The Michigan Daily-Sunday, November 6, 197-Page 9 DONAKOWSKI WINS HARRIER TITLE, Badgers By ERNIE DUNBAR Special to The Daily WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Michigan's string of three straight Big Ten cross country championships came to an abrupt halt yesterday, as Wisconsin upset the Wolverines for the conference crown here on Purdue's South golf cour- se. The Badgers totaled 52 points with pre-meet favorite Michigan winding up fourth with 89 points. Illinois and Ohio State tied for second place with 75 points. EVEN BILL DONAKOWSKI'S individual champion- ship wasn't enough to guide the Wolverines to their fourth Big Ten title since 1974.1 Covering the 8,000 meter course in 24:14, Donakowski became the first Michigan harrier to win the conference title since Don McEwen in 1950. It was in that same year that Wisconsin won its last Big Ten championship. Q "We didn't run up to our capability and the other teams ran really well," said Michigan coach Ron Warhurst. "We always get out in the first mile really well, but today we just didn't get out. Our guys just weren't there after the first mile," "We were way back in 20th place and we just couldn't move up. MIKE McGUIRE, who finished 3rd in this meet in 1975;. was Michigan's second man finishing 18th with a time of 25:14, a full minute behind Donakowski. Dave Lewis, making his first appearance in the meet was 19th at 25:15, Bruce McFee was 21st in 25:24, and Jay Anstaett finished as the Wolverines fifth man in 30th place with a time of 25:38. Michigan's non-scoring finishers were Doug Sweazey, another newcomer to BigTen action, in 32nd with a 25:44 clocking and Mark Foster in 42nd with a time of 26:09. trip Blue THE HILLY PURDUE COURSE seemed just what thb Wolverines needed to give them the edge in this 63rd run-, ning of the race. But as it turned out, the course proved to be the downfall for Michigan. "It was a pretty tough course to move up on and after the two mile mark the places didn't change," Warhurj - said. "Billy (Donakowski) ran'this course just right. IHI was out after the mile and stayed. But nobody else moved.'?; For Donakowski, the meet was the conclusion of four- years of training wrapped up into one day. "THE FEELING OF WINNING the individual chan- pionship didn't sink in at first," said the senior from Dea j born. "But it seemed like the culmination of four years ok work instead of the last three years of training we did to prepare for this." Donakowski's ten second advantage over second place finisher Jim Stintzi from Wisconsin was by no means an dication of how the race progressed. Throughout most of the event Donakowski, Stintzi an Minnesota's Steve Plasencia, who eventually finished fifth were separated from the rest of the field by about 50 yards.. BUT 2.25 MILES into the race, Plasencia knocked Stia- zi to'the ground. The Badger didn't seem too affected by t14 spill as he got up to finish as Wisconsin's first man. Plascencia took command of the race at the four-mile mark, opening up a 40-yard gap between himself and Donakowski. "I was a little worried being so far down,'. said Donakowski. "I had to throw away my plan book an'4 just run." DONAKOWSKI FOUGHT HIS WAY back'into the lean just past the 4.5-mile mark and cruised the final 660 yarde uncontested. For Wisconsin coach Dan McClimon, the victory was his first in seven years of coaching the Badgers. "I' pleased as heck," said McClimon. "We ran a great race Jeff Randolph (fourth) and Mark Randall (seventh) bot ran surprisingly well." IN RECORDING THEIR 13th Big Ten championship; the Badgers took places 2, 4, 7, 17, and 22. "Michigan got themselves into a hole at the start any never got out of it," McClimon concluded. The Wolverines must now attempt to qualify for th NCAA meet on November 21, by placing in the top twb, teams in this Saturday's District meet. FOOTBALL ROUNDUP -- y MSU chucks Gophers B MINK Ed Smi Sy Th'e AssociatecPrs EAPOLIS -dQuarterback ith threw second half scoring of d1at r ~ri ofobr passesor a n an yards to flanker Kirk Gibson and Chris Nielsen kicked three field goals as Michigan State 3verwhelmed Minnesota 29-10 yester- day to tighten its hold on third place in the Big Ten. Nielsen's second field goal of 52 yards barely cleared the crossbar and gave the Spartans their first lead at 13-10 early in the fourth quarter. He added another field goal of 44 yards late in the game to give him 41 for his career, a Big Ten record. Smith shocked the Gophers when R ugers scru-m Redski~ns By ERROL SHIFMAN Michigan's Rugby Club reached