al Page 10 -The Michigan Daily-Thursday, November 5, 1987 I Levarenz leaves crying behind !1 Tip of the Kap By PAUL LIJEWSKI Special to the Daily MINNEAPOLIS - Jon Levarenz wore a snarl on his face, winced at the pain in his shoulder, picked at the dried blood on his elbow, and hobbled along the Illinois locker room floor, favoring his sprained right ankle. His Gopher football team had just lost to the Illini, 27-17, but the sophomore linebacker had won all of his battles - including the one he always lost as a child growing up in Mount Vernon, Va. Levarenz, the 6-foot-2, 225-pound giant of the Gopher defense, used to break down and cry at the slightest hint of pain. "I WAS a crybaby as a matter of fact," he said. "They still call me crybaby when I go back to where I grew up in Virginia. "Everytime I got hurt, I cried," Levarenz continued. "Even when other people got hurt, I told them, 'Cry, it feels better."' But Jon Levarenz can't remember the last time he cried. In fact, he is much more likely these days to make opposing ball carriers shed a tear or two. Gopher lineb ackher BY RICK KAPLAN puts hurt on others Levarenz will try to inflict a little pain on members of the Michigan football team Saturday at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, where the Wolverines will play the Gophers in a 3:30 p.m. game. And if he plays as he has all season, he should get about 15 chances to make someone cry. LEVARENZ is the Gophers' leading tackler this season. His 126 tackles are more than double the number of any other Gopher. Levarenz also ranks second in the Big Ten, three tackles behind Purdue's Fred Strickland. In his first full season as a starter, Levarenz is leaving quite an impression on Big Ten running backs - and coaches. "I think he is a great player," Wolverines coach Bo Schembechler said with rare conviction. "I'd trade ten players to get Jon Levarenz on "-- -- "---".-== - = - -n- -n- --..-- CARRY FREE OUT DELIVERY I MAIN CAMPUS ilz NORTH CAMPUS1 66-605995-9101 I 665-6005VEGETARIAN PIZZA9 Green Peppers, Onions, Black Olives and Mushrooms Ps One Coupon Per son , 12" MEDIUM PIZZA Not Accpted at VIETH 4 William St.Restaurant ITH4 ITEMSor Dine-In at~f 'VEGETARIAN ITEMS $7 75 otgn nnCae LJEW SH CM M U L- - -E RV --CExpires 1 1/128 R JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE CAREER DAYI my football team. He attacks the line of scrimmage well. He tackles like an old fashioned football player. I'm very impressed with him." Levarenz, who came to Minnesota from Ankeny, Iowa, broke his thumb as a freshman and was redshirted. A severely sprained ankle prevented him from playing at the beginning of last season, but he came on in the final five games to register 33 tackles. AND TO Levarenz, making tackles is what the game is all about. "Ever since I was a little kid," he said, "getting a hit is what I played football for." But Levarenz wasn't always a great hitter - not until his sophomore year at Ankeny High School. "We went to the playoffs my sophomore year," he said, "and I practiced with the varsity and dressed for the game. And it was in the locker room before the game that I learned what intensity was all about." INTENSITY is now Levarenz' edge on the football field. "Intensity is just getting to the ball as fast as you can," he said. "You have to sprint full speed all the time." That means even when you're tired - and even when you're hurt. Terry Hrycak, Levarenz' Gopher counterpart at inside linebacker, has seen that intensity. "The thing that amazes me about John," Hrycak said, "is that when he's tired, he still manages to come up with the big play. He's a real competitor." GOPHER COACH John Gutekunst sees the same thing in Levarenz. Come to the Party! Direct from Moscow: SOVIET TV COVERAGE of the REVOLUTION DAY PARADE FROM RED SQUARE Sat. Nov. 7 1-3 PM, MLB 2011 Free, Refreshments 0 Levarenz ... no more tears "What you see in Jon is a special athletic ability," he said. "Then you see a determination and a drive that combines with that ability to make a very good football player." Gutekunst said the only thing that separates Levarenz from Ohio State All-American Chris Spielman is the perception of each player by the media. "If I rated all the linebackers around the country and put them into special categories," Gutekunst said, "I don't know if you would find Levarenz in another category (behind Spielman). As far as ability, I put him in there already." So does Michigan tailback Jamie Morris. "HE'S A GREAT linebacker," Morris said. "He deserves to be in the same class as Strickland, Spielman, and all the other great linebackers in the league." But Levarenz avoids comparing himself to other players. "That is something you dream about," he said, "being All-American and everything. We have to play Michigan this week; that's all I'm concerned about." And he's not concerned about getting hurt anymore. He's learned how to hold back the tears. "It still hurts sometimes to make a tackle," he said, "but I just go back to the huddle. You can't go to the sidelines with a bruise or something or the coaches will start calling you names." Like lightweight, or creampuff - or crybaby. Paul Lijewski is a football writer for the Minnesota Daily. Auburn University... ...Harvard of the South All the students who were rejected by Ivy League schools made the wrong choice by coming to Michigan. In finding the next best in academics, they overlooked the estimable Auburn University. Here are Michigan students, up to their annoyingly oversized school sweatshirts in homework, midterms, and term papers. They make people do their schoolwork here at Michigan. The damn traditionalists. Down south in Auburn, Ala., such trivialities are dutifully ignored. It greatly simplifies a student's life, knowing that the little things like attending class, doing one's own work, and following school rules do not matter. And besides, the weather there is nice, year round. TWO MODEL STUDENTS serve as fine emissaries in displaying Auburn's commendable academic standards. Brent Fullwood and Jeff Burger make Wolverines everywhere wish they were War Eagles. Fullwood, Auburn's star tailback last season, made news before the Florida Citrus Bowl when it was discovered that he hadn't attended classes since October. The academicians at Auburn decided that Fullwood was technically eligible until the beginning of the next term. Since the new term did not start until mid January, Fullwood played, and led Auburn to a 16-7 win over Southern Cal. If he had gone to classes, he probably would have been suspended for insubordination and declared ineligible. Surely he put the semester to good use intellectually - making an archeological study, comparing life in the 1980s to the life of the Flintstones; conducting psychological experiments on the effects of 12 hours of sleep per day on an athlete; reading up on the negotiations of important world leaders like Spiderman and the Green Goblin. B U R G E R, however, can be discussed in Auburn's political science classes (if they teach poli- sci). His treatment by the Auburn administration is text-book example of the effectiveness of lobbyists. First, Burger was accused of plagiarism last semester by the student committee on academics. (Apparently, someone at Auburn cares about schoolwork). The senior quarterback was originally kicked off the team for cheating. But the higher ups at Auburn, likely including the highest up, football coach Pat Dye, reinstated Dye the Heisman Trophy candidate., ... strict disciplinarian Over the summer, Burger was bailed out of jail by Auburn assistant football coach Pat Sullivan. Whoops. That was a violation of NCAA regulations, making Burger ineligible for football. Not to worry, though. Auburn appealed the suspension, and Burger's eligibility was restored. IT MUST BE comforting to know that the University will go to court in support of students who are arrested. In the 1960s, many colleges cracked down on students who stepped out of line, having them arrested. Auburn is proving to be a bastion of progressive educational reform. Finally, last week Burger was suspended from the team for taking a hunting trip on a private plane. Despite the fact that the plane's owner was a booster of Auburn's rival, Alabama, the trip was an NCAA infraction. For the third time, Burger was an ex-War Eagle. 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