Sunday, October 19, 1969
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Eleven
GIVE-AWAY:
By BILL CUSUMANO
Associate Sports Editor
Special To The Daily
"You must leave now, take
what you need,
you think will last.
But whatever you wish
to keep,
you better grab it fast."
EAST LANSING - There is no
record of Bob Dylan intentionally
writing a song about Michigan'
football, but the words were still
appropriate after yesterday's 23-
12 debacle against Michigan State.
The Wolverines had to slink out'
of East Lansing and hope that
they had left allthe bad things'
in Spartan Stadium.
Michigan came up with a ple-
thora of errors, both mental and
physical, that brought haunting
memories of the defeat to Mis-
souri. As it turned out, the re-
sults were no different, only the
score. The Wolverines managed to
w song
quarter when Glenn Doughty
fumbled a pitch-out on the Spar-
tan 32. A loss of 11 yards resulted
and a potential score was killed.
Shortly after that Fred Gram-
beau grabbed a Don Highsmith
bobble on the State 27. The best
Michigan could get was a field
goal after Don Moorhead threw
an errant pass in the direction of
Jim Mandich. The Wolverines
then decided to learn by example
and started to play the normal
State game. him di
Following the Spartans first ing wa
score Moorhead couldn't handle been v
the center snap and State grab- since h
bed the loose ball. Six plays later agains
it was 14-3 and the fun had only aThe
begun.Th
verines
"The highway is for gamblers, fumble
better use your sense, penalty
take what you have downfi
gathered from coincidence." scoring
Doughty in particular and mistak
Michigan in general proved that The
turns
to
HTNDAY SPOHTE
NIGHT EDITORS: JOE MARKER and CHuRIS TERAS~
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nnt.hino, hnti hppn lpnrnpri frnm
fumble three times, drop numer-' nu g 'm naa 'enu iuiom
oumbpassedowtebd inutheir experience in past games, when
ous passes, down the ball n I State kicked off following the see-
own end zone for a safety. receive
costly penalties and consistently
try the wrong play at the wrong
time.
Going into the contest Michigan:
State was supposed to be the club
that made all the mistakes and
gave games away; and they did!
and touchdown. Doughty fielded
the kick on his own one while run-
ning backwards. His momentum
carried him into the end zone
where he decided to down the ball
for a touchback.I
What he didn't realize was that
he 'had caught the ball on the
Michig
a touc
half, b
was to
Two
an unc
on Bo
igan a
half. B
was a
Garvie
Sparta
punt.
pushed
ended1
40. Th
for th
issue.
The
last ga
drections. Apparently noth-
.said. Henry should have
wary of such an incident
.e nearly did the same things
t Purdue.
safety didn't kill the Wol-
since they recovered a
on the ensuing kick. A
y for an ineligible receiver,
eld destroyed any chance of
. Chalk up another costly
e resulting in another punt.
Spartans still tried to keep
an in the game by blowing
hdown at the end of the
but the ultimate giveaway
come from the Wolverines.
penalties, a clip followed by
sportsmanlike conduct call
Schembechler, stifled Mich-
t the start of the second
ut the truly crucial penalty
personal foul charged to
Craw when he floored a
n after a Mark Werner
Instead of having State
back to its own 25, the ball
up in good position on the
e Spartans drove from there
e score that clinched the
Wolverines did make one
asp in the fourth quarter
but stymied themselves tin
again by failing to converti
cial situations, particula
four straight plays from thi
two. On that series Michig
jected its power and tri
desperation passes, a wide
and finally had a quar
sneak stacked up.
What really was mostE
about the Michigan erro
that they demonstrated the
Tryouts for Girls Chee
ing Squad are schedule
Monday, Tuesday and We
day. Potential cand
should meet at the tunn
trance to the Events Bu
7:30-8:30. Come dressed f
tivity. Final trials are s
Thursday at 7:30, same pl
lack of poise. Flaring temp
valuable yardage and men
rors gave away points. Wh
seemed to be a polished t
the first quarter collapsedr
as they fell behind. A fe
breaks and the Wolverine c
gone.
dr 0
dirge
"All your seasick sailors,
they are rowing home,
your empty-handed armies
are going home.
The carpet too is moving
under you-.."
