Wednesday, October 11J. 197/ THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Weneda, cobr 1,197 TE IHIANDAL PgeSee COLEMAN SPARKLES: Tigers stay alive Spee6 Bucs t DETROIT (P) - Righthander Joe Coleman struck out 14 Oak- land Batters, setting a baseball playoff record yesterday and keep- ing Detroit's American League pennant hopes alive with a 3-0 vic- tory over the A's. The A's still lead the best-of-five series 2-1 and need one more vic- tory eithe'r Wednesday or, if neces- sary, Thursday to clinch its first World Series berth since 1931. Coleman made sure the . A's didn't get the victory Tuesday. The hard-throwing pitcher worked out of frequent jams, allowing sev- en hits and pitching with men on base in all but two innings. But his strikeout pitch kept bailing him out of trouble. His 14 strikeouts broke the play- off record of 12 established by; Baltimore's Jim Palmer on Oct. 5, 1970, against Minnesota. The Tigers took advantage of a wild streak by Oakland starter Ken Holtzman to score their first two runs with seldom - used Ike' Brown drilling the bases-loaded single that brought them hone.j Al Kaline started Detroit's scor- ing rally with a one-out walk in the fourth inning. Bill Freehan, starting his first game since Sept. 1Wor * i daily. sports NIGHT EDITOR BOB HEUER 21 when he suffered a broken thumb, followed with a double past third, sending Kaline to third. Then Holtzman walked Willie Horton to load the bases. The vet- eran left-hander got Mickey Stan- ley on a fly to short center for the second out as the runners held. That brought up utilityman Brown, playing first base to give the Tigers an extra right-handed bat against southpaw Holtzman. Brown, who played in only 51 games during the regular season,, drilled a single up the- middle, --jor UAlai Jim Young... 0 . Defense extraordinaire Rnnciv Phillios"--- i F,( Fl.~y U'1. .. 1jJ n 1t- .m .. - _V - ,.A- -- scoring Kaline and Freehan and By RANDY PHILLIPS giving Coleman the lead. HOW OFTEN has that cliche "a good football team begins with a Freehan added an extra run in good defense"-been used by football coaches around the country? the eighth with a long home run it certainly can be traced in some form to Michigan mentor Bo to left field but the wayColeman Schembechler. That's his football philosophy, and Wolverine defensive Coleman finished with a flourish, co-ordinator Jim Young has been extremely successful in proving that striking out the last two batters formula. he faced to end the ball game. Young has been building solid defenses for Schembechler for the The way things started, it didn't past three and a half years. Schembechler's 28-5, record would not be look like he'd be around to see the as good'were it not for Michigan's tough defense. end. Matty Alou lined his first More often than not the Wolverine's defense has bailed out the pitch for a double to right and Dal offense by forcing turnovers and providing good field position. Often Maxill followed with a walk. But times it has managed to blunt the opposition's attack until the sluggish the heart of the A's batting order Blue offense could get untracked. -Joe Rudi, Reggie Jackson and Each year the defense has been getting stingier. In Young's first Mike Epstein - to get out of the season at Michigan the Wolverines gave up only 148 points; in 1970, jam. only 90 points; and last season the Wolverines allowed an amazing In the third, he was in trouble 83 points. in 12 games-less than one touchdown per contest. That again with two men on and two impressive figure put Michigan at the top of the nation in scoring out. defense He seemed to have Epstein Young has been blessed with some mighty fine talent over the struck out for the third out but years such as Tom Curtis, Marty Huff, Mike Taylor, Tom Darden, and a host of others. This season finds the Wolverines a bit thin on BI depth, but with some pretty tough hitters like Fred Grambau, Tom Kee, and Randy Logan. So far the scoring defense statistics are near- ly as impressive as last year's with only 23 points given up in four contests. Young feels that perhaps the best player he has coached was line-' backer Mike Taylor, everyone's All-American last year. "He's got the By ROBIN WAGNER greatest hitting ability," praised Young. The main feature in Palo Alto, But with all the big burly players around these days it takes more Cal., last Saturday was* expected than size and strength to impress Young. "The most important things to be the duel between 15th rated these days are speed and quickness. You get good defense'from speed Stanford and Southern California.! TT n !'t L . . . t «' l i CINCINNATI (,P) - Ross Grims- ley overpowered Pittsburgh with. a two-hitter as the Cincinnati Reds crushed the fumbling Pirates 7-1 yesterday and sent the tense Na- tional League playoffs into a fifth and deciding game. The tall southpaw was in com- mand all the way after being given a 1-0 lead in the first inning on one of three Pittsburgh errors. Grimsley didn't walk a batter and finished with a flourish by re- tiring the final nine batters. He struck out five. Pete Rose led off the Reds' first with a ground single to right center and was sacrificed to second base by Joe Morgan. Pittsburgh starter - Dock Ellis appeared to be out of trouble when shortstop Gene Alley stopped Bobby Tolan's sharp grounder in the hole and nailed Rose going to third on a close play. ->> But then Tolan broke for second ::..fon the next play and Johnny Bench poked a single to right through a gaping hole left by Pittsburgh se- cond baseman Dave