. Thursday, January 13, 1972
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By JOHN PAPANEK
The awesomeness of the snow-capped
San Gabriel Mountains under an azure
sky, and the colorful Rose Bowl nestled
down among the palm-treed hills might
just as well have been the Gary, Indiana
steel works.
It would not have changed the mood
of the Michigan Wolverines after their
13-12 upset defeat by Stanford in the
58th renewal of the Pasadena Classic.
With a chance to post the best record
of any Michigan football team, and an
opportunity via nationwide television to
showvthe skeptics that the Mighty Blue
Machine was everything it claimed to
be, the Wolverines coughed, sputtered,
and finally broke down In the final
seconds to hand Stanford the game.
As badly as Michigan played (yield-
ing 290 yards on Stanford quarterback
Don Bunce's 24 pass completions), it
actually had the game won, 12-10, after
fullback Ed Shuttlesworth tackled Stan-
ford's James Ferguson in the end zone
for a safety trying to return a missed
field goal attempt by Dana Coin.
Stanford kicked to Michigan after the
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safety, and Bo Rather returned it to
Michigan's 45-yard line.
All the Wolverines needed was one
first down and that would have killed
Stanford's chances.
Ed Shuttlesworth and Glenn Doughty
carried for two yards, then Billy Taylor
went for three. Stanford called time out
and Michigan had to give up the ball.
Baryy Dotzauer got off a 36-yard punt
and Stanford took over with a despera-
tion drive at their own 23.
But Bunce, hidden in the shadow of
Jim Plunkett during his five-year resi-
dence at Stanford (he was red shirted
last year), took command and moved
his team as well as any Unitas, or Na-
math, or Griese.
In 1:36, Bunce completed five of six
passes for 66 yards, while Michigan was
playing with an extra defensive back to
try and keep Stanford on the ground.
With third and four on the Michi-
gan 14-yard line, Stanford coach John
Ralston sent in his scrawny 5-9 place-
kicker Rod Garcia, who had already
kicked a 42-yarder, but missed two 50-
yard plus attempts in the first quarter.
Garcia, whose five missed field goal
attempts cost Stanford a loss against
lowly San Jose State, calmly booted the
31-yarder and was mobbed by his team-
mates and throngs of Stanford rooters.
Garcia, who easily could have ended
up a goat instead of a hero was quick to
pass off the credit for the victory.
"Hey, don't talk to me," he said after
the game, "talk to the defense. That's
who won the game for us."
Garcia was referring to two times in
the game when the Stanford defense
stopped Michigan cold in scoring posi-
tion.
The one that hurt the Wolverines most
came on their opening drive of the sec-
ond half, when it looked like they were
finally going to get moving.
Rolling at five or six yards a crack,
Michigan moved from its own 39 to the
Stanford 45, when Shuttlesworth reeled
off a 28-yard burst.
But the Indian defense, led by All-
American linebacker Jeff Siemon stopped
Taylor twice, Shuttlesworth and Fritz
Seyferth once each, and sent the Wol-
verine offense back to the bench.
With the exception of its final game-
winning drive, undoubtedly the biggest
play for Stanford was a flea-flicker fake
punt that they pulled off early in the
fourth quarter that led to their only
touchdown.
Down 10-3 and faced with a fourth
and ten on their own 33, Ralston used the
play he borrowed from coach Ron Ear-
hardt of North Dakota State, who had
used it on him..,
Let Ralston try to explain it:
"The ball is snapped to the fullback *
who is in front of the kicker. He then
passes it forward under the legs of the
halfback who fakes a reverse, then takes .
off."
The-halfback in this case was speedy
Jackie Brown, who swept for 31 yards
before punt returner Bruce Elliott finally
caught up to him.
One Bunce pass later, Stanford was
set up on Michigan's 24-yard line. While *}: 4'
the Wolverine defense was looking for
another pass, Bunce handed off to Brown
who broke a tackle at the line of scrim-
mage and scampered the rest of the way
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"They caught us playing pass," offered MICHIGAN'S GREG ELLIS (68) and Fred Grambau (92) attempt to block a Don Bunce pass in the
Bo Schembechler, "They did a tremen- Wolverines' 13-12 Rose Bowl loss Jan. 1. Unfortunately, ball (arrow) is being thrown in opposite di-
dous job and they deserved to win. rection. This was indicative of Michigan's pass defense for most of the game.
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Which way
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THIS TIME there's no excuse.
Once, again the Michigan football team managed to lose a
Rose Bowl game to a team it should have beaten. And unlike the
last time there's no convenient rationalization for this one.
The Wolverines just weren't supposed to lose to Stanford.
After all, Michigan was the Champion of the West, 11-0 and
ready for revenge. The Indians were just a bunch of clowns who
only played football for fun and didn't bother to win unless it
was necessary.
