Saturday, October 17, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pone Nine Saturday, October 17, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY . 1 6.1 \Pc G i 11 a a Fired-up dash S 'M' out to Tartan SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: TERRI FOUCHEY By BILL ALTERMAN Last year, coming off a bigM victory over Purdue, a highly ranked Michigan team ran up against a supposedly hapless Michigan State team and got zapped 23-12. This year, the undefeated Wolverines once again looked superlative in beating Purdue and once again face a suppos- edly impotent Spartan team. e l upset bid And Michigan is out for re- For the romantics, Michigan- venge. Michigan State rates as one of the The players don't really have oldest and best college rival- to voice their feelings about to- ries. Starting in 1898 the match day's game. Their past actions currently stands at 37-20-5 in have more than showed what they favor of Michigan. Spartan fans can do. Last year a fired up will point out however, that their Michigan team went out and dis- team has won 14 out of the last mantled the same Ohio State team 20 contests with two ending in which a year earlier had thrash- ties. The phenomenal appeal of ed them 50-14. And although MSU this game is revealed by the fact is not Ohio State, their upset last that the last 23 games, (counting year was every bit as painful. today's) have been sellouts. So a sellout crowd of over 100,- Michigan Coach Bo Schem- 000 in ichigan Stadium today bechler for one,,however, does not will be watching a Wolverine team consider the fans and home town out to vanquish the memories of advantage important to the out- last year. come of the game. Personnel-wise, The Spartans too, are out to he has little reason to worry. The prove something. MSU is cur- Michigan defense, iron tight all rently sporting a 1-3 record, but year, last week really went into .. maction and shut out Purdue. And the offense, stagnant at first, fin- Michigan ticket manager Don ally ;got rolling and put 29 points Weir urges all Michigan-Michi- up n the scoreboard. More im- gan State ticket- holders to ar- portantly however, they showed rive e a r I y to avoid back-ups the ability to sustain a drive. and delays at the section en- Spearheading the Wolverines trances. will, of course, be quarterb a c k r:::.:;.::;.>:.:.:;;;:":;::;.:..::.:.;:.:.:::;:;:::.::>::::":.:::"::::.:::":.::.:>:. }Don M oorhead. Against the Boiler- makers Moorhead hit 9 of 17 two of these losses were identical passes, picking up the big third 29-0 shutouts at the hands of down play when he needed it. Ohio State and Notre Dame - the Likewise Michigan's talented teams Michigan Coach Bo Schem- runners, most notably Billy Tay- bechler rates as the two best in lor, began finding the holes and the country. picking up that yardage which Today the Spartans will want to seemed to come so easily last year. show they are not as dead as some And so too the receivers, who at people think. And Spartan coach first seemed to be making a pro- Duffy Daugherty will be out to fession out of dropping passes, extinguish the wishes of those came through when it was need- people who have begun wearing ed. "Dump Duffy" buttons. Needless to say, Schembechler -Daily--Jim wallace Wolverines' stingy defense smothers Aggie threat -Daily Jirm Judkis Fritz Seyferth (32) crashes through the A&M line is preparing for the worst. "It pro- bably won't be decided until late in the fourth quarter," he said earlier in the week. "It will be a tough game, real hard with a lot of hard knocking; We don't expect to make a n y changes. We expect to use the same basic offense. We'll add a few new wrinkles though, as we do every week. They (the Wol- verines) will be up. They have played with enthusiasm in all their games so far and they'll be up more so in this game." Like Michigan, the Spartans have had to rely heavily on their defense. Last week it wasn't until the fourth quarter that O h i o State could effectively penetrate the MSU defense. Indeed, Schembechler considers this Michigan's "toughest offen- sive test this year." The big MSU front line could effectively stop the Wolverines up the middle but their ability to stop the outsidei run is still question- able. Even more questionable, though, is the potency of the Spartans of- fense. Over the last two weeks they have been unable to score against Notre Dame or Ohio State and, statistically at least, Mich- igan rates even tougher. At quarterback the Spartans have been alternating George Mihaiu and Mike Rasmussen, both with equal ineffectiveness. Mihaiu is expected to get the starting nod in today's game. Daugherty isn't saying w h a t kind of offense his team will be running today but Michigan is preparing for anything. Last year the Spartans ran with the triple- option and quarterback Bill Trip- lett ran Michigan into the ground. on this and that A~ s core to be settled