Wednesday, November 11, 1970 / THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Wednesday, November 11, 1970 / THE MICHIGAN DAILY Powell named A.L. MVP NEW YORK (N) - Big, Boog Powell, the slugging f i r s t baseman who led Baltimore to its third world championship in five years, was named the American League's Most Val- uable Player for the 1970 baseball season yesterday. Powell, runner-up to Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew inc * the 1969 MVP balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America, won handily this time over the Twins' Tony Oliva to give the Orioles their first individual award of the year. S P O R T S Ralph Houk of the New York Yankees beat out the Ori- oles' Earl Weaver for the AL Manager of the Year prize and NIGHT EDITOR: BOB ANDREWS Minnesota right-hander Jim Perry topped Baltimore's three 20-game winners in the Cy Young Award voting. The 29-year-old Powell, who packs 260 pounds on his 6- foot-4 frame, provided a ma---_--- jor share of the punch in the WOLVERINES FIFTH: Orioles' Eastern Division run- away, batting .279, w i t h 35 homers and 114 runs batted in. Irish corral Lorndorns in DOl I -Daily-Sara Krulwich Billy Taylor (42) gains yardage against Illinois Taylor and Do ughty: of two; of '1s By JOHN PAPANEK Despite winning the Big Ten co-championship last year and playing their way into the Rose Bowl, it was never known whe- ther or not the Wolverines real- ized their full offensive poten- tial. The reason is simple: There was always a great run- ning back sitting on the bench. Of course, Bo Schembech- ler's problem was one any coach would love to have. That is, which super-soph to play, Billy Taylor or Glenn Doughty? SAs it turned out, Schembech- ler seldom had to make that de- cision because on-, of his tail- backs was usually hurt while the other one played. First, it was Taylor's turn to sit out, recovering from an in- jury suffered just prior to the start of the season. Doughty became the man to make the fans forget Ron Johnson, and he rose to the occasion, leading on this it occurs the Wolverines to one-sided vic- tories in their first two games. But then the tables turned on Doughty when he injured his leg in the Missouri game and before you could spell Bennie Oosterbaan, Taylor became the top running threat in the Big Ten, and poor Doughty was Wally Pipped. For those who don't remember, Pipp was the regular Yankee first baseman who took a rest one day and a kid named Lou Gehrig took his place and played the next 2,136 consecutive games.) ,Doughty recovered by the be- ginning of November, but he was still second fiddle to Tay- lor. It was during this time that fans and reporters tried to hint at a degree of animosity be- tween the two. "All last year, reporters tried to find animosity between B.T. and me," says Doughty, "I just and that 1 i E -MelloL couldn't understand it. It was never there." "We both knew we had the ability to do the job," Taylor agreed, "We needed each other in case one of us got hurt." No better evidence of their lack of animosity can be found than the fact that they live together, in a large house along with five other football players. The seven msn are all juniors and all black, and they named the house "The Den of the Mellow Men." Tom Darden, Michigan de- fensive back and one of the Mel- low Men, described the arrange- ment: "We've really got some- thing here. We all came here together not knowing anybody and through a common bond - football - we got together. But now, you can take football away and we still have it." The glib Darden was close to Taylor and Doughty last season and he knows their relationship, "Man, I'm prejudiced; I live with the dudes!" he admitted, "But I'll tell you they're as close as any two guys on the team." Of course, this is the year that Schembechler was determined to get both Taylor and Doughty into the same backfield. At first he tried Taylor at fullback and Doughty at tailback. Neither man had much success in the early games and both experienc- ed lots of frustration. Then Bo made the move that has helped make the Wolverines the fifth best team in the na- tion. He returned Taylor to the tailback spot and moved Dough- ty to a new position, wingback. "This adds a new dimension to our offense," explains Dough- ty. "Now we can attack f o u r ways: Moorhead, Seyferth, B.T., and myself. The defense can't afford to key on any one man. We've got some new plays for the wingback. I can catch the ball, which I love to do, or run with it. I'm all over the place." h e saga V Men Taylor played his high school ball