Thursday, March 22, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY The Texas Wedge rage Nine SABRES FALL Blues crop Wings Girding for.. .By the grid season By RICH STUCK 'J'HOUGH THE SUN is shining and the snow is melting on Ferry Field there are still some difficulties which must be ironed out before Bo Schembechler can charter a plane to Pasadena next January First. For two seasons now Michigan football fans have increasingly wondered whether the forward pass was still part of the game. Under the gun from both the press and the fans, Schembechler has developed a brilliant running game and seemingly neglected the passing aspect of the game. But this year might be different if Schembechler means what he said before the start of spring practice Tuesday. He commented that he plans "to open up the attack more this season." While steadfastly refusing to pass the last two campaigns Bo now has every reason in the world to throw the ball more frequently. This year unlike the last two the Wolverines go into their drills with an established quarterback who has shown the po- tential to really feather the pigskin. Junior Dennis Franklin has been passing with authority this spring and with the talented array of receivers on the squad there is no reason to believe the airborne attack will not continue into the fall. Paul Seal, who could be the top tight end in the country next year,heads the list of ball-snatchers that also includes speedster Gil Chapman and the entire backfield. Bo may have had any mumber of excuses as to why he hasn't thrown more in the past: Tom Slade couldn't throw well, there were no talented receivers, Franklin was just a young sophomore who needed time to develop. Now the time has come to throw the ball as Franklin has gotten better and Seal is in the same class as former great Jim Mandich. Moving into the picture is sophomore quarterback Mark Elzinga who is currently guiding the second team in practice. Although his ballhandling leaves much to be desired, his passing arm is considered the best on the team. There is a distinct possibility that he will be red-shirted next season rather than spend the campaign on the bench behind Franklin. Whether or not the Wolverines pass extensively next year will only be answered in the games. While there is a lot of meat in the aerial game, there is even more on the shelves of the running attack. When one considers the awesome backfield strength that re- turns there is a strong suspicion that Schembechler may once again rely heavily on his running philosophy. And who could blame him, with such notables as Ed Shuttlesworth, Chuck Heat- er, Hatry Banks, Clint Haslerig, Bob Thornbladh and Larry Gustafson. The temptation is there to go strictly with the run and sports fans can only hope that the coaching staff will opt for the balanced attack. Of course, a major factor in deciding how far to rely on the run is whether or not a solid interior line can be built. As he does every year Schembechler declared, "We don't have as much returning as we did last year." But a closer look reveals that Schembechler may once again be crying wolf. Two of last year's starters return, Jim Coode and Mike Hoban, as does one from the previous season, Curtis Tucker. With Dennis Franks and Dave Metz both gaining experience last year the fleet of backs should have no trouble finding day- light. Two other phases of the game have to be improved if Michi- gan is to have the super season everyone is predicting: middle guard play and placekicking. Expecting that Walt Sexton would nail down the middle guard slot, line coach Frank Maloney has had to find someone else since Sexton dropped out of school last term. Inexperience may hurt the Wolverines here, because the candidates include two sophomores, Tim Davis and Calvin O'Neal, and two players who have seen very limited action, junior Norm Long and senior Don Warner. Handling the placekicking chores somewhat erratically last fall, incumbant Mike Lantry will face a stern challenge from Bob Wood who has been booming the ball in the early workouts. While it is much too early to tell it appears that Schembechler is going to give Wood a long hard look. The rest of the team is loaded with veterans. From the crack of the pads the past two days, it appears that the traditional Michigan strong defense will be strong again. On any other squad, overconfidence might be a severe and real problem. But so far it hasn't happened to a Michigan team the past three years. All of those lopsided victories which are bound to come Michigan's way shouldn't make any difference, because the Wolverines are shooting for the BIG ONE. The BIG ONE is, of course, the national championship. Losing to Ohio State last year might have been a blessing in disguise. Had they trounced the Bucks and gone to the Rose Bowl they would have been ineligible for the trip this campaign. So the incentive is there and the talent is certainly