MIDDIES SUFFER THEIR FIRST DEFEA T: Irish torpedofumblin Navy 27- The Michigan Daily-Sunday, November 5, 1978--Page 13 . . Wn ,:%:} xA:: nv_ Y By BRIAN MARTIN Special to The Paily CLEVELAND - Navy hoped to have the perfect setting. The game was played in Cleveland Municipal Stadium, sitting next to the docked ships in the Lake' Erie ports. But it was the world's longest man-made breakwall off the shore that kept the Middies at bay all afternoon as Notre Dame (6-2) dominated previously- undefeated Navy (7-1), 27-7, before 63,780 fans. Navy's formidable defense lost its sonar system as Irish halfback Vagas Ferguson loped for 219 yards rushing for the day, a new Notre Dame single-game record. FERGUSON AVERAGED over 12 yards per carry, scored a touchdown on a perfect sweep around left end in an 80-yard jaunt, making the sweet-footed junior from Richmond, Indiana, the obvious offensive player of the game. I i mesmamn Irish teammate Jay Case grabbed defensive honors on the merit of his two fumble recoveries, which set up a first quarter field goal and returned the ball to Notre Dame with over 11 minutes left in the second quarter. It was Navy's mistakes that sunk their hopes to remain undefeated as the Middies lost three first half fumbles and Notre Dame converted two of them into scores to lead at the half, 24-0: NAVY LOST ITS first pigskin on the second play of the game as quarterback Bob Leszczynski was hit by Case, and teammate Jeff Weston pounced on it for the Irish to give them good field position on the Middies' 41-yard line. It took the Irish only six plays to hit paydirt as quarterback Joe Montana found split end Kris Haines on the 15. Haines slipped off a would-be tackle and waltzed into the endzone to make it 7-0 Notre Dame: Another Navy fumble less than two minutes] allowed the Irish to pad their lead to to as Cha Male split the uprights from 38 yards out. Jerome Heavens joined the scoring parade ear the second quarter as he powered over from t yards out, capping an 80-yard march in 11 p1 Ferguson's 80-yard drive in one play made it 24 halftime. "I THINK THEY were just better than us," Navy coach George Welsh. "They kicked the hecl of us physically." Indeed, Notre Dame was physical. The I bruised the Navy defense for 530 total offen yards, while the Middies were held to 358 total yar Navy tallied its only score on a 13-yard touch pass with only 12 seconds left in the game, con after a Notre Dame field goal, to make the final s 27-7 in the lopsided contest. *..:.:::.-.........:::::*.:*::::::::.*,.;'. . ;.}: . r...:: t.:...~.. ..~"v,...... .... . ;r,"Cl{C:3d~:{ .' . *__ Booters end season 7 With ,ad3=1 setback Special to the Daily later The Michigan soccer club ended its very successful campaign on a arles our note by dropping a 3-1 decision at the hands of a highly ratedSpringAr- r bor squad. Michigan's booters ended their best season ever with a record of ly in nine wins, five losses and a tie. hree Playing before a homecoming crowd of over 500 at the Spring Arbor lays. field, the home team came out flying with two goals in the first five minutes. -0 at > Michigan could never rebound from this initial deficit despite controlling the remainder of the game. Early in the second half, Stefan Mitkov, the Wolverines star, notched the Michigan tally ona penalty kick. Later in the same half, the Wolverines had said two goals called back on offsides calls. k out Spring Arbor sealed the victory with a very controversial goal just four minutes after they had missed a penalty kick. [rish Although Michigan did not shine in this contest, they did throughout the isive season despite being merely a club competing with varsity teams. The rds. highlight of the season came last Wednesdaywhen they toppled powerful Down Michigan State, 1-0, a first for the club. :' s W, mong ;core r -.. Last of the Ninth OSU dumps Badgers; Purdue, MSU roll on BEST QUALIFIED: " Council for the State Mental Health Association and De-. partment of Social Services " Member, Washtenaw County Criminal Justice Planning Committee " Published writer/researcher in municipal and, family law By RICK MADDOCK Iowa provides practice.u.h.w Ibut how much help. IOWA CITY ONE HAS TO wonder what an easy'34-0 victory over Iowa does. as far as preparation for Purdue or Ohio State. After all, it's improbable that Michigan will be able to charge 70 yards in 12 plays against