.0mmommosomma --Mdmmmmlwmmh . - llmmmmmb - _ Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY - ROSE BOWL SUPPLEMENT -A. ---- THE MICHIGAN DAILY - ROSE BOWL SUPPLEM I Sunday, December 5, 1971 Sunday, Decembr 5, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY - ROSE BOWL SUPPLEM Big Ten race fails to blossom Academia, alters Pacific I eyes of Ohio State 24-10 and to Big with Illinois for 11 fumbles in But the Wishbone offense with By FRANK LONGO Ten champions Michigan 35-6. MSU's opening 10-0 victory, one which the Spartans had been ex- For the most part, this year's Big Ten footbal season went jt But Illinois came back and took which didn't give too much of an perimenting began to click with like everyone expected it to. But its next five games to finish in a outlook on the potential of the Eric Allen as the key, and sud- tie for third place with MSU and team. denly East Lansing was talking of it certainly wasn't without its sur- OSU with a 5-3 record. State followed this with a 10-0 roses. Prises.j llsstGeriTehprvnte Michigan, Northwestern, Q h i o Similarly, Purdue pulled a mid- loss to Georgia Tech, proving the MSU rolled over Iowa and Pur- State, and Michigan State were season surprise by dropping out of ineffectiveness of the MSU offense. due and capped this sequence with chosen way back in September to contention for the conference title When the next Saturday brought 17-10 "upset" of Ohio State. Now finish the season in that order. and a possible Rose Bowl berth a 31-14 win over Oregon State, no- only if Michigan would lose its last And that they did with five losses. body knew quite what to think. two games and the Spartans win' tion of the last two tying for third The Boilermakers lost their first After consecutive heartbreaking their final two, the two would tie place. two games as Sonny Sixkiller out- losses to Notre Dame 14-2, Mich- for league - honors and Michigan And almost anyone could tell you dueled Gary Danielson to give igan 24-13, and Wisconsin 31-28, State would be invited to Pasa-1 that Indiana and Iowa would end Washington a 38-35 win. most - sport fans were willing to dena by virtue of the fact that up at the bottom, although the ! In the next one Notre Dame used write off coach Duffy Daugherty they had been away the longest. order would sometimes be re- a fumble recovery in the end zone and the 1971 season. But, although Michigan State versed. and a two-point conversion to hand But the action in the middle of Purdue an 8-7 loss. the pack was confusing, indeed. But the Boilermakers established The Fighting Illini started out themselves by winning their next like they couldn't possibly finish three games, all conference con higher than tenth. tests, over Iowa, Minnesota, and t The first three games were total Northwestern. disaster as Illinois was shutout But the Boilermakers were upset consecutively by Michigan State by Illinois the following week 21-7,-.- 10-0, North Carolina 37-0, and and then were crushed by Mich- Southern California 28-0. igan State 43-10. Eric Allen rushed In the fourth, the Illini managed for 350 yards in that one.i to score two touchdowns, and even The final three games were I " held a 14-7 halftime lead over losses to Wisconsin, Michigan, and. Washington and Sonny Sixkiller. Indiana to give Purdue a very dis- -t > . But in the second half the Illini fell appointing season, especially since apart and the Huskies went home they were expected to finish about - victors by a 52-14 score. fifth in the league. Their next tow games were bet- Michigan State provided still an- ter played losses, but losses never- other surprise in a year of sur-} theless. The Illini lost to the Buck- prises. The Spartans combined .. .. j ' ................ ............................................. Big Ten W L MICHIGAN Northwestern Illinois Michigan State Ohio State Wisconsin Purdue Minnesota Indiana Iowa 8 6 5 5 5 3 3 3 2 1 0 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 6 8 Standings Conference All Games T PF PA W L T PF PA 0 269 70 11 0 0 409 70 0 193 127 7 4 0 212 148 0 149 131 5 6 0 163 238 0 192 131 6 5 0 225 169 0 175 97 6 4 0 224 120 0 161 200 4 6 1 240 258 0 168 182 3 7 0 210 218 0 147 193 4 7 0 212 281 0 121 235 3 8 0 152 269 0 67 283 1 10 0 93 363 -Daily-David Margolick MIKE WELLS, (12) Illinois' quarterback fades to pass against Michigan in the Illini's 35-6 loss to the Wolverines. After that defeat the Illini rallied to put together five. consecutive Big Ten triumphs. i moommomm" I Rose Bowl Sweatshirts 1 is I I. I. . hsmashed the Gophers, it was rob- bed of a possible post-season date as Michigan slipped by Purdue. Finally the Spartans lost out in the fight for second place as they were defeated by Northwestern in the closing game of the year 28-7. The Ohio State Buckeyes were chosen au a pre-season poll to fin- ish the schedule in third place, and that they did. But along the way the Bucks convinced a few people that they were champion- ship material. OSU had lost most of its team from the previous banner year and a number of early season in- juries seemed to destine the Bucks for at best a second or third place finish. But the Bucks opened with a 52-21 pasting of Iowa and even the most staunch anti-Buckeye rooters had to believe that Ohio State couldn't be counted out yet. After a week off, Colorado in- vaded Ohio Stadium and- promptly handed the Buckeyes their first home loss since 1967. But the Bucks were out to prove that they still belonged high in the national rankings . The next week they routed the California Golden Bears 35-3. Back into the conference sched- ule, Ohio State rolled over Illinois 24-10, Indiana 27-7, Wisconsin 31-6, and squeaked by Minnesota 14-12. Then came the heartbreakers. Michigan State came to town to smother the Buckeyes 17-10, OSU's first home league loss since 1967. The Bucks still had a chance to claim a co-championship if they won their final two games, but those hopes were dashed by North- western the final weekend as the Wildcats pulled out a 14-10 victory. There were other highlights, too. The fall of so many rushing records in a single season kept the sta- tistics-watchers on their toes. Michigan State's Allen broke the single game rushing record