Page 10-Sunday, September 30, 1979-The Michigan Daily Bad news, Bears: Blue bounces back (Continued from Page 1) Wolverines was 373 compared to 224 for California. But more significantly, Michigan possessed the ball for 38:08 minutes, while the Bears maintained possession for only 21:52, thereby wearing down the thin California defen- se. California just could not contain the Wolverines who, with Wangler at the helm, were constantly moving the ball. The score, however, does not truly reflect the accomplishments of the Wolverine offense. The lack of effective field goal scoring punch prevented the Wolverines from putting the Bears away. Three times, however, the Wolverines' defense halted California drives in the second half, as they recovered three fumbles, one of which was responsible for Michigan's first touchdown of the afternoon. Aside from the touchdown, the Wolverine defense made a crucial fum- ble recovery on their own 20-yard line, when California back Paul Jones swept left, only to have the ball stripped from his hands; thereby nipping the Cal scoring drive in the bud. In spite of exceptional play by the Michigan offense, the Wolverines couldn't produce any immediate points. Utilizing both the pass and the run, Wangler consistently moved the ball down the field, only to be stopped by the elastic Cal defense. Three times the of- fense brought the ball within field goal range and three times the field goal at- tempts resulted in nothing. Haji-Shiekh missed his first boot on a 37-yard attempt. His second and third were from 45 and 30 yards out, respec- tively. Prior to Haji-Sheikh's third attempt, ,Wangler directed the offense swiftly downfield as the Michigan offense moved the ball 51 yards from the 36- yard line to Cal's 13. During the drive, sophomore Butch Woolfolk ran for 22 yards and Wangler passed to tight end Doug Marsh for 25 yards, but it wasn't enough as the young Cal defense stop- ped the Wolverines, setting the stage for the missed kick. The Wolverines' second score, coming 11:17 later in the third quarter, came when fullback Lawrence Reid ran straight ahead for the touchdown. The play came on secnd and goal at the three-yard line. The touchdown march, which con- sumed four and a half minutes, was initiated on Michigan's 23-yard line. During the drive, Wangler connected for three key passes. The first camed on second and 24 from Michigan's 20 as Wangler hit Marsh for 38 yards for a crucial first down, following a Michigan penalty for clipping. Two plays later, Wangler again threw successfully, this time to Stanley Edwards for 22 yards on second and eight, moving the ball down to the Cal 18-yard line. But it was Norm Betts who. was responsible for sustaining the drive as the Michigan tight end was in the right place at the right time. Betts caught Wangler's 14-yard pass after it was deflected by its intended receiver, Ed- wards. This play set the ball up first and goal to go at Cal's four-yard line. Edwards then moved the ball one yard before Reid took it in for six points. California, which had possession for only 4:05 of the first quarter in com- parison to 10:55 for Michigan, still out- scored the Wolverines as they notched seven points to Michigan's zero for a first period lead.' The opening score of the game came when California quarterback Rich Campbell passed for 17 yards to John Tuggle, who scooted past the Michigan defense into the end zone., The series, which took barely over a minute and four plays, was the result of a blocked Bryan Virgil punt at Michigan's 46-yard line. The punt, blocked by Bear Ron Hill, was recovered on the 32-yard line by defen- sive end Pat Graham. Prior to the touchdown play, Cam- pbell passed on third and eight to tight end Don Sprague for 13 yards to main- tain the scoring drive. California then added three more points in the second quarter when kicker Mick Luckhurst booted a 47- yarder through the uprights. The field goal capped a 27-yard drive in five plays. Cal left the field at halftime with a 10-0 lead. During the first half, the Wolverine offense gained 166 yards to Cal's 108. Wangler completed four Out of 13, com- pared to Campbell who connected on 10 out of 16 pass attempts. Michigan's big' break came during the first play of the third quarter. The Wolverine kickoff unit recovered a Cal fumble which resulted in Michigan's first score of the game. The Haji-Sheikh kick was taken by Cal returner Terry Wiley in the end zone. Wiley returned the ball to his 13 where his fumble was recovered by Mike Harden on the nine-yard line. .Edwards' first rush toward the goal line was good