Saturday, November 13, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Saturday, November 1 3, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Icers triumph; Gridders set for Purdue Gagnon tallies four in opener as Michigan mauls Mustangs, 10-3 Blue wary of Purdue spoilers; Taylor, Coin threaten records By BILL ALTERMAN The Wolverines celebrated the start of their fiftieth hockey season last night by thoroughly drubbing Western Ontario 10-3. Led by sen- ior Bernie Gagnon's four, the dek- ers played a strong game and just blew by the Mustangs in the third period with six goals. "Any time you score ten goals' you got to be happy," said an ob- viously delighted Coach Al Ren- frew after the game. "They all played well." While over on the other side a disheartened Mustang Coach Ron Watson took solace in the fact that Western Ontario stayed with the Wolverines for almost half the game, "It was fairly even through the beginning of the second per- iod," he felt, "but then some of our players saw us down by a few goals and started to do some stupid things out there." Indeed Western Ontario held a 2-1 lead half way through the sec- daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: RANDY PHILLIPS goal to start the third period was "the turning point of the game." ' minutes later freshman Frank Werner sent the Wolverines into the lead for good when he knocked in a short pass from Pat Donnelly, another freshman. After that the rout was on and only the final score was in ques- tion. Renfrew was especially pleased with the play of his freshmen who contributed five goals. "They play- ed real well," he stated, "I just hope they can sustain it." Particularly impressive Paul- Andre Paris, a 17-year-old fresh- man, who, in his first varsity In addition to Werner, two other freshmen, Donnelly and Gary Kar- dos, also lit the light for the Wol- verines. All three freshmen are from Detroit, causing a beaming Renfrew to comment, "Those De- troit kids played pretty well; they all scored, and you can't ask for more than that." But the partisan Michigan crowd of 2400 was especially rooting for Gagnon and the Montreal speed- ster did not disappoint them. He brought the crowd to the edge of ecstasy seven minutes into the third period when he faked Mus- tang goalie Nick Mancini complete- ly off his feet and then shot the puck smartly into the empty net. "He gets the goals," Renfrew un- derstated when it was all over. Watson admitted he used a lot of substitutes in the game, including three different goalies. "But to- morrow I'm out to win it and I'll go with the players who I think can do it." From Wire Service Reports LAFAYETTE, Ind.-If Michigan beats Purdue here today the Wol- verines can break out the sun glasses and suntan lotion for a trip to the Rose Bowl. Even if they lose to Purdue and Ohio State in the final regular season g a m e s, the Wolverines would be considered the favorite to be chosen by the Big Ten as its bowl representative. The task facing Purdue is: awe- some. The third-ranked Wolverines have won nine straight games this The Michigan-Purdue game begins at 1:30 and will be car- ried over radio stations WWJ, 950 AM; WPAG, 1050 AM; WAAM, 1600 AM; WUOM 91,7 FM; and WCBN, 650 AM. season, including six in conference play. Michigan leads the Big Ten in scoring offense, scoring defense, total offense, total defense, rushing offense and rushing defense. The Wolves also are either leading or very near the top in the NCAA in each of those categories. Michigan Coach Bo Schembech- ler doesn't take the Boilermakers lightly, though. He said, "I said before and I say again, we have to win all our games if we expect to win the Big Ten championship. "They (Purdue) have lost three games in the final minutes. They must be snake-bitten because they have talented people and can play football with anyone." Bo may be remembering that this is the Purdue "Spoilermaker" team that is noted for either scar- ing or upsetting the collegiate giants. Bob DeMoss, the Purdue head coach, said, "This team (Purdue) deserves a better fate than to have lost five of its eight games in con- ference." "It will take as much of a men- tal effort as physical to ready our- selves for Michigan," he added. Tailback Billy Taylor, sporting a 5.5-yards-per-carry average and 12 touchdowns, and fullback Gene Shuttlesworth, 5.1 per carry, lead