The Michigan Daily -Sports Monday - November 9, 1992 - Page 5 H w E S T E R N 7 B Ten sanin Team Michigan Ohio State ivMicnigdai State Inidiadla IlIois 1w Vv Wscornsin Purdue Northwestern Minnesuta w 6 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 L 0 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pct. 1.000 .667 .667 .500 .500 .500k .333 .333 .333 .167 RENNIE Continued from page 1 A few minutes of this thriller in Evanston probably convinced them that it wasn't too cold to rake leaves after all. Apparently, this is what most Chicago-area fans decided to do. The Northwestern folks were thrilled with the crowd of 37,903, their largest since 1987. I didn't want to tell anybody that Michigan draws close to that for its spring intrasquad' game. Besides, half the fans in Evanston were wearing Maize and Blue. These people ended up with little to cheer about after the Wolverines' explosive start. Once again, Michi- gan coasted after establishing its dominance early, which leaves one question: whether Michigan's great- ness or everybody else's ineptitude is the telling factor in this season. For Michigan, the long-term benefit of these blow-outs is that the transition from one year to the next is easy. Backups like Ch6 Foster and Todd Collins see nearly as much action as Burnie Legette and Elvis Grbac. But with this may come a short- term expense. The Wolverines don't know what it's like to play error-free football because they haven't had to. The defense gave up a first- quarter touchdown on a play that should have gone for about six yards. Of course, the play is only a vague memory today because Michigan retaliated by scoring on the very next play from scrimmage. Making up for mistakes in Evanston is a lot easier than making up for them in Pasadena. Unfortunately, this game is the rule, not the exception. Welcome to Big Ten football. Illinois visits Michigan Stadium for this week's extravaganza. You'll remember the Illini as the team that has lost to Northwestern the last two years. Bank One says to expect a close game. THIS WEEK'S RESULTS Michigan 40, Northwestern 7 Michigan State 26, Wisconsin 10 Michigan State quarterback Brett Johnson returned to the lineup after missing the last two games with a shoulder injury. Johnson threw one touchdown in the Spartans' victory. Tailback Craig Thomas ran for 168 yards and two touchdowns. Illinois 20, Purdue 17 Illini quarterback Jason Verduzco hit J.J. Strong with a 25- yard TD pass with 1:36 to play to provide the winning margin. Verduzco completed 22 of 29 attempts for 260 yards on the day. Ohio State 17, Minnesota 0 Buckeye tailback Robert Smith ran for 119 yards and two touchdowns on the day. However, the Ohio State victory was marred by a fight late in the fourth quarter. The victory kept the Buckeyes in second place and the driver's seat for a trip to the Florida Citrus Bowl. Iowa 14, Indiana 0 lowa's defense limited the Hoosiers to -13 yards rushing in Saturday's victory. Hawkeye Rushing Player Att Yds Avg Lg Smith 4 12 3.0 7 Lundy 9 11 1.2 9 Robinson 5 6 1.2 9 Williams 18 -5 -.3 13 Totals 37 8 .2 13 Passing Player C-A Yds TD Int Williams 20-31 212 1 0 Dzierwa 0-1 0 0 0 Total 20-32 212 1 0 Receiving Player No Yds Ava TD G'daner 8 88 11.0 1 Gamble 6i 71 11.8 0 Robinson 2 12 6.0 0 Lundy 2 9 4.5 0 Smith 1 17 17.0 0 Morris 1 15 15.0 0 Totals 20 212 10.6 1 Punting Player No Yds Ava Lg Dzierwa 6 272 45.3 60 Punt Returns Player No Yds Avq Lg G'daner 1 15 15.0 15 Kickoff Returns Player No Yds Avg Lg G'daner 3 51 17.0 19 Wright 4 48 12.0 22 Total 7 99 14.1 22 Defense Player TacAstTot i defensive back Carlos James intercepted two Trent Green passes' to help preserve the shutout. Iowa forced Indiana into four turnovers and sacked Hoosier quarterbacks seven times on the day. Indiana suffered its first shutout at home since 1981. NEXT WEEK'S GAMES Illinois at Michigan, 12 p.m. (ABC) Purdue at Michigan State Ohio State at Indiana Minnesota at Wisconsin Northwestern at Iowa Gill Lindsey Bennett Christian Ostrowski Hellebusch Cunningham Williams Boudreaux Purkett Shine Greenwald Walker Newton Singleton Segel 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 4 3 1 1 0 1 0. 0 0 9 5 4 4 4 3 3 0 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 13 9 8 7 7 6 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 1 KRISTOFFER GiLLETTE/Daily Derrick Alexander makes one of his three receptions Saturday against Northwestern. All three went for touchdowns. j thing helps," he says. "Trust then gets on the phone to st a detective. Because of the nt of money involved - over worth of lost equipment - better off letting a specialist tigate. urray sits back and waits for call. If there are more ng concerns, Murray will be ed to handle the case. In the e, one of the employees to sealed boxes, looking rial numbers for the missing rty. detective calls back at 10:20, he is on his way, and arrives nutes later. He is shown d. When the tour reaches the ed point of departure, he asks, this door been touched?" st as he finishes his question, ployee walks through the ,guess so," the detective e go take a look at the window "You hungry'?" he asks. He shrugs off the negative response. "Sometimes you have to eat even when you're not hungry." -.. Vada Murray was stereotyped as an athlete. Now he is stereotyped as a