in for a double dip yesterday as both the "A" and "B" squads scooped the visit- ing Miami of Ohio club, 25-12 and 12-7 respectively. Bill Chung led the rout of the "A" team with three conversions and a drop kick, good for nine points. Herb Hopkins added two tries with Pete Schreiner and Mike Malenfant each chipping in one. Dennis O'Dell's two penalty kicks and one conversion lifted the "B" team to their victory. Mike Miner added a try to round out the scoring. -4 ; he sent Gibson down the right side- line and lofted a long pass to him over Minnesota's Bobby Webber for an 85- yard scoring play which put Michi- gan State in command. Both teams were hampered by pen- alties. Minnesota was penalized 14. times for 132 yards,a Big Ten record, while the Spartans were flagged seven times for 83 yards. Bucks bust 'em CHAMPAIGN - O h i o State's fourth-ranked Buckeyes, held to one touchdown in the first half, erupted for three in the third quarter - two in a span of 13 seconds - and rolled to a 35-0 victory over Illinois yesterday to remain undefeated in the Big Ten. Five different players scored for the Buckeyes who boosted their Big Ten record to 6-0 and are now 8-1 overall. Illinois dropped to 2-4 in the conference and 3-6 for the season. Limited to only eight plays in the first quarter, Ohio State finally put together a 73-yard drive in the second quarter with Paul Campbell scoring from the one-yard line for a 7-0 half- time lead as a Homecoming crowd of 66,973 cheered the Illini when they left the field. Ohio State took the second half kickoff and marched 75 yards for another touchdown with Joel Payton scoring from the one-yard line. Seconds later Illinois's James Cole- man fumbled and Mike Guess recov- ered. Ron Springs, who rushed for 132 yards, then ripped off a 15-yard scor- ing jaunt to give Ohio State a comfortable 21-0 lead.. * * * Badgers blind 'em MADISON - Freshman sensation Mark Herrmann set up two scores and passed for 174 yards, surging into second place on the all-time Big Ten single season passing list, to lead Purdue to a 22-0 college football victory over punchiess Wisconsin yesterday. MIke Brown scored from a yard out midway in the first quarter and defensive end K e e n a Turner wrapped up the Boilermakers' third successive victory by intercepting an Anthony Dudley pass and racing 65 yards to score with 57 seconds left in the game. Herrmann, who completed 10 of 20 throws, boosted his season passing yardage total to 2,215, surpassing the 2;062 accumulated by Gary Snook of Iowa in 1964. Mike Phipps of Purdue set the Big Ten record of 2,527 yards in 1969. * * * Hoogiers hold 'em of plays that followed the field go attempt. Indiana was down by 14 at the e of the first quarter. But Ti Cliffol replaced Scott"Arnett at ti ~brte back spot to spark the Hoosiers'to 14-14 halftime tie and to a one touc down lead in the third quarter. * * * Irish immobilize 'e SOUTH BEND - Notre Da quarterback Joe Montana passed f 273 yards and three touchdow scored another on a one-yard sne and ran, for a two-point conversio leading the fifth-ranked Irish to 69-14 romp over Georgia Tech yest' day in a college football mismatch. Vagas Ferguson and Jim Sto also scored two touchdowns apie for the 7-1 Irish, who scored 48 poi in the second half. Montana, whose touchdown r earlier gave Notre Dame a 6-0 lea then ran around right end for t more points and the Irish were ahe to stay. The Yellow Jackets were unable i dent the Irish defense except fi Ivery's long run until an 18-yard pa from Gary Hardie to Drew Hill wi two minutes left in the game. Longhorns lash 'e HOUSTON - Top-ranked Tex ignited by Earl Campbell's thre touchdowns and quarterback Ran McEachern's f i e l d generalsh stunned the Houston Cougars 35-21 a Southwest Conference game y L terday and avenged a year of emb rassment. The Longhorns, held to 24 yarm rushing in a 30-0 loss to Houston lak year, took a 14-13 halftime lead i touchdown runs of 6 and 2 yards ' the powerful Campbell, who rambl"l for more than 100 yards for t seventh straight time this season, He also galloped 40 yards forVi touchdown in the third quarter turn the tide for the Longhorns at later raced 43 yards to. set up Y a one-yard touchdown run by McEac- ern. Tide torpedoes 'emrt BATON ROUGE - Tony Nathan scored two touchdowns on one-yatd plunges and fired a 20-yard tout- down pass as second-ranked Af- bama overcame a rash of fumbles p down Louisiana State 24-3 yesterday and capture its sixth Southeastern Conference football championshipn, k,.. TO: Read the Michigan Daily I