Sunday, November S, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Sunday, November 5, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Butterfingered Blue wins eihth straight By BILL ALTERMAN Special To The Daily BLOOMINGTON - T w o wbeks ago Michigan coach Bo Schembechler warned his team that Illinois could give them trouble. The Wolverines destroyed the Illini. One week ago Bo cautioned his players that Minnesota would be a rough game. Mich- igan ate the Gophers alive. Yesterday catastrophe Cried Wolf. nearly to The brought Bo Who > VSr :S :}}?,:^: s :' { :e l* Sports Index when Mark Zellmer's punt was al- fumbled on the Hoosier's first play lowed to roll dead on the Michigan and Dave Brown recovered on the 8. Things went quickly from bad Indiana 23. Three plays later to worse as Thornbladh lost a yard Franklin scored his second touch- on first down and Franklin then down of the afternoon, a 12 yard lost control of the ball in the end- sweep around right end. SSzone and had to fight his way out And less than a minute later to the one in order to avoid a Dotzauer picked off an errant safety. Dotzauer then got off an Hornbeck pass, but the Wolverine NIGHT EDITORS: FRANK LONGO and CHUCK BLOOM excellent punt under pressure and drive died on Lantry's misfired 32 a clipping penalty combined to put yard field goal attempt. the Hoosiers safely away. However, the Wolverines ,iced The Wolverine punter was not so the game when Zellner bobbled a fans know what was in store for gan on the Indiana 29, but on lucky next time, however, as Bill pass from center and was unable them at the start of yesterday's fourth and one at the Hoosier 20, Atkinson returned his punt 31 yards to get off his unt Michi an took fiasco. The Wolverines, favored by Franklin failed to connect on a to the Michigan 34. Michigan's over on the Indiana 31 and tas 21 points, started out as if they handoff to tailback Chuck Heater ferocious defense came through thousands streamed out of the were going to blow the Hoosiers and Indiana recovered, again, though, as Harris fumbled stadium, took it in for the touch- out of the stadium. Speedster Gil Four plays later it was Indiana's on fourth down at the Wolverine 20. down with Heater getting the last Chapman returned the opening turn as halfback Ken Starling Michigan didn't have the ball for 10 over left tackle. kickoff 41 yards to the Michigan found a big hole over right tackle long. Franklin fumbled for the Schembechler, had he wanted to, 43 and from there the potent Wol-' but couldn't keep control of the fifth time on his own 14 and In- Schb could have blamed the verine ground game chugged it pigskin which defensive end Clint diana scored in two plays on Den- eather for steday's n erou inside the Hoosier 10. Spearmen neatly picked off and nis Cremeens 11 yard scamper weabe f da' Tr But here the scenario started to rumbled six yards to the Indiana off left tackle. The extra point fumbles and dropped passes. The run amuck as on third and eight 41. made the score 7-7, marking the cobined foracill actors unde from the nine, Michigan quarter- Five plays later Franklin again first time this year the Wolverines 20 degrees but Bo implied, and back Dennis Franklin fumbled the fumbled and another scoring op- had been tied in the fourth quarter several of the players said, "We snap from center and Mike Lantry portunity was missed; at least until and things looked bleak for the t w r missed his first of three errant Indiana's third play, When Harris few hundred faithful Michigan fans usOdy enouready for tt his tesam' field goal attempts. fumbled and Fred Grambau re- in attendance on a cold, windy and mistakes were the "result of our Rod Harris, substituting for the covered on the Indiana 13. cloudy afternoon, trying too hard to get an extra injured Ted McNulty then passed This time the boys in blue found They remained that way on the yard." Indiana