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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 15

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Dei Moins Sunday Register Oct. 21. 1951 Sports Section Oct. 21. 195) po 1.C i Hawkeye Threat Ends On 5, Another at 17 By Brt Leaky Pass Defense Gives Michigan 14-0 Lead nv B1 1 MICHIGAN XO JLQWr? IOWA CITY, IA.

Michigan and the elements teamed up to make Iowa homeoomers throughly miserable here! Saturday as the Wolverines rapped the Hawkeyes, 21-0, in what was expected to be a toss-up battle. The throng of 53,050, an all-time record attendance at Iowa according to an announ-jement. saw no reason at all fur rejoicing unless it was the ruthless blasts of Bill Reich-ardt, the Iowa fullback. I ReicharrH hit of iho of -9" vi pass which Don Peterson I Wolverines with might that hi to invii Perry. i none of his matCS COllld s.mi.hmlv bm.nrecl match.

iit 1 he hi.li-line Hi the three. It UH a tafty. iiielliuilii-al the Ihv there- Midiigan team tiiat nprmleii the "Iter Kill I'utirh over H.twkeyei to win with a te isive- left Riiarit for the firtl ress that t.t not reflected in the tcni.hilow n. etatistk-s. Ru, Ro.Moilas pla.e ki.kj lima limke.l pretty lniire- maile it 7-0 afler five minutes 10! ive In smne nf the statistic seconds.

eg tr'-yjj t.j vthrn the hnttle was over, hut still in the fiisi nnaiira Mi. h. I MiTi.iw nioi.i in ku pivirr. tho Haks still wound up with i8-in joiieii (lead tin' Michigan's classy end, Invell Perry, made life miserable for Iowa's pass defend- shutting off right tackle. Just before he got to lino ol sci nnm.ige on the the Mrehorn-.

the Iowa eight-yani line. hia sterlinc- catches most of the time Saturday afternoon, but here's one lie can he leaped up and shot a tv.ss to IVi rv, liicaking across the middle, llawkeya id managed to bat it down. clut. he thnt on" Hd i we', neari'n, 12' never got his hands on. The Wolverines started this play with halfback Hill Putich linebacker Chuck Denning saw the ball juM in Michigan hit Iowa with a first- fieM on a drive when Putich in fell incomplete and Reii hatdl as wound tip in Michigan' posses- ouarter touchdown in less than tercepted Burt Bi itzmann's nass mx minutes at the start and1 and with rapidly forming inter-'SI0PlH 11 could have coasted in from fetenre that looked like a screen foi.rth-.lnw pass to Hill there.

The Wolves, however, i pass play moved hack to Iowa's ent. in on the line harely aaa I aa ajim awaaMweP ml aaa i iw nun 11 V'V' -r cracked thioitKh with another 4.. missed, hut it did miss. the second quarter. 3K-Vard Rctiini.

Extra Tally. Then early in the second quar- Michigan banged home a third ter Michigan hit Iowa with a 8f-touchdown in the third quarter by sion on Iowa's li-yard line. Mulligan blaz.l Iowa's eight-yard stripe and was under full when the that was intended to produce, touchdown No 4 was captured by! Joe Bristol and run out to Iowa's eight. Krom that piec.uious spot, the! Hawks, luunrhcd their longest march, barging f.ocad 06 yards; to Michigan's ti where misfortune again struck Iowa. Pustv Rice was lunninif'on way of convincing victory The rain got going In earnest between halves and a few of the customers headed homeward.

The exodus continued and where the game was over must have depat ted. The Iowa defense, ground variety, had made a pretty fair rec STATISTICS, lnua MhhitRn The flame and the lift that; JCT.W i I i 1 $AV nt iirht have been aroused in Iowa nif rv the tecoid crowd and the spirit i'" a Cf homecoming seldom was in ord in earlier games. but it rilimnc avrm. an faltered Saturday. And it fell swePp hen the Wolverines closed evidence.

