.4 E True Blue By Dou/as B. I evY A true Blue dream .. . . ..flying high with Michigan IOWA CITY SIT BACK a second and imagine yourself a Tiger fan or a Cubbie fan. You've been following your team for years now and here it is in the World Series or the playoffs. Now, imagine that your team is on the road, and the destination is so far away that driving becomes a virtual impossibility. But you've just got to go, you've got to make it. This is your team in the big event. Knowing that you can't drive, you phone the general manager of your team, say Dallas Green of the Cubs or Jim Campbell of the Tigers. "Excuse me, Dallas. I hate to bug you, but I've just got to get out to San Diego. I don't have the money for a plane ticket, so I was wondering if maybe I could get on the team plane or something." "Sure," says Dallas, "we've got room for one more, come aboard." You proceed to drop dead from excitement. Such was the case with me, Douglas B. Levy, the ultimate Wolverine fan, disguised as a Michigan Daily sports editor one-and-a-half weeks ago. I had to get to Iowa City for the Michigan-Iowa game, but the idea of driving for nine hours (18 for the weekend) made me feel like Bo Schem- bechler after losing to MSU. Well, maybe not that bad. But I knew that the Subaru would never see Iowa City. Stopping by Conlin Travel, I discovered that a Super Saver fare to Cedar Rapids, Iowa is $318. "No way am I blowing $318 for a flight to Iowa," 1 thought. Goodbye Conlin, hello nine hours. But I wasn't finished. I telephoned Michigan's associate director of athletics, Don Lund - the man who handles Michigan's football trips. Lund said, "Sure Doug, we've got 108 places and only 107 are filled. You can take number 108. "Hello, Hello, Hello. Doug, are you there ... The big day arrived, yesterday. I was instructed to be at the football building at 2:45 p.m. Two buddies of mine - Stinger and Weezmo (from the fraternity) drove me down. Three busses whisked us to Metro Airport, not to the terminal, but to the runway, where we boarded our 727 while the jet engine were revving. On board, I had an aisle seat. Across the aisle was Wolverine flanker Paul Jokisch. Next to me was Gil Curry who calls himself superfan, and next to Curry was Ann Arbor News Sports Editor, Wayne DeNeff. DeNeff, incidentally, is the only member of the press permitted to travel with the team, so I was indeed a rarity. The flight was great, my eyes and ears roamed around the, aircraft. Our football players are pretty low-keyed travelers. Eighty percent of the 60 on the traveling squad were plugged into their walkmans for the 74 minute flight. The remainder either read the newspaper or talked. Jokisch played crib- bage by himself. Sadly, the flight had to end. The players were met by three fresh busses at planeside. I said goodbye and got into my rented Ford Escort. By the way, Michigan is going to upset the powerful Hawkeyes. r 14 1 U Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Erik Campbell (5) and Vince DeFelice wrap up Northwestern ball carrier Stanley Davenport in last week's 31-0 Michigan romp. The Wolverines will I need this kind of defensive effort to stop Iowa's high-powered running game, led by Ronnie Harmon. The University of Michigan Law School Application for Admission sud o esu P ublcatio note ichga"Dily FrdaM rc 8;e NETT Eennis Saturday 6:0dlPtme A RTSudg S Track XCndV :8 ~n . 3Foyiht18 h uh a yArdoY.Mr ch ig F3.y 198 84F ee~ TevePg & i so of lfl~t subh~ini leO pi OC a3ambes wit - Crs u eS oo heIpatig ite rikCite g il e ekn Inll n' Slam la44at mr-hu 44 Node comment S ______ __sadmaeii BtgPppeoBoun bhn eintaas Ca er ba g n, us a o~ ginT 'M' facs tough test in Iowa (Continued from Page 1) Right now Michigan is tied with Iowa, Ohio State, and Purdue for the lead in The Big Ten at 3-1. A loss to the Hawkeyes would mean that Fry's team would have to lose two of its last four games for the Wolverines to have any kind of shot at the title. AND AFTER A glance at Iowa's remaining opponents - Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan State and Min- nesota - one realizes that today is do or die. But the Wolverines are coming off their best all-around performance of 1984, a 31-0 win over Northwestern, and Russell Rein has had another week to become comfortable at quarterback. The possibility exists that Michigan can overcome its role as a seven-point un- derdog and stay alive in the Rose Bowl chase. "We were going at it