Page Seven iw Tuesday, November 10, 1 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, November 10, 19Th THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven i Lack of mistakes keys M' victory on this and that Where basketball isn't -fun eric Siegel DETROIT TWENTY-FIVE University of Detroit basketball players went on the court at the Memorial Building for the first time in a week yesterday, but no one was rejoicing, or even smiling, over their return. Not athletic director Bob Calihan, not Coach Jim Harding, and, most of all, not the players. There was none of the open hostility that characterized the situation here last week, when the players-16 varsity members and nine freshmen-presented a list of grievances and announced they would not play for Harding, and when Harding refuted the grievances and said the players were "a pack of liars." There was no open hostility . . . but there was still an overriding sense of gloom. There was the feeling, listening to Harding and watching the Titans practice for the first time in seven days, that, despite the return of the players, all is not well at the U of D. An immediate concern is, of course, the effect of the events of the past week on the performance of the team. Harding, looking drawn and a bit haggard, spoke to that question yesterday after meeting with his players for over an hour. "I really can't answer that," he told reporters. "We hope it won't adversely affect the season. It might even help to unify the team. It all depends ..." There is more than a little concern here, though, as to whether a group of players who charged their coach with a "failure to recognize us as human beings with human feel- ings" can give the kind of effort it takes to win basketball games. "I guess the players returned because they wanted to play basketball," Harding said in response to a question, but the answer is not quite that simple. For the 25 U of D players, play- ing basketball also meant a $3175 scholarship, and there was a strong indication that that money would be taken away if the players did not return. Harding indicated yesterday that he wouldn't discipline the players for their practice boycott and their charges that he used "insulting language" and physically abused them. But he said he wasn't going to change his ways, either. "After 41 years, I'm not going to start doing anything dif- ferently now," he said. Harding has been doing things his way for a long time. But his way-the way he says he won't change--has been anything but sportsmanlike. Before taking over as head coach at Detroit last year, he had four coaching jobs, and he had some sort of trouble at three of them. He/ led Loyola of New Orleans and Gannon College to the best records in the schools' history, but he was accused of getting Loyola into trouble with the NCAA, and he was accused of using ineligible players a Gannon. He had the Minnesota Pipers of the ABA in first place, but he ended his pro choaching career by punching Pipers' owner Babe Rubin. Last year, captain Sam Dunlap quit the team after a run-in of sorts with Harding. Dunlap's grandfather had died, and Dunlap asked Harding if he could miss practice to attend the funeral. "Yes," said Harding ,"but if you miss practice, you'll be punished." "I'm not going to be punished for going to a funeral," Dunlap answered. And he quit. Last week, the players charged that Harding treated one player callously on a day when the player was feeling badly over the death of a friend; that Harding used abusive language to another player in front of the player's parents; and that one of Harding's assistant coaches pushed a player during a practice. Harding has categorically denied all the charges, but one suspects that there is at least some element of truth to them. If not, why did 25 players who came to play basketball walk off the court? The events here this past week brought the school dangerously close to a breakdown of its basketball pro- gram, and its entire athletic program.. It would have been nothing the athletic department didn't deserve. In an effort to build a basketball powerhouse, the school brought in a coach with a reputation for not getting along with other people. At the same time, it overlooked Will Robinson, a popular black coach in the Detroit area. Now, at least for the meantime, it appears that basketball has been saved at the University of Detroit. It may not be a bad season, it may even be a winning season, but it will not be a happy season. That, too, will be nothing. When told his players didn't look too happy when they came out on the floor yesterday, Harding said glumly: "We never come out on the floor that way~" By MORT NOVECK For a coach who's team has an 8-0 record and has yet to have serious trouble with an opponent, Michigan football mentor Bo Schembechler is unusually quick to point up flaws in his squad's