Sunday, November 17, 196$ THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Sunday, November 17, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nina Johnson rewrites Michigan record book + + + If you waited for the second team you have pneumonia By FRED LaBOUR There were six guys holding $6.00 tickets to yesterday's Wis- consin game sitting in the bar at Inn:America and watching the game on television. There were thousands of stud- * ents sprawled out in apartment living rooms across the length and breadth of picturesque Ann Arbor watching the game on television. There were alumni all over southeastern Michigan sitting home watching the game on tele- vision. But it wasn't their afternoon at all, the chickens. It was an afternoon for the crazy bunch of 6,000 people who stuck it out until the raw, bitter end. It's true, these clammy, w e t, shivering, enthusiastic partisians had some company for the first quarter or so, but at halftime the superflous shouters boiled away and only the true-blue crazies were left. That's the kind of crowd that would probably have swum the Rubicon in Januafy to get ahead Df Caesar so they could cheer for him when he landed. Real die- hards, those crazies. The pathos and irony of the whole thing was, almost over- whelming if you're susceptible to that type of thing. There was captain Ron Johnson, breaking every record in sight except the sports- SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: ANDY BARBAS, JIM FORRESTER Discount Record, playing his final game in Michigan Stadium, scam- pering up and down the field like a maniac leading his team to the Rose Bowl, and only 6,000 idiots there to watch him. The first half of the game was the most interesting from a psy- chological point of view because the entire Michigan team seem- ed to go through an identity crisis. They thought they were Wiscon- sin. All of the game films and strat- egy talks must have gone in back- wards and they thought they were the worst team in the nation in- stead of the fourth best. They slipped and slid, dropped and drip- ped, and stumbled and flipped up and down the field in the neo- classic Badger tradition. Paul Staroba, for instance, spent a good deal of the first half slid- ing six yards at a crack on his back after leaping for overthrown i0 d S F f uE t4 S; k d f: I] ei e 9 s v c ir v Dennis Brown passes. Brown fumbled away the ball once. Dave Denzin's centering sud- denly fell apart and the Badgers ubsequently scored a field goal. Wilbur Cohen carried messages to Ron Johnson's father from the press box. Everything went wrong. Even the officials were infected with Wisconsinitis. One of the re- ferees when asked to explain just why Wisconsin was awarded their touchdown in the first quarter,' aid amid the confusion, "I don't know anything about it." But the second half was a little lifferent. The fans who hadn't 'rozen to death woke up and John- son began his colossal sprinting ; exhiiton. The cheerleaders managed to cut their pratfalls in half as they got used to the straw along the sidelines and everybody who wasn't drunk wishes he was. Suddenly capturing Tommy Harmon's record wasn't such a big . deal and everybody wanted to know the NCAA total offense re- cord. With 3:25 left in the game the announcer read off the names of the seniors and what was left, of : the crowd went wild, paying their respects to those aged fellows. Then they took up the chant "Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl," and they were not cheering on their local florist at his neighborhood Lami- niated Lanes., In the Wisconsin locker room, Badger coach Coatta, the vener- able winner of the "Take it in Stride Even if it Kills You Award" talked about the first half. "We kept them in the hole even BIG RON JOHNSO if we didn't move the ball much," day's game. The gre hie said. "You know," he added, Jim Mandch, to pr "we're not a team that scores nuch." Thanks, coach, anything and total offense re else? "There's no question in my' nind about it, they're 'a better football team than we are." Coatta's team took over undis- puted possession of last place in he Big Ten as Illinois finally won, FIRST DOWNS but they have done so with grace Rushing and dignity. Passing After all, without the Wiscon- Penalty TOTAL NO. OF RUSHES sins, where would we get the Mich- NET YARDS - Rushing gans? And vice versa. Passing Michigan star makes Harmon number two Continued from page 1 1 tween Michigan and Ohio State. "~Coach Frank Maloney (of fen- 1 They (OSU) beat us 43-8 1 a s t sive line coordinator) yelled at week, but I couldn't say which is us, stomped out and slammed the the better team. door," said Johnson later. "That "We played a hard first half," did more than anything to fire us Coatta continued, "But we just up for the second half." weren't good enough. Once John- And fired up they were. The en- son started breaking loose it was tire third period was a series of all over. chain-reaction explosions. "He's the most effective ball- With 25 seconds gone, Johnson carrier we've ever played against. took off from the Michigan 33- His totals today would be a career yard line and went all the way for record for a lot of guys. the winning score . . . breaking a "I was very impressed with the tackle attempt by Wisconsin's Michigan defense - it w a s as Mike Cavill to go the final nine tough as Ohio's," s a i d Coatta. yards. Michigan plays a basic defense Tim Killian's PAT attempt was which is good enough that they wide to the right and the score don't have to rely on stunting. was 13-9. "They're just too tough all the Six minutes later. Wolverine way around." he concluded. safety Tom Curtis intercepted his Elliott said the second-half comeback was important for the team. "We were in a jam and we National were able to come back. That's the first time that's happened, so Football now we know we can do it. "We're going to be ready to play See Page 7 against Ohio State. This team gets itself up . . . they proved it to- I day in the