Sf Tutsday, November 9, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine SOUT O ANDERSON'S ARM LIFTS CINCY: Tihe op 20 By The Associated Press BOUNDS by Rich Lernier° Be gals rout Rams, By The Associated Press Bo sp k , t CINCINNATI - Cincinnati's " « - -slumbering offense woke up in ? '.the third period, to strike for . people stopped luughing three touchdowns, two of them on Ken Anderson passes, and. NOBODY LAUGHED at yesterday's press luncheon when Bo the Bengals beat the Los An-! Schembechler said Illinois could be a tough opponent for geles Rams 20-12 in the Na-l the Wolverines this Saturday. No guffaws or titters about the tional Football League last ineptitude of ' the "Little Eight" this week. The Bengals, virtually dor- In fact, there wasn't much interest in the Illini. Purdue's mant and plagued by penalties stunning upset of Michigan last Saturday received most of the and dropped passes throughout attention. the first half of the nationally: The Wolverines' loss to Purdue can be explained by two televised game when the, Ramsi , were scoring on a pair of field things. A case of complacency on the Wolverines part com-g er ptdring airryfwhen' bined with the Boilermakers playing some fantastic football goals, erupted in a hurry when Boobie Clark burst nine yards: order to save their coach's job, spells u-p-s-e-t. for the go-ahead touchdown. "I was "worried all week," said Schembechler. "More worried khan usual because against Purdue under normal circumstances we'd have been in good shape.jBut theyMI ch g didn't do a good job the week before. They just looked 17M 1ich ig lousy on film. "The coaching staff was worried. But there was nothing . you could put your finger on or we'd have done something," O lr E E I t said Schembechler. It came one play after Los Angeles quarterback James Harris was sacked and fum- bled the ball away. Before the periodwas over, Anderson tossed touchdown passes of 30 yards to tight end Bob Trumpy and 17 to Clark, who was celebrating his 26th birthday. It gave the Bengals their biggest scoring period of the season. Anderson, who suffered through his worst first half of the season when his receivers caught only two of his 12 pass- es for a mere five yards, came back in the decisive third peri- od to burn up the Rams' de- icers on 'in poiis fense for 105 yards, hitting six of nine passes. He also ran 25 yards on a third-and-four situation, one play before his'30-yard scor- ing pass to Trumpy that gave the Bengals a 13-6 lead. Cincinnati failed to get a first down - it didn't get one until 12 minutes had elap- sed .- but appeared to have a'field goal when rookie Chris Bahr connected from 44 yards out. But an illegal motion penalty against guard Glenn Bujnoch wiped it out and pushed the Bengals back five yards. From the 49, Bahr was wide to the left.I A poor punt by rookie PatI McInally later gave the Rams the ball at midfield. A pass in- terference penalty and a 17- yard Cappelletti run preceded Tom Dempsey's 19-yard field goal. fThe Los Angeles lead might have stretched a 9-0 later in the period when the Rams moved to the Cincinnati 30-but! Bacon sacked Harris back at the 43, out of Dempsey's raige. Then came the third period- and back came the Bengals. Harris, trying to run on a busted play, was belted by rookie defensive end GaryI Burley. The ball popped loose and player after player tried to grab it. Cornerback Ken Riley finally did, at the Rams' nine-yard line. Dempsey came back with a 23-yard field goal in the second period. It took only one play for the; Bengals to score. Clark, behind perfect blocking, cut to his right and sped untouched into the end zone, tying it for a mo- ment. Bahr's extra point gave the Bengals a 7-6 lead. Los Angeles still couldn't get untracked. They p'mted to the Bengals' 47 - and the Bengals salted the game away. Ander- son threw a 14-yard pass to Billy Brooks, a 13-yarder to Bruce Coslet and then the 17- yarder to the wide-open Clark for the final touchdown. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Pittsburgh (49) UCLA (7) southern Cal (2) MICHIGAN (2) Texas Tech (1) Maryland (2) Georgia (tie Daily Libels) Ohio State Nebraska Alabama Missouri Houston Arkansas Oklahoma Florida Texas A&M Oklahoma St. Notre Dame Colorado South Caroliha 9-0-0 8-0-1 7-1-0 8-1-0 7-0-0 9-0-0 8-1-0 8-0-0 7-1-1 7-1-1 7-2-0 6-3-0 6-2-0 5-1-1 6-2-1 6-2-0 6-2-0 5-3-0 6-2-0 6-3-0 6-3-0 1,093 860 816 772 666 620 6?0 541 503 270 218 209 174 137 114 75 67 31 22 17 "On any given Saturday, if the circumstances are right, you're gonna get beat," Bo said. "But when you win a lot you forget how you got there. It comes so natural you for- get the price you had to pay to get there. And it happensj to coaches too. You guys (writers) almost had me convinced we were good.' "That's the. first time since 1969, when we lost to Michi- gan State, that we lost to a team we should have beaten." While Schembechler has managed to stay upset-free for the past seven years, Purdue has enhanced its reputation as the "Spoilermakers." Just two years ago Alex Agase's squad knocked Notre Dame from its number-one perch with a 31-20 surprise. However Agase',s ecstasy has been meager since the upset of the Irish. With this four-year contract expiring at the end of this season and three losing records in as many seasons, Agase needed the win over Michigan to prevent him from join- ing Gerald Ford on the unemployment ranks. Knowing they could preserve Agase's job, the Boilermak- y n- -1 -A +iui hoo 'aa A tlecble ALTHOUGH one Michigan team fell from the top of the wire service ratings, anotherF Michigan team took over in its place. The Wolverine hockey team, fresh off 'a weekend sweep of the defending NCAA champion Minnesota Gophers, claimed NIGHT EDITORS: BOB MILLER KATHY'HENNEGHAN i 7:.f:{:, :!:6iri:''":i~isg ii: