90 zight THE MICHIGAN DAILY" Tuesday, November 11, 1I.?5 .I age Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, November 11, 197~ TODAY IN SPORTS Bowl picture 0 I i Some must be Spectators .Y'Yv,''~t? Ji; ;iA~,~w;:;% {'ti }S;yC v ";air.:r;{, A}.;fi§ '..',"...,, , 1.. y' ¢V narrowing By JEFF SCHILLER and RAY O'HARA As the 1975 football season grinds toward its finish, specula- n over this year's major bowl teams is livelier than it has en in years. The new policy of both the Big Ten and the Pacific ight Conferences which allows teams other than their cham- onship teams to go to bowl games has made the usual guessing me even tougher this season. There are commonly thought to be four prestigious bowls. e Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Sugar Bowl are nsidered to be at least one cut above the others and teams nerally covet an invitation to any of them. Such an honor can, of course, fall on only eight teams each ar and therein lies the proverbial 'rub.' The Rose Bowl is the biggest, richest and most popular bowl me of all. Every year the champions of both the Big Ten and e Pacific Eight play each other in Pasadena on New Year's ay. That particular pairing is no accident. Both conferences ave signed a contract with the Tournament of Roses which omises to send the championship teams to that bowl in return r some juicy financial rewards which fall on both conferences llectively. The contract idea is an appealing one to a bowl.because it can save a lot of effort trying to recruit teams. The Cotton Bowl was begun by the Southwest Conference (Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas, et. al.) and the champion of that conference automatically attends it. Jumping on the bandwagon, the Orange Bowl has signed the ig Eight (the Oklahoma-Nebraska-Missouri crowd) champion to contract binding through 1978. Thus four teams, the winner of te Michigan-OSU game, the winner of the Oklahoma-Nebraska sme, the winner of the Texas-Texas A&M fame and the Pac-8 ampion (Cal, UCLA or Stanford) are assured of appearances t previously determined bowls. It so happens that November 22 is the date of three of the lost important games. Oklahoma-Nebraska, Michigan-OSU and al-Stanford are all that day. The Orange;Cotton and Sugar bowls ill all issue their invitations after that weekend. Significantly, they will not wait for the Texas-Texas A&M and USC-UCLA games, which are both November 28. As it stands now, the following represents the best guesses of Orange Bowl chairmen Ben Benjamin and Don Crain nd Cotton Bowl leaders Field and John Scovall as to the bowl lineup of the four 'majors.' ORANGE BOWL: The winner of Nebraska-Oklahoma will probably play the Big Ten runnerup. Though Benjamin refused flatly to commit himself, he did say that there were only a few teams in the country who he thought could play with the Big Eight powers. Both Michigan and Ohio State were among them, he added right before leaving to join Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke in a local bar. As to whether either Big Ten team would choose the Orange Bowl over the others, the placement of an Orange Bowl sticker on Don Canham's lapel at the press smoker Friday night appears significant indeed. SUGAR BOWL: Everyone was in general agreement that Alabama will probably be one of the contestants here. The other could come from Penn State, Florida, Notre Dame, or Oklahoma. If Oklahoma is available, they will definitely come here because the Cotton Bowl, afraid of an Oklahoma-Texas rematch doesn't want the Sooners. Nebraska would probably pass up the Sugar, if available, to play Texas or Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl. COTTON BOWL: The winner of Texas vs. Texas A&M (Arkansas still has a chance but it's a slim one) will play host probably to Nebraska, Notre Dame, or Penn State. The Scovalls were very impressed with Penn State, though last Saturday's loss to North Carolina State might have changed their thinking. Arizona State (currently number 8) is not in contention for any of the at-large berths because of the commitment of the WAC winner to the Fiesta Bowl. ROSE BOWL: Very simple and straightforward-The winner of Michigan vs. Ohio State against the PAC-8 champ (UCLA, Cal, or Stanford). Our predictions: Oklahoma vs. Alabama in the Sugar Bowl; Texas vs. Penn State in the Cotton Bowl; Nebraska vs. Ohio