4 'M' runs past Wisconsin (Continued from Page 1) Schlopy as place kicker after a missed extra point - conver- ted a 41-yard field goal. Wisconsin attempted to mount another drive late in the half, but Wright - who completed just one of seven passes in the first half - threw a floater that Wolverine defensive back Evan Cooper intercepted and returned to the Badger 11-yard line. Two plays later, Smith sprinted out to his left, turned, and fired a strike to Nelson two yards deep in the end zone. A two- point conversion failed, and Michigan led 22-7 at the half. TAILBACK KERRY Smith and Brian Mercer controlled the game in the third quarter. Smith who led all rushers with 107 yards, picked up 44 yards on six attempts and added a 10- yard pass reception as Michigan drove 69 yards for a Bergeron field goal. Mercer gained 37 of his total 64 yards on the next series to put the Wolverines in position for fullback. Dan Rice's five-yard touchdown run. Wisconsin, however, was not about to lie down, and the fourth quarter saw them score 14 points to pull close and scare the Wolverines. Schembechler inserted quarterback Dave Hall into the lineup after a Wisconsin punt, but the senior reserve was unable to handle his first snap, and Wisconsin recovered the fumble at the Michigan 26. "I MADE a mistake by putting Hall in there before I gave him an opportunity to take some snaps," said Schembechler. "I grabbed him at the last minute and threw him in, and he fumbled the exchange. If you want to talk about mistakes, that's my fault." Wisconsin took advantage of the fumble in four plays. Wright passed to fullback Marck Harrison for seven yards, and tailback Larry Emery picked up 15 more off right tackle on a quick-hitter. Two plays later Wright passed to Harrison for the score. With Smith back in the game at quarterback, Michigan was unable to move the ball against a suddenly fired up Badger team and was forced to punt. WISCONSIN WASTED little time moving into scoring position, and Wright found flanker Michael Jones open at the flag for a spectacular 32-yard touchdown catch. That was all for the Badgers, however, as Michigan usedi its ground game for 14 consecutive running plays, which oc. nsumed almost seven minutes on the clock and set up Mer- cer's 11-yard sweep for the clinching score with just 42 seconds remaining in the game. Bergeron's extra point attempt was blocked - Michigan's third failed conversion of the day - and Wisconsin was beaten 38-21. "TWO INTERCEPTIONS, one fumble and seven offensive penalties makes for a very frustrating first half," said Wisconsin coach Dave McClain. "We played very poorly but a lot of that has to do with Michigan. Today they were a good football team and we were not. They pounded it at us inside and that.is where they hurt us." "Any tailback I had in there ran well in there today," ad- ded Schembechler. "Under normal circumstances we are going to mix it up with more than that but we didn't throw very effectively and the wind was a strong factor." "All of our backs want the ball because that is what Michigan does best" added Rogers who gained 59 yards before leaving the game with a thigh bruise. "The offensive surge was knocking their defense down the field. I haven't seen holes that big in a long time. BOTH TEAM'S records went to 2-1 and the win gav Schembechler a measure of revenge for the 1981 Wisconsi game, when the Badgers upset Michigan 21-14. "The only way Wisconsin was going to beat us was if we helped them," Schembechler said. "And we helped them. We missed extra points and fumbled snaps. But if this wasn't pretty, at least it wasn't like two years ago." Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK Michigan's Evan Cooper has the football sail off his finger tips as he tries for an interception against' Toon. However, the ball was deflected to fellow Wolverine Tony Gant. SCORING Total Yards...................................... MICHIGAN................................7 15 10 6-38 Fumbles (No/Lost) ............................ Wisconsin................................. 7 0 0 14-21 Punts (No/Avg) ....................................... Wisconsin's Al 351 1/1 2/30.5 SCORING PLAYS WISC. - Ellerson 9-yard run (Rohde kick) MICH. - Rogers 2-yard run (Schiopy kick) MICH. - Rogers 9-yard run (kick failed) MICA. - Bergeron 41-yard FG MICHI - Nelson 7-yard pass from S. Smith (run failed) MICA - Bergeron 37-yard FG MICH -Rice 5-yard run (Bergeron kick) WISC-Harrison 2-yard pass from Wright (Rohde kick) WISC-Jones 32-yard pass from Wright (Rohde kick) MICH - Mercer 11-yard run (kick blocked) First downs ........................................ Rushing (Att/Yds)............................. Passing Net Yards........... ................... Passing (Att/Comp/Int)........................... RUSHING MICHIGAN K. Smith ...................................... Mercer ........................................ Rogers.................................... Garrett............................... S. Smith ....................................... Rice........................................... Armstrong .................................... Hall .................................... WISCONSIN Ellerson .............................. Harrison............................... Emery............................... Wright......... .................. Att 22 10 10 10 8 5 I 1 Att 12 11 2 Yds 107 64 59 53 49 30 4 -5 Yds 80 43 11 2 Avg 4.8 6.4 5.9 5.3 6.1 6.0 4.0 -5.0 Avg 6.7 3.9 5.5 2.0 139 2/1 5/36.0 TD 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 TD 0 0 0 Toon ......................... .......... 1 Armentrout ................................ 1 PASSING MICHIGAN Att Comp S. Smith ............................... 15 5 WISCONSIN W right ................................ 29 11 RECEIVING MICHIGAN Nelson ................................................ K. Smith .............................................. Rogers ................................................ WISCONSIN larrison ............................................ Emierson............................................... Emery . ...................................... Jones .. .. ...................... ........ ......... McFadden ....................................... Pearson ......................................... 2 Int 2 2.0 0 1.0 0 Yds TD 42 1 2 89 2 MICi. WISC. No Yds 3 28 1 10 1 4 No Yds 3 16 3 15 2 11 1 32 1 7 1 8 TD 1 0 0 TD 0 0 0 0 0 26 67/351 42 5/15/2 12 28/139 89 11/29/2 KERRJSE WORDS BY JOHN KERR By RON POLLACK Special to the Daily MADISON-Starting split-end Vince Hang on Scid ey Bo- shoot or the Moons T HE PROBLEM that caused Bo Schembechler so much anguish four years ago is back and it doesn't look like it will disappear anytime soon. I'm talking, of course, about the kicking game. Well, at least half the kicking game. Michigan's punter, Dan Bracken, is solid but the place kicking is very unstable. It's that old Wolverine nemesis that seems manifest itself when Michigan can least af- ford it. Todd Schlopy, the senior who won the kicking job before the season, missed an extra point. He also missed one in Michigan's opener. That could have cost the game, but Washington State's kicking game wasn't much better as a Cougar field goal that probably would have meant a tie game,sailed wide. Last week Schlopy missed a 32-yard kick that would have wrapped up the game. Instead, Washington came back and won. Now, Schlopy isn't really a bad kicker, he's just terribly in- consistent. He's got a good leg, but missing extra points is inex- cusable. Bo felt the same way so he put in Bob Bergeron to kick the field goal and extra points after Schlopy's conversion attem- pt following Michigan's second touchdown was off to the right. Bergeron probably won himself a starting job next week by making both his field goal attempts and two extra points. At least the Wolverines have more than one kicker who is capable of doing a good job. That's where Bo's problem is a little different than it was four years ago. Back then he just had bad kickers. Now he's got some good legs but no one with any game experience, and when much of the place kicking is done in crucial situations that can make a difference. So it's a good possibility that unless Bergeron steps up and does an excellent job, Michigan will have to get by, for at least a year, with a place kicking game that leaves the fans holding their breath. That's why Bo should let sophomore kicker Pat Moons get some game experience for theWolverines. Moons, who has four years of eligibility, is the player Schembechler recruited out of Florida who was the top place kicker in the country during his senior year. He was kicking fifty-yarders in high school and was an All-American. Now, however, he can't seem to break into the lineup. Bo and the coaches say he's coming along but is "inconsistent." Big deal, so are all the other kickers. Why not let the kid get some experience this