10 -he Michigan Daily - oa Saturday -October 24, 98 0 0 0 Is Carr seeing double?Two ¢YXRandle Es gve foes trouble 1 Antwaan Randle p El and his defen- sive counterpart, W Curtis, have Uoyd Carr and the Big Ten see- Ing double. AP PHOTO Hail to the Shoes Birkenstock From Cozy Comfort to Funky Fashion. One of our Three Locations will have a pair of shoes for you. *Bring in this ad to receive 10% off your purchase. Expires 11/14/98. 1200 S. University 994-9401 322 E. Liberty 662-9401 -excludesBirkenstocks 217 S. Main 741-9401 -El Corner of Washington & Pearl " Ypsilanti " 487-2110 100's of Beautiful Girls Coast to Coast Texas Style Couch Dances Executives Lounge Shower Shows Amateur Contests# National Competitions. Adult Super Star FeaturesF Totally Nude Showgirls{ By Sharat Raju Daily Sports Editor It's like a bad action-adventure movie, with the same actor playing both the good guy and the bad guy - there are two of them! 'Them' refers to players on Indiana's football team with the words 'Randle' and 'El' on their backs. There is Antwaan, the do-everything quarter- back, and Curtis, the anchor in the defensive backfield. Antwaan is a redshirt freshman and Curtis is a junior. Simple enough, right? Well, the Randle El brothers are everywhere, giv- ing opposing coaches fits. "I think Randle El is an extremely good football player in his own right ... wait, excuse me - I mean his brother," Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said. Both are 5-10, small and shifty. Antwaan wears No. I1 and Curtis wears No. 10. But it's Antwaan who is getting all the publicity so far. In all six of their games, victories and losses have rested upon the shoulders of the diminutive Riverdale, Ill., native. The Hoosiers are among the leaders in the conference in passing - Antwaan's doing. They also lead the Big Ten in rushing - also Antwaan's work. Who else would carry the ball, the running backs? No way, not with this guy under cen- ter. This season, the younger Randle El averages 75.3 yards per game on the ground and 189.8 yards per game in the air. Often, the Hoosiers run the option, and consequently they lead the Big Ten in rushing. The Hoosiers, because of Antwaan, are one of the only teams in the Big Ten to run the option successfully this sea- son. "He's not as big as (Syracuse's Donovan) McNabb but he's every bit as dangerous," Carr said. "The thing about Randle El is that he pitches the ball with people draped all over him and he man- ages to get it out." In fact, they have been so successful that they have been in a position to win every single game they've played, only 2 ,O05x :' .. "":'''S.i":°;. .:,.{;:'V ti':1 -{^ L :{tm{ {: i it~" S "{ ti^1{i?:" :ii',ti}{i.v r *{ 1:;.. to sport a 3-3 record. The only real problem going into the season was where to play Antwaan. Tailback? Quarterback? Cornerback? Wide receiver? "Antwaan Randle El will play some- where," said Indiana football coach Cam Cameron before the season stared. How about point guard? Yeah, he's going to play point guard for Bobby Knight's basketball team, as well. Cameron, his football coach, also did the same when he was an athlete at Indiana. "When you're dealing with a guy who's also going to be a point guard at Indiana, you're dealing with a special athlete," Carr said. Don't forget baseball. He also was drafted by the Chicago Cubs out of high school, so he might play baseball as well. Just for kicks. For now, Antwaan torments defenses just as he did throughout his high school career two years ago. At Thornton High, Antwaan received numerous scholar- ship offers, but turned down a chance to play at Nebraska or Ohio State in favor of the Hoosier state. And at Indiana, another Randle El had already made a name for himself. Curtis, spearheads the Indiana sec- ondary. Randle El - Curtis that is - is part of a resurgent defensive secondary that now utilizes zone coveage and swarms the ball better Although they are still third from the bottom in total defense, they have improved from last year's sec- ond-to-last finish defensively. "They've done a good job against the big play," Can said. "That's the thing that impresses me." The Hoosiers have been impressing everyone and could very easily be 6-0, had it not been for late-game collapses. Indiana is suddenly a dangerous team, in large part to one family. Rumor has it they have a little brother - who is even better. Maybe he plays basketball, baseball, football and hockey. Too bad there's no ice in Indiana. Seeing Double On offense and on defense, Indiana has a Randle El on each. Here's the way to tell the two Randle Els apart: Ht: 5-10 Wt: 177 Wears: No. 11 Pos: Quarterback Elig: Freshman Other: Will play hoops for Bobby Knight Antwaan Ht: 5-10 Wt: 183 Wears: No. 10 Pos: Cornerback Elig: Junior Other: Two intercep- tions last season What is Football Saturday? "Football Saturday, to those who know the Michigan athletic tradition, is an institution unparalleled in excitement and spirit. From the action on the field to the flying marshmallows in the stands, the Big House becomes the center of life in Ann Arbor each fall, every time the Wolverines take the field." With those words, the idea of a Saturday edition of The Michigan Daily came to life last year. Now in its second year of publication, Football Saturday continues to evolve - as does the Dailv. 