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By DAN BORUS
They really believe in football down here.
Maybe even more than they believe in God
and country.
While the record throng of 88,000 plus pour-
ed across an intra-mural field to the giant
horse shoe alongside the Olentangy, the band
began to play the National Anthem. Half of
the spectators stopped to listen and watch
the flag; the others continued streaming for
Ohio Stadium masoleum.
They buried Michigan State inside last
Saturday. The victims never really had a
chance. It was a sweet revenge for the Bucks
who have lost to the Spartans two years in a
row.
IN THiE STANDS, the faithful mixed cheers
with obscene epithets about the state of
Michigan. For those interested, the epithets
rhymed with Bucks.
The Scarlet and Grey partisans love the
game so much that they even stick around
to see what the reserves do. If Woody would
only pass.
* * *
Dawn here they're kind of used to it. They
expect it from the old man. But deadline
timhe was rearing its ugly head and this hour
and .ten minutes after the game was a record
everi for Woody.
Finally into this locker room he strode, his
scarlet and grey tie unknotted and his slightly
longer locks combed straight back.
* "Sorry, gentlemen, sorry to keep you wait-
ing," he said in a voice barely audible in
the back of the room, "but I couldn't help
myself. I was with some recruits and you
guys can't ever score a touchdown for us.,
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You can give us gi."Polite laughter.
That's the way it is when you're number
one in the nation, when you've allowed your
Saturday opponent just four first downs, and
you're Woody Hayes, philosopher extraordi-
naire.
MAKE NO MISTAKE about it, Ohio State
is a formidable, formidable football team.
And Hayes coaches them well. With the ex-
ception of passing, this teams does it all and
may just be a shade better than those Rex
Kern-led super squads of '68-70.
When you're coach of the best in the coun-
try, you've got to be able to be conversant
on just about anything and every post-game
interview/celebration you're supposed to let
a few ,pearls of wisdom drop forth for the
benefit of those working stiffs of the fourth
estate.
For a moment there it looked like this
year' s version of number one football coach-
down homne thinker had mellowed a wee bit
from the enraged mentor who decided Michi-
gan Stadium needed a little re-decorating
the last time he visited Ann Arbor.
Hayes spent the first portion of the press
conference doing something he usually does-
n't do - "bragging on his players." In that
same very precise manner and tone, Hayes
went on all about those Buck super-studs-
"Colzie (punt returner Neal Colzie who broke
open the game) - he's really something
isn't he."
"BY GOLLY," HAYES pointed out for all
those reporters who didn't read the statistics
sheet, "Archie Griffin got his one hundred
yards."
"He would have hit two hundred too, but
no use taking any chance. This is fairly an-
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cient history," Hayes went on, "but in 1951
Wisconsin had that super backfield with
Ameche and they had this quarterback Co-
atta, who was quite good. Well, he broke
his leg that spring sliding into second base
with his team ahead 10-0. I'ye never forgotten
that. Neither will the reporters. ~
But after that the fun ended. Asked whe-
ther or not he would put something new into
the offense for hapless Iowa, Hayes wvent on
to explain, yes, but not to reporters.
"There are many, many disruptive forces
in this world-and I, am going to fight
them," Hayes added, thumping his fist on
the wooden bench and looking northward for
emnn1hasis.
AMONG THOSE DISRUPTIVE forces,
Hayes included sportswriters who cover 0th-
er teams "who would love to get something
knocking you in the paper."
A couple of more football questions and
the show was over.
S* *
Outside the Buckeye lockerloom a group of
teenage girls yelled for the autographs of s
Buckeye stars. Cornelius Greene, who runs
the ba'l1 but can't really throw, walks out in
his black cape with red trim and obliges i
then,
THE CROWD WANTS a little more. Stop-
ping a Michigan reporter, they ask for his
autograph, mistaking him for one of the
S"orlet and Grey. The reporter grinned and
signed "Tom Harmon." The girl was not
rnlrsed.
"I don't give a damn about the whole state Doily F
of Michigan," she said. Neither does the old
man and, you can bet, he's going to fight it. O B CO U Tu O
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in te vsitrs'dressing room at
Williams Arena Friday night as
the Michigan Wolverines prepared
for the opening game of the West-
ern Collegiate Hockey Association
season. Everyone had something
to prove..
