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CwvrMM, ttM. DM Mim Mutr n4 Trtkun twi( Dt's Moines, Iowa, Sunday Morning, November -2, 107U Kern Great as Ohio State Wins Title, Rose Bowl Trip, 20-9 mil 0 I A run uu Ry Maury White ISimdiv MHItr &Ulf Wiitir) pOLUMBUS. OHIO - There; were many little surprises' I Ulllll l IIU Willi tfimitinj ft Trn football game in which un-dc leatcd Ohio State whipped now nnee-boaten Michigan. 20-9. for the league title and Rose Bowl rights, i Rex Korn, the red-haired quarterback magician who hadj been operating on low octane1 much of the season, flashed his old charisma. Both tense teams made too many errors. A stadium record crowd of 87.3.11 attended. None of those things was the most startling in a summit clash of national powers. Ohio State went into the game as a five-point favorite and ranked No. 5. Michigan was No. 4. Ohio State officially was l voted into the Rose Bowl Sat-! urday night. ! John Dewey, assistant to Com-niTssinnor Bill Reed, made the announcement after polling conference athletic directors. "A majority of votes is in and Ohio State has been selected and has accepted the bowl bid," said Dewey. "So far all the votes have been for Ohio State." The strength of Coach Bo Schembcchler's dandy team, which had upset the Ruckeyes a year ago en route to an 11-!game league victory streak, was a rushing attack that had averaged 315 yards against Big I Ten foes. "We told our kids there was only one way to do it: Line up nose to nose, toes to toes and j fight it out. The best man would win. That's the way it i was. Nothing fancy," sighed Buckeye Defensive Coach Uuij McCiillnugh. Season Records MICMIOAN 20 Artoil . ... I Washinolnn ., 14 Ira. A&M . ?9 Purflu 34 M.ch St ... H Minnesota .. 29 Wisconsin 42 Illinois Si Iowa Olno SI. I OHIO STATI . t S Tt.as A&M .. . J J4 duke ... .10 74 Muhman SI. . . 0 ?l Minnesota .20 43 Illinois .14 74 NWestern IS 34 Wisconsin .... . 0 10 Purduf OX) Michioan JO Oh. did the senior-domi- ; nated Ohio State crew heed , the advice of the one-time I n w a State assistant. At game's end, the mighty Wolverines had rushed 3D times and netted a measly 37 yards. "We played with great effort but we did not play well," Schcmbechler said. "Ohio Stale didn't do anything different on defense, so I guess we didn't block well." Defense, and Kern's return to the free-wheeling atmosphere of his sophomore days, did it for Coach Woody Hayes' team, j which is now 9(1, still undo-' fealed at home in the last 1(1 'games and, maybe, near a national title. Should Be No. I" "We reached a peak no team ever has at Ohio State." said I OHIO STATU Please turn to Page Three Statistics 1mmmBmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmammr MM mi I l l IH p ,1111 III I HI IW lllj I v MVMN"W"W' ' -,UM."I -- ' .'iWT 4V v S- j V'5 . " X . ."4 Mtelimn Ohtu r t. ,t s P'ishi v'rt" Pluin vi''B t'rtsS flints f iimhls t ol Yrtis nIIAlifM 1 1 ) 41 4 l !. H 4 I I' I ?! .0 SCPRINO n J a- ; i o io ?. Miih.on ... OKio - C. Srhmm ? Mull FO Com JI Oh.o Jnliowskl 74 pass limn Kfl (Si niim s.tn) , . UkIi Swuhi II puss tinm Mnnrhs (k.ck tAilt-tli Oli o I Ci Si nrm ? Ohio Mvon 4 tun (Sctirm kirVI A;, 311. 2 : A "7 ' 1 4r ' Si . 1 Ony sigf smic fcy IVooty Hayes after game f s SUNDAY REGISTER FOOTBALL PHOTOS BY LARRY NEIBF.RGALL 'We're No. IV signals Buckeye fan Stop Illini Yard From Goal on Final Play, Nail Down Fourth Place in BigTen, 22-16- an In J n JJikj& U 1 By Ron Maly (Sunday Register Stall Writer) IOWA CITY, IA. The juke 1 box in Iowa's dressing room was jumping late Saturday afternoon, blaring out the song "Twisted" by Steppenwolf. The Hawkeyes had just scored a dramatic 22-16 football victory over Illinois which gave them a fourth-place, finish in the. final Big Ten standings. "The players presented me I with the game ball, ' Coach jRay Nagel said, "and I'm go ing to keep it." The victory, before a crowd of 38,700, gave Iowa a final over-all record of 3-6-1 . The 3-3-1 Big Ten mark enabled the Hawks In bag their highest conference finish since the 1950 team tied for the title. "I'm proud of this team," Nagel said. "They're a bunch of thoroughbreds. "They kept coming back and there wasn't a single quitter on the squad. I'm very glad to be associated with them." Roy Bash completed his first eight passes and wound up hitting on 11 of 13 for 159 yards and one touchdown in his final game as a Hawkeye. "This was my best performance," said Bash, who had a shoulder injury during part ofjBash said: "Yes, because w-e the season. j haven t won very otten tms year." Bash scored the other two Season Records ILLINOIS I IOWA ' 20 Oreoon M U Oreqon St ?' 9 Tulane 23, 0 Southern Cal. 27 Syracuse 0110 Arizona 1 0 Nortnwestern .4 Z4 Wisconsin i 74 Indiana 7.1) Ohio St. . 23 Purdue 0 Michigan . 17 Wisconsin lis Iowa .3013 Purdue 24 an p ivticniqan staie j 21 14 Minnesota U 42 42 Indiana 1.1 29 0 Michigan SS ?2l?2 Illinois 1 Asked if the Hawks wanted to win for any special reason, Iowa touchdowns, both on one-yard runs, as the Hawks beat Illinois for only the second time ever m Iowa Madium. "In a way," Nagel said, "I'm glad the season is over. It's good to end the year with a victory. Too many things hap pened this season and it would be a pleasant change just to be a football coach." Iowa appeared to have the victory tucked away when Dave Brooks slopped Illinois quarterback Mike Wells on the Hawk 15-yard line late in the fourth quarter, but the Illini got a fresh chance when Steve Penney fumbled on the Iowa 37 with 49 seconds to go. After two incomplete passes. Willie Osley went around right end for four yards. Another Wells aerial misfired, but the Hawks were called for pass interference at the one. Now just five seconds remained. It was do or die for Illinois. Could the Iowa defense, which had surrendered 241 IOWA - Please turn In Page Five Statistics First downs Rushinq yardane Passing varriaqe Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Illinois la J44 05 11 7 14-0 3-40 2 20 Iowa 2? 174 159 16 11-13-0 4-3J 34 SCORING Illinois Iowa 0 13 7 1 01 822 low-Bash 1 run (Melnd klckl in-Kaiser 1 pass trom wens S'in Burns 21 pass trom Wells (kick failed) low K. Reardon 5 pass from Bash (Melcndez kick) lilFG Wells 4 . low Bash 1 run (K. Reardon pass from Bash) A-38,700. (kick Ground Defense Crumbles, 36-27 By Jim Mnacklcr (Sunday Register Start Writer) CTILLWATER. OKLA.-lowa 3 State couldn't choke off the slam-bang running of Oklahoma State tailback Bobby Cole Saturday and saw its hopes for a winning season end as a result. After a tremendous start, launched by Jeff Allen's 76-yard fo)1 C3 fin LnJ IMl Jl MHEP)W return of the opening kickoff, the Cyclones finally were done in by the Cowboy ground attack. Cole slammed for 237 yards in 49 carries as Iowa Stale lost its sixth Big Eight Conference game against one victory, 36-27. It was really closer than that, Iowa State yielding the final touchdown with just four seconds left after giving up the ball on its own nine-yard stripe on a 70-degree day before 13,500 fans. After it was over and Cole had racked up more yards rushing in a single game than any Big Eight back this year, the 190-pound junior from Gates-ville, Tex., said: Good Blocking "Actually, 1 wasn't tired at all. I was just hoping they'd give me the ball more. We had good blocking from our line. All I had to do was hold the ball and ; run." Season Records IOWA STATE New Mexico Colo. State Utah Colorado Kansas State Kansas Oklahoma 29 Nebraska .... 