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Happy Huckleby runs with pack
S1i,-,- 9 st rter fnr the Wolverines Amazinrlu game that Bo came out and said-
By TOM KEANEY
"I'm just happy to be here, happy to
still be playing football." That is how
former Michigan football great Harlan
Huckleby feels in his fourth season
playing for the Green Bay Packers.
Even though Michigan's sixth leading
all-time rusher is starting to feel at
home now, he is not sure how much
longer he'll be playing in the NFL. "It's
tough to say," said Huckleby. "If I
could play a couple more years I'd feel
fortunate. I'm really starting to feel
comfortable on the field."
SINCE HIS graduation in 1979, the
Michigan native has been through some
hard times compared to the success
that came so easily to him in college.
"It was a big change going from
college to pro. All of the players are so
much better. At this level, the com-
petition for jobs is very fierce, it's very
hard to make it."
It is that competition that put
Huckleby's NFL career in doubt before
it even got off the ground. In 1979 he was
drafted by the New Orleans Saints. But,
oddly enough, the lowly Saints were not
inclined to keep the speedster, and he
was cut during the preseason.
IT SEEMED that no team in the NFL
was willing to take a chance on Harlan
Huckleby, due, in part, to the ham-
string injuries that plagued him in
college. So he weit north to the
Canadian Football League. He attended
a five-day tryout with the Saskat-
chewan Roughriders and made the
team.
But he soon found that the CFL was
not what he wanted. "I didn't enjoy it.
I was used to first-class football like it
RIER was at Michigan. I'm not trying to put
is the CFL down, but the quality of the
it- athletes and the level of play was not
what I was used to.
Huckleby also found that going from Lal JL i 6110 VV'.s. g4ry, "
Michigan's rushing offense to a league each of those three years, Michigan publicly that I had played great,'
which is dominated hv theaswsawon the Big Ten and went to the Rose Huckleby explains.
tough adjustment.
FORTUNATELY FOR Huckleby, he
only had to spend one year in the CFL.
After that season, the Green Bay
Packers offered him what he had wan-
ted all along, an NFL contract. So, in
July of 1980, he signed as a free agent.
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Of course it is not easy suddenly
becoming a second stringer after being
a three-year starter at Michigan. Said
Huckleby, "I don't get as much playing
time as I would like, although I've got-
ten more this year than last." He sees
duty mainly as a punt and kickoff
returner and is also backup fullback.
That is a far cry from the action he
saw in his years at Michigan. In those
days, particularly after his sophomore
year, it was not unusual to hear the
phrase "Huckleby for the Heisman."
HUCKLEBY WAS Bo's kind of ball
carrier. He never showed a whole lot of
finesse. Rather than juke the defense,
the then 198-pounder would slash right
through would-be tacklers. And he had
excellent speed. In fact, Huckleby
helped Michigan's mile relay team win
a Big Ten title and third place
nationally in 1976.
He is a proven winner. His senior
year was his third straight year as a
Bowl.
The 1979 graduate said he has mostlyj
good memories from his days at
Michigan. But the one game that sticksj
out in Huckleby's mind took place his
senior year. In a losing cause against
Michigan State, Huckleby played the
best game of his college career.
Even though the result was a loss to
an arch-rival, that game stands out to
him as the best. Why? "It was the only
I
Huckleby has earned respect.,.
from others as well. Mike Jolly, once a'"
Michigan teammate and now at Green
Bay said, "Everyone on the teamv"
respects him for the attitude he carries,
He has made himself a versatile back '
and a good pass catcher."
He has made it where many have
failed. He is not a superstar, but he isa,
success.
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'It was a big change
going from college to
pro. All of the
players are so much
etter. At this level,
the competition for
jobs is very fierce,
it's hard to make it.'
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
BAND-O-RAMA 1983
Featuring:
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Symphony Band
Jazz Band
Friars
Marching Band
Saturday, October 29
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Daily Photo by JEFF SCHR
Harlan Huckleby, Michigan's sixth all-time leading rusher, often found h
way into the open field during his college career, but is finding the going a l
tie tougher in the NFL.
U' pledges t
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Since 1977, black student enrollment
0the University has dropped from 6.9
erdent to 5.2 percent.