For the veterans, the ghost of
NIGHT EDITOR:
GEORGE HASTINGS
* *a real foot bal game
FUNNY THING happened Saturday to those who made the
A trek up to the place Bo Schembechler likes to call "The Big
House"-they saw a real football game.t n mke
You know, a game in which two teams, not on, tmase
mistakes, score points, and have a shot at winning. One of those
games that they play out each weekend at the Evanstons,ArWest
Lafayettes, and Madisons, but that never seem to hit Ann Aror.
Imagine, somebody actually wearing a white shirt and
kicking a field goal, running for 15 yards, or tackling a
quarterback with a winged helmet behind the line. That
kind of thing was supposed to go on only when the other o
d guys were Purdue Boilermakers or Ohio State Buckeyes, not
Illinois Fighting Illini.
But go on it did, and for every one of the 76,000 fans who
satei on theo weird proceedings there ngust have been a like
The act aretha Miciga triled for the first time all
seaso (6-0)s fumbled the ball six times, losing four; and didn't
cement the 21-6 triumph until deep into the fourth stanza.
Now depending on your point of view, Illinois either was
a whole helluva lot better than they were generally figured
to be, or Michigan isn't all that it is cracked up to be. Te
choice is yours.
But the man who should really have the answers, Mr.
Schembechler himself, chose a third tact when he broke bread
with reporters yesterday afternoon.
"You know, this kind of game might really have helped
us," he said, sounding like a man with not a care in the
world. "It was a good test. But other than the fumbles, we
Soye inetthe edBo seemed genuinely happy about his
tea's pla against the dogged Illini, even though that two |
touichdown margin surely didn't help his alread fleig
* dreams of a national championship-.
And really, you sort of have to agree with the man, since
the Illini are without a doubt the third best-team in the Big Ten-.
It isn't that the league has shown much improvement, because
it hasn't, but Coach Bob Blacksman's crew did win four loop
contests and gave Ohio State a meager three point first half
edge.
Several weeks ago it appeared as if the traditional pre-
Buckeye vigil, Purdue, would at least be more than the laugher
a team torn by the graduation losses of All-Americans Otis
Armstrong and Dave Butz, among 15 starters, will probably
Ervx-Northwestern head man Alex Agase put together a sur-
prisingly competitive unit, certainly not anything to write home
about, but a force that could conceivably give Michigan a tussle
at grass-surfaced Ross-Ade Stadium.
That outlook all changed last week, as the injury-mangled
Riveters fumbled eight times enroute to a humiliating 34-7 loss
at Minneapolis.
Schembechler knows that he must guard against that
powerful urge to look two weeks ahead, and he'd be a fool
not to after the scares (20-17, 9-6) Purdue has given him the
past two seasons.
"Everyone knows that they're not as physically strong as
before," Bo said, "but they're still Purdue. And that means
that they'll have some good talent who'll be fired up for us.
They've got a good coach and a lot of pride."
But even Bo Schembechler is human, and as he got up 'to
leave with the "any more questions, men" routine, he added',
Puordue isow things butoodytivHayes and Ohio State are
What did happen on ' the Cahulawassee River?
SHOWS
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Like the best darkhorse possibility
in the league.
The second reality involves ex-
perience. Can a teanm that has
only two seniors and eight fresh-
men in its regular line-up win
consistently in the WCHA? In last
weekend's performance against a
veteran Minnesota team the
freshmen were brilliant, par-
ticularly the defensemen. But
when the heat was on Saturday,
Farrell was compelled to go with
his veteran forwards and keep
the frosh on the bench.
Finally, it remains to be seen if
Moore can stand the strain of
playing every night in goal and
remain sharp throughout an entire
season. Granted, Moore did play
virtually every minute of every
game last year, but the situation
was not the same.
Farrell himself conceded earlier
last week that, "Anyone can stand
out there and make fifty saves a
night (as Moore had to do last:
year). What we need to find out
now is if he can make the big
saves that win games," which is
something Moore seldom had the
opportunity to prove.
This week's home and home
series with Michigan State will be
the second major test for the
youthful Wolverines in a season1
that will demand that they prove
themselves over and over again
each successive week. To date
their grades have been excellentI
but every week the exams get
tougher.
