Sunday, October 5, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Sunday, October 5, '1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine SpaSmotic offense cripples iich igan gridde rs S UNDAY SPOIUFTS Night Editor: Pat Atkins 'Poorest' mistakes key gridr'demise By ANDY BARBAS Executive Sports Editor P-O-L-I-O. When the band set up their formation at halftime yesterday it wasn't clear whether they were referring to Michigan's medical achievements or Michigan's offense in the second quarter. During that stirring quarter the Wolverine offense managed to rack up a negative 16 yards rushing and couldn't complete a pass. They handed Missouri the ball three times on fumbles, threw one interception, and were forced to punt two times. All this combined to hand the Tigers 24 points, more than enough to top the Wolverines game total. After the debacle, Michigan's Coach Bo Schembechler could only mutter, "That second quarter was a nightmare. I wouldn't have believed it unless I was there." He felt that the blame should be placed on Michigan's execution and not that they were forced by Missouri. "You can't turn the ball over time and time again and still expect to win," he moaned. It certainly turned out to be the turnovers in the second quarter which gave Missouri its advantage. Michigan was able to execute 16 plays from scrimmage in that period. Of those, 6 resulted in the ball going over to the Tigers. The defense was repeatedly put in the position of having to halt Missouri inside the twenty yard line. The offense could not get a first down and twice fumbled after just taking over the pigskin. It actually looked like the offense had completely forgotten how to play football and figured rubgy might work. Before the season began Schembechler constantly referred to the offense as "the question mark this season." After the first two games, any doubts of Michigan weakness were placed on the defense. (Continued from Page 1) Tailback Bill Taylor, handling the football for the first time in a Michigan uniform, fumbled the Missouri kick-off and Wol- verine Preston Henry covered it on the 'M' 15. Taylor's second effort wasn't much better. He fumbled the ball on the first play from scrim- mage and this time a Missouri defender, Steve Lundholm, drop- ped on it at the Michigan 17. Through the efforts of Dar- den and defensive end Al Car- penter, the Tigers were pushed back 10 yards and Brown's sec- ond field goal attempt was wide to the left. The Tigers came back for one more score in the first half, this time on a legitimate 68- yard drive ending on a one-yard plunge by McBride with 13 seconds left. In the third quarter the ping pong momentum bounced back < i # i to the Michigan side of the field. A Mark Werner punt put the Tigers deep in their own terri- tory. Missourian Steve Kene- more booted an impressive 53- yard punt from his end zone and Pierson produced'an equally impressive 48-yard punt return to the Tiger 10. On third down and goal from -Daiiy-Randy Edmonds Missouri linebacker Steve Lundholm (55) joins the fight for a loose ball the eight, Moorhead was caught Yesterday, however, brought the query to the offense, though not in back on the 29-yard line by de- the same context. The potential of the offense cannot be doubted. fensive end Sam Brown and it How in the world they played so sloppily yesterday is the question looked like more of the second needing an answer, quarter nightmare. But someone Schembechler shed some light on the answer after the game. "We ingte Tigherdeieineactondidn't block them (Missouri) up front," he decided. The lack of liged with a holding infraction bo on the play and fullback Craw blocking caused quarterback Don Moorhead to hurry a number of his scored two plays later. passes and stalled the running attack. With the score still a com- .But the offense was sloppy in other ways. They best typified this fortable 24-10. no one on the in the fourth quarter. After fighting back from a 21 point to a 7 Missouri bench started popping point deficit, the Wolverines were forced into a punting situation. in the tranquilizers. That is, Missouri set up to receive the punt with the idea of running the kick not until two minutes later when I back rather than trying to block the kick. The one man who did rush, Carpenter pounced on McBride's however, was forgotten by the entire squad. He dashed in, totally un- fumble of a McMillan handoff. molested, and smacked the kick back into punter Mark Werner's face. This action took place at the Missouri took over on Michigan's 12 yard line and strengthened their Missouri 36. Nine plays later the lead with a field goal. action was on the goal line as Schembechler noted, "I haven't had a blocked punt in the six made the score Missouri 24, years I've been a coach. That was disgusting." He also felt that "that Michigan 17. punt was the big play of the game." The fourth quarter for Bo The offense, after the punt, had blown the game. Unfortunately Schembechler could only be de- they still