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Sunday,-October 24, 1971

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Nine.

Sunday, October 24, 1911 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine

Bucks'wishbone buries Badgers

By the Associated Press
COLUMBUS-Sophomore Morris Bradshaw
broke clear for two 88-yard scoring bursts
yesterday - one on a kickoff return, the
other on the longest Ohio State touchdown
run from scrimmage ever in Ohio Stadium-
as the Buckeyes unveiled their version of the
Wishbone-T to whip Wisconsin 31-6.
The victory before 86,599 and millions more
on regional television kept Ohio State in
serious contention for a fourth straight Big
Ten title. The Buckeyes are 4-0 in the con-
ference and 5-1 overall.
The alert Ohio State defense forced Wis-
consin, 2-2 in the Big Ten and 3-3-1 overall,
into four fumbles and four interceptions. Two
of the mistakes led to Buckeye touchdowns
in a 17-point second quarter.
Elmer Lippert, another sophomore, burst
48 yards for a touchdown the first time Ohio
State tried the Wishbone-T this season, snap-
ping a scoreless tie early in the second
period.
On another Wishbone-T call less than two
minutes later Bradshaw picked his way for
88 yards and Ohio State was in front 14-0.
The Buckeyes had used the formation only
once before in their 27-17 Rose Bowl loss to
Stanford last January.

Wildcats roll
BLOOMINGTON - Veteran Maurie Daig-
neau scored one touchdown and passed for
one yesterday as Northwestern's Wildcats
defeated Indiana 24-10 and kept alive an out-
side chance for the Big Ten football title.
Versatile Jim Lash caught the touchdown
pass, a 65-yard dazzler, and scored again on
a 6-yard end-around play. He got both of his
touchdowns in the second quarter after In-
diana took a 3-0 lead in the first period on
Chris Gartner's 43-yard field goal.
Daigneau had to move the ball only 18
inches for his touchdown in the third quarter.'
The ball was on the 1-yard line when Indiana

Coach John Pont stormed on the field to
half-the-distance to the goal line penalty.
protest a pass interference call and drew a
Ted McNulty passed 26 yards to Alan Dick
for a third-quarter Indiana touchdown but
Northwestern finished the scoring with Bill
Planisek's 22-yard field goal in the final
period.
Purdue burned
CHAMPAGNE-Troubled John Wilson bolt-
ed over for two touchdowns and a roaring
Illinois defense led by Tab Bennett dealt
Purdue a stunning 21-7 defeat yesterday be-
fore a delirious homecoming crowd of 52,344.
ANDINGS
rence Non-conference
PF PA W L T PF PA
15 32 7 0 0 255 32
34 44 5 1 0 183 67
00 67 4 2 1 142 113
02 66 4 3 0 121 122
67 76 3 4 0 132 164
83 112 3 3 1 162 170
85 58 3 4 0 118 96
37 76 1 6 0 51 193
46 114 1 6 0 72 139
54 178 0 7 0 87 255

The victory was the first for the season for
Illinois after six losses and broke a two-year,
nine-game losing streak dating back to a
23-21 triumph over the same Boilermakers
last year.
Purdue went into the game with a 3-0 -rec-
ord in the Big Ten and was ranked a 15-point
favorite but couldn't overcome the aroused
Illini.
* * *
Iowa swamped
EAST LANSING-Michigan State swamped
winless Iowa on a soggy field yesterday,
overpowering the hapless Hawkeyes 34-3 with
power sweeps to both sides.
Eric Allen streaked across the artificial
surface for 177 yards and three touchdowns
as MSU improved its record to 3-4 despite
fumbling 14 times, a Big Ten record. Iowa,
which led 3-0 before MSU got on track, now
is 0-7.
Repeatedly running wide with its new wish-
bone offense MSU simply bowled over Iowa's
defense with superior blocking. The Spartans
sputtered often as quarterback Mike. Ras-
mussen had trouble holding the slippery ball,
but the outcome was obvious once MSU took
the lead.

