Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 9, 1975 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 9, 1975 Michigan blazes to victory; Leach throws for 218 yards (Continued from Page 1) ing target in Jim Smith. I stead turned Gordon Bell loose "Smith was the secondary for another one of those dazzl- receiver," explained the fresh- ing excursions for which he ha's man quarterback, "but I saw become famous. he was open cutting across the Seizing Leach's pitchout be- field so I threw it to him." hind a legion of blockers, Bell ONE COMPLETE pass, 83 re- skirted right end but, spotting cord - breaking yards and one an opening in the center, he bone - crushing block later cut back left. Michigan chalked up its second High stepping, ducking, spin- touchdown. Smith took the ball ning and dancing through count- on the Purdue 45 and sprinted less tackles, the diminutive straight to the endzone while Heisman Trophy candidate split-end Keith Johnson rudely squirted into the endzone to cap cut down the final pair of pur- an unbelievable touchdown run. suers with even a chance at a1 THE CROWD had not stopped tackle. buzzing three minutes later Stunned but not paralyzed, the when the Wolverines called in Boilermakers reorganized and another air strike. began to march on theMichi- Facing an unappealing third I gan goal line. Their refusal to{ and eight situation at their own ditch their game plan once be- 17, the Michigan coaches called hind began to pay dividends as for another pass to Bell. Leach, the Purdue running game start- however, spotted a more tempt- ed to click. Boilers vaporizedj MICH. i First Downs 23 Rushing (att/yds) 58-283 Passing (att/comp/int) 9-6-0 Passing yards 218 Punts ,no/avg) 1-48 Fumbles (no/lost) 2-2 Penalties (no/yds) 2-30 SCORING MICHIGAN 14 0 0 Purdue 0 0 SCORING PLAYS PURDUE Davis 15 Smith 43-173 Elzinga 15-7-0 Dierking 115 Pruitt 5-38.8 Nagel 2-0 Vitali 2-10 0 14-28 o a -o Daily Photo by SCOTT ECCKER MICHIGAN'S JIM SMITH (37) leaps for a pass in front of Purdue's free safety, Mark Trav- line (35), in one of five receptions he had yesterday. Smith was the target of 5 Rick Leach completions as the junior wide receiver accounted for 184 yards catching the ball and another six on the ground. Leach completed 6 of 9 passes for 218 yards. MICH-Bell 20 yd run (Wood kick) MICH-Smith 83 yd pass from Leach (Wood kick) MICH-Bell 3 yd run (Wood kick) MICH-Leach 2 yd run (Wood kick) RUSHING MICHIGAN att yds avg Bell 20 94 4.7 Lytle 17 80 4.7 Leach 8 68 8.5 Huckleby 5 20 4.0 Leach Nagel Vitali Smith Bell Beery rTownsend Pruitt Dierking 3 PURDUE 15 ' 22 5 1 PASSING MICHIGAN att 9 PURDUE 10 5 RECEIVING MICHIGAN no 5 1 PURDUE 3 1 1 16 6 -1 92 73 3 comp 6 5 2 yds 184 34 50 53 6 6 Scott Dierking and Mike Pruitt pounded out steady yard- age and frequently threatened to break long gainers. Quarter- back Mark Vitali mixed in sev- eral passes, including a 16 yard- er on third and eight from the Blue 43, which kept the Michi- gan defense guessing. WITH A first down on the Michigan 15 Purdue drew a costly offsides penalty and, four plays later, relinquished the ball on downs at the six. Fueled by another completion and two long draw plays, the Wolverines advanced into Pur- due territory but their attempt at a third touchdown was foil- ed at the 21 when Boilermaker Bob Manella deftly removed the I football from the grasp of Mich- igan's Jim Smith. "I thought I was already down." offered Smitty but the referee disagreed. Bo Schem- bechler had no comment. AFTER A halftime perform- ance that brought the band a standing ovation, both teams proceeded to grind away the bulk of the third quarter. Michigan kept to the ground on a 69 yard drive that culmi- nated with a two yard plunge by Bell into Purdue's endzone on the first play of the fourth period. With the game already safely in hand Michigan scored a final touchdown on a drive, the main play of which was a 38-yard pass which Smith caught while barely staying in bounds. MICHIGAN threw only nine passes but showed an expertise that they had previously not demonstrated. Michigan's