hadn't finished messing up individual plays. Even Missouri's scribed as a very bad trip. He last score occurred because of a Wolverine offensive goof. Quarterback saw a very weird play, a block- Jim Betts went back to pass. A defensive lineman shot through, ed punt. On his team. Deep in charged him, reached out, and was all but handed the ball as he dove his own territory. When Mis- at Betts' cocked arm. The fumble gave Missouri the ball at Michigan's souri was in a "punt return" 19 yard line from where they had little trouble crossing the goal line. formation, not a "block punt" When Bo looked back at Missouri's 40 points after the game he formation. The net result w concluded, "I guess you can attribute a good deal of their scoring to only a field goal but the die was our offense. I wouldn't say there was anything wrong with our effort, what hurt us was the execution." Four minutes later Joe Moore went 62 yards on a halfback;Gridiron paralysis draw to make the score 34-17 BOMBS AWAY Spar-tans succumb to Irish Biickeyes devastate Huskies; Purdue sneaks past Staiford By The Asscited Press SOUTH BEND. Ind. -Fiery quarterback Joe Theismann pitch- ed three scoring passes and scoot- ed to a fourth touchdown in lead- ing aroused Notre Dame to a 42- 28 victory oXver arch-rival Mich- igan State in a free wheeling foot- ball game yesterday. It was the first setback for 14th-ranked Michigan State after victories over Washington a n d Southern Methodist. It was a slam bang battle in which passing surprisingly pro- duced four touchdowns, including a 35-yard scoring shot by Mich- National Football see page seven fore turning the game over to the jreserves in the final quarter. Stubborn at times in the face of the awesome offense fnounted by the national champion Buck- eyes. Washington still fought back to score touchdowns in the second and fourth quarters. Bill Urbanik, Ohio State de- fensive tackle, set up his team's first touchdown when he recov- ered a fumbled Washington hand- off early the in the first quarter. Otis circled through right tackle for 64 yards and the touchdown. Purdue squeakls by LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Mike Phipps followed his fifth touch- down pass of the game yesterday with a flip to end Greg Fenner for a 2-point conversion that g a v e eighth-ranked Purdue a 36-35 victory over Stanford. A near-perfect fourth-period performance, in which he passed for' 232 yards, gave Phipps a per'- sonal victory in a duel with ano- ther of college football's best quarterbacks, Jim Plunkett. Phipps accounted for a Purdue record of 429 yards passing, and his five touchdown passes set ano- ther school record. Stanfo'd's Jim Plunkett passed for 355 yards and tied his own record with fourI touchdown passes. Stanford had taken a 35-21 lead in the third period on two Plun- kett scoring tosses. Purdue w a s held on its first offensive series of the final period, but then was unstoppable. Indiani a sna10e1 igan State's don Bowdell Dame's lead period. Bill Triplett to Gor- which trimmed Notre to 42-28 in the fourth The game started slowly w i t Ii Theismann's 10-yard pass to Bill Barz giving Notre Dame a 7-0 lead in the first. quarter. After that, both teams bolted up and down the field with the Irish leading 21-14 at halftime and 35- 21 as the third period ended. Rex reigns SEATTLE - Rex Kern, a mas- ter of fakery from Lancaster, Ohio, confused the enemy w i t Ii strikes by land and air yesterday to lead the Ohio State Buckeyes to a 41-14 victory over the Huskies of Washington, Kern scored two touchdowns himself and sent fullback Jim Otis plunging for three more be- -Associted Press UCLA HALFBACK GREG JONES (43) dives across the goal line to score against Northwestern in the first period of yesterday's game at Evanston. storm and favored Indiana of the (j.hers demolished Big Ten yesterday, 30-7, a victory in the finger-chilling cold. N MINNEAPOLIS -- Nebraska's After overcoming pan early 7-3 Cornhuskers, led by 19-year-old lead by the visitors, the Big Eight quarterback Jerry Tagge, pounded Conference team thoroughly out- j through a porous Minnesota de- played the Hoosiers with Bob An- fens unit for 591 yards total derson scoring three of Colorado's offense and overwhelmed t h e four touchdowns. Gophers 42-14 yesterday. 