Besides, none of the problems that plagued Michigan then
were around this time. Two years ago the coaching staff wasn't
really sure about what they had to do to get ready for the
Rose Bowl. As a result the practice sessions were too intense
and several key players were injured. Then there was the heart
attack and by then it was all over.
It was supposed to be different this trip. Schembechler was
healthy and he revised his practice schedule so that his players
would still be walking at game time. Except for some rain,
everything went well during preparations. With Bo on the bench
to call the plays everything was going to be just fine.
But when the game started it was apparent that all was
not well. The Wolverines' magic running game wasn't producing
any mysterious gains, unless failure in almost all the import-
ant situations is considered strange enough to be mysterious.
And Stanford's total lack of a running game didn't seem to be
hurting the Indians one bit. With a quarterback as good as Don
Bunce it doesn't matter if the defense knows it's going to be a
pass, it will be complete anyway.
Actually it wasn't obvious that Michigan was going to lose
in the first half. It was just certain that the Wolverines were not
going to walk all over the West Coast intellectual playboys.
But when the going got real tough it was easy to tell that
the Indians were going to win. Bunce did all that he had to and
though the Michigan defense did its best it wasn't enough. And
to top it off Stanford won it with a field goal kicker who hates
to kick and doesn't think that field goal kickers are real football
players.
If a good, gung-ho squad had beaten the Wolverines at their
best, Bo probably could have taken it. Losing is bad enough, but
losing to a team that ranks football below other pursuits was
intolerable. Schembechler admitted after the game that Stan-
ford should have won, but it was terribly painful for him to say
it.
He admitted that Michigan didn't play very well, and blamed.
the loss on that. There are those who will now argue that a
running team, no matter how good, can not win if it can not
pass at all. That might be true, but the Wolverines didn't play
well enough to beat a good running team in the Rose Bowl and
were bad enough to let a mediocre passing team upset them.
But whatever the reason, Michigan didn't play very impres-
sively and what might have upset Schembechler the most is that
he didn't know why after the game.
Maybe the Wolverines weren't fully prepared. After all, they
barely practiced compared to their normal routine. They didn't
scrimmage at all and possibly this hurt their timing and execu-
tion. They had to run to Bakersfield when it was too wet to
work out in Los Angeles and perhaps that upset the players.
But there is no real reason for the team not being ready.
They played and practiced football for fourteen weeks before
they finished the regular season and the preparation time they
had should have been enough to regain whatever skills they lost
They've all been playing football most of their lives and a three
week vacation shouldn't make them forget everything.
Besides, Schembechler was sure that they were ready before
the game. He announced that practice had gone well and that
everyone was ready. And after the fiasco he refused to accept
the lightened practice routine as an excuse when it was offered
to him.
So it wasn't that the team wasn't physically ready. Was it
because they weren't mentally ready? Impossible. There were
too many players who were around for the Southern Cal game
and who wanted to get back at the Pacific Eight. They wanted
to play and they weren't taking the game that lightly. They
might have been a little on the confident side, but they weren't
expected to win without showing up. The players were disap-
pointed enough after the game that you could tell they wanted
to win. They might not have performed well, but they were
trying.
What was it then? What could have made the mighty Wol-
verines so weak?
It was either of two things. Stanford was a lot better than
everyone thought or Schembechler blew the game himself.
Cager
By F. QUINCY GARRETT IV
Michigan's up-and-down cagers
caromed past a terrible showing
in the Far West Invitational and
the loss of Henry Wilmore for
four and a half games to grab
their biggest wins of the holidays,
Big Ten-openers o v e r Michigan
State (83-75) and Illinois (75-70).
The Wolverines split two games
in the Michigan Invitational,
dropped two out of three in t h e
Far West, got bombed by Prince-
ton and whipped Michigan State
and Illinois. for a 4-4 holiday
mark. This boosts them to 7-5 on
the current campaign, and an all-
important 2-0 in Big Ten action.
The improving fortunes of the
Orrmen will continue Saturday
with big Ken Brady's 1972 hard-
court debut against potent Ohio
State.
Wilmore put himself on the
shelf in the first game of the
M i c h i g a n Invitational when,
against then 15th-ranked Ohio
University, he came down wrong
on his knee after blowing a show-
boat-style layup. The injury was
diagnosed as a badly-bruised and
twisted knee, and Wilmore hung
up his treads until the Princeton
game.
Before his untimely exit late
in the first half the 6-3 ace had
already laid Bobcat forwards Tom
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MICHIGAN WINGBACK Glenn Doughty (22) follows the blocks
of Tom Slade (17) and Billy Taylor (42) enroute to a gain against
Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Lying on the ground is the Indians'
All-American linebacker Jeff Siemon. Siemon and other members
of Stanford's defense were pretty potent at other times, however,
stopping Michigan for a 13-12 victory.