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Lh a 's..i rem y SoonS , ONLINE SALES Jamle Mrba, Manager IANCF: JoanEr:MtewfBai Courtney Rt, Manager 0A : P ea Fralnor.O , RO S a r.hn 01,e Eli zabetng h Golk a n Shao .R ADVERTISING PRODUCTION Tracey dde, Need Design. r oouCT5oSS"^st5TNS oo soRoTl"* - AD PLACEMENT COORDINATOR Aaron Klemaneki SPECIAL SECTIONS MANAGER Mania Kadish CIRCULATION MANAGER Unday Spolan NATIONAL AD COORDINATOR Alleson Milee SYSTEMS ANALYSTS Kemir Baker, Todd Brockdorf, Satadr Pran anik, Anthony Reed, Jonathan Waetz Lober 24,1998 - Football Srday - The LAST WEEK Raining 'Cats Michigan D* --3 Northwestern quarterback D'Wayne Bates trudged through the downpour at Ryan Field in Evanston last week, but secure a win for the Wildcats, giving Michigan its fourth in a row. Despite conditions, 'M' By Jim Rose Daily Sports Editor EVANSTON - The only thing D'Wayne Bates couldn't do last week was make the rain stop. Bates gave Northhestern all kinds of options - even the option - but in the end, he ran out of tricks. And so did his team. Michigan fought off Bates, his Wildcats and the nonstop rain - though not necessarily in that order - and trudged to a 12-6 victory j Mcigan 12 in front of 47,129 at N'western 6 Ryan Field last week. It was the fourth straight win for the Wolverines (3-0 Big Ten, 4-2 overall), who maintained a share of first place in the conference. Rain poured from start to finish, and by the fourth quarter, the only thing more muddled than the offensive game plans was the chewed-up field. " I can't remember ever being in a game with that much mud," Michigan quarterback Tom Brady said. "The rain's really not all that bad. But the mud - it was terrible out there:" Michigan scored the game's only touchdown when Tai Streets snared a 30- yard pass from Tom Brady with 35 sec- onds left in the first half. The Wildcats managed just two field goals for the game, but nonetheless stayed within striking distance until the very end. A 52-yard Jason Vinson punt pinned the Wildcats on their own one yard line with 5:42 left in the game, and proved instrumental in sealing the win for the Wolverines. Three plays later, the Wildcats punted out of their end zone. But rather than give Michigan good field position, Northwestern purposely snapped the ball out of the end zone. The result was a meaningless safety - Michigan's lead went from 10-6 to 12-6 - and a free kick from the 20 yard line. On the kickoff, senior Brian Gowins booted the ball over the head of Michigan's Clarence Williams. The Wolverines took possession at their 15. With two timeouts, a defensive stand by the Wildcats would have given them the ball with a chance to win in the game's final minutes. But Michigan, behind the running of freshman Justin Fargas, pounded out a pair of first downs to clinch the victory. It was a breakout game for Fargas, who carried the ball 31 times for 120 yards. Before Saturday, he had carried just 15 times for a season total of 74 yards. "I just wanted to go out there and do well," said Fargas, who seized the oppor- tunity presented by an injury to Anthony Thomas, who didn't travel to Evanston. "This is Big Ten football," Fargas said. "This is why I came out here from California. I just want to play, no matter what the conditions are." The conditions were less than ideal, but they didn't stop Northwestern's Bates from shining. The Wildcats had 191 yards of total offense - Bates had 128 by himself. He caught eight passes for 112 yards, wins again but gave the crowda thrill by taking five snaps at quarterback to start the second half. With Bates under center, Michigan's defense stacked the line. Bates ran the option four times for six yards, fumbled once and threw an incom- pletion. Then he returned to receiver. Despite the problems presented by Bates, Michigan's defense set the tone for the game. Sam Sword, as usual, led the Wolverines. He had 10 tackles. Coach Lloyd Carr said Michigan's defense, finally mostly healthy after struggling through a rash of early-season ailments, was "impressive." "In those conditions, your defense better be lights-out," Carr said. "And our defense has played extremely well for two consecutive (games). I think our defense played tremendous." Northwestern coach Gary Barnett thought so too, and said Michigan's defensive speed was part of the reason he used Bates at quarterback. But most of all, Barnett just said he was disap- pointed to lose a game he thought his team could win. "It's really hard to have so many guys play their hearts out for 60 minutes. It's hard to lose a game like that;" Bamett said. "To come that close and not get itis hard to deal with. It was probably our best team effort this year." In each of the past three seasons, the winner of this game has gone on to win at least a share of the conference title. 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