at Barberton High, Ohio, Schembechler's home town. Ac- cording to his high school ath- letic director, LeRoy Raber, Taylor only played as a sopho- more and a senior. In his junior year, "his mother didn't let him play because she was afraid he would get hurt." Do'ughty, who comes out of Detroit Pershing, was, like Tay- lor, recruited by virtually every major college in the country. Both chose Michigan because of the personal interest taken in them by former coach Bump El- liott and the athletic depart- ment. Playing wingback is Dough- ty's fourth position since h i g h school. "I had the most f u n playing middle linebacker in high school," he says, "My hero was Dick Butkus. But when I got here, I was too small for a linebacker and I played split end. Then when Bo came, he was looking for a tailback. At first I was skeptical; I had never carried the ball. But after a while it was kind of fun. But you got to be a durable dude to play there, you get contact every play." Going to the Rose Bowl h a d been a lifelong dream to both players, and getting the chance to go indtheir first year was cherished. But the dream turned into a nightmare for Doughty, who broke his leg in practice in Pasadena. "I was so discouraged," he re- members, "I didn't know what I wanted to do." Taylor soon joined his roommate on the side- lines, after sustaining an in- jury early in the game. Understandably, both are hop- ing for another chance to play there next New Year's Day. "It wouldn't be a bad way to leave, playing our last game in t h e Rose Bowl and having been able to go twice," says Taylor, "But I'm a little skeptical to talk about it. Something about a jinx ..." Something about which the two are very proud and eager to talk about are their plans for Christmas time. "Seven college football players are going to Vietnam for Christmas, and Glenn and I have been asked to go," says Taylor. "It's a tre- mendous honor for us and we really look forward to going." They would probably like to go again next year, too, as long as they could be back in Pasadena by January 1. He is the first full-time first baseman to win American League MVP honors since 1938, w h e n Jimmy Foxx of Boston took theI award. Killebrew won last yeart after splitting the season between first base and third.- Killebrew finished third in thec balloting this y e a r, followed by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski, the1 1967 MVP, a n d Washington'st Frank Howard.1 Powell drew 11 of the first place votes cast by a 24-man BBWAA committee and totaled 234 points1 on a basis of 14 for first place! vote, 9 for a second, 8 for a third,z ect. Oliva had 157 points and five first place votes, and Killebrew had 152 with one first.t "I didn't think I'd be this ex-t cited," Powell exclaimed when told of the conquest at his South Miami, Fla., winter home. "I'm certainly happy. It's by far the biggest thing that's happened to me. As they say, this is where! it's at." As in the recent Cy Young bal-: loting, the vote was widely split. No fewer than eight players were given first place votes. And none of the 29 players who received votes got one from every com- mitteeman. Powell w a s omitted from one ballot. The Twins, champions of the7 Western Division, also had three7 players among the top 10. Perry, the Cy Young winner, was ninth. He was the only pitcher to finish in the first 10 in the balloting. By The Associated Press Notre Dame completed its rise to the top of The Associated Press college football poll yesterday, ed- ging past Texas' defending na- tional champions who in turn! ousted Ohio State three weeks ago. Thanks to a 46-14 rout of Pitts- burgh while Texas was having its troubles beating lowly Baylor 21- 14, the Fighting Irish pulled down 23 of 46 first-place votes cast by sports writers and broadcasters across the country and 822 points. Nebraska and Michigan re- mained in fourth and fifth place respectively. Although the Wol- verines trounced Illinois 42-0, the Cornhuskers were able to main- tain their lead on the basis of a 54-29 romp over Iowa State. 