for six yards. On his second run, the six-foot, 203-pound junior bulled for three yards and the touchdown, with only forty seconds ROCKETS DOWNED,;45-14 Shippensburg stones'The Rock (Continued fromnPage 1) rambled 75 and 63 yards for touchdowns the first two timgs he was handed the ball. Junior halfback Scott Flinn, senior wide receiver Steve Looney and sophomore halfback Eric Payne also scored in the first half for the Red Raiders as Shippensburg ran up a 31-0 halftime lead. The second half was no different as sophomore halfback Dave Friese ran for seven followed by another Payne touchdown gallop as Shippensburg widened the gap to 45-0 before allowing Slippery Rock to score with just over five minutes left in the game. THE SLIPPERY Rock rooters, which included most of the crowd, refused to get depressed as they cheered mightily for The Rock throughout the relentless slaughter. The fans waved their green pom-poms repeatedly and thoroughly enjoyed the halftime performance which featured a mass band of between 10,000 and 13,000 musicians. The band, which consisted of 130 high school bands, the Slippery Rock and Shippensburg bands and the Michigan Marching Band, received hearty ap- plause from the crowd after playing a show which included en masse ren- ditions of The Victors and Stars and Stripes Forever. Both were conducted by the recently retired Professor George Cavender, a long time favorite of the Michigan supporters. Slippery Rock had received con- siderable pre-game promotionias the main attraction of the day. According to Rocket running back Rick Porter, who gained 124 yards and scored one of the Rock's two touchdowns, the atten- tion may have been the downfall of the team. "THE PROBLEM was the team stayed in a fantasy world too long," said Porter. "They dreamed about being there and not about playing." Slippery Rock coach Bob Di Spirito put it another way. "We felt our pass patterns were open but our quarter- back's were throwing knuckleballs. We couldn't get our quarterbacks to relax. We had a number of opportunities to execute and we didn't. That was the. main thing." On the other side of the line of scrim- mage, Shippensburg defensive end John Wertz felt the print Slippery Rock received worked to the Red Raider's advantage. "IT GOT US madder," said Wertz. "It got us up more. Everyone else thought that they (the Rockets) were the stars, not us." Halfback Payne added, "Coach. (Vito) Ragazzo pointed out that we should keep in mind we were going out there to play a game, not just for fun." Shippensburg's Moskowitz was probably the happiest Red Raider at the end of the day. The 6-1, 215 pound rookie from Glenmore, Pa. lumbered for 146 yards on just six carries, after carrying the ball only 10 times prior to the Slippery Rock contest. AFTER THE WIN, Moskowitz revealed his approach to the contest. "Before a lot of games, I'll fantasize how I'll do. If I fantasize that I'll do great, I usually don't. So I tried to keep my fantasies down and didn't expect to do this good. "I've watched this stadium on television and I just dream about what it's like," Moskowitz added. "Scoring a touchdown would be the greatest thing and that's all I thought about." For Steve Moskowitz and the Ship- pensburg State Red Raiders, yester- day's game was a dream come true. But for The Rock, it was a nightmare of the worst kind. ROCK'S Rick Porter raises a hand in jubilation following a touch- r-too soon! The touchdown was disallowed. SPARTANS' SPIRITS SINKING MSU fails Irish test IS. ENOUGH By Billy Neff Cal road trip , . ..* what a hard li fe, "W~ HAT ARE YOU doing this weekend?" ~"I'm going to California, how about you?" -'You're doing what? Sure, and my father is Pete Rose." "His wife says that's true of some other people too; but i am going to California. The Daily has to send somebody there to cover the football game." "Can I carry your suitcase, take notes for you, or at least do your typing? " Unfortunately, there was simply no way to bring this person along. Thus, I was stuck with going to California and had to carry my own suitcase, did not take any notes or do any typing. You'd think if the Daily was sedning me on an all expense paid trip to San Francisco they could have at least sent someone to tote my suitcase. It was bad enough that they were sending me into the land of the Sym- bionese Liberation Army, the haven of cults, student unrest, Black Panther country and the home of the earthquake. Worse yet, the Daily was making me miss the Slippery Rock game. I had waited for years to watch those small college titans do battle on the artificial turf of Michigan Stadium. Instead, I had to watch two other teams, Michigan and California, push each other around. You know, some people just get all the :breaks...