Now Michigan returns to Ann
Arbor and tries to regroup for up-
coming weeks. The talk had all
been Rose Bowl before yesterday
and the smile on the Hoosier
scout's face told what happened
to those dreams. The Tartan Turf
me and had been pulled right out from
in cru- under the Wolverines' feet by
rly on State.
Le State "The vagabond who's rapping
gan re- at your door
ed two is standing in the clothes
sweep that you once wore."
terback All of a sudden Michigan State
is discussing Pasadena and their
evident chances of going through the Big
rs was Ten with only one loss are better
team's than Michigan's. And Indiana even
sees ways of everyone elserlosing
twice should the Hoosiers lose
rlead- once.
d this Of course, Michigan could also
ednes- win the rest of its games and still
lidates make the California scene. It's not
el en- impossible, except there is the
ilding, little matter of a contest with the
or ac- Fat Boy from Columbus and his
et for wrecking crew on the last Satur-
lace. day of the season.
"It's all over now, Baby Blue."
-Daily-Jay Cassidy
Tom Curtis (25) awaits Don Highsmith (40)
try to do it again. Michigan, how- playing field and was required to
ever, didn't follow the example of run it out. Instead a safety was
Notre Dame and Ohio State by called and two points awarded to
capitalizing on the breaks. The MSU as soon as Doughty touched
Wolverines blew their chances his knee to the ground.
and handed the game back to The total blame for the mistake
State. cannot be placed on Doughty,'
Michigan began to put the though. Preston Henry, his part-
crews to itself early in the first ner on returns, is supposed to give,
eers cost
atal er-
hat had
eam in
as soon
'ew bad'
aol was
NATIONAL ROUND-UP
Michigan falters again
as mistakes take
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zone. After thinking for a moment,
he downed the ball for what he
figured was a touchback. Unfor-
tunately, he had not caught the
ball in the end zone and it was
called a safety. Add two more to
the Spartan total making the score
16-3.
Michigan State still had enough!
time to give the Wolverines thej
ball by fumbling the kickoff. Mich-1
igan couldn't move it and punted
back, The Spartans made a despe-
rate drive down the field before
the end of the half, but died at
the two yard line when an end
dropped the ball in the end zone.
The Spartans came out in the
second half and elected to play
with the wind rather than receive.
While Schembechler adnitited he
was surprised, Coach D u f f y
Daugherty explained, "We thought
we could pin them down because
of the strong wind. This was ex-
actly what happened."
This happened, though not the
way Duffy figured. The two teams
exchanged punts after the open-
ing kickoff. After being stalled for
the second time, Michigan kicked
to State's 25 yard line. When the
referees failed to call what many
Wolverines thought was a clipping
penalty, Garvie Craw dashed over
and smashed into the player who
had supposedly committed the
foul. As a result, the Spartans
were awarded 15 yards and took
over at their 40. Nine plays later,
Highsmith plowed into the end-
zone for Michigan State's final
1 tally. Highsmith had run seven of
the nine plays involved.
Michigan tried frantically to
come back, but the offense was
totally ineffective until the Spar-
tans got sympathetic again and
Highsmith handed them the ball
on the Spartan 21. The Wolver-
ines finally took advantage of a
break and scored in three plays
with Doughty taking a pitchout
on the seven and driving for the
score.
toll~
Michigan then tried one of their,
famed onside kicks and for the'
umpteenth time this year it failed.
State took the ball to the Mich-
igan 30 where they missed a field
goal.
Starting at the 14, the Wolver-
ines pushed into Spartan terri-
tory. After five minutes of battl-
ing, they finally stalled at the
one yard line where Michigan
State took over.
Irish,
By The Associated Press
SOUTH BEND - Third-rank-
ed Southern California and fav-
ored Notre Dame played to a
bristling 14-14 football tie yester-
day with the Irish just missing a
victory as Scott Hempel's 48-yard
field goal try hit the crossbar but
bounced back into the field with
2:04 left.
The 11th ranked Irish, tabbed
a six-point favorite, pulled into
the deadlock on a Trojan punt
which was blocked by 274-pound,
Mike McCoy late in the f o u r t h
period and recovered on the
Southern Cal 7-yard line.
