Thursday, November 29, 1973
1TH5 MICHIGAN DAILY
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Thursday, November 29, '1973 THE MiCHIGAN DAILY
Pundits
sound
Off
on!
THE BALD SOPRANO
by EUGENE IONESCO
Rose Bowl "injustice"
IF OHIO STATE is the Big Ten's best representa-
tive, it should have demonstrated just that Sat-
urday. It did not: The Buckeyes failed to beat
Michigan.
The injustice that is even tougher to swal-
low is how the athletic directors, who voted
OSU to the Rose Bowl, apparently let Michigan
quarterb !ck Denny Franklin's broken collar-
bone figure in the decision. Convinced his ab-
sence would mike the difference in the Wol-
verine's play, they are using Franklin's injury
as an excuse, penalizing the rest of the Michi-
gan team and discounting the great team ef-
fort that it took on Michigan's part Saturday.
-Lynn Herring, The Michigan State News
* * * .
In short, last Saturday's game might as well
have been played in a publicity blackout-or not
played at all - for all the good it did .. .
He (Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke)
might have blunted any criticism still by fly-
ing all of them into Chicago and showing them
films of the game they were allegedly basing
their ballots on.
And it's a good thing the courts don't operate
in the same fashion the AD's were, basing their
opinions on Franklin's health, or we'd all be in
jail.
-Rich Shook, UPI
** *
Rose Bowl. After all, it has been five years since
a Big 10 champion has won the New Year's classic.
With that in mind I mused aloud that the
directors should send Ohio State, even if Michi-
gan won the game.
Not that Michigan is ordinary in the usual
sense of the word. It's just that the Wolver-
ines are not extraordinary. I still feel that
Ohio State is.
-Robert Markus, Chicago Tribune
* * *
Michigan will field a team next year. Like all
Bo Schembechler - coached teams, this one will
have a stingy, swarming defe'nse, a strong run-
ning game, and a quarterback who is absolutely the
oest in the conference.
But what should not be forgotten in RlI this
controversy, what should not be allowed to fade
into best forgotten memories of this unfortunate
and foolish Big Ten move is the strongest of
Bo Schembechler's charges - that college ath-
letics is no longer for the athlete. "College
athletics," Schembechler charged, "has con-
sumed itself in the chase for the all-mighty
buck."
By tacitly admitting that fear of losing the
contract with the Pac-Eight and the Rose riches, if
their conference fell again the directors have said
as much. That fact, not so much the decision,
emerges as the disillusioning factor in this whole
business.
-Dan Borus, Michigan Daily
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DENNIS FRANKLIN (9) strides effortlessly into the endzone as Bu
futile attempt to stop him. Franklin's running an d passing led the
and seemingly a sure fire Rose Bowl bid, but let us wallow in Wood
Daily Photo by DAVID MARGOLICK
ckeye Vic Koegel (62) makes a
Boys in Blue to a comeback tie Ideally, however, the directors would vote for
y no longer. the team they thought had the best chance in the
KNICKS, BULLS ALSO DUM PED:
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split wide to the left
. Clarke cogsdill --
Hgo hum .. .
it's Heis man time again
T EYCALL IT the Heisman Trophy, but it might just as well
be named after P. T. Barnum. The old huckster, who became
a multi-millionaire by exhibiting everything from Jenny Lind to
Jumbo's skeleton, would feel right at home in the annual char-
ade which claims to designate college football's finest player.
The spectacle begins in late summer, several weeks before
football season begins, when newspapers and other media are
flooded with beautifully-done four-color brochures from every
section of the country, heralding a raft of people nobody has
ever heard of who are this year's bona-fide Heisman Trophy
candidates. Nobody takes this very seriously.
About a month or so later, some of the candidates will have
piled up impressive statistics, and the campaign begins in ear-
nest. Coaches begin telling fatuous wire-service stringers that
so-and-so is the finest player ever in the long and glorious his-
tory of Holyfootball U. The young man's fans slap insipidly-
worded bumper stickers on their cars, public buildings, and
lavatory walls.
Then it's the sportswriters' turn. Everyone knows about the
inequities of the balloting process: it's impossible to personally
observe all the players who are worth considering; it's all too
easy to be impressed when someone does well in a televised
game; the vote depends on publicity and the only players who
get it are usually seniors who play In the offensive backfield,
and so on.
These arguments are almost as ancient as the trophy
itself, so it's easy to take a story you wrote last year, pencil
in the current year's players, and stick it in the paper. The
Heisman simply wouldn't be the Heisman if people didn't
know how unfair the whole thing really is.
