turday, October 29, 1977-The Michigan Daily MICHIGAN OFFENSE MUST IMPROVE-BO ue attempts to rebound HA "An1. A1 tXT.a. J..... .r.. .,. THE LINEUPS MICHIGAN IOWA 0 OFFENSE Gene Johnson (227)... John Powers (261)..... Gerry Szara (240)...... Valt Downing (254)..... Vark Donahue (245).... bike Kenn (244)........ tick White (200)..... Ralph Clayton (211).... Russell Davis (220)..... larlan Huckleby (199).. Rick Leach (186)...... TE ST RG C LG QT WR WB FB TB QB ......... (91) Jim Swift (235) .(72) Barry Tomasetti (255) .. (61) Doug Benschoter (256) ... (56) Jim Hilgenberg (230) ... ..(60) Mike Mayer (241) (51) Sam Palladino (255) ........(87) Brad Reid (170) .. ......(29) Jim Frazier (165) .(44) Jon Lazar (210) ........(25) Rod Morton (190) .(11) Tom McLaughlin (197) By DON MACL ACHLIN Last -summer Iowa coach Bob Commings predicted that some crazy things would happen in the Big Ten this year. One big surprise occurred a week ago when Minnesota stunned Michigan, 16-0. This afternoon the Wolverines try to get back on the winning track when they host the Hawkeyes in Michigan Stadium. We are catching Michigan at a bad time," Commings said. "The timing is not good. We've given up too many points and too much yardage in the fast two games. Iowa did not appear on the Michi- gan schedule for the past two years. In the last confrontation, the season opener in 1974,.Michigan downed the Hawks, 24-7. "We're not as familiar with them," said Michigan coach Bo Schembech- ler. "We don't know their personnel as well because we haven't played against them for awhile." Schembechler knows one thing about Iowa - it prides itself on de- fense. The Hawkeyes ranked third in again' the conference in total defense a year ago. However, this season the de- fense has been extremely erratic. The Minnesota offense was stifled by the Hawks, and Iowa won handily, 18-6. On the other hand, Ohio State rolled for 464 yards and last week Purdue totaled 466 yards as the Hawkeyes went down to defeat. "We play good defense," Com- mings said. "I though we would beat Purdue but I didn't know they would throw five touchdown passes on us. This is my best team overall, DEFENSE Dom Tedesco.(212)..... ohn Anderson (219).... Dale Keitz (240)........ urtis Greer (237)...... iteve-Graves (218)..... Ion Simpkins (221)..... Terry Meter (206)...... )wight Hicks (180)..... Mike Jolly (178)........ )erek Howard (192)... im Pickens (182)..... OLB OLB T T MG ILB ILB Wolf WHB SHB S ....(85) Dean Moore ..(42) Leven Weiss .... (77) Mark Mahems ....... (75) John Harty ........(47) Tom Rusk (45) Steve Vazquez ..... (94) Steve Wagner (20) Cedric Shaw ......(38) Roger Stech ........(19) Rod Sears . (49) Shanty Burks (210) (205) (245) (260) (232) (235) (230) 190) (185) (185) (185) 0 Iowa. though." "Iowa plays defense like Texas-- A&M'- physical and tough," Schemi bechler said. "They have good talent offensively too. They are a vastly im'.. proved team." - Just like their defense, the Hawk- eyes have been up and down while compiling a 3-4 record. Iowa nipped 19th ranked Iowa State and whipped Minnesota but lost to Arizona and Purdue - yielding a total of 75 points in the two games. Iowa runs out of a winged-T offense and relies on the duo of Jon Lazar and Rod Morton to , accumulate yardage. Lazar has rushed for 268V' yards and tailback Morton totals 233 yards along with four touchdowns. Quarterback Tom McLaughlin has passed for 605 yards but tossed ten interceptions. The Hawkeye offense will be without the services of wing- back Jesse Cook today. Cook sprained an ankle in practice this week and will be replaced by fresh- man Jim Frazier. "We've got to get our offense more productive and consistent," Coin mings said. The same could be said for the Michigan offense. The Wolverines couldn't get the offense rolling in. Minneapolis and worked very hard in - practice this week. According to - Schembechler it's a matter of execut- ing better. "Our coaching staff felt all along that Iowa was a better defensive team than Minnesota," Schembech- ler said. "If that is the case we will have to be a better offensive team than we were last week." The Wolverines made it through practice without any serious injuries, although numerous starters are both- ered with assorted bumps and bruises. Defensive tackle