PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29,1966 PAGE SIX TIlE MICflIE~AN BAIIV SATURDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1966 I Field Narrows in Rose Bowl Race By The Associated Press LAFAYETTE - Quarterbacks Bob Griese of Purdue and Bob' Naponic of Illinois may keep the football in the air most of the time as the two teams battle to- day for second place in the Big Ten. The winner will be a big step closer to the Big Ten's Rose Bowl; bid, undefeated Michigan State being ineligible for the trip be- cause of having gone last year. Griese, a senior with seven of Purdue's career records wrapped up, has completed 81 of 133 pass- es this season for 987 yards and five touchdowns, with five inter- ceptions. He has gained 139 yards on 41 keeps and has scored two touchdowns. Naponic, a sophomore who had to win his job after the season started, has completed 44 of 96 passes for 606 yards and three touchdowns, with only one inter-' ception. morale factors are different. It retically remaining in contention wasn't the Boilermakers' first de- for a Rose Bowl bid denied this feat, and it didn't knock them out season to Michigan State. of the running for the Rose Bowl. Any hope for what would be an The Bowl incentive is there for incredible upset today, rests main- Illinois, too. At 2-1 the Illini ly with Northwestern's aerial match Purdue in the Big Ten game with quarterback Bill Mel- standings, and the winner will be zer probing the powerful Spartan a solid favorite to start 1967 in defense with shots to a pair of Pasadena. good receivers, Roger Murphy and Cas Banaszek. Spartans-Wildcats Murphy has 29 catches for 472 yards and Banaszek 19 for 172. EVANSTON - Heavily-favored, The Wildcat running game perk- Michigan State, pursuing a perfect ed up against Iowa with sopho- Big Ten title defense and the na-|more Chico Kurzawski blooming tion's No. 1 berth, meets faintly, as a sharp mate to veteran ball- Rose Bowl hopeful Northwestern carriers Bob McKelvey and Woody in the crippled Wildcats' Home- Campbell. coming football game today. Awesome Offense MSU's Spartans drubbed for- However, Northwestern's injury- midable Purdue 41-20 for their hobbled defense is confronted by sixth straight victory last Satur- a Spartan attack which has rolled day, but still failed to wrest back up 1,269 yards rushing and 627 from Notre Dame the top spot in the AP's national poll. Thus Northwestern, with an -Daily-Andy Sacks CAPTAIN JACK CLANCY MAKES ONE OF THE PATENDED CATCHES which have made him the Big Ten's leading receiver with 24 catches for 310 yards and two touchdowns in three games. Cla,ney leads the nation with 50 grabs for 691 yards in six games. STAR-STUDDED CAST: Best in the West' Meet Badgers Today Other End overall 2-3-1 record, doesn't expect The key man at the other end the Spartans to have buttons on of the passing game have been their spears in seeking to swell Jim Beirne of Purdue and John their conference mark to 5-0 and Wright of Illinois, a pair of fine cut as fancy a figure as Notre ends. Each tied a school record Dame may do against Navy. last week with 11 catches.! Will Know Score For the season Beirne has The Irish-Navy result from caught 39 tosses for 460 yards and Philadelphia will be posted well four touchdowns. Wright has 42 before the end of the struggle in catches for 591 yards and three ;Northwestern's Dyche Stadium. touchdowns. Until the big Nov. 19 battle be- Illinois will be hoping for a tween Michigan State and Notre repetition of history, 1965 edition- Dame at East Lansing, coach A year ago Purdue went to Duffy Daugherty is concerned Champaign still down from a loss over a possible Spartan letdown in at Michigan State, which had three successive tilts with Big Ten spoiled the Boilermakers' unde- underdogs. feated season and dimmed their After Northwestern, currently hopes for the Big Ten champion- 1-1-1 in conference play, Michigan ship and the Rose Bowl trip. Illi- State meets Iowa 0-4 and Indiana nois won 21-0. Rosey Picture u e,'s rreame warning passing in six games. Top MSU rusher, fullback Bob Apisa, has averaged 5.3 yards per carry and scored eight touchdowns in a ver- satile attack directed by Jimmy Raye, an exceptional runner and sharp passer. Michigan