Cash, who was covering the bag. Tolan raced to AP Photothird, giving Cincinnati runners at AP Photo the corners with two out. OAKLAND'S THIRD BASEMAN Sal Bando goes down diving for Bench then stole second as Pitts- Bill Freehan's 4th inning double. Umpire Art Frantz is motioning burgh catcher Manny Sanguillen that the ball is fair. Freehan's double set the stage for two runs threw the ball into center field al- scored later in the inning. lowing Tolan to fly home with Cin- cinnati's lead run. Plate Umpire John Rice ruled it ing No. 2 until he really needed it. More sloppy Pittsburgh fielding a half-swing after checking with The A's had two on and two out led to two more Cincinnati runs in third base ump Art Frantz. in the seventh when he fanned the fourth before a delighted crowd Manager Billy Martin raged at pinch-hitter Dave Duncan to end of 39,447 at Riverfront Stadium. Frantz over, the decision but it the threat. Bench opened with a single and, didn't matter. Coleman fanned . Oakland Manager Dick Williams after Tony Perez flied to center Epstein on the next pitch. threw 20 players into the game field, he stole second as Denis Coleman struck out the side in and finished with Gene Tenace, Menke struck out. One more, an the fifth, giving him 11 strike-: his starting catcher, playing sec- erratic toss by the weak-throwing outs of the first 15 A's retired. ond base. But it was to no avail. Sanguillen made the steal possible. Then he didn't get the record-ty- Coleman was just too much, Alley then dropped Cesar Geron- imo's short pop down the left field ETTER DESPITE WIN line, allowing Bench to score Con-: cinnati's second run. When the1 Pittsburgh shortstop threw wild to the plate for a second error on the play, Geronimo went all the way Strolling down a shady New England lane on Wednesday, 1875, we pause before the grounded iron gate of Drs. Beddow's Pneumatic Institute, where we eavesdrop on the conversation of two members of the Amateur Electfical League ... "Tom, Tom, it works! And to think, all we had to do was put the balls on the other side!" "Right, Jack. Now, with those footballs hanging in perfect balance, we'll be 20 for 20 in Gridde Pickings forever!" It may be futile, but get your picks in by midnight Friday anyway. Who knows, the balls may come off. 1. Michigan St. at MICHIGAN 11. Oklahoma at Texas (pick score) 12.'Florida at Alabama 2. Wisconsin at Indiana 13. Auburn at LSU 3. Iowa at Northwestern 14. Duke at Clemson 15. Texas Tech at Texas A&M 4. Purdue at Minnesota 16. Washington at Stanford .5. Illinois at Ohio State 17. Tulane at Miami (Fla) 6. Air Force at Boston College 18. Villanova at Maryland 7. Penn at Cornell 19. Harvard at Columbia 8. Navy at Syracuse 20. Drexel at Kings Point 9. Iowa St. at Colorado 221/2 Daily Libels at Barstow, 10. Kansas at Kansas St. Alaska IS ANYBODY HEALTHY? Patient utilization of Health Service's Main Medical Clinic is up more than 40 people a day over this time last year. That means that doctors are scheduled days in advance, and waiting time for walk-in patients is often an hour or more. However, there are ways of minimizing the inconvenience to your 1 ) Make an appointment if at all possible. And please cancel it if you cannot show. 2) If you do walk in without an appointment, try and avoid the hours between 11:30 and 1 :30 when we have less than our full complement of physicians on duty. mg Reds whip o even series to third base. ally walked and then stole second Darrel Chaney then dragged a as Sanguillen had to eat -the ball bunt down the first base line and when no one covered the. bag. just beat a diving tag by f i r s t. Grimsley's infield single over se- baseman Willie Stargell, allowing cond base drove home Menke to Geronimo to come home standing give Cincinnati a 4-0 lead. up. Rose bunted for a hit to knock The Reds committed daylight in the fifth run but Grimsley was robbery against the besieged San- thrown out trying to reach third guillen in the midst of a two-run as Stargell fired a bullet throw to flurry in the sixth. Menke doubled Alley. with one out off Pittsburgh reliev- Clemente, who had only had one er Bob Johnson and raced to third hit in the first three games, drove on a bouncer to the right side by in the lone Pirate run with a sev- Geronimo. Chaney was intention- enth inning homer. Gridde Pickiniigs 9 qVr" . N XA/ 1 7 " 4 half to 30-13. Stanford finished the scoring with a 29 yard touchdown pass. Not content with a 30-21 victory, McKay called for a controversial last-second pass from the Stan- ford 19. The pass fell incomplete mark. Following its loss, Stanford falls to 0-1 in the conference., The Cardinals host Sonny Six- killer and the Washington Huskies this weekend. Christiansen's crew' will be under extreme pressure to, win as two conference losses will all but end their run at the roses.t Billboard There will be a meeting for non-scholarship Freshmen who are interested in Basketball Fri- day at 5:00 p.m. in Crisler Arena. and pursuit." U.S.C., the country's number one Michigan's defense is more than stars or individual perform- ranked team, trimmed the Cardi- ances. It has at its foundation, a cohesive unit of eleven men who are nals, 30-21. in the end mentally ready as well as physically fit. Young remarks that the key What attracted most of the day's for a 2,000 attention however, were Trojan ed. to a strong defense is "really your personnel and the mental aspect. ;cahnoho , y brernge ti The mental aspect is more important on defense than offense." coach John, McKay's blistering Statisticd Young