State (no, not just sentiment) in the Orange Bowl; and Michigan vs. California (Schiller) or UCLA (O'Hara) in Pasadena. Daily Photo by SCOTT ECCKER t One of the unsung heroes of the Michigan offense is guard Walt Downing, a sophomore from Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Here "Big Walt" puts the crunch on a Purdue defender to 1 open up holes for the Michigan runners. EMU, WMU !'iI STEVE'S LUNCH 1313 SO. UNIVERSITY HOME COOKING IS OUR SPECIALTY BLUE BEATS Synchronized swimmers prevail Breakfast All Day 3 Eggs, Hash Browns, Toast & Jelly-$1.15 Ham or Bacon or Sausage with 3 Eggs, Hash Browns, Toast & jelly--$1.75 3 eggs, Rib Eye Steak, Hash Browns, Toast & JeI1y-$2.10 FAST AND FRIENDLY SERVICE BY MR. AND MRS. LEE EVERYDAY SPECIALS Beef Stroqanoff Chinese Pepper Steak Eq Rolls Home-made Soups, Beef, Barley, Clam Chowder, etc. Home-made Chili Veqetable Tempuro - (served after 2 D.m.) Hamburqer Steak Dinner - (1/2lb.) .........$1.99 Spaqhetti in Wine Sauce Beef Curry Rice Baked Flounder Dinner 1/ lb. Roast Beef Kaiser Roll Delicious Korean Bar-b-a Beef (served after 4 daily) Fried Bean Sprouts Kim-Che By PEGGY GIRSHMAN In their first meet of the season, the Michigan Synchron- ized swim team topped both Eastern Michigan University (71-33) and Western Michigan University (59-45). The meet, a triple dual pro- pulsion meet, tested the abili- ties of the swimmers to race while sculling and performing single and double ballet legs (legs raised in their air while moving the body with the hands). This is the first year the team has been separated from "Mich- ifish," the synchronized swim- ming club that puts on a water ballet show each spring. "WE WORKED real hard and it showed," said Coach Joyce Lindeman, adding, "I was very pleased with the team." Putting in exceptional per- formances, according to Coach Lindeman, were Helen Hene- veld, who took three - first places, freshman Sue Neu, who placed first and second in her events, and Diane Urban, who captured a first and a third place. In addition to propulsion meets, the team will also com- pete in figure and routine meets. Figure meets require compulsory figures, judged on execution and difficulty. The judges grade each figure on a one to ten scale. Routine meets are the most complex. Here, the team de- viqes solo, duet, trio or group "numbers," which combine the figure moves with costumes, SWCHA Standings lighting, and music. Routine!team travels to an Ohio State competition will not start until invitational meet. Other schools the winter semester, although competing will probably be Coach Lindeman says that the Western Illinois, which gives team will start to work on rou- synchro scholarships, and Uni- tines next week. versity of Wisconsin. THE SWIMMERS are placed. "OHIO STATE and Western Rebuilt offensive line Good, getting better THE SILENT Majority. Politicians depend on it. So do offenses. That silent majority of seven men that play on the offensive line. Who ever talks about the offensive line? Who keeps blocking statistics - most blocks in a season, most yards blocking, blocks for losses. Since when have you seen a headline like "Joe Shmoe blocks P.U. to 48-2 victory." Anonymity is the fate of offensive linemen. At Michigan the situation is compounded because the line is entirely composed of players who were not starting last fall. Guard Kirk Lewis, tackle Steve King, starters last fall, and tight end George Przygodski, and split end Rick White were all expected _to start this season. Lewis broke his arm a week before the Wisconsin game and was out for the season. King injured his knee and only recently began playing again. Przygodski has seen very little playing time this fall and may not see any more unless he can come back from a serious knee injury. White started in the Wisconsin game, injured his knee, reinjured it again in practice and is out for the season. Only center Jim Czirr, tackle Bill Dufek, and guard Mark Donahue remain from the pre-season starting line and none of these three started for Michigan's 1974 Big Ten Championship team. Michigan's line situation was made more desperate when guard Greg Bartnick was injured and out for the season and tackle Jim Hall was stricken with appendicitis. Both were poten- tial starters. So Schembechler has put together a line of inexperienced second-stringers. Not a very good line you might guess. You