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Page Eight

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday, Oci

U.S. OLYMPIANS ROLL
Toomey surges to decathlon victory

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MEXICO CITY VP)-Bill Toomey,
the durable school teacher from Spencer H
Laguna Beach, Calif., returned the points and le
Olympic decathlon gold medal to to anleasyl
the United States with a record- Italy yesterd
breaking performance last night ketball comp
as these troubled Games completed The trium
their first week of competition. for the Un
Toomey's victory in the 10- rolled at its
event test, most gruelling of all in the t i
the Olympics, brought the United addtion
States the prize it had Wheld
through six straight Olympiads, cite of Ka
until Willie Holdorf of West Ger- tional game.
many grabbed it four years ago.
The Laguna Beach, Calif., for- T
mer school teacher was elated Toomey sai
about his victory. break" in the
deserve it th
"I wasn't tired at all. And I ing " he said.
wasn't thinking about my records.I 'hea
I just wanted to get on top of the Kurt Bendli
victory stand," he said. holder with 8,
Toomey scored 8,193 points for after crossing
an Olympic record, but he fell the final even
short of the 8,391 point world behind Toome
mark. Waldi of West
Earlier, he had pole vaulted 13 Moments ' b
feet, 91/% inches and tossed the completed his
javelin 206 feet, % inch. Toomey's ance with a v
best performance was a brilliant the 1,500-me
45.6 seconds in the 400-meter run. swimming stra
"The 400 meter run won it for en by an un
me," said Toomey, who was clock- Diurdjica Bje
ed in 45.6 seconds in that event women's 100-r
Friday. "That came, out of no- It ,was th
where for me."e vn. whe

laywood scored 26
d the United States
100-61 victory over
ay in Olympic bas-
petition.
ph was the sixth
ited States, which
sharpest pace of
ent.
n to Haywood, Jo
ansas, a fine back-
dso hadi an excep-
d he also "got a lucky
pole vault. "I didn't
e way I was vault-
in, the world record
391 points, collapsed
the finish line in
t and finished third
y and Hans Joachim
tGermany.'
efore Toomey had
brilliant perform-
ictory in his heat of
ter run. America's
anglehold was brok-
known Yugoslavian,
edov, who won the
meter breaststroke.
.e first swimming
;h an American had
the gold.
he American squad
back and won the
mming finals before
urth and last, the
er freestyle, to Mike
ustralia.
zie, an Indiana Uni-
nt from Woodland
won the men's 100-
roke and Jan Henne
Calif., led a 1-2-3

daily
sports
NIGHT EDITOR:
ANDY BARBAS
More sports on page 10
fied for all seven rowing finals for
the first time in Olympic history,
had to settle for one silver medal
and one bronze medal as European
boats prevailed on the 2,000-meter
Olympic course.
Lawrence Hough and Anthony
Johnson of Arlington, Va., settled
for a silver, behind East Germany,
in the pairs without coxswain, a
test they were heavily favored to
win, and U.S. double scullers John
Nunn of Cincinnati and Bill Ma-
her of Detroit rallied for a third
place finish behind Russia and
Holland.
Other golds went to Italy's pairs
with cox, East Germany's fours
without cox and West Germany's
eight-oared shell. Americans were
fifth in the pairs and fours while
the highly-regarded Harvard crew
faded in the eights and finished
last in the field of six.
Sharon Wichman of Fort Wayne,
Ind., finished third behind Miss
Bjedov in the women's 100-meter
breaktstroke for a bronze medal.
Sue Pedersen of Sacramento,
Calif., and Linda Gustafson of
Santa Cruz, Calif., were 2-3 be-
hind Miss Henne.
Ken Walsh of Ponte Vedra, Fla.,
and Mark Spitz of Santa Clara,
Calif., were 2-3 in the men's 100-1
meter freestyle behind Mik e1
Wooden of Australia.
Joseph Dube of Dector's Inlet,
Fla., took a bronze in the heavy-
weight weightlifting with a total
life of 1,223 pounds behind Rus-
sia's Leonid Zhabotsinky, who wont
the gold with 1,300 pounds.,
Carlos to sue
Olym pic board

BILL TOOMEY (right), United States' decathlon specialist fin-
ishes second to Manfred Tiedke of East Germany in their heat
of the 110 meter hurdles. Toomey, however, starred in other events,
especially the 1500 meters, the tenth and final competition, which
he won to sew up the decathlon gold medal and earn for himself
the title of the world's greatest athlete.

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failed to take
However, ti
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losing the foi
men's 100-met
Wenden of Au
Don McKen2
versity studer
Hills, Calif., w
meter breastst
of Oakland,t

MINNESOTA'S WAYNE KING (54) pounces on a fumble by Michigan State's sophomore quarter-
back Bill Triplett (17) to stop a first period State drive. The fumble came on the six-yard line and
was one of two bobbles that victimized the Spartans on apparent touchdown drives.
BIG TEN ROUND-UP:
Illnoi, Wisconsin decimated;
Buckeyes, overpower Wildcats

sweep of the women's 100-meter
freestyle.
Earlier, 'Madeline Manning, a
graceful 20-year-old from Cleve-
land, scored a surprise victory in
the women's 800-meter dash, in
2:00.9, smashing the listed world
and Olympic Anark of 2:01.1 held
by Ftngland's Ann Packer.

The gold medals won by Toomey,
McKenzie, Miss Manning and Miss
Henne lifted America's total gold
haul for the Games t0 16. Five
other swimming medals, two in
rowing and one each in weight-
lifting and shooting gave the
United States a Game total of 37.
American oarsmen, who quali-

They really did it!

By The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Scrambling
Rex Kern passed for two touch-
'downs and scored another yester-
day sparking No. 2 ranked Ohiir
State past winless Northwestern
45-21.
The unbeaten Buckeyes, winning
their fourth straight and eighth
in a row over a two-year span
couldn't shake the Wildcats until
a fourth quarter explosion netted
three touchdowns.
Fullback Jim Otis's second six-
yard TD run sealed the decision.
Northwestern, which has lost all
five starts, led early 7-6 and trail-
ed only 21-14 at halftime and
27-21 after three quarters.
But Kern directed two fourth
quarter thrusts that pulled the
Bucks away.
The super-soph connected with
Jan White on a 72-yard touch-
down strike and hit Bruce Jan-
kowski in the end zone with a 23-
yarder. He also scored on a seven-

MEXICO CITY VP)-John Car-
los, one of the two banished mem-
bers of the U.S.. Olympic team,
said Saturday he planned to sue
the U.S. Olympic Committee for
defamation of character, and
added: "I am going to nail them
to the wall."
"I have a lawyer in Los An-
geles and a lawyer in New York,"
he said. "They have told me that
that U.S. Olympic Committee act-
ed in violation of the constitution.
I am going to see to it that they
have to pay."
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rushing for 121 yards more in 20
carries.
Another sophomore, Northwest-
ern's Dave Shelbourne, was a
standout for the losers, throwing
two touchdown passes and scoring
a third.
* * *
SOUTH BEND, Ind - Terry'
Hanratty shattered George Gipp's
career Notre Dame total yardage
record yesterday in a crushing 58-
8 victory over Illinois.
The senior quarterback hurled
three touchdown passes in guid-
ing the Irish to a 24-0 halftime'
lead before sitting out practically
the entire second half.
Hanratty hit on 13 of 22 passes
in the first half for 212 yards and
gained 55 yards rushing all but 14
in the first half for a total of
276. It hiked his career mark to
4,179 yards, eclipsing Gipp's rec-
ord of 4,110 yards.
It was not match from the out-
set as the Irish scored the first
two times it had possession with
Hanratty hurling TD passes of
nine yards to Coley O'Brien and
23 to Bob Gladieux. A 30-yard
field goal by Scott Hempel pre-
ceeding the Hanratty-Seymour
touchdown pass helped make it
24-0 at halftime.
* * *
Purdue slips by
LAFAYETTE, Ind - Purdue's
Boilermakers, the nation's No. 5
football team, scored two touch-
downs in the last seven minutes

