Sunday, September 19, 1971
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Seven
Sunday, September 19, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven
Wolverines
smash
Cavs
In
boring
rout
from tolstoy to tinkerbell
Poor Bo...
.. . too many quarterbacks
jim kevra
BO SCHEMBECHLER has a real problem.
Fortunately, it's the kind of problem that most coaches
really don't mind having. You see, Schembechler has three
quarterbacks who are all sufficiently skilled in the art of
quarter'backing to be Michigan's first string signacaller. And
Bo's problem is that he can only start one of them. Yesterday's
56-0 massacre of Virginia didn't help Bo very much in finding
a solution to his problem as all three quarterbacks, Kevin
Casey, Tom Slae, and Larry Cipa, performed capably, and
at times, superbly.
On the basis of preseason practices, Schembechler
started the year with Casey as his number one man. But,
Casey had only a mediocre day last week against North-
western and, although the Wolverines won the game 21-,
Bo wasn't particularly happy with his number one signal-
caller's performance.
During this week's practice sessions, Schembechler
divided his quarterbacks' practice time almost equally and
refused to comment on who his starter would be.
But when the Amazing Blue took the field yesterday, Casey
was at the helm.
And the difference between the Kevin Casey who played
against Northwestern and the one who played yesterday was
almost impossible to believe. Yesterday, Casey was almost
everything he had failed to be the week before: poised, dy-
namic, adept with his ball handling, and skillful with his at-
tempts at running the option.
Although he only played for twenty minutes, Casey led
the Wolverines on three sustained drives, two of them for
touchdowns. He consistently made key plays to keep the
drives going. For example, the first time the Wolverines got
the ball, they made three straight first downs all with their
running game. Then, with third and four on the Virginia
42, and the drive in imminent danger of stalling, Casey
rolled right and, under some pressure, coolly hit Glenn
Doughty for 14 yards and a first down.
From that point, it took only five more plays before Billy
Taylor swept around right end, watched Doughty throw a
crushing block on Cavalier linebacker Kevin Michaels, and
trot into the end zone to do his touchdown dance.
C'asey came close to scoring the next Michigan touchdown
himself. After a Virginia fumble was recovered on the 33 yard
line, he rolled right, cut back to the left sideline, and slipped
down to the eight before being belted out of bounds, in all,
a 29 yard run. Taylor carried for a touchdown on the next play,
to bring the Wolverines into a 14-0 lead.
After the game, Casey seemed happy with his perform-
ance.
"I was definitely mnore relaxed today," he said,, "than
I was during the Northwestern game. I think it was just
a matter of having more experience. Bo told me before
the game that he wasn't going to play me very much and I
understand why."
When Schembechler pulled Casey - from the game after
about 20 minutes, it seemed that Bo's quarterbacking problems
might be over. Casey, his original choice for the starting job,
wi had finally proven himself capable of handling it.
Unfortunately, Slade came in to throw a monkey wrench
into Schembechler's possible plans.
All Slade did was get possession of the ball three times,
and lead the team to three touchdowns on drives of 62, 68,
and 46 yards. Slade relied almost entirely on the bruising run-
ning of Taylor, Ed Shuttlesworth, and Harry Banks, throwing
only two passes and completing one for 28 yards. In addition,
his ball handling and faking were almost faultless.
Slade admitted after the game that he thought Casey
was still the number one quarterback. "I'd have to give him
(Casey) the edge," Slade said. "That doesn't mean I think
I'm any less of a football player but he's just fit into the
system better than I have. But, I think I'm finally starting
to get the hang of it."
During yesterday's game, Slade was at least the match
of Casey.
As if Schembechler didn't have enough of a problem trying
to choose which of those two quarterbacks was best, Cipa came
in in the middle of the third period and sparked the team to
two more touchdowns in three attempts. Cipa's performance
is all the more amazing when one considers that he was team-
ed up with the second and third string backfield and the second
string line.
after the game, "especially after the first quarter when we knew
"We wanted all three to play a lot," Schembechler said
we were going to win. I thought Slade did a real fine job.
Casey did a good job and Cipa looked real good too. He only
made that one mistake (a fumble deep in Virginia territory) ."
When asked about how he ranked his quarterbacks, Bo
said that his lineup would probably still be Casey, Slade,
and Cipa but "I'd like to get a look at the game films.
They're all pretty good."
And so, it seems that Schembechler is right back to his
original problem, three capable quarterbacks trying to fill
one available spot. But after yesterday's game, he didn't
seem to be worying too much.
