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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Strong
offense
trigger
By BILL ALTERMAN
Good Grief !
What ever happened to hapless'
Wisconsin?
The Badgers who failed to win
a game the last two seasons, who'
last year scored only 86 points
while giving up 310, and who had
little prospect of doing any better'
this year, are on the move.
Although nobody is going around
Madison shouting "Rose Bowl!
Rose Bowl!" yet, Wisconsin is
playing as well as anybody. After{
dropping their first three games
to tough non-conference oppo-
nents, the Badgers came back anda
took two of three from Big Ten
teams. They are coming to Mich-
igan's homecoming Saturday and
would like nothing better than to
revenge the Wolverines for the
34-9 trouncing Ron Johnson (who'
rushed for a record 347 yards in
the game) & Co. handed them"
last year.
Last week against Indiana the1
Badgers put it all together in their
36-34 victory. Quarterback Neil
Graff led the attack, hitting on
13 of 20 passes for 229 yards and
four touchdowns.j
Though the sophomore had
three of his passes picked off by
the Hoosiers, and has had 10 in-
tercepted for the year, Coach
John Coatta said that "Neil did
an excellent job for us."
Coatta also placed some of the
credit for the successful passing
game up front: "The offensive
line is doing a lot better than we,
thought it would. It has progress-
ed considerably."
STILL, RUNNING is the name
of the game in Wisconsin this
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Badger surge
year. Overlooked in the din of Holding the vaunted Hawkeye
Graff's superlative performance attack to 309 yards, the Badgers
were the 247 yards the Badgers also came through with three in-
picked up on the ground. terceptions and a fumble recovery.
Sophomore A 1 a n "A-Train Cornerback Neovia Greyer was
Thompson picked up 100 yards the big man, intercepting two and
last week and now has 646 for coming up with the fumble.
the year. He is also the team's The Wisconsin offense took its
leading scorer with 42 points. time getting up steam, but when
.nthe fourth quarter started with
If "A-Train" can keep up this Iowa in the lead 17-0, the Badgers
pace he could pass Alan "The turned it on, scoring 23 points on
Horse Ameche s all-time Wiscon- two touchdown runs by Thomp-
sin rushing record. son, and a scoring pass from
Thompson is not the only one Graff to halfback Randy Marks.
The result was a 23-17 victory.
Northwestern was next and
everybody t h o u g h t Wisconsin
would continue their winning
ways.
They didn't.
Coatta could only -comment
that the "game was a mystery to
me. I don't know what happened
NIGHT EDITOR: to us, but Northwestern deserved
CHRIS TERAS to win. I've never had a game like
that before, and probably never
will again.
tearing holes through enemy lines. What did happen is that the
Senior Joe Dawkins has raced for Badgers fell completely apart- as
453 yards in 79 carries for an im- Wildcat halfback Mike Adamle Alan Thompson (37) runs againstI
pressive 5.7 yards a carry average. ran for 327 yards. All told, North-
Along with the 129 yards on the western blitzed through the Bad- throwing the ball against the turned the hat trick against
ground last week, he also pulled ger line for 440 yards. ball-hawking Michigan secondary. UCLA.
in a nine-yard touchdown toss The following week was In- HE MAY PREFER to hand off Still, since Michigan's defense
from Graff. diana. to Thompson and Dawkins. has been anything but a pushover
Most of Graff's throws, how- In exhibiting their s t r o n g oIf need be, Graf can call on this year, it will be up to Graff
ever, have been pulled in by a pair points, Wisconsin also revealed a sophomore Greg "Grape Juice" and the rest of his friends to carry
of senior ends, Mel Reddick and major weakness. Coatta admitted, Johnson. Earlier in the year, the football within Jaegar's strik-
Stu Voight. "We developed a bit of a problem Johnson was being compared to ing distance if Wisconsin expects
Reddick has caught 22 passes at' defensive secondary. This Elroy Hirsch before he pulled up any three-pointers to aid a pos-
for 261 yards, and Voight has .:lame against Syracuse. He has sible upset over Michigan.
