Friday, October 8, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine SUSPENSIONS, INJURIES TAKE TO LL IYrrr_. Spartans sputterii By KATHY HENNEGHAN iffense must improve in every from hero to goat - Notre Michigan State could pull off phase. Dame sacked him four times the upset of the year and make As everyone knows, Michi- for a minus 34 yards. its entire season in Michigan gan State was placed on a "Our offense just did not Stadium Saturday, but don't three-year probation by the play a good football game in bet on it. The Spartans just NCAA for recruiting violations. any respect," said Rogers of don't seem to have what it That, plus a few strategic in- the ,Notre Dame game. "Our takes. juries, put Rogers in a bind. pass protection was bad, our Sg, u set unlikel while Jim Hinesly and Tony team," said defensive second- With the exception o Bruggenthies are at tackle. ary coach Sherm Lewis. "He's Breslin, another East I Bruggenthies was injured probably the greatest football native, all of the backu against Notre Dame, and it is player I've ever had." That ers are as green as th not yet known whether he'll be field includes former standouts Hans Nielsen, State's available. Brad Van Pelt, now with the import, will handle fiel Take a good look at the of- Giants, and Bill Simpson of the and point-after attempts. fense while you can. Chances Rams. three field goals so far are you'll be seeing a lot more Safeties Tom Hannon and 10 for 10 on extra point of the defense, which is both Dave Duda are the only see- ior Tom Birney will 5 1 1 1 1 The Michigan - Michigan State series has been close in f recent years, although State's f last win came in 1969. Theyd say "anything can happen" in' this game, but a lot would have f to happen this time arond. q The Spartans are 1-2-1 and e have had various problems r with their offense, and de- fense, for starters. State lost a grtdge game to Ohio State in the season opeer, beat Wyoming, tied North Caro- lina State, and lost 24-6 to Notre Dame last weekend. MSTT will have to nlay above and beyond the ability it has shown so far to stay in the picture. t' "Our running attack has to do , something if we're going to t win," said first-year coach Dar- n ryl Rogers, indicating that the ib 'c Harriers head to Irish in-ivite By ROB EVAN The Michigan harriers leave today to compete in the pres- tigious Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Indiana. Michi- gan is shooting for its third consecutive title. The meet is the largest in the Mid-West, attracting 250 run- ners representing 36 schools. Besides Michigan, the other main contenders are Wiscon- sin, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, and Ball State. THE INDIVIDUAL battle will feature Michigan's 'Greg Meyer against Mark Johnson of Wis' consin. Others who could con- ceivably find themselves in front af the end of the race are Tom Duitis of Western Michi- gan, Joe Carupo of Eastern Michigan, and Wolverine Bill Donakowski. In the feature race coach Ron Warhurst will be enter- ing Jon Cross, Doug Sweazey, Bruce McFee, Steve Elliott, and Dan Heikkinen along with Meyer and Donakowski. These are presently Warhurst's top seven runners, but the list var- ies from week to week. The remainder of the 17 bar- riers making the trio will run in the second race. They will be paced by Jack Sinclair, Jay Anstaett, Mark Foster, and Bob Schener. THE COURSE at Notre Dame covers five miles of flat ter- rain. The Wolverines are more accustomed to running on slightly longer and hillier cour- ses, but coach Warhrst doesn't think that this will pose any problems. "Most of our runners run the middle-distances dur- ing the track season. and don't; have any trouble adinsting to different tyne courses." Warhurst feels that the team is esveciallv keyed n for this meet, and intat on heatin Big Ten riral Wisconsin. "We're verv team oriented, and even though Mever would love to win the race he'll be inst as hann with a second or third nace fin- ish inst so long as we win." Wisconsin is ranked No. 5 in the crnuvtrv. while Michigan i rank-d 6th, Five players were ruled out passing was off and our re- or the season opener - de- I ceiving was poor." ensive tackle Larry Bethea, And Rogers, who should defensive halfback Ted Bell, know, added, "Our running middle guard Melvin Land, de- game was nonexistent." ensive end Jim Epolito and If State's passing game is er- quarterback Ed Smith. Bell lat- ratic, rest assured that there er quit football due to a recur- was never any doubt about the inexperienced Spartans have than 300 yards and , weak. The given up more per game on the rip knee injury. running game - it is medio- Tight end Mike Cobb, an cre from the word go. The outstanding pr prospect; was Snartans are tenth in Big Ten ruled out for the first five rushing. Since Michigan is first games and should be back in rushing defense, it could be next week. But by then it may a long afternoon for MSU. be too little too late. Defen- Fullback Levi Jackson isj sive back Joe Hunt is inelig- best remembered for his long ible for the entire season. breakaway in the 16-13 upset One bright spot in the Michi- of Ohio State two years ago., gan State attack, at least prior The trouble is, he has donej o last weekend, is the passing. nothing memorable since. With junior quarterback Smith, Jackson is currently averag- he team is averaging 238.8 ing 42 yards a game. passing yards a game, seventh At tailback is East Lansing best in the country. native Rich Baes, the team's Smith's favorite receiver is leading rusher with 4.6 yardss ophomore Kirk Gibson, who per carry. A walk-on three years ikes to go deep. Gibson is ev- ago, Baes is a workmanlike eraging 30 yards a catch and runner and a good blocker. has gone all the way with five In the line, center Al Pitts of them. is an All-Big Ten candidate, Smith had a superlative 18 something few and far between for 29 performance at N.C. on this year's squad. Probable State. However, in the course starters at guard are Mike f one short week, he went Densmore and Tony Marek, ground and almost 100 in the air. State has the worst rush- ing defense in the Big Ten and Michigan, the most powerful of- fensive team in the country, has the running attack to take advantage of it. One defensive plus is 1974 All- Big Ten end Otto Smith, re- coverel from knee surgery. At the other end is Craig Fedore of East Lansing, a second year starter at 6-1, 202. Bethea at 6-4, 236 is one of the better tackles in the Big Ten while Melvin Land is at the other tackle spot. Sophomore Craig Lonce starts at middle guard. At the linebackers are return- ees Paul Rudzinski and fresh- man Dan Bass. The defensive secondary is probably the most unstable area of the team. The problems started when Tom Graves sus- tained a knee injury and had to undergo surgery. "There's no way to estimate what a healthy Tom Graves would have meant to this It Pays to Adverfise in The Daily Richie Iaes and Levi Jackson HATE /\k THEN GIVE WOODY sw THE BIRD! The WOODY IS A PECKER T Shirt. E't' 1 A three-color .,,kscreen print on a high quality J1O% cotton) T-Shirt. Send $5 00 plus S 50 postage and handling Indicate size S, M, L, XLin gold or white. (Ohio Residents A 5.5% Sales Tax.) - - - - - - om - m - - bew"*d. Ihli Size: S_ M _ L_ XL Color: Gold 13 White Name Address city State Zip Ae School days, school days, good old X10-speed sale days are on now. $ Reg. $ SALE Acrospace Pro 269.00 235.00 Acrospace Sport 179.00 155.00 Acrospace Gran Touring 149.00 135.00 Sebring 139.00 125.00 ALLSPORT BICYCLES 2715 PLYMOUTH RD. 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