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The Courier-Jounial Times, Sunday, November 7, 1976 racing sports beat outdoors Fof major sports results, call 582-4871 Purdue shocks Michigan 16-14 on Supan fiel goal its ninth victory of the season when Jerry Zuver's second pass interception halted a Purdue drive at the Michigan 22. But fullback Rob Lytle later fumbled the ball and Purdue recovered at its own 29-yard line to set up the game-winning drive. It took Purdue 13 plays to move to the Michigan six before Supan booted the winning field goal on fourth down. Michigan, which got its earlier touchdown on an eight-yard run by Leach in the first quarter, moved into Purdue territory late in the game. Two long passes to Smith near the goal line were incomplete, however, before Wood's kick failed.

Purdue evened its record at 4-4, including 3-3 in the Big Ten. Michigan slipped to 8-1 overall and 5-1 in the conference. It was Michigan's first conference loss to a team other than Ohio State since losing 23-12 to Michigan State in 1969. Michigan had shut out four previous opponents this season, including Indiana See 'THE LOSS' Page 2, Cnl. 1 down runs of four and 25 yards by tailback Scott Dierking, who gained 162 yards.

He admitted later: "I didn't know whether to cry or jump up and down. "I cried," he added. Supan, whose field goal was the difference, said he "didn't have time to get nervous. I just went out and kicked the ball and the feeling I had was the best of my life." Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, who kept his dressing room door locked for 20 minutes after the game, said the loss "hurts a lot. We don't accept it we shouldn't accept it because we should have run.

No defeat is good. "We got down there at the end and we should have scored. But when you depend on winning on a forward pass or a field goal, you're in trouble," he added. Purdue dominated play most of the game and led 13-7 until Michigan quarterback Rick Leach threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Jim Smith late in the third quarter to tie the game. Wood's extra point kick gave Michigan a 14-13 lead, and it appeared headed for Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

Michigan kicker Bob Wood trotted onto the field with nine seconds left and for a few agonizing seconds yesterday it seemed that Purdue's chances for a major college football upset were seriously in jeopardy. The unheralded Purdue Boilermakers, who had lost their last three games, had gone ahead of No. 1-ranked Michigan four minutes earlier when Rock Supan kicked a 23-yard field goal. But a last-ditch Michigan rally took the visitors to Purdue's 19-yard line in the game's closing seconds. Wood, who had converted six of eight field goal attempts earlier in the season, lofted his fourth-down kick.

It had the distance, but sailed wide to the left and Purdue claimed a 16-14 Big Ten Conference victory as a partisan Ross-Ade Stadium crowd of 57,205 went delirious. "I wouldn't trade this win for anything," shouted jubilant Purdue coach Alex Agase. "It was a great, great team win. What a fantastic job it did." Purdue's earlier scores came on touch Associated Press the final gun in his top-ranked team's shocking 16-14 Big Ten Conference defeat at unranked Purdue. Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, flanked by some of his players, looks at the scoreboard yesterday after UK defense stifles for 1st shutout in This time, Kentucky's defense got the shutout when Jerry Blanton, who played only sparingly because of a pulled hamstring muscle, nailed Vandy quarterback Mike Wright at the two-yard line on fourth down with only 9:46 left.

"It was a long time coming," said defensive captain and junior linebacker Jim Kovach. "It seems like in 2 12 years we've been so close to it that when it finally gets here, it makes it all that much better. "When you think of all the guys who have come through here in 11 years going without a shutout well, that's what I think about most. It's the best a defense can do. With the offenses there are in the SEC, you're not going to get many chances." Coach Fran Curci, who leveled a blast at The Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald in the post-game press con Viu vMjr yv 1 1 I sHT By PAUL BORDEN Courier-Journal Times Stall Writer LEXINGTON, Ky.

The University of Kentucky defense got its first shutout in 11 years but for a while, it looked as if it wouldn't be enough for a victory here yesterday afternoon. But after Kentucky's offense quit stopping itself with penalties, it punched across two second-half touhdowns and nearly got a third in a 14 0 Homecoming triumph over Vanderbilt before an announced crowd of 57,269 in Commonwealth Stadium. It was the first shutout by a Kentucky football team since Sept. 17, 1966, when UK blanked North Carolina 10-0 in the season opener. Earlier this season, UK lost shutout bids against Penn State and LSU when pass interference penalties set up the visitors' only scores in 22 6 and 21-7 UK victories.

'Band' on struts for By MARVIN N. GAY JR. Courier-Journal A Times Staff Writer When Bring Out The Band stepped onto the Churchill Downs track yesterday, jockey Don Brumfield knew he had a running filly under him. Maybe just too eager to take off. "She was on her toes.

I hadn't planned on going to the lead, but I knew if I took more hold of her, I might discourage her. That was something I didn't want to happen." As Brumfield noted, things didn't go entirely to plan, but yesterday's victorious spin in the $59,520 Golden Rod Stakes had him smiling afterwards. Bring Out The Band is three-for-three in career Cardinals routed 34-0 toes for Golden Rod, 'Master' Brumf ield Vandy 11 years ference, wasn't overly excited about it. "It's nice to have a shutout but now we've got to get ready for Florida," he said. "We're not going to shut that bunch out." UK will enter next Saturday's home finale with a 5-4 record, only the third time in the last 11 seasons that UK has won as many as five games.

It is 2-2 in the SEC. A victory over Florida would assure it of its third winning season in that same span. But until UK put together a six-play, 68-yard march that was sparked by quarterback Derrick Ramsey's 34-yard run and capped by Ramsey's 16-yard scoring sprint, it appeared that UK would be saddled with a frustrating tie See RAMSEY Page 3, Col. 1 said: "I got a lead of about a head at the top of the lane for home. Brumfield then got into his filly and she just pulled away.

