UCKS MUST STOP WISHBONE The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 22, 1977-Page 11 Health By BRIAN MILLER 147 yards This Saturday, more than 87,000 "Isn't people will jam themselves into Ray's ve ancient Ohio Stadium to witness the "How m first meeting ever between the Ohio starting s State Buckeyes and the Oklahoma one week Sooners. Buckeye coach Woody Hayes re- As for alizes how tough the Sooners will be, pretty sur noting that "they've got the best week," pi record of any team we've ever point, I d played. will stay "T o b e a t Oklahoma," states Hayes, "we must be in great shape Wayne - which we will be." cerned, t well his d Hayes could make such a state- Oklahoma ment only after reviewing the physi- "The So cal condition of running backs Jeff offense," Logan and Ricky Johnson. Both quick and Logan [ankle sprain] and Johnson [knee sprain] were injured in Ohio State's opening game. The score reflected the depletion in the offen- sive ranks as the Buckeyes won 10-0. ' Ohio State was forced to employ safety Ray Griffin on offense against Minnesota last Saturday, -where he - did a commendable job (58 yards in 14 carries), in complementing the performance of backfield teammate Ron Springs. Springs, 'who gained the By top running spot in the Buckeye In day backfield through attrition, gained Michigan yOS from 27 rushes. it a tremendous tribute to ersatility," asked Hayes. any players could go, from afety to starting tailback in Logan and Johnson, "I'm re we'll have them back this redicted Hayes. "But at this o not know if Ray [Griffin] at tailback." Woodrow is slightly con- o say the least, about how efense will perform against a's wishbone. ooners niove the ball well on explained Hayes. "They're [agile. Uto "You know," he adde i ed tha t:ihl~n n.e tangle with Sooners wn "they've make a minimum of mistakes." uses Ee wis bone for several years now, and used it better over the years than any other team." Big Ten teams don't often see the wishbone and Hayes foresees some problems. "It's very difficult to stop the quarterback inside, or if he pitches the ball, the running back outside. "I don't think we'll ever play a team with a faster backfield. They don't have two or three good backs, they have four! "But remember, they can pass when they have to. They proved that against Nebraska last year. In order to win," Hayes ended, "we'll have to The Oklahoma Sooners aren't ex- actly in top physical condition them- selves. Starting quarterback Thomas Lott has an injured nerve below his knee. The Sooners felt his absence against Vanderbilt, having to come from behind to win, 25-23. "The wishbone quarterback is 70 per cent of our offense," commented coach Barry Switzer. "Lott is still not 100 per cent, but he's been practicing better," he claimed. "We're going with Lott against Ohio State." If Lott doesn't work out, Switzer SCRIMMAGE SATURDAY clue Spikers Promising KARLA ANDERSON s of yore, only the men of were eligible for athletic Ticket situation ... f ... still a farce By JOHN NIEMEYER T HIS PAST WEEKEND was a real pleasure. Naturally, like any other true blooded Michigan senior, I revelled in the be- ginning of my last football season here at the big U. Chills ran down my neck when the words, "Band take the field," boomed over the loudspeakers. The Victors, the cheerleaders and the team lifted me into my typical Sat. urday afternoon frenzy. The atmosphere was once again fantastic. And best of all, I was enjoying the whole show from the 45-yard line. Indeed, af- ter three long years of viewing the greatest of all sports from the endzone, I have finally arrived in the promised land. But happy as I am with my fabulous tickets, I was just lucky. The unlucky multitudes are still in the endzone and unhappy. Much of the displeasure stems from this year's ticket distribution policy. In- stead of starting to wait whenever, as was previously done, the ticket office a la Al Renfrew, decided to allow waiting only from September first on. A lottery at that time determined the starting position of the groups in line. This new policy was adopted in response to the protests following last year's basketball ticket fiasco. A month and a half before tickets went on sale, group one established its claim to the beginning of the line and set up one daily check-in for the duration. The new policy did accomplish at least part of what it set out to do. The time spent waiting in line was cut down. There will be no more month and a half vigils. For that, I commend the system. But from there, the waiting was reduced to a farce. Group one through ten immediately established three check-ins a day, a slight nuisance but certainly no supreme sacrifice for the privilege of sitting on the fifty. The supply of choice tickets to Michigan basketball and football contests is limited and the demand astronomical. As any mediocre economics student knows, when demand exceeds supply the price goes up. In this case, the price for a~good ticket is sitting in line. The check-in system is nothing but a token for waiting in line. The ticket office might as well hold their lottery the day that the tickets go on sale, checking in is so easy. That would be near sacrilege. Everyone would certainly stand an equal chance of ending up with a good ticket. But, the people that really want to see the game from the best seats and are willing to sacrifice to do it might end up behind the band, while the guy who goes to the game to party down would sit on the fifty in a drunken stupor. The dilemma could be easily resolved if the ticket office simply required the first group to institute random checks. The token check would rest in peace and those that wanted to see the play in the opposite end zone would pay the price. That point only accounts for some of the irritation. In addition to the lottery, group size was limited to twelve. Interpretation: If you have more than eleven friends, tough luck. Al Renfrew's rationalization for this point was that it "gave more people a chance for the good tickets." Sorry Al, but if I remember right from fourth grade math, 2,400 tickets in