With suitpble fanfare, a winner is announced. While he stands
under the kleig lights telling everyone how grateful and proud
and humble he is, his agent is jumping up and down in glee,
four or five other players put up a front of good sportsmanship,
and outraged partisans everywhere blast the choice in language
we at Michigan reserve for the Big Ten Athletic Directors.
It happens like this every year, and if it weren't for the pain
and anguish the unavoidably unfair process imposes on the
runners-up, it would be easy to laugh the whole thing away as an
amiable fraud - the sort of thing Americans have let them-
selves be bilked by for years.
But so long as the Heisman is viewed as a serious, pres-
tigious award - a life-or-death matter for collegiate foot-
ball superstars - the charade will continue to have serious
consequences reflecting favorably on nobody.
This year is perhaps even more strange because there is
no small group of nationally-known players who clearly stand out
above the masses. Instead, there's a large cadre of outstanding
players, all but one of whom will suffer a fate Bo Schembech-
ler's seniors understand thoroughly.
One leading candidate, Penn State running back John Cap-
palletti, is probably unknown to 98 per cent of the college foot-
ball fans east of the Ohio-Pennsylvania boundary. Joe Paterno
has hailed him as the best ever at Penn State (including Franco
Harris) and he should be able to monopolize the Eastern votes.
After all, Pittsburgh's Tony Dorsett is only a freshman and he'll
have three more cracks at the trophy.
But once you move past the Alleghenies, the number of
plausible Heisman candidates becomes overwhelming . . . and
their chances for victory correspondingly slim. Ohio State offers
a choice among Archie Griffin, John Hicks and Randy Gradi-
shar; Michigan has Dennis Franklin; and Notre Dame's Tom
Clements has convinced Irish partisans to forget Joe Theis-
mann and Terry Hanratty.
Tennessee's quarterback Condredge Holloway would have
been a leading candidate had his team lived up to its pre-
season ranking. He's undoubtedly the finest player in the
SEC, and would probably get my vote if I had one.
And there's lots of talent elsewhere: Texas' Roosevelt Leaks,
Oklahoma's Lucious Selmon, Kansas' David Jaynes, Arizona
State's Woody Green, Southern Cal's Lynn Swann, UCLA's Kermit
Johnson, Oregon's Don Reynolds - and so on.
Nineteen seventy-three has no lack of Heisman candidates,
and the finrl res"lts will undoibtedly shortchage a lot of fine
Piston
By The Associated Press
DETROIT - Austin Carr led a1
final two-minute surge that en-1
abled the Cleveland Cavaliers to'
beat the Detroit Pistons, 96-91, yes-
terday night for the fourth vic-
tory in their last five National
Basketball Association starts. ;
The Cavaliers, who have won
only eight against 16 defeats this1
season, trailed by as many as 16
points in the second period and
were seven points down entering
the final quarter when they start-
ed a rush that carried them to an
88-83 lead with five minutes to go.
Jim Cleamons had 10 points for'
the Cavs in their comeback as they
outscored the Pistons 18-6, when
Detroit made only one of 13 shots
from the field.
Then three successive Detroit
baskets by Don Adams, CurtisI
Rowe and Bob Lanier lifted the1
upset by Cleveland
L
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Pistons into an 89-88 advantage
before Carr hit two in a row to
put Cleveland on top for keeps,
92-89.
After Lanier connected to put
Detroit within a point of a tie,
Dwight Davis fired in a basket
and Jim Brewer had two free
throws to wrap it up for Cleve-
land.
Bobby Smith with 23 points and
Carr with 22 led Cleveland while
Lanier and Dave Bing each had
23 for2Detroit and Curtis Rowe
added 21.
Rockets romp
NEW YORK - Mike Newlin
scored 26 points as the Houston
Rockets built a 30-point lead in the
first half and held on for a 114-106
victory over the New York Knicks
last night in the National Basket-
b11 Association.
ilsports
NIGHT EDITORS:
MIKE LISULL
GEORGE HASTINGS
stay at 89-88 by sinking one of two
free throws with 5:16 remaining.
The winners jumped to a 95-
90 lead with 3:35 left and the Bulls
never came closer than three
points for the rest of the game.
The 76ers twice led by 24 points
but Chicago tied the game at 76-76
to close the third quarter.
Carter led the winners with 29
points, and Tom Van Arsdale add-
ed 25. Chet Walker led Chicago
with 30 points.3
NTcnuy Vn +lr e fn s.t1.
It was I
straight loss
this season
the Knicks
Garden.
New Y orxs tourn
and the second time
Houston has beaten
in Madison Square S C IItE S
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Sixers surprise
PHILADELPHIA - Fred Car-
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of Philadelphia's 25 fourth-quarter
points yesterday night as the
76ers outlasted the Chicago Bulls
for a 101-96 victory in a National
Basketball Association game.