My filly got a little tired." Oldham now makes his home in Lexington, as does Brumfield. Jockey Rene Riera Jr. of Miami had no excuses for Shady Lou's runner-up finish. "She ran her race, she just couldn't beat the winner. She was too much horse." Bring Out The Band wasn't nominated for the Golden Rod, but her owners, Mr.

and Mrs. James W. Mills of Hickory Tree Stables, thought enough of her chances See BRING OUT Page 16, Col. 1 Associated Press University of Georgia football fans tear down a goal post at Jacksonville, after their team had obliterated a 27-13 deficit yesterday to defeat Florida 41-27. (Story, Page 6.) If Rock Supan kicks the winning 23 that lifted Purdue to a 16-14 upset Associated Press yard field goal 1 Michigan yesterday.

Michigan's comeback died victory over No. when a field goal attempt went wide at :09. McCnllisler sUirs Rutgers 'best ever' is bomb for of Great Scott! It's Eastern on top starts, and she finished the seven-furlong run 2 34 lengths ahead of Shady Lou. Shady Lou, in turn, nipped the third-place finisher, Ciao, by a nose. In two earlier races, at Laurel in Maryland and at Monmouth in New Jersey, Bring Out The Band had given her trainer, J.

W. Murphy of Middleburg, something to cheer about. She won off by herself by seven and five lengths. "When I started training her, I knew she as a fast filly," Murphy recalled. The only question was her ability to handle 2-year-old fillies with class, and she dispelled any doubt yesterday.

She proved her gameness. Speaking in admiration of the winner, jockey John Oldham, who rode Ciao, the help of funds from the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), the of Ls gave a pretty good imitation of the WPA worker leaning on his shovel. Louisville had only three first downs all afternoon, one of them on a penalty in the fourth quarter. Rutgers had 23 first downs. Louisville wound up with two yards net passing.

Rutgers passed for 147 yards. Louisville gained 60 yards on the ground. Rutgers rushed for 311 yards. "We embarrassed ourselves," said of coach Vince Gibson, sitting in front of a locker in the losers' quiet dressing room after the game. "We just didn't do anything.

It's the first real bad game we've played in the two years I've been here." Gibson had an answer for the writers wanting him to compare Rutgers with Pittsburgh, Alabama, Mississippi State See of Page 6, Col. 1 sports Jr By LOU YOTNKIN Louisville Times Sports Director NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Rutgers gave Eastern College football a real shot in the arm yesterday. The University of Louisville, meanwhile, gave itself a real shot in the jaw. Rutgers, winning its ninth game of the year and its 16th in a row over two seasons, the longest current major-college winning string, crushed Louisville 34-0.

"I really think this was one of the best football games Rutgers has ever played," said winning coach Frank Burns in his team's raucous dressing room after the rout. "But I'll have to admit I didn't think it would be this easy. I had a great deal of respect for Louisville because they had played some of the toughest teams in the country and had never been blown out before." Louisville was blown out yesterday. Playing before an estimated crowd of 16,000 in the Rutgers Stadium, a stadium built in the 1930s with inside By JIM BOLUS Courier-Journal 1 Times Staff Writer COOKEVILLE, Tenn. In preseason speculation, a great deal was expected of tailback Scott McCallister, but not that much from his Eastern Kentucky University football team.

McCallister, an All-Ohio Valley Conference back last year, was picked to repeat that honor this fall while Eastern's team was selected to finish third among the league's eight teams. But up until yesterday, McCallister had accomplished very little this season. Eastern's team, on the other hand, was rolling along with its eye on the OVC championship. McCallister helped Eastern accomplish that goal yesterday as the Colonels whipped Tennessee Tech at Overall Field 28-14 in a crucial OVC game that attracted only 10,000 fans on a pleasant afternoon. The victory, coupled with East Tennessee's 17-7 loss to Morehcad yesterday, locked up at least a tie for the OVC title for Eastern.

The Colonels, whose only remaining game is against More-head on Nov. 20 at Richmond, now stand 51 in OVC combat. Tennessee Tech, which was the OVC's pre-season co-favorite with Western, and East Tennessee both are tied for second with 3-2 records. McCallister had a standout season last year when 1974 ail-American Everett (Poo-Loo) Talbcrt was hampered with a foot injury. But this fall has been a different story for McCallister.

He suffered a broken finger early in the season, an injury that curtailed his playing time somewhat. But curtailing his playing time even more were such standout runners as Talbert and Stan Mitchell. "When you got three running backs, I guess it's hard to get everybody in there," McCallister said afterward amid the noise in Eastern's locker room. "I was discouraged," McCallister added. "Just natural who wouldn't be?" i Discouraged, but not bitter.

"You know, the thing that's amazing about him," said Eastern coach Roy Kidd, "is he's never complained or showed an expression of disappointment that he's not getting to play. He got his chance today and I'm just happy for him that he did so well." McCallister, who had gained only 102 yards on 28 carries in prior action this season, wound up the afternoon with 73 yards on 23 carries, The hard-running sophomore, who had seen only special-team duty in the past two games, was called into action against Tech right before Eastern's first touchdown. Talbert had carelessly fumbled the See HOUSE i Page 4, Col. '4 Columns hy Dick Fenlon and Mike Barry Page 2 After heating Vanderbilt, Curci takes on the press Page 3 Sue Kidd lives and dies with Eastern Ky. football Page 4 Florida gamble fails, and Georgia coasts away Page 6 Red Sox make free-agent Campbell a millionaire Page 7 John Y.

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