Page 10-Sunday, October 23,1977-The Michig Blue jan Daily blanked. I'ce neter seen our offense look like that. That's tde poorest offensivegamte we've evereplayed. } -B.o Sehem bechlter Wolverines held to (Continued from Page ,) 26 and then committed an error that buried them early. QUARTERBACK Rick Leach sprin-. ted left on the optionand pitched the ball behind the trailing Harlan Huckleby. Hucklebuy lost his footing when he put on the brakes and couldn't get to the ball. Gopher safety Keitha Brown pounced on the ball on the 12 and set up Minnesota's lone touchdown. Kitzmann dove into the line for two on first down. Carlson then rolled left looking to pass but kept it for six big yards to the four. Fullback Jeff Thom- pson came up just short of the first at the two. With fourth and inches, fresh- man back Marion Barber smashed in for the score. THE HALF ENDED on a desperati pass play that almost worked. Fres man receiver Rodney Feaster fle down the sidelines and past the Mi nesota defender. Leach dropped a pe fect strike to Feaster on the five onlyt "Michigan is a great football team, but ... we got the breaks today." --Gopher coach Cal Ntolll 80 yards on Michigan. On third and seven at the final score. h- Wolverine 45, Carlson threw a pass that hit his thir w as intercepted by Dwight Hicks. The 16 p n- Hicks returned the ball to the Gopher is the high r 12, but was called for interference, refused to nullifying the play. AS SCHEMBECHLER put it, "We never got a play that could spark us. ' First downs Hicks' gnt eareLion would hav been Rushes att/yap HcsinecPtoae Passing yds that play." Instead, however, the .Passes Wolverines were back on defense like Punts (no/avg they were most of the afternoon. Fumbles-lost At the end of the quter; Michigan Penalties (no/ Michigan started its only other legitimate threat Minnesota Is. of the game. After Davis and Huckleby vn had moved the Blue to midfield, Leach Minn-Rogind hit Clayton for 16 yards. Minn-Barber3 nd Huckleby and .Davis combined for Minn-Rogind an another first down to the Minnesota 24. Minn-Rogind rs The Minnesota defense rose to the roar at of the partisan 44,165 fans and held for ve the next four plays. Michigan tried and Davis pt failed to get the first and a fourth down ieach screen pass to Huckleby. ild A Leach interception set up a five- 'or minute Gopher"drive that led to the White reningground With 4:22 remaining Rogind leave our defense on the field like that. d field goal from 32 yards. Three plays and punt, that's ridiculous. oints allowed by the defense I never felt we had control of the game. hest total this year, but Bo We played poorly, and they played well. fault it, saying, "We can't The deserved to win." Maize malaise-Blue flu Is) yds ) MICHIGAN MINNESOTA 12 13 3380 61-190 122 60 29-13-2 104-0 7-44 8-37 3-3 1-0 3-12 440 0 0 0 0-0 10 3 0 3-16 SCORING BigTen Standings mesamaumempaagwaxea Conference W L T Ohio State .......4 0 0 MICHIGAN......3 1 0 Michigan State.... 2 1 1 Wisconsin.......3 2 0 Iowa... ....... 2 2 0 Minnesota.......2 2 0 illinois,............ 2 2 0 Indiana.........1 2 1 Purdue......:.. 3 0 Northwestern ;....0 b5S0 All Games W L T 6 1 0 6 1 .0 3 3 _1 3 4 0 5 2 3 4 0 2 4 1 340Q 520r Rogind added the extra point and the Gophers led 10-0 with only 6:25 gone in the game.- FOLLOWING an exchange of punts, the Wolverines mounted their only threat of the first half. Michigan mar- 'ched from its 36 to the Gopher 38 on a nine-yard plunge by Davis, a six-yard jaunt by Huckleby and a'10-yard pass to Ralph Clayton. Hucklebuy ended the drive with a fumble. Leach came right on the option and pitched to his tailback, who was hit immediately and coughed up the ball. Seven punts later, the Gophers moun- tedetheir next scoring drive. Utilizing the running of Barber, Kitzmann, Carlson and freshman fullback Gary White, Minnesota advanced the ba to the Michigan 20 in 11 plays. The Wolverine defense stiffened and the Maroon and Gold had to settle for another Rogind field goal. have the' ball