into Michigan 'territory but!successas Franklin partially next series as Michigan could not Indina ntoMiciga teritoy bt scces . . .. .Though dejected by their fumn- the Hoosiers were forced to punt atoned for his sins with a nine-yard pick up a first down, but once bles, Pont was proud of his team: into the Wolverines' endzone. touchdown burst around right end. again Indiana ineptitude came to "We worked very, very hard this The Michigan Machine also . The Wolverines found themselves the rescue as quarterback Bud week and it paid off. We won't stalled, but on the ensuing punt in big trouble the first time they Hornbeck, filling in for Harris who work that hard again for the rest the fun began in earnest as Rod had the ball the second half was jured the third quarter, of the season the team can't take (pages 8 and 9) Big 10 Football............Pg. 'M' Water Polo .............. Pg. Basketball Tickets......Pg. 8 9 9 Only two fourth quarter scores enabled the fourth ranked, but fumble prone, Wolverines to squeeze out a 21-7 victory overI equally fumble-prone Indiana. In- deed fumbles appeared to be the decisive statistic as Indiana turned over six to the Wolverines three. In fact all four touchdowns came on short drives after a fumble recovery. Ot one point in the afternoon of comedy the teams exchanged the ball five times in a row on fumbles. Little did the 41,336 unsuspecting Lawson attempted a diving catch of Barry Dotzauer's punt and only succeeded in deflecting it to the oncharging Wolverines. Jim Coode recovered for Michi- Follow the bouncing ball 'M buries Hoosiers .... . .and drops the shovel john papanek BLOOMINGTON INSIDE THE Indiana locker room there were nothing but long faces and reddened eyes. A big grey-haired man in a red jacket offered a consoling pat on the rump to each Hoosier as he passed through the door. The Hoosiers came that close to sending the Wolverines back to Ann Arbor with an embarrassing kick in the ass. Indiana's powerful defensive effort coupled with a horendous attack of Michigan fumblitis should have been enough to gan the prize. But while Michigan fumbled five times, losing three, the Hoosiers managed to outdo them, coughing up the football eight times, losing six to enemy hands. "It was six mistakes-and I'm talking about six fumbles," said a bleary-eyed Hoosier coach John Pont, "that cost us the game. You just can't play that way." Pont thinks his team played well enough defensively to win the game, and it may be that without the third-quarter loss of sophomore quarterback Rodney Harris, the Hoosiers would have done it. Harris is a black quarterback with lots of speed and a great arm who stepped in for Indiana when star quarterback Ted McNulty was injured against Ohio State two weeks ago. Harris was nine for 19 in passing when he got hit hard by linebacker Tom Kee and suffered a bruised clavicle at the end of the third quarter. Bud Hornbeck finished the game and hit on three of seven, but he was intercepted by Barry Dotzauer with Indiana down 14-7 with nine minutes left in the game to kill Hoosier hopes. "Harris did a tremendous job," Pont said, "but I can't say if the game would have been different if he hadn't gotten hurt. If you want to know why we lost the game it was fumbles, fumbles, fumbles." Fumbles, fuhbles, fumbles. Sounds like one of those old songs. Well, Bo Schembechler was singing it too and that's unusual. Usually when fumbles is a topic of conversation, it is the other team Bo is talking about. "I'll tell you, we just never got started," Bo said. "The turnovers probably equalled our total for the first seven games (12 fumbles, lost six). But it's nice to play that way and win." One reason Bo may be happy about the game is that it is a lesson learned by his team not to look ahead. "I tell my players every week that our opponents can play football and then we go and blow them out in the first quarter. Maybe