Carter put the 76ers ahead to
NHL
Toronto 4, Pittsburgh 2
Chicago 3, Boston 3
Montreal 5, Los Angeles 3
NBA
Cleveland 96, Detroit 91
Milwaukee 127, Seattle 93
Boston 111, Capital 104
Atlanta 130, Buffalo 106
Philadelphia 101, Chicago 96
Houston 114, New York 106
SportsofTheDail
Seal chosen MVP
The University of Michigan football team selected tight end
PAUL SEAL as its most valuable player for the 1973 season, the
third consecutive season the Wolverines have won or shared the
conference title.
Seal, 6-6, 218 pound tight end dazzled crowds all year long
with his circus like catches and runs after receptions. Seal led
the run crazy Wolverines with 14 catches for 254 yards boosting
them to their infamous 10-0-1 record.
* * *
.Ayler gets starting nod
After much brouhaha and competition, the other forward
(opposite Campy Russell) for John Orr's 1973-74 roundball squad
has been determined.
Bill Ayler 6-4, junior leaper from Detroit Northwestern has
nailed down the job and will start in that capacity in Saturday
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GENERAL MEETING, 9 P.M. NOV. 29
ANGELA DAVIS LOUNGE-- MARKLEY HALL
AP Photo
Dave Bing and the Wilson NBA basketball wave bye-bye to help-
less Cleveland Cavaliers Lenny Wilkens (left) and Dwight Davis.
Bing with his endless inventory of feather-like passes and 23
points was not enough to halt the shooting of Cavaliers Wilkens,
Davis, and Austin Carr.
Rookie o the Year
to Orioles Bumbry
afternoon's opener against the
Salukis from Southern Illinois.
Ayler will join Russell at for-
ward, C. J. Kupec at center and
guards Steve Grote and Joe
Johnson.
Another position that has been
cemented in the last few prac-
tices is that of theall import-
ant sixth man. Wayman Britt
who started a few games at
guard last year, will be Orr's
first substitute on Saturday.
Britt has been working at both
guard and forward and can fill
in at either.
Griddes winner
The Daily Sports Staff, an-
nounces, with the faintest twinge
of regret, that Gridde Pickings
is through for the year. Craig
Tessmer of 731 Packard won
the free Pizza Bob pizza. But
don't despair. . . Hoope Pickings
will appear next week, and you'll
have a chance to win free piz-
zas all winter long.
SIMS-IMS
Benefit Concert
TONIGHT, 8:00 P.M.
Paul Jtones, pianist
Rondold Copes, violin
Michelle Makarski, violin
Leo Na jar, viola
James Tenant, violincello
Works by MOZART, BRAHMS
and BACH
First Presbyterian Church
1917 Washtenaw Ave.
Tickets at door $3.00
People! Music! Food!
BACH CLUB
PRESENTS
Loree MULDER-viola
Maria JUAREZ-piano
Anne SABIN-cello
WITH WORKS BY
BACH
SCHUMANN
HINDEMITH
BEETHOVEN
Thurs., Nov. 29, 8 p.m.
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American Power and the New Mandarine.
A questioning and analysis of the modes of
operation of American Society. Chomsky
examines the post-war rise to power of a
new elite: the liberal intellectual, or "new '
mandarins."
At War With Asia. Noam Chomsky drows
on his visit to North Viet Nam and Laos for
a discussion of the historical, political, Qnd
economc reasons behind our first involve,
ment in an Asian land war.
For Reasons of State. Analyzes the theore-
tical and practical development of the Am-
erican state while discussing some ways in
which individuals can respond to its grow-
ing power: civil disobedience, the role of
the university, the philosophy of anarchism. '
NOAM CH@MSKY
LOVE HIM? HATE HIM?
BUT READ HIM!
NEW YORK (P"-Al Bumbry, a
.337 hitter in his first full year in
the big leagues with the BaltimoreI
Orioles, was yesterdav named the
American League's Rookie of the
Year for 19'3.
The speedy outfielder, a Vietnam
veter-'r who worried about making
the Baltimore roster last spring,
won the coveted aw-rd in a land-
slide over Milwaukee infielder
lair, G-r:ia.
Bubry received 1312 points to
fi >r G r-ia in the voting by
was used a 1 m o s t exclusively
against right-handed pitching and
batted 356 times while appearing
in 110 games.
In addition, Bumbry hit seven
home runs, tied with Minnesota's
Rod Carew for the league lead in
triples with 11 and stole 23 bases
in 33 attempts.
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Noam Chomsky, Ferrari Ward Professor of Linguis-
& tics at MIT, came to national attention with two ar-
ticles, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" and "On.49
Resistance," both originally published in The New
York R e v i e w of Books, and is acknowledged
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