct. 6-Minnesota at Balti- competition and how much you Minnesota 98 64 .605 - i more, if necessary, 1 p.m.sty" uri Oakland 89 73 .549 9 Wednesday, Oct. 7 - Minnesota at must improve to stay." Curtis California 86 76 .531 12 Baltimore, if necessary, 1 p.m. adds, "In college you had the se- Milwaukee 65 97 .401 33 - Kansas City 65 97 .401 33 Chicago 56 106 .346 42 I I U Pittsbur Chicago New Yo: St. Loui Philadef Montrea NATIONAL LEAGUE Final Standings East Division W L Pet. GB gh 89 73 .549 - 84 79 .519 5 )rk 83 79 .512 6 is 76 86 .469 13 phia 73 88 .453 1Sf I 73 h8 .451 16 i ( IIm shy C/u6 MASS MEETING I i 1 I