next week they'll believe me." There is no teacher like experience, someone says every now and then, and a roomful of Wolverines shaking their heads and breathing audible sighs of relief is proof enough. Quarterback Dennis Franklin, who gets better every week, his coach keeps telling us, was Michigan's main maladroit yes- terday, causing all six fumbles and completing a paltry two of 14 pass attempts. At least six of his passes squirted through the hands of open receivers, but the fumbles were all Franklin's. "It's just one of those things," the soph said shaking his head. "I can't explain it. I felt like myself out there, but things just didn't go right. They were trying to strip the ball, but they do that every week. I guess it's just a bad day." Could it happen again? "We can't afford to let it happen again." If the fumbles had a shocking effect on Franklin and the offense, consider the feeling of the defense, which rarely stays on the field more than five minutes a quarter. "It was disappointing to the defense to see the offense fumble like that," said captain Randy Logan. "I can't explain it either. Except maybe that holding onto the ball is empha- sized so much, that when somebody fumbles, he tries extra hard not to the next time. It's probably mainly tightness." Tightness is one thing but cockiness is another, and it is a problem that Schembechler has been worried about for a long time. Last week, he said, "I get scared stiff when I see a team like Colorado come off a big win over Oklahoma, then get beat by Missouri." This week, he has some proof to point to. "No doubt about it," said linebacker Tom Kee, "we just weren't mentally ready. We were taking this game real light, nobody was worried about it. Well, you better believe this won't happen next week (against Iowa). I'm sure Bo will have us up for that one." But an interesting note is that Pont, whose team did play masterful defense in keeing the game on ice until late in the Mich TOTAL FIRST DOWNS 19 Rushing 16 Passing 1 Penalty 2 NET YARDS GAINED RUSHING 253 Number of Rushes 66 Yards Gained Rushing 261 Yards Lost Rushing 18 NET YARDS GAINED PASSING 27 Number Attempted 14 Number Completed 2 Number Intercepted 0 TOTAL PLAYS (Rushes and Passes) 80 TOTAL NET YARDS *GAINED 280 KICK RETURN YARDAGE 66 Punt Returns, Number 0 Punt Returns, Yards 0 Kickoff Returns, Number 2 IKickoff Returns, Yards 66 PUNTS *Number of Punts 5 Average Yards 45 Had Blocked 0 FUMBLES (No/Lost) 5-3 INTERCEPTIONS (Number/Yards 1-0 PENALTIES (Number/Yards) 3-22 MICHIGAN RUSHING att gain loss net Franklin 24 102 17 5 Heater 17 71 0 71 Thornbladh 25 98 1 97 Ind 14 6 8 0 96 43 138 42 130 26 12 D. Franklin Haslerig Seal Dotzau er PASSING att comInt yds td long 14 2 0 27 0 21 RECEIVING no yds td long 1 21 0 21 1 6 0 6 PUNTING no yds ave long 5 223 45 54 IND)IANA it." But all the hard work in the world may not help Iowa next Saturday if theBo Who Cried Wolf is in fine vocal form this week in practice. FRESHMAN SAFETY Quinn Buckner (34) of Indiana applies a cruncher of a tackle to Michigan's sophomore quarterback Dennis Franklin (9) in yesterday's 21-7 Wolverine win at Bloomington. Tackles like these caused Franklin and his teammates to b. separated from the pigskin five times, while the ,Hoosiers reciprocated with eight fumbles of their own. GAIN SERIES SPLIT --, - r- -a--- -.r 1 1: I Harris Starling 69 St. Pierre 26 Cremeens 426 Hornbeck AZelumer RUSHING att gain loss net1 7 23 17 6 17 58 0 58 2 4 0 4 12 44 0 44 4 9 21 -12 1 0 4 -4 PASSING att com int ydst 19 9 0 96 7 3 1 34 td long 0 19 0 8 0 2 1 11 0 1 9 -4 td long 0 18 9 16 loDaks power past By ROGER ROSSITER to the task, thwarting Pierre Sar- caught the Wolverines in a line The North Dakota Fighting Sioux azin, Gary Kardos and Don Fardig change and Denny Johnson cent took advantage of numerous penal- each on shots that should have Kelly Cross in all alone on Moore ties and some poor passing by the turned the red light on for Mich- with a perfect lead pass at the! Wolverines to blank Michigan 6-0 igan. 