Page Eight THE MICHJGAN DAILY Saturday, October 24, 1970 of Page Eight THE MICHiGAN DAILY Saturday, October 24, 1970 I Stanford leads Rose race CORRECTION ! campus interviews for BETHLEHEM STEEL will be held on NOVEMBER 4 For full details see ad in Wed., Oct. 21 issue or contact the Placement Office. lq By JOHN PAPANEK If you love those great college football games where great powers take each other on in a blood- and-guts battle for Rose Bowls, Orange Bowls, or what have you, then ignore college football this week. Scanning the top ranked teams, exluding the Big Ten, we find second-ranked Texas and third- ranked Notre Dame, both of which are idle today.. One game of importance for Big Ten fans is the one between the Stanford Indians of Jim Plunkett and the UCLA Bruins of Dennis Dummit. This game should be a powerful determinent of the team to represent the Pacific Eight in this year's Michigan-less Rose B owl1. Eighth-ranked Stanford (5-1) is now the leading contender for the conference crown, since they upset Southern Cal two weeks ago. Today's game will be a show- down between two widely acclaim- ed quarterbacks. Plunkett, who last week set an an all-time col- legiate total offense record, is only five notches above Dummit in that category for the season. In passing percentage, Plunkett leads by only 40 points, .540 to .500. The Bruins salvaged a 24-21 victory over Cali- fornia last week when Dummit scrambled in for a touchdown with four seconds to play. Fourth-ranked, unbeaten Ne- braska faces the task of defendingz against the Cowboys of Oklahoma State, a team which has won its last two games against TCU and 4Houston. The Cornhuskers are strong favorites in the game. In last week's 41-20 win over Kan- . i L e.*;........a} "J Professional Lei IN a A sas, Nebraska came roaring back from a 20-10 deficit and amassed 515 yards. An 80-yard touchdown pass from Van Brownson to Guy Ingles put the Huskers ahead to stay. Although it will be a sure win- ner, many eyes will be on the Ar- kansas Razorbacks today. They will be playing a team literally made of scrubs, but there is a familiar story connected with it. The team is Wichita State, which lost 16 players, its coach and ath- letic director in that controversial plane crash three weeks ago. To- day will be their first game since that day, and being at half strength or not, the team will be facing the ninth-ranked team in the nation. Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles finds himself and his team in a unique position. "We've never had to face this type of situation be- fore," he said. "We called them and said we'd help them in any way and if they wanted to cancel the game we had another op- ponent lined up. We feel it's an honor to show the nation that Arkansas will play the first game with them since the accident." Another of the more important games today features Colorado at Missouri. Misouri, which was an early season favorite in the Big Eight, is now in deep trouble after losing premier running back Joe Moore for the season, two weeks ago while losing, to Nebraska. Last week, the Tigers took another trouncing at the hands of Notre Dame.' Since stunning the nation by beating Penn State four weeks ago, the Buffs have returned back to earth. They lost a squeaker to Kansas State, 21-20, destroyed Iowa State, 61-70, then lost to Oklahoma., Tennessee, ranked 11th this week, hosts Florida and possibly the top passing combination in the country in John Reaves and Car- los Alvarez. Tennessee has to its credit a strong defense which has given up only 12 points in four of its five games. The other game, a 36-23 beating by sixth-ranked Auburn, accounts for the Volun- teers' 4-1 record. One game that might produce an upset and gum up the works in the Pacific Eight is Southern Cal and Oregon. Oregon, at 4-2, has already upset UCLA and Cali- fornia, but lost to Stanford. So Oregon might well continue its spoiler role and knock off USC. If that happened and UCLA beat Stanford, the Pacific Eight would be one giant mess of Rose Bowl bound hopefuls. Stanford, now 5-1 would be 5-2, as would be UCLA and Oregon. USC would be 4-2-1. That would make for quite a race, and quite a second game for that November 21 dou- bleheader: Michigan-Ohio State, followed by USC-UCLA. N Subscribe To THE MICHIGAN DAILY FUN AND PROFIT: Minors mean money to majors 7 Conning November 6 Two of the best in one of Michigan's greatest traditions THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEN'S GLEE CLUB WILLIS PATTERSON, Conductor and STANFORD'S ONE-MAN MA- CHINE Jim Plunkett (16) is futilly chased by Washington State lineman Marc Pence (70). While engineering the Indians to a 63-16 win and tightening their grip on a Rose Bowl ticket, Plunkett shattered the all-time collegiate total offense record. 00 BLUE !