THE MICHIGAN DAILY
I' Tuesday' November 23, 1976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, November 23, '1976
KENYANS SET FAST PACE:
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By ERNIE DUNBAR
Special To The Daily
DENTON, Texas - Washington State fresh-
man Henry Rono ran one of the fastest cross
country races' in the history of the sport in win-
ning the 38th annual National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association Cross Country Championships.
THE UNIVERSITY of Texas-El Paso won its
second straight NCAA title by taking places 5,
7, 9, 13, and 28 for a total of 62 points. Oregon
was second with 117 points and Washington
State third with 179.
Rono, from Kenya, covered the flat 10,000
meter course (376.4 yards longer than six miles)
in a blazing 28:06.6 and teamed with fellow
Cougar Samson Kimombwa to give Washington
State a one, two finish.
Kimombwa was nearly 10 seconds off the
pace, crossing the finish line in 28:16.78.
DEFENDING champion Craig Virgin from
Illinois was the first American to finish as he
maneuvered the course in 28:26.53.
Michigan improved on last year's 22nd place
finish, by taking 19th. The Wolverines were led
by Greg Meyer who took 19th with a time of
29:07.
BILL DONAKOWSKI finished 25th for Michi-
gan and earned All-American status for the sec-
ond consecutive year. Meyer became an All-
American for the third time in his four year
career.
Rono set a hard pace right from the start
and it 'payed off as Virgin was unable to catch
the swift Kenyan.
Kimombwa and WSU's Joshua Iimeto worked
the early part of the course with Rono. But as
the race progressed, Rono's speed was too much
for his teammates.
KIMETO, basically a 5,000 meter man, was
responsible for the early fast pace and faded
to twelveth.
Cougar coach John Chaplin was pleased with
grabs,
his teams finish but said "We run cross coun-
try at Washington State to get ready for track.
"I honestly thought we had a chance to sweep
it and we came close for a long distance," said
Chaplin. "If Kimeto hadn't been down in hi's-
training I think we could have done it."
CHAPLIN LOST fourth and fifth men Kurt
Beckman (20th in last year's race) and Guy
Arbogast (fifth in the conference meet) to in-
jury but still managed a strong third place
finish.
Chaplin commented that the presence of Vir-
gin caused his Kenyan runners to push the pace
early.
"We had an idea of how he could run," said
Chaplin "so we decided to go out hard and if
he was going to win it he was going to have to
pay for it."
THE TEAM title didn't seem to be too im-
portant to Chaplin who said "Like all members
of the Pacific Eight conference we're interested
in one trophy only and that's the outdoor cham-
pionship in the spring."
Winning coach Ted Banks was just as amazed
as most of the 3,000 spectators with the fast
time.
"I'D NEVER seen Rono run" said Banks "but
our kids had a lot of respect for him. I was
surprised he beat Virgin that badly, but I wasn't
surprised that he, won," he added.
Illinois coach Gary Wieneke felt that Rono's
winning time was very impressive.
"They scalded the course, I'll guarantee you
that," remarked Wieneke. "Both the Kenyans
and Craig (Virgin) ran a great race. When you
run 28:06 for 10,000 meters, that's flying -
there's no other way to look at it."
DEFENDING champion Virgin was amazed
at the final time.
"I would never have dreamed the rate would
have gone out that fast," said Virgin." I was
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13:27 at three miles and I just did not feel that
there was any way that the Kenyans weren't
going to come back at me," he added.
Virgin said that Rono's time would have put
him in the top four or five fastest 10,000 meters
ever run by a United States citizen.
"I JUST WOULD not have dreamed that you
can do that in cross country,'' commented Vir-
gin.
Virgin, who has-been an All-American in each
of his four years of college, was naturally dis-
appointed on losing to the two Kenyans.
"They simply ran off and beat me," said Vir-
gin. "My only disappointment was thain this is
my last cross country meet of my college ca-
reer and cross country has always meant a
lot to me."
ier title
FOR COACH Banks, the 1976 NCAA meet had
some scary moments.
"Things didn't go exactly as I'd expected,"
Banks commented. ."I planned for James Mun-
yala to go out with the leaders, but he had an
upset stomach.