Michigan's devastating running at- tack. Fast-trotting tailback T a y 10 r needs just two touchdowns to tie Tom Harmon's Michigan career mark of 33; 105 yards will vault him past Jim Grabowski of Illinois as the Big Ten's leading career rusher of all time. DeMoss is still uncertain whether junior quarterback Gary Danielson will be ready to start after missing his second game of the season with a shoulder injury. If he does not start, sophomore Steve Burke will get the nod. Burke and Danielson have combined to give Purdue the Big Ten lead in passing offense. Otis Armstrong, who had piled up 786 of Purdue's 1,289 yards rush- ing this season, will be trying to keep the Michigan defense honest. Michigan will be in top shape for today's game: offensive tackle Jim Coode and fullback Fritz Sey- ferth will both be back in the line- up after missing the Iowa game. The talented toe of Dana Coin, which has already shattered the NCAA consecutive extra point rec- ord with 51, is now pointed at the Big Ten record for most field goals in a single season. Coin needs two more successful boots to tie six dif- ferent Big Ten kickers at six. i and period and might have had !game, scored two goals and had even more but for some fine goal- three assists. Renfrew felt that his tending by Michigan's Karl Bag- nell. Mustan The Wolverines put in the first FIRST PERIOD SCORING: 1. M-Gagnon marker late in the first period (Paris) 16:20; PENALTIES: 1. M-Tru- when Gagnon scored from in close deau (2, kneeing) 5:14; 2. W-McAninch on a power play. (2, interference) 15:18; 3. W-Johnston (2, crosschecking) 18:38. However, the Mustangs came SECOND PERIOD SCORING: 2. W-Jef- right out in the second period and fery (Johnston, MacGregor) 10:17; 3. scored two quick goals. W-Figas (Coons, Edward) 12:19; 4. M- But the Wolverines came roaring Gagnon (Paris, Jarry) 1245; 5. M1Werner (Neal, Donnelly) 15:38; 6. M-Gagnon back 26 seconds later when Gag- i(arry, Paris) 19:30. PENALTIES: 4. W- non picked up a pass from the cor- Smith (2, interference) 3:06; 5. M-Skin- ner by Michel Jarry and slapped it ner (2, holding) 6. W-Jeffery (2, trip- ping) 5:22; 7. M-Connelly (2, charging) home from the front edge of the ,9:07. left circle. That tied it and three THIRD PERIOD SCORING: 7. M-Paris -Daily-Terry McCarthy FULLBACK ED SHUTTLESWORTH (31) plows his way through the Iowa line in last week's game against the Hawkeyes. Aid- ing him on the way by a block is guard Tom Coil (60). Shuttles- wort rnmhlaA fnjr uv~r in au c1 yiti'uan rmvr wM t mahwortn rambendfor over 100 yaras ias g mash (Jarry, Gagnon) 1:10; 8. W-Best (Fraser) workout today against the Boilermakei 3:25; 9. Donnelly (Kardos, Neal) 4:30; - ----- 10. M-Gagnon (Jarry, Trudeau) 7:24; 11. BREEZE: M-Connelly (Trudeau.Werner) 7:43; 12. NEBRASKA M-Kardos (Gagnon) 17:26; 13. M-Paris (Trudeau, Jarry) 19:36. PENALTIES: M- Lefevre (tripping) 1:42; W-Berkely (in- terference) 5:50; M-Falconer (cross- checking) 5:50; W. Fraser (high stick- -chknnelg ebwng)41;WEd a l dg ing) 11:16; M-Cartier (roughing) 11:166; wards (roughing) 15:06; M-Werner1 (roughing, 10 minute misconduct) 15:06;' W-Sokolowski (holding) 17:22; M- Fal- By RANDY CASWELL more, coner (high sticking) 17:34; W-Howard In the beginning, or more spe- ball I (high sticking) 17:34. cifically, in 1892, there were two van's Deep South teams, Auburn and back.' Georgia. Such frills as national Aub polls, and television or radio cov- back, erage were missing in the first fense. meeting of these Southeastern have Conference powers. game. The national polls and coverage The will hopefully make the diamond are st jubilee (75th) meeting of these third gridiron heavies more interest- enth ing than Auburn's 10-7 win over only Georgia in their first contest. Off The 5th ranked Tigers have an SEC 8-0 record, along with the dis- quart( tinction of holding 10th place na- Johns tionally in total offense and and p fourth place in passing. this Much, if not all, of the credit Ray, l for the statistical plaudits goes to offens the Auburn quarterback, Pat Sul- callin livan. Sullivan, the nation's all The time number three passer, has led facr teTigers to 10 straight victori.es. favori i tigi ~ Ths srin iscurrently the long- Aubur est in Southeastern Conference prese history. Cotto2 If all goes well, Sullivan can add Peach another entry to his bulging re- ner