SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN SUNDAY; OCTOBER 17, 1965 TUE MICHIGAN DAILY a as Vi a! -l r J".L q LLOYD GRAFF Griese's Passes, Kicks Beat G1 / lrl Kaid :Who Was Too Small for The Irish' Bob Griese minus pads, protection, and pigskin reminds you of the kid who used to live down the street or maybe the guy you met at a party and thought you knew before. n He has the kind of face that melts into a ,mass, short clipped russet hair, ruddy cherubic complexion, unbroken nose, and the pleasant demeanor of an outgoing clergyman. Griese is about as ungreasy as they ;come. After watching this demon, this wretch, this crumby ratfink of a Purdue passer-runner-kicker annihilate a Michigan team that put on an almost chilling exhibition of ram and cram defensive football, I expected to meet a nine-footer with a size ten head. I shqok his hand harder than he shook mine. Bob Griese is awfully smallish. At 6', 180, he's too little to be a F good major college quarterback, or at least, that's what the Notre Dame folks said when they studied him at Evansville Cum Laude high school four years ago! The Irish couldn't stomach a runty quarterback ,but Purdue and Jack Mollenkopf figured they could take a flyer on the pipsqueak because if he couldn't make it on the giidiron with the brawny men he was good enough to play guard on the basketball team.' Well, the little squirt made it big in football, ask Bump Elliott, Ara Parseghian, or anybody who knows quarterbacks. Or ask his catcher, Bob Hadrick. Summer Practice . , . "Bob and I went to summer school this year and three times a week we'd work out together after classes. He'd throw until it was dark. I'd get tired and want to give up and he'd say 'Bob, c'mon just another half hour or so.' He's really improved this year. Now he can look for more than one receiver and he's so much more consistent." Hadrick calls Griese a better all around quarterback than his old battery mate Ron DiGravio, one of the top Big Ten quarterbacks of his time. Another Griese fan named Mollenkopf concurs. The statistics on this fellow who was too little for Notre Dame are not good-they're slightly stupendous. He's completed 88 of 133, passes this season, a .662 percentage even with today's off day of 22 for 38. In the total offense department he shows 1151-yds. or around two thirds of a mile. That's in five games. As a team Michigan has a total offense of 1452 yds. But Griese doesn't just pass and run-a lot of little guys do that pretty well-he kicks too. He booted a couple extra points yesterday, and a field goal you couldn't forget if you wanted to. In other words, Griese simply wins. Now this runt Griese doesi't chew tobacco and growl like a common villain should. He isn't rude and arrogant. He's intolerably polite. Little kiddies cling to him and beg for his autograph and he doesn't thrust their pencils back into their innocent faces. And big kiddies cling to him and ask stupid questions and he answers them honestly and intelligently. He even has modesty and a sense of humor. No Busy Signals .. . This Griese kid tries to dodge publicity not bathe in it. He went so far as disconnecting his phone in Lafayette to avoid enterprising reporters. Rather than boasting about his passing after the game he praised his receivers, Bob Hadrick, Jim Bierne, and Jim Finley in the dressing room. He regards Hadrick as some passers regard luck. "Some days you have Hadrick and other days you don't," said Bob. Griese, like any passer who just set a school record for completions for the third time in a month, was quite critical of his own performance. "In the first half I played badly because I was concentrating completely on Hadrick who was well covered by Volk. You can't look for just one man." Griese's 18 completions in the second half indicate his flexibility. Now I rather expected a great passer would be particularly proud of his kicking, like a twenty-game winner would rather hold forth on his one double of the year, than on his six shutouts. But Griese wouldn't fit the stereotype. I asked him what he figured his field goal range was. "That 35 yards was my range," he quipped. That's