Sunday, October 29, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine hyM Might M bumbling ichigan humbles Gophers, 42-0 By SANDI GENIS E V E N SCHEMBECHLER was rushing. As Schembechler com-' Bo Schembechler made it out of forced to agree. "I'd say Franklin mented, "I like to pass, but the the Wolverine fans' doghouse yes- gets better every week. He's a run is important. I'd hate to play terday afternoon as the Michigan pretty good quarterback." Dennis Franklin and not worry team rolled to their seventh con- Led by the tough passer, the about the pass or option, or play 01 secutive win of the season, club- receiving corps rolled up a season to the outside and have to worry bing the Golden Gophers of Min- high 111 yards as Franklin com-! about Shuttlesworth in the middle." nesota, 420. pleted five of his eight attempts The Minnesota squad learned More important to Michigan fans' and set up four of the Wolverines' very quickly, however, that they hearts than the lopsided score, Bo's five offensive scores. would have to worry about both as NIGHT EDITORS BOB McGINN and ROGER ROSSITER tematuddtecodo oethe Wolverines took their first NGTEIOS O cINadRGRRSIE team astounded the crowd of some However, in true Schembechler punt and promptly marched in 85;000 fans with an aerial attack form, the run was hardly aban- eight plays to their first score, that until last weekend seemed only doned as fullback Ed Shuttlesworth behind the running of tailback b a grid fans pipedream. But sopho- and company racked up 245 yards Chuck Heater and Shuttlesworth back slipped from the one for Two series earlier, however, the more quarterback Dennis Franklin on the waterlogged Tartan turf. who went in from the one. ' his last tally. Wolvernes, who unlike the Goph- made believers of them all with Shuttlesworth, in fact, tumbled A mere five plays later, the GEANWHILE, THE G o d e n ers, were not to be frustrated i his second straight fine passing over the goal line for four scores Golden Gophers felt the bite of the Gophers, sporting new uniforms their errorless play, ran over the performance, this time before an in his three quarters of play, Wolverine again as defensive back and a new no-huddle offense, look Gopher defense one final time as appreciative hometown crowd, and carrying the ball 19 times for 86 Roy Burks intercepted a Bob Mor- ed a bit tarished despite comg Franklin, in his final appearance prodded Gopher mentor- Cal Stoll 1rd off a surprisingly strong 43-14 of the afternoon, rifled a perfect y gan pass intended for Doug Kings- trampling of Iowa last Saturday. 25 yard pass to Seal who managed to call him the finest passer his Franklin, meanwhile, balanced riter and returned it to Minnesota's Admittedly the Wolverine defense to make the reception despite a hardpressed team has seen all sea- his aerial prowess with 58 hard- 39 yard line. Franklin then engi- doesn't ordinarily allow their op- Gopher defender attached to his son. earned yards and one touchdown neered the second score of the ponents to look good, but the Goph- back, and then sprinted around first quarter with a 14 yard p ass ers looked genuinely pitiful in their left end to the one foot mark from -T The Alter Ego Ii FI ait 'til next year, _____________'Easy Ed' --Bill Alterman THERE BUT FOR the grace of God went Ron Johnson's single game scoring record-or at least that is what Bo Schembech- ler would have us believe. For after yesterday's walkover, Schembechler piously revealed that he had no idea how many times Ed Shuttlesworth had scored. "I knew he had scored a couple, he admitted, "but I didn't know how many. In any event touchdowns are the lousiest statistic you can put up, it doesn't mean anything. I don't know who scores." Which is probably true, implying that late in the third quarter, when Michigan was perched on the Minnesota one, it was only fate as quarterback Dennis Franklin faked to 'Easy Ed" and kept it himself for the score. Had the 227 pound junior fullback from Cincinnati taken the ball with him, he would have tied the Michigan, and modern Big Ten record for most touchdowns in a single game But for the romantics, it's