sections 23 and 24 is 2,400 people in sections 23 and, 24 no matter how you divide them. Not only that, but with one person going in and negotiating for his twelve Maybe come basketball season some tickets instead of his fifty tickets for the of these problems will be worked out group, it slows the distribution con- and we can all get back to the business siderably. Those people representing of waiting in line. groups in the three hundreds had to sit for hours just to collect their tickets. They would have had their tickets hours sooner with fewer people running up to the ticket window. Finally, the new distribution policy A was one of the best kept secrets since k.Pearl Harbor. Most of the real "sen- iors" never heard about the lottery un- til they came to town on Labor Day weekend expecting to get in line for Appointments are NOW tickets a week before the sale and have reasonable seats. Instead they were Portrait Sittings for the 9 greeted with hundreds of groups, Yearbook). largely composed of graduate students, already enrolled in the "waiting-made- Please stop by the Ensia easy plan.," (next to SAB) or call 764-05 scholarships. Not so anymore. Col- lege football may still get most of'the attention in Ann Arbor, but the women athletes - yes, some on scholarship - are holding their own. Volleyball, rapidly growing around the country, is but one of the sports in which Michigan women compete at the varsity level. The squad is coached by Sandy Vong, who played volleyball 30 years ago in China, but did not compete for a team until 1966. Vong has a number of goals with regard to the Michigan program (not the least of which is to improve- upon last season's ninth place finish in the Big Ten): " to win the state and regional title this year * to encourage more women to try out for the team " to offer a number of full-tuition scholarships in the future " to teach volleyball once the season is over. Vong is running the team through three-hour practices in preparation for, the season opener next Tuesday (against Eastern and Western Michi- gan, starting at 5:00). The team also has a scrimmage Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Central Campus Recreation Building. The women's opponents will be Lake Michigan, Henry Ford, Schoolcraft, Kellogg and Mott. Spectators are welcome. Although Vong expects an im- proved team, thegBig Tenrace looks no easier. He tabbed Michigan State and Ohio State as the early favorites largely due to good recruiting. Illinois and Purdue should also provide some tough competition. The team's ten veterans are Carol Cocuzza, Jane, Doty, Lisa Holmes, Julie Madison, Karel Pennington, Roberta Salary, Jeanne Sellman, Jamie Spohn, Michelle Weipert and Ginny Witter. The roster is filled out by freshwomen Sue Cramer, Tammy Hermans and Marianne Thomas and transfer students Beth Majors and Carol Ralzee. expessed no qualms in replacing him with senior quarterback Dean Blev- ins. Although he played badly against Vanderbilt, Blevins rebounded with a fine game last Saturday against Utah. He ran for two touchdowns and passed for another as Oklahoma trounced Utah, 62-24. Running backs Billy Sims, Kenny King and Elvis Peacock have been moving the ball well - when they've managed to hang onto it. The Sooners set a school record when they lost seven of 11 fumbles to Vanderbilt. Last week Oklahoma showed no sign of improvement as Utah recovered five of six loose balls. "We lead the world in fumbles," la- mented, Switzer. "If we put the ball on the ground (fumble) against Ohio State, they could embarrass us." . Oklahoma doesn't like to be em- barrassed and rest assured its de- fense will be ready for Ohio State. The Michligan Daily Sports NIGHT EDITORS: CUB SCHWARTZ BRIAN MARTIN . The key to the Sooner defense is injured middle guard Reggie Kinlaw, a pre-season All-American, "Reggie's leg is taped, but he's tedoubtful now," explained Switzer. "The best way to stop Ohio State's offense is to stunt and move more on the line. But we can only do that if Reggie plays." Regardless of who plays where,. Switzer feels the key to stopping Ohio State is to stop "the key to their offense - Rod Gerald." "Gerald has a lot of speed around the corner," said Switzer. "We must stop him to win. He gets so much help from his. offensive line (led by -All-AmericantChris Ward).,They're big and quick." Rod Gerald W CRA89.5FM All in all, this Saturday's game has all the ingredients of a classic struggle, where, to quote a well known Big Ten coach, a yard means a yard. "Playing away isn't as good as playing at home,", noted Switzer, "But there isn't a home field advan- tage for either team. Both teams have played before in big games and the players aren't afraid of the crowds." "Yousknow," he said, "many players choose Oklahoma just so they can play in games like this." M ichigan soccer club downs stubborn EMU By PETE LEININGER The Michigan soccer club scored two goals early in the contest, and held off a tough Eastern Michigan squad to win, 2-1, yesterday. The Wolverines' first goal was scored by right wing Dave Sutton, on an assist from Bulgarian Stephan Mitcov. The goal came about ten minutes into the game. FIVE MINUTES later, Mitcov blasted a penalty kick past the Eastern goalie. The penalty came as a result of a tripping call against an Eastern player in the goal area. "We didn't have a good lineup in the beginning, allowing them to score during the confusion," noted Eastern coach John Cowing. The Hurons' lone goal came with less than one minute remaining in the game. "You've got to credit the win with the defense," commented Mich- igan coach Fred Grunewald. Michigan's goalie, Richard Mat- thews, was not really tested until late in the game. It seemed the Eastern team was too determined to get in for close shots. THE EASTERN squad possessed a number of talented individuals, but failed to work together as well as the Michigan club. The Wolverines relied on controlled play to keep the Hurons shut down. Michigan, much improved from last year, is now 2-0, while Eastern Michigan falls to 0-1-1. 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