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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

SUNDAY, DECEMBER. 6, 1964

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By GIL SAMBERG
In 1964, Michigan bounced back
from a season tempered with frus-
tration and disappointment.
Last year the Wolverines hand-
ed Big Ten champ Illinois its only.
setback, but a defeat at the hands
of Ohio State left the Wolverines
with a losing record of 3-4-2 and a
tie for fifth place in the Big Ten.
In the '64 campaign, Bump El-
liott finally was reaping the re-
turns from two outstanding fresh-
man teams. Elliott's cautious pre-
season statements seemed tinged
with a feeling of optimism.
The Blue had an abundance of
veteran ends and a similar situa-
tion in the backfield where a whole
slew of sophomores had come to
challenge the letter-winners.
At first, the backfield was set as
almost a repeat of last year's
alignment, with halfback Carl
Ward the only newcomer.
Injuries Hurt
But when left half Jack Clancy
was sidelined for the season and
his replacement John Rowser was
also injured, this set the stage
for Jim Detwiler's debut-giving
the Wolverines two sophs in the
backfield.
But there were other troubles
in the preseason picture. Elliott
was working with an inexperienced
line which had questionable depth.
In addition, the Wolverines had a
defensive secondary with a repu-
tation, gained in the beginning of
the previous season when it too
was inexperienced, of giving up
key yardage to almost any passing
attack
Pre-season pundits had touted
the Big Ten dog fight to be among
Illinois, Ohio State, and Michi-
gan-finishing in that order. But
conference champ Illinois dropped
out of the contest early, and Pur-
due was suddenly the team to
beat.
The Wolverines entered the sea-
son with a new, wide-open run-
ning attack and the potential to
fulfill its promise.
Michigan State
The 57th meeting of the intra-
state rivals of Michigan was one
in which the Wolverines were
keyed up for a grudge match
against the team which they had
not beaten in nine years. It was
the first Big Ten game of the sea-
son for both.
This time the Blue mounted a

come-from-behind attack which
included the surprise play of the
season for the game-clinching
touchdown to stun the Spartans,
17-10.
It was not until midway through
the final period that the Michigan
offense exploded as Rick Sygar,
normally a defensive halfback, en-
tered the fray.
Taking a pitch-out from the
quarterback, Sygar rolled down to.
the 11 and two plays later carried
a swing pass to pay dirt, moving
Michigan to within a point, 10-9.
Going for Two,
Going for the two-pointer "to
win it there and then," Anthony
grabbed a pitch-out from Timber-
lake and squirmed to within a
hair's breadth of the goal line-
short.
The Blue defense, led in its
charge by tackle Bill Yearby, im-
mediately clamped down on the
Spartans, forcing them to punt.
Dick Rindfuss' return and a series
of runs brought the ball down to
MSU's 31-yard line.
. Then, with 2:33 remaining on
the scoreboard clock, Timberlake
handed off to Sygar as the back-
field rolled to its right. Hender-
son, split to the right, came in
towards the running action, faked
ai block on a Spartan linebacker,
and then broke downfield. Sygar
tossed to the wide open Hender-
son, who entered the end-zone un-
touched for the winning score.
Purdue
Coming to Ann Arbor with a
history of upsets against the ma-
jor Big Ten contenders, Purdue
was nevertheless regarded with a
hidden smile when its team was
called the 'Spoilermakers." Mich-
igan seemed to be just too strong.
But in the end it was Purdue,
outdone in every statistical cate-
gory by a tremendous Wolverine
offensive attack of 433 yards,
that handed Michigan its first and
only loss of the season in squeak-
ing out a 21-20 decision.
At first it seemed that there
would be no upset on that Satur-
day. Michigan's first play from
scrimmage was a repeat of the
halfback pass used to beat MSU
the previous week. Dick Rindfuss,
alternating with Ward, Detwiler,
Sygar, and Volk at the halfback
spot, fired a spiral to Detwiler,
who stretched it into a 46-yard
play. Seven plays later, Timber-
lake rolled around end for the