probably just as well Shuttles- worth didn't make it. Had he done so, he woud have tied the record set by Johnson on Nov. 16, 1968 in one of the most incredible single game performances in history. On that day, in the mud and rain of Michigan Stadium, Johnson rushed for a record 347, yards to singlehandedly destroy Wisconsin, 34-9. But yesterday's performance by "Easy Ed" was just one cog in a near-perfect machine. The Wolverines first touchdown drive was a model of efficiency. Shuttlesworth and tailback Chuck Heater alternated for the first six carrier, moving it down to the Gopher nine from midfield. From there Franklin rolled right to the one and Shuttlesworth took it in. And that's how it went on all of the Wolverine's jaunts. Some tough running, interspersed with one or two pinpoint passes from Franklin, and the Wolverines would find them- selves down inside the Gopher five. And in the Michigan Machine it is Ed Shuttlesworth's assignment to get those last few yards, just as it was Garvie Craw's job three years ago and Fritz Seyferth's the year after that. So no one was surprised when after the game the big full- back, in true Schembeckian fashion, talked of team goals and how "we consider it a good game if we get 35 points offensively." But even Shuttlesworth couldn't hide a wide grin when asked what it felt like to score four times: "Man, anytime you make four touchdowns you've got to be thrilled," he beamed. And Ed, for one, was not worrying about any records, "I'm not done yet, I've still got a year and a half to play." Meanwhile Gopher Coach Cal Stoll was reserving his praise, for Franklin, whom he called "the best quarterback we've seen r this year." Franklin hit five of eight for 94 yards and, in the words of Bo, "wouldn't you say he's getting better every week." Barring injury, Franklin has two and a half years left as Michigan's signal-caller, which after last season's quarterbacking debacle, has made a happy man of Bo Schembechler. The Wolverine mentor has been able to diversify his attack this year. "We're more consistent," he exclaimed. "We have more ways to move the ball, but basically we're still a running team, don't get me wrong though, I like to pass," Indeed, Michigan even tried some razzle-dazzle (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) in the third quarter when Franklin attempted to hit Gil Chapman with a screen pass. Of course, Bo was later heard to mumble something about "getting too darn fancy. Chapman (who was smeared on the play) will never forgive me for calling that one." If it sounds like Schembechler was content-he was. Before the start of the season everyone was moaning how the Wolverines wouldn't be the same without the sterling class of '72. Well, they're not. They're better. Michigan's team this year has far better balance than any team in recent years. Offensively the Wolverines are showing more and more each game, while the defense has surprised everyone by racking up three shutouts to date, leading the nation in fewest points allowed. Assuming Minnesota ever had a chance in yesterday's game, they blew it when they revealed their no-huddle offense against Iowa last week and blitzed them 43-14. Schembechler was happy the Gophers couldn't wait a week. "A week ago that might have disrupted us. But after a week of practice it wasn't so bad. I'm glad they did it against Iowa." For yesterday's game the Wolverine defense simply audibled their calls at the line, just as the Gophers were doing. Stoll apparently wasn't trying to prove anything yesterday with the no-huddle.' "We didn't do it for any particular reason. We just don't need to huddle." Naturally the Minnesota coach was asked to compare Michi- gan with two previous opponents, Nebraska and Colorado, and naturally he said, "I can't make any comparisons, they're all good football teams." He did, however, admit that "Michigan has lots of good football players . . . strength and quickness is the key to Michigan's defense. They're too quick for us. We can't handle them." The question is, can anybody handle them? "This is a good ball club," Schembechler remarked. "These kids are