performance. However even the eternal pes- simist Schembechler had trouble finding fault with the Wolverine's 42-0 erasing of the Illinois Illini. Even he admitted that, "we played well." In fact, Schembechler was hard pressed to find specific mis- takes in the Michigan game. All he finally came up with were Baily sports NIGHT EDITOR: BETSY MAHON Manning may be able to play; Kern named scholar-athlete By The Associated Press 0 MEMPHIS - Quarterback Archie Manning who suffered a broken arm Saturday may be back on the practice field tossing.passes within ten days, doctors said yesterday. The encouraging announcement followed nearly two hours of surgery on the Mississippi star's left arm which was broken: below the elbow. He is right handed. Early statements on the, break indicated that Manning might be wearing a cast for three months, thus preventing him from playing again this season. However, doctors said after the surgery that the game signal caller might be able to return to the gridiron. late in the season. r 0 NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Quarterbacks Rex Kern, of Ohio State and Dennis Dummit of UCLA were among 12 college seniors selected yesterday by the National Football Foundation as 1970 Scholar-Athlete Award winners. . Halfback David Elmendorf of Texas A&iM, defensive backs James Cooeh of Colorado and Willie Clyde Bogan of Dartmouth, linebacker Bill Zapalac of Texas, tackle Thomas Neville of Yale, guards Larry DiNardo, of Notre Dame and Don Denbo of Tennessee a nd centers John Sande of Stanford, Thomas Lyons of Georgia and Leo Dillon of Dayton also were cited for excellence in the classroom as well as on the playing field. :?1,r:;?i"FY.-¢ . 'r" i 'r{{?r:;{:" . 5tiaryv4{r " ., ?; :":?r:r} .;.w7a, N::w,+.;C:;:?vr; v;Y {. {.;err.^.".:.7m,.y*a. e":" V,. q ".:4.{FFFr':Fr 1r:Fr'.Fv : :":"."::" v.,.;." " .." .r ".:: :;:;:::::.. "? F'^ .} 3F":.{ ""yr° : +% rw. ,n",a^P n........,..:4Y."eF:.".v."."nrr...a.., Fr".i. Professional League Standings three; the 61 yard pass play from Illini quarterback Mike Wells to tight end Doug Dieken, a thirteen yard draw play by Willy Osley, which was Illinois' longest run of the day, and finally, the fact that no Wolverines broke away for long gains. It wasn't so many games ago that Schembechler had no time for worrying about such things. Earlier in the season Michigan was displaying a marked propen- sity for giving the ball away on fumbles and interceptions. Last year the squad gave up the ball on turnovers only 14 times. In the first seven games this year they lost it on 17 occasions, 12 of them fumbles. While they capitalized on! opponents errors 42 times last year, the Wolverines snatched the ball only 24 times through the first seven games in thecurrent season. However, if the Illinois game! is any indication, the malady AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Division W L T Pct. Pts. Baltimore 7 1 0 .872 '182 Miami 4 4, 0 .500 124 Buffalo, 3 5 4 .375 137 Boston 1 7 0 .125 177 ; N.Y. Jets 1 7 0 125 144 Central Division Cleveland 4 4 0 .500 189 Pittsburgh 4 4 0 .500 112 Houston . 2 5 1 .286 112 Cincinnati 2 6 0 .250 146 West Division Oakland' 4 2 2 .667 201 : Kansas City 4 3 1 .571 174 ] Denver 4 4 0 .500 152 San Diego 3 3 2 .500 173 ]]] NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Division -Daily-Sara Krulwich FRANK GUSICH (14), Michigan "wolf" zeroes in on Illinois quarterback Mike Wells (12) in last Saturday's contest. Gusich was named defensive champion of the week for his performance in the game, which was highlighted by strong open field tackles such as the one he made on this play. seems to have been cured. As start passing more," Schembechleri Schembechler was quick to point noted. "it's not that much of a out immediately following the gamble anymore. Either the pass game, Michigan. got through the will be completed, or it will go contest with no miscues. incomplete, but it won't be inter- This fact pleases Schembechler,' cepted." who noted, "It's encouraging to Thus far in the season the me that we didn't make mistakes." rushing game has for outweightedI Especially gratifying to Schem- the passing attack. Of the 644 bechler was that none of quarter- back Don Moorhead's passes were total plays that the Wolverines intercepted and that all except one have run, 489 of them were on the were right on target. "We may! ground. The team has gained 30141 OP 119 157 190 201 188 180 118 170 103 172 159 143 171 130 136 147 140 203 66 181 181 171 West Division San Francisco 6 1 1 .857 202 Los Angeles 5 2 1 .714 170 Atlanta 3 4 1 A29 1;15 New Orleans 2 5 1 .286 104 Sunday's Results Atlanta 10, Los Angeles 10, tie' St. Louis 31, Boston 0 Cincinnati 43, Buffalo 14 Oakland 23, Cleveland 20 New York Giants 23, Dallas 20 San Diego 24, Denver 21 New Orleans 19, Detroit 17 Kansas City 24, Houston 9 Philadelphia 24, Miami 17 