-Daily-Jim Lines
A KEY OFFENSIVE PLAY used by the Wolverines all year was the option pitchout with Bob Tim-
berlake either keeping or lateraling to another back. Here against Michigan State, the senior quar-
terback elects to pitch to Mel Anthony, Michigan's leading ground gained., Anthony sweeps end
avoiding a desperation tackle by Spartan guard Rahn Bentley. The Wolverines went on to win, 17-10.

score.
It was not until late in the first
quarter that Purdue soph quarter-l
back Bob Griese tied it up with a
66-yard bomb to halfback Jim
Morel, the first long touchdown
strike to be thrown against the
Blue secondary this year.
In the third period, it took
Griese 11 plays to go 78 yards for
the go-ahead tally on a pass to
fullback Randy Minniear. The fi-
nal quarter was hot and thick
with Michigan's frantic attacks.
After pushing to the Boilermaker
11, Detwiler found a hole off right
tackle and drove to the three-yard
line where he lost hold of the pig-
skin as it rolled into the end-zone.
At first it looked as though Hen-
derson had recovered it for a
touchdown. But in the end it was
Purdue defenseman Harold Wells
who had possession of the ball,
and perhaps the outcome of the
game.
Only a few plays later, Michi-
gan had possession once more and
Timberlake rolled around end and

er finish.
After receiving Timberlake's
kick-off, Minnesota quarterback
John Hankinson completed four
of five passes to move the Gophers
quickly to the Wolverine 11. Kent
Kramer snared the next Hankin-
son fireball for the TD. An at-
tempt at a two-point conversion
failed.
Timberlake then engineered an-
other Blue drive down to the Go-
pher 18. But a pass intended for
Craig Kirby was picked off by
Minnesota halfback Kraig Lof-
quist, who streaked past the
stunned Michigan offensive team
and was gone down the sidelines
for a 91-yard touchdown.
After a punt by Stan Kemp
dribbled off the side of his foot,
the Gophers moved the ball to the
seven yard line with a first and
goal situation. With 4:21 remain-
ing, fullback Mike Reid was
stopped in his tracks on a run off
the left side. Then Hankinson was
brought down on the five by Cap-
tain and defensive end Jim Con-

yield an inch as the season was
really beginning to get tight. The
Buckeyes barely pulled out a 21-
19 win over Iowa, as Purdue
downed Illinois 26-14.
Illinois
The annual meeting of the El-
liott brothers came to what by
now may be considered a predict-
able ending, as Bump's Wolver-
ines rapped the Illini for the sixth
straight year, 21-6, over national
TV.
After almost a quarter of shaky,
ineffective play, the Wolverines.
pulled in their first score on a
dash by Ward.
Later, following Fred Custardo's
game tying bomb to end Bob
Ti'umpy, but missed extra point,
Timberlake put on a passing at-
tack which climaxed in. a 24-yard
toss to Detwiler in the end zone.
The senior quarterback, in his last
appearance in Michigan Stadium,.
later went over with a one-yard
sneak for the last tally of the
game. %
Bump Elliott pointed out the
help that his sophomore punter
Stan Kemp provided in putting
the ball inside Illinois' 15-yard
line four times during. the after-
noon.
That week, the fates began to
move as fast as the Big Ten race.
A stadium of spectators and the
Michigan bench went wild when
the P.A. announcer reported that
Michigan State had helpfully up-
set Purdue 21-7 at East Lansing.
Ohio State lost its first game of
the year, but in a non-conference
duel with Penn State. There were

