4 Thursday, October 22, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .'Page aline x- -- Paae Nine Enigmatic Minnesota to test Michiga By JERRY CLARKE Minnesota football teams in recent years have had a habit of iaily starting slowly and finishing with ; a display of strength. Last season was no exception as head coacho Murray Warmath saw his team win none of its first games, but rebound to take all of their last NIGHT EDITOR: four, JIM KEVRA This season, it is hard for the observer to tell whether Minne- sota has started slowly or not. garded as a runner than as aI They have won just two of their passer. His performances in tne five games, but the losses came first four game bore out this as- at the hands of Missouri (with a sumption, but last Saturday in ed up by Louis Clare and Dick out any help. If he can suceed Humleker, respectively, who have in this task, it could take much each played well in reserve, of the pressure off of the rest of When Curry drops back to pass, the line. he generally throws to either Cook Defensively, the Gophers are led or tight end Bart Buetow. Buetow , by a secondary that ranks among is an excellent receiver, but lacks the nation's best. Led by Walt the size and blocking ability of Bowser, a senior from Newport Ray Parsons, the talented tight News, Virginia, the secondary has end of the last three seasons. allowed less than 600 yards His other receivers include split through the air and has inter- Kevin Hamm and flanker John cepted 14 passes. Captain JeffI Marqueson. Hamm is an experi- Wright leads in both interceptions enced receiver who averages al- and punt returns, but it is Bowser most 20 yards per catch. Mar- at safety that solidifies the pass queson is considered adequate at defense, using his great speed to i I (ridde I J I{ I r I t r "-- - --.- -- ---,I -- - - I -Daily-Jim Judkis WOLVERINE WINGBACK Preston Henry (44) prepares to take on the Texas A&M defensive wall as quarterback Don Moorhead (27) fades back to pass. This play took place as the Michigan squad mounted the drive which lead to their 14-10 victory over the Aggies. -DEFENSE SLIPS TO NI1 1. healthy Joe Moore), Nebraska, and Ohio State. In between, the Goph- ers have downed Ohio University and Indiana, both by impressive margins. An unknown quantity because of their schedule, Minnesota is still defintely a force to be reckoned' with, one that Michigan coach1 "Bo" Schembechler is not taking lightliy. The Wolverine mentor is preaching caution, commenting only that Saturday's game will be1 Michigan's "toughest game so far." THE GOPHERS will be led by quarterback Craig Curry, who en- tered the season more highly re- NTH Columbus he proved himself a his position, but caught only two more than capable passer, coin'- passes last season. pletink 28 passes in 47 attempts The big problem on offense thus' for 297 yards and one touchdown. far this season has been the per- This put his season total at 642 formance of the offensive line. yards, and he has thrown for Alvin Hawes, a 6-5, 240 pound three scores. tackle is one of the best linemen Curry has also run for over 200 in the conference, but his mates yards, and is an integral part of on the line give him little help. the powerful Gopher rushing at- Center Bob Eastlund is a key per- tack. His all around abilities have former, especially if he can han- caused Schembechler to compare dle Michigan's Henry Hill with- him with Michigan's Jim Betts, ---- -- -- -- last year's back up quarterback, who he feels is one of the top Beckman OK signal callers in the Big Ten. Offensive help comes mainly Just when they were starting from a pair of strong, if unspec- to get healthy, the Wolverines tacular running backs. Barry have run into another rash of in- Mayer led the team in rushing last juries. Starting defensive tackle season with 745 yards and 3 Tom Beckman who injured a knee touchdowns. At 6-12, 215 pounds, in practice Tuesday will probably he com'bines speed and power, and be able to play against Minne- was a second team All Big Ten sota on Saturday C o a c h Bo selection in 1969. So far this sea- Schembechler said yesterday. son, he has gained over 300 yards However, two others have added and is averaging almost five and their names to the injury list and a half yards per carry. are likely to miss much this week's C Kickoff time for Saturday's game against Minnesota will be at 1:15, instead of 1:30, because of TV coverage. play the position like a center- fielder. THE DEFENSIVE line is not as strong, however. Depending on whether Bill Light, a 225 pounder, plays linebacker or middle guard, the Gophers play either a four or five man line. Curt Mayfield and John Babcock hold forth at end, a position that is considered a key one this Saturday. If the Gopher ends can put enough pres- sure on Wolverine quarterback Don Moorehead, it is felt that they can force interceptions. ] CHAPTER EIGHTEEN "If only I had a duck" he moaned, "I could really pick those griddies." "Duck?" she querried hopefully. "I thought it was a sparrow." CHAPTER NINETEEN A dark ducklike shape skulked through the trees, barely 11- liminated by the pale moonlight. Three teeny-boppers grooving on Poco looked on as their television set was broken open and a gremlin popped out. Asked the gremlin, "Is this the Michigan Daily. I must get my Gridde Pickings in by Friday midnight to win the Cottage Inn pizza." CHAPTER TWENTY The news commentator continued, "Government scientists report that the lethal radiation will strike our fair city in 45 seconds. Details on survival techniques will be announced in one minute following this important commercial message." CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The end. 1. Minnesota - at MICHIGAN - (pick score) 2. Ohio State at Illinois 3. Wisconsin at Indiana 4. Iowa at Michigan State 5. Purdue at Northwestern 6. Alabama at Houston 7. LSU at Auburn 8. Washington at Oregon State 9. Miami (Fla.) at Pittsburgh 10. Georkia at Kentucky 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Florida St. at South Carolina VMI at The Citadel Colorado at Missouri Colorado St. at West Virginia Florida at Tennessee Kansas State at Oklahoma N. Carolina at Wake Forest Colgate at Brown Connecticut at Massachusetts- Wayne State at Parsons Wolverine ranking tarnished By BOB ANDREWS T h e Spartans of Michigan State may not have the most awe- some offense in the country, but they managed to score three' touchdowns against the Wolver- ines last Saturday, which was enough damage to knock the nig- gard Michigan defense f r o m fourth to ninth in the nation in 'allowing t he fewest number of points per game. The leader in this category is Toledo, which in six games, has given up only 18 points, an av- erage of three per game. The num- ber nine ranking by the Wolver- ines was the closest they came to being leaders in any of the offen- sive or defensive categories. . In addition to losing some of their potent stinginess with re- gard to number of points yielded, the Wolverine defense fell back from the leaders in total defense (,J (which is led by the University ofj Miami at Ohio, yielding just 166.81 yards a game) and from sixth to thirteenth in rushing defense (which isheaded by Louisiana, State, which has held its oppon- ents to a bit more than 40 yards on the ground each contest). the only other two categories that involves Wolverine players are in interceptions per g a mne, where Marty Huff is in a six way tie with an average of one theft each game and in punting, where the Big Ten leader, Paul Staroba, with a 40.6 yards average is six- teenth nttionally, far behind Mary Bateman of Utah, who is booming his average kick 47.4 yards. In the battle for leadership in total offense, Bill Craigo of UTEP and Jim Plunkett of Stanford are running neck a n d neck. 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