Bob Griese. Michigan didn't think him too small for big-time football. By JIM TINDALL How vile is the taste left when you watch the ball plop over the goalposts by a foot after playing your guts out for 59 minutes? How bitter is the disappoint- ment of putting everything to- gether on Saturday afternoon and having somebody kick the victory right out of your fingers? This week it wasn't fumbles, in- terceptions, and broken plays that beat the Wolverines by a 17-15' score. It was a kid named Bob Griese. Large Scale Operator Heruns, he passes, he quick- kicks, he punts, he takes tickets, he runs the scoreboard, and he wins games with fieldgoals. For the second week in a row Purdue has remained unbeaten, and in the national rankings, thanks to Griese's right toe. Last week he kicked one early in the fourth quarter to provide a 17-14 victory margin over Iowa. This week he kicked Michigan right in the teeth with a boot from the 25-yard line that travelled 35 yards, 12 inches in the air. Sure there are two solid backs named Gordon Teter and Randy Minniear, but what good is a run- ning game if you can't keep the defense honest with a passing attack. No matter how you spell 1965 Purdue football, it comes out G-R-I-E-S-E. Michigan held a 15-14 lead with seven minutes left, but the Wol- verines had to give the ball up on downs with four minutes left in the game giving Griese the stage for his grand finale. Controls with Coolness The junior quarterback calmly' took the helm on the seven-yard line and started to pass, and pass, and pass. Michigan's defense near- ly stopped the drive, but with third and three Minniear rammed over tackle for a five yard gain giving the Boilermakers a first down on the Michigan 44. Four plays later Griese was spilled by Hoyne for a seven yard loss setting up a second and 18 situation. Second down was a pass thrown out ofnbounds to stop the clock. That gave Coach Jack Mol- lenkopf a chance to send in a play and wound up in an 11 yard gain. ferent individual tacklers and two This was the key play for it put Boilermakers attempting a gang Griese inside his field goal range tackle, and danced his way into the which he readily admits is only end zone for Michigan's first TD. about 35 yards. The point after was blocked for With fourth and six and 55 sec- the first time this year. onds showing on the clock, the Michigan stopped Purdue's only- triple - threat All - America back scoring threat of the quarter on dropped back and kicked the win- the six yard line after the touch- ning three points with a foot to down, and got close enough in the spare. last seconds to attempt another Griese's play was hardly spec- field goal. At no point in thefirst, tacular in the first half, and a half was Purdue able to move the hungry Michigan team hit like ball on the ground, and eight of they are able to hit. The Wolver- Griese's 16 aerials went awry. ines dominated play and moved Michigan Hangs On To It the ball into fieldgoal range the It was Purdue, and not Mich- first two times they had the ball; igan that fumbled three times. It however, one Rick Sygar boot was was Purdue that had a pass in-- short while the other was wide. tercepted and not the Wolverines. Praises Defense It was a Michigan half. The Wol- The defense played a "great verines wanted this game. They game," according to Coach Bump wanted it bad. They were holding Elliott, and it was especially on defense and moving the ball tough in the first period when it on offense. They were a team. stubbornly refused to allow Pur- Enter Griese in the final act. due a completed pass or a first Purdue elected to receive and down. Teter almost got away on the Michigan took the ball on its kickoff return, but was tackled own seven to start the second from behind by Jeff Hoyne. quarter, but had to punt. Teter Griese was smeared on his first called for a fair catch but watched pass attempt but then completed Jack Clancy bearing down on him four out of five in the fabled instead of the ball and fumbled Griese fashion for Purdue's first on Purdue's 27-yard line where score. His final flip in that drive Clancy pounced on the ball. was another down-and-in to Fin- Finds Paydirt ley good for 24 yards. Griese's kick Two plays later Carl Ward was good and the 7-6 margin look- headed through a hole off of left ed as if it might be the game for tackle, bounced off of three dif- a few minutes. I Big Ten Standings Conference Michigan State Purdue Minnesota Wisconsin. Ohio State Northwestern Illinois MICHIGAN Iowa Indiana W 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 L 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .333 .000 .000 .000 PF 78, 34 56 37 35 27 60 22 30 31 PA 26 29 21 20 46 21 63- 31 47 96 W 5 4 2 2 2 2 2 27 1 1 L 0 0 2 ,. 