eric siegel GLENN DOUGHTY scored four touchdowns last year, but one of them didn't count for much. It came in the fourth quarter of the Michigan-Michigan State game, and it didn't help win the game and it didn't get any headlines. It merely narrowed the score, and the headlines all went to MSU, as the Spartans pulled off a 23-12 upset. "The main thing about that game," Doughty recalled 362 days later, "is that we lost. This year we want to come back and win." Coming back is the thing that is on the minds of all the Michigan players. There's been nine regular season victories in a row, including one against the number one team in the country, a trip to the Rose Bowl, and a whole calendar year to forget about the game . . but nobody's forgotten. Gophers test Bu4 ,Alsoraswg 4 By BETSY MAHON committed far too many mental, The football conference known errors on the field last week." as the Big Ten is composed of ten The high scoring Wildcats will Midwestern teams who presum- be hitting at Wisconsin's weak ably compete against each other point - defense. "They have a on more or less equal terms. How-' good quarterback, good runners ever, this season, the race shapes and as they showed last w e e k, up as a stretch drive leading to they can move the ball," Jardine the battle of the Big Two and a' explained. "I have maintained all scramble between the Little Eight season that Northwestern has for the third spot in the final been underrated. They could be a+ standings d dark horse candidate for confer-, ience honors." In the most important of the The Purdue Boilermakers, who Sconference games Minnesota, on have had the misfortune of run- rckeyes;, ba ttles of play that is reminiscent of the past few seasons. Illinois is a young team and while they make mistakes they could pose a threat with consistent play. They open- ed their season by defeating a respectable Oregon team , 20-16 but the next week they were sour and went down to a 23-9 defeat at the hands of Tulane. They bounc- ed back to shut out Syracuse 27-0 then suffered the same fate against victory hungry North-! western. (30) (71) (65) (53) (75) (72) (85) (27) (42) (32) (22) (91) (99) (30) (82) (90) (33) (70) (14) (21) (35) (23) MICHIGAN Paul Staroba (209) Jack Harpring (224) Reggie McKenzie (220) Guy Murdock (215) Werner Hall (219) Dan Dierdorf (250) Paul Seymour (235) Don Moorhead (200) Bill Taylor (200) Fritz Seyferth (202) Glenn Doughty (195) SE LT LG C RG RT TE QB TB FB WB mon opponents to date number will the Spartans best be god one - Washington. Sonny Six- enough. "Throw out the r e c o r d killer shot the Spartans down 42- books! This is Michigan - Michi- 16 and was in turn stifled the next gan State!" notwithstanding, tai- week by Michigan 17-3. ent wise the Wolverines are clear- Injury wise, there isn't much to ly superior. report, or as Bo said "The s a m e They have a proven offense anad people who were out before will the fourth best defense in the be out now." The Spartans too are country. in good physical condition. And then, there are those me The question remains however,; mories. The Lineups OFFENSE MICHIGAN STATE (83) (76) (55) (51) (59) (71) (89) (20) (24) (23) (17) DEFENSE Gordon Bowdell (203) Gary Nowak (231) Erroll Roy (218) Tom Beard (260) J. DeLamielleure (235) Vic Mittleberg (235) Billie Joe DuPree (212) George Mihaiu (188) Eric Allen (161) Henry Matthews (198) Bill Triplett (182) Doug Halliday (207) D. McLaughlin (249) Mike Hogan (225) Tom Barnum (231) Wilton Martin (231) Cal Fox (219) Gail Clark (205) Brad McLee (192) Harold Phillips (192) Doug-Barr (169) Brad VanPelt (215) Phil Seymour (215) Tom Beckman (245) Henry Hill (220) Pete Newell (225) Mike Keller (210) Mike Taylor (217) Marty Huff (230) Frank Gusich (190) Bruce Elliott (176) Tom Darden (190) Jim Betts (185) LE LT MG RT RE WLB MLB WOLF DHB DHB S (91) (99) (66) (49) (97) (50) (98) (35) (27) (25) (10) S (10) Brad VanPelt (215) he Court "The State game is talked about all year long," Doughty said. "It's the one game that's constantly thrown up at you all during the year." It's a game that's been played 62 times, but no one takes the game - or the outcome - for granted. And all that talk about taking the games one at a time and not looking towards Michigan State tends to lose some of its validity as the game approaches. "Sure, we play the games one at a time," Doughty said, "but you can't help thinking about the State game. I think about how badly I want to win. When we were going out on the field against Purdue last week it briefly crossed my mind that we were going to be playing Michigan State the next day." Doughty erased his thoughts of MSU during the g a m e against the Boilermakers, but they've been pretty dominant ever since. "This is THE battle. It's the big game. There's a lot of momentum and spirit and determination. And it's increased this year because of the revenge factor." Doughty and the rest of the Wolverines