'Michigan blue line. Cross beat __ _L. t- r: ; .. ~t tt.,..... ., , A- .h. . M Itlnr nlaa frn n ae ont lcers when he poked the puck past Moore in a scramble in front of the Mich- igan net. Earl Anderson put the icing on the cake four minutes later when 4 61 3 I 73 Harris Hornbeck 4 44 Q Flanagan 8-6 Sconik 0UMastrn 00St. Pierre RECEIVING no yds td long 3 41 0 18 4 31 0 14 3 44 0 16 2 14 0 10 PUNTING no yds ave long 4 175 44 55 ;l ' i ;< : , ; ] iI l ; I ''1 ,1 8-60 long 13 14 12 Zellmer td 2 1 0 SCORE BY QUARTERS 1 2 3 MICHIGAN 0 7 0 Indiana 0 0 0 Attendance: 41,338 4 F 14-21 7 7 Michigan erossm c ountr Harriers take seond i1 By JEFF CHOWN Special To The Daily IOWA CITY - The Michigan cross-country team had something to be mad about. Going to the Big Ten Championships, t h e y fail-j ed to hear their names mention- ed by a local sports announcer dis- cussing the contending teams. They did hear MSU mentioned, however, whom they had beaten two weeks before. It appears t h e broadcaster, hadn't prepared his program very well as the Wolverines brought home an impressive second place finish for a team that has all its members returning next year. The Michigan harriers, who werej greeted at Detroit Metro by about 20 ardent fans, failed to qualify as a team for the nationals with 76 points to champion Indiana's 39. But they did manage to qualify half the team, as their top three men will go with the ten best in- dividuals in the conference outside of the winning team. The three were Keith Brown, who finished fifth, Rick Schott, eighth, and Bill Bolster, tenth. However, the harriers will get another shot at qualifying as a team next week at the districts in Bowling Green. But as Mike Tay- for noted, "It would have been easier to qualify at the Big Ten. But now we have no choice, we'll just have to qualify at Bowling Green." Michigan improved over last year's performance when they fin- ished a surprising third, knocking thirteen points off last year's score. Last year 74 points was good for the championship, as Michigan State copped the honors. But as Rick Schott commented, "We felt down because we finished second, but actually we ran a hell. of a race. Indiana was just super. At least people know we're here, and here to stay." Glenn Herold of Wisconsin went home with the individual honors with a new course record of 29:46, thirty seconds ahead of his near- est competitor. Brown was also under the old record, but had a bad race. He held third for most of the race, and was moving on second. But Brown ran into problems on the last hill and was passed by two men in the last quarter mile. Coach Dixon Farmer said, "I've got a hunch next week at the dis- tricts he'll be very tough. It's good that he can take fifth on a bad day." last night at the Michigan Coli- Michigan never had a chance ;vm1oore cleanly rom 2m feet to put the Michigan defensemen collided seum. to get going in the first period the Sioux on top 2-0. at the NoDak blue line and Ander NoDak goalie Billy Kriski, mak- as they spent over 15 minutes North Dakota was in complete son was left all alone to skate in ing his first start of the young killing the myriad of penalties control throughout the second unmolested for an easy breakaway season, turned back all 17 Mich- called on them by referees Don period, peppering Moore with 1S goal. igan shots in recording his first Wilkie and Randy Gambucci. As shots, two of which went in. shutout as a collegian. Michigan coach Al Renfrew put Gerry Miller picked up a loose Dakeospitscored oore played an Kriski was never severely chal-, it, "You can't play shorthanded puck right in front of the Mich- Dots d Mgameinpgaledfor lenged in the first two periods, as much as we did and beat any- igan net and lifted it high over outstanding game in gol