season. Then Bo will have a veteran kicker for the next three years. Sure, Moons might make some mistakes and miss some easy kicks, but he has to have some talent. By keeping him on the sidelines, Schembechler is missing an oppor- tunity for a fine investment. After yesterday's, 38-21, win over Wisconsin, Schembechler said he was generally happy with his team except for one factor. Guess what that was. "The one thing I'm not happy with is the kicking game," he said. "It's made me mad. If you ask me what I didn't like, it's too numerous to say." But he went on to say anyway. "Missed extra points, blocked kicks, poor kick-offs, it's all a problem," said Bo. Unless Schembechler instills some; stability in the kicking game, the problem won't go away: He can't switch kickers in and out of the game for the whole season. A kicker can't be ex- pected to perform well if his next miss will result in his being benched. Schembechler should just take one of the kickers and stick with him. And if Moons is half the kicker he is supposed to be, the Michigan coach should put him in the lineup and leave him there. Unless, of course, Bo wants to go through all this again for the next three years. Blue Banter + Michigan defensive lineman Kevin Brooks about Wisconsin's first touchdown: "Seven points doesn't make a game. We knew that we couldn't get down. It kind of happened like that last year against- i,,,a ina mut mp wnn tht vm tn " 'M'wide receivers out of work tin running offense Bean; 0-receptions, 0-yards, 0- touchdowns. , Starting flanker Gilvanni Johnson;- receptions, 0-yards, 0-touchdowns. YOU'LL HAVE to excuse Michigan's wide receivers for feeling a trifle unwan- ted. In the Wolverine's odyssey back through time against Wisconsin, yester- day, to the days of old where manly men ran the ball and sissy's passed it, Bean an- d Johnson played the role of idle par- ticipants. With the Michigan running game grin- ding out a punishing 351 yards on 67 carries, the talents of Bean and Johnson were relatively unneeded. "Right now, the plays we're calling aren't designated to go to the wide receivers," Wolverine quarterback Steve Smith said after .completing only 5 of fif- teen passes. "We haven't been in situations where we needed 10,15 yards a crack. If you don't need 10,15 yards a crack, there's no reason to throw the long ball. "WE DETERMINED before we came here that we'd establish a running game. And we did establish a running game. But the passing wasn't good. Of course, on a game like today, we didn't have to pass." And when there is not a pressing need to throw, you can bet that a Bo Schembechler- coached team will not fill the air with foot- balls. "At Michigan, when you're running the ball well you don't pass much," Bean said. "Bo is like that. He likes that three yards and a cloud of dust theory." Bean wishes that his fiesty coach didn't like this theory quite so much. "For a receiver it's frustrating," Bean said. "I want to catch the ball: But when backs go four or five yards a carry, there's nbt much you can do." BEAN HAS caught five passes in three games this season, while Johnson has hauled in but one. Bean, however, does not feel that Wolverine receivers are destined to be forgotten men all season. "Teams will force us to mix it up more," said Bean, who caught all five of his passes last week against Washington. "I think 30 or 40 catches is attainable for me. I think some games I won't catch any or very few. And some games we'll be forced to pass and I'll catch a lot." During their leave of pass-receiving ab- scence, Bean and Johnson have spent most of their time run blocking, not always a favorite amongst pass catchers. "I CAN'T speak for Gilvanni, but I'm not crazy about it," Bean said. "But I know it has to be done." Although Bean and Johnson have both gone without a reception in two of the Wolverines three games this season, other members of the offense have prospered when it has taken to the air. . Most notably, tight end Sim Nelson now has 12 receptions (three yesterday for 28 yards and one touchdown) and Michigan running backs have combined for 13 more. ONE OF the main reasons for this sud- den diversification of the passing attack is that wide-receiver Anthony Carter is no longer around to make opposing players quiver with fright as he did the past four years. "We looked at Anthony a lot more and designed things for him," Smith said. "Now we can be more diversified." Said=center Tom Dixon, We all miss Anthony simply because he was an ex- cellent athlete. A defense had to feel in- secure with him out there. But we've done more. things with the tight end and for- mations. So we've done things that have been effective." Ha wkeyes down.