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last season's horrendous 5-28-1 rec- -'| _______
ord still haunted their memories. gan did not surrender the tying
For the eight freshmen, the time to goal after 1Minnesota rallied for i
prove their heralded talents was at two early markers: 1) They I
hand. ,stayed out of the penalty box for |
Despite the previous weekend's the full twenty minutes, and 2) |
relatively easy two-game sweep Robbie Moore played superthief,
over Waterloo, no one could be robbing the Gophers of the ap-
sure how far the Wolverines' re -parent equalizer on five separate
building program had progress- (it asions. I
ed. As Dan Farrell, Michigan's The three out of a possible four
rookie coach, admitted earlier in 'points Michigan garnered in the:
the afternoon at the Minnesota series matched its entire road out-
Blue Line Luncheon, "We're not put from last year, and the pros-
sure ho goodanWaterlsorereall pet fr more road triumphs lok
good we are either. Tonight we'll hope a couple months ago.
find ut."dut before visions of league titles
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mentor Herb Brooks Farrel sdid dancing through their heads, the
find out how good his team is and 1Wolverines must face a few stark
the conclusion was an emphatic, realities. In the next month Michi-
"very good indeed." gan must play, in order, Michigan
The Wolverines came out like State, Wisconsin, Michigan Tech,
gangbusters not only Friday night and Notre Dame. The last three are,
but again on Saturday. They to- rated among the top four teams
tally dominated the the first two in the country, and the Spartans,
periods on each occasion, outplay- fresh from a weekend sweep over
ing the Gophers in the area that the Irish in East Lansing, look
wvas supposedly Minnesota's forte, -gg..:......amito esg
defense. e
The 4-4 overtime tie gave the The T p 0
Wolverines the confidence they so 3.Ohio state Top) i--v 1,
vitally needed. True, they saw 2. Alabma (13) 8-0-0 1,068
their 4-2 two-period lead evaporate 3. Oklahoma (10) 7-0-1 966
under the heat of a late Gopher 4. MICHIGAN (1) 9-0-0 834
resurgence.. But both goals came16 en t te (1) 9-0-0 768
I on power plays after Blue defense- I7. Louisiana state 8-0-0 572
Smen Dave Shand and Greg Natale 8. UCLA 8-1-0 469
were whistled off the ice on inter- '. o.ralfornia 7-1- 407s
I ference calls that Farrell termed 11. Texas 6-2-0 188
"questionable." 12. Texas Tech 8-1-0 176
Again Saturday night the Wol- 13. Arizona State 8--0 16
verines carried a lead, this time 15. Houston 8-1-0 112
41, into the third frame, and again 1.Tennessee --0 8
h18. Kansas 6-2-1 44
Bt for two big reasons Michi- 20. Noarolina St. 6-0 15
Griadde pickings
Harriers stay home
Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham announced yesterday
that the athletic department would not send its cross-country
team or individual qualifier, Bill Bolster, to the NCAA champion-
ships this Saturday in Spokane, Washington.
According to cross country mentor Dixon Farmer, Canham
would not approve the expenditure because of the squad's some-
what weak performance during the fall season. Michigan placed
fifth in its NCAA regional last Saturday, in one of the top two
regions in the country. The harriers also took third at the Big
Ten meet ten days ago, while in dual meets they have only lost
once.
-MARCIA MERKER
Ruggers romp
The Michigan Rugby Club took command at the onset of its
contest Sunday afternoon against U of M-Flint and powered to a
20-4 victory.
The devastation began early in the first half as Bruce Kings-
bury scored the opening try, recovering the ball in the endzone.
The Wolverines scored later in the half on a quick burst by fly-
half Zeke Pires followed by a successful conversion by Wes
Lawton.
-BRIAN DEMING
Soccer club triumphs
Steve Panaretos' goal was the deciding factor Sunday after-
noon as the Michigan graduate soccer club defeated Central
Michigan, 1-0, to capture the Dearborn Invitational.
CHICAGO /P-The Chicago Cubs yesterday traded Glenn
Beckert, a four-time National League All-Star second baseman,
to the San Diego Padres for outfielder Jerry Morales.
As part of the deal, the Cubs also assigned infielder Bob
Fenwick from their Wichita farm club to San Diego's Hawaii
farm club.
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