I . - - I Friday, November 22, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine heads or tales Marc Feldman Blue and Maize .. . will make a purple Hayes EVERY YEAR the adjectives get a little flashier, the emo- tions a little more volatile and THE GAME with the Ohio State Buckeyes approaches supernatural proportions. We all have heard the reasons why Ohio State is going to win tomorrow. The Wolverines have been lousy on the road, even against lightweights like Indiana, they don't have the bone-crunching fullback or a healthy quarterback. Of course, beating Ohio State in The Armpit of America is about as easy as winnnig a land war with China. Everyone will agree that Michigan has the edge de- fensively and Ohio State has been the more consistant offensive machine, but the theoreticians ignore one fact that doesn't show up on the stat sheet-incentive. Bo Schembechler, in the rare occasions when he unzipped his lip this week, cited such banalities as mistakes and field position, but incentive has played a big role before and will likely play it again. In 1969, Michigan shocked the world by upsetting Ohio State here, 24-12. Those Buckeyes, who were national cham- pions with the "supersophs" in 1968, had a big winning streak- Michigan ended it. 1970 arrived and the Rex Kern, Jack Tatum, Leo Hayden, and John Brockington Bucks were nearing the end of their Buckeye playing days. Ohio State, clearly the more inspired team that day, won 20-9. This edition of Michigan's Wolverines reminds one of that 1970 Ohio State bunch. This is the last chance for these Wolverine seniors to go to the Rose Bowl and more im-. portantly, erase the nightmarish thoughts about the tie, that was a loss, last year, and those "valiant goal line stands" in the 1972 defeat. No one knows better than Michigan's seniors that the only blemishes on a 30-1-1 record over the past three years have . been that tie and loss to Ohio State. Maybe Los Angeles has a lot of smog and Disneyland excites seven-year-olds more than college students, but the Rose Bowl doesn't look bad to three-year starters like Dave. Brown, Dennis Franklin, Chuck Heater and Steve Strinko. It sure beats Ohio for the holidays. All the television commentators on last Saturday's Purdue- Michigan telecast thought they were very clever by calling Michigan's defense, a "no-name" defense a la the Miami; Dolphins. Unlike Woody Hayes, Bo doesn't build up the egos ofI his players with outlandish praise and ready-made quotes like "best since Jim Parker" for lazy sportswriters. No- body can tell me that Neal Colzie would be an All-American + safety if he didn't return so many punts last year and Woody didn't yapabout it. Both teams will be able to move the ball, but as the old cliche reads, the team with the best defense will come out on top. Bo says "You guys (his standard generalization for sportswriters) look at how much yardage they give up, but I look at the points. That's all that counts." Somehow I don't believe that. He saw Michigan State set up the inside game with the option stuff and burn that vauntedf secondary many times. But such reasons are empirical, cold hard facts, and tomorrow's game will be decided by no such factors. Michigan will win because those seniors want to win more than anything else in the world. split wide to the left clarke cogsdill - Sorry, Bo... . . .three in a row DalyPhtobyKEN FNK OHIO STATE MIDDLE LINEBACKER Arnie Jones (42) makes a grab for Michigan State tailback Rich Ba (23), Fwhile an unidentiifed Buckeye actually brings him down. Should Michigan decide to run up the middle this Saturday down in Columbus, fullback Chuck Heater may find the going tough. Starting time for the televised clash is 12:55 p.m. EST. CAGER RULED INELIGIBLE: Orr- er gen lose By JOHN KAHLER Tom. Bergen will not playt basketball for Michigan this year. The Big Ten Committee on Eligibility yesterday voted against waiving the conference rule that requires transfers to, sit out a year before becoming eligible, although the NCAA had previously ruled that Bergen could play this year. Though the move came as no surprise to the Michigan coach- es, it was nonetheless a bitter disappointment. "I can't believe this is any- thing but a vote against Mich- igan," said a shocked coach Johnny Orr after hearing the .j ' G I j '. TV COVERAGE EXTENSIVE: ABC goswl By MARCIA MERKER alyst" to add insight into the gridiron Behind the polished smile of Chris Schenkel strategy. and the play-by-play baritone of Keith Jack- Down on the field, University of North son, ABC Sports is an antfarm of swarm- Carolina grad student Jim Lampley is ing humanity on football Saturdays. To- scouting the crowd and benches for per- morrow is no exception with ABC promising sonal interest stories. This is a new for- "the largest and broadest (coverage) in mat to the NCAA coverage. McGuire com- history." mented on the advent of the college age Last year the Michigan-OSU game was announcer, "A nation-wide search was turned on by more television sets than any conducted through the spring and summer other NCAA football game during the regu- for someone to 'get into' the campuses of lar season. ABC's press information direc- the games and bring the game on and off tor, Don McGuire, predicts an even larger the field more directly into the viewer's percentage in 1974. living room. Since last Wednesday, the television There are eight cameras set up for the crew has been buzzing about Columbus game. Four units are at the press level- dispersing t h e i r expensive equipment one at eaah 20 yard line and two at the 50. around Ohio Stadium. ' These latter cameras shoot wide angle and Keith Jackson, ABC's first announcer for slow motion instant replay shots. Remain- Monday Night Football, will be in the booth ing units are located in the end zone and covering the play-by-play. Penn State's coach along the sidelines for field goals, foxy Joe Paterno is the designated "expert an- ladies, cheerleaders and Lampley. ."n :."r."ru~r:.". ". r :% .VV.. . . .: n: n.."."::.:"vA IL.C A F E . .r::. XC"'.. ..h: .1 .f..H. ::r:"* t"'X~:.d :i7"r I 0l ® -u 0 ®-~ - DAILY CLASSIFIEDS verdict. "What right did they have to go against a ruling of the NCAA?" h"e was not eligible under the rules of the conference," claimed Robert Ray, the facul- tv representative from IowaI and one of the members of the Eligibility Committee. "The Big Ten rules govern the conference," he continued. "NCAA rules apply only if they are more demanding than con- ference rules." John Fuzak of Michigan State and Roy Larmee of Ohio State were the other two faculty reps on the Eligibility Committ--. Since the pro- ceedings were confidential, no vote total is available. The committee gav e two rea- sons for not granting Bergen eligibility. For one, Bergen will: not lose any eligibility by sit- ting out this year. Also, the committee ruled that; if Bergen had not been a non- qualifier, the chain of events that resulted in his transfer from the University of Utah would never have occurred. In effect,nthe committee said, Michigan was asking the B~ig Ten to do for a non-qualifier what it has never done for anybody else-waive the trans- fer rule. - The whole affair began when the NCAA ruled that Utah had tamnered with Ber- gen's high school transcript, making him eligible to play as a freshman. As punish- ment, the NCAA ruled that Bergen could not play for Utah this year, but could play for any other school in the country. Orr was dismayed and an- gered by the decision. "If I had ever dreamed that they would declare the kid ineligible, 1 wouldn't have brought him' here," he said. "What I would like to know is why nothing has been done to Utah and the coaches therre. They were the guilty parties. As it stands now, only the kidr has been punished. I can't believe that this vote wasn't directed against ustat Michigan. If it wasn't, then they have punished the kid for something he didn't do." Both Fuzak and Ray denied that the vote was in any way a personal vendetta against Michigan. "There are pre- cedents for similar deciisons," Fuzak claimed. vote r Despite all official denials, the feeling persists that ler- gen lost the votebecause hie decided to enroll at Michigan. "I would like to know how that vote would have ;one if Bergen had decided to go to any other Big Ten school," mused Orr. "If I hadn't gone to a s.:hool with such a reputation for win-! ning - Iowa, for example - I would be eligible," stated Ber- gen. He plans to appeal, but all he can do in the meantime is practice with the team and wait until next year. "The vote had nothing to do "He's a fine offensive player with the young man or the in- and a ince