will be seek- ing their revenge against a team that has drawn praise for its defensive work. "Defensively, they're better than they were last year," Doughty said. "They're quicker and they're stronger." As a member of the offensive backfield, the Spartan defense is what concerns Doughty most. And while he's not making any predictions, he's not running scared, either. "I think our offense has finally come around. We had a new group up front, and it takes time to work things out. The defense takes a lot of good hitters like we've got, but the offense needed a little more work. "I'm going to go out there and concentrate on taking care of business. I'm going to concentrate on getting into the open on passes." Doughty's concern with getting into the open on passes is a relatively new one in his varsity career. It is a part of his new job as wingback, a job he took over a couple of weeks ago after running at tailback all last year and the early part of this year. "There's not that many adjustments to make," Doughty said of the switch. "The main thing is that you don't run as much. You're used as a receiver more often." Doughty's credentials as a receiver were established in high school, where he was a split end. His ability to catch passes has enabled Coach Bo Schembechler to move Billy Taylor back to halfback, and still have last year's number one and two rushers in the backfield. Schembechler says he is pleased with Doughty's play at wingback. "He's done everything he's been asked to do, and he's improving. He had a real good practice this week." So far, Doughty hasn't been asked to do too much. He caught one pass for 14 yards against Purdue, and he's rush- ed a couple of times out of the wingback slot. But nothing like last year, when he rushed for over 700 yards in 150 ''s i I I i gett ran Mihgn notegrud teams, will attempt to upset ning into three of the nation's top INDIANA, on the other hand, This year the versatile Triplett is mighty hio Stae. The ophersteams the past three weeks, has been heading downhill since starting at flanker and is t h e Ighty Ohio t he ophers should enjoy their sojourn to Iowa last season. While they have lost Spartans' leading rusher. are only 2-2 on the season but, they played a strong game last City. Two weeks ago, Purdue! to respectable teams such as Col- Nevertheless, offensively M S U stopped Jim Plunkett and his orado, California, West Virginia has been feeble. In four g a m e s week as they blanked Indiana Stanford teammates 26-14. and Minnesota the scores have not they have scored 44 points, a n d 23-0. been close. It is doubtful t h a t more importantly, lost the ball ALTERNATING with these high they can provide stiff competition 12 times on fumbles. COACH MURRAY Warmat'h points the Boilermakers have been even for Illinois. MSU's and Michigan's com- hopes to come through todays shut out twice, 48-0 by N o t r e { encounter without his Golden Dame and 29-0 by the Wolverines ,:-=:;":.::::::::;:;.::.:::::>: ::: "::: ~ .last...week. . Now that the worst of * Ti. Stn ng the season is behind them the Bg Ten Standings The Michigan - Michigan Smen f r o m West Lafayette are State game begins at 1:30 and strong contenders for Little Eight Conference Games All Games will be . carried over radio sta- honors. W L T PF PA W L T PF PA tions WWJ, 950 AM; WPAG, If the Hawkeyes play the way MICHIGAN 1 0 0 29 0 4 0 0 80 22 1050 AM; WAAM, 1600 AM; they did l a s t weekend they will Iowa 1 0 0 24 14 1 .3 0 48 103 WUOM, 91.7 FM, and WCBN, be no pushover. A f t e r looking Minnesota 1 0 0 23 0 2 2 2 94 76 650 AM. anemic in losses to Oregon State, Northw t 1 0 0 48 0 1 3 0 9 6 Southern Cal and Arizona the Ohio State 1 0 0 29 0 3 0 0 9 2 .:::::..............::::::::::::.....:::::.. :Ha.wkeyes came alive against W is- 29 0 3 0 0 119 23 Gophers being too badly tarnish- consin. Sophomore quarterback Illinois 0 1 0 0 48 2 2 0 52 87 ed. "We will find out just how, Kyle Skogman, starting his first Indiana 0 1 0 0 23 0 4 0 33 111 good we are," he said. "We'll find college game, engineered three Michigan State 0 1 0 0 29 1 3 0 44 114 out just how good Ohio State is. touchdowns to win the position Purdue 0 1 0 0 29 2 2 0 41 91 too. I believe we have a fine foot- for this week's encounter. Wisconsin 0 1 0 14 24 1 2 1 64 75 's T i A LEE KIRK I 1 $0 ball team this year."t In the course of first four LAST, and probably of least im- games Warmath has found him- portance; among the battles is the o n e which pits winless Indiana self a solid quarterback in t h eagains last year'sBig Tendoor person of junior Craig Curry. He mat Illinois. The Illini are 2-2j leads the Gophers in total offense for the season having shown, with 561 yards, 216 rushing and flashes of brilliance in the midst 346 passing. Meanwhile, back in Columbus,I everyone's favorite coach Woody !BLA CK CHA RITIE Hayes took a good, hard look atI TODAY'S GAMES Michigan State at MICHIGAN