' wr-r- .. . . _ I Page Eighteen THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, September 15, 1973 Saturday, September 15, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY WISHFUL THINKING IN COLUMBUS EXCLUSIVE DAILY INTERVIEW oody's boys class of Big Ten Bo raps on football, 2 By DAN BORUS Woodrow Wilson Hayes drew his portly body to its full height and rumbled to the lectern at the head table during the Big Ten Football Coaches fete held in Chicago this past August. And for a man with a reputation as being gruff and tough, Woody was relatively happy. True, the band serenading the writers and coaches had played that damn Michigan song too many times. And, yes, there was that little 42-17 matter in Pasa- dena. But generally speaking, Hayes was happy. ENGAGING in clever repartee, Hayes awed his audience, which undoubtedly had packed the Pal- mer House to hear the dirty old man from Columbusspeak his piece. As he meandered through the football program he plugged his new book, You Win with People. Well with the people old Woody's got, he's going to win many times this year. One of the reasons Hayes is going to win this year was a man he called forth to take a bow at the luncheon, offensive tackle John Hicks. An All-Every- thing at the Ohioan school, Hicks has slimmed down to a relative- ly trim 240 and is quicker than even before. HICKS was an awesome force in the Ohio State - Michigan OHIO STATE (9-1, 7-1) Michigan Opponent No. 11 Starters back-Offense 8 Defense 9 Series: Michigan 39-26-4 showdown last fall, even though the Wolverines controlled the football for most of the game. In fact, Fred Grambau's inability to handle Hicks with any com- petence at all spurred the Michi- gan charge. "I just didn't want them to use Hicks," Michigan coach Bo Schembechler said. "I knew if we gave them the ball Hicks would eventually run over our guys."~ Joining Hicks on the mobile and talented frontline are vet- erans Jim Kregel (6-2, 234) at left guard, Steve Myers (6-2, 240) the junior center, and Dick Mack (5-11, 218) at right side guard. Kurt Schumacher (248 lbs) has, through his excellent spring showings, earned the spot vacat- ed by the graduation of Merv. Teague. All of which leads to the back- field and it's the OSU backfield, famous for clouds of dust, that brings tears of joy to Woody's chubby features. At the outside rushing position crouches super - soph Archie Griffin. As a starting frosh for the Scarlet and Gray the mer- curial Griffin set a single game OSU rushing record, travelling 239 yards with the football against North Carolina. Griffin proved his ability to attack a top flight defense when he scam- pered 30 yards for a key touch- down against the Maize and Blue. JOINING Griffin is the plod- ding Harold "Champ" Henson. Henson, whose straight forward ability accentuates when he ap- proaches the goal line, led the nation in scoring with 20 touch- downs to his credit. In addi- tion "Champ" ploughed through with 795 yards and was never thrown for a loss. In the all-important tailback category, Hayes' man for the job is sophomore- Brian Baschnagel who led the team in punt returns and in kickoff returns, while fin- ishing second in pass receiving. Quarterbackingthis rcontingent of flashing backs is Cornelius Green, a sophomore who came on strong in the spring to edge out Greg Hare, last year's star, for the field general role. Green, the pre-season dope has it, pos- sesses all the tools. CATCHING THE thrown ball for the potent Buckeyes will be Junior Mike Bartoszek at the split position and at tight end Fred Pagac, who, and this will come as no surprise, can block like hell. No Ohio State team is com- plete without an air-tight defense and this year is no exception. Staffing Hayes' defense are among the finest defenders in the land, despite the 42 points the Trojans tallied last January. See WOODY, Page 19 EDITOR'S NOTE - Late last sum- mer, Daily Sports Editor Dan Borus and Footbal Supplement Editor Marc Feldman sat down in football coach Bo Schembechler's office andtalked about Michigan, Ann Arbor, recruit- ing, and "Bo-ring" football. Here is the text of that interview. DAILY - Polls have predicted that Michigan will finish high in the na- tional rankings and either first or second in the Big Ten. Are you as optimistic about the 1973 season as the poll takers? If so, why? BO - Well, I think basically the reason we're ranked so high is because we have all of our backfield material back. This is particularly true offensively, and de- fensively, we lost only Randy Logan. But losing Logan means an awful lot because he was the key to our secondary last year. We have an outstanding tight end in Paul Seal, a fine defensive tackle in Dave Gallagher, and enough outstanding foot- ball players that everybody is giving us strong consideration. We do have problems in the fact that we lost Seymour, Coyle, and Hart from our offensive line. Those were three big, strong linemen that will be awfully tough to replace. If we have an area that is going to need the most attention, I would say that it would be our offensive line from tackle to tackle. We have a good senior group, no, an excellent senior group. This group is the largest we've had since I've been here and it's got talent but it has got class kids too. I think they're going to give us some real good leadership. If the question is 'are we optimistic or not' . . . we are. DAILY - Michigan has the reputa- tion under your tutelege for a conserva- tive yet successful brand of football. A neutral observer would have been more inclined to have rooted for Stanford in the 1972 Rose Bowl because its offense was more pass-happy. How do you re- act to the "Bo-ring" criticisms on the part of less appreciative fans and writ- ers? BO - We were devoid of the pass in 1971 when we couldn't pass. So because that team was successful and had na- tional notoriety, it stands to reason that that is the way we do it; that is our strategy; to run the ball and not make any mistakes to win. But they forget *hat in 1969 and 1970 under Moorhead we broke every passing record Michigan ever had. But