second half. They got tenth pass (running his Big Ten untracked and opened it up fast." record to nine) and ran back 43 Several Michigan players were yards to the Wisconsin three-yard bruised in the game. Middleguard line. Johnson dove o v e r tackle Henry H i ll suffered a charley- twice and it was 20-9. horse in his right leg. "I'll be all Halfway through the quarter, right for next week," said Hill. Johnson shot up the center and "My leg was a little hurt before broke right for a 60-yard gallop-'the game, and it's bruised up now, his fourth TD - and the game but it'll be okay." was out of reach. Curtis twisted an ankle, a n d Theni just to add a little top- defensive end Phil Seymour suf- ping to the victory cake, Johnson fered a knock to the head, but broke loose for a 50-yard score both appeared to be in good shape early in the final period. He hurt- after the game. Fullback Garvie led over the last would-be tack- Craw reinjured his already bang- ler into the end zone for touch- ed-up legs, but not seriously. down number five. The win was Michigan's eighth After the game, Wisconsin men- of the season against one loss. And tor John Coatta said he expects now there's only one game left. "a heck of a game next week be- Or is it two? Paying for the Other Guy's Accidents? Save on your Auto Insurance For those who qualify- $25,000 B.I. and P.D. $1,000 Medical Expenses and iUninsured Motorists Protection Single Male Age 21-25 ......$125 per year Married Male Age 21-25 .... $70 per year SENTRY. INSURANCE The Hardware Mutuals Organization Doyle Novarre Phone 426.4030 apoplexy do uheller -Daily-Eric Pergeaux N breaks off left tackle for 35 yards and the first Wolverine touchdown of yester- at back artfully utilizes the fantastic blocking of fullback Garvie Craw (48) and ry open the weak Badger defense. Johnson set a Big Ten single game rushing cord of 347 yards. case of rushing matters Was it a good game, or a bad game? When they were good they were almost perfect, but when they a were bad . .. forget it. This week in Columbus, however, they hopefully won't bother s with anything except being perfect. i The Michigan Wolverine football squad was challenged yes- terday by Wisconsin, perhaps the second worst major college foot- ball team in the nation (New Mexico, apparently, is inferior to the Badgers). Against this ragamuffin organization, the Wol- verines showed two extremes of football proficiency which they had never displayed before. In the first 30 minutes, Michigan parlayed their poorest half of football this year into a temporary 9-7 deficit to the incompetent Badgers. The second half, in contrast, was probably the Wolverines best half this season. And Ron Johnson played the greatest game of any football player any time, anywhere, unquestionably, without a doubt, ever. So who needs O. J. Simpson?; All of which makes one wonder what kind of team will face Ohio State Saturday. If the first half team plays the Buckeyes, Michigan will get killed. Should the Wolverines play like they did in the final half, particularly the third quarter, Ohio State will get killed. More than likely, Michigan's per- formance will be somewhere in between the two extremes. And of course, how well the lines play - the defense in stopping the rush- ers and rushing the passer, the offense in protecting the passer and making holes for the rushes will be the key. Symbolic of Michigan's g a m e yesterday was the performance of linebacker Cecil Pryor. Entering f. the contest relatively flat, like his e f} teammates, the early frustration and the wet and cold apparently got to Pryor. His play picked up / in spark and enthusiasm and in the second quarter he flattened CECIL PRYOR Badger quarterback John Ryan just as he was getting off a pass. Ryan staggered off the field and 4- was out for the remainder of the half. During the third period, in the midst of the Wolverine touch- down deluge, Tonf Curtis intercepted a Ryan pass and returned it to the Badger 3. Pryor saw a Wisconsin player attack Curtis- after the tackle, kicking him in an attempt to shake the ball loose. Incensed, Pryor went after the player with malicious intent, and the result was both he and the Badger were thrown out. After the contest, linebacker coach Bob Shaw told Pryor, "We need you in these games. If you get kicked out of the game against Ohio State, you won't do us any good on the sidelines." Michigan tennis coach Bill Murphy then came over, put his arm around Pryor and said, "That's the spirit, Cecil. Keep it up down in Columbus." Pryor looked at both men and said to each, "Yes, coach". And that is exactly the problem with the Wolverines per- formance against the Badgers. Do you condemn it because of all the lackluster play, or do you paise it as a whole because of the result? Peace Corps MICH. 19 13 7 5 364 117 wisC. 12 4 1 53 136 53 FORWARD PASSES ATT. Completed Intercepted by Yards interceptions ret. TOTAL PLAYS (Rushes and Passes) PUNTS, Number Average distance KICKOFFS, returned by YARDS KICKS RET. Punts # Kickoffs FUMBLES, Number Ball lost by PENALTIES, Number Yards penalized 15 24 6 43 70 38.2 26 -3 26 4. 60 1 40 77 9 36.7 6 189 13 176 0' 15 Ryan Smith Daw ilns Todd Ritcherson Schinnick Ryan WISCONSIN Rushing No. 8 11 17 3 Yards Ave. -12 -1.5 18 1.6 21 1.9 70 4.1 22 7.3 :3 5 Totals 53 136 ,Massing Att. Comp. Yds. 24 5 53 Pass Receiving No. Yards 2 24 2 18 1 11 1.7 Ave. 22 Ave. 12.0 9.0 11.0 Mearlon Iteddick Yana kos MICHIGAN Totals 5 53 Punting No. Yards Ave. Schaffner 9 313 36.7 Johnson , Brown Craw Scheffler, Federico Thomas Tota Brown Moorhead Totals Pa Harris Johnson Mandie h Staroba W1erner Rushing No. 31. 9 2 11 a1 1 tats 5 Yards Ave. 347 11.2 -37 -4.1 1 ' 0.5 45 4.1 6 6.0. 3 3.0 1363 Passing Att. Comp. Yds. 14 6 117 1 0 0 15 6 117 ss Receiving No. Yards 2 65 2 25 1 11 1 16 Totals 6 117 Ave. 8.0 0.0 Ave. 32.5 12.5 11.0 16.0 Punting No. 7 Yards Ave. 268 38.2 JUMBOY M-M-m-m-m, yummie! A giant hamburger of %/ lb. 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