SMASH INKA-DINKA-DOOS
Libels romp in In Bol 63-7
By HALAVAH and BOBO I Big E, kept the Inda-dinka-doos
Out manned, but not to be out- with their backs against the wall
played, the vaunted Daily Libels all morning long. The Cluckers
staggered out to Brookside Park managed five first downs minus
(a Bunce Pass from the Rose one as the yard marker specialist,
Bowl) and soundly stampeded the Theraes refused them the neces-
Inka - dinka - doos from Stan- sary footage on what seemed to
ford, 63-7 in the 37th annual Ink be a sure first down on a fourth
Bowl, and six inches play.
The victory allowed at least one Trailing and in desperate need
of the Wolverine owers to en of points, the Cluckers one score
success during the vacation and resulted when the Libels blitzed all
established once and for all that available players and failed to nail
the reckless Inka-dinka-doo quar-
Coach Wierdbeardball tuad is one terback before his completion of
of te finest foblteams ever.
return, promising a Cottage Inn
Pizza for all.
The second half went pretty
much like the first with a dis-
puted play providing the only ex-
citement. On that play, the tow-
ering Sir Death, running down
and out, was sent sprawling after
grabbing a sidelines pass from
Chip. When the dust cleared, Sir
Death discovered he had stepped
on the two foot token Trojan, who
until that play, had served ad-
mirably as time keeper.
At, this point, Wierdbeard
deemed it necessary for the Big E
to leave the bench and replace the
valiant Agee, who requested a
brief resting period to recuper-
ate from a shoulder separation
suffered the night before.
As for next year's prospects,
Coach Wierdbeard announced his
resignation to a jubilant crowd of
Libel supporters. It appears that
three possible candidates are in
the running for next year's coach-
ing position.
Riccardi and Bob Howell low with
fouls, cashed in on 12 of 16 char-
ity tosses and collected 22 points
and seven rebounds. A blazing per-
formance by Ernie Johnson and
numerous errors by Ohio guard
Tom Corde p a c e d Michigan
through an exciting second half
and led to an 87-81 win. Johnson
finished with 18 rebounds and 26
points, on a 12-18 day from the
floor.
The Woverines were lost without
Wilmore in the championship fi-
nal and took a 88-72 drubbing
from Toledo. Tom Kozelko, the
eventual Invitational MVP, flipped
in 31 points; he was joined on the
all-tournament team by teammate
Tim Harmon, Riccardi of Ohio
University, Frank Russell of De-
troit and Michigan's Johnson.
Portland proved unfriendly ter-
ritory as Washington State flayed
Michigan 81-67 in the Far West
opener. The Wolverines, still look--
ing for the right combination in
Wilmore's absence, fell behind 43-
24 after the first stanza as Wash-
ington State outshot them 57 per
cent to 29. Terry Tyler, the main
man in the Michigan backcourt,
sizzled with 9 of 12 from the floor
and 20 points.
John Lockard and Wayne Gra-
biec went bananas, oranges and
apples in the second game as the
Wolverines blasted weak Oregon
93-85. Lockard hit 11 of 12 and
totaled 25 points, while Gabby
clicked on 11 of 18 for 24 points
leading Michigan marksmen to a
season-high 56 per cent from the
floor. The game was run and gun,
played loosey-goosey as the team
totaled 44 turnovers.
Washington sent Michigan home
smarting with a 100-80 conquest
in a last consolation game. The
tall Cougars owned the boards,
outfighting the Wolverines 55-42
for caroms, and the offensive
horses, outshooting therBlue 51
per cent to 42. Sam Brady, the
touted former schoolboy star, made
his first start of the season for
Michigan and netted 12 points,
then sprained his ankle. Lockard
had another good night with 15,
but the Wolverines were just over-
matched.
Wilmore returned to action Jan.
4 as Michigan traveled east and
absorbed a 91-82 loss to Princeton.
The game was closealltthrough
the first half, with neither team
leading bykmore than six points.
Ted Manakas hit a jumper with
two seconds left to give the Tigers
a 48-46 halftime edge.
Junior guard Brian Taylor killed
Michigan in the first half with
17, dueling with Wilmore (16) and
Johnson (13). He tailed off and
left the scoring to Manakas and
6-10 soph Andy Rimol in the sec-'
ond half as the Tigers blew past
Michigan into leads of up to 15
points. Taylor and Manakas both
topped 20 for the Tigers and Wil-
more led all scorers with 29 points,
despite the lingering effects of his
wounded knee.
