'YLIZED PROTECTION headgear: However, Michigan is not the-only said. ill school with the wing-type helmet. The unique des Presently two other colleges, Adrian of ex-Michigan f he and the University of Delaware sport Crisler. li- the same kind of headgear. Coming to Ann re Adrian, located 35 miles southeast ton, Crisler wan ig of Ann Arbor wore a gold helmet with Wolverines' plai ne a black "A" until two years ago. "dress it up a littl Athletic Director and Head Foot- But it was DaN a ball Coach Tom Heckert decided to gan, graduate; he make the change because, "I always Director at Dela liked the Michigan helmet. style with him on he "The public reaction was good and around the countr on our team thinks the helmets are Nelson starte es sharp. We wanted something differ- Hillsdale College ent, and it's nice to be identified with gan in 1946-47, th ai- Michigan football," he said. one year at Harv of The change has satisfied Heckert football coach a ne inasmuch as he shows the helmet to before finding hi ke recruits. "The (recruits) are im- the following yea. o. pressed, by them, and I like to keep Everywhere1 y one here in my office," he added. Michigan influez According to Heckert, the wing- quently the wing he type headgear is fairly common in characteristic n ee high schools across the country. teams. c- "You'd be surprised how many But it was a places wear that kind of helmet," he Nelson's teams e It's a hell ofa helmet! ign was a brainchild ootball coach Fritz Arbor from Prince- nted to change the in black helmet and :le.,, ve Nelson, a Michi- and now Athletic ware, who took the his travels as coach .ry. d his sojourn at in southern Michi- en was an assistant vard, followed up as t Maine in 1949-50 s niche at Delaware r. Nelson' went, his nce followed, subse- -type helmet was a mark of Nelson's t Delaware where excelled, winning 11 of 20 Eastern Championships in Division II. Coincidentally, Delaware has the same colors as Michigan leading to an unfounded saying that the Blue Hens were the "Michigan of the East". Some people might even remem- ber that it was Delaware.who faced Central Michigan three years ago in the Camellia Bowl for the Division II championship. It mush have surprised more than the average person who saw, that game to see the Chippewas soundly thrashing a team that LOOKED like Michigan. As popular as the helmet is around here, it was a sore spot to the athletic administration at the University of Maine. Despite that, Nelson left the Black Bears in 1950, Maine kept its helmets the same. It was only two years ago that Maine's new football coach, Jack Bicknell, switched from the wing-type to a solid color with an "M"' on the side, as a symbol of his new program. The helmet has undergone very few changes since its inception 39 years ago. At first, they were leather, hand- sown, but with the familiar flying wings and stripes. Although the wings and stripes were yellow, the base was a tan or brown. It was around 1947 that a couple olf players wore plastic helmets, al- though the rest of the team stayed with the leather. Later it became too expensive to continue to use leather, and the plastic headgear offered better pro- tection. The design remained constant but included the addition of numbers on the side. The final change took place in 1969 when the numbers were dropped. The crowning touch was the use of little football-shaped stickers with Wolverines on them. TROJANS AND SOONERS FLIP-FLOP Wolverines drop to third in polls NEW YORK (UPI) - Southern Cal, a 51-0 winner Saturday, has re- placed Michigan as the No. 1 team in the UPI's college football ratings. After the third week of the season, Southern Cal polled 335 points to edge Oklahoma for the top spot by seven points in the first major reshuffling of the top .teams. The Sooners, who picked up 328 points, moved up from the fourth spot by upsetting last week's No. 3 team Ohio State, 29-28. Penn State's impressive 27-9 triumph over Atlantic Coast Confer- ence champion Maryland helped the Nittany Lions move up one place to the No. 4 spot. Texas A&M, after downing last week's No. 6 team Texas Tech, 33-17, jumped from No. 7 to No. 5 and received the other fir- st-place vote. UPI Top Twenty The AP Top Twen Team 1. Southern Cal (14) ...... 2. Oklahoma (14) ......... 3. MICHIGAN (9) ........ 4. Penn St................ 5. Texas A&M (1)....... 6. Colorado.............. 7. Ohio St ............... 8. Texas ................. 9. Florida ............. 10. Nebraska .............; 11. Arkansas ............. 12. Alabama .............. 13. Pittsburgh ............ 14. Brigham Young ....... 15. Notre Dame ............ ,16. California .............. 17. Houston ............... 18. Arizona St............. 19. Texas Tech ............, 20. Wisconsin .......... . Points 3-0 335 3-0 328 3-0 320 3-0 247 3-0 231 3-0 135 2-1 114 2-0 106 2-0 . 90 2-1 50 3-0 . 31 2-1 30 2-1 13 2-0 12 2-1 10 3-0 6 2-1 5 2-0 4 2-1 3 3-0 2 Team 1. Oklahoma (23)...... 2. Southern Cal. (24) ... 3. MICHIGAN (8) .... 4. Penn St. (7) . ....... . 5. Texas A&M........ 6. Ohio St............... 7. Colorado .......... 