TACKLE MARK DONAHUE Just your average All-American By JOHN NIEMEYER Mark Donahue is pretty much your average Michigan senior in most respects. He is majoring in education and is presently taking pre-student teaching classes. Like most ed majors he is looking for alternatives since the teaching field is so overcrowded. HE HAS a girlfriend back in his home town, Oaklawn, Illinois. They plan to get married this June after he graduates. Finally, Mark Donahue loves football. And aying football is where his being average ceases. onahue, at 6-3 and 245 pounds, is Michigan's star- ting guard and a consensus All-American. Like anyone who has reached that pinnacle of ex- cellence, Donahue devotes much of hisjlife tofoot- ball. Like anyone who has ever played the game, he gets a lot of satisfaction out of it. One of the things that is most rewarding to Donahue is the self-discipline required to practice and play the sport.r "I LIKE the self-discipline involved. During foot- ball season you have a very short amount of spare time. You might be tired at night but you have to force yourself to study," Donahue commented. For the average student at the big U, midterm time is a dreaded season of the year. Time usually seems as scarce as energy. Add to midterms the six hours a day involved in perfecting a championship football team and you can begin to understand why a football player must lea'n to organize his time. DONAHUE ALSO enjoys striving towards team ob- jectives. He gets a feeling of accomplishment from working extremely hard for a goal. When you reach that goal there is nothing better in the world." One of Donahue's aspirations is to continually im- prove throughout the season both as an individual and as a team. This year he feels that this has been working out. "In the beginning of the season I don't think I was playing up to my potential. Now toward the end of the season we are both rising toward our best. "The whole team and myself as an individual are performing ,more consistently. We are sustaining drives. We don't have as many times where; someone misses an assignment that results in a loss." THE OVERALL improvement in the team is ob- vious. After wallowing through the Navy and Duke games, the Wolverines are turning into an awesome football machine with almost weekly improvement. The big lineman went on to say, "The trouble is people expect us to start out the season like we were playing when we played Ohio State." One of the things that made things tough in the early going was the expectation of great things from this year's offensive line, led by Donahue. Preseason accolades such as "the best Michigan line ever" and "a pro franchise in itself" made scores of 14-7 and 21-9 look even worse. As Donahue puts it,-"When you have the publicity you have to perform." PUBLICITY ISN'T generally a problem for an in- terior lineman, but Donahue has been the exception. Last year Mark was a consensus All-American as a junior. This year his picture has appeared in nearly every preseason football magazine printed. Donahue is quick to make light of the whole business, however. "There is a lot behind an All- American. It's mostly who gets the publicity. We were in the limelight a lot lasst year. There might be a really super lineman on an 0-9 team, but he won't be an All-American because he doesn't get the recognition." Being an All-American certainly helps on the way to a career in professional football, which he would "like to give a try." It is quite likely that Donahue will go high in the draft, but he doesn't want to think too much about it. "I'm not going to get my hopes up. There are a lot of good linemen in the country and I don't want to be disappointed. Last year everybody told Rob Lytle he would go in the first round. When he didn't go un- til the second he felt.. .well, sort of cheated. I don't want that to happen to me." The Michigan Daily-ThursdayOctober 20, 1977-Page 9 Blue back on grass in Brown Jug battle By DON MacLACHLAN : -}: For the first time since the loss in the Rose Bowl last January, the Mich' igan Wolverines will play on a grass field when they. travel to Minnesota Saturday. The Gophers, 4-2, tore up their artificial surface last year and , planted natural grass. "We've been practicing on our grass field this week." said coach Bo" Schembechler. "You gotta learn how to make your cuts and do things dif ferently." The top-ranked Wolverines have fared well on the road so far this seasonr but Schembechler remembers vividly two years ago when Michigan escaped with a one touchdown victory in Minneapolis. "It's always tough playing on the road," Schembechler said. "We gotta'-= suck it up and play together. It won't be any picnic especially in Minneapolis They have beaten two of the best three teams on their schedule-UCLA anida' Washington." According to the Michigan coach, the Gopher strength lies in their. defense and placekicking. The Michigan offense, coming off its best perfor- mance of the season, will be counting on the backfield of Russell Davis ands Harlan Huckleby to churn out the yardage. Davis has more than pleased Schembechler with his output this season. The powerful fullback leads the team in rushing with 597 yards. Huckleby, sidelined against Wisconsin with a pulled leg muscle, has' practiced all week and will reunite with Davis in the starting backfield against Minnesota. Ironically, Roosevelt Smith who gained 157 yards against' the Badgers and started in place of Huckleby is bothered with a slight ankle injury. Sophomore Lawrence Reid is running at number two fullback this week due to a knee injury to Kevin King. Middle guard Steve Graves still has a sore knee but will start in the battle for the Little Brown Jug. 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