Wednesday, February 3, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAIlY Page Nine Cagers blister Boilermakers, notch Against Fife beats Purdue.. . . * ,depsite the refs By MORT NOVECK T TOOK two years, but Dan Fife finally beat Purdue. The senior guard suffered through four losses to the Boilermak- ers before his team came up on the winning side, but last night's game more than made up for the drought. Fife played a strong game, sinking 15 points and picking up 6 rebounds and five assists. He also finished the game without a turnover, the only starter on either team to do so in a game marked by 44 miscues. But he almost didn't stay in the game long enough to enjoy it. In foul trouble most of the night, Fife spent almost 11 minutes on the bench and it was lucky for Michigan that he stayed in the game as long as he did. He picked up his third foul with 10:44 left in the first half. At the time the Wolverines were leading by four, 23-19. When he came back in five minutes later, the score was knotted, 29-29. "We had them on the run then," noted coach Johnny Orr, but we had trouble after Fife left. It really hurt us when he got in foul trouble." The reason for the trouble was the Purdue zone, which proved hard to penetrate after Fife left the game. Dave Hart came in for Fife, but had trouble handling his way through the Boilermaker defenders. He also had problems pass- ing the ball past the tall Purdue defenders. Unable to pass over them, he had to commit himself and as a result had several of his feeds intercepted. Fife returned to the game with five minutes left in the first half and managed to survive the period without pick- ing up any more personals. The Wolverines thereupon began to pull away again, but had their charge stopped by two technical fouls, one to center Ken Brady and the other to the Michigan bench. Brady got his technical after picking up a run of the mill personal foul. Disgusted with the call, Brady muttered his opinion of the decision under his breath which the nearest referee interpreted to be "profane", and slapped the technical on him. Immediately after play resumed the ref came up with another brilliant call, giving one to Orr the first time he rose from the bench. Orr later denied that the foul was on him, but irregardless, it made little sense. Purdue coach George King spent more time off the bench than on it in the half, but wasn't even reprimand- ed. It seemed throughout much of the first half that Purdue wasn't allowed to commit fouls. The Wolverines were slapped with seven plus the two technicals. The Boilermakers only got A~ five, four of them coming with less than five minutes to play in the period. As Orr put it, "the refs made me mad in the first half. Those technicals were unreal. They were beating on Henry underneath and they didn't get fouls called." Things evened out somewhat in the second period. The of- ficials started noticing some of the Purdue violations. But be- fore they did they slapped Fife with his fourth foul. This time when he returned to the bench Michigan was up by five. When he returned with twelve minutes to go they were up by seven, but the Boilermakers had pulled to within two immediately after his exit. Coming in with four fouls hanging on his head, 12 minutes to go and a still close game should have put some pressure on Fife. But he claimed that it didn't. "I know that we've got enough bench strength that I just went in and played my regular game." Amazingly, the officials allowed Fife to play his game for another eleven minutes without finding an excuse to put him out of the game. When he was ejected with 49 seconds left Michigan was up by 12 and it didn't make any difference. The Wolverines definitely missed Fife when he was on the bench but it wasn't due to poor performance from any of the other starters. Henry Wilmore wound up with 23 points, less than usual, but then he only got seven tries from the free throw line, about half his normal quota. He also was hamp- ered by the physical punishment that the officials allowed Purdue to inflict on him., Brady finished with 18 points and 13 rebounds in one of his better performances, but surprisingly was outrebounded by Wilmore who snagged 14. Brady has been improving continually since the start of the season and says "my reactions and tim- ing are finally coming back. I felt all right out there tonight." Johnny Orr certainly felt all right after the game. Purdue, as he put it, "was big, strong and aggressive", but his team beat them. "It was a great victory," Orr noted as usual. But then when you're 5-0 they're all big. By JOHN PAPANEK The Michigan Wolverines strengthened their hold on firstJ place in the Big Ten last night with an impressive 85-69 trounc- ing of Purdue, previously unbeat- en in the conference. The Wolver- ines upped their unblemished con- ference record