Wednesday', October 6, 1976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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By DON MacLACHLAN
Wherever Michigan defensive co-ordinator Gary
Moeller goes, success is not far behind. In his 12
years of coaching he has never been associated
with a losing team.
Since coming to campus for the first time on
January 10, 1969, Moeller has made great defense
a tradition at Michigan. Starting with the fall of
1969, the Wolverines have ranked first in the Big
Ten in scoring defense five times (34 pts. in 1972),
and second twice. During this same period, three
times Moeller's defensive units ranked first in the
nation against the score.
This spring Moeller guided the Wolverines
through spring drills, when head coach Bo
Schembechler was ailing. "It was fun and ex-
citing," said Moeller.
Every Saturday, Coach Moeller can be spot-
ted on the sidelines barking out the defensive
instructions to senior co-captain Calvin O'Neal.
"During a game, I am responsible for calling
the defensive signals," Moeller said. "Through
Coach Bill McCartney on the sidelines, I get in-
formation from coaches upstairs in the press box."
Those "men upstairs" are defensive line
coach Tom Reed, and defensive back coach
Jack Harbaugh. McCartney, in charge of the
defensive ends, relays messages to Moeller on
the field.
As defensive co-ordinator, Moeller is in charge
of the entire defense.
"I draw everyone's ideas together and make
decisions pertaining to defensive adjustments and
which defense to use during certain games," said
de fensive
czar
Moeller.
"For different games we set up different goals,
and emphasize certain things," Moeller said. "For
a team that has an outstanding back, we try to
limit him to so many yards rushing. In another
game we may focus on passing, or sometimes we
may emphasize tackling. Against Wake Forest,
we were trying to be more physical and aggres-
sive in our tackling," Moeller added.
"Sometimes we try to accomplish more than
winning the football game. Our number one
goal, aside from winning the game, is to keep
the'opponent out of our end zone. A shutout is
always in the back of our minds and we fight
hard for it," Moeller said.
Moeller has the defense ready to play every
week-regardless of the opponent's offensive
strength.
"To be great we've got to improve each week,"
Moeller said. "If we play sloppy, it hurts us for
our game the next week. Our defense takes pride
that we are Michigan, and come to play every
week-it's Michigan tradition."
It is inevitable that every year several defen-
sive starters will graduate and Moeller has the
tough task of finding capable replacements for the
upcoming season. Throughout his seven year stint
at Michigan, Moeller has lost such standouts as
Dave Gallagher, Tom Darden, Henry Hill, Randy
Logan, Marty Huff, Dave Brown, and Don Dufek
to graduation and the pros.
"We lose 5-6 players a year, and we are
forced to rebuild," Moeller said. "Getting good
players to replace the graduates, places more
responsibility on the returning veterans and
the newcomers too. We look for success and
improvement in practice, games or even year
to year."
"We set our defense to take advantage of the
upcoming personnel and utilize his skills," Moel-
ler added.
When Moeller was in college, he decided that he
wanted football coaching to be his profession. He
was defensive captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes
in 1962 (a defense that only yielded 9.8 points per
game) as a linebacker, and earned three letters
during his stay in Columbus.
After playing under Woody, Moeller tried out
with the San Francisco 49'ers before accepting a
high school head coaching post.
In '1966, a fellow by the name of Bo Schem-
bechler grasped Moeller from the high school
ranks and made him defensive co-ordinator at
Miami University.
"I met Bo when I was at Ohio State. He was a
line coach when I played there," said Moeller.
In 1968, Bo brought Moeller along with him to
the University of Michigan.
Most assistant coaches have the ambition to be
a head coach some day and Moeller is no ex-
cention.
"I'd love to be a head coach someday," Moeller
said. "However, it's important that I improve
myself as well as the team. I hope to become a
better coach as we move along here at Michigan."
With Gary Moeller's past rate of success and
improvement, a head coaching job may not be so
far away.
Daily Photo by PAULINE LUKENS
THE MICHIGAN DEFENSE has a habit of overwhelming its opponents. Here Moeller's
defensive squad gives a taste of its medicine to Navy quarterback John Kurowski two
Saturdays ago. This sort of strength has led the Michigan defense to five defense scor-
ing titles in the Big Ten since 1969.