offen- sive line blocked perfectly on all nine attempts. Center Jim' Czirr and guards Mark Dono- hue and Walt Downing were especially effective in springing Lytle through the Purdue cen- ter for several big gains. Leach did not shrink from any, opportunities to run and gath- ered 68 yards on eight tries. Purdue was troubled by block- ing failures in the first quarter and was further hampered by a quarterback change. Vitali bad-, ly hurt his toe in the first half and his replacement, Craig Na- gel, stifled a promising Purdue drive in the third quarter when he fumbled two consecutive snaps from center. SCHEMBECHLER was jubi- lant over the result. "This game was very important to us." he said, "We needed a great effort and I feel we got it. We had a lot of respect for them and still do." riva:aac ar,7 McGUIRE, MEYER LEAD WOLVERINES: Blue By TOM DURANCEAU "We were confident . . . we just went out and did the job." And so it was as the Michigan cross country team grabbed their second consecutive Big Ten cross country champion- ship at Madison, Wisconsin, outdistancing h o s t Wisconsin 41-70. Sophomore sensation ' M i k e McGuire led the Wolverine con- tingent with a third-place finish.' Junior Greg Meyer grabbedI haiers capture fourth, Bill Donakowski sixth, Jack Sinclair, tenth, and Jay Anstaett 18th. "THE PRESSURE was on us to win and we did it," chortled an elated Michigan coach Ron W a r h u r s t after the meet. "Everybody thought that the Wisconsin home course advant- age would be important but we just went out and ran." Illinois' great runner Craig Virgin again won the individual title and set a new Big Ten rec- ord in the process. It was Vir- with Virgin for awhile, as did: gin's third consecutive individ- Lindsay, but they both fell backa ual championship as he toured and finished fifth and secondF the five mile course in 23:04 to respectively.t shatter the old record by over. "I WENT by Johnson at the a minute. Herb Lindsay of Mich- 3% mile mark and then I knewa igan State was second to Virgin. we had it," stated Michigan'sT The field went out fairly fast top finisher McGuire.t with the Michigan team staying The Odana Hills Golf Course,r together in a pack, as is their where the meet was held, was custom. Virgin broke to the wet, but farely fast, and the front at the mile mark and was weather was excellent with a never headed after that. Wis- temperature of about 60. consin strong man Mark John- "I thought the race would son blazed out fast and stayed . either be real close or that we would run away with the title, and as it was we won by 29 * points," commented Warhurst. OTHER finishers in the top ten included Steve Lacy of Wis- nonsin in seventh Rick Maglpey a Ro to bee age jub tor ner wo title "I have seen this team take complete turnabout under n from a Big Ten also ran a two time champion, it's en great," stated senior man- er Mike D'Agostino in the bliationof the Wolverine vic- ry party. Without a senior run- x on the team, too bad you n't be here next year Mike. We're number 1 TEAM 20m20 Hindsight By JEFF SCHILLER - Bo's Wolverines .".". ... display the pass "I'm sure all of our local friends are very happy with me now. They just love the forward pass." -Bo Schembechler HE'S PROBABLY right. Quarterback Rick Leach, wingback Jim Smith and the newfound Michigan aerial attack are the talk of the town right at this moment. If you can't understand why, try to remember the last time Michigan threw for 218 yards. Bo has been telling us all season that Michigan could throw the ball. "Leach was recruited as a passer," he would say, or maybe something like "He (Leach) can really wing the ball." Somehow nobody believed him until yesterday afternoon. Leach and company made a believer out of me with their performance against Purdue. And in doing so, they also managed to convince me of the validity of one of Schem- bechler's pet theories-you don't have to throw a lot to be an effective passing team. It all depends, I guess, on what you consider the role of the pass to be in your overall offensive strategy. Schembechler