to tight endPaul Seal to oring the efforts to get the ball into scoring which he galloped in on the next ball to the four. Shuttlesworth then ran ase rrnrs nntinuallv thwart- nlav. .I1 plunged up the middle, behind a crushing block by Clint Haseirig, for his second tally.. ONLY MINUTES LATER "Easy Ed" picked up his third TD of the afternoon and his tenth tally of the season in an instant replay of the earlier series as safety Dave Brown snatched a second errant' Morgan pass to give Michigan pos- session at the Gopher 34. Again the Wolverines pushed down the field behind the rushing of Shuttlesworth, H e a t e r and Franklin; again Franklin set up the score with an aerial, this time a 15 yarder to split end *Gil Chap- man at the four before Shuttles- worth's touchdown ramble. Mercifully, for the Gophers the, Z iQ lss -,J QJ Gll VLJ %,VIA Lill U Qlly 411YYGi1l ! Flu J'. eU LeL. BULLETIN DETROIT UP)-Earl Lloyd was released last night as Detroit Pistons coach and replaced by his former assistant Ray Scott, who was named team assistant coach and scout before the sea-3 son began, according to the De- troit Free Press. Appropriately enough, when the final gun went off, the frustration was complete for the Gophers as Walt Sexton sacked Morgan for an 11 yard loss on the final play of the afternoon and the triumph was complete for the Wolverines and their pass-mad fans, as they walked off with the Little Brown Jug again. Daily Photo by TERRY McCARTHY DYNAMIC DENNIS FRANKLIN (9) turns the corner and heads upfield yesterday on his way to an- other substantial advance. The Massillon, Ohio native turned in a masterful performance, running for 58 yards and passing for 94 more. Michigan fans are beginning to realize that this poised sophomore has unlimited potential. Theisecond half was hardly more lucrative for them as the Wolver- ine defense displayed the awesome power that made it the nation's leader in defense against scoring. In their first drive of the second half the Gophers looked like they LOWLY IOWA TIES MSU IIHinllabc edge- Wolverines were stymied for most might be heading for paydirt only of the second period, but with min- to have Brown pick off his second utes to go before the damp, but pass of the afternoon at Michigan's enthusiastic crowd turned their at- '35 and race 65 yards for another By The Associated Press tention from the Little Brown Jug Michigan score, permanently cap- MADISON -- quarterbacx Greg to their own little bottles and jugs turing the ball for his father's Hare amassed 238 yards total of- of assorted spirits the Michigan trophy case. fense and sophomore fullback Har- offense switched into high gear Much later, when the Gophers old Henson ran for 122 yards and again. threatened on the 29, the defense two touchdowns yesterday pow- In a drive that saw Franklin stiffened again as Fred Grambau ering fourth-ranked Ohio State to a complete passes of 16 and 24 yards and Spearman caught Morgan for 28-20 Big Ten football victory over interspersed with Shuttlesworth's two consecutive losses, followed by Wisconsin. powerful running the Wolverines still another interception, this time The Buckeyes marched 77, 50, struck once more as the big full- by Randy Logan. 87 and 70 yards touchdowns the r first four times they had the ball, 1- -twice after Wisconsin fumbles. in rt0 -0.110- M. i, Big Ten Stondi Ba dge rs.' er midway in the third period. That punt return was the longest in the Big Ten so far this season. S Illinois rolled up 174 yards rush- ing and 204 yards passing against All Games the defense that went into the A W L T PF PA game as the Big- Ten's best. Pur- 7 7 0 0 194 30 due rushed for 172 yards but gain- 34 6 0 0 183 66 ed only 73 through the air and only 17 4 3 0 158 91 119 yards total offense in the sec- 30 2 4 1 99 88 ond half. MICHIGAN Ohio State Purdue Michigan State Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Northwestern Illinois W 4 4' 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 Big LT 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 3 0. 