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Wolverines blank Adrian
Phils
By GARY SWAN By PATRICK RODE
Special to The Daily This year's National League1
ADRIAN - It was a game in which you couldn't tell the championship series will feature
teams - let alone the players - even with a scorecard. the world champion Cincinnati
When the University of Michigan women's field hockey Reds defending their National
League title against the Phila-
team, attired in their yellow shirts and blue-and-yellow plaid delphia Phillies, a club which
skirts showed up at the Adrian College field yesterday after- has not seen post-season play
noon it was like looking in a mirror. There were the opponents since 1950.
warming up for the match in yellow shirts and blue-and-yel- The Reds and Phillies crowd
low plaid skirts of the same pattern. the tops of the statistic cate-
Only when the game started did the differences be- gories, but there is one category'
tween the two squads become apparent. Michigan got three where the Big Red Machine isj
goals from Dawn Kohut, a transfer from Adrian, and squash- the definite leader. That cate-
ed the home team by more than the final 4-0 score couldI gory, stolen bases, looks to be
show. ha big factor in the playoffs.
show. |Last year the Reds used speed
But for a while, all the Michigan women could do was on the base paths to sweep the
stare at their like images across the 1h;e and rub their eyes. playoffs in three straight games
"It looks like we're playing ours ' es," said Michigan's against Pittsburgh. They re-:
Debbie Henn. wrote the record book stealing
SPEED, POWER FAVOR REDS
must keep Reds
Carver, who has one of the baseman Dick Allen in the IN THE OTHER categoriesI
N.L.'s weakest throwing arms, midst of the feud. Although the Reds also showed strength.1
will also start. This season Mc- apologies have been made, I Rose led the league with 130
Carver and the Phil's other Ozark is somewhat disenchant- runs scored, 215 hits, and 42
catcher, Bob Boone, stopped the ed with the way the Phillies doubles. Morgan had the sec-1
Reds from stealing only four reacted to the clinching of their ond best run total of 113, 111s
times in 18 tries, division, runs batted in (also secondf
"I KNOW A LOT of people In July, Allen failed to show best), and finished with 27 home
will be focusing on me," said up for two games and later dur- runs which put him fifth in the
McCarver, an 18-year veteran ing a disastrous slump was league.j
who turns 36 this month. benched for three days. These! Griffey finished with the four-.
"There are two or three guys actions and the fact he went th best league total of 111 runs
we've got to keep off base, to Philadelphia when the rest scored. He also finished fifth
guys who if they get on con- of the team went to St. Louis in the league with 189 hits.
sistently can steal off anybody," have set the team on edge.
h., In their hitting attacks the The Phillies also have their
ys two teams are about even with share of hitters among thej
(Carlton) pitched lately, no Cincinnati perhaps holding a league leaders. Mike Schmidt
many runners have been get- slight edge.
on."slihfeyge who batted 38 home runs on{
ting on. Griffey batting .336 held the the way to his third straight
A BIT OF controversy has second best average in the Na- I N.L. crown this year is at the
also plagued the Eastern Divi- tional League this season but top of them. His 112 runs and
sion champs lately with first he was closely followed by Gar- 106 RBI's put him third in both
ry Maddox of the Phils at .330. categories.
NEW YORK (AP) - Reggie Fourth on the league list comes Also second baseman Dave
Jackson of (he Baltimore Ori- ic hr aea eeRs
oles and Tom Seaver of the Cinci thir baseman Pete Rose Cash put in a fine year finish-
New York Mets will serve as who finished with a .324. Most1ing tied with Griffey at 189
expert commentators for ABC's Valuable Player candidate Joe i
coverage of the baseball play- Morgan's .320 was sixth best hits and also led the league
offs, it was announced yester- and Joy Johnstone's .318 put with 12 triples.
day.
Jackson will cover the Ameri- his next. The Phillies boast a better
can League playoffs with Bob
U.ecker doing play-by-play on
the first game and Howard Co-
sell handling the color. After
the first game, Keith Jackson
will do play-by-play for the re-
maining AL games.
Seaver will do the National
League playoffs with Al Mi-
chaels handling play-by-play
and Warner Wolf doing the
color.
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pitching staff headed by Carl-;
ton who had a 20-7 season andN
a 3.13 earned run average. He
will be aided by Jim Lonborg1
who was 18-10 on the season;
with a 3.08 ERA. Carlton alsoI
finished strong with 195 strike-1
outs.
THE TOP candidate for Sat-!
urday's opener for the Reds ap-
The Top 20 I
By The Associated Press
1. MICHIGAN 52 .... 4-0-0 1,182 ,
2. Pittsburgh 3....... 4-0-0 992
3 Oklhoma 3.. 4-0-0 914
off
bases
pears to be rookie Pat Zachry
who finished the season 14-7
with a 2.78 ERA. Manager Spar-
ky Anderson had hopes to throw
an all right handed rotation but
they were set back when Jack
Biilingham, 12-10, suffered an
apparent strained bicep this past
Sunday.
Other starters look to be Don
Gullet, 11-3, who closed out the
season with a 1.75 earned run
avearge in his last 36 innings.
The third starter is expected to
be Gary Nolan, 15-9, the club
workhorse over the past two
years.
Cincinnati has swept the last
three games between the two
clubs, although Philadelphia
captured seven of the first nine
games between the two teams.
If the Reds can keep up their
terror on the basepaths sand win
one of the two games in Phila-
delphia they will most likely re-
tain their National League pen-
nant.