either of its last two competitors on its first possession of the game. Bo felt that he had to pass against Iowa yesterday, because the Hawkeyes were too tough to run against. "You do what a team dictates to you. When you come in to play, you have to throw." And how Michigan, namely Rick Leach, threw. He was nine for 17, good for 191 yards. "We just used play action passes. We felt the way we run the football we could use the play action passes effectively," Leach said. "Any time a quarterback has the time I had today, he should complete a lot of passes. " So, we know that Michigan can protect Leach in passing situations against Iowa. The offensive line did a superb job of pass blocking against a team they felt they had to pass against. The question that arises is has the line significantly improved since the Michigan State game. In that game, Bo felt he had to pass, but Leach didn't have anywhere near the protection he had yesterday. Can yesterday's gable be used as an indicator, since the talent and the game situation are different? The situations differed to the extent of a matchup versus the nation's eighth- ranked team playing the Big Ten's eighth-place team. In the Michigan State game, there was much more pressure on the Michigan offense to score because of State's potent offense. In yesterday's game, the Wolverine offense figured if it could put the points on the board early the defense would be able to hold Iowa. The Hawkeyes had only managed 66 points coming into the game, and with the show they put on yesterday it's amazing they scored that many. Although Bo claims he came in here with the plan to pass because Iowa's defense against the run was so tough, which is true to some extent, he also decided to throw the pigskin because he figured that the risk involved was not that great. If Iowa did picl, off a pass, so what. The Michigan defense would probably hold Iowa to a field goal at worst. Meanwhile, the dividends from having a passing strategy are invaluble. How so? First of all, there's timing under game conditions. Timing is the primary factor in a successful passing game, and the more practice, the quicker the timing will become instinct. The next dividend is practice in pass blocking which the line did so well yesterday. And finally, there's that all- important feeling of knowing that it can be done-confidence. Schembechler and Leach had to be wondering after the State game about their pass attack, and yesterday's game was another vindication from their only loss. "We can pass," Schembechler said. "Those that say we can't are wrong." Leach added, "When I throw the ball only six to eight times a game I can't get into a groove, but when we mix it up, I can show the kind of quar- terback I can be." There are however, dangers involved here, too. Michigan cannot base all of its strategy on the fact that it passed at will against Iowa. Leach isn't always going to have all that time to pass. The truth is that Iowa just doesn't have the talent of a Purdue or Ohio State, and no matter what pre-game hype Bo uses;for these lesser teams, he cannot let himself or his players forget that. By The Associated Press MADISON-Safety Vince Skillings intercepted two pases and returned one 61 yards for a touchdown, while sophomore Ty Hicks crushed Wisconsin by scoring on a 96-yard kickoffrunback to lead Ohio State to a 49-14 Big Ten college football victory yesterday. Freshman quarterback Art Schlichter scored from seven yards out on the game's first series, then led a third-quarter drive capped by a 14-yard scoring run by Calvin Murray for a 35-7 Ohio State lead before most of the Buckeye regulars went to the bench. Ohio State, 5-2-1 this season and 4-1 in the Big Ten, forced five turnovers and converted two into fourth-quarter scoring runs of 15 and six yards by reserve quarterback Greg Castignola for a 49-7 Buckeye lead. * * * Michigan St. 59, Illinois 19 -CHAMPAIGN - Al Middleton smashed for three touchdowns and Bruce Reeves scored two more yester- day to lead 18th-ranked Michigan State to a 59-19 Big Ten football victory over Illinois. The Spartans, who trailed 12-0 in the first period before running a play from scrimmage, came back with two quick touchdowns for a 14-12 lead and then piled up 45 points in the second half to complete the romp. before Boilermaker Coach Jim Young gave most of the first unit the rest of