BIG TEN STS

MICHIGAN
Ohio State
Purdue
Northwestern
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan State
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa

W
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
1
0
0

Confer
L T
0 0 1
0 0 1
1 0 1
2 0 1
2 0
2 0
2 0
3 0
4 0
5 0

-Associated Press
RICl GALBOS, Ohio State running back puts his shoulder into the Wisconsin line on a
way to a gain in the Buckeyes' 31-6 romp past the Badgers. The victory was Ohio State's
fourth in conference play against no defeats.

Wolverines

punish

outgunned

By JOHN PAPANEK
Special To The Daily
MINNEAPOLIS - Billy Tay-
lor carried the Little Brown
Jug into the Michigan locker-
room, its home for the past SUNDAY SPORTS
Three years, after yesterday's - '- ~ - k V U.i K
35-7 Michigan victory over the
Minnesota Gophers. NIGHT EDITORS: JOEL GREER and ELLIOT LEGOW
For 60 minutes before that,
the super tailback carried the
W Michigan got on the scoreboard Taylor proceeded to ignite his en-
Wolverines to victory with 1651 first, but only after stopping an gine.
yards rushing and two touch- offensive blitzkrieg by the Goph- On Michigan's first play, the
*owns. He also carried himself ers. nation's least publicized bona-fide
to the top of the list of all the Minnesota's powerhouse fullback Heisman Trophy candidate took
men who ever carried the ball Ernie Cook found some holes and an option pitchout and streaked
marched through the Michigan around right end for 12 yards and
for Michigan. .Maulers for two first downs and a a first down.
But don't let the lopsided score firm stronghold at the Wolverine Another first down and two
fool you. All last week, Michigan's 25 plays later, the Wolverines had
coach Bo Schembechler was going third down and 14 on their own
%round saying that the Minnesota With third down and four, Cur- 45. Considering Michigan's passing
game would be the toughest one ry went back to pass., but fell down game, which at best has been
yet for the third-ranked Wolver- for a loss of one. Wanting badly called "ineffective", the d r iv e
ines to beat Michigan to the touch- looked dead.
down column as Illinois did last But quarterback T o m S 1 a d e
The reason was that the Goph- week, Gopher coach Murray War- picked a good time for his only
ers possessed the conference's best math forsook a field goal attempt completion of the day (he ended
quarterback and one of the best and went for the marbles on up completing one of seven) hit-
4the country in Craig Curry. fourth down.tigPuSem rfo13yds
ting Paul Seymour for 13 yards.
Schembechler's fears were not Curry went back to throw and After a Taylor-made first down,
unfounded as Curry led the fierc- lofted a high spiral for Honza in the Wolverines glided from the
est assault to date on Michigan's the end zone. Honza had three Gopher 35 down to the four with
defense, completing 12 of 20 passes steps on Bruce Elliott but juggled ease. On first down and goal to
for 193 yards including a 73-yard the ball, and finally caught it as go, Taylor dove over right tackle
touchdown bomb to flanker George he stepped over the end line. The for Michigan's first touchdown.
Honza. Wolverines were off the hook, and Dana Coin's 30th consecutive extra
point kick was good, and Michi-
gan had a 7-0 lead that lived until
t r early in the second quarter.
After a stalled Wolverine drive,
Curry led the Gophers to a short
touchdown drive-short in time,
r' not in yardage. It went 73 yards in
two plays. One was for no gain.
The other was a pass.
Honza ran the same post pat-
f: tern on which he beat Elliott in
the first quarter, and sure enough
he beat him again. And this time,
he had no end line to worry about.
He caught the ball on the Michi-
gan 19-yard line and sped into
the end zone, just eluding a pur-
.... : ' suing Randy Logan.
The Wolverines were quick to
make up for it as they drove 80
yards on the next 14 plays for
another touchdown. Glen Doughy
X was the key man in the drive,
reeling off two 10-yard runs, the
last on second down and eight
from the Minnesota 15.
That brought the ball down to
the five. Ed Shuttlesworth tried
for the touchdown, but was stop-
ped on the four by linebacker Bill
/ Light. Fritz Seyferth, who scored
four times in last year's Little

Gophers
out to lunch
Bill Taylor
breaks the barrier,

-Associated Press
BILLY TAYLOR (42) surges over the Minnesota goal line for the Wolverines' first score in yesterday's
35-7 triumph over the Gophers. Taylor eluded Minnesota's Lou Clare (32) and Tom Pribyl (28) to reach
the end zone. It was the biggest day in B. T.'s Michigan career yesterday as he gained 168 yards to
become the greatest ground-gainer in Michigan his tory.