nearly matched that with 20 re- Ticket Manager, Dom Weir, played little since then, but should Because hapless Wisconsin is no
ceptions and 221 yards. announced yesterday that the be ready for Saturday's game more, at least for now, who could
With all this offensive power, Nov. 22 game with Ohio State against the Wolverines, say whether or not the Badgers
though, the Badgers had a rough was sold out as of yesterday Wisconsin's defensive front line will reach such lofty heights?
time of it starting off the season.'morning. has beenhaving its troubles all
They opened against Oklahoma, year. They have allowed 1641
and although Thompson ran foray !!eiiM~iad~ssiiiisinassasIssi yards and 18 touchdowns at a 5.0
220 yards, the Badgers defense trouble was evident as Hoosier yards a carry average. Agains
could do little to stop Steve Owens quarterback, Harry Gonso, threw Michigan's strong ground game
and his cohorts in a 48-21 loss. four touchdown passes. their troubles should continue. H E
The next week they played Still, the defense did come up The Badger secondary has not
tough UCLA and went down 34- with two interceptions and four looked very good as inexperience
23. Although their running game fumbles. k has hurt. But, after having toarrf . a
yards, Uclans Greg Jones and by Graff, the Badgers have netted ers, Coatta's pass defense haspPsof.eAlleaha
Dennis Dummit burst through the 1311 yards on the ground, as com- shown signs of' jelling,
SBadger defense for five touch- pared to 733 through the air. With And if the score is tight Coatta
downs. a less than .500 completion aver- can call on Roger Jaeger to de-
Syracuse bounced them around age and 10 interceptions, Graff cide it. Jaeger booted three field
next, beating them 43-7. The will probably think twice before goals against Indiana and also
Badgers signaled their desire to ---~ ~~ ~IE~N~~
play, though, as the game ended
in a mass free-for-all. G
Then came Iowa. E
Wisconsin had not wn a game
Oklahoma
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Neil Graff
KEON STARS
Toronto snaps Boston streak
fy The Associated Press
TORONTO -- Toronto stormed
from behind and snapped Boston's
unbeaten string at seven with a
4-2 National Hockey League vic-
tory Wednesday night.
The Bruins grabbed a quick lead'
on Ken Hodge's second goal of the
season with just 28 seconds gone;
in the first period. But Toronto's
Murray Oliver matched that less
than a minute later, and teammate
Jim McKenny gave the Maple
Leafs the lead for good with his
iarker at 17:21 of the second per-
iod.
Ron Ellis made it 3-1 in the
opening minutes of the final ses-
sion before Wayne Cashman scor-
ed the Bruins other goal.
Dave Keon finished out Toron-
to's scoring with the most spec-
tacular goal of the night. He took
a pass from Floyd Smith at the
Boston blueline, skated past Dallas
Smith and then went into to beat
goalie Gerry Cheevers.
hand shot early in the third period
and Rod Seiling added an open net
goal in the final seconds to give
the New York Rangers a 3-1 vic-
tory over the Pittsburgh penguins
in a National Hockey League game
Wednesday night.
With the score tied 1-1 at 2:44
of the final period Thaczuk took a
pass from winger Dave Balon and
rammed the puck past goalie Al
Smith to put the Rangers in front.
The Rangers, 4-3-1 took the
lead at 7:09 of the first period
when rookie Bill Fairbarn tipped
in a rebound of defenseman Jim
Nielson's shot.
Boston
Montreal
New York
Detroit
Toronto
Chicago
St. Louis
Minnesota
Oakland
Eastern Division
WL T
6 1, 1
323
4 3 1
3 1 2
3 2 2
3 3 1
Pt. GF GA
13 27 14I
9 27 221
9 20 23
8 16 14
7 19 151
3 12 22I
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Philadelphia 1 1 44
Pittsburgh 1 4 3
Los Angeles 2 4 0
Yesterday's Results
Minnesota 4, Montreal 1
Toronto 4, Boston 2
New York 3, Pittsburgh 1
Detroit at Los Angeles, inc.