to 5-0 and, coupled with Illinois' loss to Iowa, hold a full game lead over the pack. Coming back from a ragged first half, Michigan, led by Henry Wil- more, Dan Fife, and Ken Brady, opened up the game in the final 10 minutes. Wilmore fell slightly below his season's average of 25.4 in scoring 23 points while Fife, plagued with foul trouble most of the game provided the offensive punch and much of the defense that the Wolverines needed. Brady played a great part in the win; his 18 points and 13 re- bounds were secondary. The big. sophomore harrassed P u r d u e 's third leading scorer, Bill Franklin, driving him into foul trouble and holding him to only eight points, nearly half his average. "Brady did a great job," said Purdue coach George King. "He got our big man in trouble and that's his job." Officiating, often an anathema for Michigan and particularly for coach John Orr, played its part once again. "The officiating was unbelievable," Orr commented, re- membering particularly the three foul calls on Fife in the first 10 minutes of the game. That forced Fife to the bench which meant that Michigan was losing a good deal of offense and defense. With Fife out and Dave Hart in his place, Purdue's leading scorer, sports NIGHT EDITOR: RANDY PHILLIPS Larry Weatherford, became freer more often and Purdue was get- ting more points up on the board. Weatherford was the game's lead- ing scorer with 26 points. To make matters worse, Purdue shifted to a 3-2 zone that immed- iately crippled Michigan. The Wolverines had trouble getting the ball inside to Wilmore and Ford. They watched a 23-12 lead dis- appear and had to struggle for the' remainder of the half. Michigan finally got a substan- tial seven point lead with a min- ute left when Brady committed a personal and was slapped with a technical. Purdue's Bob Ford con- verted both free throws for the personal and Weatherford con- verted the technical. Then another technical was called, this one on the Michigan bench and Weatherford made that one, too. The four-point play com- plete, Michigan's lead was a slim 36-33 at halftime. Michigan came out for the sec- ond half ready to combat the Boilermaker zone. They kept the ball in the back court forcing Purdue to go out and try to get it. But the Boilermakers didn't go after the ball ahd the official fifth called a technical on them for "lack of sufficient action." Fife sunk the free throw, and Wayne Grabiec stole Purdue's in bounds pass and dropped a 22- footer to put Michigan up 41-35. Weatherford hit on a 20-footer but Wilmore countered with a tap-in of a Grabiec miss. Then, with only three minutes gone by, Fife drew his fourth per- sonal and went back to the bench. Michigan could have easily fallen behind. Thanks to Wilmore it didn't. After a 25-footer by Weather, ford that cut Michigan's lead to two, 43-41. Wilmore took a fast break pass from Grabiec and drove on Franklin, drawing the big man's fourth personal. A minute later, Wilmore hit Rodney Ford with a perfect lead pass for two points. Then he drew fouls from Weatherford and Jim 'Rogers, and topping off his show, put an incredible move on Weath- erford for another two points. Result: Michigan lead by nine, 58-49 with 12 minutes remaining in the game. Fife came back in the game, and the nine-point Michigan lead was its smallest for the remainder of the game. Fife fouled out with 49 seconds remaining and went to the bench with a standing ovation from the 12,123 fans. "Our zone was helping, but they just pecked away at it," said King after the game. "Our offense was just awful. Our shooting percent- age (33.8) was our worst this year." Assessing Michigan's f u t u r e King said, "Michigan won three games on the road and that's quite a shot in the arm. But I don't think anyone has a hold on first place.nWe're capable of being a contender and so are, Illinois and Indiana." Meanwhile, Orr just whistled the same old tune. "It was a great win, they were big, strong and tough. The officiating made me mad in the first half, but in the second they let them play." Orr's charges will try to up that Big Ten record to 6-0 Saturday against Northwestern at Crisler Arena. Bi Ten Standings MICHIGAN SUPERSTAR Henry Wilmore (25) brings the ball upcourt on a Wolverine fast break. Rod Ford (43) and Purdue's Bill Franklin (23) race alongside. Although at times last night Wilmore had trouble controlling the ball, his 23 points led Michigan to its fifth straight Big Ten victory. REBOUNDS KEY Fresh-men -1topple Toledo Leaking Boilers By JIM EPSTEIN The small, but spunky Michigan freshmen avenged an earlier loss to Toledo by grounding the Rockets 75-64 at Crisler arena yesterday. After trailing throughout most of the first half, the Baby Blue closed the gap to one at the inter- mission and outscored the taller Ohioans 44-32 in the second half. According to coach Dick