- Be o Winner BUY U of M SWEATSHIRTS T-SHIRTS JACKETS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MEN'S GLEE CLUB Eastern Conference Atlantic Division W L Pct. Philadelphia 4 1 .800 New York 4 2 .667 Buff' 1 2 .333 Boston 2 4 .333 Central Division Baltimore 4 1 .800 Atlanta 1 3 .250 Cincinnati 0 3 .000 Cleveland 0 5 .000 Western Conference Midwestern Division GB 1/2 2 2 3 3 2 By JIM KEVRA Back in the 1930's, Branch Rickey, the general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, had a brilliant idea on how to secure { talent for his baseball team. He entered into a deal with a number of minor league teams to give financial aid in return for sole control over the team's ballplayers. Historically, the minor league teams had ague Standings Portland vs. San Francisco at Oakland Detroit at Buffalo * * * * ABA Yesterday's Results New York 117, Carolina 97 Pittsburgh at.Denver, inc. Indiana at Texas, inc. * * * * NHL East Division W L T Pts. GF GA Boston 4 0 1 9 28 15 New York 4 1 0 8 14 7 Montreal 4 2 0 8 16 10 Detroit 2 5 0 4 19 24 Vancourver 2 5 0 4 18 29 Buffalo 2 4 1 5 10 19 Toronto 1 4 0 2 16 21 West Division Mhladelphia 4 1 1 9 16 11 hicago 3 2 1 8 22 15 St. Louis 3 1 2 8 18 14 Los Angeles 3 1 0 6 18 12 Minnesota 3 2 0 6 12 9 Pittsburgh 0 3 2 2 6 11 lifornia 0 5 1 1 9 25 Yesterday's Results Buffalo 4, Detroit 3 St. Louis at Vancouver, Inc. Pittsburgh at California, Inc. Today's Games Philadelphia at Montreal Chicago at Toronto ' aw York at Minnesota St. Louis at Los Algeles Only games scheduled. WILLIAM OLSON, Conductor IN JOINT CONCERT HILL AUDITORIUM-8:00 P.M. Detroit Milwaukee Chicago Phoenix 6 0 1.000 P 1 1 .500 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 Pacific Division 3 3 4 BLOCK SALES: Oct. 29-30 INDIVIDUAL SALES: Nov. 1-6 TICKET PRICES: $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 MAIL ORDERS: 1024 Ad. Bldg. Ann Arbor to E Portland 2 1 .667- Seattle 2 1 .667 - Los Angeles 2 2 .500 San Diego 3 3 .500 San Francisco 2 3 .400 Yesterday's Results Baltimore 98, New York 92 E -ston 131, Cincinnati 126 Philadelphia at Los Angeles, inc. Cleveland at Phoenix, inc. Portland at Seattle, inc. Today's Games Baltimore at Milwaukee Cincinnati at New York roston at Atlanta Piladelphia at San Diego 1 b e e n financially independent and survived by auctioning their best players to the major leagues at the end of each season. Rickey's plan became ex- tremely profitable for the major league operators because it eliminated expensive b i d d i n g wars and it became universally accepted by them. But, it was the beginning of the end for the minor league operators as they were priced out of compe- tition. Today, however, with rising costs, even running minor league operations has become too ex- pensive for many owners and they are being forced to cut- back their number of farm clubs. ,Only a few dozen minor leagues are in operation now as compared with over 100 leagues about 50 years ago. Don Lund, former Director of Player De- velopment for the Detroit Tigers and currently the Assistant Di- rector of Athletics at Michigan, estimated that the Tigers spent "about a milion dollars last year" on their farm system. THE MAJOR league domina- tion of the minor leagues turns into a vicious circle. As the ma- jors inevest more money into a team, they assume more control over the team and can recall the minor league team's best players in the middle of the season. Often, this loses local support for the team and they make less money. This forces the majors to support their farm clubs to a greater extent and the vicious circle closes. 4 Lund explained that the Tigers working agreement with their farm clubs was a very liberal one. For a class A farm team (class A is the third highest minor league. team), the Tigers pay all the players salaries (about $500 per month for each of the 20 players), provide a. .set of uniforms, and pay $1500. The minor league affiliate must supply one set of uni- forms, the necessary bats and balls, and provide the trans- portation for the teams. They have sole possession of their share of the gate receipts. For a AA farmclub, the minor league team must pay $150 per month of their players salaries and, for a AAA farmclub, they must pay $450 per month. To fill the need for more players, the college baseball pro- gram has burst into prominence. Even a dozen years ago, a prom- ising young baseball player could only sign a contract and be as- signed to a minor league team. Now, however, a young ball- player has the option of sign- ing a contract or trying to pick I, 'M' ruggers up an education and some valuable experience in college. Lund admits that "It's an individual situation" whether a high school player should go to college or try to go directly into the pros. He adds, "Some just aren't interested in college. ONE OF THE problems a col- lege player faces, however, is not getting proper coaching. Lund comments, "You'd be sur- prised how many pitchers don't even know how to grip the ball or stand on the mound prop- erly." This is not meant to imply that college coaches don't know their baseball but the minor leagues are far superior in quan- tity of coaches and the amount of time spend with a single ball- player. Minor league baseball will never die out completely; but, its condition may soon approach that of football with each club owning only one or two farm- teams and a few independent leagues existing through the coutry. 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