last year with a sophomore quarter- back, we passed rather sparingly, basic- ally because we didn't want to make the big mistake. As it turned out it was the right thing to do because we still had the ability to throw. In fact, we completed 13 passes against Ohio State and lost. We don't want to do anything in our offense that is going to continually put our defense in bad field position. If you get the football inside your own twenty, to drive against us your chances of scoring are about one in 35, and as you get the football farther up the field, the percentage is going to be much greater of scoring. In fact, inside the thirty, the chance of scoring is one in two. In the last four years, we turned the ball over inside our own 45 yard line on 49 occasions, a little over one per game. As a result of those turnovers, our op- ponents scored ten touchdowns and eight field goals. During that same four year period, the opponents turned the ball over to us 103 times and we have scored 66 touchdowns and seven field goals. Maybe it's boring - but the fact re- mains that where you get the football determines how much you are going to score. Now you take a team like Stanford which has a good passing attack, they will win some big games. Fortunately (for them) two of those games have been in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State and Michigan. This may indicate that it may be better to go into a Rose Bowl with a passing attack rather than a running attack which takes more coordination and practice. I don't know. However, with an aerial offense your chances of getting there are not as good. After we had beaten Minnesota, 42-0 last year, Joe Falls asked me 'What else is there to write about'. I said 'Holy crim- iny, if you would have checked what Dave Brown, our safety man did against the Minnesota option attack, it was un- believable. It was the greatest safety play I have ever seen against the run and pass. He made 20 tackles and also picked off a pass and ran for a touchdown. His play was superb as was Franklin's. The chances are this year we will play more option football and pass more be- cause we may not be quite as physical up front. DAILY - This year you have an Alt- Big-Ten quarterback and the top return- ing total offense leader is Dennis Frank- lin. All-league quarterbacks are sup- posed to pass a lot and Franklin did throw 23 passes and gain 160 yards through the air last year against Ohio State. Can Wolverine fans look for a more balanced attack this fall or a 'pass only when necessary' one? BO - To me it depends on what you mean by balanced. To me, 'balanced' is not 50-50, but rather two-thirds rushing to one-third passing. The big thing is when you have a quarterback that can both run and pass, how often do you want him with the football, since if you have a total option attack, he is going to get hit every down. If you have some balance between option plays "and regular power plays, we'll be able to throw more from the power I formation. DAILY - With Bo Rather snagging footballs for the Miami Dolphins and Gil Chapman back at a running back, who will be Franklin's major wide tar- gets? BO - We are impressed with Keith Johnson, a sophomore, who is small but very quick and tough. Coming in, we have two outstanding freshmen (J i m Smith and Rick White) at a position which is probably the easiest to play. Once you learn the pass routes and different de- fensive secondary play. There also is a youngster from Ann Arbor named Jerry Collins who walked on last year and has not played yet. Although he has got speed, we don't know what will happen when we put the pads on. I'm satisfied that we have got enough mater- ial out there is play without Chapman. DAILY - Franklin, we've noticed, has a tendency to aim or guide the foot- ball rather than wing it. Is his arm strong enough and his confidence in his ability great enough to lead a potent passing attack? BO- - Actually Denny's arm is strong and maybe it's indecision more than any- thing else. I'll tell you what he does, he rotates his hips too much. If you're righthanded, you should point your left shoulder in the direction that you are throwing. He opens up too much, and that slows down the quickness of his delivery, and that's something he's got to work on. I have no questions about the strength of his arm, but I would like to see him deliver the ball quicker. DAILY - You have a nice problem in the defensive backfield - practically two complete starting units return. Who looks to have the inside track and how are you going to keep these new benchwarmers happy? BO - There's no way you can keep a guy happy if he's not playing. The com- petition in the defensive secondary is a very healthy situation for us because they are all top notch guys. Some may be stronger in certain areas than others, but the most complete guy would pro- bably be David Brown. Greg Koss, though, had one whale of a spring, and if we had to play with Koss we would still have a good safetyman. On the shortside halfback Dave Elliott came back from an injury to compete with Roy Burks. At the end of spring prac- tice, Elliott had the edge, although it wasn't a big edge. Then (Tom) Drake came back to go after (Barry) Dotzauer S-15 22 29 Buck luck Minnesota Open Texas Christian 0- 6 Washington St. 13 at Wisconsin 20 at Indiana 27-Northwestern N- 3 at Illinois 10- Michigan State 17 Iowa 24 AT MICHIGAN Malcolm Emmons Photo Bruising, crushing, and mean Randy Gradishar of Ohio State (53) moves in for the tackle of North Carolina's Dan Hite in All-Ameri- can style in last years Buckeye victory over the Tar Heels. Randy hopes to lead Woody's charges to a Big Ten title in 1973. "Here I self to s year-oli Michig and I don't the spring. fortunate b the best s Don Dufek, football play DAILY ordinator nation in mere five Does Youn any specia BO - Ji years, and job sooner much as we Smith, it's some'chang some succe coach that igan, you u Jim as my it leads to p of Jim You. coaching job Gary Mo long timeha also still haN Mans andv secondary c baugh. 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