-Ohio State, 20-14 IOWA CITY (AP) - Chuck Long threw two touchdown passes, including a 73-yard bomb to Dave Moritz late in the game, and Tom Nichol kicked a pair of field goals to give No. 7 Iowa a 20-14 victory over third-ranked Ohio State in Big Ten Conference football. A record Kinnick Stadium crowd of 66,175 saw Iowa break a 16-game losing streak to Ohio State and send its record to 3-0. Ohio State, which had not lost to Iowa since 1962, moves to 2-1. THE GAME lacked offensive fireworks until Long connected with Moritz for the clinching touchdown with 4:25 remaining. With Iowa facing a third-and-six at its own 27, Moritz sped by Ohio State defender Shaun Gayle, hauled in a perfect pass from Long at the Buckeye 37 and zigzagged his way to the end zone. Quarterback Mike Tomczak then drove Ohio State 66 yards, capping the march with a 4-yard touchdown pass to fullback Vaughn Broadnax with 2:21 left in the game. Ohio State got the ball one more time, but Iowa's Devon Mitchell intercepted a Tomczak pass with 22 seconds remaining to seal the victory. DOWN 7-3 at halftime, Iowa took the lead on its first possession of the third quarter when Long fired a 16-yard touchdown pass to tight end Mike Hufford to cap a 50- yard drive with 12:09 left in the period. Later in the quarter, Iowa's Mike Stoops intercepted a pass to set up a 47-yard field goal by Nichol. Nichol booted a 25-yard field goal to give Iowa a 3-0 lead with 8:12 left in the first quarter. Ohio State came right back to go ahead 7-3 on Keith Byars' one-yard touchdown run with 1:43 left in the quarter. Byars, who set up his TD with a 46-yard run to the Iowa 4, hurt his knee late in the first half and did not return to the game. He had gained 98 yards in nine carries to that point. Long outdueled Tomczak in a battle between two of the country's top passers. Long, ranked third nationally in passing efficiency, completed 16 of 26 for 270 yards. Tomczak, the national leader, hit only 13 of 34 for 121 yards. Illinois 20, Michigan State 10 EAST LANSING (AP) - Quarterback Jack Trudeau engineered a pair of second-quarter touchdowns as Illinois defeated Michigan State 20-10 in the Big Ten football opener for both schools Saturday. The defeat was especially costly for the Spartans, who lost quarterback Dave Yarema with a separated shoulder in the first auarter and backup Rick Kolb with a broken 30 attempts for 189 yards, with two interceptions. The three Michigan State quarterbacks, combined, com- pleted only six of 17 for 104 yards. Both teams are 2-1 on the season. Northwestern 10, Indiana 8 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Sandy Schwab passed 28 yards to Tony Coates for a third-quarter touchdown and freshman John Duvie kicked a 47-yard field goal in the final period Saturday, lifting Northwestern a 10-8 Big Ten Conference.football victory over Indiana. The two ,scores by the Wildcats, their first points in three games this season, gave them a 10-0 lead before Indiana's only scoring drive of the game. PENALTIES hurt both teams most of the game, and the first NU touchdown came late in the third quarter af- ter a 48-yard punt return by Steve Tasker gave the Wild- cats possession at the Indiana 38. Short runs by Ricky Edwards, Claudell Roberts and Schwab put the ball at the 28, and Schwab hit Coates on the next play for the touchdown. The victory lifted Northwestern to 1-0 in the Big Ten and 1-2 for all games. Indiana dropped to 0-1 and 1-2. Northwestern, which had totaled only 73 yards rushing in its first two- games of the season, managed 152 in the first half alone. Despite the yardage, however, the Wild- cats weren't able to score. TWO NORTHWESTERN drives were halted by pass interceptions, and the Wildcats' best scoring threats of the first half ended deep in Indiana territory when field goal attempts of 36 and 31 yards bye Duvic were blocked by Indiana freshman linebacker Van Waiters. Indiana, meanwhile, had an apparent touchdown nullified by a pass interference call against tight end Scott McNabb. Late in the first quarter, following the first block by Waiters, the Hoosiers drove to the Northwestern 4-yard line before *Bradley threw to McNabb in the end zone. I I ' ,. w _