8. Texas (1)......... 9. Florida ............ 10. Alabama.......... 11. Nebraska............ 12. Arkansas ............ 13. Texas Tech .......... 14. Notre Dame........ 15. Brigham Young ..... 16. Pitt ................. 17. California........ 18. Mississippi St..... 19. Houston........... 20. Arizona St........... 3-0-0 3-0-0 3-0-0 3-0-0 3-0-0 2-1-0 3-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 2-1-0 2-1-0 3-0-0 2-1-0 2-1-0 2-0-0 2-1-0 3-0-0 2-1-0 2-1-0 2-0-0 By The Associated Press Michigan Coach Bo Schembech- ZtY ler, who asked newsmen a week ago Points not to vote his team No. 1 in The As- 1,164 sociated Press college football poll, 1,116 got his wish today. 981 The Wolverines dropped to third 860 place in this week's AP poll behind 798 Oklahoma and Southern California. 601 Oklahoma, the preseason leader, 581 surrendered the top spot to Michigan 430 for the first two weeks of the season 1395 but climbed from third place back to 320 No. 1 by nipping Ohio State, last 286 week's No. 4 team, 29-28. 224 Southern Cal, a 51-0 winner over 201 Texas Christian, actually received 189 . one more first-place ballot than 106 Oklahoma but the Trojans only 84 totaled 1,116 points while remaining 46 No.2. 31 Then came Michigan with .eight 27 first-place votes and 981 points, 16 compared to last week's 42 and 1,094. 4i U-M Stylists at the Union HAROLD, CHET and DAVE Open 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Blue clubbers crush Bulldogs; Kohut paces attack with 5 goals By JANE PINCE The women's field hockey team opened its 1977 season with a 13-0 vie- tory over Adrian College. Forward Dawn Kohut proved to be the key in the clubbers offense by scoring five goals, thus continuing her tradition of leading scorer which she began during the 1976' season. Other key players in Tuesday's game were freshperson Jean McCarthy with three and junior Lynn Darin with two goals. Each scored their goals in the first half. Mary Callum had one goal and two assists. The Michigan defense has little trou- ble preventing penetration of its territory as there was not one shot on goal made by the Adrian offense. "WE ARE AS STRONG as we were last year," commented Phyllis Ocker, head coach of the tean. "We have tried some different combinations by switch- ing some of the player's positions. These changes seem to have worked today." Something must have worked as Michigan, leading at the half 8-0 substi- tuted junior varsity players freely for the varsity throughout the entire sec- ond half. The team has been preparing for this opener and its coming season since late August. The training begun with a trip to Pennsylvania for a weeklong field hockey camp. The team also spent this past weekend at a camp outside Jack- son playing scrimmages against other teams and polishing up those newly- made revisions. MICHIGAN'S CLUBBERS travel to Bloomington for a three-game bout with Indiana this weekend. "Indiana is tough. They will be a very tough team to play," Ocker said. This year's schedule includes several home games, the next one slated for Oc-, tober 6 against Eastern Michigan. All home games are played at Ferry Field and include both the varsity and junior varsity squad competition. The team will also be participating in the State Tournament which will be held at Centrl Michigan on Nov. 4 and 5th. BILLBOA RD In a correction to Tuesday's Daily, Herb Brown and Will Robinson of the Detroit Pistons will not be able to speak in the IM building this Thursday. All other events will be held as scheduled. * GilIJEPICKS In the beginning there was nothing and Pizza Bob was lonely. So he said, 'Let there be pizza.' And there was pizza. And night fell on the first day. But Bob saw that pizza was lonely and he said, "Let there be two items." And there was. Bob saw that it was good and night fell on the second day. "Don.'t give anything away to those left-winged, liberal type, freeloading bums. Make them work for it." -Pizza Bob's accountant Now at this stage of the show all that existed was pizza-from Poughkeepsie to Palo Alto, from Pawtucket to Pensacola. So Bob said, "Let there be small pizza." And there was night on the third day. But Bob was bothered by income tax, so he decided to create a shelter by giving away a pizza a week. But his accountant said, "Don't give away anything to those left-winged, liberal type, freeloading bums. Make them work for it." So Bob created Griddes. And then he created deadline (as in 12 midnight on Friday). Not satisfied he created The Daily, and football and last but not least PEOPLE. So now people pick Griddes and Griddes gain two-item pizza and there was tranquility in the Garden of Bob. 1. Texas A&M at MICHIGAN (pick score) 2. Syracuse at Illinois 611 Church-995-5955 (off S. University) LAST CALL for MIXED BOWLING LEAGUES 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Indiana at Nebraska Iowa at UCLA Michigan State at Notre Dame Washington at Minnesota Northwestern at Wisconsin Ohio State at Southern Methodist Wake Forest at Purdue Navy at Duke Georgia at Aiama. 'Aryn~g frmjasT u psut t~r