kid, who works hard stitution. If it had been any and is very coachable," claim- other way, I would resign." ed Orr of Bergen. But Tom Ber- "Of course, the vote had noth- gen and Johnny Orr will both ing to do with individual pre- have to wait until next year. judices," added Ray. "The case-- -- was well presented by Marcus Plant (the Michigan faculty rep), but the committee de- termined he was not eligible under the rules of the confar-a ence." The 6-10 Bergen took the de- cision in stride. "It wasn't mvch of a surprise," he said. "I had y o u r yhoped the vote would be dif ferent, but you have to con- sider who was voting." AM FULLY willing to admit that Michigan has the best college football team in the civilized world. Unfortunately, that defi- nition doesn't include Columbus, Ohio, the home of the best col- lege football team in the Big Ten. Ohio State will win this Saturday. 80,000 undomesticated bar- barians will hoot gleefully from the stands, and millions of others (including me) will be totally disgusted, but it's going to happen anyway. The key to stopping Ohio State, shown by the football club from East Lansing, is in shutting down Cornelius Greene's passing. Archie Griffin, Champ Henson, Pete John- son, Brian Baschnagel and Greene are tough enough to stop when the ground game is all the defense worries about. When the defense also has to worry from time to time about the pass, these Buckeyes are unstoppable. Michigan State was peculiarly equipped to give Greene trouble through the air. Its secondary had previously faced four of the nation's top quarterbacks - Mitch Anderson (Northwest- ern), John Sciarra (UCLA), Tom Clements (Notre Dame) and Dennis Franklin - managing to contain all but Sciarra with rea- sonable elan. Michigan's pass defenders, touted as they are, have no such credentials to offer. Even Stanford's second-string quarterback moved the ball well against them. They simply react too slowly when the ball is in the air - a fatal defect in a zone defense- and have not shown the ability to cover pass receivers closely, as the Spartans did in their upset triumph. Greene has destroyed mediocre pass defenses in the Rose Bowl, and ever since. Chances are, he'll do the same to Michigan. Compared with this fatal shortcoming, the Wolverines other problems become almost trivial. Except for some delays and draws with Gordie Bell, Michigan's interior ground game has gasped and wheezed throughout the season. A powerful fullback, Scott Corbin, is in reserve whenever needed, but he and Chuck Heater can't do very much unless the guards and tackles start knocking some people down. So far, that hasn't happened nearly often enough. The Buckeyes, it should be remembered, stopped almost everything Michigan State threw at them. Neil Colzie, their out- standing free safety, sat on the bench while Mike Jones caught the 44-yard touchdown pass, and Levi Jackson would never have made his 88-yard run if OSU linebacker Bruce Elia hadn't turned the wrong way. Both are easily correctible defects. Team depth might prove another decisive Buckeye advan- tage. With the one exception of Archie Griffin, Ohio State has no position at which the substitutes are radically less talented than the regulars. Michigan, by contrast, has very little available behind the first string, particularly at defen- sive end. If either Larry Banks or Dan Jilek is. injured, the Maize and Blue will be in even worse trouble than if Frank- lin gets hurt. If the game evolves into a punting duel, Ohio's State's Tom Skladany is much superior to John Anderson. He kuocks the ball deep, and high enough to let his coverage move downfield. Finally, the Buckeyes must be conceded a powerful psycho- logical edge. Those 80,000 maniacs have frequently been noted to influence referee's decisions - especially when th2 locals, are making a rare goal line stand. Harry Banks isn't the only Michi- gan halfback in history who scored a touchdown in Columbus the officials didn't allow. . And then, Howard Cosell had to broadcast a five-minute blast at Woody Hayes. Cosell was right, of course, but he made a lot of people mad. And as Atilla the Hun so clearly demonstrated, an enraged barbarian is the hardest of all to stop. Another Special Coming Thanksgiving weekend, Thurs.-Sun. 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