ACADEMICS IMPORTANT AS WELL: NU sports: By STEVE REINGLASS care for Northwestern University has con- underdog, tinually fought to uphold its tradition are going of academia. However, a new tradi- your progr tion has arisen at Northwestern now- rather be adays, and that is the losing tradir fence than tion. Northwestern has dropped 23 Many ha out of its last 24 football games and lack of su sports an overall 0-8 record for this agrees ho year. size of the Northwestern was one of the the studen schools that, in the 1890's, founded with the c what later became the Big Ten. It is students d also the only privately funded institu- "We hav tion in the Big Ten. The Wildcats' scholarshi poor showing in league play has ball as the created a number of questions- about their place in the conference. ALTHOI "Northwestern offers some philo- play, footb sophical perspectives," said Wildcat Part of th football coach John Pont. "I think we one's hon may be a little different in so far as support. N our attitude of what athletics is all gram seen about." Dyche S 54,000 spe NORTHWESTERN'S record has averaged always put it at a disadvantage. It a game. " continually enters a football game as more fru: the underdog. "I don't particularly Pont sighe 'A different attitude' going into a game as an " said Pont. "When you in as a favorite it shows ram is sound. I would much on the other, side of the where we are now." ve blamed Northwestern's ccess on its size. Pont dis- wever. "I don't think the school or the enrollment of nt body has anything to do competitiveness of it. The don't play," quipped Pont. e the same number of ps in football and basket- other schools." UGH the students don't ball is a game of emotions. e advantage of playing on me field "is having fan 4orthwestern's athletic pro- ms to lack this support., tadium has a capacity for ctators and last year they only 24,000 to 25,000 people I think the student body is strated than apathetic," d. Although Northwestern had a poor showing last year, the rest of the 'Little Eight' did not do much better. Iowa had a 3-5 season and Indiana was 4-4. Yet Northwestern seems to be taking all the flack. "Why us?" complained P o n t. "They (the other Big Ten football teams) haven't done anything. Why not all of them? Everyone seems to be saying Northwestern's shit. It is interesting! I don't think we're that shitty, frankly." Northwestern's problems appear to lie in its recruiting. Unlike other Big Ten schools, Northwestern's entrance requirements are as rigor- ous for the athlete as for any other student. "Forty per cent of the athletes that we were recruiting could not be accepted and they played against us in Big Ten play," said Pont. "I think it is difficult to compete in recruiting because of the academic requirements." SOME OF Michigan's finest were sought by Northwestern. "We tried to get (John) Anderson. We tried to get (Dom) Tedesco. They decided to go, to Michigan. We went after (John) Powers," Pont said. "I thought we were in the ball game with him. You win some and lose some." Back in the days when Northwest- ern football was coached by Ara Parsighian, Bo Schembechler was an assistant coach for two years. Bo has fond memories of his days at North- western. "It's a beautiful place to coach and live, but the biggest problem is cost (high tuition) and tradition (poor record). But it is a nice school." This Saturday, Northwestern will face sixth ranked Michigan in Ann Arbor. Once again it will be the underdog. But the Wildcats will go into the game hoping for an upset. "I always think there is a chance to win," Coach Pont said. "If there is no chance, then why play?" The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 2, 1977-Page 11 Bo has old ties to Northwestern 'Cats By DON MacLACHLAN Can you imagine Bo Schembechler as the Northwestern coach? At one point in time it was true. The Michigan mentor coached under Ara Par- sighian at Northwestern for two years. In 1956 the Wildcats were 5-3-1 and the following year they failed to win a game. Schembechler left after the 1957 season to accept the offensive line coaching job at Ohio State under Woody Hayes. In Schembechler's first year in Columbus, Northwestern stunned the Buckeyes, 21-0. Parsighian got his team fired up for the game by telling his players that Schembechler abandoned the ship. "It just goes to show you in football you can say all you want, but don't ever think a team can't get you," Schembechler said. That is just the way Bo feels as his Wolverines prepare for the invasion of the Wildcats this Saturday. "Northwestern is the type of team you worry about playing," Schem- bechler said. "You feel if you go out and play well you'll win but who knows. 'They just don't have the passiu fack they had in the past," Schem- bechler added. "That is not typical V ~rthwestern. But they have played some pretty good football the last two Weeks." Schembechler has made some decisions concerning the Michigan foot- ball team as it prepares for its last three conference games. Senior tackle Bill Dufek and senior center Steve Nauta, who have not played a down this fall due to ankle injuries, will both return in 1978. Some of the other walking wounded could be ready for some more action this year. Schembechler is hopeful tackle Jon Giesler, guard John Arbeznik and fullback Kevin King will be back in action possibly in time for the Pur- due game. Game time for the Northwestern clash is 1 p.m. COACH WARHURST CONCURS Elliott drops harriers for track By DAVE RENBARGER The Michigan cross country team has seen the last of Steve Elliott, at least for this year. In a move that seems strange on the surface, Elliott has "retired" from the harrier squad in order to fully concentrate on track. "I just have no desire to run cross country anymore," explained Elliott yesterday. "I have always enjoyed track first and foremost anyway. Cross country wears my body down, and I feel too burned out going into track. "I just got tired of doing something I wasn't cut out to do," said the junior from Pontiac. That last point stems more from modesty than fact. Last year Elliott surprised a lot of people by finishing sixth in the Big Ten championship meet. He earned All-Big Ten honors and sparked the Wolverines to an upset victory in the meet. Now he is on the sidelines as his for- mer teammates travel to West Lafayet- te this Saturday in search of their four- th consecutive conference crown. Most teams would suffer immeasurably from such a loss, but not his one. "This is the best team I've had to work with since I came here," said