SPORTS SPECIAL itFAO -416F 4EI IJL A- a t SPORTS SPECIAL Seventy-Four Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXV, No. 86 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, 7 JANUARY 1965 0 0 HOW THE WEST WAS WON: r erines op oses, ubber ' .; ' ers, 7 Long Runs Spark Offense; Anthony Ties Bowl Record 'M' Gridders Post Perfect Record In Four Rose Bowl Appearances By BILL BULLARD Sports Editor Special To The Daily PASADENA-Michigan's Big Ten Champions rolled through an outmanned Oregon State de- fense with a crushing 332-yard rushing attack for a 34-7 victory here New. Year's Day in a Rose Bowl contest critics immediately termed a mis- -Daily-Jim Lines IT'S OVER THE TOP for six points as fullback Mel Anthony tallies his second TD of the day to set the score at 20-7 over Oregon State. Leading the way is center Brian Patchen. The touchdown was set up after Bob Mielke blocked a Beaver punt and Anthony pounced on the loose ball at the Ore- gon State 15. z i Sagers Upset p By BOB LEDERER + Special To The Daily NEW YORK-Squandering a 16-point lead with only 9:36 to play, the Michigan Wolverines fell victims to a spirited St. John's rally and suffered a 75-74 defeat in the finals of the Holiday Festival Basketball Tournament held last week in Madison Square Garden. Prior to meeting St. John's, the Wolverines had defeated Manhattan 90-77 in the first round and had topped Princeton 80-78 in the semifinals. The other teams in the tournament were Cincinnati, Syracuse, LaSalle, and Temple. A capacity crowd of 18,499 filled the Garden last Satur- day night for the tripleheader finale. LaSalle defeated Syra- cuse 73-70 for fifth place, and -------- - Four By TOM WEINBERG So who's Nebraska? Two nights after the disastrous last-second 74-73 loss at Nebraska, the then- second-ranked Michi- gan Wolverines pulled off one of their own by shocking Wichita, 87-85 Dec. 14 at Cobo Hall to trade places in the national rank- ings. Cazzie Russell's 30-foot game- match. Criticism of Oregon State's selection as the West Coast representative to face Michigan reach- ed new heights after the Wolverines dominated the game in almost every possible way. Michigan had been heavily favored to win but the decisive- ness of the one-sided triumph left the Beavers stuilnned. Beaver quarterback Paul Brothers, who was dumped for 33 yards - worth of losses, said after his for the breaks. In the first ordeal, "I hope I never have half, punter Len Frketich was to go through another after- ordered to punt on third down noon like that one." twice and once on a second down. But fullback Mel Anthony's 84- Oregon State Coach Tommy Iward touchdown run and Carl Prothro's attempted strategem Ward's 43-yard scoring scamper was to hold back the Wolver- smashed such hopes before the ines with his defense and wait half was over. Once the flood-' gates were open, Anthony scored -_-twice more in the third quarter to earn the most valuable player of the game award and quarter- back Bob Timberlake added the final touchdown with a 24-yard bulldozing ramble. Coach Bump Elliott, unanimous- ly awarded the game ball by his players, commented, "Anthony's run gave us the momentum to go. It gave us a spark and a chance to get moving. We gained the momentum and it started to snow-' ball. The second big play of the game for us was the punt Bob Mielke blocked in the second half." Mielke, a sophomore guard, knocked down the attempted kick winning jumper fired just before and Anthony fell on it at the the buzzer at Detroit was a con-a trast to the behind-the-back Oregon State 15-yard line. Six deseraionbucet hron i byplays later Anthony scored the Nebraska's Fred Hare as the Corn- Michigan touchdown from huskers stunned their visitors one yard out and the Wolverines from the ranks of the undefeated. soon led 20-7 after Timberlake's Having played two hair-raisers run for the two-point conversion. in three nights, Coach Dave Punt Key Strack's Wolverines took a break Offensive line coach Bob Holl- way had noticed in Oregon State See CAZZIE'S, Page 2 game films that the Beaver cen- ter would pick the ball off the ground before passing it back to the punter. This gave the Michi- gan defenders something to look for and a jump on their usual rush. End coach Jocko Nelson' designed the rushing pattern which enabled Mielke to block the punt and several other Wolverines to get a piece of the punter. "I said before the game that Michigan was the best team I had seen this year in person, on film, or on TV and I'm more im- pressed than ever after playing them," Prothro commented after the game. Prothro, engaging in some psy- chological warfare, had constant- ly been trying to build Michigan up in pre-game statements. "We kx .