Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 24, 1974 Page ---.., THE,.ICH.G.N.,A.L. KLABAN'S KICKS DOOM MICHIGAN 'Fou (Continued from Page 1) and decisively for an early 10-0 lead. THE WOLVERINE defensej forced Ohio to punt away its initial possession before Mich- igan moved 53 yards in only four plays. Three rushes gained nine yards before Franklin found wingback Gil Chapman cutting across t h e middle. Chapman gathered in the toss at the 20 and raced to the flag. After, a Greene fumble, the Wolverines came right back, Buckeye boots -we Wilt flue roses moving 52 yards in nine plays for a first down at the OSU 22. Gordon Bell carried for 42 of those yards but Michigan stalled at the 21 and settled for Lan- try's 37-yard boot. WITH HIS total of 108 yards yesterday, Bell carried for cver 100 yards for the fifth straight game. He also became just the third Michigan back to rush for 1000 yards in a season, joining Ron Johnson and Billy Taylor in that elite group. George Hostings - Climactic battle .. . .. .just a kicking contest COLUMBUS BEFORE THE GAME, all the sports writers talked about motivation, about desire, about Archie Griffin, about Dennis Franklin's ankle, about field position and strategy. Little did they realize it would all boil down to the kicking game. Without a doubt, the difference in the kicking games of Michigan and Ohio State is the reason that the Buckeyes and not the Wolverines will in all probability be going to the Rose Bowl. Two unheard-of young Buckeyes with strong legs booted their way into Big Ten history here yesterday, breaking the hearts of Michigan-lovers, and Woody Hayes-haters all over the country. One unfortunate young Viet Nam veteran from Oxford, Michigan could not equal their exploits at the end of the game, on the last kick of his college career. Fat old Woody came out of his lockerroom after enter- taining his high school recruits and confirmed that kicking was what decided the contest. "That was the greatest exhibi- tion of a great kicking game I ever saw," he crowed. Briefly, Woody declared to the assembled press that it was his coaching opponent, Bo Schembechler, who had prompted him to concentrate on footwork. "Bo said this game would be decided on the kicking game and he was right," gloated Woody. "I heard that and decided we would work hard all week on kicking and punting-and we did work hard on it. Sometimes you can learn something from another coach," he added with a satisfied grin. Kickers spark Bucks Whatever Woody did in practice, it paid off yesterday. Tom Klaban, a Czechoslovakian immigrant, was letter-perfect in four field goal attempts ranging in distance from twenty-five to forty- seven yards. They were all the points that the best offense in college football could manage against the magnificent Michigan defense, but they were enough for Ohio State to spoil the Wolverines' season for the third straight year. Woody Hayes' legions retali- ated with Klaban's first field goal and two more before half- time. Prior to Klaban's second boot, the Bucks had a first down on the Michigan 11 but settled for three points, cutting the Michigan advantage to 10-6. Michigan moved 346 yards to the Buckeye 34, but Lantry was wide with a 51-yarder into the wind, and the Bucks took over with a little over a minute left in the half. IN THESE wanning seponds, Ohio moved 54 yards as Hayes used all his time outs to set tip Klaban's third kick, a 43-yarder. Greene set it up by burning a momentarily sloppy Michigan defense for a 25-yard comple- tion to Dave Hazel. The defenses tightened up in the second half and only Klaban could dent the scoreboard for the winning tally, five minutes into the third quarter. Since Michigan and Ohio State tied for the Big Ten title the conference athletic direc- tors will gather in Chicago this morning to pick the conference representative in the Rose Bowl. Although tradition normally dictates that the winner of the head-on battle would go, there is some feeling that