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By LEE KIRK
The impish grin that Bo Schembechler
wears so often was more visible than ever
yesterday following the Wolverines' 39-13
triumph over Minnesota.
"We played pretty well," Bo said. "I
don't know if it was our best game, I'll
have to look at the films. We stopped
ourselves a few times, but overall, it was
a good game."
Bo is not prone to use superlatives;
they can be rather dangerous, but that
Schembechler smile said it all. The Wol-
verines yesterday played what was prob-
ably their best all-around game to date.
For Bo, the revenge win over Michigan
State last week was probably sweeter than
a win over Minnesota could ever be.
Vengeance, after all, is very sweet, and
Schembechler knows it. Still, the facts
are all there on paper. Michigan rambled
and scrambled for 518 yards and 28 first
downs, both high water marks for this
season, and the defense turned in a much
better performance than it did against
the Spartans.
The Gophers played that team from
Columbus last Saturday, the third team
this year to come to Ann Arbor after
playing the Buckeyes. Texas A&M and
MSU, the other teams that have run this
gauntlet, did conspicuously better against
Michigan than they did against Ohio
State. But Minnesota lost to Ohio State
by only 28-8, and they completed 29 of
49 passes against an experienced OSU
secondary.
Yesterday, the Gophers' fine quarter-
back, Craig Curry, completed 16 of 38
for 214 yards, and the Wolverines won
by six more points than did the Buck-
eyes.
But Schembechler says such compari-
sons are of no concern to him.
sort of thing is overplayed, way
played," he said. "We just play to
that's the only way to play this;
You just can't afford to think
things like comparative scores or
find yourself in trouble."
"That
over-
win--
game.
about
you'll
les Bo'
And it was the Wolverine offense, es-
pecially the devastating running game,
that was responsible for most of Schem-.
bechler's smile yesterday. Michigan has
really put it all together, and there is
no indication that anything but a rash
of injuries, or perhaps a belated appear-
ance by the 17-year locusts, could slow
their attack.
"We've really started to come around
the last three games," Bo said afterwards.
"We're blocking much better now, and
we've got the backs where we want them.
I think it's important to remember we
didn't have (Glenn) Doughty at all dur-
ing spring drills, and that (Billy) Taylor
was out for a good part of spring prac-
tice, too. This unsettled our whole back-
field."
The Wolverines were hit with an un-
usual delay of the game penalty when
they were tardy for appearing on the
field for the second half. Delay of the
game before the beginning of either half
is a 15-yard penalty instead of the nor-
mal five, and Bo was asked to describe
the circumstances that caused the call.
The Wolverine coach just smiled. "Any
time you get a 15-yard penalty," he said,
"those are bad circumstances."
Schembechler didn't want to make too
much of the penalty as it didn't affect
the game at all, but apparently no one
told Michigan halftime was over.
fancy
One call that irked Bo, the fans, and
especially the defense, came when Min-
nesota had a third and goal from the
'M' 15. A Minnesota receiver bumped into
Wolverine cornerback Bruce Elliott from
behind as both went for a Curry pass,
but Elliott was called for interference.
The Gophers got an automatic f i r s t
down and scored on the next play.
The entire stadium reacted in utter
disbelief. Elliott was shocked, the stu-
dent section reacted with audible pro-
fanity, but afterwards, Bo was non-
plussed.
"It's a judgment call, but I saw that guy
run into Elliott!" he said.
And Bo even managed to chuckle about
the Wolverines' place-kicking, which was
a dud for the fourth week in a row. "We
work harder on our kicking game than
anyone, and that's what makes me mad
when we miss. But when you get 39
points, you don't give a damn how good
the place kicker is."
But you can bet dollars to doughnuts
that there will be a little extra work for
the kickers this week, just as surely as
you can bet that Bo won't let anyone
ignore Wisconsin.
"We won't be looking past the Bod-
gers. They're explosive and they won big
today."
It may sound corny, but it wins football
games and keeps everyone smiling.
Still, comparisons are rather inviting.
And for the first time this season, Schem-
bechler was willing' to compare this year's
squad with last year's Rose Bowl con-
tingent.
"We're 6-0 now, and we were only 4-2
last year at this time," Schembechler
said. "But last year, we turned the corner
against Minnesota."
Last year, Michigan went into the
lockerroom at halftime trailing the
Gophers, 9-7, but stormed out to take a
35-9 victory. After that Michigan became
a juggernaut. A true-blue juggernaut
scores points like crazy, but only in their
last two games have the Wolverines
shown the ability to move the ball at
will.