State has won seven straight games from Northwestern, last season skinning the Wildcats 49-7 en route to a perfect 10-0, regular season. Hawkeyes-Hoosiers IOWA CITY-Two years and 16 long Big Ten games ago Iowa scratched out a 21-20 victory over Indiana at Bloomington. The Hawkeyes will have to re- peat that victory performance when the two collide here today or tie a Big Ten record for consecu-, tive defeats. Iowa is only one game shy of the record of 17 straight league defeats inflicted on Northwestern back in 1913-15. However, Coach Ray Nagel, dub- bing himself an "eternal opti- mist," says he thinks there is a pretty good chance the Hawkeyes may reverse their futility trend. Happy Loss Encouraged by Iowa's perform- ance in a 24-15 loss to North- western - which the Hawkeyes broke a four-game scoring drought -Nagel said he felt "we have a chance to beat Indiana . . if we can keep our momentum of the fourth quarter of the Northwest- ern game" going. Indiana not only will have to battle Iowa. but also a rash of in- juries. Several key players on the Hoosier defense are expected to see limited, if any duty, and var- ious injuries have removed from the offense No. 2 fullbAck Jim Smith, halfback Terry Cole, guard Tom Schuette, end Rick Spickard and center Harold Mauro. Indiana is 1-1-1 in the Big Ten but 1-4-1 overall. Iowa, 1-5 over- all, holds a 20-11-4 edge in the series. * * * {S U-Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS - The Minne- sota Gophers return home follow- ing a 49-0 pasting from Michigan last Saturday to face the Buck- eyes of Ohio State today in a regionally-televised game. OSU won its first Big Ten game last week with a come-from-be- hind triumph over Wisconsin, 24- 13. The Buckeyes' conference rec- ord stands at 1-2 and they are 2-3 overall. Minnesota is tied with three other Big Ten teams with a 1-1-1 mark and is 2-3-1 in all games. The game will mark the first Buckeye trip to Minnesota since 1950 and the visitors have been installed as one-touchdown favo- rites in the contest. Coach Woody Hayes' team features a huge of- fensive line averaging 234 pounds and a strong running game led by Paul Hudson. The Gophers will be trying to rebound from last week's disaster at Michigan when their three quarterbacks could combine for only six pass completions in 25 attempts. Neither team can be counted out of the running yet for the Rose Bowl, although the hopes for either are pretty dim. v 4 Purdue lost to M~ichigan Stat again last week, but most of th 'Miam-i Stops UijSC, 10 -7 By The Associated Press te about Northwestern which has lost he five different starters for the sea- son because of injuries was: "This is the kind of club which. can ex- plode and. beat anybody." Roses Possible Northwestern won its first Big Ten game last Saturday from Iowa 24-15, tied Wisconsin 3-3 and lost to Indiana 26-14, thus theo- MIAMI-The Miami Hurricanes NATIONAL OUTLOOK: parlayed a mighty defense and theN* bullish running of Doug McGee into a 10-7 victory last night over fifth-ranked and previously un- beaten Southern California. In two smashes from the Trojan 'il's Square Of f 1o, lvlcuee was across for a sourm sr he Associated Press -Daily-Andy Sacks BIG TEN PACE-SETTER THROUGH THE AIR, Dick Vidmer lets fly (above) with one of his accurate aerials. Vidmer currently leads the league with 46 completions in 85 attempts for 598 yar ds and six touchdowns. period touchdown that gave the Hurricanes their second win in, three games over an undefeated power- They inflicted the first defeat on Georgia two weeks ago. Miami took a 3-0 lead in the second period on a 28-yard field goal by Ray Harris but fell be- hind just before halftime whenj Southern California scored on a 17-yard pass from Rod Sherman to Ron Drake. Wasted Chances Numerous scoring opportunities were wasted by the Hurricanes They moved twice to the Trojan six and once to the 13 and gained only three points from the com~i- bined effort. As the No. 1 quarterbacir Bill Miller failed consistently to get his team across, David Olivo re- placed him in the third l)eriod and led Miami to the winning touch- down on the first play of the last quarter. Then the Miami defense, which had contained Southern California almost all the way, became