uses it to keep the defense honest, and also, in certain long yardage or short time situations. Against Purdue, the strategy worked to perfection. For the statistics also reveal that Michigan's ground attack gained 283 yards. One has to think that the passing game had something to do with that, particularly if one remembers the trouble that the Wolverine ground game had in the early going. Other coaches see the pass as deserving of more emphasis. It should be noted though, that the most successful of the current college mentors are not among them..In fact, it's almost a -truism that the winning percentage of a college football team varies inversely with its amount of pass attempts. The main reason can be summed up in one word: CON- SISTANCY. It's a trait that everyone strives for, but college passing attacks never seem to achieve. For a successful pass play to take place, everyone has to do his job. Otherwise the quarterback gets sacked, throws the ball away, or watches the receiver drop it. A few great individual efforts, on the other hand, can make the running game go. Gordon Bell's breaking of 5 tackles en route to a 20 yard touchdown run yesterday is living proof of that. Then too, more calamities can befall passing attacks. Few things can halt offensive momentum more quickly than an interception, particularly one that is accompanied by a long runback. Oh, fumbles hurt too, but compare the ratio of fumbles lost per ground play to interceptions per pass attempt on almost any team around. The pass is a much riskier play. Finally, it can be argued that passing-dominated attacks are not appreciably more effective through the air than are ground oriented offenses. Sounds strange, I know, but empirically, it seems to be borne out. Take the vaunted Stanford passing attack that invaded Ann Arbor seven weeks ago. They threw the ball 44 times, completed 24, and passed Michigan silly, remember? When their net passing yardage is added up though, the figure comes to only 285 yards on 50 plays (including 6 sacks), only 67 more than Michigan gained in nine plays againstPurdue. Obviously, this is an extreme case. Or maybe it's not so obvious. Stanford is one of the best passing teams in the nation (although admittedly, their yardage figure might be greaten against a lesser defense than that of the Wolverines), and the differential might be reduced if one made the comparison with a less prolific passing team. Whatever the case, the critics of Michigan's passing game have been temporarily silenced. And while we're on the subject, Ohio State was 9 for 13 for 139 yards through the air yesterday. Might be an aerial circus in Ann Arbor in two weeks. Who would have ever believed it? Kansas tops So MICHIGAN Wisconsin Indiana Illinois Michigan State Ohio State Minnesota Purdue Iowa Northwestern INDIVIDUAL 1. Craig Virgin, Ill. 2. Herb Lindsay, MSU 3. Mike McGuire, MICH. 4. Greg Meyer, MICH. 5. Mark Johnson, Wis. 6. Bill Donakowski, MICH. 7. Steve Lacy, Wis. 8. Rick Magly, Ind. 9. Jeff Randolph, Wis. 10. Jack Sinclair, MICH. 18. Jay Anstaett, MICH. 41 70 73 78 133 173 184 196 210 264 upsets By The Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. - Halfb Laverne Smith scored twos ond half touchdowns and crippled Kansas defense gav fanatical performance as unranked Jayhawks brow fumbling Oklahoma's 28-ga winning streak to a halt wit convincing 23-3 Big Eight1 lege football upset yesterday The Jayhawks, manhandle the early going, were prope to the upset when Eddie Le blocked a Tinker Owens p with 1:20 left in the first q ter. That set up quarterb N o1 a n Cromwell's six-y touchdown run, giving Kan a 7-3 lead at the half. Oklahoma, unbeaten in games, lost three fumbles a had three passes intercep in the second half. The J hawks converted three oft turnovers to scores. Sm scored on runs of 21 and yards and Bob Swift kicked 21-yord field goal. Oklahoma had 213 yards V offense but only three point show for it in the first half Tony DiPienzo's 52-yard '1 goal. He later missed on a yard effort and had a 24-y attemot blocked by Jayh cornerback Steve