Chris God- frey will not play due to pneumonia and junior Dale Keitz will move back into the starting line-up. Kickoff is 1:30 p.m. and the game can be heard on WUOM-FM, 91.7 on2 the dial. RRIE RS IN CCC: Test time for Bu1e By ERNIE DUNBAR add four new faces to the lineup Special to The Daily which defeated Penn State in this WLING GREEN, Ohio- All the meet last year. > s and pains from the previous n weeks of training must be Atten today, when Michigan's s country team attempts to win hird straight Central Collegiate erence (CCC) Championship on Bowling Green golf course. e Wolverines will encounter stiff petition from Penn State, West- Yichigan, Eastern Michigan and ost Falcons. chigan coach Ron Warhurst will JUNIORS MIKE McGuire and Doug Sweazey plus sophomore Dave Lewis and freshman Gary Parenteau are the newcomers. They'll be joined by seniors Bill Donakowski and Mark Foster, and junior Bruce McFee. "We won it (the championship) two years ago over Penn State by five points and last year by one point over Penn State, ,so I think they'll be looking for us this year," said Warhurst. "I think we're in pretty good shape," he added, "with McGuire, Donakowski, and .Sweazey, running very well." Michigan lost last year's CCC run- ner-up, Greg Meyer, to graduation, however Donakowski returns with a sixth place finish to his credit. Following the CCC Michigan will travel to West Lafayette where they'll attempt to win their fourth straight Big Ten championship, on November 5. Daily Photo Michigan quarterback Rick Leach rambles to his left in this action from the Texas A&M game earlier in the season. Michigan won that one 41-3. Today the Wolverines face Iowa, kickoff time is 1:30.4 - SATURDAY NCAA FOOTBALL 'A IIGAN VICTORY PARTY BILLBOARD ' If you missed last year's spectacu- lar Soviet gymnast's show; you'll have another chance to see it. Such stars as Olga Korbut and Nelli Kim will lead the talent on Monday, November 28 in Crisler Arena. Tickets [$7 and $10] are on sale now at the Michigan Ticket Department.- The Michigan lacrosse sports club plays its only regular match of this semester against the Chicago City lacrosse team, today at 4 p.m. on the tartan turf. PURDUE AERIALS TEST 'CATS Herrmann n highgear FOOTBALL uced prices on mugs of beer 1 church (off S. University)93-54935 r 1977 JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING CO.. MILWAUKEE. WIS ~1~ THE DEAN OF BEER'S QUICKIE QUIZ. By LIZ MAC Big Ten's leading passer with 133 With Purdue and Northwestern completions for 1,858 yards and he forming the tail end of the Big Ten also leads in total offense, averaging standings, many would think that 242.1 yards pergame. today's confrontation between those A, lot .of help, comes from the two teams would be a oewht. Boilermakers Reggie Arnold, who ho-fum affair. leads the league in receptions with But there's a new source of excite- 34, and Ray Smith, who has 32. ment in the league - a quarterback With results like this, it's no by the name of Mark Herrmann. And surprise that Purdue coach Jim he comes not from Ohio State or Young intends to stick to this game Michigan but from Purdue. plan. "We'll use the shotgun in" THE BOILERMAKERS' amazing obvious passing situations," he said. freshman signal caller will have a NORTHWESTERN could use a big chance to show his stuff in the region- win, having,. suffered its eighth ally televised game at Northwestern, straight loss to Ohio State last week. Herrmann,,working at times from The Wildcats have now lost 23 of their the shotgun for the first time last last24games. week, threw for five touchdownstas The Buckeyes, now the only Big Purdue topped Iowa 34-21. He is the Ten team undefeated in conference play, will try to preserve their record when they host Wisconsin today. F ree a en t Third ranked Ohio State leads the g e league in rushing and in total offense. It is heavily favored over the " Badgers who after a strong start have suffered two straight losses at the hands of Michigan and Michigan _7 1State. It's homecoming weekend at East Lansing, and the Spartans will try to hold onto their winning form when they take on Illinois. State quarter- back Eddie Smith went over the 1,000 yard mark in passing last week, while kicker Hans Nielsen became- the Spartans' all-time point