In a bitter contest of big breaks,
cool Jimmy Jones rifled a pair of
touchdowns to rally the Trojans
to a 14-7 lead after Notre Dame
scored in the third period on a
ro jan
74-yard march capped by Bill
Barz' one-yard smash.
Jones flipped an 18-yard touch-
down pass to Terry deKraai to tie
it at 7-7 midway in the third
period. On the first play of the
fourth quarter, Trojan Tyrone,
Hudson intercepted a pass by
Notre Dame's Joe Theismann a n d
romped to the Irish 15. Two playsI
later, Jones arched a 14-yard1
touchdown pass to Sam Dicker-
son in the corner of the end zone
for a 14-7 Trojan lead.j
McCoy set up the tying Irish
touchdown by blocking John
Young's punt on the Trojan 25,
and the ball was recovered by the
Irish on the Southern Cal 7-yard
line.
Four plays later, Denny Allen
dove over for the touchdown.
The Trojans, who also had a
perfect record married by the Irish'
in a 21-21 tie last year, dominated
Harris failed on his first run ers one yard short, they settled for
but Syracuse was penalized for the field goal.
1 holding up and he crossed the goal * * *
line on his second attempt. Crimson bloodied
Lydell Mitchell scored fifth-
ranked Penn State's first touch- BIRMINGHAM - Resourceful
down with 10:18 remaining, plung- Tennessee forced Alabama into
ing four yards up the middle less rare ineptness and manhandled
than two minutes after linebacker the Crimson Tide 41-14 yesterday,
Jack Ham recovered a fumble by setting records and remaining un-
Greg Allen on the losers' 32. defeated after half the season.
TheLins otanohe brak With an aggressive defense
The Lions got another break showing the way, the Vols scored
during the drive on fourth and moore points against the Tide than
six at the Syracuse 15 when Donay Tennessee team had ever done
Dorr, an outstanding linebacker any Th e t hev erdone
all afternoon, was called for pass in their 51 previous games.
interfern atth edrnats- A record Legion Field crowd of
interference at the four, an auto- 72,443 watched the Vols hand Ala-
matic first down. Mitchell scored'74matshedeolsehand Ala-
bama its second consecutive loss
on the next play, of the season and the third
Syracuse thrilled a record Arch- straight at the hands of the Vols
bold Stadium crowd of 42,491 with -neither of which had ever been
touchdowns in the first and see- done to an Alabama team under
ond periods. A 31-yard return by Coach Paul Bryant.
Gary Bletsch set up Al Newton's Linebackers Steve Kiner and
one-yard plunge midway through Jack Reynolds, backed by an alert
0
in stalemate
Ioorhead' s longest day
Frustrated Events fans watch
while Michigan does-and-dies
the first half completely but had the i~nrst period and a 65-yard
a 15-yard touchdown scamper by punt return by Allen to the Penn
Clarence Davis recalled for hold- Sta te eight preceded Randy Zur's
ing in the opening quarter and six-yard keeper early in the see-I
saw Ron Ayala fall short on a 45- and period.
yard field goal try in the second.
secondary, halted the
Alabama
By JIM FORRESTER
Associate Sports Editor
Some people say the real, silver
dollar football fan is extinct. They
look at shrinking ticket sales and
often indifferent crowds and say
"The fans are dead--spectators
have taken their place."
Duff y off the hook
Some also say this is a blessing.
But this simply is not the case.
About 2000 Wolverine football
fanatics trickled into the Events
Barn and shouted their disap-
proval of the goings on. They are
the do-or-die, you could-swear-
they-smell of pigskin fans. The
kind that measure the worth of
their days in Micligan grid con-
quests.
All these people get that emo-
tional constriction of the chest
signifying total commitment to a
cause. They also exhibit the
frustration of those who see their
cause smashed.
For Michigan proved out that
crusty football axiom: "When ya
play bad ya lose."