2 3 3 3 4 4 All Games T PF PA 0 114 29 1 111 64 1 95 72 1 43 83 0 61 81 0 63 90 0 112 75 0 62 80 0 57 61 0 62 129 Sure there are other guys on from the bench that had not been that team. He has three excellent attempted in a game all year. He receivers in Bob Hadrick, Jim Fin- called for a screen pass to Teter. ley, and Jim Beirne, but those Off Guard sticky hands aren't worth anything The play caught Michigan con- if the ball doesn't get to them. I'centrating on Hadrick and Finley Michigan ran three plays, then punted, and the Boilermakers were off again. This time a rough- ness penalty and four completed passes were the keys to the TD. The final play was a six-yard but- tonhook to Beirne in the end zone. Again Griese's foot was true. The Wolverines were never awed by the Purdue display of aerial power, and they proceeded to move the ball 18 yards in four plays before Gabler threw a beau- tiful pass that Clancy caught on, the 20 and carried into the end' zone. Two-Point Attempt Michigan had to go for the two points and the play sent in from the bench was the same one that had failed last year when Mich- igan suffered its only loss of the year, 21-20. Gabler rolled right on an option, decided to run, and was knocked out of bounds two feet before reaching the goal line. Losing;. 14-12, the defense rose up and stopped Purdue cold on the next series, and after Griese's punt the Wolverines started to' move the ball once again. Fullback Dave Fisher was a key man on the drive, carrying the ball seven times. The offensive machine was unable to score in three plays from the 10-yard line, and Elliott elect- ed to go for a one-yard field goal which was converted by Sygar. After the game Elliott said, "I have no regrets at all about going for the three points rather than the touchdown." Last Effort Fails After five Purdue plays th Michigan offense took over bit sputtered, gasped, and stalled on the Purdue 47-yard line. Stan Kemp kicked to the eight yard line with four minutes left. In retrospect Elliott said, "I thought that we had a real good chance to hold them when we punted then, but . .. He added, "Losing in the last minute was a bitter, bitter disap- pointment, bpt this team can never be ashamed, for an instant, of the way it played. I will never ask a team to give me more than these boys did today." Griese Passes by Wolvelrtnles MICH First Downs 22 Rushing 13 Passing7 Penalty 2 Total No. of Rushes 51 Net Tards-Rushing 171 Passing 137 Forward Passes Att. 29 Completed 9 Intercepted by 1 Yds. Interceptions ret. 0 Total Plays (Rushes and Passes) 80 Punts, No. 7 Average Distance 41 Kickoffs, returned by 4 Yds. Kicks Returned 87 Punts 26 Kickoffs 61 Fumbles, No. 1 Ball Lost by 0 Penalties, =No. 5 Yards Penalized 45 RUSHING Michigan Tries N Gabler 13 ; Sygar 2 Ward 12 5 Fisher 21 8 Rowser 3 1 Totals 51 17 Purdue Tries N Griese 13 -2 . PURDUE 19 6 il 2 30 27 ! 273 38 22 0 10 68 7 34 4 104 17 87 3 1 6 56 Ave. 0.7 4.0 4.6 4.2 3.3 3.4 Ave. -2.2 Teter Minn iear Totals Gabler Ward Totals Griese Clancy Smith Totals Finley Minniear Teter Hadrick Beirne Totals Kemp Griese Herrick Tot als 6 Ii 711 30 PASSING Michigan Att. 28 1 29 Purdue Att. 38 23 33 27 Comp. Yards 9 137 0 0 9 137 Comp,. Yards 22 273 PASS RECEIVING Michigan No. Yards 8 125 1 12 9 137 Purdue No. Yards 11 159 r 1 6 2 22 3 30 5 56 22 273 PUNTING Michigan No. Yards 7 284 Purdue No. Yards 6 209 1 40 3.8 3.0 0.9 Ave. 15.6 12.0 15.3 Ave. 14.5 6.0 11.0 10.0 11.2 12.4 Ave. 41 the Quaryic. AND NIKON, INC. 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