leader with his 51-yard field goal in the 9-7 victor over Wisconsin. ILLINOIS, however, comes into the game with hopes of extending a two-game winning streak. Quarter- back Mike McCray and tailback Jim Coleman both had fine showings in last week's 21-7 scalping of Indiana. The Gophers will have the momen- tum whenthey visit Indiana today after last week's upset of Michigan. The Minnesota defense will try for. a repeat performance, having held the Wolverines to a scant 80 yards rushing. Kicker Paul Rogind pro- vides a point scoring threat. Minnesota 'oach Cal Stoll, how- ever,'has never won at Bloomington and admitted, "We're not good enough to beat anyone without emotion." Q: The figure "130" represents: a) The number of mailmen in the U.S. answering to the name of Louie. b) Any combination of the numbers 70 and 60. c) The number of times the word porcupine, can be written on a zucchini. d) The number of Schlitz taste testers. e) Both (b) and (d). A: (e) I can think of no combination of 70 and 60 that does not equal 130. (If you can, you now know why you are flunking math.) I also can't think of anything better than being a Schlitz taste tester. Except, perhaps, owning Kuwait. And Schlitz maintains a trained panel of over 130 of them. They're qualified and requalified experts who make sure your taste for quality is never disappointed. Because Schlitz knows the final test 'for three Birds By Associated Press BALTIMORE - Three Baltimore Orioles players - Elliott Maddox, Ross Grimsley and Dick Drago - have indicated they plan to go through next week's re-entry draft, according to officials of the Ameri- can League club. The players, whose contracts ex- pired at the end of the baseball season, sent written notices of their intentions, to the Major League Players Association, which informed Baltimore of the players' decisions. The re-entry draft is scheduled for next Friday in New York. Maddox is an outfielder, while' Grimsley and Drago are pitchers. In other baseball doings, a group in New Orleans has promised to put up almost half of the $12 million purchase price of the Oakland Athlet- ics' major league baseball team, a New Orleasn newspaper reported Friday. The report, in the New Orleans State Item, quoted a source close to negotiations with A's owner Charles Finley as saying the $3.4 million promised by the group is more than enough to finance the down payment for the ailing American League franchise. Are you interested in REAL wo- Texas hosts Tech* Navy scares iris By The Associated Press The upset of No. 1 ranked Michigan set Texas supporters to dancing in the aisles at last week's Texas-SMU game, but it didn't/give Texas Coach Fred Akers a swelled head. "If we're No. 1, I'll accept it," said Texas' first-year coach, "but I was vry proud to have been the No. 2 team." Before the season, the pundits said the Longhorns would be luckyto be the No. 2 team in the Southwest Conference much less the entire nation. But here they are, 5-5-1 under Darrell Royal a year ago, putting their 6-0 record on the line today for the first time as the No.1 team in the country in a home game against 14th-ranked Texas Tech. It is the weekend's only pairing of Top Twenty teams. Texas Tech will probably have to face Texas without big-play quarter- back Rodney Allison, who has been out for a month with a broken bone in his leg. "Prior to all our injuries (the Red Raiders have lost three offensive guards in addition to Allison), we were as good, if not better, than last year," says Coach Steve Sloan. "Our defense has been a little better, but our offen- sive situation isn't as good because of the injuries." Meanwhile in South Bend... Joe Gattuso, the heart of Navy's ground attack with 820 yards, will be a marked man when the Middies invade Notre Dame Stadium today facing the fifth-ranked Irish. So will Bob Leszcynski, a junior quarterback who last year keyed a near-upset against Notre Dame. Navy, 4-3 this season, came within inches of upsetting the Irish last year at Cleveland. With Notre Dame leading 27-21, Leszcynski led the Middies deep into Irish territory in the closing moments. On a crucial fourth down play from the Irish 15, a pass to split end Steve Scott at the goal line was deflected at the last second by Irish defender Dave Waymer.