Brown Jug game, returned to the igan, a fumble by Tom Waltower
lineup and rammed off right guard on the Gopher 19, opened the door
for the touchdown. for another Michigan touchdown.
The Gophers came out for the Taylor did all the work, going for
second half smelling upset, and 11 and four yards, and a four yard
their usually impotent d e f e n s e touchdown, the 29th of his career,
stuck it to the Wolverines. Digging to pass Ron Johnson for second
in after allowing an 11-yard Tay- place in Michigan career touch-
for gain, Minnesota drove Michi- downs, behind Tom Harmon.
gan for three straight losses and Michigan's defense finally got
forced a punt. Curry under control in the fourth
But the Gophers could not mount period, while the offense posted
an attack after a 15-yard holding two more touchdowns.
penalty, and the Wolverines got in Shuttlesworth, who rushed for
gear again. 96 yards overall rambled 26 yards
They drove from their own 45 on the way to the goal line, but
to a first down on Minnesota's stumbled and was brought down
seven. The Gopher defense held by Steve Politano. Four plays
three times, and Coin missed a 22- later, Doughty skirted right end
yard field goal. "That's the first for Michigan's fourth touchdown.
time our goal line offense has been The deluge was not over yet, as
stopped all year," moaned Schem- the Gophers provided yet another
bechler. opportunity for the Wolverines to
But another big break for Mich- mount up points. Using a trick
CAVS CLICK

play on Michigan's kick off, Hon-
za, who fielded the kick threw a
cross-field lateral to John Mar-
quesen. But the ball ended up on
the tartan where Barry Dotzauer
fell on it for the Wolverines on!
the Gopher 16 yard line.
It took Michigan only five plays
to score, the touchdown coming on
a five-yard pass from mop-up
quarterback Larry Cipa to wing-
back Larry Gustafson.
Despite the late success of a
Michigan pass, Schembechler once
again was unimpressed by the
W o l v e r i n e passing game. "We
didn't do a good job passing," he
understated. "When we had time
to throw, we couldn't hit the re-
ceiver. We're a running team, any-
way."
What about Taylor? someone
asked Bo. "Yes, Taylor's a pretty
good back," he said with a big rosy
smile.

EVEN THOUGH HE'S only been here twice, Minneapolis has
got to be Bill Taylor's favorite town. This is the place where
he began his assault on the Michigan record-book and it's here
that he achieved the big breakthrough, passing Ron Johnson as
the Wolverine's all-time leading rusher.
As a sophomore Taylor spent his first five games on the
bench, watching his friend Glenn Doughty run from tailback.
But Doughty's season was cut short by an injury suffered in the
Michigan State game and Taylor was called upon to start at
Minnesota.
He responded to the opportunity by rushing for 151 yards
and except for a three game stint at fullback, Taylor has been
Michigan's starting tailback ever since. At the end of the first
season he had racked up 800 yards #in only five games.
By the time the Gophers turned up on the schedule again
yesterday Taylor's rushing total had grown from the initial 151
to 2,256 yards. When he finished racing through the Minnesota
line the number read 2,421, 81 more than Johnson's total.
Surprisingly, Taylor wasn't that excited about breaking the
record. It seems that it had been part of his plans ever since he.
entered Michigan as a freshman. As Doughty recalls, "he came
in as a freshman and said all this stuff about erasing the record.
He worked hard and took a lot of pain, but he did it."
Taylor admitted that setting the mark for most yards has
been a personal goal since his first year, but added that he
couldn't talk about it much then. "I had some kind of'ldea-
about it as a freshman," he remembered. "But I couldn't talk
about it then just like I still can't talk about some other goals
now."
Actually, he wasn't really ready to talk about the record after
the game yesterday. However it wasn't that he didn't want to.
He just didn't know that he had done it. Taylor enjoys carrying
the ball so much that until he was told he didn't realize that he
rushed 33 times against the Gophers.
Though he passed Johnson in the first half he didn't find out
about it until the game was over. "When I came out in the fourth
quarter I knew that I was close," Taylor remembered. "But I
realized that I wouldn't get back into the game so I figured that
I would get it next week. I thought that if I had it somebody
would tell me. Somebody did at the end but he said that I had
165 yards for game and I told him that he was lying."
No one was lying however as B. T. did finish with 165
yards. Eighty-eight of those came in the first half, so the rec-
ord was his early in the game. As Taylor said though, "Today
every yard was a tough yard so I was surprised that I had
that many."
The record breaking run was a gain of three yards around
right end. But most of Taylor's yards yesterday came on the off
tackle play,, his favorite. "I like to run off-tackle and break it
outside," he stated. Actually, though, any kind of play is alright
with Taylor. A second later he added that "I just like to get my
hands on the ball." And about two seconds after that it was down
to "I just love running the ball and that's all there is."
In addition to breaking Johnson's rushing record yesterday,
Taylor also passed him in career scoring, moving into second place
behind Tom Harmon. His first touchdown, on a play off right
tackle gave B.T. 27 touchdowns, moving him into a tie with John-
son.
His second, coming on an end run gave him 28, putting
him into second place in both most touchdowns and total
career scoring. When asked if breaking Harmon's record of 33
touchdowns was one of his goals Taylor wouldn't be specific,
but left little doubt that it was.
"If I get the opportunity to score or get an extra yard I'll
get it," he commented. "If I can get it I'll get it."
In previous seasons Taylor used to get at least a few yards
receiving passes, but this year he has been a target only once.
The Wolverines haven't really gone to the air that often, but
Taylor admits that, "I'd like to play a bigger part in the passing."