-Daily-Sara Krulwich
Don Moorhead (27) recovers own fumble
Mammoth Blue
ave
surges
on
By PAT ATKINS
A lot of events vied for the
attention of the national tele-
*vision audience yesterday af-
ternoon in Michigan Stadium.
The talent show included a
dog act, musical entertain-I
ment, a tumbling troupe,;
SUNDAY SPORTS
NIGHT EDITORS: RICK CORNFELD and ELLIOT LEGOW
alumni twirlers, and numer-
ous amateur acts in the foot- '
ball stands. af Wright nabbed him from behind
But clearly, when the after- as Paul Staroba was attempting
noon was over, the award for to block Wright.
best performance went to the "Staroba threw a good block,"
Mammoth Blue Wave's 39-13 Moorhead explained, "but I didn't
roll over the Golden Gophers. go wide enough. Wright got over
oaovth e o lden Gherws the block and pulled me down by
4 Coachb Bo schemechsr was the shoulder pads."
modest about his team's perform- Moha a pqiky u
ance. "You just try to win the Moorhead was up quickly, but
game," he said. "The defense threw two incomplete passes. A!
played well and the offense moved hid and 10 situation forced hi
the ball." ting Paul Seymour on the 10.
That leaves out the facts of the Moorhead rolled left for six more
situation, that the Wolverine of- yards, and then handed off to
gfensive net yardage was a stag- Fritz Seyferth on the four for the
gering 518 yards, and hat the hd would
defense held Minnesota to two first touc on, on reained
downs rushing and ten passing. the. nly 36 seconds remained in
Michigan's blitzkrieg functioned field leading 18-7.
with deadly success, as time after I a
time Minnesota quarterback Caig tw a good lft for us, scoi
Curry was forced to unload ing the touchdown at the end of
quickly, the second quarter," Schembechler
It was the sixth consecutive said.
game in which the Wolverine of- From that point on the Mam-
fense moved the ball consistently moth Blue Wave swelled over
better. "I'd have to say 39 points Minnesota like little dog Whiskey
is normal improvement," Schem- chases her soccer ball.
bechler said. "It's more than we It was a defensive play that
got last week." Minnesota coach Murray War-
For a while the battle for the math cited as breaking the Goph-
Wittle Brown Jug was a sporting er stride. "Michigan's interception
affair. Minnesota had just passed shortly before the half was a de-
assuredly d o w n f i e 1 d halfway cisive play," a downcast Warmath
through the second quarter for an noted,
80 yard touchdown drive to put He was referring to Bruce El-
the score at 12-7. liott's pick-off of a Curry pass,
"The offense has been giving us Elliott's first of the season and the
a break for the last three weeks," Wolverines' fourteenth.
middle guard Henry Hill praised It 1 o o k e d momentarily like
after the game. This must have Michigan would capitalize on the
been one of the situations Hill was Gopher miscue. Glenn Doughty
referring to, as the Wolverines caught a Moorhead aerial-one of
surged back for an 80 yard TD three that he would catch during
drive of their own to give Mich- the afternoon-and was complete-
igan an 18-7 breathing space. ly upended, coming down at the
W o 1 v e r i n e quarterback Don Minnesota 22 for a 19-yard gain.
Ifoorhead, who gained his most But the drive went no where. hin-
yardage of the season (79), ram- dered by a seven yard setback
bled for a chunk of 39 during the when Moorhead was forced to eat
80 yard march. With third down the ball on a pass play, and Mich-
and three to go on Michigan's 40- igan's field goal attempt failed.
yard line, Moorhead rolled left. However, Coin's miss came with
then cut back right and picked up Michigan leading only 12-0. The
blockers. He scrambled down to Gophers were shortly to make it
e 21 before Minnesota's Jeff 12-7. 67 yards of their 80 yard TD
SCORES
push coming on passing and 61 of
that 67 gained by sophomore Doug
Kingsriter.
Michigan squelched any golden
hopes, though, combining Moor-
head's 39-yard run and Seyferth's
second touchdown for an 18-7
halftime lead.
About the only thing that broke
Michigan's stride in the second
half was the television time-outs.
"It's harder to play on television
because of the commercial time-
outs," Schembechler said. "You
wonder why everyone is standing
around. You just get your momen-
tum, then you have three or four
commercials in there."