Taylor. I ford kicked a 37-yard field goal lead early in the first half, bu ack with five seconds left to play was stymied thereafter. sec- yesterday and Stanford upset After falling behind 15-14, 1 a ninth-ranked Southern California Nittany Lions made a desp ve a 13-10 in a Pacific-8 Conference ation attempt at avoiding the football game. second upset by North Caroli lght The victory thrust Stanford in- State in as many years. Thl ame to the Rose Bowl race and all drove from their 20 to the Wo th a but eliminated Coach John Mc- pack 29 and with 13 secor col- Kay's Trojans, who lost for the remaining in the game, Ch . second week in a row. Bahr was short with a 46-ya d in Langford's dramatic field field goal try. lled goal ended a tense struggle in * ewis which the Trojan's Ricky Bell punt ran for 195 yards on 35 car- rttIiS goof uarj ries and quarterback Guy Ben- JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Tig ack jamin of Stanford hit 15 of 29 end Richard Appleby combin Yard passes for 161 yards. with wide receiver Gene Wa nsas Southern Cal, which had gone ington on an unorthodox 80-ya to the last two Rose Bowls, is touchdown pass with 3:12r 37 now 4-2 in the conference fol- maining yesterday as Georg and lowing its second consecutive upset 11th-ranked Florida 1 ted unset loss and is 7-2 for the and virtually killed Gator nop ay- season. Stanford is 6-3-1 overall of a Southeastern Conferen the but 4-1 in the Pac-8 and could championship. ith hpe the chance to visit Pasa- The late offensive thunde 18 dena on New Year's Day with bolt caught the Florida d d a Victories over Oregon and Cali- fense offguard. Appleby took fornia in its last two games. handoff and found Washingto otal * * * all alone at the Florida 3 s to pnn St(,e Washington caught the wobb fon Ph.Saeslips fiend STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--Saph -pass from Appleby and race fie omore Jay Sherrill's 24-yard to the game-winning touc yard field goal early in the fourth down. awk quarter capped a rally from a Florida reached the Geor two-touchdown deficit as North 21 in the final minute and h. Carolina Statedupsetseighth- field goal specialist David Pos rankedPenn State 15-14 in a attempt a game-tying 28-yard college football game yesterday. but holder Billy Kynes fumb ang- Penn State jumped to a 14-0 the snap and the kick w of Indiana, eighth, and Jeff Randolph, a Midland, Michigan native now running for Wiscon- sin, ninth. This is Michigan's second straight Big Ten title under Ron Warhurst who is only in his the, second year of coaching here. 23:04.5 23:35.0 23:40.0 23 :48.0 23 :50.0 23:52.0 24:03.0 24:17.0 24:18.0 24:23.0 24 :34.0 Purdue's Agase refused to compare Michigan and Ohio State, to whom the Boilermak- ers lost, 35-6, on October 25. V..", , ;?, 1 % t1 Big Ten Standings er- a1 na hey olf- nds ris ard ght ned sh- ard re- gia 0-7 pes nce er- Je- al ton 30. ly ;ed ch- gia had sev er, led ent State tops Indiana OHIO STATE 40, ILLINOIS 3; Archie Griffin, Pete John- son and Tom Skladany turned in record breaking perform- ances to lead the top-ranked Buckeyes to a 40-3 rout of Illinois. Griffin hiked his regular season career total to over 5,000 yards with 127 yards, the 30th time he broke 100 yards. Johnson battered for two touchdowns, giving him 21 for the season and a new Big Ten record. Sladany booted two field goals; one for 59 yards to erase the previous mark of 57 yards set by Illinois' Dan Beaver this year. Illinois nursed a 3-0 lead into the second quarter, but Griffin and Skladany teamed up for 10 points before the half ended. Another field goal and an intercepted pass run back gave Ohio State breathing room in the third quarter. Johnson and Jeff Logan capped off the game with three final quarter touchdowns. MICHIGAN STATE 14, INDIANA 6; Marshall Lawson's six-yard touchdown pass to Kirk Gibson in the fourth quar- ter lifted error-plagued Michigan State to a 14-6 victory over punchless Indiana. The Spartans lost four of five fumbles and had two pass- es intercepted-one of them run back for Indiana's only touchdown-but