MIC1
FIRST DOWNS 19
Rushing 1
Passing ii
Penalty1
TOTAL NO. RUSHE'S 58
NET YDS. - Rushing 176
Passing 164
FORWARD PASSES ATT. 35
C'omplet ed 13
Intercepted By U
Yards Intercept. Reid. Q
TOTAL PLAYS
(Rushes and Passes) 93
PUNTS (Number) 8
Average distance 37.5
FUMBLES (Number) 3
Ball Lost by I
PENAL'IES (Number) 5
Yards Penalized 80
YARDS KICKS Retd 97
Punt Returns,eYards 23
KICKOFF Returns, yds 74
KICKOFFS, returned by 5
f[. ST ATE
16
16
0
65
348
7
4
0p
Mloorhead
Craw
Gabler
Doughty
Moorhead
MICHIGAN
Rushing
Tries Gains
25 107
3 12
4 20
26 103
Totals 58 242
Loss
50
0
r4
14
66
Net
57
12
18
89
176
Triplett
Highsmith
Smith
Foreman
Piro
Tries Gains
18 143
30 134
13 42
41 36
1 0
Total 75 355
Passing
Att. Comp.
s
Loss
1
0
0
1
7
MICHIGAN STATE
Rushing
Net
142
129
42
36
-1
348
All this, mind you, to a tele-
vision screen 100 feet away. There
was no way that screen could re-
act to their pleas, no way it could
change the course of the game.
Their frustration was increased
by their ignorance. Not only were
they in shock, but, as is usual for
most fans, they were unable to
figure out why this was happening.4
At the beginning of clash, the
Blue were being fooled by Bill
Triplett's quarterback r e v e r s e.
When they adjusted for that, State
busted them up the middle. And,
finally, in the second quarter the
Spartans busted the game. The
Wolverines, it seemed, had no fire
for the last 30 minutes.
In that second half most of the
TV fans were fairly quiet. (With
the exception of high schoolers
whose screaming was almost as ir-
ritating as it was obnoxious.) But
finally one fan yelled out in des-
peration, "Do something, Bo."
But there was nothing Ba, or
anyone else, could do.
Penn State advances
SYRACUSE - Franco Harris
climaxed a desperate fourth period
rally by Penn State, breaking loose
on a 36-yard touchdown run that
gave the Nittany Lions a 15-14 de-
cision over Syracuse and extended
their winning streak, longest in the
nation, to 24 games.
Earlier in the period, HarrisI
converted the first Penn State
touchdown with a two-point runE
on his second attempt to put
Penn State in contention after
entering the final quarter trailing
the fired-up Syracuse team,
Pro Standings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Century Division
Auburn survives
ATLANTA - John Riley's 18-
yard field goal with 1:01 remain-
ing lifted 15th ranked Auburn to
a 17-14 football victory over in-
spired Georgia Tech here Satur-
day.
The Tigers had seen their ex-
plosive offense stymied through-
out the day by a Georgia Tech de-
fense that repeatedly came up with
big plays, including blocking two
earlier field goal attempts by
Riley, one of the top placement
specialists in the Southeastern
Conference.
A pass interception by l i n e-
backer Bobby Strickland set up
Auburn's drive for the winning
field goal in the final five min-
utes of play.
The Tigers marched 36 yards,
with tailback Mickey Zofko get-
ting 23 of them. A five-yard pen-
alty against Tech gave Auburn a
first down at the eight, but when
three running plays left the Tig-
attack with crisp tackling and in-
terceptions.
Quarterback Bobby Scott's pass-
ing and the running of Burt Wat-
son and Don McLeary tore Ala-
bama's weak defense to shreds.
The Vols wrapped up the game
with a 21-0 first quarter on a five-
yard pass to Gary Kreis, a 71-
yard punt return to Bobby Majors
and a 27-yard cakewalk by Jackie
Walker after he intercepted a
pitch out.
* * *
LSU rugs wild
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Louisiana
State used three quarterbacks in
an awesome offensive display last
night, pasting Kentucky with a
37-10 Southeastern Conference
defeat.
The Tigers scored in every quar-
ter and their trio of field captains
figured in four of their five touch-
downs.
Mike Hillman, a senior from
Lockport, La., threw for two
touchdowns, both to senior end
Lonny Myles. Quarterback Buddy
Lee tossed for a score to Randy
Toms and Butch Duhe ran for his
touchdown.
Passing
Att.Comp. Int. Yds.
35 13 0 164
69.