31 Missouri 27 Okla. Statt N.28 S Diego St ( I OKLAHOMA ST. V13 miss St. ;7 Arkansas 12 Houston ail 20 Missouri it! 34 TCU 24 31 Nebraska 29. 19 Kansas .54ii5 Kansas Sr. '71 6 Loioraoo 14 i 16 Iowa State Hi N.28 Oklahoma 331 171 4l)j 20 ! ....5! 7 ....2(1 30 27 I Over in the subdued Iowa ! State dressing room, Keith Schroeder, middle linebacker who calls defensive signals, said that he didn't think the line was doing as well as it could against Cole. "I don't know whether we weren't pursuing as well as be fore or what, but Ihey bad a real scrappy club and their backs did a lot on their own," Schroeder said. "Cole was getting 6-7 yards in the middle of our line. I know I hit him good one time and he spun off me and kept going. "11 seemed like no matter what defense we were in they hit the weak area. They won the guessing game and executed real well, too." 27-23 Ix-ad Iowa State's hopes were bright before they faded out in the fourth quarter as the Cowboys punched across two touch downs to erase a 27-23 Cyclone lead. Allen's exciting run was only the start and it looked for a while as if the Cowboys were in for a mismatch. It look just Iwo plays after Allen raced the kickoff back to the Cowboy 2.1 for the Cyclones to gel on the board. George Amundson, starting CYCLONES - Please turn to Page Six Statistics First downs Rushinq vardaqe Passing vardate Return yardage Passes Punt-. Fumbles lost Yards penalized Iowa St. Okla. SI. is 147 164 2 13-KS-J a-35 2 70 3?4 S3 "3 5-15-4 6-39 I JO crnBiNft Iowa State ' IJ , JJ Okla. Stale H ,'t 1.1 3 ISU Johnson 7 run (Shoemjke kick) ' OS Cole 7 run (Pruss kick) OS-FG Pruss 24 OS Graham 12 run (Pruss kirk) ISU Lcr-nz 31 pass Horn Carlson IShoemake kick) ISU Mitchell 45 pass from Carlson (Shoemake kick) ISU Stowe 7 pass from Carlson (kick failed) OS E ben 21 pass from Pounds (run failed) OS Cole 2 run (Pruss kick) OS Cole 9 run (kick failed) Attendance 19.500. I! 111 j Drake BowsBut Belongs 1 !OfleS By Chuck Burdick over this city would have a (Sunday Register Staff Wnter) j short life. I LNCOLN. NEB. - It looked! Then Coa"ch Bob Devaney s - for a while Saturday as if mlrd-rated. Orange Bowl-bound those "Nebraska, No. 1" but- machine finally prevailed to tons that were being sold all j close an undefeated regular ! season and earn the undisputed ;Big Eight Conference football ! st0p inspired Oklahoma, 23-21 title. trail twice before rallying to j Mildren's pass aimed at .Ion STORY, riCTURES: PACE 10S IRISH SQUEAK. GET BIDS j But the ? x p e r t s, who had lapped Nebraska a tnrce-toucb-Idown favorite, saw the Huskers The game wasn't decided until the final play, when Nebraska defensive back Jim Anderson picked off Jack Harrison in ihe end rone. The last-second heroics, how-! ever, wouldn't have been needed NEBRASKA ; Please turn to Page Nine I STORY: PAKESS Nagel Blasts Reporter STORY: PAGE -IS OF ALL SPORTS Foolball GREATER DE3 M0INE.S Louisville 23, Drakf 14 GIG TEN Iowa 22, Illinois lb Nnrihvvesiern 23. Michigan Mate. 13 Ohio Stale 20. MicMan 9 PyrrW iJQ Ii-d'ana 9 Wisconsin 3'. M""fsriia 14 Please turn to Page Ten