1. Notre Dame 23 7-0 8221 2. Texas 13 7-0 783 3. Ohio State 3 7-0 728 4. Nebraska 3 8-0--1 638 5. MICHIGAN 3 8-0 607 6. Stanford $-1 482 7. Arkansas 7-1 375 8. Auburn 7-1 350 9. Louisiana State 6-1 306 10. Tennessee 7-1 280 11. Arizona State 1 7-0 204 12. Mississippi 6-1 197 13. Air Force 8-1 140 14. San Diego State 8-0 76 15. Dartmouth 7-0 45 16. Toledo 9--0 38 17. UCLA 5-3 26 18. Southern California 5-3-1 20 19. Oregon 6-3 191 20. Kansas State 6-3 17 Othersreceiving votes, listed alpha- betically: Alabama, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Houston, Northwestern, P e n n State, Syracuse, Texas Tech, Tulane. F The three young men spit loudly at the threshold of the swing door, and the rest of the customers in the smokey honky tonk smiled tensely as they thought about the fate of those three punks. While the mustachioed Manhattan biker clomped up to the bar and ordered three Buds, his two companions bopped over to the juke box and inspected the titles. After the beers were served and the bloody eyes of every cracker in the place were on them, the two hilligans suddenly attacked the music machine, busting their size 12 Acmes through the broken mess of tubes and discs until it was a heap of junk. Damn, the thing didn't even have any Poco,' drawled the gangl- ing cyclist in a corn-fed Iowa voice. "Now you boys shouldn't have done that," rumbled the smelly bartender. "We gonna fix you good." "Wait a minute, hog-face," said the lean, well-dressed dude, "we just dropped by to get your gridde picks before midnight Friday so you can win one of them delicious Cottage Inn pizzas. Be cool, man." Then, as both sides relaxed, the three pulled out a set of drums, a steel guitar and a Les Paul Custom and began to play. Before long, every one of the pot-bellied rednecks was stompin' the floor and beggin' to hear more of that hard-rockin' country music. Gridde P ickings Ii--- I i 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Iowa at MICHIGAN Michigan State at Minnesota Northwestern at Indiana Wisconsin at Illinois Ohio State at Purdue Kansas State at Nebraska Boston College at Pitt Syracuse at West Virginia Colorado at Oklahoma State Georgia at Auburn 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Kentucky at Florida Duke at South Carolina Princeton at Yale Oklahoma at Kansas Kent State at Miami (O.) Buffalo at Temple Rice at Texas A&M Stanford at Air Force UCLA at Washington DAILY LIBELS vs. sgc HANSON AMBITIOUS Soph-laden Gophers By AL SHACKELFORD O nl y Indiana and possibly + (Seventh in a series) Michigan have more talented sophomores than Hanson's Goph- < The Lord giveth and the Lord ers, and only the Hoosiers' George taketh away. McGinnis is rated a match for the! Rebounding machine Larry Mi- 6-8 Brewer. to me... eric siege[ THAT THE NCAA, for better or worse, is making it harder for college coaches to recruit high school players. The NCAA has ruled that a recruiter cannot contact a player at a sporting event the player is participating in. And it has ruled that, after a college pays for one visit by a high school player, it cannot even buy the player a coke if he chooses to visit the school again on his own money. That Michigan's attendance for eight football games is up over the 600,000 mark. With a crowd of. 65,000 expected for Iowa, and 87,000 expected for Ohio State, the season's attendance should reach about 760,000, an increase of more than 120,000 from last season. In dollars and cents, this means a revenue increase of over $300,000. That Wisconsin is also experiencing an increase in football attendance. With record-setting crowds in its last two home games against Michigan and Ohio State, Badger attendance is up more than 30 percent over last year. The corresponding in- crease in revenue will be most welcome to the financially troubled Wisconsin athletic department, which had considered eliminating some of its minor sports, but finally settled for a cutback in their travel allowances. That, speaking of Wisconsin, former Badger football coach Milt Bruhn, who had two Rose Bowl teams in 11 years, must hold some sort of record for getting kicked around adminis- trative circles. After a couple of losing seasons, he was made assistant athletic director; when that position, and its $25,- 000 a year salary, was eliminated, he was given a new position as director of club sports. When Daily Cardinal sports editor Jim Cohen wrote a series of articles praising Bruhn and criticizing the athletic department from firing him from, not one, but two jobs, Cohen receved' a reply from athletic director Elroy Hirsch. Hirsch said Bruhn had never been kicked upstairs or fired, but merely "transferred." That Michigan assistant basketball coach Freddie Snow- den has a refreshing philosophy about college basketball. "It's got to be hard work," he says, "but it's got to be fun, too." That's something Jim Harding would never say. That there are rumors that Minnesota Coach Murray Warmath, who has been the Gophers' head coach for 17 years and has won his fair share of games, but hasn't won too many friends, may get the axe if he doesn't win