for making only six saves as the Wol- body." Moore's left shoulder for the Michigan, stopping 48 shots with verines were unable to mount any North Dakota got its first goal NoDaks' third tally at 13:06. his acrobatic style that remindser. kind of an offense. When the on a power play after Michigan All-America odefgensCman Al Maize and Blue finally got going had successfully killed five penal- Al d e f e n anFor the majority of the contest, in the third period Kriski was equal ties when defenseman Mike Lund- when he blasted home a rebound North Dakota kept the Wolverines by blistered a screen shot past from 30 feet out past a screened pretty well bottled up with some Wolerine goali Robbie ean Moore. fierce forechecking and good po- a half minutes later North Dakota Miller scored his second goal of sitional hockey that they had lack- the game at 8:33 of the third period !ed the night before. , Si,,, scalp n Bi*g Te SCORING~Sox cl eMICHIGAN 0 0 0-9 orth Dakota 2 2-6 First PeriodTAr Farmer went on to say, "We did SCORING: 1. ND-Lundy (Miller) have some good finishes. Schott, 15:x1; 2. ND-Cross (Johnson) 18:57. Arb r hav soe oodfishe. chot, PENALTIES: 1. M-Lindskog (trip- I Bolster, and Taylor (18th) were ping) 1:00; 2. ND-Miller (roughing)I exceptional. Rick's (Schott) been! :01; 3. M-Fox (roughing) 4:01; 4. M- gaining confidence all year and it Neal (cross-checking) 6:22; 5. M-Fox br t do ometing e gos ou andingerf9:11; :7;M-.a ND(tipngb 92;(hy Lielton Fr n showed today. Whenever I ask Tay- interrence) 47;.ri (tipping)9 26 for to do something he goes out and 8. Mallette (interference) 12:41; 9. M- gives it his all." Falconer (interference) 15:06. Two places back was Bill Bol- SCORING: Second Period h all ster, who along with Schott and !toss) 13:06; 4. ND-Hangsleben (Drader) Jh nU so Brown received medals for being 16:02. Interested in women's right named to the all-Big Ten team. PENALTIES: 10. M-Lindskog (trip- Bolster, who's a fair piano player ping) 1:11; 11. M-arry (tripping) 3:14; to support 12. ND-Hangsleben (cross-checking) tsppr when he's not running, picked off 8:51; 13. M-Fox (roughing) 16:40; 14. three men in the last mile, explain- ND-Gibb (roughing) 18:19; 15. M- ing, "I think I had one of my Cullen (roughing) 18:19. x' ,iT better days. Dixon (Farmer) SCOING Third Period(Htngereo oa) kept shouting towards the end, and ,l8:33; 6. ND-Anderson (unassisted) 12:27. I just used the old kick." PENALTIES: 16. M-Sarazin (charg- Taylor also ran a catch-up race ing) 1:52; 17. ND-Winters (tripping) .lL4 picking off men until the last 6:05; 18. M-Fox (misconduct) 8:34; 19.Oe mile. Jon Cross and George Khouri ND-langsleben (roughing) 8:52; 20. M- were both bothered by illnesses(boarding) 15:09; 22. ND-Hangsleben this week. Cross was still able to (holding) 16:14; 23. ND-Colehourd mutra3t lcntbdfr(boarding) 18:32. 4z, (paid political advertisement) muster a 35th place, not bad for SAVEiS '%ASA a freshman which led him to keep M-Moore 16 18 14-48 repeating, "Wait until next year." ND-Murphy 4 1 12-17 Aide9 &u'9j ne( iYOU E LOCKED IN by the PROFIT-POVERTY; WARFARE-WELFARE SYSTEM I so are "KING" RICHARD and "KING" GEORGE and all of the POLITICAL PRINCELINGS ISN'T IT TIME to DECLARE OUR NDEPENDENCE of CAPITALISM and of all SYSTEMS of CLASS RULE? ORGANIZE where we work for the purpose of establishing an INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY " Volunteer Attorney, Legal Aid Society. " Attorney for Mich. Abortion Referendum. - Practicing trial lawyer in the circuit court- 16 years experience in divcorce work and crimi- nal defense. "Too of ten defendants leave the court with more bitterness against 'the law' than when they came in, because of the way things are handled." "Sexual preference and possession of marijuana cases should not even be taking up the court's " Michigan Women's Commission.fte. " Advocate of children's rights in divorce cases.