there. But before we start printing our Number One stickers and placards the Wolverines must develop a passing game potent enough to take some of the heat off the runners. A lot of hard work will take place and how successful these drills are will go a long way in determining how great a season 1973 will be. ST. LOUIS-Garry Unger set a Pistons pulverize club record by scoring his 37th * p goal of the season as the St. Louis t DETROIT - Bob Lanier and the Blues defeated the Detroit Red Detroit Pistons both set new team Wings in a National Hockey League records last night as 'the 'Pistons game last night. sE.N.beat the Portland Trailblazers, The power-play goal was the , 122-109, to sweep their six-game second of a three-goal outburst National Basketball Association in a 2:38 span by therBlues in the NIGHT EDITOR: series this season. second period, and broke the old THERESA SWEDO scoring mark set by Unger last Lanier, who scored 33 points, also year. nailed down 17 rebounds to raise After Detroit took a 2-1 lead on Frank Mahovlick and Gordie Howe. ' his season's total to 1,146, off the a pair of power-play goals by The victory boosted the Blues boards, thus smashing the Pistons' Mickey Redman in the first period, lead over the Los Angeles Kings one season mark of r1,132 he set Danny O'Shea flipped in a re- to six points in their battle for the last year. bound to tie the score at 11:29 of final playoff spot in the Western Meantime, the victory for the the second stanza. Unger then Division. Detroit and Buffalo re- Pistons, was their 25th of the year scored his record goal to break the mained tied for fourth in the East. at home, eclipsing their previous deadlock. The Kings played Toronto later best record in Detroit when they Less than a minute later, Floyd Wednesday night on the West captured 24 games at Cobo Arena Thomson beat Detroit goalie Roy Coast. * * * two years ago. Edwards on a breakaway to give - - the Blues the two-goal margin.r Sabres sheathed Sabourin and Frank Huck sand- CIAO -RphBksrmD ekers fete Late goals by the Blues' Gary CHICAGO - Ralph Backstrom D le s f wiched around one by Nick Libett scored his 23rd and 24th goals of completed the scoring in the final the season as the Chicago Blackpp tS period. Hawks whipped the Buffalo SabresA i e fw The two goals by Iedman were 6-2 in a National Hockey League his 47th and 48th of the season- game here yesterday. Excuse me! Some guys will do anything for a basket, as exemplified by George K for two points, knocking over Massachusetts player Charlie Peters. T in the NIT tournament in which North Carolina beat their northern o AP Photo Karl of North Carolina as he goes BIG TEN I1V Law-Gold ca~ By JIM ECKER The triumphant but fatigued Law Gold basketball team limped back into Ann Arbor early yester- day as the newly - crowned Big Ten intramural champions. The lawyers out-distanced a field of seven conference quintets in the non-stop, two-day tourney, culmi- nated by a come-from-behind 66-61 success over the Minnesota entry. The victors combined multiple defenses with a fast-breaking of- fense and overcame taller more rested Iowa and Indiana squads in Monday's double-barrelled action. In the championship affair, a stra- tegic defensive maneuver coupled with an aggressive attack spelled success. "Once we switched from a zone to a hawking man-to-man we controlled the game" analyz- ed team captain and spokesman Doug Williams. "We were play- ing their (),innesota's) game be- fore the change, walking up court, playing a patterned, con- trolled game. "Our style's breaking fast and running, sort of like the Celtics" continued Williams. "We'd started looking for those four-on-threes, five-on-fours whenever we could." Williams credited center Stan Grayson as the law club's back- bone and stabilizing influence. "Stan's real steady" remarked Williams. "Our play depended on what Stan was doing." Grayson, a former Holy Cross cager, netted 24 points-per-game in the tourna- ment. He also keyed the lawyers' breaking attack with strong re- bounding and quick outlet passes. Godfrey Dillard, a six-foot guard with quick hands, strong wheels and a sweep jumper, tossed in 16 points-per-contest. Thegone-time Vanderbilt b - bailer gushed in he action occurred Tuesday night leaving him one shy of the Re The victory moved f t Black, y farLUKE pponent 73-63. Wings' one-season record held by Hawks nine ponts ahead of the One final farewell took place last idle Minnesota North Stars in the night for outgoing Michigan hock- race for first place in the NHL's ey coach Al Renfrew, as the bek- 4 CHAMPSj Western Divsion. ers Club held its 12th Annual Cliff Koroll broke a scoreless Awards Banquet at the Rubiyat. deadlock at 2:56 of the second per- Renfrew, who will be replaced iod when he took a pass fromit Lou by former Meichigan Tech assist- io h h o a sse tit e Angotti and drove a 20-footer past ant coach Dan Farrell, received a Sabres' starting