bounce off his hand Michigan went to the locker room dov by 13. Minnesota came back in the secon half looking like it would blow Michiga right out of the stadium. The Gophe came out and ran a 14-play drive th ate up half of the third period. The dri' ended on a blocked field goal attem on the 15. The drive included a play that cou have turned the game around f FG 41 3 run, Rogind kick Barber Thompson tarlson Artis Leach Carison Clayton Davis ,uckleby Johns Marsh Breault Anhorn Bailey FG 32 RUSHING MICHIGAN Att. 14 13 6 MINNESOTA Att. 17 I5' Yds. 55 52 -27 Yds. 7t 56 14 , 36 S 8 2 I PASSING MICHIGAN Att. Com./Int. 29 13/2 MINNESOTA Att. Com.fInt. 10 6/0 RECEIVING MICHIGAN No. Yds. 4 42 3 30 3 22 1 11 MINNESOTA No. Yds. 3 29 1 z3 z x 2.6 2Ai 0. 0.5 Yds. 122 Yds. 6! Avg. 3.9 4.0 Avg. 4.2 3.7 TD 0 0 0 MAUR ER POWERS IICHIGAN Icers slap Bowl p For more sports see page 9 __-m___ By Scott Le wis 4 Wolverine whitewash . .. . .. no excuses Y MINNEAPOLIS IOU CAN'T CALL this one a fluke. Michigan didn't lose yesterday because of dropped passes, untimely fumbles, costly interceptions or missed field goals -- the game wasn't close enough for any of those misfortunes to play a key role in the outcome. You can't blame it on a conservation coaching philosophy either. Bo gave us the same game plan that had trounced Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Yes, Michigan did more than run it through the Gopher line all game long. Many of Michigan's 29 passes occured with plenty of time left for even a ball-control team to come back. When Minnesota stopped the Wolverine running game, Michigan went to its passing attack which the Gophers also thwarted. Then Bo tried a little bit of each - you know, a balanced attack. By the time this strategy ran its due course, and-also failed, the score was 16-0 late in the gaNe, too late in the game. To many, it may suffice to say that poor field position and an early fum- ble put the Wolverines in a 10-0 deficit, which made them play a catch-up style of ball for the rest of the game.d But it wasn't the early misfortunes that cost Michigan the ball game. A top ranked power should normally have no trouble coming back from such early deficits. Only the weak teams use this as an excuse. Some may even dig to the bottom of the excuse-barrel and come up with the grass field at Minneapolis Memorial Stadium. If it slowed Michigan down substantially why did the Minnesota players seem to explode like fire crackers off the natural terrain? No you can't single out one lone factor like the above which attributed to yesterday's outcome. Plan and simply Minnesota was a better football team out there., This is one game where the result reduces to a universal axiom of foot- ball - that the game is won or lost in the play of the lne.. In fact the Gopher offensive and defensive lines got off the ball quicker, they hit harder, and they carried out their fundamental jobs with much more precision than their Wolverine counterparts. The so-called bad breaks -c i-h cluding five Michigan turnovers - were a result of Minnesota's domination in the 'pits'. "We did the basic stuff," said neophyte Gopher quarterback Mark Carlson. "We didn't try to out-trick them or anything." Throughout the game, the big play for Michigan didn't seem to surface. The longest Wolverine run was for but nine years, while the longest of Rick Leach's 13 pass completions went for only 16 yardsr.l "We needed a play, but we never got it," said a surprisingly coordial Schembechler after the game. "We didn't get more than 75 or 80 yards rushing. That's unheard of." While emotion in the Michigan locker room was non-existent, the Min- nesota team was bathing in ecstasy. There were so many "What did I tell you's" that one could almost be happy for the Gopher program-almost. "It was just a bunch of guys who threw their hearts ou and they wouldn't be dened," said a watery-eyed Minnesota coach Catou . Ironi- cally, Stoll was the Michigan State defensive coordinator in 1967 when the Spartans handed