+ Oh, you want to know about the game. It was a matchup of a Big Ten and a Pac Ten team. Need I. say more? Ask Purdue about playing California .teams (Purdue. lost to UCLA this year). Then again, why should we be asking anyone about playing California' teams, considering our previous success? Bears immortalize Roth Then there's the pride factor. California has not had a good team in a few years; since the time it possessed one of the finest quarterbacks in the country, Joe Roth. It also had a game-breaking runner, Chuck Muncie, who's now performing for the New Orleans Saints. This season, they were undefeated, having knocked off perennial toughies Arizona and Arizona State., Roth died of cancer shortly after completing his career at Cal. He knew he'd had the affliction for some time, but played on anyway. The doctors told him the end was near and he played for the Golden Bears, figuring he had lit- tle to lose. And although the movie has not been made about him, he as one courageous human being. California has been dedicating seasons to him for some time and now that they are winning, look out. Not only that human factor, but -on the physical end California was predominantly a passing team, possessing one of the most feared quarter- backs in the nation. In addition, three of his Feceivers were among the national leaders. It kind of reminded me of Michigan State last year and we all know what happened to Michigan in that contest. And who can forget that Michigan had three of its best offensive linemen sidelined, or ailing with injuries. The Wolverines, we all know, have not solved the persistent riddle of who will be their quarterback and that is another problem. If the situation is not ominous enough, how about the fact that the game was being played before California's biggest home crowd of the season and that the game was to be played on natural grass.'We all know about previous Michigan fiascos on natural grass (a loss at Purdue three years ago, 16-14, and the setback at Minnesota, 16-0). California, why me? Anyway, what do all those omens have to do with the nightlife in San Francisco? Or the fact that the Daily had the gall to send me to California? First, the Daily made,me get to Ferry Field by 10 a.m. Don't they know I usually do not wake up until 11; To show you how much I really wanted to see the Slippery Rock .game, I forgot to set my alarm, and did not wake up until 9:45. So I had to dash down to Ferry Field, knowing full well my duties. Then, we had to be whisked down to the airport with the football team. Not a minute was lost; it was like clockwork. Don't they know how much I like waiting in airports? We were in the air an hour after we left Ann Arbor. Now for some even worse news. The writers had to be subjected to what. the players eat-first, a sweet roll and beverage, then we were brought Filet Mignon and shrimp for lunch, ice cream sandwiches for desert and snacks o* fruit and cheese. Don't they know how much fun it is to consume vile air- plane food-and we get filet mignon. 'To add insult to injury, I had to spend the whole day Friday in San Fran- cisco. It was really terrible visiting such places as Fisherman's Wharf, SOUTH BEND-Call it a destruction if you'd like, because Notre Dame's 27-3 thrashing o(seventh ranked Michigan State wasn't reflected on just the scoreboard. A swarming Irish defense, led by defensive end John Hankerd, sent Spartan quarterbacks Bert Vaughn and Bryan Clark out of the game with in- juries. Vaughn, the starting MSU signal-caller, may have suffered a kidney injury; Clark, his backup, went out with an injured upper back muscle in the second half. The loss, which came before a capacity crowd of 59,075, broke the Spar- tans' ten game winning streak. Only Alabama and Southern California had put together a longer string of consecutive victories before yesterday's con- test., After the game, MSU coach Darryl Rogers and other team officials ex- pressed uncertainty over the severity of Vaughn's ailment. Rogers added that it could be several days before a full diagnosis of the injury cap be determined. While the Irish defenders were giving MSU poor field position for much of the contest, Vagas Ferguson led a versatile Irish attack. Ferguson totaled 171 yards and two touchdowns for the day, and Notre D.ame ran up a total of- fense of 437 yards. But the margin.of difference could have been wider. On their first possession, the Irish drove to the