0 terials Free-for-all highlights Badger defeat By The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. - Quarterback Rich Panczyszyn directed Syracuse to a 42-7 football victory over Wis- consin yesterday, in a viciously played game that ended with both benches emptying onto the field' for a brawl. Panczyszyn came off the bench to score on the Orangemen's first touchdown on a one-yard plunge, then directed two more drives that wound up in the Wisconsin end zone as Syracuse built up a 21-71 advantage. The visitors put the game out of reach in the final pei'iod when Gieg Allen boltedaover from the: one, then streaked 63 yards for another six-pointer. Wisconsin's only score in the fight-filled game came in the waning moments of the second' quarter, when quarterback Neil Graff threaded an 11-yard pass to Mel Reddick at the goal. UCLA rolls EVANSTON, Il.. - Fullback1 Micky Cureton rambled for touch- downs runs of 61 and 75 yards yesterday to power undeafeated UCLA to a 36-0 football victory over winless Northwestern. UCLA, scoring its fourth straight victory, was hard pressed in the first half but the Uclans exploded for a pair of long gainers midway in the third quarter to turn the game into a rout. With less than five minutes left in the third quarter, Dennis Dum- mitt unloaded a 58-yard touch- down pass to George Farmer and less than two and a half minutes later Cureton realed off his 61- yard scoring jaunt. illini crushed CHAMPAIGN, Ill.-Obert Tis- dale hurled two scoring passes as Iowa State converted a pair of interceptions and a recovered fumble into touchdowns for a 28- point second quarter enroute to crushing Illinois 48-20 yesterday. In handling the Illini their 12th loss in the last 13 games, the Cy- clones struck late in the first pe- riod when Tony Washington stole Gary Lange's aerial and returned it 29 yards to the Illinois 32. Seven plays later Iowa scored in the first six seconds of the second quarter on Mike Palmer's 10-yard sweep. Vera Skripsky booted the first of his six extra points. after Brown's conversion. With a little more than two minutes left in the game, Schembechler witnessed anoth- er strange phenomenon. This time Missourian John B r o w n stole the ball right out of the hands of Michigan quarterback Betts. With the ball on the Mich- igan 19, the obvious thing for the Missouri second-string of- fense to do was score. They did. Final score: Missouri 40, Mich- igan 17. A bad trip indeed. Grid Picks Scores Missouri 40, Michigan 17 Nebraska 42, Minnesota 14 Notre Dame 42, Michigan State 28 UCLA 36, Northwestern 0 Purdue 36, Stanford 35 Syracuse 43, Wisconsin 7 Iowa State 48, Illinois 20 Colorado 30, Indiana 7 Ohio State 41, Washington 14 Iowa 31, Arizona 19 Alabama 33, Mississippi 32 Florida 21, Florida State 6 Georgia 41, South Carolina 16 Southern Cal 31, Oregon State 7 Oregon 25, Washington State 24 Boston College 28, Tulane 24 D)artmuouth 38, Holy Cross 6 Maryland 19, Wake Forest 14 Oklahoma State 17, Texas Tech 10 Wilkes 6, Moravian 0 D)ough ty 'Moorhead 3Craw Gabler Taylor Betts Henry Moorhead Betts Hankowitz Craw Staroba Mandich Gabler Werner Team Moore McBride Staggers McKee Mlauser MeC.1illan McMillan Stagger Roper MICHIGAN Rushing Tries Gains 22 76 14 27 11 27 2 8 2 2 2 6 1 5 Totals 54 151 Passing Att. Comp. 19 7 8 3 Totais 27 10 Pass Receiving Pass Receiving r Int. 1 0 1 No. 1 3 3 1 10 Yds 68 31 99 Loss Net, 4 72 49 -22 0 27; 0 8, 1 1 15 -9 0 5 69 82 Yds Penalty 22!TOTAL NO. PASSES 35 NET YDS. - Rushing 20 Passing 5 FORWARD PASSES ATT. 39 Completed Ave. Intercepted by 44.5 Yards Intercept. Ret. 0 TOTAL PLAYS (Rushes and Passes) 1 54 82 99 27 10 1 0 TotaIs Punting No. 6 1* MISSOURI Rushing Tries Gai 19 123 17 :i5 9 33 6 18 1 2 4 7 Totals 56 238 Passing All. Con 12 7 1 0 9 9 Totals 15 9 Gray Stagger Shryock McBride Mauser Kenemoie Kennemore FIRST DOWNS Rushing Passing Yards 267 0 E i No. Yds 3 41 2 51 I 20 1 $ 1 --4 Totals 9 124 Punting No. Yards 6 241 MICH.1 15 9 5 ins 3 i 3 3 r 3 Loss 6 6 1 0 15 28 Ave. 40.1 MinSs. 13 7 4 56 210 124 15 9 1 18 71 6 40.1 4 156 64 92 2 2 7 48 Net 117 49 32 18 2 -8 210 Yds 120 0 4 124 PUNTS, Number Average distance KICKOFFS, returned by YARDS KICKS RET. Punts Kickoffs FUMBLES, Number Ball lost by PENALTIES, Number Yards penalized * * * * Score by periods: MICHIGAN 3 MISSOURI 0 81 7 38.1 8 220 83 137 4 4 11 72 ip. Int. I1 J 0 ' 1 O 14 0-17 24 0 16--40 Colorado pulled a surprising change in strategy by switching Anderson to tail back and insert- ing sophomore Paul Arenat at quarterback. Indiana scored during the worst part of the snowstorm, with Jake BOULDER. Cola. - Colorado's Butcher catching a 17 yard pass Buffaloes licked a mountain snow from Harry Gonso. Tagge, a 6-2, 214-pound sopho- more, obliterated a tired Minne- sota defense with a fine option running and brilliant passing as the Cornhuskers broke loose from a 14-14 halftime tie in a game played in summery 84-degree heat. The Nebraska quarterback and sophomore tailback Jeff Kinney had a hand in the Huskers' first five scoies.t Iowa overcomnes IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Arousedl Iowa rode out Arizona's early' charge and tamed the Wildcats 31-19 yesterday. Sophomore tailback Levi Mit- chell pried open a stubborn Ari- zona defense by belting 34 yards off left tackle to spring Iowa in front by 21-19 in the third quar- ter. After Arizona moved to the Iowa 30 in the waning moments, junior Dennis Green maneuvered outside Arizona's defense and out- taped the Wildcat secondary for 70 yards and the clinching touch- down with 2:17 to play. College Scores Mildwest Bowliug Green 21, Western :Mich. 10 Cincinnati 17, Yavier Ohio 14 Eiast Pennsylvania 23, Brown 2 I-f f *. 7 ioaf, l ; 11001i