Michigan its last shutout. o Besides an elated Stoll, kicker Paul Rogind and tailback Marn Ba had special reason to be pleased with he outcom ot i t otf Gper-t land despite the fact that they attended high chi nmtrpoitae and were recruited by the Wolverines. y "A lot of people second guessed my choice of coming here," said Rogind, a Farmington hills native whose three field goals gave him 12 of 16 attempts for the season. "I can go home, and look people in the eye and say 'we beat By GARY KICINSKI In an effort to make sure that there is at least one undefeated team on campus this morning, the Michigan ice hockey team came from behind in the third period to down Bowling Green 6-4 list night in their home opener. Freshman right winger John Olver slipped the puck through a maze of bodies midway 'in the third period, giving Michigan a 5-4 lead, and junior Mark Miller blasted one into the empty Falcon net with just 31 seconds left to secure the victory. Bowling Green totally outplayed Michigan during the first two per- iods, trailing 4-2 after the first stanza and 4-3 after the second. SLOPPY DEFENSE and penalties plagued the icers in the early going. The Falcons tallied three power play goals, two of which came while Dave Brennan was serving five minutes for high sticking. "That new rule is a mistake," com- plained Michigan coach Dan Farrell. "Coaches are 'going to go bananas coming up with three pairs or forwards to defend the five-minute power play." Michigan's first period goals were scored by two defensemen, both on slapshots from just inside the blue line. THE SECOND period was played largely in half-minute spurts be- tween referee whistles. Kip Maurer provided the only excitement when he scored on a neat drop pass from Dean Turner during a three-on-one break. Maurer's fourth goal of the season and his four assists for the night earned him "first-star" honors for the evening. "We were terrible for two, per iods," Farrell commented. ' "They gave us all we could handle. They just wanted the puck more than w did." BUT MICHIGAN came out fired-u for the third period, and the Wolve ines peppered Falcon goalie Wall Charko with shot after shot. Dar Lerg then tapped in a Maurer sla shot as he stood unguarded at th* right corner of the net to tie the gam at 4-4.,' "That power play goal gave us a lift," Farrell said. "We played bettEr as a team in the third period afte that." Eight minutes later Olver nettei his goal after Michigan had con trolled the puck in the Falcon zone for most of the time. Michigan the' withstood a furious Bowling Gree: rally, and survived a scare whe Falcon YvesPelland rolled the puc along, but' not across, the Blue go line. Rick Palmer was unbeatable i the final stanza and gathered i "third-star" honors. Fallen Falcons FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1. BCG-MarkelI (Shutt) 2:39; 2. M-. ning (Wheeler. Debol) 3:16. 3. BG-Mavity (Wel 7:54; 4. BG-Hartman (Wells, Shutt) 10:13; M-Waymann (Thayer, Maurer) 12:23; 6. BG-IIa man (Murphy. Crowther)19:32. Penalties: i. M-Turner (elbowing) 1:24; BG-IHartman (elbowing) 1:24; 3. M-Brennan (5: major, high sticking) 6:17; 4. M-Mc(ahill ...... ....: E'almer <1).................. gt Attendance: 4 .3t0. s x- Ott ery 1kely for By DAVE RENBARGER For the first time in Michigan basketball history, student demand for tickets has exceeded the supply. Thus,. a lottery will be held in the near future to determine which student/fans will actually be able to see the Wol- verines in action. Although no official word regarding the impending lottery has been released by the Athletic Department, approximately 5300-5400 students ap- plied for basketball tickets over the last two days of the sale. The student ticket allotment was set at 5100 before the sale, leaving around 200-300 appli- cants out in the cold this winter. As the doors were being closed at 4:00 yesterday afternoon ending the sale, ticket sellers were already over the 5100 limit. In addition, approxi- ** ** ** ** * * iu:* ** *** ** ** * *