has even emphasized the use of psychocybernetics - the power well, most everything. mulated 4 of positive titinking-to key his players for a contest. "I'd liked to have won by 2,000 ing on the Young, a former Ohio State and Bowling Green star fullback, has points," said McKay of the fallen terback Mi been with Schembechler for eight years at both Miami and Michigan. Cardinals. "They are the worst bined to c He knows what kind of football is being played in this area of the winners I've ever gone up against, for 175 ya country and what needs to be done to defense the Big Ten "grind it They have no class." fensive th out" style of offense. That is why Michigan still uses the angle 5-2 de- Concerning the play of his USC hampered fense that was popular a decade ago. contingent, McKay grumbled, "We fumbles an Now, with many teams switching to more wide open offenses, most played as poorly as we could. We Thestar were just horsing around ottfTheUSta squads have changed their defenses to the pro 4-3 alignment. The 4-3 there. We just stood between the o SC is stronger against the pass, but gives a little against the rush. 30-yard lines and killed a lot of Stanford t The angle defense is a variation of the regular 5-2 set and was grass. They'll have to reseed the signal - c designed by Frank Broyles at Arkansas. But there has been some place."'i.n.ltimes criticism recently that Michigan's defense would come loose at the McKay was particularly derisive times. seams if it faced a formidable passing team. Some of this criticism in describing the officiating. H Ge Southern is a result of the thin secondary corps this season-a by-product of bitterly stated, "I'm thoroughly Senie m graduation and several key injuries. disgusted. Two teams play this the defens But some critics point to Don Bunce's aerial bombardment last game. Why when we play these th mfs Fakhotshots aren't penalties called Sophmr year in the Rose Bowl with Tom Darden and Randy Logan and Frank both ways? For a while in the school clas Gusich and Bruce Elliot still around. third quarter we kept moving back- Chapman, However, Young points out that his defenses have had better than wards. I don't think we got any job at his average luck against some good passers and counters with examples calls at all." Failing of the Wolverine's wipe-out of Mike Phipps three seasons ago, and of USC was penalized seven times by McKay Sonny Sixkiller two years past. He argues, "We think we can defense for 66 yards while the home team Christians against the pass despite last year's Rose Bowl. We always felt we could was whistled down twice for 14 praise for stay with our own defense and adjust." yards. sH e explai During the week of practice before a game, Young does some Though less provocative than, solid footb adjusting to prepare for the upcoming opponent. But the basic defense the game itself did include its They defir always stays intact. "We try to take what has been successful for them share of thrills and excitement. ber one ra and work on that. It's a matter of seeing their plays over and over, With the score tied 13-13 late hard for a again until it becomes a reaction thing." in the opening half and 'Stanford Stanford For Young, practice is not a yelling session; it's all business. Every back to punt, an errant snap gave ry, who ha minute of every session is carefully planned out and accounted for so USC the ball on the Cardinal's five last year's that all phases of the game are covered-pass defense, rush defense, yard line. Anthony Davis, a re- used spar punt returns, tackling drills, etc. Young treats his players like mature placement for ineffective starting due to inj ment withrs tokg d, dn theyve reondeitsh pard wk man tailback Rod McNeil, scored his after inter men with a job to do, and they've responded with hard work and a second touchdown two plays later. Also mi professional attitude. Davis was voted the offensive nal's star When asked about his low key approach, Young responded, "That's player of the game. sive endI just my style. I believe in stressing the positive aspect more than The Trojans, behind second- suffering negative criticism." string quarterback Pat Haden, ex- USC rem You can't argue with success, and it looks like this year will be tended the margin in the second the Pac-8 another banner one for the Wolverine defense. Young says, "This - ~ team can be as strong as any team we've had by the end of the year. The attitude and mental aspect of this defense is as great as it's ever been." Bo will be quite happy about that. __ _- ----_.__. ____.- I ru ru r re nsLi.. zone and McKay's hopes 0 point play were crush- ally, the winners totally the game. USC accu- 17 total yards, 232 com- ground. Starting quar- ike Rae and Haden com- onnect on 13 of 24 passes ards. Southern Cal's of- hrusts were continually however, by five lost nd an interception. - studded defensive unit was brilliant, holding o a bewildering -16 yards They sacked Cardinal aller Mike Boryla five Cal defensive back s, last week's Pac-8 de- ayer of the week, was1 ive player of the game. e Richard Wood, a high ssmate of Michigan's Gil, did a commendable linebacker position. ' to follow the example set y, Stanford Mentor Jack en had nothing but his powerful opponents. ned, "Southern Cal is a all team with a good of- an outstanding defense. nitely deserve their num-. anking and they will be nybody to beat." flanker John Winesber- auled in eight passes in Rose Bowl game, was ringly in the first half uries. 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