State 35 before Spartan linebacker Dan Bass pounced on a Ferguson fumble. Later on in the quarter, quarterback Rusty Lisch drove the Irish to the Spartan one following a 51" yard punt return by flanker Ty Dickerson. And the Irish were once again denied points when Lisch failed to cross the goal line on a quarterback sneak. Ferguson was denied a touchdown in the second stanza from the same distance. The Irish finally hit paydirt late in the first quarter, as they capitalized on a 28 yard punt return by Dave Duerson. Lisch capped a 27 yard drive with a pass to split end Tony Hunter, who caught the aerial at the MSU three and dodged cornerback Jim Burroughs for the score. Clark was forced to take over the MSU quarterbacking chores in the first quarter, when Vaughn was hit from the blind side, just as he unloaded a pass which was intercepted by Irish safety Tom Gibbons. Meanwhile, surefooted Notre Dame kicker Chuck Male booted field goals from 49 and 36 yards to give the Irish a 13-0 lead. The Spartans mustered their only points on a 53 yard field goal by Mor- ten Andersen as the first half clock ran out. From that point, the Spartan at- tack faded into non-existence-it produced only two first downs and 35 yards in the second half, but the most shocking statistic came in the Spartan passing column-a meager nine yards. Ferguson, who in three quarters carried 28 times, capped an 87 yard drive with a daso up the middle from 24 yards out. Four minutes later, he made it 27-3 on a nifty 48 yard sideline run which Rogers hotly disputed. "He (Ferguson) stepped out of bounds twice on the way downfield," said By STAN BRADBURY special to The Daily SOUTH BEND - Michigan State must be wondering where yesterday's 27-3 loss to Notre Dame has left them in the quest of a second straight Big Ten title. It's not that a non-conference loss will hurt the Spartans in the conference standings, because only the Big Ten matchups count. What must worry Michigan State is how they lost and who they lost to. How they lost: the Spartans were mutilated. The score could have been much worse but twice the Irish were stopped on fourth and goal with less than one foot to go. WHO THEY lost to: Michigan State lost to a team which fell to Purdue last week and was beaten by Michigan in everything but the score two weeks ago. Michigan and Purdue, along with Michigan State, are considered the top three teams in the Big Ten this year. So if yesterday's game before a full house at Notre Dame was any indication of how the three teams match up, the Spartans are definitely hurting. After the game, Dan Devine, the jubilant coach of the Irish, said, "I can't rate the teams in order because we've played so differently in the three games. We were so emotionally high it was like when we played Michigan. But we were better technically today than we were against Michigan." DEVINE ADDED, "Last year, after the Michigan State game, we were 2-2 and they were 1-3, and I said that I had the feeling that we played a good foot- ball team and that they were going to win a lot of games. I have the same feeling today; we played a good football team." many fine teams, but I'm afraid we were not one of them today.' MAKING MATTERS worse for MSU is the possible loss of starting signal caller Bert Vaughn, who left the game with less than two minutes to go in the first quarter. X-rays of Vaughn's lower back proved negative, but doctors have not ruled out the possibility of a kidney injury. Bryan Clark, Vaughn's replacement, who came in with only one play of game experience, also fell to an injured muscle in his upper back midway through the fourth quarter. Rogers said of the injuries, "I don't know about Vaughn's back. He was hit in the back and had the wind knocked out of him. The same thing happened to Clark." DEVINE SAID that he thought the loss of Vaughn for most of the game really hurt State and was one reason for the lopsided score. "I know when Vaughn is out it hurts their team a great deal," Devine said. MSU punter Ray Stachowicz said af- ter the game, "We played bad ball over all. We couldn't get anything together. I'm not sure that the quarterback in- jury was the key to the game. We have to forget this game now and go on from here." If the Spartans are lucky, Stachowicz will not forget how he played. The pun- ter was MSU's top performer as he boomed nine kicks for a 46.3 average, including a 68-yarder. MSU WAS totally dominated throughout the game by the Irish. The Spartans were outgained 434 to 143 in total yardage. This did not include the fact that the Irish had 184 return yards to State's 63.