even tougher, clobbering every offen- sive attempt by the Trojans the rest of the way. -- With Notre Dame and Michigan State having the next best thing to a week off, attention on the college football front might rea- sonably shift to the Southwest Conference where two critical names will be played today. Thy Irish, top team in the coun- try, plays a lackluster Navy squad at Philadelphia and the No. 2 Spartans begin a three-week set against weak Big Ten clubs, play- in- Northwestern.j But Southwest Conference fans ,ill be treated to a:i unusual situ-. Ation where, the only two unde- : atcd teams in league competi- tion will be small underdogs in tough games. Surprising Texas A&M, 3-0 in the conference and 3-2 over-all plays Arkansas, No. 9 in the coun- try, which lost to Baylor three weeks ago. And SMU, 2-0 in the SWC and 4-1 altogether, meets Texas, 2-1 in the league and 3-3 overall. Favored to Lose Both Texas A&M and SMU, de- spite their records, are figured to lose by those who decide these things, but if they should win the battle will be joined next week when they meet in the Cotton Bowl. But if the oddsmakers are right, the conference race would be an incredible five-way tangle partic- ularly if highly regarded Baylor, upset by Texas A&M last week, beats TCU as expected. Further adding to the football madness in Texas is the schedule which has SMU at Texas in Austin in an afternoon game and Texas AArMat Aknna at nnr 3 in total offense with 3,327 yards and No. 4 in total offense with 3,327 yards and, No. 4 in passing with 137 completions. Alabama, No. 4 is a prohibitive favorite over Mississippi State. Georgia Tech, No. 6 could get a good battle from Duke, which is rebouding from a 33-7 thrashing by North Carolina State last week. Seventh-ranked Florida is a two- touchdotvn favorite over Auburn. Missouri, 4-1, could give eighth- ranked Nebraska, unbeaten this season, a rough game. The Corn- huskers are favored by a touch- down. Wyoming, No. 10 with a 6-0 record, meets Colorado State. Other major games include Tennessee- Army, Georgie-North Carolina, Kansas State-Kansas, LSU-Mississippi, Penn State-Cali- fornia, S t a n f o r d-Washington, Yale-Darmouth, Syracuse-Pitts- burgh Wake Forest-Clemson, Vanderbilt-Tulane, Oregon State- Washington State and West Vir- ginia-Kentucky. It -SCORES PRO BASKETBALL San Francisco 105, Baltimore 104 Detroit 129, Chicago 117 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Miami (Fla) 10, Southern Calif. 7 MICH. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Battle Creek Cen. 26, Ann Arbor 13 UNORGANIZED PUBLICATIONS LEAGUE D~aily 20, SGC 12" 0 arm and Ar ansas at conege Station-112 miles away-five and one-half hours later at night. Many fans are expected to rush from one stadium to the other. B illboar Rice and Texas Tech clash in # the only SWC game that doesn't figure to have a bearing on the The Michigan LaCrosse Club's conference race. scheduled match with Michigan Meanwhile State today has been called off Third-rated UCLA faces the Air by MSU and has not be re- Force Academy, which has beaten scheduled. The Spartans, who the Bruins in three of the last defeated the Wolverines, 7-4, four years, but ought to have its earlier this month in East Lans- troubles with Gary Beban and ing, gave no reason for the. can- Mel Farr. cellation. The Bruins are led by Gary* * Beban and Mel Farr, who are . The Michigan Rugby Club finding cozy niches in the UCLA will travel to East Lansing to- football record book. day to face the Michigan State Beban, a junior quarterback, has Ruggers at 3 p.m. The Wolver- played just 17 varsity games, but ines defeated the Spartans 3-0 already is ranked No. 3 among earlier this year in a conference Bruin scorers with 130 points, No. game. -Daily-Thomas R. Copi JIM DETWP ER RAMS THROUGH AN OPENING in the Minnesota line, above, in the style which has vaulted him into a tie for the Big Ten scoring lead with MSU's Bob Apisa. Both players have TD's, though Apisa has played one more game. H.I.S. Sweaters available at WI'D'S State Street on the Campus - SWEATERS GALORE for MORE and MORE STOP BY TODD'S . _.:- -...:,. .r., :? :: " .. .. :; :...-_ -._-- - _ ._ :_ re :.-:: ....:.-a; . ccfs s<=ii <;.. ::>?: nta .: .... .;ate .:Gi::