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MONTREAL MEDAL-WINNER:
Hubbard: Good
By KATHY HENNEGHAN
Last spring, three Michigan basketball
players were invited to the Olympic try-
outs-Rickey Green, Steve Grote and Phil
Hubbard.
The speedy All-Big Ten guard didn't
make the team. Neither did the rugged re-
liable three-year starter. But the skinny
19-year-old kid made the trip to Montreal,
and has a gold medal to show for it.
"RICKEY should have made that team,"
said Michigan coach Johnny Orr. "It's a
shame he didn't make it." Grote was re-
portedly doing well in camp until he
suffered a collapsed lung.
But if Hubbard's selection came as a
surprise to many, it did not surprise Hub-
bard himself. "I had a feeling I had a
"I'm his guy," acknowledged Hubbard
with a grin.
chance," he said. Quiet, affable and hard
working, Hubbard impressed Dean Smith,
Olympic coach and head coach at North
Carolina.
"Phil's a nice young man," said Smith.
"My assistant coaches said he was teach-
er's pet."
"WELL, HE WASN'T," said Smith, "but
it's true that I really appreciated a lot of
the things he did that so often go un-
noticed. Hubbard's very much a team
player. He's an excellent rebounder for
his size. He comes up with the intercep-
tions defensively, and shot it in when we
needed it.
'Phil has great quickness," Smith con-
tinued. "He has overall savvy-by that I
mean a knack for the basketball. He's an
outstanding rebounder and a very good
passer. Hubbard should be just tremen-
dous for Michigan this year."
Hubbard saw limited action in the Olym-
pic games, but performed capably coming
in off the bench. He scored ten po*nts in
one span in the championship game
against Yugoslavia. For his efforts, Hub-
bard earned an Olympic gold medal-
which he keeps in the top drawer with
his socks.
"THE OLYMPICS were all right," said
Hubbard. "I made some decent relation-
ships. Me and Kenny Carr (of North
Carolina) were pretty tight."
Right now, Hubbard is hampered by a
severely sprained left ankle, sustained
while playing basketball at home (Canton,
Ohio) two weeks ago. He has been wearing
a cast, which hopefully will come off next
Wednesday. Hubbard should be in fine
shape by the time practice rolls around
October 18.
Hubbard feels he improved over the
course of the summer, and that stands to
reason. As well as playing in the Olympic
games themselves, the Olympic team
played exhibition games against both
American and European pros.
"I PLAYED against Dr. J (Julius Erv-
ing), Nate Archibald, a lot of guys," said
Hubbard. "The Olympic games were
rough, but those exhibition games were the
roughest. It was dirty-holding, pushing,
a lot of dishonest tactics going on.
But Hubbard is used to being pushed
and shoved. Last season, playing center,
Hubbard faced a taller and bigger op-
ponent in 29 of Michigan's 32 games.
Standing 6-7, Hubbard weighs "exactly
202," the same as last season. He made
the best of the situation, leading the team
in rebounding (11.0 ave.) and coming in
second in scoring (15.1 points a game).
Hubbard will undoubtedly start at cen-
ter again this season, due to the Michigan
as gold
coaches' inability to recruit a big man.
Hubbard is the first to admit that he'd
rather play forward.
"YES, I'D RATHER play it. Why not? I
played forward in high school," said Hub-
bard. "There's nothing wrong with play-
ing center, but I'm not the biggest guy in
the world. I've wanted to play forward
for as long as I've been here.
"But you like to play," he added, "so!
you just go along with what's- going on.
I'll do what I can to help the team out.
That's what I'm here for."
Despite his size, apparently most Big
Ten officials felt Hubbard dished out at+
least as much punishment as he took.
Hubbard was in foul trouble as often as
not.
"THAT'S ALL in the past," said Hub-
bard. "I hope I don't have as much foul
trouble this year. I think the refs made
some bad calls-they - just wouldn't let
you play."
Indiana's Kent Benson gave Hubbard
more headaches than anyone last season,
and he's still around. But Hubbard denies
giving him a second thought. "Nope, I
haven't thought about playing him," he
said. "You don't have to think about that.
You think about just playing, period."
Hubbard says his goal for the Michigan
team is "to win games, most likely. As
long as we have a good team and do all
right, that's what's important. We should
have a good team again."