o cord book. He needs only one get th more touchdown pass to equal the Comm career mark of 50 held by Orlea SKentucky's Babe Parilli. Kar Sul1ivan'scomplish- of a ments could well form an epic Nebra poem, and Auburn mentor Ralph impro !"Sug" Jordan couldn't agree Coact; it week anaIU iiIul geta rs. THE LINEUPS OFFENSE MICHIGAN PURDUE , Tigers tangle (15) (73) (65) (53) (50) , fl Bo Rather (180) Jim Coode (235) Reggie McKenzie (232) Guy Murdock (230) Tom Coyle (253) S L L R u. "In 41 years of college foot- a pro-type aerial attack. (76) Jim Bratatter (245) K have never seen Pat Sulli- Even this new offensive ap- (85) Paul Seymour (231) T equal as a complete quarter- proach can't help the porous State (42) Bill Taylor (195) T defense, it has been socked for (32) Fritz Seyferth (218) F urn may have the quarter- more points than any other team (22) Glenn Doughty (207) W but Georgia has THE de- in the Big Eight. Nebraska can (17) Toro Slade (198) Q The tenacious Bulldogs well afford to look ahead to the DEFT yielded only 5.8 points per test of tests with Oklahoma on Thanksgiving Day. (94) Butch Carpenter (215) L Georgia defensive records Speaking of the Sooners, they (92) Fred Grambau (248 L taggering. The Bulldogs are have the week off too, as they (68) Greg Ellis (223) M in scoring defense and sev- host the Kansas Jaymawks in a (99) Tom Beckman (246) R in total defense, giving up nationally televised game. The (90) Mike Keller (224) R 212 yards per game. game will hold some interest (37) Tom Kee (210) W ensively, Georgia leads the though, for Oklahoma will become (33) MikeTaylor (224) M in scoring, utilizing a two the greatest rushing team in col- (14) Frank Gusich (188) W erback system. Starter Andy lege history. The Sooners need on has rushed for 608 yards only 80 yards to crack the present (21) Bruce Elliott (175) W passed for 226 yards so far all-time mark of 3,911 yards set (41) Randy Logan (192) S year. His understudy, Jim by the 1956 Oklahoma team. (35) Tom Darden (195) S has amassed 680 yards total -- -- _______.___ e with his masterful play BUCKS 'N 'CATS Bulldogs are a seven point te in this year's tussle,v re in this year's tussle, but ; pe s mt to r n il e npiedb teGophers meetU iorridu nce of bowl scouts from the 'n, Gator, Liberty, Orange, , and Sugar bowls. The win- The Big Ten race is nearly his- referred to as a jinx. True, the f the contest will probably tory. Michigan's mighty Wolver- Gophers didn't meet them during e nod from the Sugar Bowl ines, barring some colossal oc- 1965-66, the great Spartan years; nittee for this year's New currence, will succeed Ohio State but 14 years is 14 years. E LT LG C B LT E B B VB IB (12) (60) (53) (54) (57) (77) (84) (24) (43) (38) (12) Rick Sayers (190) Tim Huxhold (230) Ken Watkins (230) Bob Hoidahl (219) Mike Williams (218) Tom Luken (237) Mike Cota (205) Otis Armstrong (189) Darryl Stingley (190) Ron North (22) Gary Danielson (187) Steve Baumgartner (243) Dave Butz (268) Greg Bingham (221) Bronco Keser (248) Gary Hrivnak (229) Rick Schavietello (211) Jim Teal (22) Charlie Potts (205) Carl Capria (175) Sam Carter (179) ENSE E LT IG LT tE LB LB Volf HB HB (97) (62) (55) (78) (92) (32) (49) (83) (21) (23) (19) Chuck Peibes (195) Spartans a contender but shoddy defense doomed their hopes. The Badgers, however, are second in the Big Ten in total offense. Illinois con- ns match. nsas State isn't given much chance to upset top-ranked ska, but the Wildcats have ved tremendously s i n c e Vince Gibson has installed Gagnon (7) fires on goa McKenziE By RANDY PHILLIPS It's Billy Taylor slashing through a gaping hole in the left side of the line; Taylor breaks into the clear; he's at the twenty, ten, five, touchdown! Meanwhile back at the line of scrim- mage, a strewn array of bodies can be seen-mostly remnants of an opposing team's defense left on their backs by the offensive line's charge. The inglorious work of the offensive linemen generally goes unnoticed and unappreciated by the fans, but Reggie McKenzie, Michigan's outstanding All- America candidate at guard, doesn't think that publicity is the most import- ant achievement in playing football- especially on the line. "Playing on the line, I get a lot of personal satisfaction. By my going out there and doing my job, I'm going to get noticed. They (opposing players) gain respect for you. If they