big in the final two games of the season. The Gophers' record to date is 2-5-1 overall and 1-3-1 in the Big Ten. That Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler has subtly rallied to the defense of Illinois Coach Jim Valek, who was fired in mid- season by the Illinois Athletic Board and then immediately rein- stated after the Illini players threatened to strike. "They're really something, and they're playing under a tremendous handicap," Schembechler said after the Wolverines' 42-0 victory. "We'd score and they'd come right back at us. Our players have tremendous admiration for those guys." And that it would be one of the "class" moves of college sports if the coaches mentioned Valek when they announce the results kan, starting forward Larry Ov- erskei and head coach Bill Fitch have been taken away from Mint nesota, b u t new head coach George Hanson isn't crying. Hanson is counting on the re- turning guard duo of Ollie Shan- non and Eric H ill and sopho- mores Jim Brewer, Henry Goodes, Marvin Taylor and Scott Magnu- son to lead the Gopher basketball team out of the closets and into the Big Ten championship. "We're in to win it," vows Hanson. In assessing his compe- tition, the wily new mentor says that "everybody's looking to In- diana, because of t h e i r sopho- mores." NFL teams in law suit? CLEVELAND (P-A number of teams in the National Football League reported Wednesday that they had been served subpoenas to appear before a Federal Grand Jury, but a mystery surrounded the reason behind the action. The National Football League headquarters in New York said it had not been informed of any court suit while the Justice De- partment declined comment on re- ports the subpoenas were the re- sult of anti-trust charges. Brewer was stolen by Minnesota recruiters from the greedy clutch- es of Illinois recruiters who kept constant surveillance on his mod- est home in the Chicago suburbs. He is tabbed as the next Gopher All-American, is likened to Bill Russell in his defensive style, and will man a forward postfor Mn- nesota. More familiar to Daily readers might be the 6-9 Taylordwho hails from Detroit Mumford. Taylor was an All-City and All-State choice as a Michigan prep and is expected to battle with returning forward Jerry Pyle for the other starting forward spot. Goodes and Magnuson are not expected to break into the start- ing Gopher lineup but will add depth to t h e squad. Magnuson, who falls just short of the fabled 7-0 mark, h a s been likened by basketball afficionados to a gi- gantic tambourine. Diamonds in Hanson's rough are the returning guards, Shannon and Hill. Shannon, a JC transfer, plunked in 18.2 points a contest in lastseason's Big Ten play and often dazzled myopic fans with his quicksilver, but often blurry moves. Hill rang the scoring register for 19.7 a game last year and will combine with Shannon to give the )ose threat Gophers a dream backcourt. In forecasting the future perform- ance of his guards Hanson says "I don't see either of their per-! formances dropping appreciably." Returning in the frontcourt for Minnesota are forward Pyle, a 6-6 brawler who dribbled in just over five points a game last year, and 6-8 Tom Masterson. Masterson will handle the pivot post a n d should improve on his 5.3 scoring average of last year; Hanson com- ments that his big center "looks better offensively than he did last year." He may have the baskets foaming at the rim. Another Gopher who may see a lot of action is 6-3 JC transfer Bob Murphy, reputedly a hot-shot guard. If Murphy breaks into the dastarting five, Hill will probably be moved up to a forward with Brew- er. For the Student Body: " LEVI'S " DENIM $ BUSH JEANS $10 CHECKMATE State Street at liberty And Taylor feels much more at home in his natural tailback position. "Fullback is probably the toughest position to play in terms of physical punishment," he said. "A fullback's got his head in every play, even quarter- back sneaks. You have little chance to read (blocks) a n d make cuts, you have to be back where you can see the holes open up. Besides, there are some huge cats in the Big Ten. I'm not big, in fact I'm about t h e smallest." TOMORROW' UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Ann Arbor Ring Day November 12 9:00-4:00 at FOLLETT'S .i I .!I The Cleveland Browns, Minne- sota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts were among the teams that said they had received subpoenas. The Browns said they were sum-? mond to appear before a Cleve- I land Grand Jury November 17. 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