more aggressively and with more intensity in practice this week," said Rein. "We know what we're up against." Michigan will be in a little better shape injury-wise for today's showdown. Kevin Brooks, Doug Mallory, Gilvanni Johnson and Gerald White are all ex- pected to play after bouts on the sidelines. "One thing we have to do is our defen- se has to play a great football game," said Schembechler. "Then, we are going to have to control the football of- fensively, which means we're going to have to have better balance in our at- tack, running and passing. THE LINEUPS 4 Michigan (95) Sim Nelson...... (79) Clay Miller...... (77) Bob Tabachino .... (59) Art Balourdos ..... (73) Doug James ...... (72) John Elliott...... (25) Vince Bean...... (24) Steve Johnson .... ( 3) Russell Rein ...... (32) Eddie Garrett ..... (20) Rick Rogers ...... Iowa OFFENSE (230) (258) (263) (225) (267) (280) (190) (172) (190) (225) (216) TE LT LG C RG RT SE FLK QB FB TB (34) Jonathon Hayes ... (240) (73) Herb Webster......(278) (58) Bill Glass........(270) (56) Mark Sindlinger .. (240) (66) Kelly O'Brien ... . . (272) (79) Mike Haight.......(276 (40) Bill Happel ....... (187) (87) Scott Helverson ... (200) (16) Chuck Long ....... (204) (33) Owen Gill........(226) (31) Ronnie Harmon ... (192) DEFENSE (85) Jim Scarcelli......(220) (66) Mike Hammerstein (239) (53) Al Sincich........(230) (52) Kevin Brooks....(234) (80) Rodney Lyles....(226) (57) Tim Anderson .... (218) (42) Mike Mallory ..... (217) (13) Garland Rivers ... (182) ( 5) Erik Campbell .... (163) (35) Dieter Heren.......(205) (30) Brad Cochran......(219) (19) Bob Bergeron.....(160) (43) Monte Robbins .... (195) OLB DT MG DT OLB ILB ILB CB FS SS CB PK P (91) Mike Hooks ....... (226) (64) Paul Hufford ...... (262) (76) Jeff Drost .........(285) (77) George Little :.... (2544 (97) DaveStrobel......(230) (38) Kevin Spitzig......(215) (36) Larry Station ..... (233) (14) Keith Hunter ...... (200) (41) Mike Stoops........(176) (21) Devon Mitchell ... (190) (29) Nate Creer.........(190) ( 3) TomNichol......(201) (27) Gary Kostrubata .. (210) Today's game starts at 12:10 p.m. EDT and can be seen on WJBK-TV (Channel 2). It can be heard on WAAM (1600 AM), WPAG (1050 AM), WWJ (950 AM), WUOM (91.7 FM), WJR (760 AM), and WJJX (650 AM). DELIVERS Arc Purdue at Illinois Game time: 3:40 EDT WHAT TO WATCH: The Boiler- makers fell harder than Humpty Dum- pty in last week's 40-3 loss to Iowa while the Illini put 38 points on the board in a losing effort atsOhio State. Buckeye back Keith Byars ran wild against the porous Illinois defense. Purdue has no Keith Byars, but they do have a dangerous weapon in Quar- terback Jim Everett, who is second in the Big Ten in passing. Unless the Boilermakers come up with an inspired performance like they had against the Buckeyes, you can look for the Illini to cruise in this contest. Wisconsin at Indiana Game Time: 1:00 EST WHAT TO WATCH: One week ago, you would have expected this one to be a laugher. But the Badgers lost to Min- nesota and the Hoosiers gave MSU a battle in East Lansing. Don't expect --. .- - a a Badgers spill spikers Dund the Big Ten payload just large enough to carry a Northw football. That's right George Peles, G e Heisman candidate Keith Byars. He Game ran for 274 yards last week. against the WHAT Illini and the Spartan defense is no bet- shouldn't ter equipped to stop him. Michigan you've ha( State has won two in a row, although 'Aroun they barely eked out a win over hapless piled by Indiana. Herz. vestern at Minnesota Time: 8:10 EDT -TO WATCH: What you watch is this game. Unless A a problem sleeping lately. nd the Big Ten' was corn- vDaily sports writer Steve By SCOTT G. MILLER Michigan volleyball coach Barb Can- ning described last night's match with Wisconsin as her teams "worst Big Ten performance of the year." The spikers were throughly beaten at the CCRB by scores of 15-6, 15-7, and 15-6. Poor serving was the major cause of Michigan's loss. The spikers hit numerous long serves which destroyed their mnmentum "Von can't score allowing Michigan to score more than three points in a row at any one time." Jennifer Hickman, Michigan's big hitter, had a difficult night because of her sore ankle. She came alive in the third game but most of her spikes were easily blocked by Wisconsin. SETTER ANDREA Williams was disappointed with her own and her team's performance. She felt there was a "lack of motivation" on Michigan's- 0 0