Dean Smith feels Phil Hubbard will
make a great pro someday.
"Who?" Hubbard said in mock disbelief.
"Me? Right now I'm just thinking about
getting through with school. I'm glad to be
here. I think we've ' got a good team
agaip."
PRETZEL LOGIC
By RICK BONINO ^
Daily Photo by ALAN BILINSKY
PHIL HUBBARD shows off his gleaming gold medal represen-
tating his participation in the Montreal Olympics. Hubbard
impressed many people with his effective play, including
Olympic coach Dean Smith. Smith predicts stardom for the
Michigan sophomore.
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'Ford uses Blue .
..for political gain
POLITICS MAKES STRANGE bedfellows indeed. Just ask
anyone who watched Jerry Ford climb between the sheets
with Bob Ufer, George Cavender and the whole of Michigan
football tradition last night.
After a pep rally-styled introduction by a typically hyperactive
Ufer (local football broadcaster) and a pigskin monologue which
seemed to last longer than any single issue discussion, Ford
proceeded to ride a wave of football enthusiasm through his
speech until his final donning of a "Michigan-" jacket to the
stirring strains of "The Victors."
Now, don't get me wrong. The sports page is no place
for political commentary, with the possible exception of cer-
tain Olympics happenings, and I intend to keep it that way.
And there is no reason for Ford, the most famous
Wolverine product this side of Tom Harmon, to shun men-
tioning the team he did so much for.
But I find it inexcusable, not to mention somewhat frightening,
when a presidential candidate attempts to whip a crowd into a
frenzy based not on his words-which in this case consisted of a
collection of loosely-connected, trite truisms-but rather' on the
basis of a "No. 1' ranking that even coach Bo Schembechler
characterized as "trite."
Not that Bo, a Ford friend and fervent follower, would
object to Ford's use of the gridders as a political vehicle.
Schembechler respects Ford as a man and a politician. I
understand Schembechler's views and hopefully indicate no
disrespect for either man here.
What remains insufferable is the degree to which Ford used
his gridiron connections, beyond the normal ingratiating com-
ments one may rightfully expect in such a situation, a degree
most alarming when one considers the validity of both Michigan's
ranking and Ford's use-or abuse-of it.
The concept of the ranking itself remains at best problematic.
No attempt will be made here to debate the mechanics of the
polls, the voting criteria, etc., concerns which combine to leave
these "rankings" somewhat less than indicative.
Michigan's top spot is in the AP writers' poll, a consensus
many may deservedly consider inferior to UPI's coaches' bal-
loting, and by a slim one-point margin over arch-rival Ohio
State-hardly the stuff of which great campaigns are built.
Poll politics aside, even if one considers the rankings
basically meaningful, it remains far too early in the season
for the polls to be of any real worth, particularly if, as
Schembechler concedes, the great "leveling off" of college
football has begun due to grant-in-aid restrictions and the
like (a statement this writer thinks a bit premature.)
Finally, there remains some question of how deserving the
Big Blue are of the Big No. 1 after what must honestly be
labeled a mediocre defensive showing against one of the Big
Ten's weaker sisters.
Ford's now-famous, "After what you did* to Wisconsin last
weekend, I'd rather run against Jimmy Carter than Harlan
Huckleby any day of the week," surely lacked impact with any
intelligent witnesses of the contest.
The statement's logic also suffered through the cryptic
phrase, "run against Harlan Huckleby." If Ford was talking
about track and field, where Huckleby is a superb sprinter, his
point seems valid-although it is our football team, not the
thinclads, who are ranked No. 1 at the moment.
But if Ford was indeed discussing football, as the tenor
of his speech indicated, he may well have chosen some
defender like Mo Morton or Calvin O'Neal rather than running
back Huckleby for his Carter comparison. Hopefully Mr.
Ford realizes that football has become a two-platoon game
since his salad days in the sport.
But regardless of such specific-some may say insignificant-
criticisms, the frightening fact still remains that Ford chose to
make his final stand on the goal line rather than the issues, an
appeal which seemed surprisingly successful among many of
the seemingly sophisticated students here in Ann Arbor. While I
have tried to avoid political commentary, the implications of
such tactics do not rest well with me.
In sum, the overwhelming impression left from last night's
event is that the election should perhaps be postponed until after
the Rose Bowl, when Mr. Ford's current campaign tactics should
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