Minnesota 19, Washington 10 Pittsburgh 21, New York Jets 17 San Francisco 37, Chicago 16 :Yesterday's Game { Baltimore 13, Green Bay 10\ 134 173 ' Ij J j 1 r I I 4 yards, but only 1011 have come through the air. Since Schembechler doesn't con- sider passing a gamble anymore he has found other ways to take chances. Earlier in the season he was booed when he punted on fourth down and short yardage. Against Illinois he went for the first down twice though the ball was between the 40 yard lines. "I figured that we were going to move the ball on Illinois," Schembechler commented. "I've gotta cut that stuff out though, I should have kicked." With a near perfect perform- ance from the team, Schembechler must have had a hard time pick- ing his champions of the week, but rising to the challenge, he selected Moorhead on offense and Frank Gusich on defense. St. Louis 5 2 0 .750 N.Y. Giants 5 3 0 .625 Dallas 5 3 0 .625 Washington 4 4 0 .500 Philadelphia 1 7 0 .125 Central Division Minnesota 7 1 0 .875 Detroit 5 3 0 .625 Green Bay 4 4 0 .500 Chicago 3 5 0 .375 211 162 146 167 145 203 207 139 114 Titan cagers return to practice; twJo payer rSemain suspended 7 The CHARCOAL HOUSE between, about, above beyond Mr. Mini's and PJs TRY US 338 S. State--7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. i i i I I CREDIT BY EXAMINATION FOR ENGLISH" COURSES Exeminations /o be given Nov. 20th and 21st SEE Professor Mullin TO REGISTER 444 Mason Hall Deadline Nov. 12th 1 , By PAT ATKINS Special To The Daily DETROIT - Mass suspension of the entire University Detroit basketball team ended late yes- terday afternoon when the Titan squad showed up at Detroit Memo- rial Building for practice follow- ing a closed meeting with Coach Jim Harding. Harding, who met with his team for over an hour, would not di- vulge the contents of the meeting. "It's a team matter, what we dis- cussed," Harding said. "We did have some problems, but I ex- plained that U-D is bigger than we are individually or collectively. We 'have a better understanding of what the problems were. I see no problem now." ' The players themselves did not issue a statement. Harding ex- plained that at the meeting,' "Everyone had the opportunity to talk. Hopefully we'll have no need for more meetings." The 25 players were suspended' last Thursday evening by Harding after they released a list of griev- ances, including the charge that Harding's "failure to recognize us! as human beings with human feel- ings, wants and desires has driven us to the point of psychological depression." The list of six grievances sub- mitted by the players were that Harding and his coaches used de- ceptive recruiting practices, had little regard for injured players,. physically abused the ball players,| had no faith in the players' ability to adjust to college, had no regard for a player's personal feelings, and used insulting language. On Friday, the suspended play-' ers were ordered by Harding to appear at yesterday's ractice or be thrown off the te m. None made the latter choice. "The players want to play bas-j ketball," Harding said simply. "I gather they're happy." Two players remain under sus- pension for actions unrelated to the past week's walk-out - Dan Agee, for missing a practice, andl Gerald Smith, for disciplinary rea-! sons. Hardinng expects them to return to the team soon. A handful of U-D students hadl waited on the sidelines to enterl practice in the event that the var- sity and freshman squads did not. appear. Harding issued a call last! Saturday to the entire male U-D student body for an open practice yesterday. The invitation was al- so extended to the then-suspended team. University administrators, alum- ni. and Athletic Director Bob Cali- han worked as mediators in an effort to bring the two sides to- gether. "We held several meetings and set up conversations," Calihan explained after the start of prac- tice. "We suggested the open prac- tice. Then the players came todayj and said they wanted a meeting with Coach Harding before prac- tice." Harding backed by Father Mal- colm Carron, S.J., the university president, has taken a solid stance towards his squad's rebellion. After the closed session, he made it plain that his attitude had not changed. "No concessions were asked for and no concessions were given. They didn't ask for any concessions at all and, of course, I didn't give them any," Harding stated. "It's been blown all out of pro- portion as to what I really meant by my statements," Harding noted. "Hopefully we'll run things just the same," Harding said. "If I couldn't take the players back without being vindictive, there wouldn't be a basketball season." For the Student Body: " LEVI'S " DENIM " BUSH JEANS $10 CHECKMATE 11 r with Front-wheel drive grips the road in any .weather. OVERSEAS IMPORTED CARS 936 N. 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