Michigan has an outside shot at captur- ing the vote. A 5-5 split would send the Wolverines to Pasa- dena. Blue 1 P - 1 hea Frustrated B *. still proud of his team COLUMBUS LENN E. SCHEMBECHLER has one nickname that he likes, "Bo." He also has a nickname that he doesn't like, "Little Woody." Woody Hayes has been criticized by everyone from Howard Cosell to the school newspaper here, the Ohio State Lantern. For Ann Arborites the stories are old and numerous about Woody smashing sideline markers and eating people, especially refer- rees, who don't root for Ohio State like every God-fearing American should. Schembechler, of course, is known to differ with an official once in a while and lock the doors after a loss, but yesterday as another unbeaten season was quashed by Ohio State, Bo showed a lot of class. He didn't stand there expecting sym- pathy or making excuses because his kicker missed the field goal that would've won the game although the reporting hordes would've loved it. Instead he stood there like a normal coach who just lost a close, fiercely fought game and gave his comments, answered a few questions and left. No fire and brimstone invective or excuses. Just plain talk-proud talk. Bo probably disappointed some by refusing to condemn Mike Lantry or moan because Dennis Franklin was obviously bothered by the bad ankle, but rather he turned to the parts of the game that he was justifiably proud of. "That's the same Ohio State team we played last year and we lost thirty seniors and had a helluva rebuilding job. This has been the most motivated, dedicated team I've had. I'm not going to let the two-point loss to Ohio State dampen that." ds or tales H Marc Feldman 0 . . Doily Photo by KEN FINK OHIO STATE'S Len Willis (89) goes nowhere on this kickoff, thanks to Tim Davis (56) and Tom Drake (28). Davis was a standout for the Michigan defense, garnering 17 tackles. cemen triumph 4m3 for sweep over Huskies. By DAVE WIHAK. The Michigan hockey team. . .... restored a little sunshine in1 Ann Arbor last night as the 1 Wolverines defeated the Michi- gan Tech Huskies 4-3 to com-~ plete the series sweep. On a day that was ill fore- NIGHT EDITORS: boding for Michigan sports, the BRIAN DEMINGj dekers were not to be denied a JOHN KAHLER victory as they fought from behind to win, scoring two goals within the last six minutes with George Lyle scoring on aI of the game. lightning quick shot just ten seconds later. That tied the THE WINNING score came score, and the first period end-i at 17:34 of the third period on ed in a deadlock. 1, tinuously forechecking and fir-! ing shots on Tech goalie War- den. But time and time again their shots were either blocKed by the defense or Warden. As if their failure to score was not enough, the Wolve:irnes{ were further aggravated when the Tech Huskies pulled ahead 3-2 at the 7:53 mark of the final' stanza. STILL, INCENSED by the Tech goal, the Wolverines kept! pressing. As the clock tikcd down things looked bleak for Michigan, especially when Mich-' igan Tech apparently scored n- other goal. It was, however, called back on an offside. At this point, the tide turned in favor of Michigan. With under six minutes left in the game, Kris Manery de- flected the puck past a hafflad Warden on a Greg Fox shot from the point. The goal made' the score 3-3 and ovwrine seemed inevitable. Such was not to be, however, as center Moretto scored ther Gary Kardos, who earned one Michigan must be starting to feel like the old Brooklyn of the game's stars, summed Dodgers who would beat every team year after year only to the game up best when he said, lose to the Yankees in the World Series. "The puck was bouncing arlund at both ends, but when it came Bo doesn't think of making up cliches to the writers like down to the winning margin, "We're jinked against those guys," even though Michigan hasn't it just bounced our way. ' lost a regular season game to anybody but OSU since October - . 