Under similar circumstances in a playground basket-
ball game, someone might have suggested that one team
play without its shirts. After all, in a fast paced game
like field hockey, you've got to know in an instant-with-
out checking the faces-just who you're passing to.
But luckily the uniforms had one important variation-the
stockings..
"When you're playing with the ball along the ground as
in a field hockey game your eyes move first to the ankles
and legs," said Lynn Darin, a Michigan player who doubled;
as trainer at yesterday's game. "It caused some problems
out there, I'm sure, but the different sock color helped."
Whether or not the confusing uniforms were to blame, the
Michigan offense had a tough time taking advantage of the
good ball position constantly given them by the defense.
Coach Phyllis Ocker, whose 2-0 team has yet to yield a
goal this season, blamed weak play by the Michigan forwards.
"We're still pretty raggedy," Ocker said. "The for-
wards - where you're supposed to get your scoring pow-
er - are not cutting back for the ball. They're waiting
for the ball to come to them."
After freshman Mary Callan led off the scoring, Kohut
scored her first goal to boost the Michigan women to a 2-0
halftime lead. Kohut made Adrian rue the day she trans-
ferred to Ann Arbor, scoring two more goals after the half.
"The funny thing was that the Adrian goalie was my best
friend," Kohut laughed after the game. "They kept saying
things to me like, 'you must be cheating to score like this,'
but they were only fooling around and didn't bother me."
Lions natne coach
PONTIAC - Tommy Hudspeth, coordinator of personnelj
and scouting, was named interim head coach of the Detroitj
Lions yesterday.
Hudspeth, 45, spent eight seasons as head coach at Brig-
ham Young University (1964-71) and a year at Texas El Paso,
1973.
William Clay Ford, the Lions' owner, said, "I had
two major reasons for asking Tommy to take over the
team for the remainder of the 1976 season."
Ford continued, "Hidspeth has more head coaching ex-
perience than any other man on our staff. Just as important,
and maybe more so, is the fact that I wanted to keep the
present staff of assistants intact."
Hudspeth became the Lions' coordinator of personnel and
scouting in July of last year. Before that, he had been a
Lions' scout. -AP
Surgery for Jones
SAN DIEGO -- The baseball future of Randy Jones, the
National League's winningest pitcher in 1976, was a question
mark yesterday with the discovery of a detached bicep ten-
don in his pitching arm. Jones, 26, is a prime candidate for
the Cy Young Award.
The doctors feel Jones will lose his slider, a pitch which
effectively complimented his sinker, rated the best in base-
ball. -AP
10 bases in 10 attempts in the
first two games.
"THEY KNOW we're going to
run," said Cinci outfielder Ken
Griffey. "Our speed is going
to play a very big part. We're
going to steal and force their
pitchers to make mistakes."
Behind the likes of Griffey
who had a career-high 33 thefts
and second baseman Joe Mor-
gan who led the team with 60,
steals, the Reds stole a total'
of 210 bases in 266 attempts,
their best season since 1914.
For the Phillies, 20-game win-
ner Steve Carlton will start the
opening game this Saturday
which means catcher Tim Mc-
S. U a a a ...... 4u
4. Georgia 2.4-0-0
5. U.C.L.A........3-0-1
6. Nebraska.......3-0-1
7. Maryland.4-0-0
8. Kansas............ 4-0-0
9. Missouri...........3-1-0
10. Ohio St...........2-1-1
11. Southern Cal.. ,.. 3-1-0
12. Florida........3-1-0
13. Boston College 3-0-0
14. Notre Dame....3-1-0
15. Texas Tech . . 2-0-0
16. Texas .. .2-1-0
11. Texas A&M........3-1-0
18. Arkansas ........ 3-1-0
19. North Carolina 4-1-0
20. Louisiana St. .....2-1-1
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GIII'DIJE PICKS
1) Michigan State at 11) Kentucky at Mississippi
MICHIGAN State
2) Purdue at Wisconsin 12) Kansas at Oklahoma St.
3) N13) Texas Tech at Texas A&M
31Northwestern at Indiana 14) Duke at Miami, Fla.
4) Ohio State at Iowa . 15) Nebraska at Colorado
5) Illinois at Minnesota 16) Clemson at Wake Forest
6) Stanford at UCLA 17) Wyoming at Brigham
I7) Rice at Texas Christian Young
7) Auburn atTemspChristat 18) Tennessee at Georgia Tech
8) Auburn at Memphis State 19) Navy at Air Force
9) Oklahoma at Texas 20) N.Y.Mets at DAILY
10) SMU at Baylor LIBELS
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Expos hire Williams
MONTREAL -- Dick Williams, who found success with
the Oakland A's and failure with the California Angels, was
named manager of the Montreal Expos yesterday.
Williams, 47, signed a two-year contract to manage the
Expos who finished the 1976 season with the worst record in
the majors. Williams replaced Charlie Fox. Fox was named
te l .h when Karl Kuehl was fired
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