Pass Receiving Triplett 4 , I
43 No. Yds. Pass Receiving
5 M a dich 9 11 K
3 Gabler 2 17 hough
3 Hlankwitz 1. 17 Punting
3) larris 1 12
>7 Totals 13 164 Miller
Punting SCORE BY PERIODS:
20 No. Yds. Michigan State 0 16
3 Werner 8 302 Michigan 0 3
. l
Int. Yds. And like all fans they were not
0 7 to kind to the tarnished objects
No. Ynds.of their envy. "Bring on Betts,"
1 7 was the call when quarterback
Don Moorhead could not move the
No. Yds. club, and the cry of "Let's have
' 214 some defense," went up when the
7 0-23 Blue defenders were getting their
0 9-12 lemons crashed.
W L T Pet. Pts.
Cleveland 4 1 0 .800 1441
New York 3 1 0 .750 62
St. Louis 2 2 0 .500 67
IPittsburgh 1 4 0 .200 951
Capitol Division
Dallas 4 0 0 1.000 107
Washington 2 1 1 .667 99
Philadelphia 1 3 0 .250 881
New Orleans 0 4 0 .000 711
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 66
Minnesota 3 1 0 .750 125
Detroit 2 2 0 .500 82
Chicago 0 4 0 .000 41
OP
119
78
88
133
I I
44
81
112
110
43
45
65
96
65
113
74
82
Big Ten Standings
Conference Games
Coastal Division
Los Angeles 4 0 0 1.000
Baltimore 2 2 0 .500
Atlanta 1 3 0 .250
San Francisco 0 3 1 .000
Yesterday's Results
Cleveland 42, Pittsburgh 31
Today's Games
Atlanta at San Francisco
Baltimore at New Orleans
Chicago at Detroit
Green Bay at Los Angeles
Minnesota at St. Louis
New York at Washington
Philadelphia at Dallas
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Eastern Division
W L T Pet.
107
79
62
57
i
Northwestern
Indiana
Ohio State
MICHIGAN
Michigan State
Purdue
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
W'
2
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
L T
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
2 0
2 0
2 0
PF
37
58
88
43
44
55
30
20
48
14
PA
13
27
28
43
66
62
44
51
58
51
All
W L
2 3
3 2
4 0
3 2
3 2
4 1
1 4
0 5
2 3
0 4
Games
T PF
0 53
0 137
0 192
0 147
0 122
0 161
0 81
0 70
0 154
1 89
PA
132
104
42
104
134
146
169
155
154
176
SCORES
Houston 3
New York 3
Buftalo 2
Miami 0
Boston 0
Western
Oakland 4
Kansas City 4
Cincinnati 3
San Diego 3
Denver 2
2 0 .600
2 0 .6001
3 0 .400
4 1 .000
5 0 .000
Division
0 1 1.000i
1 0 .800:
2 0 .600
2 0 .600
3 0 .4001
Pts. OP
84 72
123 95
100 122
82 110
60 146
123 91
127 46
106 102
105 116
111 117
GRIDDE PICKINGS
Michigan State 23, MICHIGAN 12
Indiana 41, Illinois 20
Purdue 35, Iowa 31
Ohio State 34, Minnesota 7
Northwestern 27, Wisconsin 7
South Carolina 17, Virginia Tech 16
Tennessee 41, Alabama 14
Auburn 17, Georgia Tech 14
Oklahoma 42, Colorado 30
Nebraska 21, Kansas 17
Texas Christian 16, Texas A&M 6
UCLA 32, California 0
Oregon State 10, Washington 6
USC 14, Notre Dame 14
Colgate 35, Princeton 28
Rutgers 20, Navy 6
Penn State 15, Syracuse 14
Air Force 60, Oregon 13
EAST
Yale 41, Columbia 6
Pennsylvania 13, Lehigh 7
Tulane 26. Pittsburgh 22
Dartmouth 38, Brown 12
Utah State 23, Army 7
Villanova 24, Boston College 6
Massachusetts 21, Rhode Island 9
Rochester 26, Amherst 20
Delaware Valley 40, Swarthmore 0
Amer. International 30, Bates 9
Union, N.Y., 23, Rensellaer 16
Alfred 20, Hobart 19
Fordham 36, Duquesne 0
Moravian 33, PMC College 6
Allegheny 70, Carnegie-Mellon 30
Cornell 41, Harvard 24
Williams 28, Bowdoin 17
Connecticut 28, Maine 7
Today's Games
Buffalo at Oakland
Denver at Cincinnati,
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