"SIX TIDE MICHIGAN DAILY THUlkSDAY, 7 JANUARY 196! Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, 7 JANUARY 1965 THE SPECTATOR by Tom Rowland Wolverines Best in Bands, Bombs and Pigs y 1 3 1 LA Sports Writers Beat Wolverines to the Punch ! "Oregon State wears these Halloween costumes--orange helmetsi that remind you of pumpkins and scary black pants that remindk ou of a horror movie. "Sue us for plagiarism if-a la Cinderella-the helmets and' what was in them didn't turn to real pumpkins in the second half. It was strictly for sadists. .." You think Michigan's 34-7 trouncing was a real blow to Oregon! State on Nw Year's Day? It was nothing compared to the blastingk given the Beavers by a crew of hearty Los Angeles sports writerst who didn't want it forgotten that their own Southern California should have been the West Coast representative.k The Los Angeles Times main headline after the game: "Michigank 34, AAWU3 Representative 7." And from the Herald-Examiner came "Rose Bowl: New Year's Fiasco." "Oregon State fielded a team against muscular Michigan in the Rose Bowl yesterday that was as helpless as a leaky-tiki on¢ the swollen Willamette River."k "We wipe a tear for those who had to watch the damn thing." "As for Oregon State . . . a team composed of the Rose Bowl queen and the Pacific Eight faculty representatives would have done as well." The Beavers were "hapless, unimpressive, flattened, helpless, engulfed, disembodied, bombed, barbecued, terrible and poor schnooks." The "Mad Dogs" of Oregon State turned into "Pooped Pouches,"! who "greeted the final gun with whimpering thanks." QuarterbackI Paul Brothers was a "scatter arm." Hmmmmm Hardly things you'd want to say about your grand-1 mother. Before the game, columnist Jim Murray gave his well-thought-out advice to the visiting Beavers, who' were definitely hard up for friends t: x<~tain Southern California: "Tell the boys not to put the pigs in that round thing, that's for taking a bath in. Tell the boys not to blow their noses with bandanas, and if they wear their high cuts, at least clean the meadow apples off them. "Have your wife sew numbers' on the uniforms,coach. We'llwant to identify your boys as they're carried off on stretchers" In the lockerroom after the COACH PROTHRO game, Oregon State coach Tommy Prothro stuck a tongue in cheek and made a meager counter-attack after somebody mentioned USC: No offense intended, but I think we could have beaten the hell out of the Los Angeles sportswriters today. But of course they're a ittle past their prime." Everybody laughed heartily, but the scribes were already on their way to the phones. Next morning in big head- ines: "Prothro's Bitter Joke: 'We'd Beat You'." Does it sound like n mans USC? And did Bob Timberlake really say that "Beavers Are Terrible," the headline in the Herald Examiner implied? No, but Carl Ward commented that "their tackling was lousy." The columnists didn't miss a trick. Bud Furillo in the Herald- Examiner claimed that the pig released onto the field in the first half las trying to show Oregon State the way to the goal line. "But it was too late. Unlike the pig, the Beavers already had the apple in their mouth and were being barbecued." It was a near-total job of bitter annihilation of the visiting "avers. Only Mel Anthony managed to edge a few kind words into he hostile columns: "They were a good, tough football team. A lot f people said they were rinky-dink, but they hit just as hard as iybody we've played." In the same line of adjectives, Sid Ziff of the Times: "The :core . . . could have been worse but Bump Elliott considerately ,lied his rinky-dinks in the fourth quarter." Ziff continues, "The kindly thing for Oregon State to have! mne was to have admitted the facts of life and declined the Rose owl invitation." It was Michigan 34, Oregon State, 7, but the real winner was he Los Angeles press-with a new record for the longest run at he mouth from scrimmage. (Continued from Page 1) mark of 1,395, which also includ- ed a Rose Bowl performance. Dripping wet out of a hot show- er, All-America tackle Bill Year-! by told reporters what a wedge is; in another corner Jim Detwil- er briefed a correspondent on the! facts of being a Rose Bowl half- back; and defensive back Rick Sy-! gar explained that the field really! wasn't as slippery as it looked. OSU Explanation Across the way, Oregon State Coach Tommy Prothro yelled for some one to keep the door shut, bit intona cord beef sandwich, and tried to explain to a hostile Los Angeles press why he'd just been beaten by 27 points. "They were better than I had anticipated," he commented. Prothro spent the game calling the plays from the press box, com- ing to the field only late in the game when second string quarter- back Gordon Queen replaced Paul Brothers. "Queen can call his own plays," quipped Prothro. In the background, two 240- pound tackles sang "Be Bop a Lula" in the shower room. Somebody commented that ."not! only did Michigan do all the pounding on the field, but the Wolverines won the battle of the bands, the rooting sections, the cheerleaders, and the pranks." In the last minute of the first half some one let loose a gray pig-with a big blue "M" painted on its side-and the porker imme- diately set a new Rose Bowl rec- ord for single run by pig with a 100-yard sprint down the length of the field. The "ham" was fin- ally downed by a fan. Bombs Away Andafter Michigan's fi r s t touchdown-the 84-yard run by Anthony-some one heaved a bril- liant yellow smoke bomb all the way to midfield in a throw that one reporter noted had beaten Dallas Long's shot put record by 15 feet. Michigan's band, all 206 of them, beat the Oregon State band on sheer numbers alone (OSU had 117-with 20 girls), but added a spectacular New Year's Day show to cap off a perfect season with' no losses. The Wolverines had an exciting time of it before meeting the Beavers. A week before the game tackle Tom Mack lost a contact lens at practice and had to have a spare shipped emergency via United Air Lines from Ann Arbor. Lawry's, the prime rib restau- rant, put on an all-you-can-eat feast for both teams, and the Wol- verines came home the victors by putting away 250 pounds of beef. Oregon State could manage only 230. All of which goes to prove something, for in the nine years that Lawry's has put on the din- ner, the team that consumed the most prime ribs went on to win the Rose Bowl. The Wolverines moved from their headquarters in the Hunt- ington-Sheraton, Pasadena, to the seclusion of a monastery in the hills to spend the evening before the game. Oregon State coach Prothro commented after the game that the Beaver strategy had been "*position" football, with a de-i fense that would keep Michigan deep in its own territory. In this aim, Prothro made frequent use of star Beaverhpunter Len Frketich, one of the boest in the nation. Kicking on second and third' downs, Frketich booted nine times at 44 yards a kick, incuding the one that Wolverine Bob Mielke shortened. -Daily-Jim Lines IT WAS ALL YOU CAN EAT, and Michigan's Bob Timberlake, right, and Rick Sygar dig into the prime rib dinner served up by Lawry's Restaurant in Los Angeles. 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