11969. The victory was indeed a big one for the Wolverines, and it Bo obviously respects Ohio State's football team and his gives indication that Micaitan former boss, Woody Hayes. Bo wouldn't be known as "Little in the race for the n iitnah Woody" if he lost seven games a year. There's a little bit of championship. As Robbie Moore a compliment in that nickname also. conjectured after the vi*ory, Naturally Bo was reserved in the crowded cubicle adjacent Lois betweenthe 14th and to the dressing quarters, but he continued to praise his team. 16th of March?" St. Louis, in- "I'll put my team up against any team, any time and I I Meanwhile, the Buckeyes' other kicker, Tom Skladany, had an equally. super if less recognized day. The sophomore hit five superb punts for an average of 45.2 yards, bottling up the Wolverines in bad field position all day. On top of that, he knocked four of his five kickoffs into the endzone. Michigan was never able to start a post-kickoff drive from anywhere better than its own twenty-one. But despite all the Buckeye toe-heroics, it was on the kicking game of Michigan that the outcome depended With eighteen seconds left to play. Lantry's fateful minute As the Wolverines lined up for that fateful field goal attempt, it seemed that Schembechler's team was staring a long awaited victory in the face. Bo had caused gasps in TV rooms all over Michigan when he elected to punt on fourth-and-twenty with only two minutes to play. But that strategy paid off as the Wolverines held on three plays, got the ball back on their forty-seven, and drove it to the Ohio State sixteen in only thirty-nine seconds. On the last play before the kick, though, tailback Rob Lytle was sent off right guard, instead of to the left, toward the middle of the field. So, kicking from a more difficult angle from thirty-three yards out on the right hash mark, poor Mike Lantry just barely missed wide to left. Fate had thus come to haunt him in the Ohio State game for the third straight year. Two years ago, he had to watch from the sidelines as Schembechler several times elected to run on fourth down and disdained easy field goal tries, any of which would have sent Michigan to the Rose Bowl. Last year, he narrowly missed from fifty-eight, then forty-five yards in the final minute to once again cost the Blue the trip west. Yesterday, fate once more treated the senior kicker most cruelly. Cruel blows of Fate I guess that the Fates just have it in for the Wolverines, in general. Yesterday Michigan outdid the Bucks in total yards, first downs, pasing yards, total plays and tied them in rushing yards; and did it on their home field, perhaps the toughest gridiron in the country for visiting squads. Gordon Bell matched Archie Griffin step-for-step, cut-for-cut, twist-for-twist. The Blue defenders held the Bucks without a touchdown for the first time since 1967. Michigan overcame the loss of three key offensive players, as well as a sub par per- formance from a sore-ankled Franklin. Yet still, unbelievably, the Buckeyes jinxed them again for the third straight year. Some Wolverine faithful still cling to hopes that the Big Ten athletic directors might reverse their mistake of a year ago and vote today in Chicago to send co-champion Michigan to Pasadena. That possibility didn't seem to faze Hayes. "Logically, I don't think there's any question about it," he said. "We tind fo,. the title mw hant thea had t o had .n wa'l n" a shot by Angie Moretto after a fast goal-mouth setup by Gary Morrison. After the game, Michigan coach Dan Farrell had noth- ing but praise for his team. "We played a great Tech team' out there tonight, and coming back the way we did showed our poise under pressure." In completing the sweep of last year's league champions, Far- rell could find his breath enough to comment: "We play- ed like champions, and it took a super effort to do it." THE WOLVERINES opened the scoring at 12:57 of the first period. Angie Moretto cruised in on goal after receiving a pass from Gary Morrison. The junior center