fourth-year coach Ron Warhurst. "We really don't need Stephen." "I ran cross country my first two years because I felt I owed it to Ron," said Elliott. "If I felt that I could make a contribution this year, then I'd be running, of course. There's no sense of me running as sixth or seventh man, because I'd just be depriving someone else that chance to compete. "I've always been a team man, and this is what is best for the team." The decision to let Elliott sit out the remainder of the season was not a spur of the moment thing, nor was it made by Elliott alone. "We (Warhurst and Elliott) have been thinking about it since the end of last season," said Elliott. "It was a mutual decision. It took a lot of thought, but now I'm very happy with the decision." A runner of this caliber never sits around idly for very long. Accordingly, Elliott has been working out in anticipa- tion of the indoor track season which begins in January. A middle distance specialist (half-mile, 1,000 meters and mile), Elliott has established two goals for himself: to turn in Michigan's first sub-four-minute mile and to win a Big Ten individual title. "I'm really fired-up for track now," he commented. "I want to go into the season with confidence." Will Elliott "unretire" next fall in time for one last cross country cam- paign? "I don't really know," he said. "It all depends on how things go for me in track, and how next year's cross country team shapes up." conryta saesu. ONL Y LOSSES TO POWERFUL CHIPS: Women sp By JEFF FRANK It was a homecoming of sorts for the women's volleyball team as it made only its second appearance of the season at home. Unfortunately for the spikers, the return was only halfway pleasing as they were defeated by the state's top- rated team, Central Michigan, before they recovered to beat Eastern Michigan in the finale of yesterday's tri-team meet at the Central Campus Recreation Building. THE SPIKERS jumped right out of the starting blocks against CMU, as they took an early 7-1 lead on several smashes and blocked shots. The Chippewas roared back to take a 9-8 lead before spikes by Beth i ers split i Major and Roberta Salay from sets by Jamie Spohn, and two blocks at "he net by Karel Pennington put the ame away for the Wolverines, 15-9. It was no contest in the remaining two games with the Chips as CMU grabbed large early leads and held on to win both 15-7. - Strong offensive play character- ized the spikers's match with the Hurons of EMU. Michigan again grabbed a large early lead, but this time they didn't lose it as they held off the Hurons in the first game en route to a two game to one victory, 15-6, 11-15, 15-6. REPEATED spikes and blocks by Salay, Pennington,kMarianne Thom- as, Sue Cramer, and Jeanne Sellman The juice needs surgery The party's over for O.J. (the Juice) Simpsoq. Well, maybe not the party, but the rest of this football season, for sure. Simpson will be operated on early next week to correct cartilage damage to his knee. After surgery, Simpson said he would contemplate his future in pro football. MICHIGAN DROPS HOME FINALE: Blue booters blitzed by Wesley n ta-eet forced EMU into numerous errors which provided the winning margin. Michigan coach Sandy Vong wasn't overly pleased with the total effort. "We didn't play a smart game today," he said. "We've been on the road a lot and traveling takes away from the reactions of the players. "WE WERE A little flat, but we tried hard," he continued. "Central is the top team in the state and we beat them once, and we also beat a good Eastern Michigan team, so I'm pleased with the outcome. Setter-hitter Salay thought there was a letdown against CMU and reiterated theteam concept. "It takes a real team effort to beat a strong team; we've got to help each other; we can't win without it (the team effort)," she said. Junior Jamie Spohn, also thought the team could play better. "We outplayed Central in the first match because we were really fired. We have to hang tight as a team to win," she said. "We can do it!" HORSEBACK RIDING YEAR ROUND GROUP RATES Hayrides and Party Building Rental Douglass Meadows Ranch 2755 M 151--Temperance, MI 48102 (313) 856-3973 By ERIC OLSON Losing their third straight game last night to undefeated John Wesley (17-0), 5-0, the Michigan soccer club season's mark dropped to 7-6 and now they must win their remaining game against Oakland University today to finish above .500. Right winger Robert Hailey led the Wesley onslaught by scoring three goals and assisting on another. The booters were down only 1-0 at the end of the first half by playing a tight defensive game against the offensive minded Wesley team. Wesley got the better of the action by constantly pressuring Wolverine goalie Richard Mathews. Michigan could mount no offensive attack of its own and it was only a mat- ter of time until the booter defense would spring a leak. The dike broke at the start of the second half and Wesley goals poured through as they scored three goals in the first ten minutes of the half.. With the game safely tucked away Wesley put on a tremendous display of dribbling and'passing that dazzeled the crowd and the booters. Michigan topped off the humiliating night by scoring on themselves. When the defense tried to play the ball back to the goalie they kicked it past him. v v Michigan's season mark was at one time 7-3 and now after its third straight defeat the players have begun grum- pled about playing time and the style of play. As one player put it, "That SOB (coach Fred Grunwald) could put me in there for five minutes and what dif- ference does it make, we were losing five nothing anyway." This was the feeling among many of the players on the bench and many have decided not to go to Oakland today. s M,: °::. k t < % :: ;''.'':: riv," : s :i' r:;;: i','":w ; Check out the 1 9 77-78 Michigan Hockey Guide in Today's Daily tally sound club that has improved over the years but still lacks depth. "They've done a great job of promoting soccer here considering the lack of support they get from the athletic department," said Imhoff. Should the booters win today at Oakland it will be the first time in five years that they have finished above the .500 mark. Losing on a penalty kick in overtime the Wolverines dropped a hard fought 4- 3 decision to rival Michigan State last Saturday in East Lansing. This marked the first time in two years that booters have scored on the Spartans. Brian White, Paul Saam and Ihor Fedorowec tallied the Michigan goals in the losing effort. SCORES N.Y. Islanders 9. 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