are getting beat badly, they'll say somnething to let you know. That's where personal satis- faction comes in." McKenzie considers playing the line both a' challenge between two people and a challenge to keep one's own emotions under control in a very stressing situa- tion. "I like to fire ahead-head on block- ing. He (the opponent) can't get away. It's a way of finding out who's the bet- ter man. As Bo (Wolverine coach Bo Schembechler) would say, It's nose to nose." But he added that "you have to keep your temper and poise because a missed assignment could lose the ball game." The 6-4, 232 senior from Highland Park, Michigan thinks that Jim Ander- snnof Northwestern has heen the tough- :Sa tisfac tion guaran teed as co Ev seaso Tear well, prise seaso dium succ and Th mine This Spar len, ity a the onference kings. Two wins would give the Spar- tnues to improve with its young ery year, at this stage of the tans an excellent finish; possibly team and with its new coach, Bob n, the same analysis is made, second place, having defeatedBlackman. ns that should have done Purdue and Ohio State. To do this The final game pits a pair of did not. Others have sur- they must stop their jinx and the I's, Indiana and Iowa, in a bat- d their followers with good passing of Gopher Craig Curry. tle for the right to escape the ns. Today at Spartan Sta- Curry leads the Big Ten with 103 cellar. Neither team has much go- in East Lansing two fairly completions for 1,444 yards and ing for it. Iowa is led by quarter- essful squads, Michigan State eight touchdowns. His top re- back Frank Sunderman, second Minnesota, will do battle. ceiver, George Honza, is a doubt- in passing, and tailback Levi Mit- ie Spartans have found a gold ful performer, suffering a hip chell. in the Wishbone-T offense. pointer in the Gopher's loss to Quarterback Ted McNulty, im- formation has enabled the Northwestern, proving with every game, leads a tans' fine tailback, Eric Al- In Evanston, Northwestern is demoralized Hoosier aggregation to display his runnig abil- also thinking of a second place which saw victory slip away last fter being bottled up most of finish. After beating Minnesota, week against Illinois on a highly year. Allen broke the NCAA 41-20, last Saturday, the Wild- disputed play. for an 'easy' game or for plays when the outcome of the game has been de- cided. Reggie replied, "you just don't want to get beat; you feel 'kind of bad' if he beats you." He added, "It's survival of the fittest. You're going to get to him or- he's going to get to you. I'd rather get to him." McKenzie points to pride as the rea- son why Michigan has not had a real let down this year while compiling a 9-0 record and why the Wolverines will not be caught looking ahead past Purdue to- day to Ohio State. "The pressure has been building, es- pecially for this game (Purdue). We've gotten so close (to a perfect season) and we'd hate to falter. The pressure's on, but we have a lot of pride. We'll be ready." The one-on-one battles on the line of scrimmage tend to remind one of battles in the trenches, but when asked if foot- ball is a dehumanizing game, McKenzie retorted, "I don't think the game is de- humanizing. A lot of people like real highly competitive games. It depends on the person. It's different strokes for dif- ferent folks." Implying that competition itself is not dehumanizing and that football is not forced on people, Reggie added, "I like contact sports. Football is always going to be a competitive sport . . . you have to love the game, because you can't tell me that a guy's going to go out and suffer bruises without liking the game." Emphasizing his point further, Reggie queried, "It's (football) been here for years and all of a sudden it's dehuman- izing? Something that is dehumanizing is war; you're killing people then." But McKenzie admits there is an im- tors such as team friendships and edu- cational advantages. "The tension factor is not as profound (at Michigan) as at other schools. There is a higher rate of graduation here; the emphasis is more on academics." One of the major reasons that Reggie decided to go to Ann Arbor was the aca- demic record of the school. McKenzie is now a physical education major with a minor in history, but he has not ruled out the possibility of law schoolr "I'm still thinking of going to law school; I'd also