Seyferth bulled his way on
short yardage to his third and
fourth touchdowns, one in each
of the latter two quarters, and
Lance Scheffler racked up Michi-
gan's final tally at the close of
the game.
The best individual acting per-
-Daily-Jim Kmessa
TAILBACK BILLY TAYLOR sweeps right against Minnesota yesterday, while defender Mike White
(28) shoves his hand in Taylor's face. Taylor had his best game of the year, gaining 151 yards in
26 carries. The Mammoth Blue Wave rolled to 518 yards, 414 of them on the ground. The victory
formance went to Kingsriter on brought Mic
the play before Minnesota's Ernie
Cook scored the second Gopherl
touchdown. With half a quarter
remaining, Michigan was ahead
32-7. FIRST DOWNS
Rushing
Curry sent Kingsriter out from Passing
the Michigan 15-yard line on third Penalty
down and 15 yards to go. Unbe- TOTAL NUMBER
knownst to Kingsriter, Elliott was NET YARDSHES
waiting for him on the four yard Rushing
line, and Kingriter stepped smack Passing
into the defensive halfback. FORWARD PASSE!
ATTEMPTED
When officials called pass inter- Completed
ference, fans begon chanting a Intercepted by
phrase which sent ABC technicians Yards intercet
scurrying to turn down field mikes. (TAPushes and
"We couldn't figure it out," Gus- PUNTS, Number
ich said later. "When Elliot asked Average distan
for an explanation, the referee KICKOFFS, retul
wouldn't give one." YARDS KICKS
RETURNED
Michigan may have had trouble Punts
figuring out that play, but Min- Kickoffs
nesota spent the whole afternoon FUMBLES, Numb
Ball lost by
vainly trying to fathom the depths PENALTIES, Nun
of the Mammoth Blue Wave. Yards penalize
higan's record to 6-0, its best start since 1955.
Mini Gophers
MICHIGAN
Rushing
Mich.
Minn.
13
2
6 10 Taylor
0 1 Doughty
Seyferth
73 26 Moorhead
Scheffler
414 69 Henry
104 214 Berutti
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Doughty
St, roba
hSeymour
Schumracher
Tries Gains Loss Net
26 153 2 151
5 28 0 28
18 76 0 76
9 86 -7 79
6 28 0 28
8 41 0 41
1 11 0 11
Totals 73 423 9 414
Passing
Att. Comp. Int. Yds.
18 7 0 104
Pass Receiving
No. Yds.
3 54
2 23
1 11
1 16
Totals 7 104
Punting
No. Yds. Avg.
6 259 43.2
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Rushing
Tries Gains Loss Net
Curry
Mayer
Cook
Morgan
Curry
Morgan
3 5
15 50
6 18
2 8
Totals 26E
Passing
Att. Comup.
37 16
1 0
Totals 38 16
Pass Receiving
8
0
0
4
81 12
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50
18
4
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on this and that
The Michigan Wolverines.
two, three, many heroes
eric siege.
MICHIGAN ATHLETIC director Don Canham broke through
the ring of reporters surrounding fullback Fritz Seyferth in
the Wolverine lockerroom yesterday and stuck out his hand.
"I couldn't wait all day to do this," Canham told Seyferth
with a smile.
Seyferth scored four touchdowns in Michigan's 39-13
trouncing of Minnesota-and the only other Michigan
player in history to score more was Ron Johnson, who got
five against Wisconsin two years ago. Seyferth, who scored
the first touchdown of his 16 game career last week against
Michigan State, accepted the congratulations, but he wasn't
willing to take all the credit.
"It was a team effort all the way," the junior fullback told
reporters. "It just so happens I was carrying the ball."
It is a measure of the Wolverines' power and balance that,
for all his heroics, Seyferth didn't stand out as The Hero in
yesterday's victory. Seyferth, who wasn't even tendered as a
freshman logged less than a half of playing time last year and
didn't even carry the ball until the final quarter of the Texas
A&M game this year was in the spotlight, all right, but he had
to share it with a host of his teammates.
If you're interested in naming names, you can start
with the Wolverines' starting line-ups and then go on from
there.
Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler considers a 400-yard
offense a good game, but he got 518 from the Wolverines'
well-oiled offensive machine yesterday-a total surpassed
only twice last year. And it took a pair of great catches by
Gopher tight end Doug Kingsriter and a questionable pass
interference call for Minnesota to get on the scoreboard
against Michigan's sterling defense.