might guess wrong because the Wolverine offensive line has given Michigan 3203 yards rushing more rushing yards than any team in the nation. Averaging 355.9 yards per game on the ground Michigan is one of three teams to have surpassed 3,000 yards rushing. For the first time in Michigan history, thanks to the ef- forts of the line, two Wolverine backs could break 1000 yards in one season. Gordon Bell has already gained 1114 yards while fullback Rob Lytle needs just 149 to make 1000. So who are these guys? One of them is Keith Johnson, senior split end who backed up Jim Smith at that position last fall. He was expected to play defensive back this fall but was moved back to split end after the injury to Rick White. Split ends aren't usually counted on to do too much blocking but Johnson proved he could do it when he had to Saturday. A shattering cross-body leveled two Purdue defenders pursuing Jim Smith on his way to an 83-yard touch- down. Another is quick tackle Mike Ken who played part of last spring at tight end. The sophomore took over the tackh spot when Hall and King were sidelined and has maintained a starter's role even though both Hall and King have returned to action. Mark Donahue and Walt Downing, two more sophomores have played excellently at guard. This duo along with tackle Bill Du- fek compose the three 'D's on offense. Before the careers of these three sophomores at Michigan are over the names of Down- ing, Donahue and Dufek may be household words. Guard Les Miles, second or third string in the spring, has also seen plenty of action filling in for injured linemen and has performed well. A household word already, at least around St. Joseph, Michi- gan, is the name of Jim Czirr. The 6-3, 230-pound center has his very own fan club. Friends and relatives from his home town purchased an old city bus to make the trip to every Michigan home game. Anyone is welcome to join the club and make the trip and everyone in the club is encouraged to wear a number 52 'T' shirt. Bo Schembechler says of Czirr, "Right now he's as good as any center in the conference and I would rank him right in there with some of the great centers we've had here in the past few years . . . like Dennis Franks, Guy Murdock and Bill Hart." Czirr was selected by the coaching staff as this week's of- fensive hustler. The tight end position has been shared by two freshmen, Mark Schmerae and Gene Johnson. Johnson was a receiver for qiartrback Rick Leach at Flint Southwestern. "I think they've done a great job so far" said Schembechler of the line. With experience gained each game and the return of King and Hall the blocking should keep improving. With improvement maybe the namelessness of the blocking corps will vanish. Jim Czirr for Heisman? - _ t +&AUiftV._ w into three categories: novice, junior, and senior. Placing first in novice moves the swimmer to the junior category, and ex- ceptional junior performances will place the swimmer in the senior category. "For the first time, our senior category will be able to hold a candle to the other schools," C o a c h Lindeman explained. "Until this year, we were strong in novice and in junior, but we couldn't place as well because we didn't have senior talent." Next Saturday, the synchro. Illinois will probably beat us because they have top swim- mers from the AAU," Lindeman said. "But we also have Sue Neu and Michele Pingel, fresh- men whose home teams placed high in national competition." Lindeman does not regret that she could not offer scholarships to attract other top swimmers. "We have one of the better programs," she declared. "It costs too much money and time to play the recruiting game. I'm --I ~ U - }I- MONDAY - SATURDAY 8 - 8 SUNDAY 10 - 8 769-2288 1313 South University pleased with the we're all looking good season." team and ahead to a The Top Twenty WCHA Standings W L TPts Michigan State 4 0 0 8 MICHIGAN 2 0 0 4 Minnesota 2 0 0 4 Minn-Duluth 2 2 0 4 Michigan Tech 2 2 0 4 Notre Dame 2 2 0 4 Denver 2 2 0 4 North Dakota 1 3 0 2 Wisconsin 0 2 0 0 Colorado Coil. 0 2 0 0 All Games W L T 5 10 3 1 0 3 2 0 2 2 0 2 4 0 2 4 0 2 2 0 By The Associated Press 9. Notre Dame 1. Ohio St. (49) 9-0-0 1,138 2. Nebraska (8) 9-0-0 1,054 3. Texas A&M (1) 8-0-0 875 4. MICHIGAN 7-0-2 721 5. Alabama 8-1-0 687 6. Oklahoma 8-1-0 621 7. Texas 8-1-0 605 8. 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