3 0 3 1 4 0 4 0 Ten PF 90 119 109 61 81 48 69 43 49 28 P i -v, txo ptters ototy( away) MICHIGAN RUSHING RECEIVING ' no yds td long 2 16 0 11 Franklin Shuttiesworth Heater Haslerig Banks Gustafson Thornbladh Cipa Slade Totals att 9 19 9 4 6 2 2 1 54 gain 74 86 27 33 19 3 7 12 5 266 loss 16 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 net 58 86 27 31 19 0 7 12 5 Fahnhorst Kingsriter King Kephart Totals rolling to a 28-7 halftime lead on route to their sixth victory in as 'many starts. Wisconsin, capitalizing on two Buckeye fumbles, scored in the third period on a 15-yard touch- down pass from Rudy Steiner to Jack Novak. 97, 106 111 107 102 101 '4 3 1 2 2 0 3 0 4 0 6 0 4 1 5 0 7 0 154 117 103 72 76 67 164 147 232 131 161 225 1 7 1 3 1 13 5 39 A 0 0 0 7; 3 13 13 PUNTING * * * . Randall PASSING Franklin Cipa Totals att 8 4 12 comp 5 1 6 21 245 TOTAL FIRST DOWNS Rushing Passing int yds 'NET YARDS GAINED t y4d; RUSHING 0 94 Number of rushes 1 17 1 111 NET YARDS GAINED' PASSING Number attempted INumber completed td long Number intercepted 0 25 TOTAL PLAYS (rushes 0 i51and passes) 0 16' TOTAL NET YARDS 0 24 ,GAINED RECEIVING Seal Chapman Heater Rather DenBoer Totals Dotzauer no yds 2 39 1 15 1 16 .1 I 6 PUNTING 24 17 111 0 0 17 25 no yds ave 5 174 34.8 King Beaudoin Morgan Keller Lawing Kingsriter Waltower Totals MINNESOTA RUSHING att 19 '16 14 9 2 4 1 57 gain 78 61 41 9 3 3 203 loss 0 0 21 0 21 0 0 42 net 78 61 20 9 -18 8 3 161 yds 23 16 39 KICK RETURN YARDAG Punt returns number, yards Kickoff returns numbe yards PUNTS Number of punts Average yards FUMBLES (No./Lost) INTERCEPTIONS (Numb Yards) PENALTIES (Number/ Yards SCORING SUMMARY Touchdowns Conversions (1 point/ 2 points) Field Goals (Number/ Attempted Safeties Score By Quarters: MICHIGAN no yds ave T F Y7alU 6 220 36.7 B Mich Minn! 17 14 Steiner, an Iron Mountain, 12 12 Michigannative, passed the Bad- gers on a 68-yard march and 245 161 scored himself from a yard out 54 57 with 1:52 to play, but a pass for 111 39 a two-point conversion fell . in- 12 13 complete. 6 5cWisconsin's f i r s t touchdown 1 4 came on a 12-yard pass from 66 70 Steiner to Novak in the second 36 7 quarter after Ohio State had takent 356 200 a 21-O lead. Hensen scored twice' E 52 103 from a yard out for a season totalI 5-52 1-6 of 13 touchdowns, four behind the school record shared by ,John, 0-0 6-101 Brockington and Jim Otis. 5 6 Rufus "Roadrunner" Ferguson, 44.8 36.6 Wisconsin's star tailback, was 0-0 3-1 held to 79 yards in 21 carries, hisl er/ third successive games of less 4-92 1-1 than 100 yards. 6-60 5-37 Hare, who had completed only1 22 of 49 passes going in, hit ont 6 0 nine of 12 for 120 yards. Hare com- 6-0 0-0 pleted his first six tosses, including the 27-yard scoring pass to Gal- 0-0 0-0 bos. Completions of 17 yards to 0 0 Brian Baschnagel and six yards to 1 2 3 4 F Henson set up Henson's first touch- down. 14 14 14 0 42 * 0 0 0 0 0 Hawks hustle IOWA CITY - A 26-yard field - - - - -- - - - - goal by Harry Kokolus midway in the final quarter yesterday earned Iowa a 6-6 tie with Michigan State in a Big Ten Conference football game of fumbling offenses. Michigan State marched 82 yards in 12 plays to score the second time it had the ball. Re- serve quarterback George Mi- haiu scooted around left end, for the final nine yards, but Marv Roberts' extra point kick was wide. Iowa, 2-4-1 'also, scored in the second quarter on Kokolus' 20- yard field goal. The Hawkeyes set- tled for the three-pointer after having a first and goal at the two. Iowa lost three yards. on the next two plays before Kokolus madehis successful boot. Both teams bungled scoring chances in the third quarter. Mark Fetter's bobble at the Iowa 16 gave Michigan State the ball, but four plays later the Spartans' Dave Brown was stopped for no gain at the eight. Michigan State piled up 213 yards rushing on the misty after- noon, but couldn't sustain a drive after its first quarter touchdown. I , Brown, who had 51 yards in th : first half scoring drive,t finished with 117 in 19 carries. Iowa had only 59 yards on the ground in 49 rushes and added 58 passing. * * * Riveters belt Illini WEST LAFAYETTE - Purdue held off a determined fourth-quar- ter bid by winless Illinois yester- day