the Hoosier offense was bottled the entire game. Indiana was held to 105 yards rushing, 81 in the first half, and 55 passing, all in the final two periods. * * * IOWA 45, WISCONSIN 28; Elusive Butch Caldwell scored one touchdown, passed for another and directed a bruising and imaginative running game to lift Iowa to a 45-28 upset over Wisconsin. Iowa, a seven-point underdog, marched 80, 81 and 71 yards on its first three possessions for a 21-7 lead and came up with three surprise plays for decisive second half touchdowns. Tn ,running itc,;.arnrd to 36 ovrar~llrand1 3-3 in the co-nfer-' MICHIGAN Ohio State Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Purdue Northwestern Mich. State Minnesota Indiana Conf. 6 0 0 6 0 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 2 4 0 2 4 0 2 4 0 2 4 0 1 5 0 All Games 7 0 2 9 0 0 4 5 0 4 5 0 3 6 0 2 7 0 3 6 0 5 4 0 5 4 0 2 7 0 DEBOL SCORES IN OVERTIME leers topV IJSC Stunnedfl LOS ANGELES-Mike By PAUL CAMPBELL Michigan almost fell victim to the Saturday night jinx, but Dave Debol slammed home a goal in sudden death overtime to give the Wol- verines a hard-fought 5-4 victory over the Fight- ing Sioux of North Dakota. "I don't know," sighed coach Dan Farrell after the game. "I can't help but wonder if the players are thinking about it.' The "it" Farrell was referring to is the chronic problem of consistency his teams have had in two game series over his three years at Michigan. THE PATTERN has beenthat they have play- ed extremely well in the first game (as they did Friday, winning 11-1) but faltered on Saturday night. They came close to faltering last night also, needing a Doug Lindskog goal with just over two minutes left in the game to force the ten minute sudden death session. The seemingly safe 3-1 lead Michigan took into the third period disintegrated rapidly, as an inspired North Dakota team completely dominated the game for ten minutes, producing 'oeDakota one weak North Dakota shot. Then Debol broke down the right side, cut in and shot at goalie Bill Stankoven. Save. The puck came out to Debol again. He let go a low shot from the right side. Save. But Bill Thayer kept the puck in the zone. He passed to Tom Lindskog, who set up-you guessed it-Dave Debol. This time sophomore center made it count on a low drive from about 15 feet. The super effort needed by the Wolverines was an accurate reflection of just how well North Dakota played. Led by left winger Joe DeIure, who assisted on all four Fighting Sioux tallies, they out muscled Michigan for a good part of the game. BILLED AS doormats, they played their hearts out. "They're going to win some games, and surprise quite a few people," Farrell noted. The Fighting Sioux scored the game's first goal, as Tom Goddard stole a pass and beat Robbie Moore in close. The goal was unusual in that North Dakota was short oneman when it was scored. Less than a minute later, however, Michi- gan,still holding a one man advantage, scored as Angie Moretto tipped in a drive off the stick L :rl' :i*',":"}?: ' r.: r?*;xrr ^"::":"%r4:Ztiir:^.w,";i.{.' rr::^:rl" r ''T4 ;:4': ;:":":.' e: ...,r.,:.".::: a..: . .: rdve. a.. r.... . ."' :.. :..:.. .......... ... r. r.: .a. ..... " / ... ..... ......... . ........ r ........... .,_: SCORES COLLEGE FOOTBALL MICHIGAN 28, Purdue 0 Iowa 45, Wisconsin 28 Michigan State 14, Indiana 6 Minnesota 33, Northwestern 9 Ohio State 40, Illinois 3 Auburn 21, Mississippi state 21 Texas 37, Baylor 21 Princeton 24. Harvard 20 Kansas 23, Oklahoma 3 Miami. Ohio 44, W. Michigan 21 Central Michigan 24, W. Illinois 7 Notre Dame 24, Georgia Tech 3 Maryland 21, Cincinnati 19 Missouri 44, Iowa St. 14 Adrian 13, Kalamazoo 9 Tulsa 70, Drake 7 A rkansas 20, Rice 16 Texas Tech 34, TCU 0 Texas A&M 36, SMU 3 UC~LA 50. Oregonn17I only a few yards. Bears bounce BERKELEY, Calif. - Univer- sity of California quarterback Joe Roth, calm even when pass- ing from his own end zone, threw four touchdown passes and accumulated a record 380 ,yards yesterday as the Bears beat Washington 27-24 to remain in first place in the Pacific-8 Conference.