By MORT NOVECK
What can you say about a foot-;
ball game that was over with two
minutes left in the first quarter?
That it's not fair to charge ad-
mission for something like that?
That the teams should have quit SUAPR
and gone drinking instead of fin- ' UNDAY srouts
ishing the game? That the refs
should have stopped it on a TKO? NIGHT EDITORS: JIM EPSTEIN and JOHN PAPANEK
Actually there isn't much you
can say about Michigan's 56-0
rout of the Virginia Cavaliers in
yesterday's home opener. The Cav- ter recovered for the Wolverines. W h e n Schembechler decided
aliers went down for the count Casey picked up 29 yards himself that they had had enough, Bob
when Bill Taylor entered the end- and then gave the ball to Taylor Thornbladh, Cowboy Walker and
zone for the second time at 12:48 who went in. Dave Zuccarelli came in to con-
of the first quarter and everything Casey ran one more series and tinue the punishment. By the time
that happened later was just for then it was time for Schembechler it ended 18 different people, in-
the stats sheets. to unveil the awsome power of the cluding five quarterbacks, played
Unfortunately for Virginia, the Michigan bench. Tom Slade came in the offensive backfield for
bell didn't sound until the Wol- i tqatrakadpopl Michigan.
ver i nes ad dn up495 yards on led the team to two more touch- It got to the point where players
the ground, added 71 more in the downs. who had never practiced together
air, scored eight touchdowns and Thof were running plays. They madd
intercepted three passes. ThThe yhey picked up their fifth of mistakes but as Schembechler
were out of the game, but accord- the game just as the half ended s, "The second team did a
ing to the rules they had to act when Dave Elliott recovered a si,"h eodta i
asgt theuyequaastheyhigant loose ball in the Virginia endzone pretty good job." The score would
as the dummy squad as Michigan after Cavalier Gerald Mullins de- have been higher if the first string
coach Bo Schembechler got a tided to watch it roll out of had stayed in longer, but Schem-
chance to watch every member of cids t ad it roll ou of. bechler was more than satisfied.
his squad perform. bounds instead of jumping on it. bclrwsmr hnstsid
Thers sasutlkipthepre"The issue was never really in
Schembechler said before the There was talk in the press box doubt, so I would have played a
game that an awful lot would have that Mullins came down out of lot of guys even if it hadn't been
to happen for Virginia to beat the hills and had never heard 35-0 at the half.
the Wolverines, but neither coach about the rule involved, but Elliott T
expected the ease with which never had any doubt. "I make my ThecMichigan player shuttle got
Michigan rolled down the field. kids practice covering loose bals so hectic that they received a pen-
The Wolverines took the open- until they despise it," Schembech- alty for illegal substitution. It
ing k i c k o f f and proceeded to ler said later. Sche ubechle eplained, "I kept
march up the field practically un- The Cavaliers probably thought substituting illegally. It was the
molested in 14 plays. Fritz Sey- that they had seen it all by the only way I could get all the guys
ferth had one run of 14 yards and time the half ended, but they got in the game."
Glenn Doughty had a pass re- a rude surprise. The Wolverines
ception for the same, but most of came out to beat them all over Unfortunately for the Cavaliers,
the field was crossed in short again, this time using the second they didn't have the kind of bench
bursts. It was Seyferth for four. string. Every Michigan player got that the Wolverines did. They
Doughty for three, Taylor for two, into the gamle, including some could have used it to absorb the
Kevin Casey for four, until with- that may never see action again. punishment. They also could have
out deviating from straight, grind- The defensive reserves, w i t h used it to generate some offense.
it-out, power football. Michigan help from halfback Bruce Elliott, Lawrence tried switching quarter-
found itself inside the Virginia did the job, holding the battered backs in the second half, from
ten. Taylor took it around end Cavalier safely out of Michigan Harrison Davis to Larry Albert,
without being touched and the, territory. But it was the offensive but it didn't help.
rout was on. bench that killed the Virginians. Virginia picked up only 78 yards
Virginia kept the ball for three Virginia coach Don Lawrence com- on the ground all day. Their pass-
plays and two yards before punt- mented later that "they have the ing attack netted a minus one
ing. It looked like the Wolverines best six college running backs I yard for the day, so it wasn't much
were ready to march back down have ever seen." of an offense. Only five different
the field when they took the kick. Actually there were more, but people carried the ball for the
but on ensuing plays Doughty was Lawrence was probably in shell-
stopped for a loss and Taylor lost I shock by the time they came in. Cavs, and it really isn't fair to
the ball for an instant, so they l Doughty, Seyferth and T a y 1 o r make so few people get tackled so
blew their chance to end the game spent the second half watching much.
in less than ten minutes and hadjfrom the sidelines, but Ed Shut- I
to punt. . tlesworth, Harry Banks and Larry It wasn't really that bad though,
The Cavaliers returned the favor Gustafson gave the Cavaliers no as Virginia only ran 48 plays from
with a fumble that Butch Carpen- rest. scrimmage. The Wolverines ran
93, 83 of them on the ground.