and escaped with a 20-14 Big Ten football victory. Senior quarterback Mike Wells passed for a pair of touchdowns in the second half and had Illinois deep in Purdue territory again before junior safety Carl Capria made a game-saving interception inside the Purdue 10-yard line with 5:09 remaining. Wells, muffled most of the g 'me, hit junior split end Gar- vin Roberson on touchdown plays covering 25 and 40 yards to come back from a 17-0 defi- cit. The winning margin was pro- vided for Purdue on a 74-yard punt return by Junior Fred Coop- 'Cats claw EVANSTON - A lucky bounce- pass from Mitch Anderson to end Jim Lash for an 81-yard scoring play rallied Northwestern's Wild- cats to their first Big Ten victory with a 23-14 defeat of Indiana yes- terday. Winless in four previous con- ference starts, Northwestern twice came from behind to leave Indi- ana with a 2-2 Big Ten record 'as the Hoosiers had to rely on rookie Rod Harris as a starting quarter- back. Harris, replacing injured vet- eran Ted McNulty, smashed two yards for a touchdown to give Indiana a 7-0 lead midway in the first quarter. GRIDDE PICKINGS MICHIGAN 42, Minnesota 0 Purdue 20, Illinois 14 Northwestern 23, Indiana 14 Michigan State 6, Iowa 6 Ohio State 28, Wisconsin 20 Davidson 25, Bucknell 21 Cornell 34, Yale 13 Gettysburg 30, Lehigh 28 Dayton 14, VMI 10 Western Michigan 34, Ohio 17 Auburn 27, Florida State 14 Colgate 28, The Citadel 26. Georgia Tech 21, Tulane 7 Clemson 31, Wake Forest 0 Williams and Mary 17, VPI 16 Baylor 15, Texas A&M 13 W. Texas St. 21, Wichita St. 16 Drake 28, New Mexico St. 10 Pacific 22, Idaho 7 DAILY LIBELS 999, ASCE -1 EAST Dartmouth 21, Harvard 21 Penn State 28, West Virginia 19 Syracuse 10, Pittsburgh 6 Pennsylvania 15, Princeton 10 Holy Cross 26, Villanova 9 Slippery Rock 30, Waynesburg 9 Miami, Fla. 28, Army 7 MIDWEST Eastern Michigan 30, New Mex- Highlands 6 Ferris State 20, Northwood Michigan 3 Wayne State 34, Illinois-Chicago 0 Michigan Tech 7, Moorhead State 0 Oklahoma 52, Kansas State 0 Missouri 20, Colorado 17 Nebraska 34, Oklahoma State 0 Notre Dame 21, Texas Christian 0 Bowling Green 46, Marshall Univ. 7 Toledo 25, Miabi, Ohio 21 Northern Illinois 28, Kent State 7 Quantico Marines 20, Northern Michigan 6 Akron 14, Cent. Michigan 10 SOUTH Duke 17, Navy 16 Tennessee 34, Hawali 2 Georgia 13, Kentucky 7 Maryland 24, Virginia 23 Mississippi 31, Vanderbilt 7 Mississippi State 27, Houston 13 No. Carolina State 42, South Carolina 24 Alabama 48, So. Mississippi 11 Texas 45, Rice 9 Texas Tech 17, So. Methodist 3 WEST Stanford 17, Oregon State 11 PASSING att Morgan 8 Lawing 5 Totals 13 comp 3 2 5 int 4 0 4 Minnesota Attendance: 84,190 ~'M' Huggers batter Wisconsin, nab second in Chicago tourney' Special To The Daily CHICAGO-The Michigan Rugby Club rebounded from a disappointing loss to place second in the Chicago Lions' Octoberfest Rugby tournament yes- terday, crushing Wisconsin 24-3. Wisconsin scored first on a drop goal by their South African fly half Dave Pinion, but Michigan quickly took command of the game to win going away. Wingback Brad Whitmore took a pass from Ross Vickers, after Vern Plato set up the play, and scampered 60 yards down the sideline for a try to give Michigan the lead. Good ballhandling led to another score by Whit- more when he scissored off Chuck Holt for his second try. Hustling Cleland Child scored next as he altertly scooped up a Wisconsin fumble caused Drukis, and the other forwards stymied Wisconsin all day. On the rare occasions Wisconsin worked the ball out to their backs, crisp tackles by John Bohlke, Ron Smith, and John Braun killed the attack. Larry Lucarrelli won most of the hooks, both in set scrums and on loose play. Unfortunately, Michigan only took second place in the tournament as they fell to the powerful Chicago, Lions 14-4. Chicago's experience was de- cisive on the muddy field, despite a fine effort by Michigan. Whitmore's 55 yard try was the Blue's only score. Kicking and ball handling is the name of the game in rugby, which Michigan has yet to learn. If they do, the Chicago Lions would be apt teach- ers. For the tuition of a few bruises the weekend