now possibilities, and the scent of
roses drifted into Ann Arbor.
Iowa
In a tussle at Iowa City marked
as a duel between then All-Ameri-
ca candidates Bob Timberlake and
Gary Snook, a bucket of errors
plagued both teams, two Big Ten
passing records were set, Michi-
gan won the game 34-20, and Tim-
berlake took an easy decision.
,What stopped Iowa was the con-
tainment of Snook's aerial attack.
The third leading passer in the
nation was "held" to 170 yards,
completing only 13 of 37 tries. But.
his completions allowed him to
break two Big Ten records.
"I think that Michigan Is at
least on a par with Ohio State de-
fensively," commented Hawkeye
Coach Jerry Burns after the game.
"And offensively Michigan is bet-
ter than the Buckeyes."
Ohio State won its fifth straight
conference game, beating North-
western 10-0. But Purdue was
knocked out of contention for the
Big Ten crown when a fired-up
Minnesota squad tripped them,
14-7, setting up the winner-take-
all battle between Michigan, and'
OSU which would determine
whether Burns was right.
TheOhio, State"
The chips were down, the tefn-
perature was down, and Ohio
State was down and- out, as the
Wolverines were up for the final
game of the season which they
won 10-0.
For the Blue, the victory clinched
the Big Ten title, a top spot
among the nation's collegiate foot-
ball teams, and the coveted Rose
Bowl invitation which they hadn't
received for 14 years.
The only touchdown scored dur-
ing the fierce defensive battle
which saw the Blue run for a mere
115 yards, came withonly sec-
onds remaining in the, first half.
Kemn sent one of his nine punts
spiraling for 50 yards, and when
it came down Buckeye halfback
Bo Rein dropped it and Henderson
recovered on the OSU 20-yard line.
After' Timberlake ran for three
yards, the quarterback fired- to
Detwiler onthe two, and the soph-
omore bulled his way over for the
score, carrying *two late arriving
defenders with him.
Buckeye Coach Woody Hayes
cited his defense as being "abso--
lutely fabulous," but said "Each
team got the breaks, but Michigan
took advantage of them and we
didn't."
The fate of the OSU attack
hinged on two long bomb attempts'
by quarterback Don Unverferth to
Rein. One was out of the half-
back's reach and the other was
batted down. "If he had caught.
one of these it would have been a
different game," mourned Hayes.
"They had to climb up from the
bottom." said. Elliott of his team.
"We felt we could win the cham-
pionship and every week this be-
came a little more realistic .:'

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kept on going for a 54-yard score ley. On the same play around lefi
after Smith provided a decisive end, Volk pinned the quarterbaclk
block. With seven minutes remain- on the three.
ing to be played, Elliott made the With fourth down and three,
decision to go for two points and and time running out, Hankinsor
the win, but Timberlake's run on handed off to Reid on what was
an option was short by a yard. supposed to be an off-tackle play,
"I think Michigan could still go but the fullback was caught as he
all the way. They have a fine took the ball, so he flipped tc
team," said Mollenkopf prophet- nearby Aaron Brown. Brown start-
ically afterwards. ed to run laterally, looking for
roam. but was cut down by an-
Minnesota other tackle by Volk, ending the
A Homecoming crowd of over threat and. except for a few sec-
61,000 saw Minnesota's Golden onds of stalling, the game.
Gophers turn a rout into a cliff-
hanger, as the Wolverine defen- 'N rh etr
sive unit held off a last period on- "Michigan leads the conference
slaught to insure a 19-12 Big Ten in offense and it proved its prow-
win and the return of the Little ess today," commented Alex Aga-
Brown Jug to Michigan after five se, head 'coach of Northwestern's
years. Wildcats after his venture to Ann
The first half was all Blue. The Arbor. The Wolverines had just
Wolverines threatened every time plastered his team 35-0 using a
they had the ball, piling up 202 453-yard offensive attack.
yards on the ground as they held In all, the Wolverines piled up
the Gophers to only 36 and came 336 yards on the ground in a game
into the locker room at the half where Elliott could begin to empty
with a 10-0 bulge. his bench in the third period.
It was late in the third period Although the Blue, in the words
that things began to pop, setting of Elliott, "put it all together,'
the stage for a James Bond thrill- Purdue and Ohio State would not

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