Thursdo, Octohr 3. 19,9 T THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine . ljul y L l W 4 I I 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 ,, ii l 'r J 1 k j I ! i i : 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 / FM1TD 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 A R n Whiting on WAR- and 'RAFT Elusion of NG PARADE PLAZA" 8 8 7 6 5 4 22 23 15 10 16 12 16 19 22 13 20 17 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 I A 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 N B A Eastern Div . ision W L Pct. 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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. 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