"Wilson Waigwa went out slower than we'd
expected," continued Banks "but he's had a
sore knee so we really didn't expect more from
him."
SCORING for UTEP were Waigwa in fifth,
Sammy Maritim in seventh, Munyala in ninth,
Kip Sirma in 13th, and Frank Munene in 28th.
"We had some ups and we had some downs,"
said Bank. "But overall it was a good tea'm
performance and we were pleased to win."
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Touching all
the bases
Bill Stieg
Savory iemories . .
Of THE game
O SCHEMBECHLER could have gone on forever.
He loved every minute of his press luncheon yesterday.
He smiled, joked, explained, praised, laughed, smiled some
more and topped it all off with a big victory cigar. But he
didn't want to leave.
At last he got up, glanced at his watch, did an exaggerated
double-take and exclaimed, "Hey, I've got a Meeting to get to!
But he didn't look worried. He looked like he didn't care when
he got to his meeting or who he kept waiting.
That's because Bo is on top of the world and there isn't
anything that can bring him down. At least until Jan. 1,
that is.
He wouldn't come out and say it, but he was feeling as
happy as anyone possibly could. And all because of a foot-
ball game.
"It's hard to figure," he said when someone asked if
last Saturday's win was his best ever. "Let's just say it
was a pretty satisfying win. Very, very satisfying."
The look on his face said more. As he answered, he look-
ed blankly at the table and absently fiddled with his reading
glasses. He seemed lost in a reminiscent fog.
He'll relive that beautiful game many, many times. It's
his to savor forever, and he wanted, to share his satisfaction
with the reporters. When he was asked about that surprising
two-point conversion, he could hardly contain his glee.
He clapped his hands and rubbed them together like
a chef about to embark on a long and complicated recipe.
"You've got to understand," he said, "that we had to win
that game. They'd win the championship and go to the Rose
Bowl if we tied. If we kicked the extra point and they came
back to tie us, 14-14, it wouldn't have done us any good. If
we blew the two-point conversion, and they came back to go
ahead 14-13, it'd be the same thing, 14-14 is a loss to us."
He went on to explain how the play worked. with kick-
er Bob Wood responsible for making a key block, and Rob
Lytle and Gene Johnson heading out on pass patterns.
That's right - that play was supposed to be a pass. But
Jerry Zuver, the placekick holder who ran the ball in, felt it
was safer to stick to the ground even though Johnson was
wide open in the endzone.
He looked up at the reporters for another question.
He was anxious to tell everyone about his masterpiece
of a game. How about the deep wipgback reverse, coach?
"That wasn't even my idea," smiled Schembechler. It seems
that assistant coach Jerry Hanlon, watching from the press
box, called the play. "We've had that play in all year - we
practiced it every week. We just hadn't used it till then.
"I told Hanlon I didn't want to lose field goal ran&e,
but he said, 'Hell, you won't lose any ground.' You see,
when he calls a play, I try to bring up all the reasons
why it could go wrong, just to make sure."
At th s point Hanlon interrupted Schembechler with "He
wants a written guarantee." Bo went on to explain that Han-
lon calls "about 75 per cent" of the plays, or at least offers
a choice of plays.
"He wanted to call that play against Illinois," Schem-
bechler recalled. "But I said no. I figured we could beat
them without it."
In other words, Bo didn't want to tip 'his hand. He want-
ed to save that trick play for the big game. It worked our
beautifully ("I thought he'd take it into the end zone") and
so, Bo had another memory to linger over. He even went to
the trouble of diagramming the play on a scrap of paper for
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STAMPEDING COLT QUARTERBACK Bert Jones drives into the line after calling his
own number in the first quarter of last night's Baltimore-Miami contest. The Colts put
it over for a touchdown on the next play.
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By The Associated Press
MIAMI - Bert Jones burned
Miami with his passing, includ-
ing a 25-yard touchdown toss
to tight end Raymond Chester,
and Mike.Barnes made a criti-
cal extra-point block that gave
the Baltimore Colts a heart-
stopping 17-16 victory over the
Wolphins in the National Foot-
ball League last night.