fired a screen shot over the shoulder of Tech goalie Jim Warden for the tally. However, before Moretto's goal could even be announced on the Yost P.A. system, the Tech Huskies came right back, The second period opened with a flurry of penalties, and at 2:41 the Wolverines found them- selves with a one man advant- age. However, in an amazing turn of events, Michigan Tech's Billy Steele stole the puck from Michigan's Greg Natale and scored a shorthanded goal at 3:35. Steele skated in all alone on Frank Zimmerman and just barely slid the puck past the Wolverine goalie.I cidently, is the site of this sea- son's NCAA hockey champion- ships. Tech sgv p Michigan came out and dominated most aspects of the Tgame, holding the vaunted Buckeye attack without a TD and FIRST PERIOD to 253 yards. Considering that OSU had averaged close to 500 SCORING: 1. M-Moretto (Morri- yards and 40 points a game, that's no ordinary accomplishment. son, Fox) 12:57; 2. Tech-Lyle (Dempsey, ostlund) 13:07. There were some doubts about the Michigan defensive line PENALTIES: none. I holding up against the big bruising Buckeye blockers, but the SCORING: 3. Tech-Steele (unas- Wolverines were nothing less than spectacular. sisted) 13:07, sh; 4. M-Hughes (T. Lindskog, Kardos) 4:23, pp. Middle guard Tim Davis registered 17 stops, tackles Mo PENALTIES: 1. Tech - Goddard Morton and Jeff Perlinger had ten each, all against highly (tripping) 2:41; 2. Tech - Abbey publicized opponents. Slippery OSU quarterback Cornelius (rough) 2:41; 3. M - Manery (rough) 2:41; 4. M - Morrison Greene was unable to work his normal magic, as he finished (high sticking) 6:28; 5. Tech - with just 43 yards in 19 carries. Lytle (rough 13:53 6. M - D. Lind- skog (rough) 13:53. Archie Griffin is probably one of the greatest backs in THIRD PERIOD college football history and he got his normal 111 yards. How- anywhere. Name one other team that could keep Ohio State out of the endzone on its own field," Bo said. No one offered any suggestions. At this point it looked as1 though the momentum might winner to end Tech's hoos for1 change in favor of Tech. But the a victory or tie. For Mocetto Wolverines maintained t h e i r it was his second of the eve- poise. Less than a minute later, ning and his fifteenth goal of still enjoying the power-play ad- the season. vantage, Pat Hughes converted DEFENSEMAN G r e F 'ox; a Tom Lindskog pass into a i ented about his tlmm's score with a blazing slapshot from the side of the net. THAT SET the stage for the third period heroics. The Wol- verines came out flying, con-I performance: "We really play-I ed well-I guess we just ad- justed to the strong forece,:k-' ing game that Tech play. d in the first period. We didn't reAlly expect Tech to come on :rat strong." SCORING: 5, Tech - Mayer (Zuke, Murray) 7:53; 6. M -Man- ery (Fox. Fardig) 11:50; 7. M - Moretto (Morrison, Werner) 17:34. PENALTIES: 7. Tech-Abbey (in- terference) 2:11; 8. Hughes (brok- en stick) 19:49. SAVES 1 2 3 Tot ever he averaged only 4.4 yards per carry yesterday compared to his average of over seven. The Michigan-Ohio State game has become one of those larger-than-life sports spectacles. If the stakes were not so high year after year, people wouldn't get so excited about it. Sure, Bo is frustrated along with every other Michigan fan across the country but he took a long step toward getting out of Woody's neanderthal shadow. He and the Michigan team absorbed a bitterly disappointing loss and they took it like men. [": m:::. ".t ~~rflvw...:v-t. . V. . ... - SCORES' j iI-Zimmerman 1Tech-Warden 12 11 9 32 7 8 13 28 THE MAN OF THE HOUR GRIDDE PICKS Ohio State 12, Michiean 10 Purdue 38, Indiana 17 Illinois 28. Northwestern 14 Mich. State 60, Iowa 21 wisconsin 49, Minnesota 14 Mississippi St. 31, Miss. 13 Oregon St. 35, Oregon 16 Washington 24, wash. State 17 Southern Cal 34. UCLA 9 Penn State at Pitt, Thanksgiving Tulane at LSU, inc. Clemson 39, N. Carolina 21 Stanford 22, California 20 Baylor 31, SMU 14 La Tech at