Michigan -quarterbacks combined
for only three complete passes, two
of them by Casey early in the
game. Virginia completed only
one, so the teams managed to play
a game with 643 total yards and
only four complete passes.
Michigan's 93 plays is an im-
pressive number, but not nearly
as impressive as the performance :
turned in by the Michigan cheer-r-
leaders., The tumblers performed
252 flips off the endzone wall
after Michigan touchdowns, almost
one for every Boone's Farm bottle
passed up in the stands.
It's regrettable that Virginia
didn't provide a better test for the
Wolverines. The score was impres-
sive, but it doesn't prove much.
The team moved much more as-
suredly than it did against North-
w e s t e r n but it's hard to tell
whether it will continue against
better opposition. Casey looked
like a different quarterback and
Slade was also impressive, espec-
ially with his running.
The defense didn't get a chance
to show much. Tom .Dar den
proved that he is fearless by pick-
ing up a rolling punt while sur-
rounded by defenders but wasn't
tested at his safety position. Frank
Gusich, usually in the center of
ery play, had an easy day. They
only ran one play on my side."
he commented. "I was just out_........
there picking lint off the Tartan -Daily-Sara Krulwich
turf. There just isn't a whole lot
to say about a game like this." Unstoppable Ed Shuttlesworth powers on
Virgin-ia violated
n
FIRST DOWNS
Rushing
Passing
Penalty
TOTAL NUMBER
OF RUSHES
TOTAL PLAYS
NET YARDS
Rushing
Passing
FORWARD PASSES
Attempted
Completed
Intercepted by
Yards interceptions returned
PUNTS, number
Average distance4
Number returned'
yards punts returned
KICKOFFS, number returned
Yards kickoffs returned
FUMBLES
Fumbles Lost
PENALTIES
Yards penalized
Mich.
33
29
3
3.
Va. I MICHIGAN
7
6
0
1
Rushing
83 35
93 48
566 77
495 78
71 -1
10 13
3 1
3 0
0
1 $
43.0 34.4
8 1
27 0!
9 1
10 169
3 2
1 2
5 41
25 451
Player Tries
Casey 2
Doughty 5
Seyferth 8
Taylor 15
Shuttlesworth
16
Slade , 15
Banks 6
Cipa 2
Walker 8
Thornbladh 8
Zuccarelli 1
Coleman 3
Haslerig 2
Sydlowski 1
McBride 1
TOTALS 83
Casey
Slade
Cipa
McBride
TOTALS
Gains
36
16
37
89
111
37
48
14
43
41
2
19
11
4
0
508
Loss
0
2
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
4
13
Net
36
14
37
89
111
34
48
14
43
41
2
15
11
4
-4
495
T
PASS RECEIVING
Doughty
Rather
D Gustafson
0 TOTALS
0 PUNTING
0 No.
I Dotzauer 1
VIRGINIA
1 Ru
0 Player
2 Dickerhoof
0 Merritt
0 Davis
1 Albert
0 Millard
0 TOTALS
01 Pa
0 A
0 Davis 9
Albert 4
TOTALS ~13
Yds
43
shing
Tries4
Avg.
43
Long
43
No. Yds.
1 14
1 29
1 2$
3 71
Gains Loss Net
14 48
9 40
9 29
2 2
1 0
35 119
assing
Att. Comp.
1
1
0
0
40
0
1
41
48
40
-11
2
-1
78
Int. Yards
2 -1
1 0
3 -1
No. Yds.
1 -1
j 1 V 1raLa
I 5
Passing
Att. Comp.
5 2.
2 1
2 0
1 0
10 3
Int.
0
0
0
0
0
Yards
43
28
0
71
4 PASSRECEIVINC.
Merritt
PUNTING
No.Y
Maxwell 8
LINESCORE 1
MICHIGAN 1
Virginia
Yds.
275
1
4,
0
2
21
0
Avg.