To reverse that trend, Nordby said
ricreased efforts to recruit black
tudents .would be essential. Nordby
lso :said she would support creating a
epaate orientation program for black
tudents.
OTHER PUBLIC institutions, such as
he" University of California at
3erkeley, have implemented recruiting
3pgrams that have significantly
losted their black student enrollment,
vordby said.
Private universities have had even
>etter luck recruiting black students
vhich Nordby attributed to better
unding from private sources. Stanford
niversity raised its black student
nrollment by 25 percent last year,
Jordby said.
But when an audience member asked
o hike black enrollment
how much money from the University's
budget was spent on minority recruit-
ment Nordby said she didn't have "the
slightest idea."
"WE KNOW we will put more money
into recruiting so it's not important that
we don't know," said Nordby following
the hour-long panel discussion innthe
Kuenzel room of the Michigan Union.
"I don't have the authority to demand
budget information. That's up to the
University's chief budget officer," she
said.
Schools with higher black student
enrollment offer better financial aid
packages than the University of
Michigan, said Nordby.
SEVERAL students asked Nordby
what the responsibilities would be for a
newly-created minority administrator
position. Nordby said that details about
the top post, approved by University
Regents this month, weren't available
yet, but she stressed that the official's
primary responsibility would be to
coordinate existing minority programs.
She stressed, however, that the ad-
ministrator would have other respon-
sibilities so the job would not be limited
to working only with minority
problems.
"There was concern expressed that if
(the, admiistrat r s) only jpb As
minority problems, he or she would be
isolated. (Minority problems) are the
responsibility of everyone and you can't
shove it on one person and say 'that's
your problem,' "Nordby said.
NORDBY ALSO answered several
questions on the recent dismissal of a
University professor charged with
sexually harassing female students and
staff three years ago.
Panel members also asked about the
University President Harold Shapiro's
delay in establishing a non-
discrimination policy toward gays.
The Rand Graduate Institute (RGI)
Invites applications for its doctoral degree program in policy analysis.
Deadline for submitting applications for 1984-85 is February 1, 1984.
RGI is an integral part of the Rand Corporation. Its curriculum consists
of interdisciplinary study, combined with on-the-job training (OJT),
leading to the award of the Ph.D. in Policy Analysis. Students receive
OJT support equivalent to doctoral fellowships. The Rand Graduate
Institute is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and
Colleges.
A master's degree, or equivalent post-bachelor's degree training and
experience, is required for admission.
A representative of the Rand Graduate Institute will be at Career Planning and
Placement, 3200 Student Activities Bldg. on Monday, October 31, 1983.
The Rand Corporation is an equal Opportunity/
Affirmative Action employer.
Panel to study LSA's
future
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iese schemes, if any, are practical.
ONE OF the commission's major
tsks will be projecting the decline in
irollment according tQ Sociology Prof.
Ibert Hermalin, a member of the
)mmission. While the number of
ghteen year olds will drop, Hermalin
'd, there are a number of factors to
Sider.
"Predicting enrollment is a very
icky business," he said. In addition to
e number of college-age students, he
id the percentage of those students
ho choose to attend college has fluc-
iated quite a bit in recent years. He
[so said the commission must consider
te growing number of adults who are
returning to college.
Hermalin said the committee's in-
structions will . not be extremely
specific. "We're very open to take it
where we think it should go." He said
the group will have a broad range of
issues to consider, including
curriculum, the goals and emphases of
the college, its administration, and the
types of students they want to attract.
SOME OF the curriculum changes
may come from a faculty committee's
report last year calling for a course
distribution pattern which would
"make students aware of the coming
world," according to English Prof.
William Alexander, chairman of that
committee.
Alexander said his report, which was
"one of the stimuli" for the new com-
.mission, suggested that students be
exposed to non-western cultures,
ethics, science and technology, and
other areas.
Members emphasized that the com-
mittee will advise the Executive Com-
mittee about possible changes, but will
have no authority to make those
changes.
Although it was not in the original
plans, the commission will .have a
student member. Upon learning of the
panel, LSA Student Government
President Rajeev Samantrai said he
wrote to Dean Peter Steiner asking that
a student be allowed to work with the
committee.
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