-Associated Press
TOM SLADE passes (?) incomplete against Minnesota in yester-
day's first quarter action. The Gophers fell on the ball, but officials
ruled it a forward pass. The passing game as a whole was dis-
appointing for Michigan as Slade and Larry Cipa completed only
two of ten tries.

ilwa uk
By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA-The unbeaten Milwau-
kee Bucks, sparked by the all around play
of Kareem Abdul Jabbar, formerly known
as Lew Alcindor, defeated the Philadelphia
76ers 110-88 last night.
Jabbar poured in 40 points and pulled
down 29 rebounds as Milwaukee gained its
sixth straight victory while handing Phila-
delphia its first loss after four victories.
The Bucks led only 53-47 at the half, but
pulled away in the third quarter to build up
an 83-63 margin going into the final period.
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FIRST DOWNS
Rushing
Passing
Penalty
RUSHING
Number of rushes
)brds gained rushing
ds lost rushing
PASSING
Attempted
Comple ted
Intercepted by

2
39
8

13
?7 3
0 8
0 0
I 67
35 34
8 100
7 33
8 193
1( 20
2 12
0 1-

Shuttlesworthl
Thornbladh 2
Att
Slade 7
Cipa 3
Seymour
Gustafson

11 0 11 0 18
96 0 96 0 26
6 0 6 0 4

Knicks nicked
NEW YORK - Veteran Bill Bridges and
rookie George Trapp ignited an 18-3 At-
lanta surge in the third quarter that carried
the Hawks to their first victory of the
National Basketball Association season last
night, a 95-89 decision over the New York
Knicks.
The Hawks, who had lost their first four
games, trailed 55-52 with 6:28 left in the
third period. Then Bridges hit two consecu-
tive field goals, Trapp popped in a short
one-hander and Bridges followed with a
free throw before the Knicks' Willis Reed
hit a basket.
Then Bridges curled in a driving hook
and Trapp added four straight free throws,

mediately with another field goal that in-
sured the third straight victory for the Cel-
tics, who have never lost to the Braves. The
loss was Buffalo's fourth in a row this sea-
son.
Sabres hammered
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL - Bill Golds-
worthy scored Minnesota's first two goals,
then hammered in another in the third per-
iod to power the North Stars to a 5-1 Na-
tional' Hockey League victory over Buffalo
last night.
Penguins crunched
PITTSBURGH - The Black Hawks took
sole possession of first place in the National

Passing
Com Int Yds
1 0 13
3 1 1 5
Receiving
No Yds
1 13
1 5

TD
0
1
TD
0
1

Long
13
5
Long
13
5

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