cop. Many people feel police officers sit on their butts all day and get favors done for them; that they are just out there harassing innocent citizens. But police work has its. responsibilities. While there is some dead time during the day, that might be a good sign. It means there is nothing to investigate. Yet officers still have to be out there, looking for trouble, because crime doesn't wait. "When I was in college, I always thought it was exciting," Murray says. "It does get slow sometines, just driving around. But it only takes one incident when all hell breaks loose and you don't know what to do. "No day is ever boring, because my job." 11 a.m. We grab lunch at a local restaurant. Murray spends nearly the entire 40 minutes filling out forms. He eats a few mouthfuls of his rice dish, but then it is time to get back to work. 11:42 a.m. The dispatcher says a man reported his wife over an hour late from her daily walk. Many departments do not consider persons missing until they have been gone for 48 hours. In Ann Arbor, the timetable is one day. But Murray heads down W. Liberty to look into it. Again we reach a business area and.figure we overshot the road leading to the man's street. As Murray turns the car around, he dispatcher comes back on. "We have a . ossible rape at 1552 W. Liber> y. ... It could be the woman you're looking for." We speed back toward town, but scarcely a block later he spots a woman and two men waving frantically from the sidewalk. He pulls the cai over just past another vehicle that is sitting on the sidewalk, driver-side door left open, facing the wrong direction. The woman, a jogger, is near hysterics. "Someone's been raped!" she sobs. "She's in there" - pointing down a trail - "a little ways, up on a ledge. Her husband's with her. Hurry!" Murray calls for backup and then dashes into thme opening, past the carved sign that reads EBERWHITl'E WOODS. The jogger begins to shake, and one of the men tries to comfort her. Murray emerges a few minutes later, without his jacket, and reaches into the car. l'he words come out in short bursts as he speaks into the the jogger. One of the men, a landscaper, says that he and a fellow worker were following their supervisor to a site when the supervisor spotted the car parked on the wrong side of the street. He figured something was wrong and called for help from the house across the street. The man looks back toward the path entrance. The paramedics are bringing the woman out, her husband and a neighbor at her side. She is bundled up on the stretcher, only a bloodied face visible through the oxygen mask. Murray and the jogger return. "I just wanted her to re-create what she saw," he says. He gets back in the car. We are going to accompany the ambulance to the hospital. The police continue to seal off the entire park. Amidst the clutter, a loud voice comes over the radio. "It looks like the guy left his pants and underwear here. Let's get a dog down as soon as possible." Murray explodes. "Good!" he says, slamming the steering wheel. "I hope they get that guy!" 12:30 p.m. We arrive at the hospital and the victim is carted off to the emergency room. Her husband and the neighbor arrive, and they begin answering questions. Murray shuffles between ER and the reception area, finding out information - including a rough description of the assailant - as he can and reporting it. An hour later, he tells the victim's husband the dog has picked up a scent. But the husband remains cautious. "I don't want to get my hopes up." he says, frustrated, "but I want this guy." A little after 2 p.m., the woman is brought out of emergency and anted to do one or the other, to decide lo this or play ball. I put down the pros and s, and it came out pretty even. So I said it the hell, I'll do this. I can wake up ryday and say I have a job. It's a lot more 1e r \EHOa Free safety Murray (No. 27) and strong safety Tripp Welborne presented a formidable challenge for opposing kickers. euttside. There is a sneaker int,4but also a pane of glass ed wiih dirt. The window had ently been broken all along. e detective goes to get his a, andl Murray sits down to do the paperwork. The brings the serial numbers presses concern about how e thieves might come back. they feel lucky, they'll come ight. If not, they might wait r three weeks," he says. "It the day you start to relax and the day you start to assume things is when you're gonna get hurt." Being an African American also could present a problem, but Murray says it hasn't thus far. "I think being a Black officer, the Black community - not everybody - but some see you as a token or a sellout. They think you're working for the enemy," he says. "But that's not the case. "I' ve been called names before, The woman also may not have been sexually assaulted. The only thing known for certain is that she was brutally beaten. These are the most serious circumstances in which Murray has found himself thus far in his young career. Conditions very different from chasing after suspects or do what Murray did - to help as much as you can. And that is where the reward comes from in this field. Not in getting plaques and recognition and other accolades, but in knowing you did everything you could when called upon, and that perhaps you prevented something worse from hapnenint.