Jones, the AFC's No. 1 pass-
Rose BoI
er who completed 13 of 20
passes. for 234 yards, guided
the Colts 88 and 89 yards
through the Miami defense to
their two touchdowns, aided
by Mitchell's bulldozer rush-
ing.
The victory in the nationally
televised game boosted Balti-
more's record to 9-2 and kept
them first in the American Con-
ference East, one game ahead
of the hard-charging New Eng-
land Patriots. The Dolphins, the
super team of the NFL only a
few years ago, fell out of the
playoffs for the second straight
year with a record of 5-6.
_ Jones' bomb to Roger Carr
set up Lydell Mitchell's six-
yard touchdown sweep in the
first period, then his razor-
sharp passes put the Colts in
position for his 25-yard scor-
ing bullet to Chester with 1:20
to play in the first half.
The touchdowns, and Toni
Linhart's 27-yard field goal'
with 1:52 to play barely offset
Gard Yepremian's 20-yard field
goal, Bob Griese's 20-yard TD
pass to tight end Jim Mandich
for Miami in the second period
wl plans,
tickets and packages
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WITH THE large number of tickets available, students should
have little trouble securing a reservation.
"They'll take care of everybody, as long as they're students,"
Renfrew said.
Tour officials emphasize the official University package is
the only one which guarantees a game ticket.
EASTHOPE, who is chairman of the Rose Bowl Tour Com-
mittee, said 2,500 hotel accommodations are reserved.
"We're going out to the coast this weekend to see what we
can arrange," Easthope said, adding that more accommodations
can probably be arranged.
"The airlines are the tough part to work out. But they usual-
ly have some standby," he added.!
The tour tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. yesterday morning,
and by 11 a long line had already formed outside the Union of-
fice.
ACCORDING to G. W. Van den Bosch of Conlin Travel, which'
is handling a special alumni tour package, the turnout has been
heavy.
"The response since 8:30 (yesterday) morning has been
fabulous. The phones are ringing, people are lining up, we will
probably sell out."
Van den Bosch said the only way for alumni to get a ticket
is to take the tour. Tickets for the Alumni package will be on sale
until December 10.
More sports
on page 7
and Benny Malone's three-yard
TD run with 12 seconds to play.
But it was the Baltimore de-
fense which came up with Iwo
of the game's biggest plays in
the fourth, period.
The biggest was Barnes'
block of the Yepremian kick
following Malone's TD. The 6-
foot-6, 256 - pound defensive
tackle from the University of
Miami stuck his hand up and
turned aside the kick that
would have sent the game into
sudden-death overtime. _
the reporters.
On more general matters, Schembechler couldn't say enough'
about the play of wingback Jim Smith. Smith returned Tom
Skladany's booming punts in fine style, and forced the OSU
defense to overshift considerably, which opened up room for
Michigan's option play.
"Jim Smith is the man who kept them away from the
option play," said Schembechler. "They always had a man
short and a man deep around him, and that helped our,
running.
"And it's a good thing when you've got a guy back there
like Smith to take punts. A lot of guys won't catch those long
punts. They're hard to handle. When they kick it 51 yards, and
he returns it like that, he takes that average and stuffs it."
Bo loved that game. And he loves talking about it. South-
ern Cal? Don't bother him about that ("I haven't seen their
films."). The memory of Saturday is still fresh, and he wants
to enjoy it.
Basketball supplement
in tomorrow's Daily
AS YOU CAN SEE from the polls on page seven, this is shap-
ing up to be a great year for sports at Michigan. The
Daily sports staff will help you shift into the second phase of
the sports year with its basketball supplement in tomorrow's
paper.
The 20-page supplement previews the season from every
angle. There are features on the players, the coach, and
the opponents. And, now that the team is ranked number
one, there's even an all-important article on getting tickets
(if you haven't already).
At your doorstep or newsstand you'll find articles on John-
ny Orr, center Phil Hubbard (the Olympic gold medal winner),
star, guard Rickey Green, and captains Steve Grote and John
Robinson. There are also profiles of each team member and
a rundown of both the Big Ten and non-conference schedule.
The Daily basketball supplement-tomorrow-buy it, read
it, keep it.
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