NE Louisiana, inc. Oklahoma 24, Kentucky 7 Harvard 21, Yale 16 Wake Forest 16, Furman 10 DAILY LIBELS 12, OSU Lantern 10 OTHER SCORES Notre Dame 38, Air Force 0 Maryland 10, Virginia 0 North Carolina 14, Duke 13 Temple 17, Vilianova 7 Brown 28, Columbia 19 Princeton 41, Cornell 20 Boston College 70, Mass 8 Rutgers 62, Colgates21 Miami (Fla) 14, Syracuse 7 I Slinnerv Rock 20, West Chester 7 West vireinia 22. Virzinia Tech 21 Mssuri 27. Kansas 3 Oklahoma State 14, Iowa St. 12 Prizham Vnng 48. Utah 20 T ,,aware 51. Bucknell 16 Po'nnsvlvania 21, Dartmouth 20 Seton Hall 27, Fordham 0 Kansas St. 33, Colorado 19 Arkansas 24, Texas Tech 14 NHL Boston 5, New York Rangers 2 St. Louis 4. Detroit 2 New York Islanders 3, Vancouver 3 Los Angeles 0, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago 6, Kansas City 0 Philadelphia 6, Toronto 3 Minnesota 3, California 1 NBA Golden State 110, Detroit 98 Milwaukee 90, New York 72 Cleveland 121, New Orleans 100 Buffalo 117, Phoenix 104 Philadelphia 98, Boston 96 KC-Omaha 103, Atlanta 100 ABA San Antonio 127, St. Louis 114 WHA Toronto 9, Quebec 2 New England 4, Chicago 2 Kiban: By GEORGE HASTINGS Special To The Daily COLUMBUS-It was once quipped by ABC's Alex Karras in one of his more crafty moments that the best way to limit the importance of the field goal in American football would be to tighten up the immigration laws. Late yesterday af- ternoon, the Michigan Wolverines must have been wishing to themselves that someone had taken Karras seriously. It was a 20-year-old immigrant, original- ly from Czechoslovakia, who, in all prob- ability, knocked Michigan out of the Rose Bowl with four long field goals. Tom Klaban, a reserved, soft-spoken junior, who is not even currently on athletic scholarship to Ohio State, is a man with a fascinating story behind him. Big T en Standi .gs Buckeye Thomas Klaban was born in 1954 in The fir: Czechosolvakia. His family moved when of the he was still a boy to Yugoslavia, like strong wi Czechoslovakia an eastern European com- it 47 yard munist state. the perio In the locker room after the game, out. Then Klaban described in detail his family's ine defen escape from the latter country into Italy. to get it He told how he, his parents, and his six- throughR year-old sister left by jumping down from to spare. a ten-foot stone wall to freedom as border Finally guards fired over their heads. stanza, K From there the Klabans, denied entry entire se into the United States because of immi- winning 4 gration quotas, went first to Germany, Klaban then Canada. In 1967, Klaban's father was tion that offered a job in Cincinnati, and was able he handl to move to Buckeye Country. tiently re It was there, as a tenth grader at ested rep Princeton high school, that Tom saw his was the first game of American football. "I really allowed h didn't know what was going on," he re- He did: lated with a shy smile. burst int He soon found out, and became the middle o nlacekicker at Princeton for two years interrupt hero st boot was on the opening play second quarter when, with a nd behind him, the junior drilled ds between the uprights. Later in d, he popped one from 25 yards n, just before the half, a Wolver- sive lapse allowed the Buckeyes n position for Klaban to knock a 43 yarder-with two seconds , only five minutes into the third Klaban put the only points of the cond half on the board with the 45 yard field goal. seemed startled by all the aten- his exploits earned for him, but ed it calmly and quietly, pa- peating his story for any inter- porter, and emphasizing that it efforts of the entire squad that im his big day. n't seem to. mind when Woody to the press room during the f his escape story and rudely ed to tell the writers about his Roses kic MICHIGAN 10 0 0 0-10 Ohio State 0 9 3 0-12 Mich-Chapman 42 yd. pass (Lantry kick) Mich-FG Lantry 37 yds. OSU-FG Klaban 47 yds. OSU-FG Klaban 25 yds. OSU-FG Klaban 43 yds. OSU-FG Klaban 45 yds. 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