Wednesday', October 6, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Wednesday, October 6, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pa Sev~ Moe ie 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. I pirt4 o the 4ai I 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. i 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. .....2-1-1 658 648 515 500 389 324 314 207 165 142 106 43 2" 22 20 17 1 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 - Wear it Proudly! 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 It's your College ring. A JOSTEN'S REPRESENTATIVE Will Be on Campus THURSDAY & FRIDAY, Oct. 7 & 8