Page 10-Friday, December 12, 1980-The Michigan Daily BUT DON'T COUNT ON A BIRD'S EYE-VIEW' ' Rose Parade: By ALAN FANGER I The Southern California sun rises at around 6:30 a.m. early in the month of January, and sends pulses of warmth through the bodies of thousands of parade- hungry atrons who have camped-for as many as three nights-along the sidewalks lining Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevards. It marks the begin- ning of a day that will surely linger in the memories of the thousands of Michigan fans who will travel west to see the Wolverines play in the Rose Bowl New Year's Days Slightly more than 106,000 fans will pack into the Rose Bowl Stadium at 2 p.m. PST to watch the Wolverines square off against Pacific-10 champion Washington in the 67th annual game in this classic. On the other hand, 15 times as marly people will line the steets of downtown Pasadena to see an event that is 25 years older than the game itself-the 92nd an- nual Tournament of Roses Parade. THEY WILL VENTURE into Pasadena along about Monday-three days in advance of the parade-and stake their claim to tiny, roped-off plots of land that separate the sidewalk from the street. They will bring grills, ground cloths, blankets, frisbees, picnic baskets, and just about anything that will keep them reliably warm.and entertained for the next 72 hours. The sidewalk :population should remain fairly stable until Wednesday afternoon, when all the perennial one-night campers will arrive and occupy the grassy knolls immediately behind the sidewalk. When the overnighters are packed in and ready to celebrate the new year in the dark, their population shall have swelled to nearly half a million. The bottle rockets and firecrackers will sound vociferously two times during the festive evening. At 9 p.m. PST, Wolverine fans will show fervent allegiance to their homeland and celebrate simultaneously with their friends back in-the snowy Midwest. Then at midnight (3 a.m. EST), the West Coast contingent will pop the corks and make mirth as 1981imakes its grand debut. WHEN DAYBREAK ARRIVES, the tour buses and automobiles will clog the freeways surrounding Pasadena, creating havoc for the paradegoers who desire a decent view of the street-wise happenings. Some once-eager voyeurs will dall it quits, return home, and watch the parade on television. Others will remain merely in earshot of it. By 8:30 a.m., the floats \vill have taken on their riders, band instruments will have been tuned, and the horses will have been groomed in meticulous fashion. The cameras will be aimed at the large grandstand on Orange Grove Blvd., just two blocks south of Colorado Blvd., and ready to transmit pic- tures to the CBS and NBC networks. Moments later, the Tournament of Roses Parade, with actor Lorne Greene ("Bonanza," "Battlestar Galactica") as Grand Marshal, will begin a 5/2-mile trip that will wind its way along the streets of Pasadena to its conclusion at Victory Park, just south of the Rose Bowl. The Parade should last roughly two hours. THE THEME for this year's parade is "The Great Outdoors." Moving at a precise, 2 -mile per hour Everybody pace, it will feature 61 floats, 23 marching bands (In- cluding both the Michigan and Washington bands), and 250 equestrians. The parade is expected to draw 125 million viewers from around the world. The Tournament of Roses Committee, which coor- dinates the New Year's Day activities in Pasadena, several years ago established minimum requiremen- ts for the number of roses that must be attached to each float. Most floats today sport tens of thousands of red and pink roses, along with chrysanthemums, carnations, and other flowers that are commonly called "annuals." If you are planning to attend the parade but have not yet purchased a ticket, your best bet may be an advance arrival and subsequent overnight campout along the street. Nearly all grandstand seats were sold months in advance, and Los Angeles-based tours that include a parade ticket among their package deals are usually not worth the offered price. Arriving at the parade one or two hours before it begins does ensure one of a bird's-eye view. One final piece of advice: bundle up. Pasadena's higher elevation makes it vulnerable to chilly nights. Overnight lows range from the low to mid 40s, while the mercury should hover around the 50-degree mark at parade time. The weather at game time? If it holds true to form-as has been the case for the past five years-skies should be sunny, and with a light breeze blowing off the San Gabriel Mountains, the tem- nerature should be 65-70 degrees. loves it 4 The most famous of all the holiday parades, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, featured both of these floats two years ago when the Wolverines last made the trip to the Rose Bowl. The Rose pageant started in 1890, 12 years before they added football to the day's events as'just a sideshow. Bo in search of biggest victory I x Date 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 11/,8 11115 11/15 11/22 2 2 MICHIG"AN'. I -,Opp. Att 7 Northwestern 10 10 7 at NOTRE DAME 29 5 tend. D0,824 9,075 Mr v " a" 14 SOUTH CAROLINA 38 California 27 37 45 35 24 Michigan State' at Minnesota Illinois at Indiana at Wisconsin 17 13 23 14 14 0 0 0 3 104,213 104,621 105,263 56,289 105,109 52,071 69,560 105,831 88,827 26 Purdue 9 at Ohio State WASHINGTON Citizen Schembechler: The camera moves past the moonlit fence, over the mounting landscape which leads to one dimly lit window located in the mansion at the top. In- side, a tight close-up of an anguished face. The lips move and a raspy voice painfully and slowly gasps, "Rose Bowl." It is followed by the sound of a shattering heart. This has never really happened, yet it happens every day. It has to haunt the man like the living dead. Winning the Rose Bowl is the one thing that has separated Bo from coaching greatness. It is the all illusive, and the one thing Bo Schembechler wants more than anything in his career. And a great career he has had. At