with 350 yards against Purdue. He eclipsed the old mark of 347 set by Michigan's own Ron Johnson back in 1968 against Wisconsin. And although most Big Ten teams fared poorly once again in games against non-conference foes, there is promise for an improve- ment of the Big Ten as a whole in the future.' Illinois had another undefeated freshman football team this year to go with the 1970 squad. And now that they have a good coach in Bob Blackman, look for an im- proved team in '72. Also Woody Hayes, after going through one rebuilding year this season, should have another title contender next year. Ohio State's frosh squad was undefeated this year and scored 120 points in three games. Micihgan State loses its most potent threat, Eric Allen, and the Wishbone can't be as effective without him. Purdue will be excellent. Gary Danielson and Steve Burke both returnat quarterback. Also almost the whole defense will be coming back, along with offensive runner- receivers Darryl Stingley and Otis Armstrong. Of course Michigan will be pow- erful again making for a confer- ence which could conceivably be- gin the big return to the dominance of the past. By CHUCK BLOOM and THERESA SWEDO They spoke the magic number out in the Pac-8 conference and the number was 1.6. This caused California. and the finest sopho- more in the nation, Jim McAlister, to be declared ineligible by the NCAA. Thusly, the Pac-8 race, already loaded with possible contenders, was thrown into a cocked hat. When the dust and smoke cleared, defending champion Stanford still held the title. Despite three setbacks during their season, Stanford was assured the Pac-8 championship and a vir- tual Rose Bowl berth two weeks before the schedule ended. Their losses were suffered at the hands of lowly Washington State, the San! Jose State Spartans and Puke. - Stanford finished up the season with an 8-3 overall record, and a 6-1 in the Pac-8. This latter record is somewhat in dispute because of. the California controversy, how- ever. The combination of quarterback Don Bunce, his fine receivers John Winesberry and Miles Moore, and the "Thunder Chicken" defense' sent the Indians this year to a garden filled with roses. But way back this past summer, the Pac-8 race looked more con- fused. Everybody but Stanford up- setter Washington State was in1 the running, while Southern Cali- fornia, UCLA, Washington, and Stanford headed the list of title-" seekers. California and Oregon, with explosive offenses and er-I ratic defenses, were the dark horses. Then the NCAA stepped in and invoked its 1.6 rule. Basically, the1 rule states that an athlete must predict a 1.6 grade point average in his freshman year. Stanford Oregon State Washington USC Oregon Washington St. UCLA w 5 3 3 2 2 2 1 ! '1 I t ,! t } ,'t , t t t I Z X c c *1 t 1 i r California (ineligible) 6 5 0 183 265 In the McAlister case, the UCLA an average of 14.8 points a game, star forgot to take the NCAA test a figure that included three shut- on the proper day and instead took outs. it at a later date. The make-up The offense, led by fullback Sam test was set up by UCLA; but the Cunningham's 742 yards rushing, school somehow failed to inform was mediocre. Quarterback Jimmy the NCAA of this fact. McAlister' Jones was disappointing after two was suspended for a year and the previously outstanding years. Bruins were suddenly deprived of The Trojans lost their opener to their running attack. Alabama 17-10. After a pair of The case with the California shutouts over Rice and Illinois, Golden Bears is slightly different. USC was drubbed by Oklahoma Their star running back, Isaac 33-20. Losses to Oregon and Stan- Curtis, also failed to predict 1.6, ford were followed by victories but he didn't take the test at all. over Notre Dame (28-14) and Cali- Curtis, who is a junior, was sus- fornia (28-0). This past year was pended shortly after McAlister. not the best of years for coach Unlike UCLA, California refused to John McKay and company as they cut Curtis from the team. ended up with a 6-4-1 record. The Bears stated that since Cur- Rose petals were quickly crush- tis was an excellent student, main- ed into only sweet smelling memo- taining a fine average, there was ries for the Washington Huskies no need for any action. Alas, the and Sonny Sixkiller, as three close NCAA thought otherwise and sus- losses put them out of the running pended California from all post- early. They could take some com- season activities for one year. fort in the fact that they finished The Bears' southern neighbors, 20th in the AP poll after compiling USC, are traditionally known as an 8-3 record. "a team with all of the talent and Sixkiller finished the year as none of the luck." the 18th most effective quarterback Certainly the luck was not there in the nation, completing 126 out this season, but for the first time of 297 for 2,068 yards and 13 touch- in several years, neither was the downs. His shoddy completion rec- talent. The Trojan defense, known ord, 42.4 per cent, was indicative as the "Wild Bunch," was not as of the entire Washington perform- wild, or effective, as they should ance. have been. Southern Cal gave up Oregon had the offense to come out4a winner witherunner Bobby Moore and quarterback Danny Fouts. But the Ducks lacked other essential components of a victor- ious football team, such as con- sistency, defense and the impor- tant plus of a favorable schedule. Quarterback Fouts, who achieved a second spot nationally in passing last year, fell to twelfth this year and second in his conference. He; completed 123 out of 247 attempts for 2,564 yards and nine touch-1 downs. Moore, the Pac-8's leading runner, finished ninth in the nation with 1,211 yards, seven touch- downs, and an average of 121 yards' per game. California went into their final game of the season against San- ford with an outside chance of going to Pasadena. But the Bears went into hibernation early and lost 14-0. I Oregon State played well for the caliber of their team, finishing 5-6 for the season. They also upset ninth ranked Arizona State 24-18 on their way to their final stand- ing. UCLA, without McAlister, man- aged to win only two games out of nine. 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