Chicago at Oakland, Inc.
in 23 tries and playing against
the nation's No. 2 offensive team,
prospects looked good for the
streak to continue. But effective
defense finally came into Coach
Coatta's life.j
802 MONROE
Friday, Oct. 31-
NOON LUNCHEON 25c
Speaker: MARTY McLAUGHLIN
President SGC
(Series: "The Guild Grill")
at the conle
HOMECOMI
"REGENTS
Philadelphia crushes Baltimore
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By The Associated Press
BALTIMORE - The Philadel-
phia 76ers pulled away from a
sluggish Baltimore team in the
third quarter Wednesday night
and crushed the Bullets 129-105
in a National Basketball Associ-
ation game.
Rangers win
PITTSBURGH-
zuk slammed in a
Hal Greer led the 76ers with 32
points while connecting on 14 of
23 shots from the floor, and Jim;
Washington scored 25.
Bill Cunningham scored 23 for
Philadelphia despite an off-nighta
from the floor, where he sank on-
ly eight of 20 shots. But the rugged'
forward was credited with 20 re-
bounds and six assists-the same
number recorded by guard Wally
Jones.
New York
Detroit
Baltimore
Milwaukee
Detroit
Cincinnati
Boston
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ision
W L Pct. GB
8 1 .889 -
4 1 .800 2
4 3 .571 3
4 3 .571 3
' 3 .400 3
2 4 .333 47~
1 4 .200 5
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Walter Tkac-
10-foot back-
Drvsdule sued for divorce;
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San Francis
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Chicago
E-Phoenix
Philadelphia, playing without SanD iego
Red J ings trade one for one the injured Luke Jackson, blew wattle
two 10-point leads in the first half Phiadeli
By The Associated Press before taking the advantage for Atlanta 117
0 SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A divorce suit filed by Don Drys- keeps on a basket by Greer early chicago at
dale's wife contends the 33-year-old former pitcher for the Los Angeles in the third quarter which made
Dodgers beat her on numerous occasions. it 69-68. E
She alleges she was subjected to assault and battery 30 separate Carolina
times, most recently last Wednesday and, according to her attorney, Rockets dropped Kentucky
Roaul Magana, is seeking a restraining order to prevent any future ATLANTA - Joe Caldwell and Indiana
violence. Bill Bridges scored 18 points be- P ottsburg
Mrs. Drysdale estimates her husband's annual income from base- tween them in the final period Miami
ball, television and promotions exceeds $160,000 and that they have Wednesday night and fired At-W
more than $500,000 i communty popety. lanta to a 117-113 victory over Dallas
moretha $50,00 i comuniy popety.Los Angeles
San Diego in a National Basketball W~ashingtoni
Assocationgame.New tOrleais
0 RED WINGS - The Detroit Red Wings completed a one-for- Assoidas had1me. hNewverl
Bi'idg esha 10 of the points 1I Denvter:
one trade with Pittsburgh Tuesday by sending defenseman Mike and Caldwell put the Hawks aheadI Ye
McMahon to the Penguins for left winger Billy Dea. to stay at 106-104 on a short jump Indiana 129
A four-year NHL veteran, McMahon was the leading defense- shot with 5:50 left. Kentucky I
man in the NHL's west division while playing for Minnesota in- -- - - - -
1estern Division
;co3 1 .75
5 2 .71
4 3 .57
3 3 .50
5 5 .28
1 4 .20
0 6 .00
sterday's Results
a 129, Baltimore 105
, San Diego 113
San Francisco, inc.
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sterday's Results
99, Miami 92?
9, Pittsburgh 113
22, Dallas 119
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9 NEW YORK --Steve Carlton of the St. Louis Cardinals and
Rico Petrocelli of the Boston Red Sox were named winners of the
monthly balloting for the Van Heusen outstanding achievement award.
Others gaining votes from a panel of sports writers were Tommy
Harper of Seatlle, Bob Moose of Pittsburgh, Wayne Granger of Cin-
cinnati, Hank Aaron of Atlanta and Bobby Bonds of San Francisco.
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