Michigan, Bo has a 12-year regular season record of 113-14-3, best in the nation for that time period. But Bo has an 0-7 b'owl record, five of those losses in Pasadena's New Year's Day classic.M Although Schem- bechler is still considered one of the great coaches of the country, think what his reputation would be had Michigan won all seven of those bowl games. Butit didn't. And the tarnish on the Wolverines' good silverware, put out for all to see, has overshadowed Bo's accomplishments at Michigan. Make no mistake about it, Bo Schembechler wants this Rose Bowl, and he wants it badly. Like every other year, Maize and Blue- clad fans feel this is going to be the Grandstand View By Stan Babr year, that their fayorite sons will breikthe jinx. Why shouldn't they? This year things are different. This year is special. The 1980.Wolverines are the most balanced TEAM Bo had ever had. Schembechler has had teams with better talent, but never one that works as well together and gets as much out of their talent as this year's squad. In the past, it has been the story of too many chiefs, not weather practices before they leave Ann Arbor.""The team is also leaving Christmas Day, a week later than in past years, and staying a couple-of days past Jan. 1. In past games it was felt that the team was out in California too long before the game and all they could think of was playing the game and getting back to Michigan. The game itself should be a great one. Michigan should take command early but they will not be able to turn Pass interference at midfield. Stark realization. The Wolverines are going to lose, just accept the fact. Michigan is going to lose just like they have every other year. The inevitable. You figure God must have gone to Ohio State, or a Pac-10 school, or his SAT's weren't high enough to get in. Michigan-something like that. Long completion near the 20. The nightmare begins to haunt Bo on the sidelines. He feels four in- visible walls closing in on him and he can't do anything about it except hope, pray if he must, bargain for a. different outcome. Quarterback Tom Flick scram- bles to the three yard line. A pain strikes deep in his heart, fear of dying in discontent. Fear of never reaching a fulfilled career-couldn't win the big one scratched on his tombstone. Over 250 wins as a coach, but no national championships, no bowl wins. It is a sickening feeling. Final play of the game. The Huskies need the touchdown. Flick rolls right .. Someday far in the future,. historians will be left to sift through the estate of the legendary Glenn 'Bo' Schembechler to prepare it for the local archives. In the search, they will record hundreds of awards and other memorabilia and they will stumble across one comparatively insignificant championship ring, on which is inscribed, 'Rose Bowl, 1981.' Date 9/13 9/20 9/27' 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 11/1 11/8 11/15 11/22 W 50 45 10 24 41 27 10 25 45 20 30 Air Force Northwestern OREGON at Oklahoma State at Oregon State at Stanford. NAVY Arizona State Arizona at USC at Washington State Opp. 7 7 34 18 6 24 24 0' 22 10 23 Attend. 44,999 49,975 56,282 48,200 33,000 60,066. 41,211 48,000 46,279 55,512 34,557 enough indians. Now, only one man wears the full-length head dress of feathers-Bo himself. sI The Washington Huskies are a formidable opponent for the tribe. Some people even call them the outright champions of the Pac-10, but those folks fail to see that both USC and UCLA were playing without any incentive of going to a bowl game.. The Wolverines will go into the game as solid favorites over the Huskies, just like they were when the two teams met in the Rose Bowl three seasons past. But Schem- bechler's preparation tactics have changed. First, the indoor football building was just completed for those cold the game into a rout. The Wolverines just don't go for the jugular vein, they only playnwhen they have to. In only one game all Year has Michigan really put away an op- ponent early (Indiana) and that was largely due to the Hoosier quarter- back giving the game away through the first quarter. Leave it to the Ohio States and Purdues to run up the big scores. The Wolverines will hang tough through the second and third quar- ters but then the Huskies will make a last charge. Not again, you say to yourself, not again. You remind yourself this year is different. Michigan just has to win, don't they? How unlucky can one team be? LOSSES IN CAPS And now,somefearlessforecasts... fIlan Fanger Stan Bradbury Mark Mihanovic A Finally - a bowl we can look back on with fond memories. Michigan, a team that has risen from the depths of inconsistency and last-minute despair, is too good and too geared up to throw it away once Washington, while amassing some impressive wins over USC and Arizona State, needs its strongest of- fensive effort to date, and some new- found consistency on defense to hand the Wolverines and Bo Schem- In a comparison of Michigan and Washingtom, the Wolverines have the better defense, offense and specialty teams. So then why is the game in doubt? One reason is you never know how a team is going to be able to play af- . r :nina lpfr nv m fe w aek State and not been invited to a bowl. With an 0-7 bowl record (five Roses, one Orange, one Gator) it seems like Michigan is cursed. But it can't go'on forever. The Wolveines are just bound to slip up one year and win a bowl game. This is that vear Thev have a new There's no doubt about it, the Michigan Wolverines were devastating as the Big Ten cam- paign drew to a close. Three shutouts and three points to the Buckeyes lends credence to the current rumor that defensive coor- dinator Bill McCartney is a magician. team as an overwhelming favorite should step back and look at a few Huskie scores. Washington 50, Air Force 7. Washington 27, Stanford 24. Washington 25, Arizona State 0. And Washington 20, USC 10. This Huskie bunch is far from a dog, a much stronger club than the one which knocked Bo off his perch --XT - .- 1, . of '1,,. Ad