34.4
3
14
0
Long
44
4 F
7 56
0 0
Longhorn pass crushes 1 ruins;
Indians' rampage halts Cadets
By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Quarterback
Eddie Phillips, Texas' ballhandling
magician, completed only one pass
in nine attempts but it went 36
yards for a tie-breaking touchdown
and the Longhorns rolled over
UCLA 28-10 yesterday.
The 22-year-old option master,
however, guided Texas to two other
touchdowns in this inter-sectional,
regionally telecast game before
36,504 in Memorial Coliseum.
The score was 7-7 with 34 sec-
onds remaining in the first half
when Phillips lofted a pass to Jim
Moore for what proved to, be the
winning touchdown.
* * *E
Stanford stomps
WEST POINT-Don Bunce, suc-
cessor to Heisman Trophy winner
Jim Plunkett, hurled three scoring
passes late in the first half and led
explosive Stanford to a 38-3 victory
yesterday that ended Army's string
of winning home openers at 15.
The first two touchdowns came
:h 31 seconds apart and the third, a
e 75-yard bomb to Miles Moore, put
r the Indians in front 21-3 with only
e seven seconds left to the half and
ensured their second triumph of
the young season.
depth
Rockets squeeze by
TOLEDO - Sophomore George
Keim kicked a 20-yard field goal
with 12 seconds left to play to give
Toledo a 10-7 football victory over
Villanova last night and enable
the Rockets to maintain the na-
tion's longest winning streak at 25
straight.
Tiedg7-7, Toledo took the ball
on its own 29-yard line with 29
seconds left to play.
On the first play, quarterback
Chuck Ealey hit Glyn Smith on a
57-yard pass play that put the
Rockets on the Villanova 24. Two
plays later, Keim booted the win-
ning three points.
Georgia goes
ATHENS, Ga.-Georgia's offense
sputtered for three quarters yes-
terday before a 15-yard penalty
gave it a new lease on life and
sparked the Bulldogs to a 17-7
college football victory over Tu-
lane.
The personal foul penalty against
Tulane came on a Georgia punting
situation early in the fourth quar-
ter with the score tied 7-7 and
gave the Bulldogs an automatic
first down on their 41. From there
it took 11 plays to march the 59
yards for a 14-7 lead with 8:54
remaining in the game.
Tigers edged
AIR FORCE ACADEMY - Mis-
souri's Greg Hill missed a 37-yard
field goal attempt with five sec-
ords to play yesterday as Air
Force squeeked out a 7-6 college
football victory over the Tigers.
Hill, a junior defensive half-
back, had earlier kicked field goals
of 35 and 22 yards to give Missouri
all of its points.
The game's only touchlown came
in the second period when Falcon
quarterback Joel Carlson faked a
handoff up the middle, then trot-
ted untouched two yards around the
left end.
Craig Barry provided what turn-
ed out to be the winning point
with his conversion.
Colorado coasts
BOULDER-Sophomore quarter-
backs Joe Duenas and Rich Bland
directed Colorado's triple option
running game like veterans yester-
day, guiding the Buffs to a 56.13
victory over Wyoming at Folsom
Stadium.
Playing in place of injured Ken
Johnson, another sophomore, the
two moved the team to 405 yards
rushing, with Duenas scoring three
times and tossing one scoring pass.
Razorbacks roll
LITTLE ROCK - Joe Ferguson,
Arkansas' passing whiz, surprised,
everyone with a 35-yard touch-
down run against Oklahoma State
and sparked the sixth-ranked
Razorbacks to a 31-10 victory over
the Cowboys last night.
-Daily-Tom Gottlieb
MIKE TAYLOR (33), Michigan's stalwart middle linebacker, combines with wolfback Frank Gusic
(14) to pry loose the football from Virginia quarterback Harrison Davis early in yesterday's gam
against the Cavaliers. The pigskin bounded free and out of bounds before a Wolverine could recove
it enabling the Cavaliers to retain possession and record their second of only seven first downs in th
game.
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SCORES
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Gridde Pickings
Michigan 56, Virginia 0
Georgia Tech 10, Michigan State 0
Indiana 26. Kentucky 8
North Carolina 27, Illinois 0 .
Oregon State 33, Iowa 19
Nebraska 35, Minnesota 7
Notre Dame 50, Northwestern 7
Syracuse 20, Wisconsin 20
Washington 38, Purdue 35
Toledo 10, Villanova 7
Texas 28, UCLA 10
California,20, West Virginia 10
GeorgiTa 17, Tulane 7
Louisiana State 37, Texas A&M 0
Houston at Arizona State, inc.