Statistical heroes were more than abundant yesterday. The
Wolverines had three runners who got more yards on the ground
than the entire Minnesota team. Billy Taylor had 151 in 26 car-
ries; Don Moorhead had 79 in nine carries; and Seyferth had
76 in 18 tries, compared to 69 for the entire Gopher team.
In all, the Wolverines ground out 414 yards rushing. For
an indication of the' kind of game it was, consider that Michi-
gan's Preston Henry, a second string running back, gained 41
yards in a little over half a quarter, while Minnesota's starter
and leading ground gainer, Ernie Cook, gained only nine more
in seven more carries playing the whole game.
On defense you can begin with Jim Betts, Bruce Elliott
and Tom Darden, each with one pass interception, and
Phil Seymour, who added a fumble recovery to the Goph-
ers' list of turnovers.
Even when the statistics weren't overly impressive,
there were clutch performances. Moorhead completed only
seven of 18 passes, but six of those completions were for
first downs. Paul Seymour and Jerry Schumacher will each
be credited with only a single pass reception, but both re-
ceptions came on third and long yardage sitIations and
sustained drives that eventually led to Wolverine scores.
And the performance of the offensive line, which doesn't
show up in the stats, but is reflected in the final score, drew
high praise from the man who has put it to good use in the past
two games-Taylor.
"The blocking has improved 100 per cent over the past couple
of games," said Taylor, who has carried the ball 77 times for
392 yards and five touchdowns in the last three games.
"I think we're better offensively now that we were
last year," Taylor added. "We're more potent than last year.
Glenn (Doughty) and Fritz and Don and myself all have
good speed and quickness, and the defenses just can't
key on any one back."
"If I was a defensive coach, I'd find it awfully hard to
defend against us," Moorhead said. "I think we're at least as
strong now as we were last year, and we're improving every
week. It's going to take a good team to beat us."
For the third week in a row, the Wolverines had praise heap-
ed on them from the opposing lockerroom. "We were beaten de-
cisively," Minnesota Coach Murray Warmath said. "They could
move on us and we couldn't move on them."
And that was the story at Michigan Stadium yesterday. A
defensive unit that continually kept the opposition backed
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Kingsriter
Cook
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MICHIGAN
Minnesota
No. Yds.
5 48
4 85
4 25
1 24
1 19
1 13
Totals 16 214
Punting
It. Yds.
3 214
0 4
3 214
64 140
27 19
37 121
3 3
1 1
6 6
66 58
No. Yds.
8 309
1 64
Avg.
38.6
64.0
Staroba
LINESCORE
6 12 7 14-39
0 7 0 6-13
COI LEGE FOOTBALL
GRIDDE PICKS
Michigan 39, Minnesota 13
Ohio State 48, Illinois 29
Wisconsin 30, Indiana 12
Michigan State 37, Iowa 0
Northwestern 38, Purdue 14
Alabama 30, Houston 21
LSU 17, Auburn 9
Washington 29, Oregon State 20
Pittsburgh 28, Miami (Fla.) 17
Georgia 19, Kentucky 3
Florida St. 21, S. Carolina 13
SCitadel 56, VMI 9
Missouri 30, Colorado 16
W. Virginia 24, Colorade State 21
Tennessee 38, Florida 7
Kansas State 19, Oklahoma 14
V ake Forest 14, N. Carolina 13
Colgate 10, Brown 6
Connecticut 21, Massachusetts 21, tie
Parsons 3, Wayne State 0
EAST
*L~ehigh 34, Vermont. 19
Bucknell 30, Lafayette 28
Indiana (Pa.) 41, slippery Rock 6
John Carroll 25, Allegheny 14
Dartmouth 37, Harvard 14
Grambling Col. 27, Jackson State 7
Mississippi St. 51, S. Mississippi 15
Morgan St. 34, Delaware St. 6
West Kentucky 19, East Kentucky 7
Texas Tech 14, SMU 10
Samford 21, Mississippi Col. 13
FAR WEST
Stanford 9, UCLA 7
Air Force 35, Boston College 10
Utah 24, Arizona 0
Texas Tech 14, Southern Methodist 10
California 45, Washington State 0 !
Montanta State 28, N. Arizona 8 I
Arizona State 42, Texas of El Paso 13
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Pittsburgh at Oakland{
St. Louis at New York Giants
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