yesterday and a 28-27 victory over
a Wake Forest team that hadn't
won a ball game,
All-American Leroy Keyes of
Purdue lost the ball four times
on fumbles, then redeemed himself
by knifing through the Deacons'
two yards for the final touchdown
with 1:16 to play.
Keyes carried the ball for 214
yards in 25 rushes.
Sophomore Jeff Jones kicked
four extra points for Prudue, in-
cluding the winner.
Keyes was a key man in both of
the last two Purdue drives. Mike
Phipps- set up the next to last
touchdown with a 27-yard pass
to Keyes and Jim Kirkpatrick ran
the last 14 yards.
Kirkpatrick was carried off the
field on a stretcher with a hip
injury but 'came back for a 16-
yard run in the final drive.
* **
Iowa trounees
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Larry
Lawrence and Ed Podolak ran for
two touchdowns each while pro-
pelling Iowa to .a 41-0 Big Ten
Conference;football rout of hapless
Wisconsin yesterday.
The angry Hawkeyes, seething
from three straight losses, rambled
to a 14-0 halftime lead and ex-
ploded for two touchdowns in each
of the final two quarters. They
amassed 508 yards to Wisconsin's
232.
Lawrence had retired from the
game as Iowa's quarterback when
ex-quarterback Podolak rolled
around left end for 12 yards and
his second score.

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yard run.
Kern netted almost 300 yards
total offense, completing eight
of 14 passes for 170 yards and
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GRIDDE PICKINGS
1. Michigan 27, Indiana 22_
2. Iowa 41, Wisconsin 0
3. Minnesota 14, Michigan State 13
4. Notre Dame 58, Illinois 8
5. Ohio State 45, Northwestern 21
6. Purdue 28, Wake Forest 27
7. Oklahoma 42, Iowa State 7
8. Navy 17, Pittsburgh 16 t
9. Syracuse at Penn State, postponed
until Dec. 7
10. Citadel 13, VMI 8 '
11. Tennessee 10, Alabama 9
12. California 39, UCLA 15
13. Harvard 10, Cornell 0
14. Missouri 16, Nebraska 14
15. Arizona State at Oregon State, inc.
16. Texas Tech 28,,Mississippi State 28,
tie.
17. North Carolina 22, Florida 7
18. Stanford 21, Washington State 21, tie
19. Mississippi 21, S. Mississippi 13
20. Muhlenburg 45, Ursinus 6
EAST
Pennsylvania 34, Lehigh 0
Dartmouth 48, Brown 0
Colgate 14, Princeton 7
Connecticut 29, Maine 0
Boston U. 7, Holy Cross 7, tie
Vermont 12, New Hampshire 10
Yale 29, Columbia 7
Slippery Rock 25, Wilmington 12
Delaware 28, West Chester, Pa. 0
MIDWEST
Colorado 37, Kansas State 13
Air Force 31, Colorado State 0
Toledo 30, Western Michigan 6
Bowling Green 30, Kent Statt 7
Ohio U. 24, Miami, Ohio 7

North Texas State 20, Tulsa 17
Southern Illinois 18, Dayton 17
Central Michigan 27, Central, Ohio 0
xavier, Ohio 24, Northern Illinois 20
Akron 31, Eastern Kentucky 20
SOUTH
Clemson 39, Duke 22
Maryland 21, South Carolina'19
West Virginia 20, William & Mary 0
North Carolina State 19, Virginia 0
Georgia Tech 21, Auburn 20
Georgia 32, Vanderbilt 6
Tulane 28, Boston College 14
Maryland 21, South Carolina 19
Morgan State 24, Virginia Union 0
LSU 13, Kentucky 3
Florida State 20, Memphis State 10
SOUTHWEST
Texas A & M 27, TCU 7
SMU 32, Rice 24
rexas 39, Arkansas 29
FAR WEST
San Jose State 55, New Mexico 24
Oregon 23, Idaho 8
Wyoming 20, Utah 9
Idaho State 23, Montana 13
NBA
Atlanta 125, Milwaukee 107
Cincinnati 127, Detroit 115
Philadelphia 124, Baltimore 121
Los Angeles 119, New York 96
NHL
Bostol 5; Pittsburgh 1
Chicago 3, Toronto 1
St. Louis 4, Oakland 1

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