the day off. The 14th-ranked Boilermakers, 5-0 in the Big Ten and 7-1 overall, scored first on Pope's eight-yard run with 55 secon- ds left in the opening quarter. The touchdown climaxed a 62-yard, eight- play drive that was highlighted by a 22- yard pass from Herrmann to Bart Burrell. * * * Minnesota 32, Indiana 31 MINNEAPOLIS-Paul Rogind booted a 31-yard field goal with two seconds remaining yesterday to cap a furious rally which saw the Minnesota Gophers erase a 24-0 deficit and defeat Indiana 32-31. Minnesota, 3-2, took over at its own 45-yard line following an interception by Keith Edwards with three minutes remaining and moved 45 yards in nine plays to set up the kick. Reserve quarterback Wendell Avery engineered the comeback, firing touch- down passes of 14 yards to Roy Artis and 19 yards to Marion Barber in the fourth quarter. The Peace, corps is alive and well and waiting for you. All your life you've wanted to do something im- portant for the world. Now a lot of the world needs you to do it: We need volunteers with skills and all kinds of practical knowledge. Call toll free- 800-424-8580. Peace corps A Public Service of SThisNewspaper & e The Advertising Council Vote for Maxine Virtue. The only chOice. Paid for by Citizens for Maxine Virtue Probate Judge PQ Box 307, Ypsilanti, Mi. 48197 Douglas A. Benson Treasurer ALL YOU CAN E AT EVERY SUNDAY ITALIAN BUFFET :.... . $3.95 EVERY MONDAY SPAGHETTI .......... $2.50 INCLUDES: DOWNTOWN Huge Salad Bar with over 30 items 2 Home Made Soups s -- 114 E. ED'S Washington THE UNIVERSITY'?= OF MICHIGAN FRIDAY DEC.8 at 8pm SATURDAY DEC.9 at 8pm SUNDAY, DEC.10 at 3pm POWER CENTER 3, For more sports, see page 14 Premiere Performances of Works by Guest Artist GUS SOLOMONS, Jr. performing in his own work LAURA GLENN chooph made possible in port by the Notioal Endowmnt forfteArt GARY LUND Special perforynce of Jose' Simons "THE EXILES' danced by Laura Glenn and Gary Lund [I Along with the more liberal pass strategy came other surprise plays-risky ones that Bo doesn't normally call. One was the fake punt in the third quarter which resulted in a 24 yard gain. In this situation it really wasn't that risky, because Michigan was punting from the 50 yard line leading 24-0. Again, practicing this play under game conditions may prove valuable when it's really needed later in the year. "I have always been liberal," Schembechler said. "You call what was there. Their defense was going to block our punt on the other side. They were overloaded." It's great to be able to practice a play like this, but against the better teams I doubt that the defensive formations will be so obvious to allow for a fake. As with the successful passing it's nice to be able to do it, but Michigan must guard against a false sense of security. Finally, just what good does a game like this do for the defense. Iowa didn't even get into Michigan territory until 1:36 into the fourth quarter, and it's deepest penetration was to the Michigan 36 yard line. It seemed THURSDAY, NOVE as though the Michigan defense MICHIGAN UN would get better practice during S PECIA the week against Michigan's of- fense. "I wouldn't consider Iowa a B L weak offensive team," defensivetak botte m tackle Curtis Greer said. s ti talk about Steam it helps us to reach our goal which EVER YBOD" is to progress each week from the Michigan State game." The attainment of the goal is fine, but what does it mean coming against a team like Iowa. It's easy to improve from Michigan State to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North- westrn.It's not so easy to im- n EC G II prove from the latter four to Pur- of Rome, NY will be conducting due and Ohio State. What's war-Noebr8PAlcediUp se, is that improvement may look November 8. PAR, located in Ups like it's being made in these Adirondack Mountains, is an adva "breather" games, when it really computer-based techniques to solve isn't at all. areas of interest include comput Innn cti ctntictirn and r The victory was the fourth against one loss in the Big Ten for the Spartans, who are 5-3 overall, while Illinois slip- ped to 0-4-2 in the conference and 1-6-2 overall. Steve Smith scored on a 25-yard touchdown run and the Spartans stor- med back with a 69-yard drive which ended with Middleton going over from the 1-yard line for a 14-12 lead. 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