Michigan shugged off its non-
conference miseries last Saturday
and grabbed a big 83-75 win over
a characteristically inept Mich-
igan State squad. The game wasn't
a pleasure to watch, with sloppy
floor play and shooting by both
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WOLVERINE JOHN LOCKARD (center) attempts a layup in
Michigan's 81-67 loss to Washington State in the Far West Classic
in Portland. Looking on at right is Wayne Grabiec (40). Michigan
won one of three games on their West Coast trip.
were going to beat Wilmore and and substitute Larry Rea has been
Company on slop. The Wolverines
didn't get the ball to Henry as
often as they should have, but
good work by Johnson (24points)
and Wilmore (21) saw Michigan
through. Johnson and John Lock-
ard muscled for 28 rebounds, but
Bill Kilgore led the Spartans to
a big 54-47 advantage on the
boards. Terry Tyler turned in an-
other fine relief performance with
13 points, and the cheers which
greeted. his replacement of Dave
Hart indicate that most Michigan;
fans would shed no tears if Hart
were put on the next slow trawler
to Bulgaria.
Michigan's erratic performance
on the maple this season can be
attributed to both injuries and,
more important, poor shooting. At
different times Wilmore, Sam
Brady, Grabiec and Tyler have
been hobbled by aches and pains,
lost indefinitely to an intiry suf-
fered in practice a few days before
the Michigan Invitational.'And of
course, 6-10 Ken Brady crippled
himself getting out a car *-nd left
a gaping hole in the Michigan
frontline.
As for Michigan's shooting, what
can you say about a team that
hit only about 42 per cent of its
shots? Bleahhh! Wilmore and
Grabiec, supposedly the most ac-
curate Wolverines shooters, are
both hovering around the 40 per
cent -mark. Dave Hart is firing
away at a non-productive 35 per
cent clip, although he did hit two
of three against Gary Ganakas
last Saturday. Surprisingly, John-
son (50 per cent) and Tockard
(47 per cent) are having fi~ne years
from the floor although they don't
have the reputation of being fine
shooters.
At the outset, the Libels ap-
peared to be at a distinct disad-
vantage as only eight stalwart
members showed at gametime. No-
ticeable absentees included Gor-
illa, Oilcan, Phallanges, Bull, and
Tor.
However, no panic was evident
on the part of Wierdbeard as he
quickly closed his eyes, spun
around a few times and pointed
his finger at the new Libel sig-
nal caller. The finger of fate fell
on Chip Papanek, and a great
choice it was.
Calling his own game, Chip un-
mercifully tore apart the Blunder
Cluckers with pin point passing,
completing 21 of 22 passes for
444 yards and nine tallies.
The initial scoring play of the
game capped the Libels opening
drive of 67 yards as Chip gam-
bled on the choice right. Behind
the solid blocking of All- Ameri-
cans Bobo and Froggie, he pump-
ed left, then rolled right and
threw a perfect spiral to the
waiting Halavah who was escort-
ed into the endzone by teammates
Agee and Sir Death.
The closest Clucker, Cobra,
tripped at the line of scrimmage
over his open shoe laces.
Sir Death tallied the next Libel
points as he executed a near per-
fect end-around on a busted play.
Chip forgot who he was supposed
to give the ball to and called out
a one yard screen play for the
tally.
When asked about the play,
Wierdbr'ard retorted, "If we had
to call the play all over again,
we'd call it the same. As for the
other calls we made, I'm not too
sure."
Suffering from hangovers and
exhaustion at halftime, the Libels
were tempted to quit, but a stir-
ring emotionally - packed speech
by Wierdbeard inspired them to
Wolverines' balance and boards
help knock off Fighting Ilni
Michigan got steady scoring
from all five starters and blew
past Illinois 75-70 Tuesday night
in a battle of Big Ten title con-
tenders.
The Wolverines moved to a 69-
62 lead with 5:56 remaining be-
hind the scoring of Ernie Johnson
and Henry Wilmore, but the Illini
fought back to 69-68. Icy shoot-
ing from the foul stripe then sav-
ed the day for Michigan.
First half leads of eight points
by the Wolverines were wiped out
by the scoring of Nick Weather-*
spoon and soph center Bill Mor-
ris. Illinois pulled into a 34-33
lead at the halfway point!
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MICHIGAN 2 0 1.000
Johnson and Wilmore once again
led Michigan scoring with 19 and
17 points, but received ample sup-
port from Wayne Grabiec (14),
Dave Hart (13) and John Lock-
ard (12).
The Spoon topped Illinois with
22 points, followed by Morris with
20.
The game was loosely -,played
and marked by poor shooting at
both ends of the hardcourt Mich-
igan, which won the game in the
final minutes from the foul line,
still connected on only 15 of 25
tosses for the game.
In other Big Ten action Tues-
day night, Michigan State upset
Wisconsin 83-76 and Iowa nudged
Northwestern 76-67. The Spartans
got good efforts from Mike Robin-
son (26), Bill Kilgore (18) and
Brian Breslin (13), while New
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