goalie Dave Dry- plaque from his players commem- den. orating his final victory as the spurts, tickling the twines in five- against the Hawkeyes, but Iowa's Jerry Korab made it 2-0 at 7:10 head .mentor-a 3-2 victory over six minute periods, relaxing a lit- I. M. champs kept feeding a 6'9" when he stole a pass by Buffalo's North Dakota in the season's final tie, and then turning it on again. dude who tore. Michigan's men Larry Hillman at the Chicago blue game. Mike Washington, a reserve for- apart. line and skated in alone to beat. Senior Rick Mallette was pre- ward, averaged 10 markers a "This guy put in a couple of Dryden. sented with the most v a1 u ab1e game in a timely relief role. The those Wilt Chamberlain finger- Jim Pappin, Dick Redmond and player award, while senior Roy remainder of the eight-man cham- tip rolls and same Jabbar sweep- Backstrom completed the second Ashworth was named the most im- pionship club included Ernie Black- ing hooks at the start" related period barrage. proved player, and freshman An- man, Steve Drew, Clinton Cana- Williams. "So we switched into a gie Moretto c o p p e d the most dy, Tom Koernke and Williams, collapsing zone, boxed the guy colorful rookie award. Steady de- the player - coach. Sam Riddle and out and kept him avay from the fensemen R a n d y Trudeau was Larry Crawford didn't make the boards." SCO E qu elected.capta of next season' trip because of a limited financial MagainstIndi- squad. budget. Monday afternoon gdi- Moretto claimed the clubhad Williams offered some obser- ana gthe lyerscpldg we NBA plenty of unity and that "an NCAA enough to win," according to Wil- I tanta 98, New York 93caposhptaBilAei n vations on the opponent ball liams. They maintained a 10-12 Detroit 122, Portland 109 Arbor before our senior year. clubs. "I was a little surprised point lead throughout and emerged Boston 106, Chicago 105 Renfrew echoed the fact that at the other teams" said he. as 72-61 victors. Houston 118, Baltimore 110 erew echo thefat th "These games were regulation, The Hamms Brewing Co. spon- Cleveland 112, Philadelphia 109 there is plenty of talent on the not like the I. M. games here. - 1Los Angeles 124, Kansas City- club and the future could be as Y k I. al . gams hee sored the tournament, an innova- Omaha 118 good as the players wanted it. You could call time outs to set tion the hosts hope will promote NHL Mallette was fourth among WCHA things up, talk things over, more widespread student partici- Pittsburgh 5, California 2 MCneswt 7asssi 7lau "And we took dvantage of it. If pation indcollegiate athletics. Montreal 3, Vancouver 2 centers wih 27 assists in le es team ran off three-four buckets Wlim a ohn u Chicago 6, Buffalo 2 gmsadldteWleie in SWilliams had nothing but St. Louis6, Detroit 3 sccoring with 30 total points. in a row, we'd try to cool 'em off praise for his hosts. "They treat- EXHIBITION BASEBALL Ashworth, who scored a hat trick with a break. Or if our defense ed us real well, from start to Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 2 in a losing cause at Colorado wasn't working, a timeout helped finish" complimented the former Montreal 7, Texas 5 earlier this season finished the straighten us out. The other teams Michigan grid performer. "It St Louis 9, Philadelphia 1 th s as in dintdo that."I was a fun tournament all the Minnesota 10, Los Angeles '7 schedule with six goals in only 17 didn't Yankees 6, Mets 2 appearances. In Law Gold's 72-54 opening- way. The theory behind the Baltimore 7, Cincinnati 1 Meanwhile, Warren Guss Crouch, round triumph against Iowa, a de- whole thing was good. But like white sox 3, Boston 2 originator of both the Deker's and fensive adjustment during a time- I told a guy in Minneapolis, 'We Kansas CitygHouston23 this season's elaborate hockey pro- out turned the game around. The came up- here to win. We dig California 14, San Diego 4 grams, was named Deker of the lawyers opened in a man-to-man winning."' Cubs 7, Cleveland 5 Year. ---------------------- Michigan golfers j inp to tenth in early oing of Miami tourney SpeciaI To The Daily MIAMI-The Michigan golf team came through with a strong 314 score yesterday to place tenth after the opening round of the Miami Invitational. The second half of the tournament will take place today as each of the 45 squads will switch courses here in the two-day tourna- ment. Coach Bill Newcomb was pleased with the Wolverines' perform- ance especially since they played on the tougher of the two courses; "Many of the teams ahead of us played the easier course yesterday, the one we get today." The Michigan mentor went on to predict a fifth or sixth place finish in the final tallies. In the preliminaries Tuesday, Michigan played head to head with the University of Miami losing by a close 293-282 count. Michigan had the medalist, however, as John Dale fired a scorching 69 to lead the pack. 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