Honig, the difference between last night's victory and the 88-78 loss of three weeks ago was Michigan's im- proved rebounding. Outrebounded by 31 at the Rockets' home pad, the Wolverines bettered Toledo by 12 yesterday. Behind by 10 points after eight minutes of the first half, the fresh- men warmed up and moved ahead four minutes later on a feed from John Bernard to Jake Whitten. From that point the game was a give and take affair until the Blue broke it open with eight minutes left. Jake Whitten, the 6-4 center, again pulled down a lion's share of the caroms, 13, one over his aver- age. Whitten also contributed 11 Baby Blue brilliant points, one of five Blue shooters to break into double figures. The real standout was 6-2 for- ward Terry Tyler who, according to Honig, "played the best ball for us that he's played all season in the last ten minutes of the game." During those ten minutes Tyler hit for 16 points on eight field goals. Tyler finished the night with 25 points in all, and in addition, led the team with 14 rebounds. Jim Taormina, who had a hor- rendous night against Toledo last month, came back strong last night! with five of seven shots from the field before fouling out with ten points. Both teams had appalling shoot- ing percentages, Michigan sinking only 35 of 85 shots, while Toledo could manage but 27 of 74. Of To- ledo's 27 field goals, 10 of them' were credited to Mike Parker, a' powerful 6-4 forward. Parker missed only six shots, and added ten rebounds. Three other Rocket starters had miser- able performances from the field. Bob Conroy connected on only 4 of 12, Steve Berce was 4-14, but Rich Davie shot like he played for the Cavaliers, seeing only five of. his 21 shots find the mark. Honig once again employed his "stall offense" last night and again it proved a tonic for what ailed his! team. Struggling to maintain their one point lead with ten minutest left, Honig halted the cagers' run and shoot attack and changed to a slow-down offense. The innovation was good for a string of eight straight points, and the game. The freshmen, now 3-5, tangle next with a team from Auburn Hills, before the varsity game on Saturday. Wilmore Ford Brady Fife Grabiec Hart Hayward Johnson team TOTALS Ford MICHIGAN fg ft r 9-19 5-7 14 4-10 2-3 8 5-6 8-13 13 4-S 7-9 6 5-13 1-1 7 4-7 0-1 2 0-1 0-0 0 0-0 0-0 0 4 31-64 23-34 54 tp 23 10 18 15 11 8 0 0 85 Faerber Franklin Weatherford Gamauf Price Rogers Kroc Longfellow team TOTALS MICHIGAN PURDUE 5-13 4-8 10-26 0-3 0-8 2-4 0-1 0-3 27-80 1 36 33 3-3 0-1 6-7 2-2 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 15-21 2 49 36 10 3 6 2 4 '2 0 1 7 13 8 26 2. 0 4 0 0 PURDUE fg ft 47 69 final - 85 -- 69 r tp For 6 14 -51 6 PRU 3 - 6 Iowa surprises Illinois, 92-84; Marquette streaks by Wisconsin By The Associated Press IOWA CITY - Iowa rode a career high 36 points from Fred Brown and some sharp free throw shooting to a 92-84 Big Ten bas- ketball upset of Illinois last night. The defeat was the Illini's first in four Big Ten games and left Lowa 2-2 in the conference and 7-7 overall. Illinois, which had edged 12th-ranked Notre Dame last Saturday, fell to 9-4 over-, all. Brown scored 25 points in the first half as Iowa erased a 10- point deficit and crept within 2 points 44-42 at intermission. Brown then added 11 points and some key steals in the final half. Iowa connected on 28 of 30 free throws, compared to Illinois'sI MICHIGAN FROSH fg ft Bridges 6-12 t1-0i Tyler 12-30 1-1 Clancy 5-11 0-0 Whitten 4-12 3-4 Lonchar 2-6 1-3 Casey 0-1 0-0 Bernard 1-4 0-0 Taormina 5-7 0-1 team TOTALS 29-85 5-9 Parker Repp Conroy Berce Hodak Phillips Davie Iarbauer Harsha Alsup Kristie TOI MICHIGA Toledo TOLEDO FROS 10-16 1-2 2-6 0-1 4-12 1-2 4-14 5-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 5-21 3-8 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-1 1-3 0-1 team r TALS 27-74 10-21 f 0 14 7 13 5 8 65 10 10 10 0 0 2 0 0 16 53 tp 12 25 10 11 5 0 2 10 75 21 4 9 13 0 0 13 0 0 '2 2 64 75 64 16 to 28. The Illini out-shot Iowa 47 to 43 per cent from the field, but were out-rebounded 49-46 with Kevin Kunnert's 8 leading Iowa. * * * * Warriors on wrarpath MADISON - Marquette's top- ranked Warriors, paced by Gary Brell's 30 points, rolled past arch basketball rival Wisconsin 89-75 f last night. Coach Al McGuire's Warriors jumped to an 8-0 yead and held a 50-25 halftime advantage in running their winning string to 29, longest in major college bas- ketball. They are 17-0 for the sea- son. Marquette dominated the game over the Badgers, who had lost to the Warriors by only one point earlier in the season. Marquette outrebounded Wisconsin 28-13 in the first half. Badger star Clarence Sherrod scored only six points in the first half. He finished with 18 points, having been averaging 25.3 per game. * * * Bulldogs bark DES MOINES, Iowa - Drake's Bobby Jones scored 22 