10 Hockey vs. Illinois-Chicago Tonight, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Yost Ice Arena The Michigan Daily 3:30 p.m. SPORTS Volleyball vs. Illinois Tonight, .7:30 p.m. IM Building . 5 Friday, October 21, 1988 Page 10 0 A sort of homecoming The letter sat in front of me. It was a plea for help. Like a letter you would write to your lover at the end of a dying relationship, Matt Elliott's heart was broken. I think you can all probably relate to the feeling. No, his girlfriend had not broken up with him. It was worse. You see, Elliott, the sophomore reserve center is the only returning player on the Michigan football team to hail from Indiana. And if you don't remember, let me remind you: Indiana beat Michigan last year, 14-10. You probably didn't have to go back home to have your friends taunt you. To go out to the movies on a Friday night to have everyone make jeering remarks at you. To go anywhere and constantly be provoked. Matt Elliott did and now he was crying out. "I DON'T think there is a player on the team that burns for a victory more than me," Elliott wrote in a letter to me. Can you blame him? He grew up in Carmel, Ind. and wanted to play for the Hoosiers terribly. Indiana signed one high school teammate, Mark Hagen, and then another, Bo Belden. The Hoosiers had recruited Elliott, but when they signed Elliott's teammates, Indiana stopped knocking on Elliott's door. Elliott was upset. He said good- bye to one Bo and hello to another. Welcome to Michigan. The countdown began. Three months until we play Indiana. Two months. The Schef's Specialty BY ADAM SCHEFTER One month. The afternoon finally arrived. Though Elliott didn't get to play, he was as much involved in the game as anybody. When Michigan lost, he hurt more than anybody. THAT IS part of what makes sports so special. No matter how much a loss hurts, you go out the next day or week and try to put those memories to rest. Elliott couldn't and that's why the loss hurt so" much. No matter who he played, the pain would not go away. Sort of like that first cold you get in the winter time. It lingers and lingers and lingers and... Home cooking was just what he didn't need to cure his ills. Having his high school teammates around him would be as comforting as a sharp stick in the eye. But he had to go home. He had to face his buddy arch-rivals. The first insult was the ring. When a college football team goes to a bowl game, they are offered the option of buying rings. Michigan never buys rings, unless they go to the only bowl they consider valuable. Michigan could have bought Hall of Fame Bowl rings. They didn't. Indiana was new at winning last year. They went to the Indiana's Anthony Thompson leads the Big Ten in rushing, averaging 160.7 yards per game. Peach Bowl and bought rings. Elliott got a close up view of the red stone with the big 'I' on it; the three fake diamonds signifying the Hoosier's three big wins over Michigan, Ohio State, and intra-state rival Purdue. Hagen and Belden wore the rings all the time and all Elliott could say was, "for the Peach Bowl?" But it hurt. HE SAW the familiar faces in town. More insults. Adults would come up to him and in an evil way say, "I'll bet you kind of wish you went to Indiana." Elliott shrugged. "No," he would answer. But that hurt too. It has bern a long wait, but now the game is one day away. As an added bonus, the winner will have the inside track to the Rose Bowl. The hurt has now turned into anticipation. That can't wait feeling. You know, like the night before Christmas. And this year Elliott will get to play. Maybe even on the first play of the game. If Michigan receives the opening kick, Elliott will line up across from Belden. You think he's excited for that moment? "Oh man," Elliott shuddered. "It's been so long that I have just wanted to clean his clock. Once that ball is kicked, I hope I kill him. I want to rip all of them. For this'game, I have an extreme hatred for the opponent." I see a Michigan win. I see the Michigan team singing "Hail to the Victors" in the locker room after the game. And I see Matt Elliott sitting in the corner of the room, cured of all his ills, happier than anyone, very excited to go back home this summer. Blue Banter -All three of Indiana coach Bill Mallory's sons have played for Michigan coach Bo Schembechler. Mike, a two-time All-Big Ten linebacker and co-captain of Michigan's 10-1 team in 1985 is now an assistant coach at Kent State. Doug, last year's co-captain, is now a graduate assistant coach at Indiana. And first-year linebacker Curt is on the team now. According to dad, "I have the utmost respect for Bo. There is nobody else I'd rather have my sons play for than Bo Schembechler." -One of the keys to Indiana's (5-0-1) turnaround has been the upgrading of their facilities. "We were really behind the eight ball when I got here five years ago," Mallory said. "But we have had a lot of support from the administration and the alumni." -Another Touchdown Tony? Indiana's tailback Anthony Thompson has rushed for 17 touchdowns already this season. He is Indiana's all-time leading scorer with 204 points and is second in the country in scoring averaging 17 points per game. He is also second in the country in rushing averaging 160.7 yards per game. As a team, Indiana is seventh in the country in rushing, piling up an average of 293.3 yards per game. I I I SunRTon , 5004 Yes r a a YOUR FACE IS A WORK OF ART. Engineering PROCESS CONTROL OPPORTU N ITI ES FRAME 3uh c( IT 00'v -Hoosier kicker Pete Stoyanovich now has 88 consecutive extra points, a Big- Ten Record. 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"It's not that the passingi With Indiana's rushing offense worse," Schnell said. "It's ju averaging 293.3 yards per game _ shadowed by the running attack." a Big Ten high and seventh best in With an outstanding offensiv the nation -- the 5-0-1 Hoosiers line, the former All-American haven't needed the redshirt junior's Elkhart Indina Central High Scho arm to bail them out. realizes he isn't going to get muc Through his first six games, of a chance to throw this year. Schnell has completed 68-of-18 "It doesn't really bother me passes for 1,011 yards and five Schnell said. 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