like to teach. I also like politics and knowing what's going on in the world." This desire to diversify is not often associated with football players who are generally depicted as dumb and muscu- lar. Reggie feels that a football player h'as two roles to play, "Reggie the stu- dent and Reggie the football player." These roles should be separated to some degree. "I always leave what I do down on South State, on South State. He con- tinued; "A guy participating in ath- letics is always .playing two roles. So- ciety labels a person as a football player." McKenzie mentioned that this role as a football player does have its advantages outside of the playing of the game. "The only way that petition (home- coming petition for an anti-war half time show) got over was the 50 football players who signed it." If those same 50 had signed it not as football players, then the effect would have been less. The second reason that influenced Reggie to come to Michigan involved football and interesting enough Michi- At Highland Park High School, Reggie wasn't recruited very vigorously, and he explained this by pointing to the em- phasis on basketball at Highland Park, But McKenzie did get a look from sev- eral schools-one of them being Michi- gan State. However . . . "When the Michigan State recruiter came to my high school he told my coach that I wasn't a ball player." That kind of thing hurts, but Reggie got a better look from Michigan and the opportunity to prove himself. "I got a break. Coach Mans (Wol- verine end coach) came to me and laid it on the line. He said, We want you to play ball for us." That incident with the MSU recruiter is one reason that now leads Reggie to say, "I look at the MSU games as be- ing the big games for me." Although blocking is often a man to man affair, it takes timing between linemen to open up a hole for the backs. "It (blocking) varies. A lot of times it's one on one, but sometimes it's double team blocking; it's me and the tackle, me and the center, or me and the half- back. Timing is jdst something you have to work on." Blocking takes confidence not only in one's own ability but also in the ability of the people next to you on the line. "(Dan) Dierdorf (graduated All-Amer- ican tackle) was real strong; they'd try to isolate him one on one on a guy. I was more confident with him there." But with Dierdorf and Jack Harpring gone at the tackles, the timing had to be worked out all over again this year. "Playing against Northwestern, things were kind of shaky. I knew what (Jim) Brandstatter could do because I had single game rushing mark withl 350 yards several weeks ago. Sen- ior quarterback Mike Rasmussen, benched early in the season, has also found new life running the wishbone. Spartan coach Duffy Daugher- ty stated a week ago, "Well; we should've put in the Wishbone-T a long time ago." The question is, why not? Still, there seems to be some problem with Michigan State de- feating Minnesota. MSU hasn't beaten the Gophers in 14 years. Such a phenomenon is usually cats are looking forward to meet- ing Ohio State. The Buckeyes will not be nice after having lost to MSU last week. Woody's charges are still in the race and the Wild- cats may be cannon-fodder for the Bucks, The . real surprise in the Big Ten has to be Illinois. After drop- ping their first six games, the Illini have come back to take the next three contests. Their oppo- nents today will be Wisconsin, an- other disappointing team. John Jardine's gridders figured to be 76ers top. Pistons PHILADELPHIA OP)-The Phila- delphia 76ers spurted for eight straight points early in the fourth quarter yesterday, breaking open a,tight game and defeating the De- troit Pistons 115-101, in a National Basketball Association game. The Pistons went in front by as many as five points before Phila- delphia rallied to trail only 79-78 entering the last quarter. After Detroit took an 87-84 lead with 11:07 to play, the 76ers got their eight consecutive points to go ahead 92-87 with 8:24 remaining. The Pistons never drew closer than three points the rest of the way as Billy Cunningham, Fred Foster and Kevin Loughery did all of the scoring for the winners in the last five minutes. Cunningham had 24 points to . lead Philadelphia, while Foster added 23 and Loughery 18. Bob Lanier led Detroit with 26 points and Jimmy Walker had 25. r -i .-f.Y .