Florida State 20, Miami 17
Colgate 27, Boston Univ 21
Air Force 7, Missouri 6
Colorado 56, Wyoming 13
Western Kentucky 33 Wittenberg 7
Other Scores:
East
Maryland State 20, Howard Univ 7
Massachusetts 13, Maine 0
St.Lawrence 47, Colby College 9
Vermont 20, Connecticut 7
Alfred 27, Brockport State 7
minmher 2R irran nTiva
Auburn 60, Chattanooga 7
Davidson Col 27, Virginia Military 3
Florida State 20, Miami, Fla 17
Glenville State 7, Shepherd Col 7
Tennessee 48, Cal. U, S. Barbara 6
Kentucky State 21,dAlbany St. 2
Midwest'
Drake Univ 34, Abilene 17
Franklin Col 35, Hope College 25
Mankato State 10, So. Dakota State 0
So. Dakota Tech 10, Black Hills St 3
Wartburg 38, Upper Iowa 20
Bethel. Minn. 28, Sioux Falls 14
West Michigan 9, Ball State 0
Denison Univ. 34, Centre College 0
Kansas 22, Baylor 0
East Michigan 28, Quantico Marine 20
Idaho St Univ 10, South Dakota 7
Iowa State 24, Idaho 7
Montana 27, North Dakota 14
North Carolina 27. Illinois 0
Oklahoma 30, South Methodist 0
Far West
Tennessee 48, Cal U, S. Barbara 6
Arizona 39, Washington St. 28
kColorado 56, Wyoming 13
Nevada, Reno 44, Oregon Tech 7
Western St. Colo 10, Southern Col 7
Linfield Col 17. Central Wash St. 9
Romp
By TERRI FOUCHEY
Michigan head coach Bo Schembechli
proved himself a master of understati]
the obvious with his comment about yep
terday's embarassment with Virginia. "V
have too many good football players fc
that team. We are a little bigger an
stronger physically and we just outmanne
them."
The statistics showing how many ai
who played for each team bear out th
truth of Schembechler's words. The Wc
verines used all healthy available pe7
formers including 18 different offensi
backs. Virginia, suffering from a sligI
lack of bodies due to the limitations of
traveling squad, utilized 42 of 68 player
That the Cavaliers were outmanned w
obvious; but it was the performancesc
revea/s
M'
when necessary option mold, are a num-
ber of running backs who appear ready to
take up where Billy Taylor and Glenn
Doughty leave off. These backs, principally
Ed Shuttlesworth, Harry Banks, Alan
"Cowboy" Walker, and Bob Thornbladh,
combined for a rushing total of 263 yards
compared to the starting backs' 140. Also,
Shuttlesworth and Banks accounted for
three touchdowns, as many as the starters
at their positions, Taylor and Fritz Sey-
ferth, did. Based on these two details, the
Wolverines lost no rushing power by sub-
stituting.
The major portion of the substitutes'
total belongs in the 111 yards Shuttles-
worth earned. Much speculation has arisen
concerning Schembechler's quandary over
who is his starting fullback. Shuttlesworth
ra prnirnnlo u n-4nrna 1-, -.n a e + t an
been forthcoming if Shuttlesworth had
managed more than seven yards a carry.
In several instances, one whole side of the
Cavalier line would rise to the occassion
to stop Shuttlesworth only to see him dis-
solve their tackles and still gain five yards.
Banks with fewer opportunities, rolled
up an eight yard average in six carries.
After looking at Banks' statistics Taylor
may be feeling some heat, too.
* Walker and Thornbladh each rushed
eight times and each gained over 40 yards.
Thornbladh may eventually give Shuttles-
worth a run for his money at the alter-
nate spot. He was nearly as devastating
as Shuttlesworth and was rewarded with
one touchdown for his efforts.
The defensive substitutes' statistics
read along the same lines, although they
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Big Ten Standings
Conference Games
MICHIGAN
Ohio State
Minnesota
Michigan State
Wisconsin
Purdue
Indiana
Northwestern
Iowa
Illinois
MICHIGAN 56,
W
1
1
Y
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
PF
21
52
28
10
0
0
0
6
21
0
PA
6
21
0
'0
0
0
28
21
52
10
W
2
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
All Games
L T PF
0 0 77
0 0 52
1 0 35
1 0 10
0 1 51
1 0 35
1 0 26
2 0 13
2 0 40
2 0 0
PA
6
21
35
10
20
38
36
71
85
37
Yesterday's Games
Virginia 0
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