Purdue at Iowa Indiana at Illinois Minnesota at Ohio State Northwestern at Wisconsin sS GAME: The game must go on DIG IT, MAN. This is a court suit, not a circus." And that, sports fans, is how loser Don Koster viewed his setback in the opening round of that epic struggle: Joel Block vs. the University Regents and Robben Fleming. The triumph of Robben and the Regents means that today's Michigan-Michigan State will be played as scheduled, much to the surprise of no one. Koster, the lawyer, and Joel Block, the plaintiff, are not through fighting, though, and they are currently consider- ing a 'leave to appeal.' What this means, as near as anyone can figure, is that Block in all probability will appeal the decision. With the State game finally set, Block's injunction request should fade from the limelight of center ring. There was a frivolous atmosphere surrounding the whole affair from the out- set that obscured the essence of Block's injunction request. The seeming absurdity of trying to ban a football game brought Block and his cause wide attention. The story was picked up by the national wire services and ran in all the major news- papers and also on the Today show and the NBC Evening News. Block's cause did gain public notoriety, but his case was obscured. A lot of people did not take his request for a preliminary injunction with the seriousness it deserved. The crowd of approximately 100 people who gathered out- side Judge Ross W. Campbell's chambers yesterday prior to the hearing were in a festive mood, and only the plethora of press personnel that kept most of those present from getting into the courtroom dimmed their spirits. Those who had to remain outside the courtroom didn't miss much. The whole process, from opening statements to the judge's opinion, took just over a half hour. Both sides presentations were 'rather bland and laced with references to previous cases of a similar nature. Neither side had any surprises. The University's Attorney, Roderick Daane, countered the ten affidavits presented by the defense with sworn statements from Associate Athletic Director Dave Strack and Ann Arbor police chief Walter Krasny to the effect that order was maintained at football games. The defense argued that a preliminary injunction could not be justified so long as other resources were available to enforce the law, and Judge Ross concurred. It was a anti- septic and painless operation. But the painful questions Block has raised remain. As Daane noted, lines of three or four people at a urinal do not constitute a public nuisance, but the fact re- 4 'A his top ranked Buckeyes and found something wrong w i t h them - their passing game. In- deed, quarterback Rex Kern-has compbeted only six of 21 passes for 93 yards in Ohio State's first three games while his replacement, Ron Maciejowski has hit on 12 of 22 attempts for 140 yards. "REX IS a much better passer than that," Hayes said. "He's like a batter in a slump. I know they're both better passers t h a n that. Don't underestimate our passing game. We'll burn somebody with it before the year's out." Hayes is also looking forward to the return of running b a c k Larry Zelina. He missed last week's trouncing of Michigan State w i t h a pulled hamstring' musclevand his presence in the backfield can o n 1 y be another ominous sign to the onhers. Knights By JERRY CLARKE Currently, there are 40 Na- tional Football League players who have graduated from Gram- bling College. Only Notre Dame can surpass this total. Last season, Grambling had nine of its seniors picked in the professional draft. Only South- ern California can match this total. This 'season, Grambling has twenty seniors on its roster and head football coach Eddie Rob- inson fully expects all of them to be taken in the next year's draft. It is doubtfulnthat any other team can make such a claim. face Delta Devils State and Prairie View by large margins. It is the attack that has led the Black Knights in their four games so far. A line that aver- ages 240 pounds per man opens gaping holes in opposing de- fenses. Billy Manning, the 245 pound center, and AlberthDen- nis, a huge tackle at 264 pounds, anchor the line. But it is the backfield that makes Robinson smile. Quar- terback Matthew Reed, who weighs 225 pounds, played well in the latter portions of last season. His 31 completions were good for 603 yards and nine But the man who thrills the large crowds that gather to see Grambling play is compara- tively small wingback Frank Lewis. Lewis weighs in at 190 pounds, one of the smaller play- ers on the squad, and though he carried the ball only 45 times last year, he gained 700 yards on the ground, an average of 16.1 yards per carry. He also grabbed 33 passes for an aver- age of over 24 yards per recep- tion, and his 16 touchdowns made him the scoring leader of the Southwestern Athletic Con- ference. Robinson is certain that he will be taken in the first