Keichar.lt did have It to such an that he personally miikk hv til ak'ikks. i a part on the third .111 aA v. if-" i i k.ii Itice luleraled to Ueichar.lt made more yardage on running' ft hut the pass didn't romn into Kelchardt's possessimi. He than the entire Michigan team. hn.in..

ii, 3, ealicsir in at lie hit the Wolverine 25 in i time, and rolled up 152 yards hand-off! couldn't gel it. Instead strlklntf 5 a 14 I v' WT i L'x himself. Michigan netted 115 It with his foot uer or a Dllsl inir l.iucriilovcn on hn r.iuliit The ball bounded to Michigan'! hit his arm. I The, hall squirted into the Iowa rolled up a net of 2.M'u"r-JMids on the ground and 59 on Pass defense again jolted five-yard line, where the Wolverines recovered to end the Iowa threat. 4- the Hawkeyes.

They permitted air and dropped into the arms sV- Peterson to complete a long Michigan's Merrit Careen on wiihhly end over end pass to the loua 20-yard line. Fred PUkard for 29 yards to 0n lh. n.xt lav of put the ball on Iowa's 17-vard passes and succeeded in oittgain-Inc; Michigan by nearly 100 yards, but it didn't mean anything. When Michigan threatened, It earned through to score. Iowa on its two chances did not The Hawks lost the ball on clowns once on five-yard line and lost It again on an interception after advanc 4 Js f1 line, Michigan took the ball and bolted through the middle.

Three, and No one beside Reichaidt made much of a dent in Mu lligan defense, nice netted 49 yards In 13 tries and Beimel 27 in six carries. Lotanzie wno tan so effectively against Pittsburgh, had only one chance Willi the ball, gaining three yards. IOWA II Michigan went the rest of the i possibly four. Hawkeyes had good shots at him, but they couldn't way In six plays, with Peterson diving over the pile on the giwl line for the second wore. Re-coila again kicked the point to ing- to the Wolverine 16.

I. SwailandMilii-i H'HiK. The Hawks were the victims of milke it 14-0 1. 'I Slu r' 1 I s. Mime tough breaks in these eatl.Vj Tn Hawks (h, fIst of their two threatening advances I.

II luirm, Killi Tmvinr H.fi Kanhil.l II Kiisia li Kiit.liiHlii. llriK i i even knock him off his feel. Peterson rolled on over the goal, wilh Hawkeyes strewn flat behind him. Peterson s.oied and Reacorla kicked the 21-0 goal. With that leait.

Michigan gave Iowa no openings. Bill Hillings twice saw to it that tin Hawks were mired deep in their own .1 me nrs. n.ue Me hp ir on the ball, they took ovrri Hi 11 tfl ing- fiom their own 3fl to Michigan's five in seven plays. MICHIGAN 1. II Kll'F Hfllltfll Wll tHnil till 'nniniii.

K. Iliar.di li Mil it. I. IT Or-, li III! iiii. et-AM a Michigan punt on the Iowa IS end were penalized for clipping on the That act 'em back to 'U I7-Vard Pass.

i the one-yard line from whet they A 1 7-yat pass, Britzmann to territory when lie punted out of! i.i; In" Timm. miH tin tnrmul flnu i i af i 4 i rternie tsennett. wno loucne.i me um-r mi mt: mh-jhiu imr Michigan returned that punt toi sh))r, of the'and again on the one-foot line 'I li l' Don Peterson, Michigan fullback, baa just taken a pitchmit on what wa to have been a right-end sweep, but he never gets going as Iowa linebacker t'liin helming conies up Lo to dump hint witit a neat tackle for a five-yard loss. The Wolvci ines. however, handed Iowa a 'Jl-to-0 ddeat Ix-foro 5ti lasts at Iowa Saturday.

Hllu MM lit" nv HOWARD HA'IFT. Iowa's 47. then blasted away. f(11)Ulred The Hawks coudln't get out of Defense l-aks. Fr0m that nine-yard spot, the hole.

When thfy tried. Chuck SOi.lilliL KtaWlfni -1 ll -T( Hlllnc PtTHh. lliklMrn The pass defense that cost Reichaidt hammered for four nn'Denning's punt with the sodden I kit i'vny "'I nir.i KH ZnOmff. Rrrla It's Dusty Rice Up the Slot on a 15-Yard Jaunt Against Michigan 1 li a mmmm pwpLii JJCjowa1 a. a a' 'f v' 1 'H I A i t- a 1 't i.

i i. a. A ake to hardt, Haiuloff to Kicc. In din Mitlst nf Wolverines, but Dusly Seen a Holt and Heads That Way, 17 -f jr. I a 't i-4L I P'Ce I T.

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