points and Tom Bush added 21 as the Bull- dogs ran their winning to five games in a row last night by downing independent DePaul 93- ~i ," Scores College Basketball Kent State 93, Bali State 87, o.t. Virginia 92, Washington & Lee 70 Texas Christian 89, Texas 87 Davidson 70, Virginia Military 39 Queens, N.Y. 68, MIT 63 Colby 70, Tufts 56 Lafayette 87, Bucknell 73 Marquette 89, Wisconsin 75 ' Villanova 99, St. John's, N.Y. 82 Cincinnati 78, Richmond 71 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 74, Stetson 73 Dartmouth 69, Connecticut 62 Georgia So. 71, Armstrong State 58 Texas 84, Rice 68 80 in a non-conference basketball game. The contest was tied seven times in the first half before Jones' jump shot pushed Drake to a 38- 36 lead which grew to 46-37 by halftime. Bush pulled down 14 rebounds in leading Drake - now 14-4 over- all -- to a 31-31 edge in the re- bounding against the smalled De- mons, who fell to 5-13 with the setback. MICHIGAN Illinois Ohio State Purdue Indiana Michigan Stal Iowa, Wisconsin Minnesota Northwestern Well fokes we wood like to tell all of you reeders who are job hunters at one and the same time that you have come to the right place. And no wonder. People know that if they win they get a stomach settling Cottage Inn pizza and a free Bowling game at the Union for self and friend, providing that you can find the bowling alleys but we heard rumors that it is in the basement someplace. Come to 420 Maynard St. right behind the gals at Helen Newberry to apply and if it is before midnight Friday you can also enter the pickings but if you get the job that makes you illegitimate. We pay real t W L 5 0 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 e2 2 2 2 1 3 0 5 0 5 Pct. 1.000 .750 .750 .750 .667 .500 .500 .250 .000 .000 Yesterday's results MICHIGAN 85, Purdue 69 Iowa 92, Illiis 84 i N 31 44 32 32 CAVS KEEP CLICKING: Pistons nip Baltimore, 116-113 good and the working conditions nice fokes you get to meet. 1. Northwestern at MICHI- GAN (pick score) 2. Purdue at Indiana 3. Minnesota at Illinois 4. Ohio State at Michigan Statef 5. Iowa at Wisconsin 6. Creighton at Notre Dame 7. North Carolina State at Virginia 8. Florida at Auburn 9. Pennsylvania at Columbia 10. Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee couldn't be better and just think of the 11. Yale at Dartmouth 12. Maryland at Duke 13. Xavier at Detroit 14. South Carolina at Clemson 15. Mississippi at Kentucky 16. Ohio U. at Western Michigan 17. Jacksonville at Oklahoma City 18. Marquette at DePaul 19. SPECIAL: Indiana at MICHIGAN, track 20. SUPER SPECIAL: Iowa at MICHIGAN, wrestling By The Associated Press 11 victories in 59 games this sea- DETROIT - Otto Moore and son. It also gave Cleveland the Dave Bing led a late Detroit Pis- 12-game series against the Braves. ton flurry which produced a 116- The Cavs broke the game open 113 National Basketball Associa- in the second period, stretching tion victory over the Baltimore their eight-point first-quarter lead Bullets last night. to as many as 19. They led 57-42 1 After the lead had changed hands after the first half, in which War- 16 times, Bing broke a 100-100 tie ren scored 16 of his 22 points. with 4 minutes to go. Bing then The Braves closed within six at wih 42dinutesh to ore B intsn 93-87 late in the game but John- chipped in with three more points son, who hit 15 of his 21 points in while Moore hit on seven to put the second half, scored with 2:02 to the Pistons in front by five points pate e atWse o with :30 emaiingplay, then fed Walt Wesley for a with 2:30 remaining' pair of baskets that iced the vic- But then Earl Monroe led a Bal- tory. imore comeback and when Wes * * * Unseld hit on a three-point play R als routed with 14 seconds to play, Baltimore 1503 moved to within a point 113-112. NEW YORK - Willis Reed, out- Then Howie Komives sank two played for three quarters by rookie free throws to put the game out of Sam Lacey, came to life early in reach for Detroit with eight sec __ onds to go. Bing topped the Detroit scor- Professional Le ier with 9 in4 xhilo M.ru h4A the final period and led the New York Knicks to a 115-108 victory over persistent Cincinnati Royals last night in a National Basketball Association game. Although the Knicks never trailed after baskets by Dick Barnett and Bill Bradley put them ahead 31-30 at the end of the first quart!,*, they couldn't shake the stubborn Royals and led only 88-86 entering the final session. With the score 92-88, Reed started the decisive run with a basket and hit six of the Knicks' next eight points for a 100-90 spread. Reed finished with 27 points, but had at least four shots blocked by the 6-foot-10 Lacey, who also scored 27 to keep the Royals in the game. CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS FORUM PROF. 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